{"id":77565,"date":"2012-07-20T07:34:47","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T13:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=77565"},"modified":"2012-07-20T07:34:47","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T13:34:47","slug":"the-incredible-bain-jobs-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=77565","title":{"rendered":"The Incredible Bain Jobs Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702303740704577527200796292034.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a competitive economy, $5,000 computers become $500 tablets. Consumers get to spend the difference elsewhere in the economy.<\/p>\n<p>Did Mitt Romney and Bain Capital help office-supply retailer Staples create 88,000 jobs? 43,000? 252? Actually, Staples probably destroyed 100,000 jobs while creating millions of new ones.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not that they&#8217;ll get any thanks for it. Everybody hears the complaints of the Crust about losing their &#8216;friendly neighborhood bookstore\/stationery store\/whatever&#8217; and nobody (certainly nobody in the Voice of the Crust Media) pays attention to consumers, more often than not poor people, who now have more money to spend on other things<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it. In a competitive economy, $5,000 computers become $500 tablets. Consumers get to spend the difference elsewhere in the economy. Did Mitt Romney and Bain Capital help office-supply retailer Staples create 88,000 jobs? 43,000? 252? Actually, Staples probably destroyed 100,000 jobs while creating millions of new ones. Not that they&#8217;ll get any thanks for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-think-about-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77567,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77565\/revisions\/77567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}