{"id":19272,"date":"2015-01-07T10:02:22","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T15:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=19272"},"modified":"2015-01-07T10:02:22","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T15:02:22","slug":"guest-travel-writer-rick-steves-warns-that-corporate-profiteering-comes-with-a-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/01\/07\/guest-travel-writer-rick-steves-warns-that-corporate-profiteering-comes-with-a-price\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest: Travel writer Rick Steves warns that corporate profiteering comes with a price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Seattle Times<\/em> has the article <a title=\"The Seattle Times article\" href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.com\/html\/opinion\/2025372250_stevesopedwealth04xml.html?cmpid=2628\" target=\"_blank\">Guest: Travel writer Rick Steves warns that corporate profiteering comes with a price<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Maybe there is a crisis in this country \u2014 just not the one we keep hearing about. In reality, perhaps it\u2019s a crisis of distribution within the vast and growing American economic pie. Or a crisis between our huge pie and the billions of desperately poor people elsewhere on our planet. What\u2019s our response? A contemporary version of \u201cLet them eat cake.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Who knew that Rick Steves was far more than &#8220;just&#8221; a travel writer?\u00a0 Given the history that he tells in this article, the inevitable outcome of our current situation does not look good for the shortened 1%.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Summer Starbuck for posting this on <a title=\"Summer Starbuck's Facebook post\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/summer.starbuck\/posts\/10152773279123509\" target=\"_blank\">her Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Times has the article Guest: Travel writer Rick Steves warns that corporate profiteering comes with a price. Maybe there is a crisis in this country \u2014 just not the one we keep hearing about. In reality, perhaps it\u2019s a crisis of distribution within the vast and growing American economic pie. Or a crisis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19273,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19272\/revisions\/19273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}