{"id":4962,"date":"2010-10-31T21:24:42","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T02:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=4962"},"modified":"2010-10-31T21:24:42","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T02:24:42","slug":"why-big-time-ceos-make-terrible-politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/10\/31\/why-big-time-ceos-make-terrible-politicians\/","title":{"rendered":"Why big-time CEOs make terrible politicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found Michael Hiltzik&#8217;s article <a title=\"LA Times Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-hiltzik-20101031,0,7983682.column\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Why big-time CEOs make terrible politicians<\/strong><\/a> in the <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The quote above the article sums it up very well as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Government and business are antithetical. That&#8217;s not a flaw in the system \u2014 government exists to take on precisely those tasks the private sector can&#8217;t or won&#8217;t.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article goes on to explain in more depth why the title is appropriate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found Michael Hiltzik&#8217;s article Why big-time CEOs make terrible politicians in the Los Angeles Times. The quote above the article sums it up very well as follows: Government and business are antithetical. That&#8217;s not a flaw in the system \u2014 government exists to take on precisely those tasks the private sector can&#8217;t or won&#8217;t. [&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-4962","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\/4962","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=4962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4963,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4962\/revisions\/4963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}