{"id":4630,"date":"2006-04-09T21:15:35","date_gmt":"2006-04-09T21:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4630"},"modified":"2025-09-25T14:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T14:57:09","slug":"what_do_general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4630","title":{"rendered":"What do General Motors, France and the State of New York have in common?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall street Journal editoial page purports to find a common link. And I think they may have a point. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/weekend\/hottopic\/?id=110008207\">OpinionJournal &#8211; Hot Topic<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an excerpt, which makes it sound like it&#8217;s just a case of being anti-union. But there&#8217;s more to it then that:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>At first glance, they seem to have little in common. But the riots in France over labor reform, the slow-motion suicide of General Motors, and the continuing decline of the New York economy all share one defining trait: entrenched and unchangeable union power.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall street Journal editoial page purports to find a common link. And I think they may have a point. OpinionJournal &#8211; Hot Topic Here&#8217;s an excerpt, which makes it sound like it&#8217;s just a case of being anti-union. But there&#8217;s more to it then that: At first glance, they seem to have little in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9748,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4630\/revisions\/9748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}