{"id":13144,"date":"2009-06-03T01:16:26","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T01:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/george_will_shock_and_awe_statism\/"},"modified":"2009-06-03T01:16:26","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T01:16:26","slug":"george_will_shock_and_awe_statism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13144","title":{"rendered":"George Will: Shock and Awe Statism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Such government micromanagement of the economy is everywhere. The Post recently reported that Richard Wagoner, the former CEO of General Motors who was removed by the government, remains on GM&#8217;s payroll &#8220;because senior Treasury officials have yet to decide whether he should get the $20 million severance package that the company had promised him.&#8221; His 2009 compensation &#8212; $1 &#8212; is payable Dec. 31. The $20 million promised to him includes contractual awards, deferred compensation and pension benefits accrued over 32 years with the company. Promise-keeping, including honoring contracts, is the default position of a lawful society. But suddenly, many citizens&#8217; legal claims are merely starting points for negotiations with an overbearing government.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2009\/05\/31\/shock_and_awe_statism_96758.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Such government micromanagement of the economy is everywhere. The Post recently reported that Richard Wagoner, the former CEO of General Motors who was removed by the government, remains on GM&#8217;s payroll &#8220;because senior Treasury officials have yet to decide whether<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13144\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,149,616,151,667,583,586,596,601,669,598,594,584,668],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-the-2009-obama-administration-bank-bailout-plan","category-the-2009-obama-administration-housing-amelioration-plan","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007","category-the-fiscal-stimulus-package-of-2009","category-the-national-deficit","category-the-possibility-of-a-bailout-for-the-u-s-auto-industry","category-the-september-2008-proposed-henry-paulson-700-billion-bailout-package","category-the-u-s-government","category-treasury-secretary-timothy-geithner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}