{"id":36334,"date":"2012-12-21T17:31:37","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T17:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wsj_ceos_frustrated_with_fiscal_cliff_standstill\/"},"modified":"2012-12-21T17:31:37","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T17:31:37","slug":"wsj_ceos_frustrated_with_fiscal_cliff_standstill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36334","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) CEOs Frustrated With Fiscal Cliff Standstill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A long line of America&#8217;s top chief executives have rotated through Washington in recent weeks, loudly urging lawmakers and the White House to reach a broad deal to fix the budget. They once sounded optimistic. Now many of them aren&#8217;t talking, and if they are, they&#8217;re gloomy.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Bertolini, chief executive of health-insurance company Aetna Inc., called the state of play &#8220;pitiful and embarrassing,&#8221; saying the chances are growing that a deal might not be reached by the end of the year to avert $500 billion in tax increases and spending cuts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Set aside my interest as the CEO of a participant in the economy here\u201d\u201das an American, I&#8217;m embarrassed if that&#8217;s where we end up,&#8221; Mr. Bertolini said in an interview. &#8220;It feels like it&#8217;s starting to fall apart.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324731304578191873401557216.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long line of America&#8217;s top chief executives have rotated through Washington in recent weeks, loudly urging lawmakers and the White House to reach a broad deal to fix the budget. They once sounded optimistic. Now many of them aren&#8217;t<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36334\">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":[40,670,589,149,617,675,616,151,667,673,619,587,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-budget","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-house-of-representatives","category-medicare","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-social-security","category-state-government","category-taxes","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36334","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=36334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}