{"id":5694,"date":"2010-09-24T22:11:39","date_gmt":"2010-09-25T02:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=5694"},"modified":"2010-09-26T22:15:04","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T02:15:04","slug":"what-uaw-workers-drive-when-drinkin%e2%80%99-and-smokin%e2%80%99-dope-national-review-09-24-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2010\/09\/what-uaw-workers-drive-when-drinkin%e2%80%99-and-smokin%e2%80%99-dope-national-review-09-24-10","title":{"rendered":"What UAW Workers Drive When Drinkin\u2019 and Smokin\u2019 Dope (National Review 09.24.10)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s no party like a Dee-troit party, and the UAW\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XVmKyJXHXRE\">hooch n\u2019 weed break<\/a> at the Detroit Chrysler plant \u2014 the very plant President Obama visited just two months ago \u2014 is the talk of the town. Yes, your tax dollars at work.<\/p>\n<p>But what might really get the attention of Washington\u2019s green prudes are the vehicles \u201cAmerica\u2019s endangered middle-class\u201d is driving in the video. Big Dodge pickups, V-8 Mustangs, Jeep SUVs. Washington likes to think it saved Chrysler\u2019s middle-income earners so that they would buy new fuel-efficient Fiat 500s.<\/p>\n<p>But $80 grand-a-year UAW workers \u2014 like the rest of America\u2019s middle class \u2014 likes big sedans and SUVs. Which is why\u00a0the plant\u00a0Obama saved is not only producing weed-tokin\u2019 union workers \u2014 but also lots of best-sellin\u2019, money-makin\u2019, gas-guzzlin\u2019\u00a0Jeep Cherokees.<\/p>\n<p>Scandalous, ain\u2019t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s no party like a Dee-troit party, and the UAW\u00a0hooch n\u2019 weed break at the Detroit Chrysler plant \u2014 the very plant President Obama visited just two months ago \u2014 is the talk of the town. Yes, your tax dollars at work. But what might really get the attention of Washington\u2019s green prudes are the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5694"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5696,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5694\/revisions\/5696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}