{"id":20,"date":"2013-04-24T08:31:48","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T08:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/?p=20"},"modified":"2013-10-27T04:29:57","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T04:29:57","slug":"while-america-aged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/2013\/04\/24\/while-america-aged\/","title":{"rendered":"While America Aged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Roger Lowenstein, <i> While America Aged: How Pension Debts Ruined General Motors, Stopped the NYC Subways, Bankrupted San Diego, and Loom as the Next Financial Crisis<\/i><\/b> \u2013 an interesting read on some of the worst pension abuses.\u00a0 It reaffirmed my believe in balance \u2013 the worst political situation is when any interest group gains a foothold which allows them to run their agenda at someone else\u2019s expense.\u00a0 The NY teacher\u2019s at one time would retire at 130% of salary!\u00a0 Can you imagine that?\u00a0 And this was after 30 years of service.\u00a0 Do you think anyone would not retire on the first day possible?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Lowenstein, While America Aged: How Pension Debts Ruined General Motors, Stopped the NYC Subways, Bankrupted San Diego, and Loom as the Next Financial Crisis \u2013 an interesting read on some of the worst pension abuses.\u00a0 It reaffirmed my believe in balance \u2013 the worst political situation is when any interest group gains a foothold &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/2013\/04\/24\/while-america-aged\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">While America Aged<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-financial","tag-roger-lowenste"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21,"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}