{"id":1953,"date":"2012-05-08T08:20:26","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T12:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1953"},"modified":"2012-05-08T08:21:42","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T12:21:42","slug":"americas-corporations-made-a-record-824-billion-last-year-as-conservatives-claim-obama-is-anti-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/05\/americas-corporations-made-a-record-824-billion-last-year-as-conservatives-claim-obama-is-anti-business\/","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s Corporations Made A Record $824 Billion Last Year, As Conservatives Claim Obama Is Anti-Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A favorite conservative attack on President Obama is that his policies \u2014 and even his personality \u2014 amount to an assault on American businesses. \u201cPresident Obama himself is the most anti-business president in my lifetime. With rhetoric not befitting a president he has attacked oil companies, banks, airplane users, Wall Street and anyone who makes money,\u201d wrote Gary Shapiro, president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association.<\/p>\n<p>However, according to the latest data, President Obama has been very good for America\u2019s biggest businesses. Last year, in fact, the Fortune 500 made a record $824 billion, topping the previous record set before the Great Recession.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SOURCE:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2012\/05\/07\/479130\/record-corporate-profits\/\">America&#8217;s Corporations Made A Record $824 Billion Last Year, As Conservatives Claim Obama Is Anti-Business | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A favorite conservative attack on President Obama is that his policies \u2014 and even his personality \u2014 amount to an assault on American businesses. \u201cPresident Obama himself is the most anti-business president in my lifetime. With rhetoric not befitting a president he has attacked oil companies, banks, airplane users, Wall Street and anyone who makes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,22],"tags":[1175,1176,37,756],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1953"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1955,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions\/1955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}