{"id":12,"date":"2008-09-29T19:18:08","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T19:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=12"},"modified":"2008-09-29T19:18:08","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T19:18:08","slug":"bailout-strike-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rant.godshell.com\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"Bailout..  STRIKE 1!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Current score? <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2008\/09\/29\/news\/economy\/bailout\/index.htm?cnn=yes\" title=\"CNN - Bailout plan rejected\">205 Yea to 228 Nay<\/a>. Of course, both sides are blaming each other, as expected. They&#8217;re like a bunch of unruly children&#8230; &#8220;It&#8217;s not my fault, it&#8217;s their fault.. We did our job&#8230;&#8221; Bunch of whiners&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, I, myself, view this as a win. Maybe those fat cats on Wall Street can get off their asses now and work towards a solution. They won&#8217;t, though, because the government keeps telling everyone that they WILL pass something. What a great excuse to fall back on&#8230; &#8220;Sorry the bank failed, but the government said they would help and they haven&#8217;t&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The latest version of the bill can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/2008\/images\/09\/28\/ayo08c04_xml.pdf\" title=\"CNN - Draft of Bailout Proposal\">here<\/a>. An additional 3 pages, based on page count alone. I haven&#8217;t had a chance to digest it yet, though&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,428641,00.html\" title=\"Fox News - WaMu Gives New CEO Mega Payout as Bank Fails\">golden parachutes<\/a> are floating from the sky&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current score? 205 Yea to 228 Nay. Of course, both sides are blaming each other, as expected. They&#8217;re like a bunch of unruly children&#8230; &#8220;It&#8217;s not my fault, it&#8217;s their fault.. We did our job&#8230;&#8221; Bunch of whiners&#8230; Regardless, I, myself, view this as a win. Maybe those fat cats on Wall Street can get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rant.godshell.com\/?p=12\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bailout..  STRIKE 1!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rant.godshell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rant.godshell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rant.godshell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rant.godshell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rant.godshell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rant.godshell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rant.godshell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rant.godshell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rant.godshell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}