{"id":715,"date":"2009-03-16T17:00:31","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T22:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/?p=715"},"modified":"2009-03-16T18:14:14","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T23:14:14","slug":"stick-it-to-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/2009\/03\/stick-it-to-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick it to them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/reason\/HitandRun\/~3\/BNkSffl_r7Q\/132261.html\">We Are Very Concerned About the Anger We&#8217;re Fomenting<\/a>,  by Matt Welch (Reason: Hit &#38; Run):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I suspect that what the administration might really be worried about is that there&#8217;s a glaring contradiction at the intersection of its messaging and policy. Officials talk like they&#8217;re really gonna stick it to AIG this time, then they ladle out another $20 billion. You want to punish a banker or a Wall Street executive? Let his company fail. And if he&#8217;s broken the law, prosecute him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Penny-wise, pound-foolish&#8221; comes to mind.  But whereas there were 240 pence in the old pound, it is pretty sad that the &#8220;penny&#8221; of this story \u2013 $165 million \u2013\u00a0is much less than 1\/240 of the $85 billion that has been handed to them already, and unfortunately, not likely the last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We Are Very Concerned About the Anger We&#8217;re Fomenting, by Matt Welch (Reason: Hit &#38; Run): I suspect that what the administration might really be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pekNN-bx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}