{"id":39,"date":"2008-11-22T05:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-22T05:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eclecticamateur.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/22\/what-dale-said"},"modified":"2008-11-22T05:21:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-22T05:21:00","slug":"what-dale-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/what-dale-said.html\/","title":{"rendered":"What Dale Said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dprice.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/let-me-see-if-i-have-this-straight.html\">Let me see if I have this straight&#8230;<br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-style:italic;\"><p>(1) Dubious financial minds come up with even more dubious [read: bullshit] derivative &#8220;securities&#8221; upon which transactions are based, and our Congressional masters sling the financial industry $700bn, no questions asked. In fact, the entire premise upon which the bailout was approved even gets changed in midstream, but no worries.<\/p>\n<p>(2) Auto industry which employs hundreds of thousands (over a million if you kick in the cascade effects) and remains the largest part of the American manufacturing base asks for $25bn to get it through until new cost-saving labor agreements and reduced legacy costs kick in, and the answer is &#8220;Clear it with Countrywide Chris and Subprime Barney first.&#8221; Oh, and you boot John Dingell for the Mayor of Whoville in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, we&#8217;re watching here in Michigan. Which reminds me, a word of advice for Senator Dick Shelby: I can&#8217;t recommend sticking your schnozz north of Toledo for the foreseeable future&#8211;you&#8217;ve become a household name on sports radio, of all things. And not remotely in a good way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Other than the fact that I don&#8217;t listen to sports radio &#8212; my thoughts exactly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me see if I have this straight&#8230; (1) Dubious financial minds come up with even more dubious [read: bullshit] derivative &#8220;securities&#8221; upon which transactions are based, and our Congressional masters sling the financial industry $700bn, no questions asked. In fact, the entire premise upon which the bailout was approved even gets changed in midstream, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,25,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-and-fall","category-michigan","category-the-stupid-economy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2sZgq-D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}