After Standard & Poor downgraded the credit rating of the US, the government announced they were investigating S&P for “improper ratings.”<\/p>\n
What a punk-ass move.<\/p>\n
They claim the investigation started before the downgrade. I’m guessing that several months ago, somewhere in the bowels of the government, a conversation took place between a few government weasels.<\/p>\n
Weasel #1: It’s likely S&P will downgrade our credit rating. We need to be ready for that.<\/p>\n
Weasel #2: But how? They’re highly respected in the financial world.<\/p>\n
Weasel #3: How about a Justice department investigation?<\/p>\n
Weasel #2: Over what? All they’re doing is selling their opinion to willing customers. Even if we disagree, it’s not like they’ve done anything wrong.<\/p>\n
Weasel #1: They don’t have to do anything wrong, they just have to be accused<\/em> of doing something wrong. We’ll get started now, and if they don’t downgrade us we’ll back off. If they do, we’ll wait a couple of weeks and then announce we’ve been investigating them since before the downgrade.<\/p>\n Weasel #2 :But that’s so pathetically transparent. Americans are too stupid to fall for that.<\/p>\n In response Weasels #1 and #3 laughed so hard they peed a little.<\/p>\n This provides another tweak Smartenized people can apply to their bullshit meter. Adjust the creditably of an organization slightly upward if they’re the target of a government investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After Standard & Poor downgraded the credit rating of the US, the government announced they were investigating S&P for “improper ratings.” What a punk-ass move. They claim the investigation started before the downgrade. I’m guessing that several months ago, somewhere in the bowels of the government, a conversation took place between a few government weasels. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,4,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1500"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1503,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions\/1503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}