{"id":330,"date":"2008-10-05T12:14:10","date_gmt":"2008-10-05T17:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/the-real-cost-of-the-bailout\/"},"modified":"2008-10-05T12:16:10","modified_gmt":"2008-10-05T17:16:10","slug":"the-real-cost-of-the-bailout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/the-real-cost-of-the-bailout\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Cost of the Bailout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend just sent me two boxes of cigars and a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13578_3-10057618-38.html?tag=nl.e433\">this<\/a> article.\u00c2\u00a0 The cigars were Comachos and Hoyo de Monterrey Excaliburs.\u00c2\u00a0 He also included a limited edition CAO thrown in for good measure.\u00c2\u00a0 The article breaks down the likely <em>real <\/em>cost of the bailout. It includes multi-billion dollar handouts to private companies including Bear Stearns, JP Morgan and AIG. It also includes over a hundred and fifty <em>billion <\/em>dollars of pork thrown in for good measure.<\/p>\n<p>The bill not only hands out pork to just about everyone (except, of course, American taxpayers), it also extends expansions on federal snooping, especially by the IRS.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s incredibly infuriating.\u00c2\u00a0 Good thing I&#8217;ve got some cigars to relax me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend just sent me two boxes of cigars and a link to this article.\u00c2\u00a0 The cigars were Comachos and Hoyo de Monterrey Excaliburs.\u00c2\u00a0 He also included a limited edition CAO thrown in for good measure.\u00c2\u00a0 The article breaks down the likely real cost of the bailout. It includes multi-billion dollar handouts to private companies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330"}],"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=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions\/331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}