{"id":421,"date":"2010-05-19T20:45:08","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T00:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/?p=421"},"modified":"2010-05-19T20:45:23","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T00:45:23","slug":"the-bankers-have-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/?p=421","title":{"rendered":"The Bankers Have It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why is there a question of the US bailing out Europe? The answer is simple: Bankers. <\/p>\n<p>If the US doesn&#8217;t help bail out Europe, the bankers lose their shirts. If the US does help bail out Europe, then they get paid.<\/p>\n<p>Need more proof that the bankers have a hold on the US government? The Republicans are blocking the Merkley-Levin amendment in the Senate. That amendment is the &#8220;Volcker Plan,&#8221; which would keep banks from wrecking the economy the way they did in 2008. Banks don&#8217;t want that, and their chorus in the Republican ranks is singing their tune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is there a question of the US bailing out Europe? The answer is simple: Bankers. If the US doesn&#8217;t help bail out Europe, the bankers lose their shirts. If the US does help bail out Europe, then they get paid. Need more proof that the bankers have a hold on the US government? The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-us-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions\/423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}