{"id":1203,"date":"2008-11-24T06:24:24","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T11:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2008-11-24T06:24:24","modified_gmt":"2008-11-24T11:24:24","slug":"monday-open-thread-120","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2008\/11\/24\/monday-open-thread-120\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another day, another bailout.  This time taxpayers are chipping in $320 billion or so to save Citigroup.  Not the auto industry, of course, because it&#8217;s the goddamn unions that killed the auto industry.  Banks, though, they&#8217;re the bastion of god-fearing, anti-union Republicans, so we need to keep <strong><em>them<\/em><\/strong> up and running.  Besides, high unemployment keeps labor costs low, and that&#8217;s good for everybody, right?  Except, I dunno who&#8217;s gonna buy all this crap from China if nobody&#8217;s working, but then I&#8217;m not an economics expert.  Fortunately, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/wtMostRead\/idUSTRE4AM1F120081123\">it looks like the rich folks might get to keep their Bush tax cuts<\/a> &#8211; for a while, at least.  That&#8217;s good.  I&#8217;d hate to stop getting trickled down on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another day, another bailout. This time taxpayers are chipping in $320 billion or so to save Citigroup. Not the auto industry, of course, because it&#8217;s the goddamn unions that killed the auto industry. Banks, though, they&#8217;re the bastion of god-fearing, anti-union Republicans, so we need to keep them up and running. Besides, high unemployment keeps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}