{"id":884,"date":"2009-02-11T17:00:28","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T17:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=320"},"modified":"2009-02-11T17:00:28","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T17:00:28","slug":"21109","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=884","title":{"rendered":"2\/11\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, the Obama administration bail out is on the table. \u00a0 While multi-dimensional, the crux is to help many banks \u00a0gain bouyancy again and inspire renewed consumer trust. \u00a0 <em>New York Times<\/em> columnist David Leonhardt best summed up the primary dynamic that got us here: \u00a0 &#8220;It&#8217;s your fault. \u00a0 Part of it is, anyway. \u00a0 You, the American consumer, spent too much money. \u00a0 You bought too much house, took on too much debt and generally lived beyond your means. \u00a0 Your free-spending ways helped cause the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. \u00a0 And now you&#8217;re going to have to do your part to end the crisis. \u00a0 How? \u00a0 By spending.&#8221; \u00a0 Wouldn&#8217;t this be akin to asking an alcoholic in the process of hitting bottom &#8212; to drink more? \u00a0 Well, sure. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, the Obama administration bail out is on the table. \u00a0 While multi-dimensional, the crux is to help many banks \u00a0gain bouyancy again and inspire renewed consumer trust. \u00a0 New York Times columnist David Leonhardt best summed up the primary <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=884\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}