{"id":426,"date":"2008-12-23T17:52:09","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T21:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=426"},"modified":"2008-12-24T14:54:33","modified_gmt":"2008-12-24T18:54:33","slug":"banks-to-taxpayers-drop-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2008\/12\/23\/banks-to-taxpayers-drop-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Banks To Taxpayers: Drop Dead!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Maddow says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/26315908\/#28358312\">&#8220;We should all become banks.&#8221;<\/a>  Why? Because all it takes for banks to get lots of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sba.gov\/idc\/groups\/public\/documents\/sba_homepage\/guideline_tarp_capitalpurchase.pdf\">taxpayer TARP money is a simple two page application.<\/a> And the best part is that banks don&#8217;t have to account for the cash.  (Bush&#8217;s Treasury Department requires no transparency or accountability.)<\/p>\n<p>That calls for a limerick, don&#8217;t you think? <\/p>\n<p>Banks To Taxpayers: Drop Dead!<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Where&#8217;s your money?  You&#8217;ve no right to know.<br \/>\nBanks account for your dough?  Ho! Ho! Ho!<br \/>\nWe are rich and white collar &#8212;<br \/>\nWon&#8217;t help if you holler.<br \/>\nGo pester a unionized co!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Maddow says &#8220;We should all become banks.&#8221; Why? Because all it takes for banks to get lots of taxpayer TARP money is a simple two page application. And the best part is that banks don&#8217;t have to account for the cash. (Bush&#8217;s Treasury Department requires no transparency or accountability.) That calls for a limerick, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[414,31,44,114,180,178,154,6,7,3,162,419,45],"tags":[415,418,216,420,410,337,409,421,413,417,412,416],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":439,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions\/439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}