{"id":7056,"date":"2012-05-01T15:46:06","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T19:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=7056"},"modified":"2012-05-01T15:46:06","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T19:46:06","slug":"mitt-romney-borrow-money-from-parents-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/05\/01\/mitt-romney-borrow-money-from-parents-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To Mitt-Simplicity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to comment on Mitt Romney&#8217;s cluelessly callous remarks to <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/special\/2012\/04\/27\/473096\/romney-borrow-money-parents\/\">students at Otterbein University<\/a> in Ohio:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;Mitt Romney told students that, his friend, Jimmy John, started a business by borrowing $20,000 from his parents at a low interest rate. Romney suggested anyone in the audience could do the same:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230;Take a shot, go for it, take a risk, get the education, borrow money if you have to from your parents, start a business.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, Romney wants students to be &#8220;job creators,&#8221; but he has no plans to help them.  Now if you&#8217;re a rich &#8220;job creator,&#8221; that&#8217;s another story.<\/p>\n<p>Limerick Ode To Mitt-Simplicity<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Dear Mitt, I was grateful and glad<br \/>\nThat you shared the quick fix to be had<br \/>\nFor youths who can&#8217;t pay<br \/>\nFor college today:<br \/>\nStart a biz with a loan from your dad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to comment on Mitt Romney&#8217;s cluelessly callous remarks to students at Otterbein University in Ohio: &#8230;Mitt Romney told students that, his friend, Jimmy John, started a business by borrowing $20,000 from his parents at a low interest rate. Romney suggested anyone in the audience could do the same: &#8220;&#8230;Take a shot, go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,21,20,126,6,7,3,9,1940,886],"tags":[2786,390,2764,1941,1250,538,423,1854,653],"class_list":["post-7056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-humor","category-election-satire","category-gop-humor","category-mitt-romney-humor","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","category-student-loan-humor","category-students-verse","tag-campaign-humor","tag-economy-satire","tag-election-satire","tag-job-creators","tag-mitt-romney","tag-money-humor","tag-parents","tag-republican-war-on-college","tag-student-loans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=7056"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7066,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7056\/revisions\/7066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}