{"id":123,"date":"2008-09-26T13:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T13:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=123"},"modified":"2008-09-26T13:58:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-26T13:58:00","slug":"god_save_the_taxpayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"God Save the Taxpayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Boehner sent a letter to Nancy Pelosi about the debate on the bailout program.&nbsp; The letter is published at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives2\/2008\/09\/021616.php\">Power Line<\/a>.&nbsp; Frankly, I think one of the problems in this situation is that many of our &#8216;representatives&#8217; (and I use the word loosely) are too busy collecting campaign money and sweetheart mortgages to pay attention and do what is right.&nbsp; I heard this morning that the phone calls to Congressmen and Congresswomen&nbsp;about the bailout are running one hundred to one against the program.&nbsp; The alternative program suggested by conservative Republicans in the House of Representatives involves more of an insurance corporation that holders of questionable mortgage paper pay into and are&nbsp;protected until it all gets sorted out.&nbsp; It also suggests a sharp cut in capital gains taxes to stimulate economic activity until everything has a chance to settle out.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a bill that is much friendlier to the average American than the original proposal, but the average American is not lobbying and making huge campaign&nbsp;donations, so I am not sure how this is going to go down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Boehner sent a letter to Nancy Pelosi about the debate on the bailout program.&nbsp; The letter is published at Power Line.&nbsp; Frankly, I think one of the problems in this situation is that many of our &#8216;representatives&#8217; (and I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=123\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}