{"id":24809,"date":"2015-01-17T22:48:28","date_gmt":"2015-01-18T03:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24809"},"modified":"2015-01-17T22:48:28","modified_gmt":"2015-01-18T03:48:28","slug":"why-many-americans-are-losing-faith-in-their-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24809","title":{"rendered":"Why Many Americans Are Losing Faith In Their Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/pagesix.com\/2015\/01\/16\/senators-husband-stands-to-profit-from-government-deal\/?_ga=1.137700920.922370688.1421462337\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Post<\/a> posted a story illustrating one way that some of our politicians exploit their offices. I suspect that what went on here may actually be legal, but that does not necessarily make it right.<\/p>\n<p>The story reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Postal Service\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usps.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">US Postal Service<\/a> plans to sell 56 buildings \u2014 so it can lease space more expensively \u2014 and the real estate company of the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"California\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=37.0,-120.0&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=37.0,-120.0 (California)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">California<\/a> senator\u2019s husband (Sen. Dianne <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Dianne Feinstein\" href=\"http:\/\/www.feinstein.senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Feinstein<\/a>), <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Richard C. Blum\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_C._Blum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Richard Blum<\/a>, is set to pocket about $1 billion in commissions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Blum\u2019s company, CBRE, was selected in March 2011 as the sole real estate agent on sales expected to fetch $19 billion. Most voters didn\u2019t notice that Blum is a member of CBRE\u2019s board and served as chairman from 2001 to 2014.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>This feat of federal spousal support was ignored by the media after Feinstein\u2019s office said the senator, whose wealth is pegged at $70 million, had nothing to do with the USPS decisions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It would be nice if, just for the sake of appearances, Mr. Blum chose not to participate in the deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday The New York Post posted a story illustrating one way that some of our politicians exploit their offices. I suspect that what went on here may actually be legal, but that does not necessarily make it right. The story &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24809\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30,3640,657,2824,8635,2826],"class_list":["post-24809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-california","tag-dianne-feinstein","tag-new-york-post","tag-real-estate","tag-richard-c-blum","tag-united-states-postal-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24809","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24811,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24809\/revisions\/24811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}