{"id":29365,"date":"2016-10-05T11:03:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T15:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=29365"},"modified":"2016-10-05T11:03:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T15:03:46","slug":"look-where-our-taxpayer-money-went","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=29365","title":{"rendered":"Look Where Our Taxpayer Money Went!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Troubled Asset Relief Program\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Troubled_Asset_Relief_Program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program)<\/a>? That was the program that was going to stop the recession and make sure unemployment stayed manageable. It did neither and eventually resulted in $426.4 billion of taxpayer <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Money\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Money\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">money<\/a> being invested to &#8216;purchase troubled assets.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2016\/10\/breaking-guccifer-2-0-releases-clinton-foundation-documents\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gateway Pundit <\/a>posted an article yesterday featuring some information posted by Guccifer2 that he has acquired through his <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Hacker (computer security)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hacker_%28computer_security%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">computer hacking<\/a>. Regardless of how you feel about computer hacking, this is information that should be available to the American public:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/TARPPAyments.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29366\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/TARPPAyments.png\" alt=\"tarppayments\" width=\"519\" height=\"662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/TARPPAyments.png 519w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/TARPPAyments-235x300.png 235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/a>The third column in this chart is donations that companies who received TARP money made to various candidates and party committees. I really think we need a law that says any company or entity that receives government money should not be able to make <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Campaign finance\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Campaign_finance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">campaign contributions<\/a>. The amount of money spent on TARP should have been given to American taxpayers. I suspect that would have done a much better job of stimulating the economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program)? That was the program that was going to stop the recession and make sure unemployment stayed manageable. It did neither and eventually resulted in $426.4 billion of taxpayer money being invested to &#8216;purchase troubled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=29365\">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":[712,1268],"class_list":["post-29365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-democratic-party-united-states","tag-troubled-asset-relief-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29365","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=29365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29367,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29365\/revisions\/29367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}