{"id":376,"date":"2008-12-22T20:32:42","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T20:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=376"},"modified":"2008-12-22T20:32:42","modified_gmt":"2008-12-22T20:32:42","slug":"where_did_the_bailout_money_go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=376","title":{"rendered":"Where Did The Bailout Money Go?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where did the bailout money go?&nbsp; To the bank executives of course!&nbsp; I don&#8217;t begrudge anyone wages paid for a job well done, but this is ridiculous.&nbsp; I am reminded of a previous post citing a Swiss bank that paid its executives in illiquid paper&#8211;if the paper regained its value, they would get nice bonuses.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/littlegreenfootballs.com\/article\/32249_Bailed-Out_Bank_Execs_Got_Multi-Million_Dollar_Rewards\">Little Green Footballs<\/a>&nbsp;has more details on the money that went to executives and the banks that were not willing to account for the money they received.<\/p>\n<p>According to the article:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Associated Press contacted 21 banks that received at least $1 billion in government money and asked four questions: How much has been spent? What was it spent on? How much is being held in savings, and what&#8217;s the plan for the rest?<\/p>\n<p>None of the banks provided specific answers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time to take a good look at <strong><em>all<\/em><\/strong> the people who are supposed to represent us in Washington and to throw a majority of them out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where did the bailout money go?&nbsp; To the bank executives of course!&nbsp; I don&#8217;t begrudge anyone wages paid for a job well done, but this is ridiculous.&nbsp; I am reminded of a previous post citing a Swiss bank that paid &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=376\">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-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","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=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}