{"id":483,"date":"2009-01-31T06:44:58","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T06:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=483"},"modified":"2009-01-31T06:44:58","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T06:44:58","slug":"can_wage_and_price_controls_be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=483","title":{"rendered":"Can Wage And Price Controls Be Far Behind?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2009\/01\/30\/mccaskill-on-capping-pay-of-ceos-who-take-tarp-money-these-people-are-idiots\/\">Hot Air<\/a>&nbsp;ran an article yesterday containing statements by Senator Claire McCaskill&nbsp;on the stimulus bill.&nbsp; She is justifying capping salaries and bonuses for executives of any company or bank that&nbsp;takes bailout money.&nbsp; Why not?&nbsp; Money rarely comes without strings attached.&nbsp; Every move being made in the Democrat Congress right now is against free enterprise.&nbsp; Since free enterprise is what has made this country great, we need to preserve it&#8211;not ruin it.&nbsp; If you look at the causes of the housing bubble collapse, it was not the free market&#8211;Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were government entities who just happened to enrich a number of prominent Democrat politicians.<\/p>\n<p>Senator McCaskill also admitted that a portion of the bill was pork (and she felt, unwise).&nbsp; However, her justification for the pork in the bill was that some programs had simply been starved for cash, and that is why they were added.&nbsp; Four million dollars to ACORN and fifty million to the National Endowment for the Arts are not stimulus&#8211;they are PORK!&nbsp; For the sake of every American, their children, and their grandchildren, this bill needs to fail.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot Air&nbsp;ran an article yesterday containing statements by Senator Claire McCaskill&nbsp;on the stimulus bill.&nbsp; She is justifying capping salaries and bonuses for executives of any company or bank that&nbsp;takes bailout money.&nbsp; Why not?&nbsp; Money rarely comes without strings attached.&nbsp; Every &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=483\">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-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","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=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}