{"id":184348,"date":"2012-05-28T21:07:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T02:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/05\/28\/you-have-it-backwards\/"},"modified":"2012-05-28T21:07:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T02:07:00","slug":"you-have-it-backwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/05\/28\/you-have-it-backwards\/","title":{"rendered":"You Have It Backwards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Howie Klein wonders, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/downwithtyranny.blogspot.com\/2012\/05\/do-all-members-of-house-financial.html\">Do ALL The Members Of The House Financial Services Committee Take Bribes From The Banksters?<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>He has it backwards.  The HFCS is a bloated and overstaffed committee, with two or three times the members that it actually needs, and it does this, because it&#8217;s known as a &#8220;money&#8221; committee.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, people are put on it so that they can fund raise from the banksters.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s less of a bribe than it is a shakedown.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the committee at its current size is to facilitate taking legalized bribes from the financial services industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howie Klein wonders, &#8220;Do ALL The Members Of The House Financial Services Committee Take Bribes From The Banksters?&#8220; He has it backwards. The HFCS is a bloated and overstaffed committee, with two or three times the members that it actually needs, and it does this, because it&#8217;s known as a &#8220;money&#8221; committee. Basically, people are &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1094,970,1004],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-finance","category-corruption","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}