{"id":188786,"date":"2010-07-28T20:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T01:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/07\/28\/wanker-of-the-day-14\/"},"modified":"2010-07-28T20:06:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T01:06:00","slug":"wanker-of-the-day-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/07\/28\/wanker-of-the-day-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanker of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neel &#8220;Cash and Carry&#8221; Kashkari penned an article in (where else) <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Washington Post<\/span>, pens an OP\/ED titled, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/07\/25\/AR2010072502755.html\">No more &#8216;me first&#8217; mentality on entitlements<\/a>,&#8221; suggesting that individual Americans need to suck it up, and abandon their already meager social safety net, and not expect to be bailed out by the government.<\/p>\n<p>Kashkari ran the TARP.  He gave out billions, of bailouts to &#8216;me first&#8217; bankers, and then got a cushy job with PIMCO, so he doesn&#8217;t have to worry about eating cat food<sup>*<\/sup> to survive.<\/p>\n<p>3 Words: <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;\" >Not Enough Bullets<\/span><span style=\"font-size:180%;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">In the interest of health,  I would suggest that people eat dog food, and not cat food.  Cats  because they are one of the few true carnivores, do not need the complex  carbohydrates and fats that people, and dogs do.  As such, dog food is  better for you than cat food because it provides carbs and essential  fatty acids.  A dog can go blind if it is fed on cat food, but a cat  lives just fine on dog food.  The phenomenon is known as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rabbit_starvation\">rabbit starvation<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neel &#8220;Cash and Carry&#8221; Kashkari penned an article in (where else) The Washington Post, pens an OP\/ED titled, &#8220;No more &#8216;me first&#8217; mentality on entitlements,&#8221; suggesting that individual Americans need to suck it up, and abandon their already meager social safety net, and not expect to be bailed out by the government. Kashkari ran the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,1051,1086,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-hypocrisy","category-social-safety-net","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188786"}],"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=188786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}