{"id":192916,"date":"2009-02-05T19:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T00:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/02\/05\/this-was-not-a-bug-this-was-a-feture\/"},"modified":"2009-02-05T19:20:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T00:20:00","slug":"this-was-not-a-bug-this-was-a-feture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/02\/05\/this-was-not-a-bug-this-was-a-feture\/","title":{"rendered":"This Was Not a Bug, This Was a Feture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The TARP watchdog committee is now saying that <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2009\/02\/05\/news\/economy\/tarp_oversight_hearing\/index.htm?postversion=2009020512\">Hank Paulson and His Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup> overpaid for TARP assets<\/a>, and that they paid $274 billion for assets worth $176 billion.<\/p>\n<p>This was not an oversight.  This was what Paulson wanted.<\/p>\n<p>He was looking at bailing out his budget at taxpayer expense, because to him, bailing out overpaid Wall Street pukes was job 1&#8230;.Mission accomplished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The TARP watchdog committee is now saying that Hank Paulson and His Evil Minions\u2122 overpaid for TARP assets, and that they paid $274 billion for assets worth $176 billion. This was not an oversight. This was what Paulson wanted. He was looking at bailing out his budget at taxpayer expense, because to him, bailing out &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1004,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-finance","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192916"}],"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=192916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}