{"id":193378,"date":"2008-12-19T18:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T23:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/19\/because-his-friends-need-bigger-bonuses\/"},"modified":"2008-12-19T18:25:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-19T23:25:00","slug":"because-his-friends-need-bigger-bonuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/19\/because-his-friends-need-bigger-bonuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Because His Friends Need Bigger Bonuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So Hank Paulson wants <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/story\/paulsoni-discuss-remaining-350b-funds\/story.aspx?guid=%7BFCA479AA-A60C-4A76-B237-76AC9F53EA80%7D\">Congress to releasing the remaining $350 billion in TARP bailout funds for banks<\/a>, but the White House is simultaneously saying that they <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB122969743282721629.html?mod=rss_whats_news_us\">may not formally request this until Bush is out of office<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what is going on, but until Hank Paulson and His Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup> are out of the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, Congress should not release another dollar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Hank Paulson wants Congress to releasing the remaining $350 billion in TARP bailout funds for banks, but the White House is simultaneously saying that they may not formally request this until Bush is out of office. I&#8217;m not sure what is going on, but until Hank Paulson and His Evil Minions\u2122 are out of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,998,1004,1020,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-congress","category-finance","category-legislation","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193378"}],"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=193378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}