{"id":197156,"date":"2008-02-27T00:12:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T05:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/27\/bush-and-his-evil-minions-choose-fat-cat-bankers-over-home-owners\/"},"modified":"2008-02-27T00:12:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T05:12:00","slug":"bush-and-his-evil-minions-choose-fat-cat-bankers-over-home-owners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/27\/bush-and-his-evil-minions-choose-fat-cat-bankers-over-home-owners\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush and His Evil Minions\u2122 Choose Fat Cat Bankers Over Home Owners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8216;Phants in the Senate are threatening a filibuster, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2008\/02\/26\/news\/economy\/veto_foreclosure.ap\/index.htm\">white house is threatening a veto<\/a> over the Senate&#8217;s bill modifying bankruptcy laws to allow a judge to modify the terms of a loan on a primary residence.<\/p>\n<p>Today, you can do this on your yacht, or your vacation home, or your rental property, but not on your loan.<\/p>\n<p>Allowing so-called &#8220;cram downs&#8221; will not fix the problem, but it will make it better, and it will land squarely on the shoulders of the lenders who were the worst actors in this debacle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8216;Phants in the Senate are threatening a filibuster, and the white house is threatening a veto over the Senate&#8217;s bill modifying bankruptcy laws to allow a judge to modify the terms of a loan on a primary residence. Today, you can do this on your yacht, or your vacation home, or your rental property, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1265,1020,1088],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-housing-crash","category-legislation","category-real-estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197156"}],"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=197156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}