{"id":25268,"date":"2018-03-06T19:45:37","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T00:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=25268"},"modified":"2018-03-06T21:01:44","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T02:01:44","slug":"the-bank-lobbyist-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2018\/03\/06\/the-bank-lobbyist-act\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bank Lobbyist Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Sanders has posted the video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/senatorsanders\/videos\/10156820116052908\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Bank Lobbyist Act<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWhy is Congress busy worrying about the needs of huge financial institutions, but ignores the concerns of ordinary Americans? The answer is simple. Follow the money.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/senatorsanders\/videos\/10156820116052908\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/TheBankLobbyAct.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"699\" height=\"476\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25276\" style=\"border: thick ridge #009900;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/TheBankLobbyAct.png 699w, https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/TheBankLobbyAct-150x102.png 150w, https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/TheBankLobbyAct-300x204.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 699px) 100vw, 699px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<pre class=\"plain\">\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>The next bank to fail ought to be nationalized, the executives fired, and some be put in jail. I bet that is not in the bill that Congress is looking to enact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Sanders has posted the video The Bank Lobbyist Act. Why is Congress busy worrying about the needs of huge financial institutions, but ignores the concerns of ordinary Americans? The answer is simple. Follow the money. The next bank to fail ought to be nationalized, the executives fired, and some be put in jail. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25268"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25279,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25268\/revisions\/25279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}