{"id":3660,"date":"2010-04-04T21:09:52","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T02:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=3660"},"modified":"2010-04-04T21:28:59","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T02:28:59","slug":"looting-main-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/04\/04\/looting-main-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Looting Main Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow <a title=\"Rolling Stone Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/story\/32906678\/looting_main_street\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to the story in <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>. The sub-title to the article is <q>How the nation&#8217;s biggest banks are ripping off American cities with the same predatory deals that brought down Greece.<\/q><\/p>\n<p>This is a good story to read if you believe that local government control is better than any interference from the federal government. (Well, maybe not. It&#8217;s not clear what you will think after reading this.)<\/p>\n<p>If you are easily offended by some 4 letter words, then the story is not for you.<\/p>\n<p>In case you opt to skip this incredible story (not April 1st anymore), here is the closing of the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And even if the regulators manage to catch up with them billions of dollars later, the banks just pay a small fine and move on to the next scam. This isn&#8217;t capitalism. It&#8217;s nomadic thievery.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow this link to the story in Rolling Stone. The sub-title to the article is How the nation&#8217;s biggest banks are ripping off American cities with the same predatory deals that brought down Greece. This is a good story to read if you believe that local government control is better than any interference from the [&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-3660","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\/3660","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=3660"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3663,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3660\/revisions\/3663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}