{"id":4280,"date":"2010-07-17T13:35:25","date_gmt":"2010-07-17T18:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=4280"},"modified":"2019-03-27T20:46:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T00:46:23","slug":"the-coming-collapse-of-the-middle-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/07\/17\/the-coming-collapse-of-the-middle-class\/","title":{"rendered":"The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" codebase=\"https:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/akVL7QY0S8A&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1?rel=0&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00&amp;border=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/akVL7QY0S8A&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1?rel=0&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00&amp;border=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"\/><\/object><\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>The above lecture, whose full title is <em><strong>The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class: Higher Risks, Lower Rewards <\/strong><strong>and A Shrinking Safety Net<\/strong><\/em>, is by Dr. Elizabeth Warren.<\/p>\n<p>According to an email I received, <q>Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is advising the White House not to put Elizabeth Warren in charge of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau &#8212; a watchdog agency she invented!<\/q><\/p>\n<p>After viewing this lecture, you tell me if you would want someone like this in charge of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.<\/p>\n<p>So what are you going to do about it?  You could always <strong><a target=\"_blank\"href=\"http:\/\/act.boldprogressives.org\/cms\/sign\/petition_warren\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sign a petition<\/a><\/strong> at boldprogressives.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The above lecture, whose full title is The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class: Higher Risks, Lower Rewards and A Shrinking Safety Net, is by Dr. Elizabeth Warren. According to an email I received, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is advising the White House not to put Elizabeth Warren in charge of the Consumer Financial Protection [&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-4280","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\/4280","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=4280"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27191,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4280\/revisions\/27191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}