{"id":4746,"date":"2010-09-20T21:12:56","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T02:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=4746"},"modified":"2010-09-20T21:17:10","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T02:17:10","slug":"gordon-gekko-laments-about-the-democrats-anti-business-attitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/09\/20\/gordon-gekko-laments-about-the-democrats-anti-business-attitude\/","title":{"rendered":"Gordon Gekko Laments The Democrats&#8217; Anti-Business Attitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking to Gordon Gekko today.\u00a0 He aired his complaints about the anti-business attitude of the Democrats.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I had such a sweet deal going,\u00a0 It was the Ponzi scheme called financial derivatives.\u00a0 My friends and I were raking in billions of dollars a year.\u00a0 I even had the victims of the Ponzi scheme believe they were getting rich too.\u00a0 Everybody was just so ecstatic.<\/p>\n<p>Then comes the Democrats to burst my little bubble with such foolish thoughts that Ponzi schemes are somehow dishonest.\u00a0 They want to make laws and rules that will hinder my business in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t they realize how important people like me are to economic growth and the recovery of jobs?<\/p>\n<p>Why, if I could just get another giant Ponzi scheme going, we&#8217;d all feel rich again.\u00a0 Perhaps we can even exceed the heights of just a few years ago.\u00a0 Do I ever long for those good old days.<\/p>\n<p>I just don&#8217;t understand why those Socialist, anti-American Democrats don&#8217;t like rich business people like me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking to Gordon Gekko today.\u00a0 He aired his complaints about the anti-business attitude of the Democrats. I had such a sweet deal going,\u00a0 It was the Ponzi scheme called financial derivatives.\u00a0 My friends and I were raking in billions of dollars a year.\u00a0 I even had the victims of the Ponzi scheme believe [&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-4746","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\/4746","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=4746"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4751,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4746\/revisions\/4751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}