{"id":555,"date":"2008-09-28T13:54:22","date_gmt":"2008-09-28T18:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=555"},"modified":"2008-09-28T13:56:10","modified_gmt":"2008-09-28T18:56:10","slug":"a-bailout-you-can-believe-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2008\/09\/28\/a-bailout-you-can-believe-in\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bailout You Can Believe In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow <a title=\"Bailout Proposal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/227\/story\/53189.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to the McClatchy News coverage of what might be the final bailout proposal.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, I think this report on the plan is very even handedly done.\u00a0 This is one reason why I like to read the McClatchy news service.<\/p>\n<p>The use of warrants to let the taxpayer participate in any financial gains is a great idea. It is also good that there is recoginition that the Government&#8217;s ownership of the mortgages can be used to renegotiate these predatory deals in ways to help keep people in their homes.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it is worthwhile that the Republicans got to add the alternative of a more insurance oriented approach to the bailout.\u00a0 It seems reasonable to me to offer the &#8220;customer&#8221; more than just one plan.<\/p>\n<p>My reading from this news story of Obama&#8217;s reaction to the deal is slightly different from the explicit interpretation in the article. I think Obama is just saying that the deal meets his requirements for gaining his vote.\u00a0 He is not making any claim for responsibility in the way the deal came out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow this link to the McClatchy News coverage of what might be the final bailout proposal. First of all, I think this report on the plan is very even handedly done.\u00a0 This is one reason why I like to read the McClatchy news service. The use of warrants to let the taxpayer participate in any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-555","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-periodic-posts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions\/557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}