{"id":107,"date":"2009-09-09T09:36:27","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T14:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulschwake.com\/paulsblog\/?p=107"},"modified":"2010-03-31T09:25:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T14:25:30","slug":"so-was-it-good-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"So Was It Good For You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u00a0loaned GM $50 billion\u00a0to avoid bankruptcy.\u00a0 For you politicos out there, just for clarification, what that sentence means is 1)\u00a0GM\u00a0is supposed to repay the money as it is a <strong>loan<\/strong> and 2) it was loaned to GM in order to <strong>avoid<\/strong> bankruptcy. \u00a0As I, and probably a great number of us, predicted\u00a0(except apparently\u00a0the politicos), GM went bankrupt anyway and now it has been pretty much made clear that we are not going to be repayed:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32751671\/ns\/business-washington_post\" target=\"_blank\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How does it feel, my fellow American?\u00a0 Was it good for you?\u00a0 I bet not.\u00a0 The evidence just keeps piling up.\u00a0 How in the world so many\u00a0of you\u00a0condone this type of activity\u00a0or turn a blind eye to it blows my mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u00a0loaned GM $50 billion\u00a0to avoid bankruptcy.\u00a0 For you politicos out there, just for clarification, what that sentence means is 1)\u00a0GM\u00a0is supposed to repay the money as it is a loan and 2) it was loaned to GM in order to avoid bankruptcy. \u00a0As I, and probably a great number of us, predicted\u00a0(except apparently\u00a0the politicos), GM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automotive","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}