{"id":94,"date":"2008-09-25T07:50:28","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T07:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/2008\/09\/25\/buy-my-air-conditoner-mr-bush\/"},"modified":"2008-09-25T07:50:28","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T07:50:28","slug":"buy-my-air-conditoner-mr-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/2008\/09\/25\/buy-my-air-conditoner-mr-bush\/","title":{"rendered":"Buy My Air Conditoner, Mr. Bush!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve been trying sell <a href=\"\/node\/1449\" title=\"my air conditioner on Craigslist\">my air conditioner on Craigslist<\/a> with no luck. That&#8217;s fine, because thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/BuyMyShitPile.com\" title=\"BuyMyShitPile.com\">BuyMyShitPile.com<\/a>, I can get the government to buy it. If they are going to blindly buy all the <a href=\"The Subprime Primer\" title=\"http:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/sub-prime\/\">worthless subprime mortgages<\/a>, why wouldn&#8217;t they like a gently used, 8000 btu AC?<\/p>\n<p>This Bail Out is making me so angry.  I think it should happen, just not without oversight. The governement  could buy the loan the money to the major banks to cover the securities, at a decent interest rate. The banks stabilize, under new regulations invest in solid endeavors and then pay back the US taxpayers with interest.<\/p>\n<p>Also, it is cheaper to reduce payments and give mortgage forgiveness than it is to foreclose. Neither of these things get done with a fast bail out bill that is essentially a blank check for a lot of unaccountable, never-will-be-poor, douchebags.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve been trying sell <a href=\"\/node\/1449\" title=\"my air conditioner on Craigslist\">my air conditioner on Craigslist<\/a> with no luck. That&#8217;s fine, because thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/BuyMyShitPile.com\" title=\"BuyMyShitPile.com\">BuyMyShitPile.com<\/a>, I can get the government to buy it. If they are going to blindly buy all the <a href=\"The Subprime Primer\" title=\"http:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/sub-prime\/\">worthless subprime mortgages<\/a>, why wouldn&#8217;t they like a gently used, 8000 btu AC?<br \/>\nThis Bail Out is making me so angry.  I think it should happen, just not without oversight. The governement  could buy the loan the money to the major banks to cover the securities, at a decent interest rate. The banks stabilize, under new regulations invest in solid endeavors and then pay back the US taxpayers with interest.<\/p>\n<p>Also, it is cheaper to reduce payments and give mortgage forgiveness than it is to foreclose. Neither of these things get done with a fast bail out bill that is essentially a blank check for a lot of unaccountable, never-will-be-poor, douchebags.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}