{"id":37198,"date":"2013-07-11T05:00:34","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T10:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37198"},"modified":"2013-07-10T09:53:55","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T14:53:55","slug":"hi-im-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37198","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Hi. I&#8217;m America&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fannie went broke in 2008 so Congress put them into conservatorship to bail them out.  Private firms invested in Fannie and Freddie assuming they\u2019d continue to be bailed out but in 2011, Congress changed the bail-out terms. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/07\/08\/usa-fanniefreddie-lawsuit-idUSL1N0FE00M20130708\">The investors are suing the federal government for making changes to the bail-outs <\/a>for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s gotten to the point where people not only expect bail-outs, they expect better and more generous bail-outs, and sue to get them.<\/p>\n<p>Stop the madness.  No more bail-outs. <\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Our society needs a 12-step group; Free Money Anonymous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Fannie went broke in 2008 so Congress put them into conservatorship to bail them out. Private firms invested in Fannie and Freddie assuming they\u2019d continue to be bailed out but in 2011, Congress changed the bail-out terms. The investors are suing the federal government for making changes to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37204,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37198\/revisions\/37204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}