{"id":4134,"date":"2009-02-03T05:00:52","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T10:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4134"},"modified":"2009-02-01T16:49:05","modified_gmt":"2009-02-01T21:49:05","slug":"financial-advisors-nobama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4134","title":{"rendered":"Financial Advisors: “NObama”"},"content":{"rendered":"

…and they can’t all <\/em>be Republicans.<\/p>\n

45.6% thought<\/a> the [stimulus] plan was a bad idea. Meanwhile, 29.7% thought it was a good idea, and 24.7% were unsure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“I think most of us are opposed to it because it’s a bailout in nature, and people are concerned about how it will be allocated,” said Eric Toya, vice president of Trovena LLC of Redondo Beach, Calif., which manages $400 million in assets. “It’s so anti-free-market-capitalism, which is what most financial advisers and the public believe in.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…until they were told that they don’t believe in that <\/em>any more by rockstars, the media and The Messiah.<\/p>\n

“The fact that the size and price of the plan keeps growing should be a major concern,” said Greg Zandlo, president of The Zandlo Financial Group of Minneapolis, which has $50 million in assets under advisement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What’s the difference between The New Deal and The New New Deal? Scale. Scope.<\/p>\n

There’s only one thing worse than a liberal that doesn’t know what to do. A liberal that doesn’t know what to do and does it any way.<\/p>\n

The survey also found that 36.4% of advisers did not have much confidence in Mr. Obama’s ability to fix the economy. Meanwhile, 31.5% said they had a “fair amount” of confidence, and 12.2% said they had a “great deal” of confidence.<\/p>\n

About 15.5% of respondents said they had no confidence in Mr. Obama’s ability to fix the economy, the online survey found.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Which can only mean another “Fairness Doctrine” aimed at financial advisers is on it’s way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…and they can’t all be Republicans. 45.6% thought the [stimulus] plan was a bad idea. Meanwhile, 29.7% thought it was a good idea, and 24.7% were unsure. “I think most of us are opposed to it because it’s a bailout in nature, and people are concerned about how it will be allocated,” said Eric Toya, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-capitalism-v-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4134","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\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}