{"id":4181,"date":"2009-02-11T13:05:41","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T18:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4181"},"modified":"2009-02-11T12:44:04","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T17:44:04","slug":"its-the-regulation-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4181","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s The Regulation, Stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just so we set the record strait &#8211; since so many libs seem to have trouble getting it right &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/online.barrons.com\/article_email\/SB123396551669058895-lMyQjAxMDI5MzAzNzkwNjc1Wj.html\">deregulation didn&#8217;t get us here<\/a>\u00a0(emphasis added):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>CONTRARY TO A VIEW POPULARIZED DURING THE 2008 presidential election season, the current economic crisis was not the result of deregulation.The Bush administration made many mistakes, but deregulation was not one of them.<\/p>\n<p>Not only was there no major deregulation passed during the past eight years, but <strong>the Bush administration and a Republican Congress approved the most sweeping financial-market regulation in decades<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let&#8217;s recap:\u00a0 Bush acted and spent like a liberal; liberal Democrats want to fix the consequences of liberal acts and spending with&#8230;more of both.<\/p>\n<p>I have a headache.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just so we set the record strait &#8211; since so many libs seem to have trouble getting it right &#8211; deregulation didn&#8217;t get us here\u00a0(emphasis added): CONTRARY TO A VIEW POPULARIZED DURING THE 2008 presidential election season, the current economic crisis was not the result of deregulation.The Bush administration made many mistakes, but deregulation was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitalism-v-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181","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=4181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}