{"id":166,"date":"2009-06-15T14:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T21:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/?p=166"},"modified":"2009-06-15T14:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T21:02:00","slug":"congress-org-on-banker-bailouts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"Congress.org on Banker Bailouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bankers have proven themselves to be.. not just uncaring but entirely incompetent to manage commercial investment. The &#8220;system&#8221; does not work &#8211; it is intrinsically flawed by its current design and needs to be replaced with more granular and socially just structures. It can be done with some careful planning and a few strokes of the pen. Our current failure of economics came into being with the same actions &#8211; the difference being what the policy changes do: either make gains in the short term or long term, either benefit the few or the many.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re long overdue for our financial policies to make long term gains for many. That can only happen if we replaced these failed, wrong-headed guidelines with better ones &#8211; look past the dollars that contribute to the next election, that money is dirty and its source should not be perpetuated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bankers have proven themselves to be.. not just uncaring but entirely incompetent to manage commercial investment. The &#8220;system&#8221; does not work &#8211; it is intrinsically flawed by its current design and needs to be replaced with more granular and socially just structures. It can be done with some careful planning and a few strokes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}