{"id":634,"date":"2008-09-22T02:12:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T10:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=634"},"modified":"2008-09-22T02:12:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T10:12:00","slug":"republiconomics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/republiconomics\/","title":{"rendered":"Republiconomics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IwnSQPl-J_I\/SNjBRbq_gUI\/AAAAAAAAA_w\/LgrFeINt7so\/s1600-h\/youpay.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" data-src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IwnSQPl-J_I\/SNjBRbq_gUI\/AAAAAAAAA_w\/LgrFeINt7so\/s400\/youpay.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249157870930329922\" border=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eschatonblog.com\/2008_09_21_archive.html#6657433867278874680\">there are some<\/a> who think the wealthy do not deserve to take our piece of the American Dream:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">&#8230;first thing on Monday morning, [everyone] needs to call their Representatives and Senators and say: No. Blank. Checks. For. Crooks.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Be as polite as you can be and don&#8217;t use bad words. Personally, this injunction may limit the duration of my calls to under a thirtieth of a second, or shorter.<\/span><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visi.com\/juan\/congress\/\">Congressional phone numbers.<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Update:<\/span> Scarecrow <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/2008\/09\/21\/why-shouldnt-those-who-benefitted-from-the-financial-mess-and-any-bailout-pay-for-it\/\">has more<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The most important condition to put on any bailout proposal is to impose a tax surcharge on the incomes of the wealthiest Americans to pay the bailout&#8217;s cost.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">And just go read <a href=\"http:\/\/sideshow.me.uk\/ssep08.htm#09191524\">Avedon<\/a>.     <span class=\"post-author vcard\"> Posted by <span class=\"fn\">Gen. JC Christian, Patriot<\/span> <\/span> <span class=\"post-timestamp\"> at <a class=\"timestamp-link\" href=\"http:\/\/patriotboy.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/we-gambled-you-pay.html\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"permanent link\"><abbr class=\"published\" title=\"2008-09-21T16:50:00-04:00\">4:50 PM<\/abbr><\/a> <\/span> <span class=\"post-comment-link\"> <\/span> <span class=\"post-backlinks post-comment-link\"> <\/span> <span class=\"post-icons\"> <span class=\"item-action\"> <a href=\"email-post.g?blogID=5099635&amp;postID=8339221331864212050\" title=\"Email Post\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"icon-action lazyload\" data-src=\"img\/icon18_email.gif\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/> <\/a> <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, there are some who think the wealthy do not deserve to take our piece of the American Dream: &#8230;first thing on Monday morning, [everyone] needs to call their Representatives and Senators and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/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-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}