{"id":693,"date":"2008-09-17T07:45:58","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T11:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=693"},"modified":"2008-09-17T07:45:58","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T11:45:58","slug":"the-financial-crisis-who-wanted-to-fix-it-and-who-didnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=693","title":{"rendered":"The Financial Crisis; Who Wanted To Fix It and Who Didn&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qando.net\/details.aspx?entry=9323\" target=\"_blank\">Bruce McQuain at Q&amp;O<\/a>, comes a quiz:<\/p>\n<p>1.&nbsp; Who identified and tried to fix what presently ails Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae 5 years ago?<\/p>\n<p>2.&nbsp; Who opposed the plan, saying they were not in any kind of financial crisis?<\/p>\n<p>McQuain gives a hint as to what the answer to #2 is; the same folks who say Social Security is just fine, and Medicare is doing well, too.&nbsp; Bruce has a link to a contemporaneous New York Times article that explains the proposal and the smack down.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Remember this when Dem&#8230;er, certain politicians try to place blame for this and try to use it as a campaign gimmick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Bruce McQuain at Q&amp;O, comes a quiz: 1.&nbsp; Who identified and tried to fix what presently ails Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae 5 years ago? 2.&nbsp; Who opposed the plan, saying they were not in any kind of financial crisis? McQuain gives a hint as to what the answer to #2 is; the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,9,15,18,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-doug","category-economics-taxes","category-government","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}