{"id":606,"date":"2008-09-24T18:49:40","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T01:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=606"},"modified":"2008-10-05T09:03:29","modified_gmt":"2008-10-05T16:03:29","slug":"scary-talk-and-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=606","title":{"rendered":"Scare Tactics and Scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listened to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nice Polite Republicans<\/a> most of the day, and all I heard was scare talk.\u00a0 We&#8217;re going to lose our savings, our 401Ks, our IRAs.\u00a0 Putting the money in the mattress won&#8217;t work because that&#8217;ll cause hyperinflation and a cup of Starbucks&#8217;ll cost 6.5 million.\u00a0 Unless we do something quick.\u00a0 Unless we give this administration . . . the one that&#8217;s fucked up <em>every single thing<\/em> it&#8217;s done so far . . . 700 billion dollars (and very likely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wealthdaily.com\/articles\/housing-bailout-bernanke+paulson\/1507\" target=\"_blank\">two to four times that much<\/a> but they&#8217;re trying to keep that quiet for now) <em>right this second!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The media propaganda puppets haven&#8217;t said Medicare and Social Security will go away too, but they&#8217;re probably planning to ratchet up the level of fear tomorrow.\u00a0 God knows what they&#8217;ll be threatening us with by Friday.<\/p>\n<p>You should ask yourself when was the last time anyone tried to pressure you this hard?\u00a0 When was the last time anyone tried to scare you this bad?<\/p>\n<p>Well, in my life . . . and I&#8217;m 61 . . . I remember only one instance.\u00a0 It was a mechanic at a desert gas station who told me my front wheels would fall off before I got to the next exit and my young wife and me and our precious baby would die in a horrible crash unless I paid him to replace the bushings, then stood in front of the car when I tried to leave, stepping aside only when I locked the doors, laid on the horn, and popped the clutch.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, wait, I just remembered two other instances.\u00a0 One, when this administration rammed the Patriot Act down our throats in the days following 9\/11, and two, when this administration told us there&#8217;d be a mushroom cloud over the USA if we didn&#8217;t invade Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>So.\u00a0 All three times, it was a scam.\u00a0 This sudden financial crisis and proposed bailout feels like another one.<\/p>\n<p>Something doesn&#8217;t pass the smell test here, folks.\u00a0 It&#8217;s congressman-writin&#8217; time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listened to Nice Polite Republicans most of the day, and all I heard was scare talk.\u00a0 We&#8217;re going to lose our savings, our 401Ks, our IRAs.\u00a0 Putting the money in the mattress won&#8217;t work because that&#8217;ll cause hyperinflation and a cup of Starbucks&#8217;ll cost 6.5 million.\u00a0 Unless we do something quick.\u00a0 Unless we give this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,10,16,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-brother","category-current-events","category-media","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}