{"id":498,"date":"2008-12-12T11:29:43","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T18:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brentnorris.net\/blog\/?p=498"},"modified":"2008-12-12T12:20:13","modified_gmt":"2008-12-12T19:20:13","slug":"financial-ballout-vs-car-maker-bailout-ready-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brentnorris.net\/blog\/archives\/498","title":{"rendered":"Financial Ballout vs Car Maker Bailout&#8230; Ready&#8230; Fight!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is amazing to me the difference between the car maker request for money and the banks request for money.\u00c2\u00a0 The difference in the amount of money is the first thing.\u00c2\u00a0 The car manufacturing companies are asking for a fraction of the money that the banks are getting, but they employ far more people.\u00c2\u00a0 It truly is a case of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Color_of_the_bikeshed\" target=\"_blank\">bikeshedding<\/a> to a fairly high degree. I have to admit that congress did ask some questions of the bankers when they came before them, but no where near as stiff as they are of the car manufacturers, or at least I didn&#8217;t hear about it if they did.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 It is amazing.\u00c2\u00a0 I also found a little graphic that shows a visual representation of the banker bailout.\u00c2\u00a0 it is after the jump.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mint.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/visualguidecrisisbailout3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Visual Guide to the Bailout\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mint.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/visualguidecrisisbailout3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"3855\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is amazing to me the difference between the car maker request for money and the banks request for money.\u00c2\u00a0 The difference in the amount of money is the first thing.\u00c2\u00a0 The car manufacturing companies are asking for a fraction &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brentnorris.net\/blog\/archives\/498\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[213,72,108,22],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-bailout","tag-botched-job","tag-corporate-greed","tag-wheres-the-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brentnorris.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brentnorris.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brentnorris.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brentnorris.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brentnorris.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brentnorris.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brentnorris.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brentnorris.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brentnorris.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}