{"id":761,"date":"2008-10-03T23:50:24","date_gmt":"2008-10-04T04:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/index.php\/borrowing-from-peter-to-pay-paul\/"},"modified":"2008-10-04T00:30:18","modified_gmt":"2008-10-04T05:30:18","slug":"robbing-peter-to-pay-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/robbing-peter-to-pay-paul\/","title":{"rendered":"Robbing Peter to pay Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The $840 billion dollar downpayment on the $3 trillion bailout was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/04\/business\/economy\/04bailout.html?em\">signed into law today<\/a> by President Bush. This is like getting cash advances on your credit cards to make payments on the house that you can&#8217;t afford because you stupidly got a bigger mortgage than you can afford to pay. Ironic, isn&#8217;t it.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, it is more like your irresponsible neighbor stealing your credit cards to get cash advances to pay off the cash advances he already has on his own credit cards, after you told him that no, you were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lohud.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20081003\/BUSINESS01\/810030361\">not going to loan him the money<\/a>. So the bastard broke into your house and took them anyway.<\/p>\n<p>I am more disgusted than I can coherently express.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The $840 billion dollar downpayment on the $3 trillion bailout was signed into law today by President Bush. This is like getting cash advances on your credit cards to make payments on the house that you can&#8217;t afford because you stupidly got a bigger mortgage than you can afford to pay. Ironic, isn&#8217;t it. 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