{"id":3979,"date":"2010-05-26T11:32:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/?p=3979"},"modified":"2024-02-15T11:33:25","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T16:33:25","slug":"bob-cescas-awesome-blog-go-small-government-republicans-my-ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/2010\/05\/26\/bob-cescas-awesome-blog-go-small-government-republicans-my-ass\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Cesca&#8217;s Awesome Blog! Go!: Small Government Republicans My Ass"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Conservatives LOVE to talk about getting the government out of the economy and &#8220;letting the market decide&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is, until something goes wrong. As much as the GOP bitches about bailouts, it was a Republican president who pushed for them, and a lot of GOP backers used federal dough to prop up their mortgage houses and banks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Right now, there is a move to increase a liability ceiling for companies that create environmental disasters. Oh great! The government will hold business accountable for their actions. No protections for the free market, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is the GOP leading the charge on this? No.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobcesca.com\/blog-archives\/2010\/05\/the_republican_8.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">They are fighting tooth-and-nail against it.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apparently, they DO want government protection for business. And literally, when dumb business moves land on our shores, they want the American taxpayer to pay for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservatives LOVE to talk about getting the government out of the economy and &#8220;letting the market decide&#8221;. That is, until something goes wrong. As much as the GOP bitches about bailouts, it was a Republican president who pushed for them, and a lot of GOP backers used federal dough to prop up their mortgage houses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiscal-stupidity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3980,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3979\/revisions\/3980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}