{"id":3091,"date":"2008-09-21T09:30:20","date_gmt":"2008-09-21T16:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/09\/21\/that-too-big-to-fail-trap\/"},"modified":"2008-09-21T09:30:20","modified_gmt":"2008-09-21T16:30:20","slug":"that-too-big-to-fail-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/09\/21\/that-too-big-to-fail-trap\/","title":{"rendered":"That &#8220;Too Big to Fail&#8221; Trap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The problem is shown with\u00c2\u00a0that phrase&#8230; &#8220;Too Big To Fail.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 The problem is our current course propagates The Biggness that Cannot Be Allowed to Fail, including the relief we are all supposed to have when one bank swallows up another struggling bank and thus ensuring that solvency.\u00c2\u00a0 The problem is it serves as a permanent Insurance for &#8220;The Biggness&#8221;, and from what I am gleaning &#8212; from my admittedly ignorant position &#8211;\u00c2\u00a0our new bailout shows\u00c2\u00a0that steady erosion from any\u00c2\u00a0balance of reformation and insurance for the tax-payers footing the bill as opposed to the deal that came out of the Savings and Loan Debacle, which shows the\u00c2\u00a0old George Carlin line, &#8220;The Rich Write all the Laws, and&#8221; &#8211;\u00c2\u00a0(Regretably I can&#8217;t find the whole\u00c2\u00a0part of that particular monolouge, but <a href=\"http:\/\/brontebaxter.wordpress.com\/2008\/06\/24\/is-george-carlin-dead-because-he-spoke-of-the-new-world-order\/\">I immediately do end up with a conspiracy theory charging that George Carlin was Assassinated<\/a>.)\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In all of this light, what we need at this moment may not be so much a Franklin Roosevelt as a Theodore Roosevelt (John McCain&#8217;s muse, although McCain seems to miss the good points and hit the bad points)&#8211; willing and able to Bust the Trusts, an eye out on the Monopolies.\u00c2\u00a0 It is a bit of a subtle difference in how the Roosevelts regulated the monstrous beast of Capitolism, but not insubstantial.\u00c2\u00a0 Eliot Spitzer\u00c2\u00a0strikes me as the closest to fitting that bill,\u00c2\u00a0but he&#8217;s been taken off the political stage&#8230; <em>Coincidence?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem is shown with\u00c2\u00a0that phrase&#8230; &#8220;Too Big To Fail.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 The problem is our current course propagates The Biggness that Cannot Be Allowed to Fail, including the relief we are all supposed to have when one bank swallows up another struggling bank and thus ensuring that solvency.\u00c2\u00a0 The problem is it serves as a permanent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}