{"id":196,"date":"2005-04-22T18:00:57","date_gmt":"2005-04-22T23:00:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-04-22T18:00:57","modified_gmt":"2005-04-22T23:00:57","slug":"matthew-lesko-would-be-proud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=196","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Lesko would be proud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ah yes&#8230;and who has stock in the companies getting the subsidies??  hmmm&#8230;  He may be a bumbling speech maker, but Dubya (or Karl and Dick anyway) has to be one of the greatest financial geniuses of all time; convincing the &#8220;American public&#8221; to support causes putting tax money in his bank account time and time again.  Lets see&#8230;&#8221;I&#8217;ll award my buddy Dick&#8217;s former company the entire Iraqi oil fields after I used thousands of Americans lives and hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to get at it, then I&#8217;ll sit on my hands and look the other way while US pump prices rise, and then I&#8217;ll give myself\/the oil companies my family has been involved with for decades 8 billion in subsidies (a cheap word for free money taken out of working American&#8217;s paychecks) to &#8220;stop the prices from rising&#8221; heh heh&#8230;then I&#8217;ll pretend like Terri Schiavo is a BIG DEAL to me personally so everyone knows (or thinks they know) where my priorities are.&#8221;   I&#8217;m starting to see why Bushie and Clinton keep turning up at world events joking around together.   Big Bill is Little George&#8217;s wag the dog idol.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=1540&#038;ncid=753&#038;e=10&#038;u=\/afp\/20050422\/sc_afp\/usenergypolitics\" title=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=1540&#038;ncid=753&#038;e=10&#038;u=\/afp\/20050422\/sc_afp\/usenergypolitics\">http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=1540&#038;ncid=753&#038;e=10&#038;u=\/afp\/20050422\/sc_afp\/usenergypolitics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ah yes&#8230;and who has stock in the companies getting the subsidies?? hmmm&#8230; He may be a bumbling speech maker, but Dubya (or Karl and Dick anyway) has to be one of the greatest financial geniuses of all time; convincing the &#8220;American public&#8221; to support causes putting tax money in his bank account time and time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}