{"id":1441,"date":"2008-09-25T06:31:56","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T13:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=1441"},"modified":"2008-09-25T06:31:56","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T13:31:56","slug":"credit-where-credit-is-due","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/25\/credit-where-credit-is-due\/","title":{"rendered":"Credit, Where Credit is Due"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin: 10px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/2008\/09\/bush.jpg\" alt=\"Bush giving speech\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Yes, the title is intended to be clever. This is about President Bush&#8217;s speech last night. Those of you who read this blog often will know I don&#8217;t have much good to say about our current chief executive. Surprisingly, I listened to his speech last night and found it cogent and coherent &#8211; something that has not often been said about Mr. Bush and certainly not by me.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nDoes this mean I&#8217;m comfortable and supportive of the $1T bailout ($85B for AIG, $200B for Freddie\/Fannie, and this latest $700B handout) &#8211; in a word, no. But I do understand the rationale and provided that basic protection, adult supervision, prevention of repeat measures, executive compensation limits, and transfer of assets actually occurs for us tax payers, I will reluctantly support the plan because I do believe it&#8217;s better than the alternative.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSo, Mr. Bush, while we still have many, many differences, your 22nd attempt at addressing the nation was not painful to listen to and made a great deal of sense. I tip my hat to you sir for stepping up in an untenable situation. That being said, I will not be sorry when you leave office next year.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the title is intended to be clever. This is about President Bush&#8217;s speech last night. Those of you who read this blog often will know I don&#8217;t have much good to say about our current chief executive. Surprisingly, I listened to his speech last night and found it cogent and coherent &#8211; something that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,24],"tags":[228,196,233,234,182],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1441"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1444,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions\/1444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}