{"id":9540,"date":"2008-11-11T18:38:03","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T18:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/south_carolina_mark_sanford_takes_aim_at_bailouts\/"},"modified":"2008-11-11T18:38:03","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T18:38:03","slug":"south_carolina_mark_sanford_takes_aim_at_bailouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9540","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina Mark Sanford takes aim at bailouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Mark Sanford urged residents Monday to make their voices heard before Congress makes any more decisions about how to deal with the ailing economy.<\/p>\n<p>Sanford said that ordinary taxpayers are being hoodwinked and that he believes using more government money to push the nation out of a financial mess is a big mistake.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The federal government, and by extension taxpayers, are being gamed. I think it&#8217;s dangerous over the long run the way that taxpayers are being sapped, and this dynamic is playing out in South Carolina,&#8221; Sanford wrote in a letter Friday to U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to alert him to unintended consequences in South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charleston.net\/news\/2008\/nov\/11\/south_carolina_reactionsanford_takes_aim61211\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Mark Sanford urged residents Monday to make their voices heard before Congress makes any more decisions about how to deal with the ailing economy. Sanford said that ordinary taxpayers are being hoodwinked and that he believes using more government<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9540\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,54,149,151,594],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-economy","category-politics-in-general","category-the-september-2008-proposed-henry-paulson-700-billion-bailout-package"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}