{"id":3351,"date":"2008-09-23T13:46:16","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T13:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3351"},"modified":"2008-09-23T13:46:16","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T13:46:16","slug":"notes_from_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3351","title":{"rendered":"Notes from the Federal Bailout Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelede.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/09\/23\/following-the-bailout-hearing\/index.html?hp\">Mike Nizza<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>From Paulson to You | 11:41 a.m. In response to a question, Secretary Paulson sought to clear the air about who the bailout was supposed to help. &#8220;This is all about the American taxpayer,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That&#8217;s all we care about.&#8221; He continued:<br \/>\nAny banking operation in the United states that is doing business with the American public is important. The American public in dealing with the financial system doesn&#8217;t know who owns that bank.<br \/>\nLater, he added, &#8220;You ask me about taxpayers being on the hook? Guess what, they are already on the hook.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/publicmarkup.org\/bill\/dodds-legislative-proposal-treasury-department-aut\/\">Public Markup of the Dodd bailout proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelede.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/09\/23\/following-the-bailout-hearing\/index.html?hp\">Mike Nizza<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>From Paulson to You | 11:41 a.m. In response to a question, Secretary Paulson sought to clear the air about who the bailout was supposed to help. &#8220;This is all about the American taxpayer,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That&#8217;s all we care about.&#8221; He continued:<br \/>\nAny banking operation in the United states that is doing business with the American public is important. The American public in dealing with the financial system doesn&#8217;t know who owns that bank.<br \/>\nLater, he added, &#8220;You ask me about taxpayers being on the hook? Guess what, they are already on the hook.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/publicmarkup.org\/bill\/dodds-legislative-proposal-treasury-department-aut\/\">Public Markup of the Dodd bailout proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}