{"id":218812,"date":"2010-01-21T22:01:49","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T03:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/?p=10344"},"modified":"2010-01-21T22:01:49","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T03:01:49","slug":"bailing-democrats-fed-secrets-china%e2%80%99s-cars-and-the-war-on%c2%a0poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/218812","title":{"rendered":"Bailing Democrats, Fed Secrets, China\u2019s Cars and the War on\u00a0Poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#042;Bailouts I can  believe in. <\/strong>In  one short 24-hour period this month, four top Democrats have bailed out of  their reelection campaigns. Leading the list was Connecticut Senator Chris  Dodd, who was running so far behind three likely Republican opponents that he  decided surrender was preferable to defeat. North Dakota Senator Byron Dorgan  has also announced he won&rsquo;t run again. In Colorado, incumbent Governor Bill Ritter  decided not to seek reelection. And in Michigan,  Lt. Gov. John Cherry says he won&rsquo;t be the Democratic nominee for governor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#042;Why won&rsquo;t they  tell us?<\/strong> Two media organizations&mdash;<em>Fox News<\/em> and <em>Bloomberg News<\/em>&mdash;have filed suit against  the Federal Reserve to learn which banks have received discounted loans from  the Fed and other measures to beef up their balance sheets. The Fed has refused  several requests under the Freedom of Information Act to divulge the  information, claiming that releasing it could damage the banks&rsquo; reputation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#042;China is now the world&rsquo;s top car  market. <\/strong>For  the first time in history, citizens of another country purchased more  automobiles in the past year than buyers in the United States. Chinese car sales  surged 46 percent in 2009, to a total of 13.6 million vehicles. Meanwhile, just  10.4 million light vehicles were sold in the U.S.&mdash;the lowest total since 1982.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#042;Remember the War on Poverty?<\/strong> Every Wednesday I  write a short tidbit called &ldquo;This Week in History&rdquo; for <em>Personal Liberty  Alerts.<\/em> If you haven&rsquo;t seen it before, check out some past issues under the  Chip Wood Archives. And look for it next Wednesday at the bottom of the page. It  was 46 years ago this month that President Lyndon Johnson declared the War on  Poverty. In case you didn&rsquo;t notice, poverty won.<\/p>\n<p><em>&mdash;Chip Wood<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#042;Bailouts I can believe in. In one short 24-hour period this month, four top Democrats have bailed out of their reelection campaigns. Leading the list was Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd, who was running so far behind three likely Republican opponents that he decided surrender was preferable to defeat. North Dakota Senator Byron Dorgan has also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}