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In a comment I posted to Greg&#8217;s latest post regarding the irony of our President&#8217;s administration&#8217;s policies and actions regarding the current financial meltdown, I lamented that when I read the news, blogs and watch the news regarding this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,5],"tags":[231,232,230,222],"class_list":{"0":"post-4548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-group-therapy","7":"category-real-estate","8":"tag-anita-baker","9":"tag-blipfm","10":"tag-government-bailouts","11":"tag-twitter","13":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17066,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/17066\/threaten-riot-and-ruin-on-twitter-its-all-good-but-do-not-compliment-a-black-actor\/","url_meta":{"origin":4548,"position":0},"title":"Threaten riot and ruin on Twitter, it\u2019s all good. 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