{"id":5324,"date":"2008-10-29T13:16:26","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T20:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=5324"},"modified":"2008-10-29T13:16:33","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T20:16:33","slug":"and-after-big-mother-is-finished-subsidizing-the-mortgages-of-allegedly-prosperous-allegedly-self-reliant-americans-could-it-also-please-wipe-their-pwetty-widdle-noses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/5324\/and-after-big-mother-is-finished-subsidizing-the-mortgages-of-allegedly-prosperous-allegedly-self-reliant-americans-could-it-also-please-wipe-their-pwetty-widdle-noses\/","title":{"rendered":"And after Big Mother is finished subsidizing the mortgages of allegedly prosperous, allegedly self-reliant Americans, could it also please wipe their pwetty widdle noses?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When there&#8217;s taxpayer teat to be suckled, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realogy.com\/media\/pr\/show_release.cfm?id=632\" target=\"_blank\">it seems nobody sucks like Realogy<\/a>. The essence of Rotarian Socialism is bald-faced theft in behalf of the Rotarians. I cannot imagine a more telling, more shameless, more shameful example of Kleptocratic prevarication.<br \/>\n<!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate\" rel=\"tag\">real estate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate marketing\" rel=\"tag\">real estate marketing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When there&#8217;s taxpayer teat to be suckled, it seems nobody sucks like Realogy. The essence of Rotarian Socialism is bald-faced theft in behalf of the Rotarians. I cannot imagine a more telling, more shameless, more shameful example of Kleptocratic prevarication. Technorati Tags: real estate, real estate marketing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[251,24,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5324","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-big-mother","7":"category-egoism-in-action","8":"category-marketing","9":"category-real-estate","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1302,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1302\/arizona-board-of-appraisal-to-zillowcom-in-your-zestimation-does-this-posturing-make-us-look-stupid\/","url_meta":{"origin":5324,"position":0},"title":"Arizona Board of Appraisal to Zillow.com: In your Zestimation, does this posturing make us look stupid?","author":"Greg Swann","date":"April 13, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"From the Arizona Republic (tipped by Adam Tarr and Sharon Kotula):An Arizona regulatory board has ordered Zillow.com to stop offering its online estimates of home values. 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These new rules won't kill the corruption, they'll just push it underground. Better to have things out in the open, so thoughtful people can\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Big Mother&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Big Mother","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/big-mother\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":450,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/450\/blogoff-post-73-using-web-to-buy-home-a-bad-idea\/","url_meta":{"origin":5324,"position":2},"title":"Blogoff Post #73: Using Web to buy home a bad idea . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"September 26, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"This is a sweet one from my Arizona Republic column:\"Save thousands buying surgery online!\" It may be a while before you see this headline. 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