{"id":38,"date":"2014-10-05T11:48:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T16:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talent-free-studios.com\/blog\/?p=38"},"modified":"2014-10-05T11:48:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T16:48:52","slug":"the-big-middle-class-rip-off-how-a-short-sale-taught-me-rich-peoples-ethics-salon-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.talent-free-studios.com\/blog\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"The big \u201cmiddle class\u201d rip-off: How a short sale taught me rich people\u2019s ethics &#8211; Salon.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2014\/09\/29\/the_big_middle_class_rip_off_how_a_short_sale_taught_me_rich_peoples_ethics\/\">The big \u201cmiddle class\u201d rip-off: How a short sale taught me rich people\u2019s ethics &#8211; Salon.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tell it, brother!\u00a0 Why in the world do &#8220;middle class&#8221; Americans vote Republican?\u00a0 What would it take to get people to at least vote in their own interest?\u00a0 If you don&#8217;t derive almost all of your income from investments, you&#8217;re working class.\u00a0 Well, unless you can get your board to vote you a million-dollar raise any time you like.\u00a0 Just because you have $100K in a 401(k) doesn&#8217;t make you an &#8220;investor&#8221; if you still have to go to work every day.\u00a0 You&#8217;re working class, and you should be voting for government policies that benefit people who have to (or would like to) work for a living.\u00a0 You&#8217;re a lot closer in the pecking order to the Wal-Mart Associates than to the Jamie Dimons of the American class structure.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big \u201cmiddle class\u201d rip-off: How a short sale taught me rich people\u2019s ethics &#8211; Salon.com. Tell it, brother!\u00a0 Why in the world do &#8220;middle class&#8221; Americans vote Republican?\u00a0 What would it take to get people to at least vote in their own interest?\u00a0 If you don&#8217;t derive almost all of your income from investments, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talent-free-studios.com\/blog\/?p=38\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The big \u201cmiddle class\u201d rip-off: How a short sale taught me rich people\u2019s ethics &#8211; Salon.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.talent-free-studios.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.talent-free-studios.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.talent-free-studios.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.talent-free-studios.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.talent-free-studios.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.talent-free-studios.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39,"href":"http:\/\/www.talent-free-studios.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.talent-free-studios.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.talent-free-studios.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.talent-free-studios.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}