{"id":1547,"date":"2009-05-21T13:28:14","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T20:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=1547"},"modified":"2009-05-21T18:22:30","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T01:22:30","slug":"the-economy-is-so-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=1547","title":{"rendered":"The Economy Is So Bad&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got one of those email messages that had been forwarded more than a dozen times. So, I&#8217;ve no idea who to attribute these to, probably some late-night show comedian. But, they are funny!<\/p>\n<p>The economy is so bad that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CEO&#8217;s are now playing miniature golf.<\/li>\n<li>Hot Wheels and Matchbox stocks are trading higher than GM.<\/li>\n<li>Jewish women are marrying for love.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Even people who have nothing to do with the Obama administration aren&#8217;t paying their taxes.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Obama met with small businesses to discuss the Stimulus Package: GE, Pfizer and Citigroup.<\/li>\n<li>McDonald&#8217;s is selling the 1\/4 ouncer.<\/li>\n<li>Parents in Beverly Hills fired their nannies and learned their children&#8217;s names.<\/li>\n<li>A truckload of Americans got caught sneaking into Mexico.<\/li>\n<li>The most highly-paid job is now jury duty.<\/li>\n<li>People in Africa are donating money to Americans.<\/li>\n<li>Motel Six won&#8217;t leave the light on.<\/li>\n<li>The Mafia is laying off judges.<\/li>\n<li> A funeral director committed suicide because he   needed the  business.<\/li>\n<li>My cat sold my dog to a Chinese restaurant.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And finally &#8230; Congress says they are looking into this Bernard Madoff scandal. Hey, great idea &#8230;the guy who made $50 billion disappear is being investigated by the people who made $750 billion disappear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got one of those email messages that had been forwarded more than a dozen times. So, I&#8217;ve no idea who to attribute these to, probably some late-night show comedian. But, they are funny! The economy is so bad that: CEO&#8217;s are now playing miniature golf. Hot Wheels and Matchbox stocks are trading higher than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=1547\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Economy Is So Bad&#8230;.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pnKxs-oX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1548,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions\/1548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}