{"id":2325,"date":"2005-05-31T14:41:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-31T14:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2325"},"modified":"2018-06-06T11:00:01","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T16:00:01","slug":"st-louis-post-dispatch-lauds-forgivable-loans-to-executives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/31\/st-louis-post-dispatch-lauds-forgivable-loans-to-executives\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis Post-Dispatch Lauds Forgivable Loans to Executives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So let me get out my conceptual transmogrifier:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Forgivable loans to executives to buy stock, houses, and so on, <b>bad<\/b>.\n<li>Forgivable loans to executives to buy condos in the city of St. Louis?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/business\/stories.nsf\/story\/44A58E8C1D4BF70C8625701200092EF0?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\"><b>Good<\/b><\/a>!<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>Mandy and Kevin Kozminske wrote out a hefty check recently as a down payment on a loft condominium in downtown St. Louis. But her employer covered their closing costs &#8211; $5,000.<\/p>\n<p>Mandy Kozminske, an assistant vice president for U.S. Bank, qualified for the money through the bank&#8217;s employer-assisted housing program. The $5,000 is a loan; it&#8217;s forgivable as long as she stays on the job &#8211; and in the home &#8211; for five years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hey, U.S. Bank can do what it wants to retain its employees; however, I hope it offers $5,000 in free cash to every teller, janitor, and maintenance man in its direct employ.  Otherwise, the <i>Post-Dispatch<\/i> displays that its commitment to the Little Man ends where its commitment to championing the movers and shakers in the city of St. Louis government\/developer cabal begins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So let me get out my conceptual transmogrifier: Forgivable loans to executives to buy stock, houses, and so on, bad. Forgivable loans to executives to buy condos in the city of St. Louis? Good! Mandy and Kevin Kozminske wrote out a hefty check recently as a down payment on a loft condominium in downtown St. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-st-louis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20042,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions\/20042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}