{"id":4282,"date":"2008-03-03T18:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4282"},"modified":"2017-11-22T19:49:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T01:49:28","slug":"once-you-start-nannying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/03\/once-you-start-nannying\/","title":{"rendered":"Once You Start Nannying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once an organization finds success in its push to rule citizens&#8217; lives (namely, through regulating corporations and the citizens they serve), that organization often likes to turn its prowess at ruling to other endeavors.  <a href=\"http:\/\/customwire.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/D\/DRIVEN_INTO_DEBT?SITE=WIMIL&#038;SECTION=BUSINESS&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT\" target=\"_blank\">Another case in point<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Dodge pickup has rust on the tailgate and a Harley-Davidson sticker on its back windshield. Beside it sits a Honda Accord with a big, white butterfly on the windshield and American flag butterflies on each side of the trunk.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s the minivan sporting a tattoo parlor bumper sticker and a miniature San Francisco football jersey suctioned to a window of a red Cougar with a scuffed-up driver&#8217;s side.<\/p>\n<p>They all have one thing in common: Their owners didn&#8217;t pay off a car title loan, and now they&#8217;re getting ready for auction.<\/p>\n<p>For years payday lenders have been the bad guy in the predatory lending debate while their close cousin, car title lenders, have cruised along unnoticed &#8211; and perhaps more disturbing for some &#8211; unregulated in several states. Many efforts to regulate the industry have failed as the lenders pour hundreds of thousands of dollars into legislative campaigns.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sadly, the totalitarian impulses of the news media continue to cast organizations who offer services as the bad guy, not the ill-informed or naive sheep who get into bad situations and clamor for the government to save them from their decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once an organization finds success in its push to rule citizens&#8217; lives (namely, through regulating corporations and the citizens they serve), that organization often likes to turn its prowess at ruling to other endeavors. Another case in point: The Dodge pickup has rust on the tailgate and a Harley-Davidson sticker on its back windshield. Beside [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4282","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=4282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17637,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4282\/revisions\/17637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}