{"id":5181,"date":"2012-09-06T08:53:27","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T14:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=5181"},"modified":"2012-09-06T08:53:27","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T14:53:27","slug":"the-system-is-rigged-look-around-elizabeth-warren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/the-system-is-rigged-look-around-elizabeth-warren\/","title":{"rendered":"&ldquo;The system is rigged. Look around.&rdquo; &#8212; Elizabeth Warren"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She\u2019s a contender for 2016. Give \u2018em hell, Liz!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.newsday.com\/news\/nation\/elizabeth-warren-speech-at-dnc-targets-wall-street-mitt-romney-1.3957061\">Elizabeth Warren speech at DNC targets Wall Street, Mitt Romney<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cPeople feel like the system is rigged against them,&quot; Warren, of <a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.newsday.com\/topics\/\/Massachusetts\">Massachusetts<\/a>, said last night. &quot;And here&#8217;s the painful part: They&#8217;re right. The system is rigged. Look around. Oil companies guzzle down billions in profits. Billionaires pay lower tax rates than secretaries.&quot; Warren, who helped <a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.newsday.com\/topics\/\/Barack_Obama\">President Barack Obama<\/a> create the <a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.newsday.com\/topics\/\/Consumer_Financial_Protection_Bureau\">Consumer Financial Protection Bureau<\/a>, drew repeated contrasts between the president and <a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.newsday.com\/topics\/\/U.S._Republican_Party\">Republicans<\/a>. Mitt <a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.newsday.com\/topics\/\/Mitt_Romney\">Romney<\/a> would help billionaires and big corporations and perpetuate the problems that allow companies to have too much influence, she said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.newsday.com\/topics\/\/U.S._Republican_Party\">Republicans<\/a> say they don&#8217;t believe in government,&quot; she said. &quot;Sure they do. They believe in government to help themselves and their powerful friends.&quot; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.newsday.com\/news\/nation\/elizabeth-warren-speech-at-dnc-targets-wall-street-mitt-romney-1.3957061\">Elizabeth Warren speech at DNC targets Wall Street, Mitt Romney<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She\u2019s a contender for 2016. Give \u2018em hell, Liz! Elizabeth Warren speech at DNC targets Wall Street, Mitt Romney \u201cPeople feel like the system is rigged against them,&quot; Warren, of Massachusetts, said last night. &quot;And here&#8217;s the painful part: They&#8217;re right. The system is rigged. Look around. Oil companies guzzle down billions in profits. Billionaires &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/the-system-is-rigged-look-around-elizabeth-warren\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&ldquo;The system is rigged. Look around.&rdquo; &#8212; Elizabeth Warren<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5182,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5181\/revisions\/5182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}