{"id":24721,"date":"2017-09-15T01:51:22","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T01:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=24721"},"modified":"2017-09-15T01:51:22","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T01:51:22","slug":"even-rich-guys-need-a-government-hand-eh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=24721","title":{"rendered":"Even rich guys need a government hand, eh?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/mnuchin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-24724\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/mnuchin-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/mnuchin-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/mnuchin-768x504.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/mnuchin-1024x672.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/mnuchin.jpg 1525w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin is a mega rich fellow. He&#8217;s got more cash than he knows what to do with.<\/p>\n<p>So, why does this guy ask the federal government to allow him to use a public airplane to jet him and his wife off on their honeymoon?<\/p>\n<p>I probably shouldn&#8217;t even comment on this one. But now that I&#8217;ve opened this door, I&#8217;ll walk on through for just a moment.<\/p>\n<p>The guy&#8217;s chutzpah is quite fascinating, don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n<p>I mean, Mnuchin is worth about $500 million. That&#8217;s half a billion bucks, man! His wife, Louise Linton, got into a Twitter snit with a young woman who took her task after she boasted on social media about all the fashionable labels she wears. <em>Sheesh, lady!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This little dust-up will fade away soon.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;ll just note that a government plane that would have jetted Secretary and Mrs. Mnuchin off to wherever they celebrated their marital bliss would have cost about $25,000 <em>per hour<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I know that Donald Trump once said he prefers to surround himself with fellow rich people. He believes their wealth means they&#8217;re successful and that their success can transfer to sound public policy.<\/p>\n<p>But, c&#8217;mon, Steve Mnuchin. Rich guys can afford to pay for their own jet plane rides to exotic honeymoon locales. Go ahead and show off your success, man &#8230; but just do it on your own dime &#8212; not mine!<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin is a mega rich fellow. He&#8217;s got more cash than he knows what to do with. So, why does this guy ask the federal government to allow him to use a public airplane to jet him and his wife off on their honeymoon? I probably shouldn&#8217;t even comment on this one. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=24721\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Even rich guys need a government hand, eh?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1424,7311,4900],"class_list":["post-24721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-steve-mnuchin","tag-treasury-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24721"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24725,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24721\/revisions\/24725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}