{"id":2300,"date":"2010-01-31T23:15:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T04:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=2300"},"modified":"2013-06-22T15:51:59","modified_gmt":"2013-06-22T20:51:59","slug":"one-more-adverse-way-in-which-hope-and-change-impact-north-dakota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=2300","title":{"rendered":"One more adverse way in which Hope\u2122 and Change\u2122 impact North Dakota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/bnd_52292.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>Among the many things that <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Hugo Chavez<\/span> Barack Obama wants to nationalize, i.e. seize under government control: student loans. The problem for banks is that it takes a revenue stream and yanks it out from under them. Some banks, such as the Bank of North Dakota, derive 30% of their loan income from student loans. Hope\u2122! Change\u2122!<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kxnet.com\/getArticle.asp?ArticleId=488711\" target=\"_blank\">this KXMB article<\/a>, there are 55 North Dakotans employed in relation to the bank&#8217;s student loan activities. I wonder if they&#8217;re feeling all hopey-changey right now.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, one of our gallant Senators promises to ride to the rescue according to the same article, pledging to deliver an exemption for the nation&#8217;s only state-owned bank. What about the other banks across the nation? Because they&#8217;re not government entities, should they be treated this way?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to write on this for quite some time, so perhaps it&#8217;s even a done deal by now. <b>If<\/b> BND is actually exempted, North Dakotans should still be upset at this latest attempt on the nation by the radical leftists running President Obama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the many things that Hugo Chavez Barack Obama wants to nationalize, i.e. seize under government control: student loans. The problem for banks is that it takes a revenue stream and yanks it out from under them. Some banks, such &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=2300\">Continue reading <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":[39,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2301,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions\/2301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}