{"id":635,"date":"2016-01-15T07:30:13","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T12:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=635"},"modified":"2016-01-14T22:32:15","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T03:32:15","slug":"the-american-economy-is-so-bad-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=635","title":{"rendered":"The economy is so bad that&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our North American economy is so bad that&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>McDonald&#8217;s is selling the 1\/4 ouncer.<\/li>\n<li>CEO&#8217;s are now playing miniature golf.<\/li>\n<li>Hot Wheels and Matchbox stocks are trading higher than GM.<\/li>\n<li>Parents in Beverly Hills fired their nannies and learned their children&#8217;s names.<\/li>\n<li>A truckload of Americans was caught sneaking into Mexico.<\/li>\n<li>Dick Cheney took his stockbroker hunting.<\/li>\n<li>When Bill and Hillary Clinton travel together, they have to share a room.<\/li>\n<li>Motel Six won&#8217;t leave the light on anymore.<\/li>\n<li>Paris Hilton changed her name to Paris Red Roof Inn.<\/li>\n<li>The Mafia is laying off judges.<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Seuss is now eating green eggs and ham.<\/li>\n<li>Ben ate Jerry.<\/li>\n<li>Exxon-Mobil laid off 25 Congressmen.<\/li>\n<li>I got a pre-declined credit card in the mail.<\/li>\n<li>I ordered a burger at McDonald&#8217;s and the kid behind the counter asked, &#8220;Can you afford fries with that?&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, the other day I went to my bank manager and said, &#8216;I&#8217;d like to start a small business. How do I go about it?&#8217; &#8216;Simple,&#8217; said the bank manager. &#8216;Buy a big one and wait.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Yessirie, I got so depressed last night thinking about the economy, wars, jobs, my savings, CPP, retirement funds, etc., I called the Suicide Lifeline. I got a call center in Syria. When I told them I was suicidal, they got all excited, and asked if I could drive a truck.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our North American economy is so bad that&#8230; McDonald&#8217;s is selling the 1\/4 ouncer. CEO&#8217;s are now playing miniature golf. Hot Wheels and Matchbox stocks are trading higher than GM. Parents in Beverly Hills fired their nannies and learned their children&#8217;s names. A truckload of Americans was caught sneaking into Mexico. Dick Cheney took his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[46],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7721,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions\/7721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}