{"id":497,"date":"2013-07-22T02:36:47","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T02:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/?p=497"},"modified":"2013-07-22T02:46:21","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T02:46:21","slug":"screwed-again-by-the-big-cigars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/?p=497","title":{"rendered":"Screwed again by the Big Cigars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bumming around town with Bill Bumerton<\/h1>\n

Bumerton is a retired Navy fighter pilot who had been missing in action for several years while he traversed the globe looking for greener grass. He discovered the grass is only greener here (it\u2019s blue in Kentucky), so he returned to again take charge of his 1954 green Hudson Hornet that has been in storage, refilled his pipe, and is ready to continue his smokin\u2019 ways. Here is what he recently told us at the Sports Paper.<\/p>\n

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Man, the increasing greed in this country is unbelievable. I have read the recent story posted on the Huffington Post that is coming out of the New York times on how big financial houses like Goldman Sachs make millions of dollars by rotating 3,000 tons of aluminum bars from one warehouse to another warehouse \u2013 all owned by these financial giants \u2013 so they can make more money on the rent. It\u2019s costing us taxpayers millions of dollars in increased cost for aluminum. A forklift operator at one of the warehouses called it a \u201cmerry-go-round-of metal.\u201d The story estimates this two-step shuffle has cost us, the taxpayers, an estimated $5 billion over the last three years. I\u2019m sick of how the big cigars in our world take us low-rent citizens for suckers, and keep us in the low rent district while they and the people and institutions that are supposed to regulate them all smoke the same big cigars. It\u2019s despicable and ugly and morally wrong to the core. Big Dawg, I\u2019m feeling so upset that I\u2019m buying the tall latte. It\u2019s on me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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