{"id":19902,"date":"2010-07-28T08:22:06","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T12:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19902"},"modified":"2010-07-28T08:22:06","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T12:22:06","slug":"frank-wanted-his-dollar-discount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19902","title":{"rendered":"Frank wanted his dollar discount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day we discussed John Kerry and his tax avoidance. By the way, it looks like public pressure has forced him to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/breaking_news\/2010\/07\/sen_kerry_to_pa.html\">pay the taxes he owes on his boat<\/a>. Today it&#8217;s Barney Franks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/pagesix\/sorry_barney_no_discount_BSco6dW9b1VTgrL7GcCFrN#ixzz0uykYEUHO\">causing a scene enroute to Fire Island<\/a> over his senior discount on the ferry (did I spell that right?);<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Barney Frank caused a scene when he demanded a $1 senior discount on his ferry fare to Fire Island&#8217;s popular gay haunt, The Pines, last Friday. Frank was turned down by ticket clerks at the dock in Sayville because he didn&#8217;t have the required Suffolk County Senior Citizens ID. A witness reports, &#8220;Frank made such a drama over the senior rate that I contemplated offering him the dollar to cool down the situation.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I just think that&#8217;s so silly that he&#8217;d cause a scene over a damn dollar. Why? Because it&#8217;s his dollar? What about the thousands of my one dollars that get sent to the IRS every year? I&#8217;d rather my dollars go to a private business than a government. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day we discussed John Kerry and his tax avoidance. By the way, it looks like public pressure has forced him to pay the taxes he owes on his boat. Today it&#8217;s Barney Franks causing a scene enroute to Fire Island over his senior discount on the ferry (did I spell that right?); Barney [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress-sucks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-5b0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}