{"id":167008,"date":"2025-02-28T13:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T18:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=167008"},"modified":"2025-02-28T07:07:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T12:07:33","slug":"weekend-open-thread-538","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=167008","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Government-tax-dollars-not-benefiting-the-tax-payers.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-167009\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Government-tax-dollars-not-benefiting-the-tax-payers-300x231.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Government-tax-dollars-not-benefiting-the-tax-payers-300x231.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Government-tax-dollars-not-benefiting-the-tax-payers-432x333.jpeg 432w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Government-tax-dollars-not-benefiting-the-tax-payers-768x591.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Government-tax-dollars-not-benefiting-the-tax-payers.jpeg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many here suspect that the government directs a lot of taxpayer funds to areas that benefit our lawmakers and their benefactors. The taxpayers are left with paying the debt that is accumulated to benefit others other than the taxpayer. With each new DOGE discovery, these suspicions continuously get substantiated. Things should get more interesting as the year progresses. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Enjoy your weekend!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many here suspect that the government directs a lot of taxpayer funds to areas that benefit &hellip; <a title=\"Weekend Open Thread\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=167008\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekend Open Thread<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}