{"id":19829,"date":"2010-07-23T08:14:51","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T12:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19829"},"modified":"2010-07-23T08:14:51","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T12:14:51","slug":"dems-hoping-to-cut-defense-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19829","title":{"rendered":"Dems hoping to cut Defense spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cortillaen sends us link from the New York Times entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/23\/us\/politics\/23budget.html?_r=1&#038;ref=world&#038;pagewanted=all\">Pentagon Faces Growing Pressures to Trim Budget<\/a>&#8220;. Yeah, Defense is always the first to get cut under a Democrat Administration followed by massive spending by the next Republican administration to rebuild our national security to the howls of the Democrats and the media.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After nearly a decade of rapid increases in military spending, the Pentagon is facing intensifying political and economic pressures to restrain its budget, setting up the first serious debate since the terrorist attacks of 2001 about the size and cost of the armed services.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is after the Democrats have shoved unneeded spending down the throats of the Pentagon to shore up employment in their respective districts. And you know the Democrats will never give up that portion of their addiction to tax payer money, so inevitably Defense spending cuts will affect the troops more than voters who will vote for Democrats for their local jobs programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cortillaen sends us link from the New York Times entitled &#8220;Pentagon Faces Growing Pressures to Trim &hellip; <a title=\"Dems hoping to cut Defense spending\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19829\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dems hoping to cut Defense spending<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19829","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}