{"id":20330,"date":"2010-09-01T07:33:12","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T11:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20330"},"modified":"2010-09-01T07:33:12","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T11:33:12","slug":"simpson-vets-are-causing-the-deficit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20330","title":{"rendered":"Simpson: vets are causing the deficit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Simpson, the co-chair of the President&#8217;s deficit commission, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100901\/ap_on_re_us\/us_vietnam_agent_orange_claims;_ylt=AptmJTvBRRVZZFmxe1T3uAZH2ocA;_ylu=X3oDMTNqYTBvZWZ2BGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwOTAxL3VzX3ZpZXRuYW1fYWdlbnRfb3JhbmdlX2NsYWltcwRjY29kZQNtb3N0cG9wdWxhcgRjcG9zAzkEcG9zAzkEc2VjA3luX3RvcF9zdG9yaWVzBHNsawNhZ2luZ3ZldHNjb3M-\">blamed veterans for the ballooning deficit<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The irony (is) that the veterans who saved this country are now, in a way, not helping us to save the country in this fiscal mess,&#8221; said Simpson, an Army veteran who was once chairman of the Senate Veterans&#8217; Affairs Committee.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So basically, Simpson is saying that, now that veterans have given their all, youth, limbs and organs, to the country, we should just chalk that up to the cost of doing business and sacrifice YET AGAIN? As I&#8217;ve been telling you since before the 2008 election, the government always turn to veterans to give up their benefits which they earned for their service before they turn to the millions of leeches whose idea of sacrifice is giving up an afternoon of Oprah to apply for more benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Tman for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Simpson, the co-chair of the President&#8217;s deficit commission, blamed veterans for the ballooning deficit; &#8220;The &hellip; <a title=\"Simpson: vets are causing the deficit\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20330\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Simpson: vets are causing the deficit<\/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":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veteran-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20330","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=20330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}