{"id":21958,"date":"2011-01-23T19:17:05","date_gmt":"2011-01-23T23:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21958"},"modified":"2011-01-23T19:17:05","modified_gmt":"2011-01-23T23:17:05","slug":"its-so-easy-to-cut-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21958","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s so easy to cut Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, the tea party movement doesn&#8217;t know there&#8217;s a war going on either, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20110123\/ap_on_re_us\/us_tea_party_defense_cuts\">Associated Press<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The widely held sentiment among Tea Party Patriot members is that every item in the budget, including military spending and foreign aid, must be on the table,&#8221; said Mark Meckler, co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots. &#8220;It is time to get serious about preserving the country for our posterity. The mentality that certain programs are &#8216;off the table&#8217; must be taken off the table.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe, leaders of the group FreedomWorks, recently wrote in a Wall Street Journal editorial that &#8220;defense spending should not be exempt from scrutiny.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, we can&#8217;t consider cutting money for parks, and bogus spending on saving species of doomed plants, cutting the number of redundant functions of the government, doing away with useless government agencies. Let&#8217;s cut out things that government is supposed to do like defend the nation.<\/p>\n<p>I guess cutting the defense budget and the veterans&#8217; budget is politically expedient for the Republicans as well the Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Tman for the link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, the tea party movement doesn&#8217;t know there&#8217;s a war going on either, according to the &hellip; <a title=\"It&#8217;s so easy to cut Defense\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21958\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s so easy to cut Defense<\/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":[84,7,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues","category-terror-war","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21958","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=21958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}