{"id":23439,"date":"2011-05-16T13:08:16","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T17:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23439"},"modified":"2011-05-16T13:08:16","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T17:08:16","slug":"feds-to-tap-pension-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23439","title":{"rendered":"Feds to tap pension funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cortillaen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/economy\/treasury-to-tap-pensions-to-help-fund-government\/2011\/05\/15\/AF2fqK4G_story.html?hpid=z1\">sends us a link<\/a> to the Obama Administration&#8217;s latest scheme to fund the government by tapping into the federal employee retirement fund;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Geithner, who has already suspended a program that helps state and local government manage their finances, will begin to borrow from retirement funds for federal workers. The measure won\u2019t have an impact on retirees because the Treasury is legally required to reimburse the program.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And we all know how the federal government takes seriously it&#8217;s legal obligations. Ya know, if a public corporation tried to continue operations by dipping into their employees&#8217; pensions, the federal government would be crawling up their corporate assholes with microscopes, and rightly so.<\/p>\n<p>How&#8217;s about they just stop paying retired Congressmen and Senators a pension, since the founding fathers never intended for Congress to be a career with benefits, anyway. Not only would we save a boat load of money, but they&#8217;d term limit themselves, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cortillaen sends us a link to the Obama Administration&#8217;s latest scheme to fund the government by &hellip; <a title=\"Feds to tap pension funds\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23439\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Feds to tap pension funds<\/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":[46,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-congress-sucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23439","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=23439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}