{"id":24946,"date":"2011-06-24T07:14:41","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T11:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=24946"},"modified":"2011-06-24T07:22:45","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T11:22:45","slug":"gallup-military-inspires-confidence-congress-not-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=24946","title":{"rendered":"Gallup: Military inspires confidence; Congress not so much"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/148163\/Americans-Confident-Military-Least-Congress.aspx\">Gallup<\/a> took a poll of Americans asking how much confidence they have in 15 national institutions. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Americans continue to express greater confidence in the military than in 15 other national institutions, with 78% saying they have a &#8220;great deal&#8221; or &#8220;quite a lot&#8221; of confidence in it. In addition to the military, a majority of Americans express high esteem for small business and the police. Congress ranks last among these institutions, behind big business and health maintenance organizations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Gallup-confidence.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Gallup-confidence.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Gallup confidence\" width=\"474\" height=\"513\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24949\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Gallup-confidence.jpg 474w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Gallup-confidence-277x300.jpg 277w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gee, I don&#8217;t know why&#8230;except that maybe the military does what they say they&#8217;ll do and Congress can&#8217;t keep their promises. Congress might want to keep that in mind when they&#8217;re looking to cut benefits and hike health care costs for military members&#8230;they may be joining the ranks of the unemployed next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gallup took a poll of Americans asking how much confidence they have in 15 national institutions. &hellip; <a title=\"Gallup: Military inspires confidence; Congress not so much\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=24946\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gallup: Military inspires confidence; Congress not so much<\/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":[89,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress-sucks","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24946","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=24946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}