{"id":25751,"date":"2011-07-07T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=25751"},"modified":"2011-07-07T08:00:49","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T12:00:49","slug":"and-the-band-played-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=25751","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;and the band played on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I REALLY hate to find myself on the side of Jerold &#8220;The Waddler&#8221; Nadler, but in the age of military budget cuts, I think the military bands come in last place for funding in my book (from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/2011-budget-battle\/nothing-can-be-off-limits-in-budget-talks-except-military-bands-1.148546\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>);<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rep. John Carter, R-Texas, sponsor of the amendment to the $649 billion defense bill, said the cut to the band budget wouldn&#8217;t save taxpayers any money nor would it reduce the Pentagon budget. He called the bands &#8220;an integral part of the patriotism that keeps our soldiers&#8217; hearts beating fast.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., questioned the wisdom of protecting the band budget when other programs, including food stamps and aid, faced deep reductions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the interest of full disclosure, I&#8217;ve never played a musical instrument past the fifth grade, I don&#8217;t know anyone who has ever been in a military band and I have been known to hate being on the parade field while the band was playing. That being said, I think Republican John Carter is FOS. Not only reducing spending on military bands will save taxpayers money, the bands don&#8217;t make my heart beat faster, except at the thought of standing in the heat or the rain while some general blathers on about nothing.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure we&#8217;d all rather do without bands than without health care or bullets for training or war. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I REALLY hate to find myself on the side of Jerold &#8220;The Waddler&#8221; Nadler, but in &hellip; <a title=\"&#8230;and the band played on\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=25751\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8230;and the band played on<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress-sucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25751","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=25751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}