{"id":26633,"date":"2011-09-23T11:29:53","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T15:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26633"},"modified":"2011-09-23T11:29:53","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T15:29:53","slug":"cheney-on-the-relationship-of-defense-spending-to-the-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26633","title":{"rendered":"Cheney on the relationship of Defense spending to the debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in the middle of Dick Cheney&#8217;s book &#8220;In My Time&#8221; that he discusses with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/opinion\/articles\/2011\/09\/23\/dick-cheney-defense-spending-doesnt-drive-debt-problem\">US News in this link<\/a> sent to us by ROS. He sets the example for future interviewees who think that trashing defense spending will ingratiate them with the media;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Are the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan contributing to the deficit problem?<\/p>\n<p>No, the debt problem that we&#8217;ve got is driven much more by entitlement programs than it is by defense spending. Now, you can occasionally find that savings in the defense budget, but it&#8217;s not going to be the kind of savings that are going to let you deal with a long-term debt problem.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See, that&#8217;s the problem&#8230;politicians and the retired generals who are eager to be popular with the media won&#8217;t dare mention entitlement spending by the government because the welfare queens and their defenders will spill out into the streets to protect their right to suckle the government teat.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m thinking a Bonus March on November 11th is looking good to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in the middle of Dick Cheney&#8217;s book &#8220;In My Time&#8221; that he discusses with US &hellip; <a title=\"Cheney on the relationship of Defense spending to the debt\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26633\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cheney on the relationship of Defense spending to the debt<\/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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26633","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=26633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}