{"id":27068,"date":"2011-10-18T06:28:10","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T10:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27068"},"modified":"2011-10-18T06:28:10","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T10:28:10","slug":"congress-ready-to-screw-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27068","title":{"rendered":"Congress ready to screw veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ROS sends us a link from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/mobile\/index.php?storyUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.armytimes.com%2Fnews%2F2011%2F10%2Fmilitary-veterans-committee-leaders-open-to-VA-cuts-101711w%2F\">Army Times<\/a> which quotes a bi-partisan letter from the House and Senate Veterans&#8217; affairs committees that says veterans are the most vulnerable to massive government cuts&#8230;and we&#8217;re already bent over a greased up;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe believe no constituency better understands the challenge America faces, and no constituency is better suited to, again, lead by example by putting country first,\u201d says a rare joint letter signed by the four top Democratic and Republican members of the veterans\u2019 committees.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, and no other cstituency has tken it so far up the ass every fucking time the government comes looking for spending cuts EVERY FUCKING TIME! And do you know why we&#8217;re supposed to just take it up the ass again? So the Congress desn&#8217;t have to do the tough work of actually cutting across the board spending in federal government.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The top leaders of the House and Senate veterans\u2019 affairs committees are willing to cut funding for the Veterans Affairs Department in hopes of averting across-the-board cuts in federal spending.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So veterans should take it in the ass so Congress doesn&#8217;t have to cut their staffs, cut their own benefit packages, cut the largesse of government offices and buy some more $16 muffins for the Justice Department so they can coordinate their purchases of firearms for the drug cartels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROS sends us a link from the Army Times which quotes a bi-partisan letter from the &hellip; <a title=\"Congress ready to screw veterans\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27068\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Congress ready to screw veterans<\/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":[89,86,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress-sucks","category-veteran-health-care","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27068","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=27068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}