{"id":27498,"date":"2011-11-15T09:21:38","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T13:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27498"},"modified":"2011-11-15T09:23:30","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T13:23:30","slug":"panetta-warns-congress-of-impact-of-dod-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27498","title":{"rendered":"Panetta warns Congress of impact of DoD cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several of you have sent me <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/panetta-details-impact-deeper-cuts-military-231030776.html\">links to Leon Panetta&#8217;s warnings<\/a> to Congress about looming Defense spending cuts.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned Congress on Monday that deeper defense cuts would leave the military with the smallest ground force since 1940, lead to possible months-long furloughs of civilian employees and force the Pentagon to recalibrate its national security strategy to accept &#8220;substantial risk.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Panetta needs to warn them that their political careers are at stake instead, because obviously, they don&#8217;t care about the national security implications of their ill-considered actions. Defense cuts are Congress&#8217; way to vote &#8220;present&#8221; on budget cutting. There&#8217;s no political repercussions to cutting Defense because there&#8217;s no real constituency. It&#8217;s gutless and cowardly to not make cuts where cuts are truly needed. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, there will be thousands of American deaths before Congress pays a political price for their cowardice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several of you have sent me links to Leon Panetta&#8217;s warnings to Congress about looming Defense &hellip; <a title=\"Panetta warns Congress of impact of DoD cuts\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27498\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Panetta warns Congress of impact of DoD cuts<\/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-27498","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\/27498","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=27498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}