{"id":27547,"date":"2011-11-17T19:33:26","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T23:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27547"},"modified":"2011-11-17T19:33:26","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T23:33:26","slug":"im-sorry-did-my-back-scratch-your-knife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27547","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m sorry, did my back scratch your knife?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>melle1228 sends us a link from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/2011\/11\/military-mccain-tricare-fees-must-rise-to-control-costs-111711w\/\">Army Times<\/a> in which John McCain throws military retirees under the bus.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMilitary retirees and their families deserve the best possible care in return for a career of military service, and nothing less,\u201d McCain said on the Senate floor during debate on the $526 billion defense authorization bill for fiscal 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we cannot ignore the fact that health care costs will undermine the combat capability and training and readiness of our military if we don\u2019t begin to control the cost growth now,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You know what else undermines our military capabilities? Throwing taxpayer dollars down the dark hole of the Education Department and the Commerce Department. And hiring legions of lawyers for the Environmental Protection Agency&#8230;but I don&#8217;t see anyone threatening those agencies.  <\/p>\n<p>And, oh, yeah, in a related article from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/2011\/10\/military-mccain-eyes-barring-retirees-from-tricare-prime-102511\/\">Army Times<\/a>, McCain is reportedly thinking about pulling our Tricare Prime out from under us;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>McCain, ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, has proposed barring military retirees from signing up for Tricare Prime, the least expensive Tricare option available to them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, well, fuck you, too, ya pencil-dick moron. So how do I get my youth back after fulfilling my end of the contract, fuckhead? After yapping about supporting the troops, he has no problem sticking it right up our collective ass now. <\/p>\n<p>Where the fuck is the American Legion, the VFW and DAV now? Yeah, they write mean editorials, but why aren&#8217;t they camped outside of this fuckstick&#8217;s office? Dave Rehbein went straight to Obama&#8217;s office when Obama tried to buttfuck us. Where is Fang Wong?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>melle1228 sends us a link from the Army Times in which John McCain throws military retirees &hellip; <a title=\"I&#8217;m sorry, did my back scratch your knife?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27547\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I&#8217;m sorry, did my back scratch your knife?<\/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":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veteran-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27547","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=27547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}