{"id":29541,"date":"2012-04-17T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29541"},"modified":"2012-04-17T08:00:39","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T12:00:39","slug":"panetta-wants-to-change-but-he-needs-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29541","title":{"rendered":"Panetta wants to change, but he needs ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, we talked about Leon Panetta<\/a> and the dilemma in which he finds himself – the fact that the poor fellow lives in California and works in DC and costs the government $32,000 every weekend so he can commute. Chief Tango sends a link to Panetta in the Washington Post<\/a> who tells Congress that he “regrets” that his trips are so expensive;<\/p>\n

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said Monday that he regrets that his frequent flights home to California on a military jet have cost taxpayers more than $800,000 since July. He gave no indication, however, that he would end the weekend commutes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course not. Each one of his trips would fund the healthcare of a veteran for life, but he’s made 27 trips this year alone.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor 40 years that I\u2019ve been in this town, I\u2019ve gone home because my wife and family are there and because, frankly, I think it\u2019s healthy to get out of Washington periodically just to get your mind straight and your perspective straight,\u201d said Panetta, who maintains a residence with his wife, Sylvia, on their walnut farm in Monterey, Calif.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, walnut farms need constant attention, you know, in case gravity doesn’t make the walnuts fall on the ground, or something. <\/p>\n

I sure would have liked to travel home more than once a year when my family was in Panama and I was in Germany, or when my family was in New York and I was in Germany, or when my family was in Vermont and I was in the Middle East, but I couldn’t afford it, and maybe that’s Panetta’s solution. <\/p>\n

If he’d only fly home to his f*cking walnut farm when he could afford to pay the $32,000 for his use of military aircraft, he’d make fewer trips home…ya know like the rest of the people on the planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week, we talked about Leon Panetta and the dilemma in which he finds himself – … Panetta wants to change, but he needs ideas<\/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":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues","category-veteran-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29541","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=29541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}