{"id":31898,"date":"2012-09-05T14:59:02","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T18:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31898"},"modified":"2012-09-05T14:59:02","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T18:59:02","slug":"that-national-debt-thingie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31898","title":{"rendered":"That National Debt thingie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) sent us their latest video about how the National Debt, which recently reached $16T, is the greatest threat to our national security<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The 90-second web video, titled \u201c16 Trillion\u201d, focuses on repeated warnings from national leaders (including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, former Joint Chiefs Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen, and Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin) about how mounting government debt endangers our national security. The video also urges Congress to focus on entitlement spending reform and pro-growth tax policies to spur the economy and reduce the national debt. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QTSvz__if2s\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cVeterans and active duty troops are deeply concerned about our stagnant economy and towering national debt, and rightly see them as drivers of our economic weakness,\u201d said Pete Hegseth, CEO of CVA. \u201cWe understand that a strong economy is key to ensuring a robust defense, and that our government\u2019s addiction to spending and debt is a sure path to weakness and vulnerability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe $16 trillion national debt mark should set off alarm bells in Washington\u2014it\u2019s time to stop playing political games and get to work reforming government spending,\u201d Hegseth concluded.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Raising taxes on the &#8220;rich&#8221; won&#8217;t solve the problem, only cuts tp the size and scope of the government and hacking away at entitlement programs will get the job done. But the folks in Washington who have buying votes with entitlement programs and scare tactics would much rather hack into the institutions that work and the things that have kept us a free nation lo these hundreds of years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) sent us their latest video about how the &hellip; <a title=\"That National Debt thingie\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31898\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">That National Debt thingie<\/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":[186,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2012-election","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31898","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=31898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}