{"id":34705,"date":"2013-03-22T22:31:25","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T02:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34705"},"modified":"2013-03-22T22:35:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T02:35:24","slug":"a-modest-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34705","title":{"rendered":"A Modest Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dunno if if I&#8217;ve proposed this here before, but an exchange with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackfive.net\/main\/\" target=\"_blank\">Laughing_Wolf<\/a> on FB prompted me to bring it up again.<\/p>\n<p>My proposal is simply that OUR Congress Critters be paid exactly the same as our military. Live\u00a0 in barracks&#8230; eat in mess halls, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Now it IS extremely unlikely that The Pampered Princes (and Princesses) on The Potomac would do this themselves.<\/p>\n<p>With that baseline how would YOU suggest we (the great unwashed) approach this?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking we might have some luck at the state level, but The Constitution has limited guidance here.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking for a pragmatic approach while we still may have a say?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dunno if if I&#8217;ve proposed this here before, but an exchange with Laughing_Wolf on FB prompted &hellip; <a title=\"A Modest Proposal\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34705\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Modest Proposal<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress-sucks","category-geezer-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34705","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}