{"id":45600,"date":"2014-05-02T06:00:42","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T10:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=45600"},"modified":"2014-05-01T16:51:50","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T20:51:50","slug":"house-votes-to-keep-their-free-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=45600","title":{"rendered":"House votes to keep their free cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know how Congress and the Pentagon are always telling veterans how we should learn to do with less and pay more for the things that they promised us as a condition of our continued employment? How we should pay more for our healthcare, take lower cost of living pay hikes, how we expect too much and the costs have become &#8220;unsustainable&#8221;? Well, they had a chance to prove to us how they&#8217;re willing to spend less on themselves and they blew it, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/may\/1\/house-votes-protect-its-taxpayer-funded-cars\/\">Washington Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rep. Rich Nugent, Florida Republican, tried to kill the car program, saying the BMWs and Lexuses send a bad signal to constituents, particularly with the economy still sluggish.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>But his proposal was defeated 221-196.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So there you go. Their defense is that they&#8217;d still be authorized the same amount of money in the office expense account, they just wouldn&#8217;t be able to spend on a free car. Well, they could always give the money back to the taxpayers by just not spending it and let go back into the treasury at the end of the fiscal year, maybe that&#8217;s too simple.  <\/p>\n<p>Rep. Tom Cole says \u201cAt the end of the day I just simply don\u2019t want to micromanage members and how they spend money through this bill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Um, I do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know how Congress and the Pentagon are always telling veterans how we should learn to &hellip; <a title=\"House votes to keep their free cars\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=45600\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">House votes to keep their free cars<\/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-45600","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\/45600","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=45600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}