{"id":62417,"date":"2015-10-23T10:10:20","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T14:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62417"},"modified":"2015-10-23T10:11:33","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T14:11:33","slug":"obama-vetoes-defense-spending-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62417","title":{"rendered":"Obama vetoes defense spending bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know what is more important than defense? Everything else, according to our President who has used his veto on the latest defense spending bill. His reason? Because it doesn’t give him the flexibility to hammer military retirees with higher out-of-pocket healthcare costs. The Congress tried to skirt spending caps by funding military operations with the “overseas contingency operations account”, but Obama would rather they just bust the spending caps so he can bust spending caps for domestic funds. From the Washington Post<\/a>;<\/p>\n

\u201cThe president believes that the men and women who serve in our armed forces deserve adequate and responsible funding, not through a gimmick or not through a slush fund but one that would \u2014 could withstand scrutiny,\u201d White House spokesman Eric Schultz said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nice crocodile tears, especially since the White House wants to jack up healthcare costs for folks who use Tricare – you know, folks who were promised healthcare in exchange for their service, and now that we’ve held up our end of the bargain, the Obama Administration wants to renege on their part.<\/p>\n

It was this administration that engineered the “sequestration” budget caps for defense, but they’re not willing to cap the EPA, the Commerce Department, the Education Department and all of the other government functions that bleed our GDP dry.<\/p>\n

The administration also opposes restrictions on how it deals with detainees at the Guantanamo detention facility in Cuba. Obama has said he wants to shut down the facility by the end of his presidency.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

The main stumbling block to completing the plan to close the prison is the question of where to house prisoners who are being tried or are being indefinitely detained. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s silly, too. Holding up defense spending for the sake of a few international criminals. You really have to wonder about the priorities of this administration. I mean, if their intent is not to destroy the national security structure, it sure doesn’t appear that way.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Chief Tango for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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