{"id":73488,"date":"2017-07-19T12:46:21","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T16:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=73488"},"modified":"2017-07-19T12:46:21","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T16:46:21","slug":"valor-thief-the-dick-blumenthal-proposes-12b-for-ukrainian-wounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73488","title":{"rendered":"Valor thief The Dick Blumenthal proposes $1\/2b for Ukrainian wounded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=31035\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31035\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/blumenthal1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31035\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The Dick Blumenthal, US Senator from Connecticut who claimed that he was a Vietnam veteran before the New York Times outed him in 2010, proposed that $500 million from the US Defense budget be portioned out for treating Ukrainian soldiers, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/insider.foxnews.com\/2017\/07\/19\/democrat-blumenthal-wants-500-million-wounded-ukrainian-soldiers\">Fox News<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Senate Democrat who once misrepresented his own military service record is proposing $500 million be spent on a fund for wounded Ukrainian soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Richard Blumenthal&#8217;s (D-CT) proposed funding would be included in this year&#8217;s defense spending bill. The senator is also pushing for further sanctions against Russia for its aggression in eastern Ukraine, where fighting has continued since 2014.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You know, because we can afford a half-billion dollars from our defense budget after what Congress and the previous administration slashed from defense over the last several years. The same Congress and administration that raided retired veterans&#8217; healthcare surplus for $770 million just a few years ago. If he wants a half billion bucks for Ukrainians, he can load up the State Department with the task, but it shouldn&#8217;t come from US defense dollars.<\/p>\n<p>He should be so concerned about US wounded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dick Blumenthal, US Senator from Connecticut who claimed that he was a Vietnam veteran before &hellip; <a title=\"Valor thief The Dick Blumenthal proposes $1\/2b for Ukrainian wounded\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73488\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Valor thief The Dick Blumenthal proposes $1\/2b for Ukrainian wounded<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-congress-sucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73488","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=73488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}