{"id":7406,"date":"2009-01-28T08:23:16","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T13:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=7406"},"modified":"2009-01-28T10:44:20","modified_gmt":"2009-01-28T15:44:20","slug":"too-much-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=7406","title":{"rendered":"Too much spending?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20090128\/ap_on_go_pr_wh\/obama_economy\">Associated Press<\/a> mischaracterizes what Congressman John Boehner said in their article about his opposition to the spending priorities of the Obama stimulus bill. Here&#8217;s their headline;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/spending.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/spending.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"spending\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/spending.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/spending-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What he actually says in the article is;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Boehner] said the bill before lawmakers for a vote Wednesday contains spending that &#8220;has nothing to do with creating jobs or preserving jobs.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Obviously, wasteful spending is his main concern &#8211; you know, important stuff like millions for ACORN, millions for planting trees around government office buildings, important stuff like that. Here&#8217;s some more from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dispatchpolitics.com\/live\/content\/local_news\/stories\/2009\/01\/28\/copy\/boehner21.ART_ART_01-28-09_A1_6QCNA9D.html?adsec=politics&#038;sid=101\">Columbus Dispatch<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But some of the biggest winners in the package are federal agencies. The Social Security Administration would get $400 million to replace its 30-year-old computer system. The Agricultural Research Service would receive $209 million for maintenance at its facilities. The General Services Administration would get $600 million to replace its older fleet of vehicles with alternative-fuel cars and trucks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some real important stuff while people are out of jobs. Boehner&#8217;s not worried about the LEVEL of spending, he&#8217;s worried about the TYPES of spending. If only the rest of the politicians in Washington worried about that aspect of spending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press mischaracterizes what Congressman John Boehner said in their article about his opposition to &hellip; <a title=\"Too much spending?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=7406\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Too much spending?<\/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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7406","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=7406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}