{"id":26633,"date":"2011-09-23T11:29:53","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T15:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26633"},"modified":"2011-09-23T11:29:53","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T15:29:53","slug":"cheney-on-the-relationship-of-defense-spending-to-the-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26633","title":{"rendered":"Cheney on the relationship of Defense spending to the debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in the middle of Dick Cheney&#8217;s book &#8220;In My Time&#8221; that he discusses with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/opinion\/articles\/2011\/09\/23\/dick-cheney-defense-spending-doesnt-drive-debt-problem\">US News in this link<\/a> sent to us by ROS. He sets the example for future interviewees who think that trashing defense spending will ingratiate them with the media;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Are the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan contributing to the deficit problem?<\/p>\n<p>No, the debt problem that we&#8217;ve got is driven much more by entitlement programs than it is by defense spending. Now, you can occasionally find that savings in the defense budget, but it&#8217;s not going to be the kind of savings that are going to let you deal with a long-term debt problem.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See, that&#8217;s the problem&#8230;politicians and the retired generals who are eager to be popular with the media won&#8217;t dare mention entitlement spending by the government because the welfare queens and their defenders will spill out into the streets to protect their right to suckle the government teat.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m thinking a Bonus March on November 11th is looking good to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in the middle of Dick Cheney&#8217;s book &#8220;In My Time&#8221; that he discusses with US News in this link sent to us by ROS. He sets the example for future interviewees who think that trashing defense spending will ingratiate them with the media; Are the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan contributing to the deficit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-6Vz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}