{"id":193496,"date":"2008-12-11T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/11\/murtha-calls-for-cuts-in-dod-budget\/"},"modified":"2008-12-11T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T23:30:00","slug":"murtha-calls-for-cuts-in-dod-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/11\/murtha-calls-for-cuts-in-dod-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Murtha Calls for Cuts in DoD Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is no surprise.  Anyone with eyes can see that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dodbuzz.com\/2008\/12\/10\/military-must-ready-for-smaller-budgets-murtha\/\">defense budget is wasteful, bloated<\/a>, and not serving the current security needs of the country.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also refreshing that he wants to bring the &#8220;emergency wartime supplementals&#8221; back into the regular budget process, as well as noting that the defense procurement process is broken.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, he also gets on his high horse about reinstating the draft, where I have mixed emotions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is no surprise. Anyone with eyes can see that the defense budget is wasteful, bloated, and not serving the current security needs of the country. It&#8217;s also refreshing that he wants to bring the &#8220;emergency wartime supplementals&#8221; back into the regular budget process, as well as noting that the defense procurement process is broken. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,1008,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-defense-procurement","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}