{"id":199476,"date":"2007-07-24T21:18:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-25T02:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/24\/republicans-hate-brown-people-more-than-they-value-their-word\/"},"modified":"2007-07-24T21:18:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-25T02:18:00","slug":"republicans-hate-brown-people-more-than-they-value-their-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/24\/republicans-hate-brown-people-more-than-they-value-their-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Hate Brown People More than They Value Their Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/2007\/07\/military_filipino_veteransbenefits_070723w\/\">Republicans protest pensions for Filipinos<\/a><\/span><br \/>By Rick Maze &#8211; Staff writer<br \/>Posted : Tuesday Jul 24, 2007 15:46:17 EDT<\/p>\n<p>Republicans on the House Veterans Affairs Committee are trying to scuttle a committee-passed plan to provide pensions for World War II-era Filipino Scouts by getting a major veterans\u2019 service organization to question whether this is the highest priority for improved benefits.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter, the 13 Republicans on the committee complain about being blocked on July 17 from offering amendments that would have redirected the $875 million being spent on disability pay and pensions for Filipino veterans, including those who are not American citizens and who don\u2019t even live in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Filner said during the July 17 session in which the bill was passed that he was trying to fulfill a promise made at the end of World War II to provide benefits to people who fought on behalf of U.S. interests but were not part of the U.S. military.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It should also be noted that they were citizens of the US when the fought.  The Philippines were a US colony at the time.<\/p>\n<p>This is all about another phony way to cast Democrats as N***** lovers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans protest pensions for FilipinosBy Rick Maze &#8211; Staff writerPosted : Tuesday Jul 24, 2007 15:46:17 EDT Republicans on the House Veterans Affairs Committee are trying to scuttle a committee-passed plan to provide pensions for World War II-era Filipino Scouts by getting a major veterans\u2019 service organization to question whether this is the highest priority &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,978,1001],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-politics","category-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199476"}],"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=199476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}