{"id":3948,"date":"2010-11-10T11:24:29","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T16:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=3948"},"modified":"2010-11-10T11:24:29","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T16:24:29","slug":"cut-defense-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=3948","title":{"rendered":"Cut Defense Spending?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How much has this current spending spree put us in debt?&#160; Enough that, in 5 years, the <em>interest<\/em> on that debt alone <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/truth-o-meter\/statements\/2010\/nov\/08\/rand-paul\/rand-paul-says-federal-interest-burden-will-approa\/\">will approach the defense budget<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, it&#8217;s <em>that<\/em> big a deal.&#160; We need to hold the Republicans feet to the fire (as well as Democrats who actually got the right message from the election).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/pccartoons\/permalink.asp?artist=ramirez&amp;date=101108\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto\" height=\"296\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/working\/101108\/ramirez.jpg\" width=\"420\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How much has this current spending spree put us in debt?&#160; Enough that, in 5 years, the interest on that debt alone will approach the defense budget. Yeah, it&#8217;s that big a deal.&#160; We need to hold the Republicans feet to the fire (as well as Democrats who actually got the right message from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-economics-taxes","category-government"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}