{"id":5238,"date":"2009-08-11T15:28:27","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T20:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5238"},"modified":"2009-08-11T17:13:56","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T22:13:56","slug":"house-of-representatives-up-yours-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5238","title":{"rendered":"House of Representatives: Up Yours America!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The House&#8217;s request to the pentagon to purchase new private jets fell victim to criticisms by citizens and politicians and was dropped this week.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20090811\/ts_nm\/us_usa_congress_jets_2\">U.S. House leaders have dropped plans<\/a> to spend $550 million in the <span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1249973510_0\" style=\"background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: medium none; moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial\">Air Force budget<\/span> on passenger jets used by lawmakers and senior government officials, officials said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The <span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1249973510_1\">House of Representatives<\/span> reversed the move to upgrade the executive jet fleet after public criticism, opposition from other lawmakers and the Defense Department had said it did not need more planes that it had requested.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So we saved $550 Million right?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2009\/08\/11\/house-to-back-off-from-controversial-plane-purchase\/\">Dropping the proposal doesn&#8217;t save money<\/a>, as the total funding provided by the bill remains unchanged. It means the money that would have been used to pay for the extra planes will go to other purposes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Other purposes.&#8221; Read: we&#8217;re going to piss the money away either way.<\/p>\n<p>These are the same people telling us that government-run health care will save money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House&#8217;s request to the pentagon to purchase new private jets fell victim to criticisms by citizens and politicians and was dropped this week. U.S. House leaders have dropped plans to spend $550 million in the Air Force budget on passenger jets used by lawmakers and senior government officials, officials said on Monday. The House [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pork-patrol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}