{"id":290,"date":"2008-09-29T20:49:21","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T00:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iomaire.com\/?p=290"},"modified":"2008-10-26T10:53:56","modified_gmt":"2008-10-26T14:53:56","slug":"bank-bailouts-vs-military-bailouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/29\/bank-bailouts-vs-military-bailouts\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank Bailouts vs. Pentagon Bailouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lost in the hysteria over the financial turmoil and the proposed $700 billion bailout (which went down in flames today) is the fact that the House of Representatives just passed a $612 billion &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20080924\/ap_on_go_co\/defense_bill\">defense authorization<\/a>&#8221; bill for 2009.  I haven&#8217;t heard a peep of protest about *that*.  Oh, I forgot &#8230; that&#8217;s because we are spending that money to protect ourselves from the Islamo-fascist terrorists.  Meanwhile, we are sliding down the slope to a depression, courtesy of the Bankster-fascist terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>Go figure.<\/p>\n<p>I dream of the day when the American people get as upset about spending <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomdispatch.com\/post\/174982\/chalmers_johnson_the_pentagon_bailout_fraud\">obscene<\/a> amounts for the military-industrial-congressional complex as they do about the obscene amount proposed to bail out the financial industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lost in the hysteria over the financial turmoil and the proposed $700 billion bailout (which went down in flames today) is the fact that the House of Representatives just passed a $612 billion &#8220;defense authorization&#8221; bill for 2009. I haven&#8217;t <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/29\/bank-bailouts-vs-military-bailouts\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[123,121],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions\/456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}