{"id":12473,"date":"2012-02-29T20:27:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T01:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=12473"},"modified":"2012-02-29T20:27:35","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T01:27:35","slug":"another-reason-we-have-a-budget-deficit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=12473","title":{"rendered":"Another Reason We Have A Budget Deficit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t believe that I am posting this story during the same week that I posted a story talking about proposed cuts to promised benefits to veterans and their families (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=12418\">rightwinggranny.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday the <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2012\/02\/28\/750000-soccer-field-for-gitmo-detainees\/\">Daily Caller<\/a>\u00a0posted a story reporting that the U. S. Government has just spent $750,000 of taxpayer money to build a new soccer field for prisoners held at\u00a0Guantanamo.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The field is reportedly half the size of a standard American football field and has been constructed so that detainees can have \u201cmaximum access\u201d to it \u2014 about 20 hours a day \u2014 including secure passage to the field without a guard escort.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Navy Comander Tamsen Reese <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5hacZo21kfCfUfNHCozauY-0_9iww?docId=2e0093d1a0de4d809a674296abf9fc29\" target=\"_blank\">told<\/a> the AP Tuesday the new field replaces a small recreational area in a part of the facility that is no longer used.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>According to a Fox Guantanamo source, outdoor activity helps to \u201creduce behavioral problems\u201d and limits the interaction between guards and prisoners.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Spending $750,000 on Guantanamo prisoners while denying American veterans things they were promised if they served twenty years seems a little lopsided to\u00a0 me.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right; border-style: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=f21d5fe2-8918-44d0-ba0d-3f3b409f00cc\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t believe that I am posting this story during the same week that I posted a story talking about proposed cuts to promised benefits to veterans and their families (rightwinggranny.com). Yesterday the Daily Caller\u00a0posted a story reporting that the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=12473\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2315,2312,2314,1577,2313],"class_list":["post-12473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-budget-deficit","tag-camp-delta-guantanamo-bay","tag-defense-spending","tag-guantanamo","tag-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12484,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12473\/revisions\/12484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}