{"id":14234,"date":"2012-06-11T08:19:21","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T12:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=14234"},"modified":"2012-06-11T08:21:05","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T12:21:05","slug":"the-truth-about-the-impact-of-sequestration-on-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=14234","title":{"rendered":"The Truth About The Impact Of Sequestration on Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org\/index.xml\">The Center for Security Policy<\/a> posted a video of a program entitled &#8220;&#8216;Like Shooting Ourselves in the Head&#8217;: The Implications of Sequestration on Defense.&#8221;\u00a0 The program was put on by the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Reserve Officers Association\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reserve_Officers_Association\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Reserve Officers Association<\/a> (ROA) and co-sponsored by the Defense Education Forum and the Center for Security Policy. This is a long video, so I suggest you watch it in a few sittings&#8211;there is an awful lot of great information included. (The video does not actually start until about\u00a030 seconds into the count).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RvsYIHy-2zU\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I really can&#8217;t adequately summarize the discussion of sequestration, but there are a few things I learned that I can share. The <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Military budget\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Military_budget\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">defense budget<\/a> is a very small part of the overall spending in America&#8211;drastically cutting it will not only not help with overall spending, but\u00a0the civilian job losses as a result of the cuts will further slow down the economy. Sequestration is not about defense&#8211;it&#8217;s a cover for a tax increase on Americans. The <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Presidency of Barack Obama\" href=\"http:\/\/whitehouse.gov\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">Obama Administration<\/a> and the Senate <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Democratic Party (United States)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.democrats.org\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">Democrats<\/a> understand the dangers of sequestration&#8211;they\u00a0are counting\u00a0on the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Republican Party (United States)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gop.com\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">Republicans<\/a> not to let it happen. The Democrats are playing a game of chicken with the defense of America. If the Republicans want to stop sequestration, the Democrats will gladly do it&#8211;if a tax increase is included in the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>Please watch the video and decide for yourself what is happening. Again, I can only say that part of the road to fiscal sanity in America has to be a Republican Senate. Otherwise, all we will\u00a0hear is a constant cry to raise taxes and not lower spending.<\/p>\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\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right; border-style: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=957e97af-1a2c-4c14-817e-db2a72b9cf73\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Center for Security Policy posted a video of a program entitled &#8220;&#8216;Like Shooting Ourselves in the Head&#8217;: The Implications of Sequestration on Defense.&#8221;\u00a0 The program was put on by the Reserve Officers Association (ROA) and co-sponsored by the Defense &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=14234\">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":[1614,3226,219,853,3225,365,3224,285],"class_list":["post-14234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-center-for-security-policy","tag-defense-sequestration","tag-democratic","tag-democrats","tag-military-budget","tag-republicans","tag-reserve-officers-association","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14234","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=14234"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14236,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14234\/revisions\/14236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}