{"id":12208,"date":"2016-05-30T16:21:11","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T20:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=12208"},"modified":"2016-05-30T16:21:11","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T20:21:11","slug":"what-could-8-trillion-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=12208","title":{"rendered":"What could 8 trillion buy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;.have been stewing a little today with the waste of our military people for trumped up wars that the old, fat, stupid Bush administration got us into&#8230;I am just so tired of the need for more burials, more memorials, and more waste of the young people of the US just to feed the egos of the war makers&#8230;I think the Black Sabbath song &#8220;War Pigs&#8221; is the perfect description for these asses&#8230;but, then there is the monetary cost of this folly that the country will be paying for long after my kids are gone&#8230;for 8 trillion dollars you could fix every road, every bridge, every water system, every school, every environmental disaster that needs to be fixed in this country&#8230;.you could pay for a full college education for the next two generations of kids and have them graduate debt free&#8230;..you could give everyone on SS a 50% raise and pay for healthcare for the entire country&#8230;.this is what those idiots in the Bush administration did&#8230;they wasted the future of this country just so Dick Cheney could play tough guy&#8230;so\u00a0 he could play out his fantasy of being the smartest guy in the room&#8230;and for that the country rots from the inside&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;.have been stewing a little today with the waste of our military people for trumped up wars that the old, fat, stupid Bush administration got us into&#8230;I am just so tired of the need for more burials, more memorials, and more waste of the young people of the US just to feed the egos of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=12208\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What could 8 trillion buy?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[968,167,143],"class_list":["post-12208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-dick-cheney","tag-gw-bush","tag-iraq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12209,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12208\/revisions\/12209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}