{"id":2795,"date":"2005-11-17T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-17T00:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2795"},"modified":"2017-12-27T10:35:30","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T16:35:30","slug":"maverick-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/17\/maverick-math\/","title":{"rendered":"Maverick Math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/NewsTrack\/view.php?StoryID=20051115-093116-3176r\" target=\"_new\">McCain: Pentagon spending &#8216;unsustainable&#8217;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Republican Sen. John McCain Tuesday said the massive Pentagon budget for the war in Iraq can&#8217;t be sustained because of the need to replace weapons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have unsustainable defense spending,&#8221; said McCain, a chief proponent of military acquisition reform. &#8220;Refurbishment or replacement sooner than planned is putting further pressure on DOD&#8217;s investment accounts. We cannot sustain the number of weapons programs that are in the program of record.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, Medicare spending and a new drug benefit are different.  Whereas each dollar spent on a bullet or a bomb gets used up when that bomb or bullet is used up, each dollar of health tax dollars extends the life of someone who will <i>need another dollar of tax dollars tomorrow<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The more they succeed, the more they cost.  Unlike wars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McCain: Pentagon spending &#8216;unsustainable&#8217;: Republican Sen. John McCain Tuesday said the massive Pentagon budget for the war in Iraq can&#8217;t be sustained because of the need to replace weapons. &#8220;We have unsustainable defense spending,&#8221; said McCain, a chief proponent of military acquisition reform. &#8220;Refurbishment or replacement sooner than planned is putting further pressure on DOD&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19087,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2795\/revisions\/19087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}