{"id":432,"date":"2011-08-05T22:36:21","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T03:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/?p=432"},"modified":"2011-08-08T09:33:59","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T14:33:59","slug":"making-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/?p=432","title":{"rendered":"Making History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in history the United States&#8217; credit rating has been downgraded.\u00a0 Our politicians and banks continue to do to us what Osama bin Laden wanted to do but failed to do, how incredibly fucked up is that?\u00a0 What, <strong>WHAT <\/strong>does this say about them?\u00a0 These asshole politicians are so concerned about their team winning that they go so far as to forsake all common sense.\u00a0 What is so fucking hard about cutting spending in our government?\u00a0 Cut the pork.\u00a0 Stop the misappropriations.\u00a0 Put qualifications on the entitlements.\u00a0 End the wars that no longer have any purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Remember what the energy and telecommunications giants did to our 401k nest eggs a decade ago?\u00a0 Remember what the big banks did to our nest eggs three years ago?\u00a0 Remember how the government &#8220;scolded&#8221; these industries?\u00a0 Let&#8217;s see if it ends up on Monday that the government has not managed to do <strong>the very same thing to us<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I am <del>proud<\/del> ashamed to be an American.\u00a0 Taking one &#8220;for the team.&#8221;\u00a0 Being destroyed from within.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in history the United States&#8217; credit rating has been downgraded.\u00a0 Our politicians and banks continue to do to us what Osama bin Laden wanted to do but failed to do, how incredibly fucked up is that?\u00a0 What, WHAT does this say about them?\u00a0 These asshole politicians are so concerned about their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions\/435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}