{"id":1386,"date":"2009-03-15T08:31:41","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T12:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/03\/15\/westmoreland-on-stimulus-waste\/"},"modified":"2009-03-15T08:31:41","modified_gmt":"2009-03-15T12:31:41","slug":"westmoreland-on-stimulus-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/03\/15\/westmoreland-on-stimulus-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"Westmoreland on stimulus waste."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Representative Lynn Westmoreland (3rd District of Georgia), is watching how your stimulus tax dollars are being spent, in most cases wasted.  From his latest news letter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There\u2019s a reason why detractors refer to the Democrats\u2019 \u201cstimulus\u201d bill as the \u201cporkulus.\u201d Lynn of course opposed the $789 billion monstrosity as a blank check for a left-wing wish list that will grow the debt, grow the government \u2014 while doing little to stimulate the economy or create jobs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This two and a half minute <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FN6DbBjaAwk\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FN6DbBjaAwk', 'Westmoreland video');\" target=\"new\">Westmoreland video<\/a> has some eye openers of how wasteful our government really is when we put our worst foot forward.  Thankfully some of Georgia\u2019s elected officials actually care about pointing out this sort of garbage.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representative Lynn Westmoreland (3rd District of Georgia), is watching how your stimulus tax dollars are being spent, in most cases wasted. From his latest news letter: There\u2019s a reason why detractors refer to the Democrats\u2019 \u201cstimulus\u201d bill as the \u201cporkulus.\u201d Lynn of course opposed the $789 billion monstrosity as a blank check for a left-wing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/03\/15\/westmoreland-on-stimulus-waste\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Westmoreland on stimulus waste.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}