{"id":299439,"date":"2017-03-17T08:05:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T07:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/let-em-die\/"},"modified":"2017-03-17T08:05:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T07:05:06","slug":"let-em-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/let-em-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Let &#039;Em Die"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field-wrapper content-container clearfix inline-fields\" id=\"field-wrapper-author-names\">\n<div class=\"profile-titles clearfix\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/author\/abby-zimet-staff-writer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Abby Zimet, staff writer<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<p>Rant time. Some obscene realities of Thursday&#8217;s proposed budget: One golf trip to Mar-a-lago costs the same as 419,000 seniors&#8217; Meals on Wheels (slash), three weeks of Trump Tower security = PBS&#8217;s budget (cut), $54 billion hike to the military = 1,543 years&#8217; funding for Institute of Peace (gone), starving poor kids and the (the often Trump-voting) elderly is &#8220;compassionate&#8221; because feeding them isn&#8217;t &#8220;showing any results.&#8221; Q: Who are these people? A: Morons and monsters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><b>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/further\/2017\/03\/16\/let-em-die\">Common Dreams<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abby Zimet, staff writer Rant time. Some obscene realities of Thursday&#8217;s proposed budget: One golf trip to Mar-a-lago costs the same as 419,000 seniors&#8217; Meals on Wheels (slash), three weeks of Trump Tower security = PBS&#8217;s budget (cut), $54 billion hike to the military = 1,543 years&#8217; funding for Institute of Peace (gone), starving poor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-299439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}