{"id":302201,"date":"2007-11-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-28T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/agrees-with-writers-point-on-halting-new-war-funds\/"},"modified":"2007-11-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-28T08:00:00","slug":"agrees-with-writers-point-on-halting-new-war-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/agrees-with-writers-point-on-halting-new-war-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"Agrees with writer&#8217;s point on halting new war funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to the Beacon for printing Anita Stirling and Frank Paiano&#8217;s letter (&#8220;Open letter to Rep. Susan Davis,&#8221; Nov. 22 edition) urging Rep. Susan Davis to deny President Bush&#8217;s request for an extra $50 billion to occupy Iraq for the rest of the year. <br \/>Occupation advocates and critics alike should be concerned about the bloated costs and huge amount of debt being passed down to our grandchildren. It costs an average of $1,000 a day to hire one of the 180,000 mercenaries occupying Iraq on the U.S. taxpayers&#8217; behalf. <br \/>Ex-Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan wrote: &#8220;The Iraq war is largely about oil.&#8221; Should a public army be used to obtain oil for private corporations? <br \/>I would like to ask Rep. Susan Davis to immediately write and introduce a bill to Congress that requires the occupation to be paid for with existing funds. Whether the occupation is right or wrong, its costs shouldn&#8217;t be deferred to future generations. Does winning in Iraq mean staying until the oil is pumped dry?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to the Beacon for printing Anita Stirling and Frank Paiano&#8217;s letter (&#8220;Open letter to Rep. Susan Davis,&#8221; Nov. 22 edition) urging Rep. Susan Davis to deny President Bush&#8217;s request for an extra $50 billion to occupy Iraq for the rest of the year. Occupation advocates and critics alike should be concerned about the bloated [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"Agrees with writer's point on halting new war funds","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sdnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}