{"id":3412,"date":"2010-05-11T02:15:43","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T02:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3412"},"modified":"2010-05-11T02:15:43","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T02:15:43","slug":"tool-of-the-week-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3412","title":{"rendered":"Tool of the Week Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"520\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cksinfo.com\/clipart\/construction\/tools\/screwdrivers\/philips-head-screwdriver.png\" height=\"307\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lexingtoninstitute.org\/austerity-week-ends-at-the-pentagon?a=1&amp;c=1129\">&#8220;The only people celebrating at the Pentagon last week were the Mexicans working on renovating the building.&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8211; <\/strong><strong>\u00a0Dr. Loren Thompson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It takes a rare\u00a0class of wit to combine an allusion to an ethnic minority group while shilling for a fabulously overpaid and notoriously dysfunctional industry <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/05\/07\/AR2010050703188.html\">that is anxious that we are spending too much money on the war wounded<\/a>. Full story at <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2010\/05\/defense-industrys-attack-dog-goes-after-gates-mexicans\/?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter\">Danger Room<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Remember people, every dollar\u00a0wasted on caring for\u00a0a critically injured\u00a0combat veteran, or\u00a0on a pay raise that keeps a private&#8217;s\u00a0family off of food stamps\u00a0is a dollar that could have gone to cost overruns or a\u00a0desperately needed\u00a0executive bonus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 &#8220;The only people celebrating at the Pentagon last week were the Mexicans working on renovating the building.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8211; \u00a0Dr. Loren Thompson It takes a rare\u00a0class of wit to combine an allusion to an ethnic minority group while shilling for a fabulously overpaid and notoriously dysfunctional industry that is anxious that we are spending too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[361,82,277,304,434,425,371,39,201,340,270,588,187,10,18,42,235],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-business","category-corporations","category-defense","category-federal-budget","category-government","category-humor","category-military","category-military-contractor","category-military-reform","category-national-security","category-oligarchy","category-politics","category-state-failure","category-war","category-washington-post","category-wired"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}