{"id":10192,"date":"2017-03-20T10:29:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T14:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=10192"},"modified":"2017-03-20T10:29:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T14:29:00","slug":"usa-today-budget-oped-stirs-rage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/20\/usa-today-budget-oped-stirs-rage\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Today Budget Oped Stirs Rage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so not everybody likes that &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2017\/03\/19\/trump-budget-cuts-waste-james-bovard-column\/99254470\/\">Trump budget cuts bankroll new waste<\/a>&#8221; oped in <strong>USA Today<\/strong>.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s some tweets it evoked &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/HillbillyCoonas\/status\/843509177590931456<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/whiskeystink\/status\/843507686520045568<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/J45553957J\/status\/843675244455968768<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/Babababootsiea\/status\/843575754189287424<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rpris1\/status\/843607788379160577<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnnCoulter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AnnCoulter<\/a> You guys have either been hornswoggled by a flimflammer or you&#39;re hoodwinking bejugglers yourselves<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Stephen Gill (@bffgill) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bffgill\/status\/843523146024189957?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 19, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/votetaco\/status\/843510010541883394<\/p>\n<p>And here are some testy comments from the USA Today web page for the article &#8211; <\/p>\n<p>Dave McKenzie \u00b7<br \/>\nUniversity of Houston<br \/>\nTypical liberal writer. They believe that cuts to defense spending should be redirected to domestic spending but cuts to domestic spending? Let the taxpayers keep their money. It would be nice if liberals always thought of the taxpayers in this light instead of as a source for unlimited federal spending funds.<\/p>\n<p>Abraham Washington \u00b7<br \/>\nUniversity of the Arts<br \/>\nThe author has a high school degree. Even that was not enough education to stave off Trumptardness.ped<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so not everybody likes that &#8220;Trump budget cuts bankroll new waste&#8221; oped in USA Today.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s some tweets it evoked &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/HillbillyCoonas\/status\/843509177590931456 https:\/\/twitter.com\/whiskeystink\/status\/843507686520045568 https:\/\/twitter.com\/J45553957J\/status\/843675244455968768 https:\/\/twitter.com\/Babababootsiea\/status\/843575754189287424 https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rpris1\/status\/843607788379160577 @AnnCoulter You guys have either been hornswoggled by a flimflammer or you&#39;re hoodwinking bejugglers yourselves &mdash; Stephen Gill (@bffgill) March 19, 2017 https:\/\/twitter.com\/votetaco\/status\/843510010541883394 And here are some testy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","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-10192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>USA Today Budget Oped Stirs Rage - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/20\/usa-today-budget-oped-stirs-rage\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"USA Today Budget Oped Stirs Rage - James Bovard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"OK, so not everybody likes that &#8220;Trump budget cuts bankroll new waste&#8221; 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