{"id":34205,"date":"2011-05-03T00:17:19","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T04:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/34205\/united-states-budget-process\/"},"modified":"2011-05-03T00:17:19","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T04:17:19","slug":"united-states-budget-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/34205\/united-states-budget-process\/","title":{"rendered":"United States budget process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cObama gave a BILLION DOLLARS to the Taliban in Afghanistan in October of 2009. \u201c<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd last year Obama gave 8 BILLION DOLLARS to Pakistan \u201c<\/p>\n<p>Recently I read those two statements on a blog and decided that some people may have flunked their high school civics class.<\/p>\n<p>I will break it down simply and then leave a link to the long version.<\/p>\n<p>Every year the President submits to congress his proposed budget.  The House and the Senate take this budget and make whatever changes they feel appropriate many times placing restrictions on how it can be spent.  Then they pass their version.  After wards the have a joint conference to reach an agreement.<\/p>\n<p>So anytime anyone states that any President gave away any money to any entity, they don&#8217;t a damn thing about what they are talking about.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_budget_process <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cObama gave a BILLION DOLLARS to the Taliban in Afghanistan in October of 2009. \u201c \u201cAnd last year Obama gave 8 BILLION DOLLARS to Pakistan \u201c Recently I read those two statements on a blog and decided that some people may have flunked their high school civics class. I will break it down simply and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1428],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}