{"id":33849,"date":"2021-08-03T16:41:40","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T21:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=33849"},"modified":"2021-08-03T16:41:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T21:41:40","slug":"uh-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/08\/03\/uh-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Uh, No"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Benen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/will-congress-prepare-next-pandemic-too-n1275813\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remarks<\/a> on the problems of funding for future pandemic crises being cut from the various bills by the Senate, ending with:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The politics are admittedly tricky: it&#8217;s tough to lobby in support of funding for a future crisis that doesn&#8217;t yet exist, especially given the pressures to address pressing problems that many are addressing right now. But the future will thank the present if lawmakers do the right thing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Uh, no.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a naive idealist about these things &#8211; a category I probably fall into &#8211; then you and I just have to point at <em>defense spending<\/em> in response. That is the quintessential funding for future crises, whether it&#8217;s prevention or addressing same.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re more of the jaded, cynical type that believes defense spending is simply a matter of lobbying and corruption, then first defense spending must still be justified.<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;ll stick with being a naive idealist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Benen remarks on the problems of funding for future pandemic crises being cut from the various bills by the Senate, ending with: The politics are admittedly tricky: it&#8217;s tough to lobby in support of funding for a future crisis that doesn&#8217;t yet exist, especially given the pressures to address \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/08\/03\/uh-no\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33850,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33849\/revisions\/33850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}