It has been 2 weeks since the Boston Marathon bombings. \u00a0I was away visiting my Dad for much of the aftermath of that awful tragedy including the apprehension of the last suspect on Friday. \u00a0The resources brought to bear to solve this case were enormous.\u00a0 They included the FBI, the ATF, and others at the Federal Level.\u00a0 It occurred to me that these resources may not be available after 2025. \u00a0That is when our entire Federal budget will be devoted to 3 programs-Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. \u00a0Unless we reform these entitlements now in 2013 or 2014, they will crowd out our other national priorities including our need for a strong military, a robust FBI and ATF, and\u00a0 a stronger surveillance of the many potential bombing suspects. \u00a0The President and the Congress understand the problem and its ramifications. \u00a0When will they take action.\u00a0 When will, we the people, demand action from them.<\/p>\n
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Harry Pukay-Martin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It has been 2 weeks since the Boston Marathon bombings. \u00a0I was away visiting my Dad for much of the aftermath of that awful tragedy including the apprehension of the last suspect on Friday. \u00a0The resources brought to bear to solve this case were enormous.\u00a0 They included the FBI, the ATF, and others at the […]<\/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-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unitedwestandllc.com\/uws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unitedwestandllc.com\/uws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unitedwestandllc.com\/uws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unitedwestandllc.com\/uws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unitedwestandllc.com\/uws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.unitedwestandllc.com\/uws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493,"href":"https:\/\/www.unitedwestandllc.com\/uws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions\/493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unitedwestandllc.com\/uws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unitedwestandllc.com\/uws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unitedwestandllc.com\/uws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}