{"id":1388,"date":"2025-09-02T14:25:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T14:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/?p=1388"},"modified":"2025-11-24T21:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T21:08:11","slug":"21-25-the-arms-scam-the-bloated-industry-that-ate-the-us-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/?p=1388","title":{"rendered":"#21-25 The Arms Scam\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0The bloated industry that ate the US budget"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Featured Speakers:&nbsp;Member of Congress from Michigan, Lynn Rivers&nbsp;(now a lecturer in politics at Michigan State University); Georgia State Representative (now state Senator) Nan Grogan Orrock, President of the Women Legislators&#8217; Lobby (WiLL)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Summary: The Women Legislators&#8217; Lobby (WiLL) was developed to bring women politicians from the US states to Washington DC to lobby their members of Congress. In 1999, during the Clinton administration,&nbsp;Rivers and Orrock schooled&nbsp;the WiLL&nbsp;delegates on how the arms industry colonized the US national budget.&nbsp;As of 2025, the numbers are bigger but the scam remains the same, as Trump&#8217;s budget bill discards the remnants of domestically essential spending in favour of welfare for the arms industry.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Produced&nbsp;by Frieda Werden.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Attached photo: Lynn Rivers (left) and Nan Grogan Orrock<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.radio4all.net\/files\/wingsradionews@gmail.com\/WINGS-21-25TheArmsScam-28_52-128kbps.mp3\">http:\/\/www.radio4all.net\/files\/wingsradionews@gmail.com\/WINGS-21-25TheArmsScam-28_52-128kbps.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Featured Speakers:&nbsp;Member of Congress from Michigan, Lynn Rivers&nbsp;(now a lecturer in politics at Michigan State University); Georgia State Representative (now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,4,9,511,512,286,510,513,366,36,42,54,509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activism","category-all","category-archive","category-arms-industry","category-budget","category-capitalism","category-history-scams","category-military-education","category-money-in-politics","category-politics","category-regional","category-united-states","category-us-congress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1390,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions\/1390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}