{"id":348909,"date":"2018-02-19T09:31:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T08:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/war-spending-will-bankrupt-america\/"},"modified":"2018-02-19T09:31:38","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T08:31:38","slug":"war-spending-will-bankrupt-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/war-spending-will-bankrupt-america\/","title":{"rendered":"War Spending Will Bankrupt America"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/california\/la-me-0607-lopez-fallingapart-20150606-column.html\">Why throw money at defense when everything is falling down around us?<\/a>\u00a0Do we need to spend more money on our military (about $600 billion this year) than the next seven countries combined? Do we need 1.4 million active military personnel and 850,000 reserves when the enemy at the moment \u2014 ISIS \u2014 numbers in the low tens of thousands? If so, it seems there\u2019s something radically wrong with our strategy. Should 55% of the federal government\u2019s discretionary spending go to the military and only 3% to transportation when the toll in American lives is far greater from failing infrastructure than from terrorism? Does California need nearly as many active military bases (31, according to militarybases.com) as it has UC and state university campuses (33)? And does the state need more active duty military personnel (168,000, according to Governing magazine) than public elementary school teachers (139,000)?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steve Lopez,\u00a0<em>Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mark my words, America\u2019s war spending\u00a0<em>will<\/em>\u00a0bankrupt the nation.<\/p>\n<p>For that matter,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/america-is-bankrupt-and-republicans-couldnt-care-less\/\">America\u2019s war spending has\u00a0<em>already<\/em>\u00a0bankrupted the nation<\/a>\u00a0to the tune of more than $20 trillion dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Now the Trump Administration is pushing for a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/12\/us\/politics\/white-house-budget-congress.html\">$4.4 trillion budget for fiscal year 2019<\/a>\u00a0that would add $7 trillion to the already unsustainable federal deficit in order to sustain America\u2019s military empire abroad and dramatically expand\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/02\/12\/585093915\/trump-offers-spending-blueprint-but-congress-already-wrote-the-check\">the police state here at home<\/a>. Trump also wants American taxpayers to cover the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-budget-mulvaney\/trump-budget-asks-more-than-200-billion-for-infrastructure-border-security-budget-director-idUSKBN1FW03N\">cost of building&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/02\/16\/war-spending-will-bankrupt-america\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhy throw money at defense when everything is falling down around us?\u00a0Do we need to spend more money on our military (about $600 billion this year) than the next seven countries combined? Do we need 1.4 million active military personnel and 850,000 reserves when the enemy at the moment \u2014 ISIS \u2014 numbers in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-348909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}