{"id":402584,"date":"2019-04-03T17:46:35","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T16:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/ron-paul-on-how-military-spending-decimates-the-middle-class\/"},"modified":"2019-04-03T17:46:35","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T16:46:35","slug":"ron-paul-on-how-military-spending-decimates-the-middle-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/ron-paul-on-how-military-spending-decimates-the-middle-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul on How Military Spending Decimates the Middle Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-32893\"><!-- .entry-header --><!-- .entry-footer --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Should middle America be thankful for all the \u201cjobs\u201d provided by the military in areas like the National Guard? That\u2019s the argument of some pro-war progressives. It\u2019s dead wrong. The massive military budget is driven by the idea that \u201cdebt doesn\u2019t matter\u201d \u2013 a false notion that is leading us to economic devastation.  On today\u2019s Ron Paul Liberty Report:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ENDRJI3mHXY\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content -->&#13;\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/AWCBlog\/~3\/vWkQvgtJXMw\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should middle America be thankful for all the \u201cjobs\u201d provided by the military in areas like the National Guard? That\u2019s the argument of some pro-war progressives. It\u2019s dead wrong. The massive military budget is driven by the idea that \u201cdebt doesn\u2019t matter\u201d \u2013 a false notion that is leading us to economic devastation. On today\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-402584","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\/402584","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\/2519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}