{"id":63437,"date":"2014-07-26T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T14:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=63437"},"modified":"2014-07-18T15:44:44","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T20:44:44","slug":"saturday-stat-worlds-top-military-spender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2014\/07\/26\/saturday-stat-worlds-top-military-spender\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Stat: World&#8217;s Top Military Spender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #222222;\">According to the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #004477;\" href=\"http:\/\/books.sipri.org\/files\/FS\/SIPRIFS1404.pdf\">Stockholm International Peace Institute<\/a>, the United States remains the world\u2019s top military spender. In fact, U.S. military spending equals the combined military spending of the next ten countries.\u00a0 And most of those are U.S. allies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/07\/1-2-Copy2.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-63440\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/07\/1-2-Copy2-500x439.jpg\" alt=\"1 (2) - Copy\" width=\"500\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/07\/1-2-Copy2-500x439.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/07\/1-2-Copy2.jpg 801w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although declining in real terms, the U.S. military budget remains substantial and a huge drain on our public resources.\u00a0 As the following\u00a0<a style=\"color: #004477;\" href=\"http:\/\/v0l1t10n.livejournal.com\/1973.html\">chart<\/a>\u00a0shows, military spending absorbs 57% of our federal discretionary budget.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/07\/1-2.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-63439\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/07\/1-2-500x388.jpg\" alt=\"1 (2)\" width=\"500\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/07\/1-2-500x388.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/07\/1-2.jpg 648w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222;\">\u00a0Notice that many so-called non-military discretionary budget categories also include military related spending. For example: Veteran\u2019s Benefits, International Affairs, Energy and the Environment, and Science. \u00a0 We certainly seem focused on a certain kind of security.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\">Martin Hart-Landsberg is a professor of economics at <a href=\"http:\/\/college.lclark.edu\/faculty\/members\/martin_hart-landsberg\/\">Lewis and Clark College<\/a>.  You can follow him at <a href=\"https:\/\/economicfront.wordpress.com\/\">Reports from the Economic Front<\/a>.<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the\u00a0Stockholm International Peace Institute, the United States remains the world\u2019s top military spender. In fact, U.S. military spending equals the combined military spending of the next ten countries.\u00a0 And most of those are U.S. allies. Although declining in real terms, the U.S. military budget remains substantial and a huge drain on our public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1853,"featured_media":63439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,260,85,304,309],"class_list":["post-63437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-economics","tag-international-comparisons","tag-politics","tag-the-state","tag-warmilitary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/07\/1-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1853"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63441,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63437\/revisions\/63441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}