{"id":2895,"date":"2010-02-04T07:31:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T12:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=2895"},"modified":"2010-02-04T07:31:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T12:31:00","slug":"defense-spending-not-as-much-as-you-might-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=2895","title":{"rendered":"Defense Spending: Not As Much As You Might Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What if I told you that we&#8217;re spending as much on defense now as we were when Jimmy Carter was President?&#160; Yeah, I&#8217;d laugh, too.&#160; But the Cato Institute notes that, as a percentage of the gross domestic product, defense spending is indeed at late-1970s levels.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s also interesting to see is that non-defense spending, by the same measure, having stayed at about the same percentage of GDP for 30 years or so, has skyrocketed under Obama.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato-at-liberty.org\/2010\/02\/01\/five-decades-of-federal-spending\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"201002_blog_edwards3\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; display: block; border-left-width: 0px; float: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"284\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cato-at-liberty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/201002_blog_edwards3.jpg\" width=\"420\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>   <\/p>\n<p>(Click on the image for the accompanying article.)<\/p>\n<p>Defense spending, a constitutional role of government, is really not the problem when it comes to our national debt.&#160; Just an FYI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if I told you that we&#8217;re spending as much on defense now as we were when Jimmy Carter was President?&#160; Yeah, I&#8217;d laugh, too.&#160; But the Cato Institute notes that, as a percentage of the gross domestic product, defense spending is indeed at late-1970s levels. What&#8217;s also interesting to see is that non-defense spending, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15,18,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-economics-taxes","category-government","category-military"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}