{"id":16624,"date":"2012-10-05T12:52:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T20:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=16624"},"modified":"2012-10-05T12:53:15","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T20:53:15","slug":"romney-deficit-hawk-will-explode-military-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/05\/romney-deficit-hawk-will-explode-military-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney, &#8216;Deficit Hawk,&#8217; Will Explode Military Spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mitt Romney &#8220;won&#8221; the debate the other night by doing what he has always done: altering his views to fit whatever situation he is in. Much of the media and the public were apparently drawn to Romney&#8217;s slick rhetoric that made him appear ready to make deep cuts in America&#8217;s mind-boggling deficit. But that math doesn&#8217;t add up. He promises tax cuts; surely they&#8217;ll stay at approximately the rates they are now. He promises to cut government spending; again, not reliable. But he also promises &#8211; <em>promises<\/em> &#8211; to increase military spending by $2 trillion dollars over 10 years. Somehow, this is one promise I believe he&#8217;ll stick to.<\/p>\n<p>CNN crunched the numbers and <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2012\/05\/10\/news\/economy\/romney-defense-spending\/index.htm\">offered this graph<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/mitts-bad-math\/\">via Jack Hunter<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/05\/romney-deficit-hawk-will-explode-military-spending\/chart-romney-defense-spending2-top_\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16625\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16625\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/chart-romney-defense-spending2.top_.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"554\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/chart-romney-defense-spending2.top_-300x205.gif 300w, https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/chart-romney-defense-spending2.top_.gif 554w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 554px) 100vw, 554px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Romney is eager to increase <a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2012\/09\/15\/white-house-claims-defense-cuts-deeply-destructive-to-economy-security\/\">US defense spending<\/a> &#8211; which <a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/05\/the-scope-of-u-s-defense-spending\/\">already equals<\/a> that of <a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/20\/the-real-us-military-budget-1-trillion\/\">the rest of the world combined<\/a> &#8211; by leaps and bounds. Leaving aside what a proven liar Romney is, and how unlikely his other deficit-reduction promises are, this graph alone should stop Republicans, Democrats, or any Americans from ever saying he&#8217;s a deficit hawk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitt Romney &#8220;won&#8221; the debate the other night by doing what he has always done: altering his views to fit whatever situation he is in. Much of the media and the public were apparently drawn to Romney&#8217;s slick rhetoric that made him appear ready to make deep cuts in America&#8217;s mind-boggling deficit. But that math [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-16624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16624"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16628,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16624\/revisions\/16628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16624"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=16624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}