{"id":32893,"date":"2019-04-03T08:32:01","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T16:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=32893"},"modified":"2019-04-03T08:32:01","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T16:32:01","slug":"ron-paul-on-how-military-spending-decimates-the-middle-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/03\/ron-paul-on-how-military-spending-decimates-the-middle-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul on How Military Spending Decimates the Middle Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Should middle America be thankful for all the &#8220;jobs&#8221; provided by the military in areas like the National Guard? That&#8217;s the argument of some pro-war progressives. It&#8217;s dead wrong. The massive military budget is driven by the idea that &#8220;debt doesn&#8217;t matter&#8221; &#8211; a false notion that is leading us to economic devastation.  On today&#8217;s 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should middle America be thankful for all the &#8220;jobs&#8221; provided by the military in areas like the National Guard? That&#8217;s the argument of some pro-war progressives. It&#8217;s dead wrong. The massive military budget is driven by the idea that &#8220;debt doesn&#8217;t matter&#8221; &#8211; a false notion that is leading us to economic devastation. On today&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"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-32893","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\/32893","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\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32893"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32895,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32893\/revisions\/32895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32893"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=32893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}