{"id":723,"date":"2008-07-04T11:06:32","date_gmt":"2008-07-04T16:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=723"},"modified":"2018-09-07T20:50:52","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T15:50:52","slug":"shop-till-you-drop-in-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/shop-till-you-drop-in-the-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Shop till you drop in the USA&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/military_spending.jpg\" alt=\"military_spending.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Washington, D.C.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From the \u201cdid you know\u201d and \u201calmost beyond belief\u201d departments\u2026 according to the CIA\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/library\/publications\/the-world-factbook\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>World Factbook<\/em><\/a>,\u201d the United States spent some $623 billion last year on its military (that\u2019s $1.7 billion per day!) which dwarfs the military spending of all other nations combined. Yet this \u201cleading superpower\u201d gun-loving nation of 304 million people is already nearly $10 trillion in debt (view a debt clock <a href=\"https:\/\/commodity.com\/debt-clock\/us\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>), the average U.S. citizen\u2019s share of this debt is over $31,000 and the U.S. national debt continues to increase an average of $1.6 billion per day! Hmmm\u2026<\/p>\n<p><em>Image: a page from the May\/June #77 issue of <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/adbusters.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Adbusters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. From the \u201cdid you know\u201d and \u201calmost beyond belief\u201d departments\u2026 according to the CIA\u2019s \u201cWorld Factbook,\u201d the United States spent some $623 billion last year on its military (that\u2019s $1.7 billion per day!) which dwarfs the military spending of all other nations combined. Yet this \u201cleading superpower\u201d gun-loving nation of 304 million people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,7,12,14,15,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15827,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions\/15827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}