{"id":14084,"date":"2012-07-17T10:48:26","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T15:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=14084"},"modified":"2012-07-17T10:49:06","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T15:49:06","slug":"the-myth-of-bloated-greek-defense-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=14084","title":{"rendered":"The Myth of &#8220;Bloated Greek Defense Spending&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In order to divert attention away from the economic, moral, and political bankruptcy of Europe&#8217;s cradle-to-grave welfare state, some liberals, relying on figures from the Out of Our Ass Institute of Statistics, are tying to claim that Greece&#8217;s excessive spending comes from a &#8220;bloated defense budget.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/t-government.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/greek-budget-visualisation-where-do.html\">Try again.<\/a> Greece only spends 5.5% of it&#8217;s budget on defense:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-fIDNT7o4Cso\/TgN-4j26Y6I\/AAAAAAAAAzo\/GTJ9y8kOBXY\/s640\/Budget2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Either Europe (and the United States) must reform their runaway, bloated welfare states, or their welfare states <a href=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=12625\">will bankrupt their nations<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to divert attention away from the economic, moral, and political bankruptcy of Europe&#8217;s cradle-to-grave welfare state, some liberals, relying on figures from the Out of Our Ass Institute of Statistics, are tying to claim that Greece&#8217;s excessive spending comes from a &#8220;bloated defense budget.&#8221; Try again. Greece only spends 5.5% of it&#8217;s budget [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":8,"footnotes":""},"categories":[422,16,232],"tags":[225,1193,221,2875],"class_list":["post-14084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-economics","category-welfare-state","tag-euro","tag-european-debt-crisis","tag-greece","tag-welfare-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14084"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14089,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14084\/revisions\/14089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}