{"id":8866,"date":"2011-05-27T14:25:13","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T22:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=8866"},"modified":"2011-05-28T10:37:28","modified_gmt":"2011-05-28T19:07:28","slug":"u-s-security-spending-since-911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=8866","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Security Spending Since 9\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Priorities Project has just released its finding that the cost of <a href=\"http:\/\/nationalpriorities.org\/en\/publications\/2011\/us-security-spending-since-911\/\">U.S. security spending <\/a>in the ten years since 9\/11 totaled a mind-boggling $7.6 trillion!\u00a0 Here&#8217;s what they find:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The United States has spent more than <strong>$7.6 trillion on defense and homeland security<\/strong> since the attacks of September 11, 2001.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Total <strong>homeland security spending<\/strong> since September 11, 2001 is<strong> $635.9 billion.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These figures break down as follows:<\/p>\n<table style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" border=\"1\" width=\"706\" height=\"234\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding-left: 90px;\"><\/td>\n<td><strong>Total Spending<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>2001 Amount<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>2011 Amount<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>% Increase<br \/>\n(Inflation-adjusted)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><em>Pentagon Base Budget<\/em><\/td>\n<td>$6.2 trillion<\/td>\n<td>$290.5 billion<\/td>\n<td>$526.1 billion<\/td>\n<td>43 percent<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><em>Nuclear Weapons<\/em><\/td>\n<td>$204.5 billion<\/td>\n<td>$12.4 billion<\/td>\n<td>$19.0 billion<\/td>\n<td>21 percent<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><em>Iraq and Afghan Wars<\/em><\/td>\n<td>$1.26 trillion<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><em>Homeland Security<\/em><\/td>\n<td>$635.9 billion<\/td>\n<td>$16 billion<\/td>\n<td>$69.1 billion<\/td>\n<td>301 percent<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>There&#8217;s more explanation on the website.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nationalpriorities.org\/en\/publications\/2011\/us-security-spending-since-911\/\">READ THE FULL ARTICLE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Priorities Project has just released its finding that the cost of U.S. security spending in the ten years since 9\/11 totaled a mind-boggling $7.6 trillion!\u00a0 Here&#8217;s what they find: The United States has spent more than $7.6 trillion on defense and homeland security since the attacks of September 11, 2001. Total homeland security &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=8866\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;U.S. Security Spending Since 9\/11&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8866"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8866"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8868,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8866\/revisions\/8868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}