{"id":9045,"date":"2011-06-26T10:49:34","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T19:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=9045"},"modified":"2011-06-26T10:49:34","modified_gmt":"2011-06-26T19:19:34","slug":"why-hawaii-loves-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=9045","title":{"rendered":"Why Hawaii Loves War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Pignataro writes in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mauitime.com\/Articles-i-2011-06-23-76110.113117-Why-Hawaii-Loves-War.html\">Maui Time &#8220;Why Hawaii Loves War&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Living on Maui, with its mostly undeveloped landscape and near  complete lack of military facilities, makes it easy to think that  America&#8217;s global war on terrorists, dictators and all-around bad dudes  is something far away. Not according to the Rand Corporation&#8217;s new study  &#8220;How Much Does Military Spending Add to Hawaii&#8217;s Economy?&#8221; which came  out in early June. In fact, while reading (okay, perusing) the 52-page  report, I learned five funny things about Hawaii&#8217;s growing addiction to  the money that surrounds our nation&#8217;s all-but-unstoppable legions and  war machines:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">There are currently more than 75,000 service members  and DOD personnel in the state today. Of those, nearly two-thirds  (48,000) are active duty, 18,000 are civilians and the rest are National  Guard or reserves. This is of course down from the stratospheric number  of service members stationed here back in the From Here to Eternity  days, but is considerably more than the 56,000 personnel stationed here  in 1999.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Military pay is way better than civilian pay. &#8220;Active-duty service  members and DoD civilian employees earned more on average than Hawaii&#8217;s  full-time workforce,&#8221; stated the Rand report. &#8220;In 2007\u20132009, median  earnings for active-duty personnel were $74,900, and those for DoD  civilians were $69,800 (2009 dollars). The median earnings of full-time  workers in Hawaii were $40,000 (ages 17 and older) or $37,400 (ages 17  to 50).&#8221; With numbers like that, you&#8217;d think the 1893 coup against Queen  Liliuokalani only happened last year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Pignataro writes in the Maui Time &#8220;Why Hawaii Loves War&#8221;: Living on Maui, with its mostly undeveloped landscape and near complete lack of military facilities, makes it easy to think that America&#8217;s global war on terrorists, dictators and all-around bad dudes is something far away. Not according to the Rand Corporation&#8217;s new study &#8220;How &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=9045\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why Hawaii Loves War&#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-9045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9045"}],"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=9045"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9047,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9045\/revisions\/9047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}