{"id":491293,"date":"2010-03-30T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T20:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/chart-of-the-day-the-other-government-welfare-programt-2010-3"},"modified":"2010-03-30T16:25:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T20:25:00","slug":"chart-of-the-day-the-military-another-spiraling-government-jobs-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/491293","title":{"rendered":"CHART OF THE DAY: The Military: Another Spiraling Government Jobs Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin: 15px 0 20px 20px;\">\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/chart-of-the-day\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4a32b8394b543722009a9671\" border=\"0\" alt=\"button more charts\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/chart-of-the-day\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4a32b8424b543722009a967a\" border=\"0\" alt=\"button chart prev\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/chart-of-the-day-us-governments-stake-in-citigroup-2010-3\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4a32b84d4b543722009a9685\" border=\"0\" alt=\"button chart next\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>The government spends billions of dollars more on it every year, and per  person costs are increasing even faster. The results are mixed, but  there&#8217;s no slowing down.<\/p>\n<p>No, it&#8217;s not health care or social security. It&#8217;s defense.<\/p>\n<p> The White House has requested <span><span> $708  billion for fiscal year 2011<\/span><\/span> and defense spending is  scheduled to increase each year, even as wars in Iraq in Afghanistan  deescalate. Of course, bravely serving in the military or working under the Department of Defense isn&#8217;t a handout, but it&#8217;s another massive sector of the economy that&#8217;s keeping tons of folks employed who might otherwise be home looking for work.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"chartOfTheDay\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4bb259a07f8b9a7164fa0200\/chart-of-the-day-military-employees.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"chart of the day, military employees\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/chart-of-the-day-the-other-government-welfare-programt-2010-3#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/SY0Bd4XjgxI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government spends billions of dollars more on it every year, and per person costs are increasing even faster. The results are mixed, but there&#8217;s no slowing down. No, it&#8217;s not health care or social security. It&#8217;s defense. The White House has requested $708 billion for fiscal year 2011 and defense spending is scheduled to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6538,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6538"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}