{"id":1792,"date":"2018-09-14T19:55:34","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T19:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1792"},"modified":"2018-09-14T19:55:34","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T19:55:34","slug":"space-force-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1792","title":{"rendered":"Space Force. Not!"},"content":{"rendered":"

With Trump’s new proposed Space Force<\/strong>, we stand at the brink of yet another Cold War arena. The book Beyond the Cold War<\/em><\/strong> notes that the U.S.’s military pre-eminence in the world is unmatched (the U.S. currently spends more on the military than the next 17 countries —\u00a0combined)! \u00a0<\/em>However, the book also notes that countries with a lot of nuclear weapons (read: Russia, for one), trumps — pun intended — military superiority in the other areas. \u00a0What’s more, the book notes that western allies with the U.S. know this, so they are not as dependent on America for security, as they were before. \u00a0Our administration would nix the Space Force<\/strong> idea, not only because it would inevitably start yet another unnecessary Cold War race; but it would also take a significant amount of money away from programs to help the poor, to help the environment, and so on. \u00a0So… “Beam me up Scotty…”<\/em>\u00a0 If you’re under 30, Google that phrase. Note:<\/strong> During a campaign swing through Texas, I told a reporter I would be opposed to any type of militarization of space. \u00a0For more on our stance on the military in general, see…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With Trump’s new proposed Space Force, we stand at the brink of yet another Cold War arena. The book Beyond the Cold War notes that the U.S.’s military pre-eminence in the world is unmatched (the U.S. currently spends more on …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1793,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions\/1793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}