
{"id":12740,"date":"2010-09-22T14:53:03","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T22:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=12740"},"modified":"2010-09-22T14:53:39","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T22:53:39","slug":"end-this-ruinous-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2010\/09\/22\/end-this-ruinous-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: End this ruinous war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight (Tuesday) at the Orange County commissioners meeting, I will be requesting that the commissioners pass a resolution urging our senators and congressional representatives to oppose any further Afghan War funding and look for ways to defund the war.<\/p>\n<p>Orange County has pressing local needs including education, infrastructure, social services, health and small-business support, just to name a few. We continually are forced to wrangle over restricted budgets that pit important local needs against one another. Meanwhile, about $2,600 per county citizen leaves Orange County annually for the national military budget. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a total of about $351 million.<\/p>\n<p>Our current annual county budget is about $178 million. Imagine what we could accomplish for the citizens of Orange County if just 10 percent of our military contribution was retained at home for local needs. Another $35 million annually would make a world of difference for us.<br \/>\nMake no mistake, U.S. military spending (the U.S. spends more money on its military than the rest of the world combined) is inarguably a local issue with huge local impacts.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Marcoplos<br \/>\n<em>Chapel Hill<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight (Tuesday) at the Orange County commissioners meeting, I will be requesting that the commissioners pass a resolution urging our senators and congressional representatives to oppose any further Afghan War funding and look for ways to defund the war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12740"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12742,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12740\/revisions\/12742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}