{"id":23037,"date":"2016-08-26T14:20:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T18:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=23037"},"modified":"2016-08-26T14:20:20","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T18:20:20","slug":"mnar-muhawesh-why-im-choosing-peace-voting-jill-stein-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2016\/08\/26\/mnar-muhawesh-why-im-choosing-peace-voting-jill-stein-for-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Mnar Muhawesh: Why I\u2019m Choosing Peace &#038; Voting Jill Stein For President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Mint Press<\/em> has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/mnar-muhawesh-im-choosing-peace-voting-jill-stein-president\/218518\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mnar Muhawesh: Why I\u2019m Choosing Peace &amp; Voting Jill Stein For President<\/a>.\u00a0 Here is just a taste of what is in the commentary of the article.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Stein\u2019s plan would redirect these billions \u2014 by far the biggest expenditure in the federal budget \u2014 into creating a \u201cGreen New Deal,\u201d a peace economy built around a transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy. The Green Party candidate plans to \u201c[c]reate millions of jobs by transitioning to 100% clean renewable energy by 2030, and investing in public transit, sustainable agriculture, and conservation.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As a proponent of Modern Money Theory (MMT) I am always pointing out the fallacy of thinking that we have to increase taxes or cut the budget to &#8220;afford&#8221;\u00a0 some government program.\u00a0 As I step back and consider what is being said here, I have to admit that there is nothing wrong with avoiding expenditures that we\u00a0 do not need to make, and that are actually harmful\u00a0 to us.<\/p>\n<p>The limits of what the government can do come from real resources, not from the creation of money which the FED does everyday with some keystrokes on a computer keyboard.\u00a0 The money we\u00a0 spend on the military budget is used to employ real resources that would be better used\u00a0 for more peaceful purposes.\u00a0 So in that sense, it is a very good idea to cut the military budget and put that money (and the resources that money buys) to more productive uses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mint Press has the article Mnar Muhawesh: Why I\u2019m Choosing Peace &amp; Voting Jill Stein For President.\u00a0 Here is just a taste of what is in the commentary of the article. Stein\u2019s plan would redirect these billions \u2014 by far the biggest expenditure in the federal budget \u2014 into creating a \u201cGreen New Deal,\u201d a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23038,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23037\/revisions\/23038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}