{"id":5517,"date":"2012-08-06T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T16:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=5517"},"modified":"2012-12-29T01:53:33","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T06:53:33","slug":"why-is-the-military-trying-to-cure-breast-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/why-is-the-military-trying-to-cure-breast-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Is The Military Trying To Cure Breast Cancer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/080312_1903_WhyIsTheMil11.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" \/><\/p>\n<p>John Norris had a simple question: of all the various agencies in the United States, why is the military given billions of dollars to research breast cancer? The answer is fascinating:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Even though the United States spends more on defense than China, Britain, France, Japan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Germany, India, and Brazil <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">combined<\/span>, law makers are loathe to cut the Pentagon&#8217;s budget.<\/li>\n<li>Most other agencies get punished if they do badly. The military is the one institution that receives <em>more <\/em>money if things go bad.<\/li>\n<li>Thus lawmakers can give funding for projects to the military, and be confident that the funding won&#8217;t get cut in the future .<\/li>\n<li>This explains why the military has funds for researching breast cancer and encouraging the arts.<\/li>\n<li>The military then gives the funds to the very same agencies that should have received the funding in the first place \u2013 since they have the expertise.<\/li>\n<li>The Pentagon has also began to see economics as a military tool causing it to request money for, and expand into, traditionally non-military fields.<\/li>\n<li>However there is substantial risk in making the military an inefficient giant bureaucratic organization that allocates money for things that do nothing to protect national security.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read more about the Pentagon&#8217;s untouchable budget, how the concerns about &#8220;mission creep&#8221; have disappeared, how this ties into the F-35, how this figures into the 2012 Presidential political calculations, military expansion in a time of unwinding wars, the Senator who worked to give Breast Cancer funds to the Pentagon, what &#8220;expeditionary economics&#8221; are, and the long term risks all of this entails, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2012\/07\/31\/money_pit_on_the_potomac?page=full\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2012\/07\/31\/money_pit_on_the_potomac?page=full\">Foreign Policy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Norris had a simple question: of all the various agencies in the United States, why is the military given billions of dollars to research breast cancer? The answer is fascinating: Even though the United States spends more on defense than China, Britain, France, Japan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Germany, India, and Brazil combined, law makers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin","category-signature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/080312_1903_WhyIsTheMil11.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5517"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7430,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5517\/revisions\/7430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}