{"id":7593,"date":"2026-04-08T16:33:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T23:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/?p=7593"},"modified":"2026-04-08T16:33:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T23:33:04","slug":"instead-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/archives\/7593","title":{"rendered":"Instead of War"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Instead of war, we can spend a fraction of our current military budget every year and have comfortable, spacious, high-speed trains connecting every city in America and we can all ride for free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Instead of war, we can spend a fraction of our current military budget every year and have excellent free healthcare, including dental, for every person in America from the moment we\u2019re born until the moment we die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Instead of war, we can spend a fraction of our current military budget every year and have free education from preschool through graduate school for everyone in America, and have fabulous music and art programs in every school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Instead of war, we can spend a fraction of our current military budget every year and create enough energy with solar and wind power so we need never again be dependent on oil for our energy needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Instead of war, we can spend a fraction of our current military budget every year and clean up all our waterways, restore our wetlands, preserve millions of acres of wilderness, and live in harmony with nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Instead of war, we can spend a fraction of our current military budget every year and do whatever we need to do to reverse global warming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0<\/em>Gaza<\/em> <\/a>from Todd\u2019s album Hip Salon<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Instead of war, we can spend a fraction of our current military budget every year and have comfortable, spacious, high-speed trains connecting every city in America and we can all ride for free. Instead of war, we can spend a fraction of our current military budget every year and have excellent free healthcare, including dental, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8450,8449,4305],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7598,"href":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7593\/revisions\/7598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}