{"id":2476,"date":"2012-08-29T11:15:25","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T15:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2476"},"modified":"2012-08-29T11:15:25","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T15:15:25","slug":"charts-us-overseas-arms-sales-more-than-tripled-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/08\/charts-us-overseas-arms-sales-more-than-tripled-in-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"CHARTS: US Overseas Arms Sales More Than Tripled in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0.8em 0px; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 24px; background-color: #ffffff;\">In 2011, the United States experienced its biggest year ever in weapons exports: According to an annual study by the Congressional Research Service [<a style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/sgp\/crs\/weapons\/R42678.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">PDF<\/a>] released earlier this week, the US overseas weapons sales jumped to $66.3 billion last year (<a style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/08\/27\/world\/middleeast\/us-foreign-arms-sales-reach-66-3-billion-in-2011.html\" target=\"_blank\">77.7 percent<\/a>\u00a0of the $85.3 billion global market in 2011), from $21.4 billion in deals in 2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.8em 0px; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 24px; background-color: #ffffff;\">In just one year, the US more than tripled its revenue in arms deals with foreign countries. The $66.3 billion also sets a new cash total record, easily surpassing the previous record of $31 billion in sales in fiscal year 2009.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.8em 0px; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 24px; background-color: #ffffff;\">If you&#8217;re having trouble putting those hefty sums in perspective, $66.3 billion is amounts to an extra\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/world\/us-weapon-sales-top-66-billion-thats-950-for-everyone-on-the-planet-20120828-24xuv.html\" target=\"_blank\">$9.50<\/a>\u00a0in lunch money for every man, woman, and child alive today. And if you&#8217;re still having some trouble putting this in perspective, here&#8217;s a pie chart that shows just how much our global share in arms deals with developing countries ticked up in that one year:<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:\u00a0<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/mojo\/2012\/08\/charts-us-arms-sales-overseas-triples\" target=\"_blank\">CHARTS: US Overseas Arms Sales More Than Tripled in 2011 | Mother Jones<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2011, the United States experienced its biggest year ever in weapons exports: According to an annual study by the Congressional Research Service [PDF] released earlier this week, the US overseas weapons sales jumped to $66.3 billion last year (77.7 percent\u00a0of the $85.3 billion global market in 2011), from $21.4 billion in deals in 2010&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,9,18],"tags":[1412,288,1413,1414],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2477,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476\/revisions\/2477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}