[kearnyirish2]

As the military (and the contractors dependent on it) have become social engineering laboratories, I think less and less people care about cuts to spending.

The average person sees little benefit from their tax dollars being spent to house, clothe, and feed troops anymore while they can’t house, feed, and clothe their own families.

[Trod Upon]

The full-time standing military is as unproductive as any other government sector, but it is probably a necessary evil given the nature and scale of modern warfare. One change I'd like to see to all government pension/benefit programs is to have them not kick in until actual "retirement age," say 68 years old or so. There's no reason for taxpayers to be paying pensions to able bodied people below the normal retirement age.