To: rokkitapps
We are broke, we can project power with half the budget we have now. The military industrial complex is a beast unto itself.
Two issues. 1) You say that you are just viewing our defense policy in terms of the Constitution, but then say that we should cut defense funding. Funding for the defense is pretty much one of the ONLY spending powers the Constitution allows. And 2) Defense funding has enabled MANY technologies to filter down to other sectors and is a HUGE boom to our economy as opposed to most of the other Government spending that occurs.
Should we cut ALL funding including defense? Sure, but not in half. No way. This is what Clinton did and it made us a weak target in the eyes of the islamists which continued to declare war on us with no reciprocal response by us.
37 posted on
12/16/2011 8:57:14 AM PST by
Eagle of Liberty
(Shaking My Head on a daily basis)
To: Eagle of Liberty
Your argument for Defense spending that it created technology is the one often used by Big Gov't spenders for Gov't intrusion in the free market.
Defense exists for one purpose-Defense.
We should only be spending what we need to defend US interests, and that would mean a drastic reduction.
67 posted on
12/16/2011 12:21:51 PM PST by
fortheDeclaration
(All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Burke)
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