I agree with you on bloated government and our departments can’t talk to each other; but the military budget was cut.
I would like to see the departments moved around the country instead of being in one place. Too much concentrated power can not be good.
And I don’t know that our military would have been ready to do this epsecially after the Clintons and 8 years.
They weren't. But I don't think it was due to the budget cuts. I think the Clinton military doctrine is what did that. I don't think the Clinton Administration realized that the US itself could still be a target. I think Clinton was too worried about being the leader of the world government to actually consider that the US itself could be attacked.
From the Economic Report of the President, we get...
Defense spending numbers during Clinton’s term:
1992 - $298.4 billion
1993 - $291.1
1994 - $281.6
1995 - $272.1
1996 - $265.8
1997 - $270.5
1998 - $268.2
1999 - $274.8
2000 - $294.4
So in 1993, Ron Paul was saying that the cut of less than 1% in the defense budget was not enough. The next year, Republicans took control of spending by taking the Congress, and they seemed to agree, based on the above numbers.
And yet now we’re being told that the cut of 0.97% in that year allowed the 9/11 attack. Wow. Who knew our budget was so fine-tuned that we could have spend just a few more billion back then to avoid 9/11.