We already pay $400 billion a year to service the national debt. Obama's budgeta and stimulus package will double the amount to over $800 billion in just five years. We can't afford it without drastically cutting back on discretionary items like defense. And that is exactly what Obama is planning and doing.
Mussolini made the trains run on time.
You know, I was talking to an old Italian lady once, and I quoted that line and she said "You don't get it. Mussolini never made the trains run on time, you just weren't allowed to SAY that the trains didn't run on time."
And last time I checked National Security wasn't a discretionary item, at least not in a sane government.