The country is bankrupt. You have an islamic in the white hut fighting 2 wars in an islamic country which is now a waste of time, money and American lives.
Americans voted for this because they are idiots brainwashed by TV - this includes ALL TV. This Tuesday - some people woke up but others did not. We are broke.
Yeah....if there is waste, it will be cut.
The military is not a sacred cow.
I think we are overusing what the pundits call Hard Diplomacy. We need a strong defense. What the minimum (plus a healthy reserve) defense we need should be open for discussion. I believe the answer is something less than we have right now, if we use it effectively.
Whenever people are spending other people’s money, there is always waste that can be cut. The military is no different in that respect than any other part of the government.
Sorry, Defense is as ridiculously overfunded as HHS. What it needs is a narrower, clearly defined mission...just like the rest of the Federal Government.
It seems that our so-called leaders have actually gotten that backwards: They're more interested in providing for the general welfare and are only promoting the common defense with words... not actions.
Money for his district? Time to look out for what’s best for America, not that we couldn’t dump 75% of the social programs first starting with the Department of Education.
Lotsa luck, the incoming majority leader cannot go two sentences without saying the word “Iran”, and frankly given the Duke Cunningham example that is where the campaign cash comes from for the GOP.
And it will get worse. By 2030 one in every five residents of this country will be over 65, twice what it is now. And there will be just two workers for every retiree compared to the 3.3 now and the 16 in 1950.
Just as has happened in Europe, the politicians will choose butter over guns. We cannot afford both.
Throwing more money at defense is always ok, but throwing more money at other things, such as education, is not always going to work?
There can’t be any wasted money in the defense budget? Why are we still in Korea?
Just how in debt do we have to be before we decide we can’t afford something in the defense budget? 20 trillion? 30? 100?
Do we have to wait till the Chinese come to claim land in exchange for debt forgiveness?
If you cut defense spending, we get behind our enemies who already know we are going down the tubes economically.
If we cut defense spending, it will be the active soldiers, sailors and Marines who will take the cut, not anyone else. They already do without. They need new transport planes, better intel, and our enemies need to know we will not be backing down on our defense.
The airlines make “free” citizens go through those screening machines and there are vans with the same technology driving on our streets looking into our homes. Something seems wrong here.
I know I am not up on what really goes on with military spending but I just think defense cuts should be last on the list. Maybe redistribution, but not cuts.
And I am concerned about it with my kid having enlisted. :)
Don’t cut the military budget, but redirect it to the most productive uses where necessary.
We can let Europe defend themselves, and reduce our presence there.
We can close unnecessary bases around the world.
And there are defense contractors all across the country making stuff for the military that Congress ordered but the military didn’t ask for(a bunch of new C-130 planes out of Georgia, for instance).
It should save a few Grand to sell off Nancy’s 757 for starters.
I’ve got a brother in law who works for a defense contractor. Listening to him, there are DEFINITELY ways to cut the military budget.
I agree, but so much DoD money has been diverted within the DoD for failed or ineffective socialist experiments. Identifying and re-directing those useless, counter-productive programs would enhance the effectiveness of our military without increasing the budget.
Cut waste everywhere. Period. No sacred cows.
It’s time for zero based budgeting and that includes the Pentagon.