When Republicans start whining about military spending they sound just like liberals whining about school spending, where everybody acts like these spending levels aren’t extremely, unsustainably high with little to show for it. Iraq and Afghanistan are still hell holes because we were too PC to do it right. Anybody who is happy with our level of defense spending is not serious about limited government, deficits, spending, or taxes. They are just big-government nationalists who allied with small-government forces during the Cold War and mistook themselves for fans of liberty. The liberty to saddle your country with deficits (and hence taxes) for decades to finance an ever-growing military.
Don’t try to sway me, I used to be one. Thank goodness I saw the libertarian light! :)
Thank goodness I saw the libertarian light! :) I have yet to meet a Libertarian who is on Social Security or Medicare admit to me that they are part of the problem.
It is always "their money" and they react in anger to any notion to the contrary.
This nation is spending historic lows on Defense as a percentage of GDP, and historic highs on Entitlements.
Defense is the only Federal agency that is justified via the Constitution.
Moreover, the men and women who have served the military in recent years have suffered and sacrificed more than any other group of Americans. Multiple deployments, families torn apart, horrible wounds, stress, and loneliness.
Yet, the answer from most Americans is "Don't cut mine."
The sheer volume of money being thrown at Food Stamps, Unemployment, and Entitlements staggers the imagination, and yet that is exactly what we are not cutting.