If you look at the chart I posted by the Heratige Foundation, it confirms your concerns and mine that our fiscal path is disasterous. But take a good look at it again. Even if we took Defense spending down to nothing, we are ruined without serious, long range entitlement reform.
The Sequestration barely touches any associated entitlement spending - the the contrary - almost every program is completely exempt.
We seem to have money to dole out hand over fist for entitlements, but when it comes to defense (which is a Constitutional enterprise by the way), we suddenly adopt a "we're broke" mantra?
Defense is reeling from a triple round of blows: the $487 Billion cut spread out over ten years that began 2 years ago during Obama I, the Continuing Resolution which has frozen Pentagon accounts, and now the $600 Billion in Sequestration cuts.
These programs have plenty of money. They are not touched: Student Loans, Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit, Earned Icome Tax Credit, Pell Grants, Unemployment Insurance, Medicare, Head Start, Social Security Disability, SSI--Supplemental Security Income, Medicaid, Welfare/Public Assistance, Government Subsidized Housing, Food Stamps.
Where is the outcry from Conservatives on this? I swear, I think I have sometimes logged onto the website of Mother Jones.