Cutting the perks and salary of the politicians need to be on the table before any cutting of our military.
We need our military, we don’t need politician$ who make a career of instituting ‘control’ laws at our expense.
What part of the US is BROKE do you not understand?
The problem is, cutting perks and salaries wont make a bit of a dent in the budget.
Lets say we cut $100,000 of salaries/perks from every Congressman and Senator, and lets say they have 20 staffers, to be liberal (get the biggest number to cut).
535 Congressmen with 20 staffers equals 11,235 employees just in the two chambers. If we cut $100,000 from each of those people, we would cut 1.13 billion dollars which is .032% of the total budget. IT would be symbolic, but fiscally, it would be unimportant.