Military spending IS a POLITICAL spending PROBLEM. I say again, what part of the US is BROKE, do you NOT understand?
Whether we are broke or not the current threats and rising threats are not going to cut us any slack because of Obama spending.
We have a looming national defense problem. I am NOT advocating willy-nilly international intervention just because the MSM puts some sad scenes on TV. We need to be able to swing a hard stick when it is in our interests to do so and not be ashamed to do so. Of course you have to have a stick to swing so we need sufficient conventional forces to do that.
Do you think all the world's conflicts are caused by a US presence or by US actions like leftists and Ron Paul think?
They are people and “isms” that hate simply because we exist! It wouldn't matter if we hide behind some impermeable wall they would still want to kill us and would try and succeed if we are not vigilant.
Many libertarians advocate a return to a mythical isolationist age where we would prosper like we did in the late 18th to early 20th century. If they actually go back and read the history they would see that the US engaged in world trade from the beginning of it's existence, and when necessity and the capability existed we did express military power sometimes on a shoestring to protect that trade e.g., Eaton& O’Bannon and the “shores of Tripoli”!, Perry in Japan, and a little know military intervention in 1867 into Korea, there are other examples! Most of the time it wasn't necessary because we got the benefit of the British Empire's desire to keep the lanes of international trade open. Unfortunately there is no other power left other then us to do this. All benefit from world trade though all do not benefit equally nor concurrently. (No I am not mindlessly for “free trade”. Its best for all but rarely is it practiced and we need to capable reacting in kind when we see such behavior "anti-free trade behavior".)