It is ludicrous to presume that the none defense part of the budget is filed with waste fraud and inefficiency but that the Defense budge is a model of efficiency with nothing in it that does not fulfill its mission. There must be something in the defense budget that can and should be cut.
Exactly. If the government overspends on frivolity elsewhere, why do we think they wouldn’t in the defense budget?
“There must be something in the defense budget that can and should be cut.”
Of course but you can’t say ahead of time that the defense budget should be cut by X percent to meet a goal and hope that we won’t cut too much.