How much spare cash is sitting in the treasury to keep wars going in foreign lands? Has our 22 TRILLION = $22,000,000,000,000 debt still there on necks of US taxpayers?
Now if had $1 Trillion spare cash in our Treasury, I would be all for flexing our muscles and play policeman of the world. May be you don’t worry about debt in your own life. Or may be you do. If you do, start worrying about the national debt. Because it is a sword hanging on necks of our children and grand children. Debt does not disappear. It has to be paid back WITH INTEREST.
Or, as some say, we can inflate our way out of national debt. If inflation was the way to prosperity why are Argentina, Zimbabwe and the Third Reich do not or did not do well? Think about it.
The military is not the cause of our budget deficits. Turn your eyes to the $1 trillion spent annually on means tested, anti-poverty programs by the federal government. Some things are being accomplished, but we should have a massive welfare to work effort going now with far more job openings than people stepping forward to fill them. And we should require that every job possible be filled by US citizens, not by issuing more work visas.
If you think the US can cease being a major military power in today’s world, then you’re kidding yourself.