These budget cuts to our military must stop!

[spawn_14_1999_99]

I mean if we cut another $50 billion or so we'll only "invest" as much as the next 17 biggest spenders of the world corabined.


http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/06/military-spending

And yet this is what you read in teh papers


http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2011-08-01-debt-reduction-defense-cuts_n.htm

[▲▼ßðð�iз▼▲]

Military was built up for the cold war. When the cold war ended, the build up didn't.

[jcaas07]

End the occupations
Close half the bases
No more nation building
Follow constitution

Fixed it

[Bushido]

of course, cut spending NOW, when i'm considering joining the air national guard

[The Road goes ever on]

why is the GDP of saudi arabia so low?

[Georgia T]

You obviously didn't pay attention during the Clinton years.

[Kyle & Megan]

national security now = keeping the dollar as the world reserve currency.

budget battle: lost.

[Question Master]

Just cut the bullshit waste and we can shave a shitload off of that. We don't have to actually reduce our strength to tdo that although we could stand to do that as well.

[IZZYFATAL]

You could cut the defense budget in half and lose no capabilities or strength and all it would take is better oversight of how the money is spent. We throw around millions of dollars like it is play money. They are complaining at work because the CIO office wants to start approving purchases over $150k. My bosses claim that the money has already been budgeted for us so it shouldn't matter what it is spent on. Thinking like that is what causes us to have to spend $800 billion a year.