shintao
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- Aug 27, 2010
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While 95% is extreme, these are extreme times. If you grouped all of the true defense spending together everything from NASA to DHS, all intel, NSA, DoD etc it might account for 25% of the total budget. If you threw in foreign aid maybe 28-30%.
I have no problem cutting that by 70%, ending both wars tomorrow and closing almost all of our overseas bases. We can share space with allies in their facilities abroad anyway as long as we participate in NATO etc.
Our real defense needs are not being met, and the costs are prohibitive.
But even if you cut military spending entirely, that still won't balance the budget.
There is some comfortable level the US can live with and let the UN do it's job. It might be 80% or 90% or 95%. Put the fleet in moth balls until we need it to defend America. Send the troops home to their mothers. The idea is to pay down the debt by eliminating items that do not pertain to you or me or Americans in general. We don't need a military, or foreign aid, or corporate aid, or bail outs. If we can't cut sufficiently, then raise taxes and pay for the fiddler. That alone should be incentive to cut foreign spending.
We could afford to convert the vast majority of the military into a reserve capacity if not eliminating their activities altogether.
Undoubtedly the majority of our overseas activity serves no useful purpose beyond power projection.
The cold war is looooong over. We have no current need to be on permanent WW level readiness.
Good thread.
Thank you. It just seems like the logical step to take to lift the burden of the middle class taxpayer.