interesting numbers you have there...we need to do something to turn the youth around the military is a good start what would you suggest?
Enslaving youths is not a good way to turn them around. First of it’s just wrong. Second of all you may stop them from being fat and playing video games and chasing tail for discreet periods of time, but you won’t turn them into Johnny Dogoods. Likelier you’d corrupt the military.
We are reducing the size of the military. 42 cents of every federal dollar spent are borrowed. Our total tax revenue just barely covers the costs of the entitlement programs, other mandatories, and debt servicing costs.
In the future we will be engaged in the age old battle that affects nations in decline: guns versus butter. And butter usually wins because it has more constituents. Mike Mullen, the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the greatest threat to our national security is the national debt.