How about you act like a conservative and at least fake trying to believe in fiscally responsible government.
I’m sure you know nothing of inflation.
You don’t understand the cost of research & development(in terms of maintaining a strong military as per your orginal post).
You clearly aren’t accounting for the money spent on operations for Iraq & Afghanstan.
You believe in under paying people who put their lives on the line everyday for you.
You don’t know how to measure the budget in terms of GDP.
Now we might be able to have discussion on all the other pots the Government puts it’s hands into like Social Security, Medicare, Education, Welfare, etc etc etc. I was merely making the point on our Miltary budget. The Government is charged with our defense and with emerging threats like Iran, Russia, & China I don’t see a problem with 700 Billion. What I do have a problem with is the other 1.8 billion that gets passed around to other programs the FEDERAL government has no business being in.