OK, let’s bring the troops (so they can REALLY focus on defense rather than world policing or building schools in Afghanistan) and then maybe (despite our massive budget deficits) we can use some of the savings to pay them even more generously. The trouble is that can’t afford to maintain our world empire. The spigot has run dry.
Really? The spigot seems to be running pretty forcefully into the Dept of Education, Dept of Labor, HHS, EPA, HUD and pick 1000 other unaccountable federal agencies and bureaucracies with powers not enumerated by the US Constitution.
and it’s not overpaid SEALs in Afghanistan tracking al Qaeda who decided to spend appropriations on $1 billion bombers and $2 billion ships.
It seems to have - in your brain,
dehydration quickly affects the ability to reason...