What is your REALISTIC alternative to the automatic cuts in Pentagon AND domestic spending? Curious minds want to know....and please don’t tell us that you want the clowns in Congress to cut domestic spending but leave the Pentagon alone. That is not a realistic alternative given the current Congress. IMHO, the only realistic alternative is higher spending for both the Pentagon and the welfare state and no cuts anywhere.
Any talk of cutting $1 trillion in spending over the next decade is a very bad joke. My alternative is to man up and pass a budget for this year that is $1 trillion below last year's spending levels. I don't have a problem cutting $50 billion from the annual Defense budget right now. But I have a HUGE problem with allowing the current $1.5 trillion increase of all non-defense spending that has been in place since 2009 to continue.
We elected Republicans to stand up and put a stop to this nonsense. And so far, they have voted to raise the debt ceiling by almost $3 trillion. And they have allowed this unprecedented level of spending recklessness to continue. Our national debt has increased by $1 trillion over the last three months alone. It is finally time to shut it down.