[MadIsh32]

I live inside the DC beltway, so I see exactly what our tax payer dollars are doing when flowing to our government-making my home value go up and enriching contractors in Tysons Corner and all around northern VA. I work in the defense industry, so this actually has an impact on my lifestyle (which, thanks to you the tax payer, is very comfortable)

My approach isn’t the sledgehammer approach at all. I agree, there should be no pay cuts nor benefit cuts for our active/reserve and retired military.

However the dirty secret is all of that doesn’t amount to nearly as much as we give to Lockheed, Northrup, Boeing, CSC, BAE Systems, Harris, etc.

The other departments you mention don’t make nearly the dent in the discretionary budget as Pentagon waste does.

[SoConPubbie]

The other departments you mention don’t make nearly the dent in the discretionary budget as Pentagon waste does.

Not sure how you can make a claim like that:

The U.S. Department of Defense budget accounted in fiscal year 2010 for about 19% of the United States federal budgeted expenditures

[SoConPubbie]

My approach isn’t the sledgehammer approach at all. I agree, there should be no pay cuts nor benefit cuts for our active/reserve and retired military.

That is of primary importance, but what comes in a real close second is making sure we have the strongest and most advanced military in the world.