You cannot treat your own employees with contempt, and expect them to perform well with high morale. The US military and its employees are not slaves. Contrary to your notion, the great majority of those serving both in and out of uniform are patriots. They love our nation. Many of them could have left to make more money doing other things, and now that is happening.
I have in the past on many posts (as you well know) cited and warned against the reductions in equipment, training, flying hours, weapon systems, and all the rest that is part of the disastrous dismantling of our military under Obama, with the collusion and aid of certain Tea Party types in Congress who think that cutting a dollar to SS Disability is the same as cutting a dollar to the military.
You are dead wrong that our military is over compensated for what they do. We will never agree on that, but you are entitled to your opinion of course.
Part of what you say about the risk to our status as the World's Reserve Currency is spot on. Our debt is murdering us. The Fed's medicine has become the poison. But the primary cause of our debt and deficit is not military spending. Far from it.
“You cannot treat your own employees with contempt, and expect them to perform well with high morale. The US military and its employees are not slaves. Contrary to your notion, the great majority of those serving both in and out of uniform are patriots. “
You are, as always, a piece of work.
You cannot treat TAXPAYERS with contempt and expect them to perform well (paying outsized taxes) with high morale. The US TAXPAYER are not slaves. Contrary to your notion, the great majority of those private sector taxpayers outside of government bureaucracies are patriots.