I believe that military spending is a legitimate federal expense and that it needs be dramatically increased IMHO.
As for our colossal national debt-—which I agree is perfectly insane and unsustainable-—nearly all of that can attributed to out of control entitlement programs. Military spending is miniscule in comparison.
We agree there....our military should be kept powerful,
IF WE CAN CUT OTHER SPENDING!
I am not for spending more on military by borrowing more money and adding to our humongous national debt, approaching Greek levels.
Ask the Greeks if they want more military or jobs and food.
The higher the debt gets, the higher are the costs of servicing the debt in forms of interest. We can’t work our way out of it by printing more money. Germany tried that, Argentina tried that, Zimbabwe tried that, Japan tried that, and it was a disaster in each case.