[4rcane]

As much as I like Cruz, I prefer Rand. The other GOP candidates don’t understand that US is bankrupt and they all still want to maintain a large military force. US can not afford it. Military need to be cut 50%, across the board cuts everywhere is needed

[impimp]

The priority should be to eliminate federal spending on poor people and education - not cutting the military.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Good idea, what with Russia, China, Iran, ISIS, Boko Haram, al Qaeda, Yemen, Libya, Iraq and everything else going ballistic and all. Can we cut programs, waste and more? Sure. But hasn’t Mr. Obama weakened us enough?

[cableguymn]

Lets cut the unconstitutional crap first. The military should be last to be cut.

[zerosix]

The only government function is to "provide for the common defense" and the idea that "we can't afford it" brought us both World Wars!

The isolationism of Rand Paul would leave first Israel then us at the mercy of a nuclear Iran, who has vowed to wipe Israel off the face of the earth and chants, "Death to America!"

I'm of the same line of thinking as Bibi Netanyahu, "When your enemy tells you they are going to kill you, believe them!"

[ziravan]

You’re on the wrong site. The military is 1/7th of the budget and 1/2 of the Constitutional mandate for the fedgov.

Your priorities are hosed.

Reagan’s Triad - the formula that makes conservatism work, is equal parts economic and social conservatism, and a strong military.

[nopardons]

The military is already cut to the bone and hemorrhaging.

You're obviously more than willing to have this nation vulnerable and easily taken over. No wonder you like Rand the nutcase.

His ideas are pathetically banal and worthless; his understanding of financial matters leave a great deal to be desired.

[Forty-Niner]

“Military need to be cut 50%, across the board cuts everywhere is needed”

The US Military is a small part of the US budget, yet is one thing expressly mandated by the Constitution for the government to maintain.

Your comment makes you sound exactly like a leftist who believe that military spending is an affront to their preferred socialistic spending.

[jazzlite]

...”As much as I like Cruz, I prefer Rand. The other GOP candidates don’t understand that US is bankrupt and they all still want to maintain a large military force. US can not afford it. Military need to be cut 50%, across the board cuts everywhere is needed.”

Yes. Continuing to run the national debt up by a million dollars a minute will bring an economic holocaust down upon us, probably sooner rather than later. And, most people do not understand the implications of that.

[GeronL]

Rand just called for increasing military spending by $190 billion in 2 years