Posted on 01/21/2012 2:00:14 PM PST by SeekAndFind
“The Defense Department 20% portion of the 2011 US budget are not my numbers. They are the numbers of the US CBO.”
So you think special war appropriations shouldn’t count? That they are free money?
The 20% for the defense department 2011 budget includes the two wars. Yep, the main role of the federal government is uses only 1/5 of the total budget. How sad.
Tell me, if crackpot Paul closed ALL foreign US military bases, as he promised, and gutted the defense budget leaving the US as a weak isolationist nation, what nation or group would you like to see fill the giant void as the dominant world military power? Do you care? Obviously Ron Paul, his Code Pink supporters and a lot of left wingers don’t.
Don Rumsfeld thinks U.S. bases in Germany, Japan and Korea have outlived their usefulness and should be shut down or consolidated too. Is he a code pink supporter or left winger too? Or is he just a realist?
If we don’t reign in spending, at some point we will be the same situation that the USSR found itself in. Is that what you want? A once proud nation and military, unable to pay its soldiers and leaving its ships to rust away in port?
Nice try but the crackpot leftwingnut Ron Paul said “ALL” foreign bases. Unbelievable as it might seem, that is fact.
Didn’t answer my question either, did you?
The spending problem is NOT the 1/5 it spends doing its primary function, to defend Americans and our interests here and abroad. The problem is the 2/3+ of the budget it spends and wastes on entitlements, welfare, and corruption.
Times are tough all over. The way I see it, everyone has to take a cut. There should be no sacred cows. If we have to adjust our foreign policy and military posture, so be it. We can’t afford to play world police anymore. Same thing with entitlements and other federal agencies. We have been living beyond our means for too long.
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