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Originally Posted by kmchugh
I agree with most, our government must cut spending. The government must go back to it's primary purpose, which is the provision of the common defense. That clearly means we cannot cut defense spending. To do so is to commit a constitutional violation of the first order.
KM
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Actually we could halve our military budget and still be pretty much immune from conventional attack the rest of th world combined could htrow at us. What we would lose is out ability to project power to protect our allies and interests overseas. I'm by no means isolationist (I don't think for a second that if we pull all our troops out of the Middle East Osama and his ilk will simple move and ignore us, they will come after us here, after they destroy Israel andthing reembling a moderate in the region), but I'm sure we have troops in plenty places we could afford to pull them out of. Plus kill a few programs like the Osprey and FCS, close a lot of out redundant bases, and start holding defense contractors more accountable for cost control, if they tried plyed their shoddy crap to private sector customers they'd all be belly up by now.
I see no reason why the US couldn't cut the military budget to $375 billion or so withour hampering our effectiveness too much.
Back on topic I support lower taxes and spending at all levels of government.