FDL: Obama’s Pentagon Strategy: A Leaner, More Efficient Empire

[ProSense]

66. Well

"For example: What is the current US regular military budget? What is the current US regular military budget plus war supplementaries as a proportion of discretionary spending?"

The current 2012 budget is $22 billion less than the 2011 budget. The FY12 budget includes $117 billion for wars, down from $159 in 2011.

Isn't it fun to take every attempt to make progress and try to turn it into something insignificant?

What impact do you think a $1 trillion dollar reduction will have, and in the long run a reduction in personnel and military systems?

No matter how persistent the attempt is to make write this off as nothing, $1 trillion cuts to defense and the scope of the President's proposal aren't put on the table as a matter of standard operating procedure.

Defense is being cut, and that's a good thing.