a) be the world's policeman
b) be the world's arms supplier
c) drone (kill) people around the world
d) pay NATO for 72% of all NATO costs associated with Afghanistan
e) pay $2 billion dollars a week to keep the occupation going
f) continue with insane weapon building programs ($40 billion dollar ships and $1/4 billion dollar aircraft)
g) have a military budget that bean-counters cannot audit
h) and most importantly, continue to ignore our veterans.
In my book doing nothing is the wrong thing to do.
The US Military budget comes out of discretionary spending, the same pot as labor, environment, education, transportation, housing, etc. etc. etc. Here's the 2011 discretionary budget pie chart:
I am against cutting programs that help people and am for cutting programs that do not.
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