Reply #7: Anything that goes to Michelle Bachmann

[Warpy]

She's getting $250,000 a year in ag subsidies. She's also got gold plated health care and a fat retirement program in Congress. All of those things should be on the chopping block. We the people simply cannot afford them.

The one thing the incoming Congress will never touch is the one thing that needs to be touched--hard, the military. As the wars start to wind down, the Pentagon should start to face a 10% per year funding reduction that will continue until we're spending what other countries spend. That will force them to start making hard decisions about what is truly important, bases all over the world or defense of this country; aircraft carriers or body armor, armored military vehicles and adequate supply; overpriced "outsourced" services or providing them themselves the way they used to.

Unfortunately, the Pentagon is sacred ground to Republicans. They will never ask that building to share the pain the rest of us are feeling.