one more time.....Why can't we have nice things?

[kpete]

MORE:
http://www.vox.com/2015/8/23/9189153/us-defense-spending-international-comparison

[Kelvin Mace]

1. Start with a 10% cut in war spending

and divert half the cut infrastructure and half to paying down the debt. Then keep cutting until it reaches 1.5% of GDP and lock it there with a constitutional amendment that only allows greater spending during a Congressionaly declared war.

While we are at it, lock government salaries to multiples of the minimum wage. The president gets 10x, the congress gets 5x, etc. If Joe Main Street is struggling on $20,000 a year, why should the Koch brother's pet senator get $175,000 a year?

[yeoman6987]

3. Well we already did that with sequestration

Not exactly popular with anyone and the president wants to stop sequestration. Cutting defense has been tried and nobody liked it in clouding both parties. How can you cut more of something that has been tried already?

[truebluegreen]

5. "Nobody liked it." I liked it fine.

...except it wasn't enough and they probably weaseled their way around it anyway.

[Kelvin Mace]

7. Sequestration was about across the board cuts

I am for only cutting war spending, which is out of control.

[Scuba]

2. If we can't afford to educate our children, to heal our sick or care for our elderly ...

... just what is it the defense budget is defending?

[truebluegreen]

4. +1

I know its a rhetorical question but the answer is "corporate profits and interests."

[Scuba]

6. Yes and yes.