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Prime A1 example of why the USA is going down hill.
You cannot spend as much as the rest of the World combined on the military with just 20% of World GDP. Other countries will leave you in the dust by spending more on education, infrastructure, saving more, investing more, and spending more on direct technology research, etc.
The only ideology I see in Washington is the left wing ideology of more and more unsustainable welfare and entitlement spending until we are bankrupt.
Leave compassion to the liberals, you also likely believe that items like contraception in economic recovery package is pork, when in reality it is designed to reduce welfare spending (which runs in billions to the government).
But, to know that, more than a talking point is necessary.
You want to skimp on a defense budget? There are LOTS of things America can do without, but having a weak military just isn't one of them.
Who's saying anything about skimping? What would be wrong with a 20% reduction? Where we would spend 40% of the World total rather than 50%? It's not like we don't have pressing problems here at home?
It could have been the situation that the US spends 75% of World military spending on 10% of World GDP and it still wouldn't be enough for you right wing paranoids!
There are LOTS of things America can do without, but having a weak military just isn't one of them.
I agree, but there is quite a bit of space between have a frugal military and a weak one. There are a lot of toys in the chest and only a few of them ever get played with. So, is it always necessary to go out and buy more toys?
You want to skimp on a defense budget? There are LOTS of things America can do without, but having a weak military just isn't one of them.
It is highly debatable on whether cutting the defense budget will make the military significantly weaker.
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