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Old 07-25-2011, 06:26 PM  
Rochard
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Originally Posted by kane View Post
But they don't say this about things like defense. The U.S. defense budget is more than the next 27 biggest countries combined and 26 of those 27 are our allies. China is the only one on that list that is not our ally. We could cut our military budget in half and still spend more than most of those countries combined.

While I do agree that we need to look at everything, we need to look the closest at the things that cost us the most because that is where the big savings is going to come from.
I am a huge fan of our military, but the amount of money we spend on it is staggering. Do we really need this? Our biggest threat is a handful of terrorists and China, which doesn't even have a blue water navy. I think we can cut back here a lot.
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