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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
But we don't. We waste money on excessive defense and huge pork projects. Maybe if liberals like you would stop praying to the govt and realize the solution is reallocating the money it receives instead of taking more from the middle and upper middle class we'd actually get somewhere.
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Current political reality means that the left cannot support cutting defense spending. It also requires ridiculous balancing of spending among the 3 branches and between operating and capital (i.e. new weapon systems) expenditures--which leads to wasteful spending on unneeded new weapons systems and ill-advised allocations to the Navy and Air Force during a war being fought by the Army (leading to the Navy and AF getting huge $$ that could be better spent right now supporting the troops on the ground in Iraq). If you want the defense budget cut, ask a republican congressman.
