The future of the defense budget

On November 20, the Foreign Policy program at Brookings hosted a discussion involving experts in American politics, the federal budget, and national security strategic priorities.

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[realestateunplugged]

I love the military, but EVERY segment of government needs to be cut HUGELY. Do that many of my fellow Americans spend up to the red line that they think it's okay to barrow so irresponsibly?

We need a 95% reduction in government to get down to legal Constitional government.

This is a typical group of republican/democrats arguing about nothing. "Ok guys, should we increase spending on our pensions 5% or 10% this year?". This is the true argument at the base of there comics.

[yttean]

I don't think there will a U-turn on the defence budget, up and up and even a 10% cut makes no impact to the US budget deficit.

[dougkopec]

An overblown military is partly what made Rome fall also.