A post in the Fantasy election got me thinking and I wanted to put this into words for you all… I believe that the national defense is the one thing every one in America agree s should be the perview of the federal govt- which is why I wonder why liberals and libertarians always pop a hard one for cutting it.
As usual you open your thread by alienating the majority of the forum. Plus the military is not the "ONE thing every one in America agree s should be the perview of the federal govt." Obviously everyone who has bothered to read the Constitution knows that the Post Office is one of the only institutions specifically mentioned. I forgot about the section that mentions the Air Force. Which section was that again?
As to the rest of it who knows. Much smarter and more experienced people than you are working on the problem. The simple fix is to stop starting pointless drawn out wars. The next thing is to stop preparing for an invasion. No one is going to invade us. China is not going to drag their sorry @$$ across the Pacific to invade us and I think with the eye in the sky we will see them coming.
We need to get out of this cold war posture. It's going to be hard for a certain subset of the population. I can tell by the number of times they call people communists when they start losing an arguement.
Pet projects are another huge problem. The Pentagon has turned down multiple vehicles but Congress keeps approving them and forcing them on the miitary because they are built in some Congressman's district. That BS has to go.
They've got to slash the number of generals. It is ridiculous.
And the biggie that you did not touch that contributes to a huge chunk of our military expenditure is health care. Landing Air Force planes on a carrier ain't gonna solve that my friend.
