(January 9, 2013 at 8:07 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: If you express our military as a percentage of the GDP, it's not as outrageous as people think.
Regardless, my point is that we can cut our defense budget in half and still outspend China and Russia combined by a comfortable margin, regardless of relative GDP.
Quote:Also it's a bit of a logical fallacy yourself to say that as long as there is military waste, other waste is okay.
Not quite. I'm in favor of cutting waste wherever you find it. I'm just disgusted that "cutting spending" to Republicans only means "cutting progressive programs, never their favorite budget items like defense or the war on drugs".
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