Obama and the Military

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Originally Posted by Nascar1966

See item #13. Also with this country not in great shape why do we give these other countries an astronomical amount of aid. Im not bashing just Obama on this one but all President's. We dont have the money why should we support these other countries? Dont you think that is part of the problem?

i posted a graph a couple months back when someone mentioned foreign aid. it's not anywhere even remotely close to the two largest drains on the federal budget, social security and the military. every depts budget is small compared to dod. like i posted elsewhere, our military spending is equal to the military budget of every other country in the world combined. the united states has half the worlds military spending. that is mind-boggling to me. we are relatively isolated from much of the world. we need to spend that much on defense? really? we don't give an 'astronomical' amount of aid, not as a percentage of total spending.
the real issue is that we now must dig ourselves out of a hole that's been decades in the making. and no one wants to make the real decisions to make that happen. our govt spent when they had, and now spend when they don't have. the deficit in turn negatively affects the economy. there needs to be real change, and soon. cuts need to happen, and i'm not talking of a freeze on fed salaries.

but, no doubt that all that positive change not happening is due to the republican filibuster.