Reply #9: can we cut military spending just a little sometime, please?

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With the money we spend on the military, it's as if we replace every gun, tank, jeep, uniform, battleship, airplane, etc. every year or something. There has to be a way to stop development of new weapons systems, make do with last year's $1000 hammers, and quit outspending the rest of the world 8-to-1 or whatever the ratio is.

But no, let's cut school lunches, education, medical care for the poor, and research into curing disease.

Granted, we can postpone some of these stupid turtle tunnels and other pork projects and save a few bucks while we're at it, but why is the military always exempt from any spending cuts?

Of course, Obama could always take the wars "off the books" the way Bush did, and make the numbers appear to be better than they really are.