How else are we going to cut the defense budget if we don't allow the sequester to take effect?

[gulliver]

9. I don't like to see one-sided "cuts" of any kind.

I'm one of these nuts who doesn't distinguish between government jobs/buying and other types. Call me crazy, but when the government "spends" money, I see it as someone getting a paycheck and using it to buy goods and services right here in the good old USA. The government is a main engine of common demand. I don't like cutting its pay.

Defense spending is so overdone here in the U.S. that it amounts to social spending. Most of this stuff defense workers build never does anything useful even if deployed. I would rather see the money spent on building infrastructure, cleaning up the environment, reducing our carbon footprint, etc. But I don't want defense spending cut just to give tax breaks to the wealthy.

I'm hoping the outcome of the fiscal cliff negotiations is no change to defense spending and a hefty tax increase on the wealthy and corporations. If there have to be cuts in defense spending, then I would like them used as a bargaining chip to get more stimulus in other industries and to smack the "hostage taking" debt limit weapon from the hands of the Republican Tea-whackos.