IMHO... Fiscal (insert noun), Spending cuts, Balance

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5. The MIC gravy train.

Honestly, we could defend the United States for about half of what is allocated to the Pentagon every year.

Over a hundred bases and installations over seas?

I have a brother-in-law who just 'retired' from the Marines after the requisite number of years ... he's only 55. So, he draws his 'pension' -- and now he's gone to work for a huge military contractor that gets virtually 100 percent of its business from the DOD. This guy and his family are stubborn Repuglicans, always griping about the size of the federal government and how their taxes are too high.

Frankly, I see at least half of the federal government's spending on the military as little more than welfare, jobs programs, and subsidies to powerful corporations.

Now that is spending --- but Boehner and the Repuglicans and the Teabaggers aren't proposing any significant cuts in government spending to those 'socialist' 'welfare' programs.