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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (546408)1/27/2010 6:28:39 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1574472
 
It doesn't make sense wasting money anywhere but that rarely seems to stop the federal government.

Defense and security are at least the core function of a government. The rest may be beneficial, maybe more beneficial than more defense spending, but most of it is less necessary, and some of it is counterproductive far beyond the budgetary cost.

Still defense is so expensive that restraining its burden on the country is very important.

If we had not been doing so for decades I'd be right with you in saying we need to cut it. But it has been contained. The military was significantly shrunk at the end of the cold war, and even before the end its burden had been shrinking for decades.

But the burden of entitlements is trending toward eating up as much of the economy as defense did in the middle of WWII.
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