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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: LLCF who wrote (67871)11/8/2013 9:43:27 AM
From: TimF1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
The real money is in the entitlements, esp. going forward. In a few decades you'll probably have defense in the single digits as a percentage of federal spending, while entitlements are already over half and growing. With the way they are scheduled to grow they will crowd out just about anything else. Entitlements alone will be a larger percentage of GDP than the federal government has ever managed to extract in peace time, probably in any time peace or war.

Which isn't to say that you can't get some savings in defense, but they won't be very significant. If you don't support reforming entitlements in a way that reduces future entitlement spending you can't reasonably be considered fiscally responsible, no matter how much you want to cut from defense, or non-military non-entitlement spending.
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