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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (40869)	11/27/2012 4:03:30 PM
From: Kirk ©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218803

Japan, S. Korea and Germany now have strong enough economies that I doubt what we spend on a base is more than 0.1% of their GDP so it is probably noise. The issue for me is why should we be paying to protect them? Give them a bill for 10% of the cost that increases by 10% a year and tell them if they don't pay it, we will start closing the bases by 10% a year (through attrition mostly) until they are half what they are today then we take another look. The trouble is we keep increasing the military budgets and both parties do it. I'd like to see a woman as president to see if this is a "big penis" syndrome where even Obama who campaigned on smaller military couldn't resit showing how big his was to the World after he was elected and given the opportunity. I think the power itself is corrupting, especially when there is such a large amount of money behind stealing it from taxpayers and future generations to make the military equipment providers rich as well as all the good jobs in military with their great pensions then next jobs lobbying for more money after they "retire." Get everyone in government on Social Security and eliminate military pensions and see if that changes...