Reply #16: Military budget drops to about $30 billion [View All]

[HamdenRice]

What ever the cause, I know one result will be a financial reordering. The current budget and priorities are unsustainable, especially considering that the budget is significantly borrowed.

We could accomplish all our social goals if the military did not swallow up $400 billion plus per year. It's obscene and the source of much of our difficulty.

If the "revolution" is based in any part on revelations that the military-intelligence complex was involved in 9/11, it would make sense to defund them because in fact, it would show that the chief threat to our security is our own military industrial intelligence complex.