There's plenty of waste in the defense department to be sure. However, I'll say it again, the only way to save enough money to fix the mess we're in is to target the place where that money is being spent, and that's on entitlements.
Let's say you were one of the people who five years ago thought they should be able to buy a $500,000 house on a teacher or cop's salary. Now you're stuck with your $4000 a month house note you can't pay and you face foreclosure on your house. You can give up all your $4 starbucks coffees and cut out your 500 channel cable TV package, but you're still not going to fix your fundamental problem which is the $4000 house note. The house has to go one way or another. It's no different with the federal budget, everyone thinks that we can solve this mess by cutting out a little funding for the arts or whatever. Sure, by all means cut that stuff, we shouldn't have been funding it to begin with, but don't think that it'll fix the problem. The 800 lb. gorilla in the room that NO ONE will touch is entitlements.
Massive cuts in social security, medicare, medicaid, and all the assorted welfare programs and the ONLY way to get the budget under control.
Exactly..and of course the other Gorilla.. the military
