Reply #3: How about we scratch around 250B from the military budget first? [View All]

That would be the 'off budget' Iraq war costs for one year. Then we can start looking at the global network of imperial bases, and start scrapping those too. Then we could re-charter the military's mission to be defense of our borders and defense, in cooperation with the UN, of international trade routes. That would most likely bring us down to an on-budget $250B/year, still around 5x what anyone else is spending. Total savings: 500B/yr. Half of that should go into absolutely nothing, as in bringing spending in line with income. The other half should go into education mass transporation and healthcare infrastructure improvements: it should go into programs that directly benefit the people of this republic, a radical concept that if implemented would likely get the sitting president the full Dallas treatment.