Will Obama raise taxes for the middle class?

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Soleron said:
Eliminating the defence budget would solve everything. If the US military was cut down to 'national defence only' and not able to be deployed everywhere, and no new contracts were made in terms of defence technology, that would pretty much pay for everything.

 

 

That's the worst idea I have heard since the spending freeze. No new technology? National defense only? I hate to tell you this, but alot of our enemies are not at "national defense only". I agree we can't deploy everywhere, but we have to deploy some places and who knows what those future places may be. It might come that we need to deploy in Ukraine, or some other Eastern European country, it may be that something happens in the middle east where deployment is necessary, or even somewhere in south america. What happens if a rogue states feels like since we are spending less it can act up more and cause trouble? We need to be ready, and not giinvg our troops the best equipment and scrimping on technology is the fastest way to make our army ineffective.