Does the USA need a perestroika?

[HappySqurriel]

ckmlb said:

HappySqurriel said:

Although the United States really needs major reductions in government spending (after all the municipal, state and the federal governments are all spending far more than they take in with little benefit for their citizens) I'm not so sure I would follow the example of the USSR ...

The place to start from that is to cut salaries of people in the house and senate and the president and after that cut the fat out of military spending in useless projects and such, like the F-22 and European missile defense were recently cut.

Being that the #1 expense of government today is some form of wealth transfer don't you think it would make sense to start there? While military spending is insane due to the United States being in two wars and having the most advanced military, it is still only 20% of the federal budget; which should demonstrate how moronically high the rest of the spending is.