mrstickball said:
numonex said:
trunkswd said:
Getting out of Afghanistan and Iraq would save $150 billion per year. Cut other military spending as it is the biggest piece of the pie of spending that is not needed. 2/3 or $758 billion of the discretionary budget. The U.S. should close some of its bases around the world as most aren't needed. There isn't any threat of war from any world power.
The Unites States has the biggest military in the world, by almost equaling everyone else combined. That is a little excessive as the most of the countries in the top 15 in size shown in the graph are our Allies. So even if the U.S. cut the military in half they would still have 1/3 of the world's military and it would save the U.S. $380 billion per year.
That is just one way the U.S. can save a lot of money to help eliminate the deficit.
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The Defense budget should be halved to $380 billion per year. $80 billion of this should be spent in Health and Education and other Budgets. $300 billion could easily be saved. The Health budget will need to be significantly increased as the US faces an aging population epidemic of retirees over 65 will continue to increase. Longer life expectancies comes at a huge financial cost.
At the moment the US spends 60% of its annual budget funding military which its main aim is to kill people in foreign countries. False flag terrorist wars fought in Middle East comes at a huge cost to US economy.
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There is this thing called 'mandatory spending' that your not accounting for...
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The defense budget isn't just military, it also includes homeland security like the police, the investigation agency's etc. Not sure how that's divided.
