| 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. |
How the heck do you have the UK as second world power???
Is this graph budget? cause as far as military power goes, Russia, China and France are all three above the UK...just by the meer fact that with relatively equal tech, they have more satelite access and they also have nukes, which the UK gave up on.
Also I don't see switzerland or israel on the chart.... small countries that pack a serious military punch... (one has a militia army: the whole population trains every year till 35, the other already has been in outnumbered wars to prove it and has the army with the most field experience... even more than the US in some aspects).
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