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**petrarkaponye** · 06-05-2010, 04:33 AM

If this country gave up its empire, and only resorted to force to repel invasions, how much money per year would the DoD need? I would not be surprised if the figure is an order of magnitude, if not two orders of magnitude, lower than what is spent on "defense" now.

Not to interupt the pissing match to respond to the OP, but according to conservative Republicans, 70% could be cut from the defense budget without any risk to our national security.
As a Liberal I think more than that can be cut with no loss of security.

So the bipartisan answer is somewhere between 70% and 90% of the defense budget is wasted on foolishness that is of no benefit to the American people.

06-05-2010, 04:33 AM	#6
petrarkaponye Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 485 Senior Member	If this country gave up its empire, and only resorted to force to repel invasions, how much money per year would the DoD need? I would not be surprised if the figure is an order of magnitude, if not two orders of magnitude, lower than what is spent on "defense" now. Not to interupt the pissing match to respond to the OP, but according to conservative Republicans, 70% could be cut from the defense budget without any risk to our national security. As a Liberal I think more than that can be cut with no loss of security. So the bipartisan answer is somewhere between 70% and 90% of the defense budget is wasted on foolishness that is of no benefit to the American people.
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