Scrutinizing the Pentagon budget: "$382 billion has nothing directly to do with the wars we're fighting right now. That doesn't mean it's unnecessary or unjustified; maybe some of it is, maybe some of it isn't. But it's not the stuff of life and death, like the other parts of the budget—Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid—that Obama wants to exclude from the freeze. It should be subject to the same discipline—the same line-by-line, page-by-page analysis—as the rest of the budget."

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[justcorbly]

The half-trillion defense budget is the biggest of sacred cows. It's also the biggest subsidy the feds provide for the states. It defies common sense to believe that every inappropriate expenditure is scrubbed from that budget.

But, lordy lordy, just imagine the stink if someone starts taking a chopper to it.

[James]

Great idea. BRAC it down a few notches.

[noirhound]

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