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Military Spending & Reduction

     After ending our wars in the Middle East, we have to take a look at how our military is being used. My believe is that the ground troops should be used only in limited use. The terrorist type of fighting will only continue to get our men and women killed and disfigured and this is NOT acceptable to me. Going after and killing Oasma Bin Ladan was not worth the price we paid for American deaths and their bodies being torn in pieces that they have to live with today. His death was not ever worth one American death. It is a disgrace that we went there and even more of a disgrace that we are still there. I don't know how the President and Congress can sleep at night, knowing that at anytime a member of our Armed Forces could be killed or maimed.
     Limited air strikes, as we have done in the past, the latest being in Libya, will not get anything accomplished. When will we learn that? When you do something, you have to have an end result in mind, not just to "hope" this works.
     The Armed Forces needs to be reduced and we need to focus on "America First and Foremost". This reduction has to be with the consent of Congress and the Commanders of each Branch of Service as the Commanders have a better understand of what can be done and in what areas. Our   involvement in the world affairs has to be rethought.
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Did You Know This?

The U.S. Congress sets a federal budget every year in the trillions of dollars. Few people know how much money that is so we created a breakdown of federal spending in simple terms. Let's put the 2011 federal budget into perspective:
U.S. income: $2,170,000,000,000
. Federal budget: $3,820,000,000,000
. New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000
. National debt: $14,271,000,000,000
. Recent budget cut: $ 38,500,000,000 (about 1 percent of the budget)

It helps to think about these numbers in terms that we can relate to.
Therefore, let's remove eight zeros from these numbers and pretend this is the household budget for the fictitious Jones family:
. Total annual income for the Jones family: $21,700
. Amount of money the Jones family spent: $38,200
. Amount of new debt added to the credit card: $16,500
. Outstanding balance on the credit card: $142,710
. Amount cut from the budget: $385
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In 2009, 53% of tax payers, paid all of the taxes and the other 47% paid none.

The top 1% of income earners pay 40% of all the taxes.
The top 2% of income earners pay 50% of all the taxes.

In a 10 year period, ending in 2009, 8 out of 10 corporations paid no taxes and at the same time, some received subsidies from taxpayers.

If you cut out the Department of Defense Budget, which includes the entire military here and overseas, you would have 200 Billion left over after paying just the interest on out National Debt for one year.

If you took the entire salaries of the people who make $100,000 and up, you would have enough to operate the Federal Government for about 3 to 4 months.

If you took the entire profits of corporations, you could operate the Federal Government to about July of every year.