I'm not saying all the money is being used as efficiently as possible. Just that a large national defense budget shouldn't be anything to be offended by.
The amount of corruption regarding our defense budget is appalling. If you read the report, you'll see that Republicans are spending more money than even the Defense Secretary thinks is necessary, and on things he doesn't think are worth it. Why are we upgrading tanks, when we pretty much don't use tanks anymore, and there isn't any foreseeable conflict where we would even need to use tanks?
Besides, you could half the defense budget, and it would still be large. This isn't necessarily about having a large military budget, it's about the fact that it's growing, and growing, and Republicans don't want to pay for it. They won't raise taxes to pay for this budget, they'll actually decrease taxes and make the deficit worse. I have a feeling there's some sinister thought process going on, as in, increase the deficit even more, so that they can try and get rid of the social programs they don't like,
even though the social programs aren't responsible for the debt.
is hardly a Republican phenomenon.
If Senate Republicans wouldn't filibuster everything, we'd have seen the deficit reduced. There has been more than one fair and moderate proposal, but Mitch McConnell stated job isn't to do what's good for the country, it's to ensure Obama doesn't win re-election. That means, he won't let anything pass that's good for the country, becuase that would be good for Obama. Obama put cuts and adjustments to social security and medicare on the table, he got attacked by some Democrats for it, and Republicans basically just ignored it, becuase, ya know, can't let Obama get anything done.
Aside from that, Democrats agreed to a deal that was 90% budget cuts, and 10% tax increases, and Republicans turned away from this, even though it was everythign they demanded.
Add that to the fact that the last Democratic President actually balanced the budget and gave us a surplus, and it most definitely
is a Republican phenomenon.