Cut defense spending by HALF. The original Obama request for 2011, was $739.3 billion.

The President requested $739.3 billion for 2011. This does not count other defense related spending. This includes roughly $20 billion in military retirement spending outlaid by the Treasury Dept (the DOD budget pays for less than half of annual military retirement costs). It does not count military aid to countries like Israel and Pakistan (in the International Affairs budget). It does not count homeland defense costs in the Homeland Security budget (such as Customs Border Patrol, and the Coast Guard). It does not count caring for veterans of past and current wars in the Department of Veterans Affairs. Adding in all of these non-DOD agencies' costs in reality brings the total to 1 Trillion Dollars. In contrast the next closest country is China at $90 Billion and the UK at $63 Billion.