The Dept. of "Defense" is the most bloated part of a bloated government. It wastes trillions of taxpayer dollars on high-tech murder weapons that rarely live up to the hype. Meanwhile, Social Security is going bankrupt, health care costs are through the roof, our roads are full of potholes and our bridges are collapsing.
President Eisenhower warned to beware of the military-industrial complex, but no one listened, and now we're all paying the price.
Slash the Pentagon budget, end the foreign wars now, and use that mountain of cash for the benefit of the PEOPLE - not the arms makers and their four-star lackeys.