Here's Your Chance to Fix the Budget

[KLHJ2]

Great responses. Back to fixing the budget, sorry for hijacking.

I believe that defense spending should be cut but it has to be cut in the right places. downsizing the military is cool. Withdrawling from and reducing the numbers of those stationed or deployed abroad will also help. Some R&D could be cut but only from those projects that combatants aren't going to benefit from.

You still have to develop new technologies to protect the soldier.
You have to annually increase the pay for active duty. The pay increases have to keep up with the percentages of the private sector. Most of the military still lives below the poverty level. That aint right.