"48% Think Major Cuts in Defense Spending Won’t Put America At Risk”

As my grandmother would say , “SCHMEDRICKS AND SCHLUBS”

But I would refer to this:

Nearly one-half of Americans now think the United States can make major cuts in defense spending without putting the country in danger. They believe even more strongly that there’s no risk in cutting way back on what America spends to defend other countries.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 48% of Adults feel it is possible to significantly reduce military spending without putting the American people at risk. Thirty-seven percent (37%) disagree and do not believe major defense cuts come without risk. Fifteen percent (15%) are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

Seventy-nine percent (79%) say the United States spends too much on defending other countries. Only four percent (4%) think America doesn’t spend enough protecting its friends. Thirteen percent (13%) feel these defense expenditures are about right.

Sixty-eight percent (68%) of Americans believe it is possible to significantly reduce the amount the United States spends defending other countries without putting the American people at risk. Just 15% believe this is not possible without putting the country in harm’s way. Seventeen percent (17%) are undecided.

Fifty-nine percent (59%) of Democrats and 54% of adults not affiliated with either major party feel it is possible to make major spending cuts in defense spending without weakening national security. Fifty-eight percent (58%) of Republicans feel otherwise. But there’s little partisan disagreement that significant cutbacks in what America spends to defend other countries would not put the country at greater risk.

These findings take on added significance as Congress and the president debate ways to make significant long-term cuts in federal spending. Fifty-one percent (51%) of voters now recognize that most federal spending goes to only three areas – Social Security, Medicare and national defense.

When the USA put the USSR out of business, starting off on the only weapon system ever developed which is of little use unless you are ACTUALLY UNDER ATTACK, and can kill NO HUMAN BEINGS, we have 751 F-15 air superiority fighters.

Under this shield we were able to protect our troops anywhere they went as the 751 F-15’s could hold off ANYTHING while our slow and low ground attack aircraft aided OUR FEW TROOPS ..compared to others… to achieve their objective.

Today, after reading this from Rasmussen, I cannot help but wonder if these half of us, have the least idea that we have already replaced the aged F-15’s with 187 F-22’s. That seems a pretty serious cut and a significant loss of SURETY in defense.

We can kid ourselves all we want bout needing Reaper drones to kill Awlaki as the most useful tool this afternoon, but the ugly facts are that as Russia pumps oil and gas out of the ground willy nilly and turns it to cash, spying, R&D and PAK T-50 stealth craft of their own, and the Chinese sell us back the Lenovo’s they bought from IBM, and cash in the interest on US T-bills, there is no doubt we need both strategic weapons and Reapers.

The USA needs a long talk with itself about what it is we want to do in the world, and what we are willing to do to get there.

We already have had major cuts in defense.

Maybe we should really cast a much harder eye on other govt spending.

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