Published: July 09, 2008 01:29 pm         

U.S. should cut military spending

The United States shouldn’t be the world’s policeman, and we can’t afford it anyway.

The president is not working on a plan to bring troops home from Iraq; he’s negotiating a status of forces agreement to build around 50 permanent military bases there.

On the Asian warfront, the Pentagon is implementing a six-year, $15 billion plan to remake Guam into a strategic hub in the western Pacific. Thousands of additional troops and their families are scheduled to arrive.

Congress tends to rubber stamp a President’s request for military spending. Bush’s military budget today is $515 billion, more than half of all discretionary spending. This is in addition to the $200 billion a year being spent on the war in Iraq, and another $16 billion spent on nuclear weapons.

Our money would be better spent on social programs for our own people.



Jim Brugh

Logansport