Chuck Schumer proudly supports reducing the defense budget

[JonLP24]

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[safeinOhio]

1. I would think that less of that money

should be going to Red states that see a large positive flow of tax dollars flowing from states that get less than contributed than they send to the Feds.
I'm thinking states like Kentucky that get more back in tax money per tax dollars sent in.

[Ferrets are Cool]

2. K and R

[Sherman A1]

3. K&R

[Freedomofspeech]

4. I never understood why we still have military bases all over the world...

All that money wasted that could be used for food, education, infrastructure, etc.

[jimfields33]

5. A suggestion to move some military out of Germany was welcomed with a loud no

Can you imagine the yelling if a proposal to close all Germany bases would be?

[HotTeaBag]

6. I've often wondered the same thing but not from a financial perspective

but rather from a 'how strange it must be to have a foreign country's military base in your own country' sort of perspective.

In other words, how would it feel to us if Japan had a base in Nebraska or Egypt had a base in New Jersey? - it always felt odd to me.

[Freedomofspeech]

9. Me, too....

Why do we have to have this military presence all over the world?

[BComplex]

7. This is not the way the military needs to be handled.

We don't need to just unilaterally "cut" military funding. We need to approach it that we are going to try to STREAMLINE military funding, and look for where there is waste that can be repurposed.

"Cutting military spending" is a death threat to the military, and they will push back hard, and give democrats a label of not supporting the military.

There is HUGE waste in the military that would be better purposed to giving military soldiers and families more BENEFITS, and give military contractors fewer perks.

THAT is how it needs to start. If we just look for waste given to military contractors, that in itself will cut the military budget by billions.

[JonLP24]

8. I'm not scared of that label

I'm a veteran that supports cutting the defense budget. Republicans have for years tried to label Democrats that way but they are the ones that want to privatize the VA & cut benefits.

When you compare US defense spending to other countries it isn't that controversial. I do agree on eliminating waste and more benefits is fine.