November 5th, 2012 at 5:34PM

hit-the-books reblogged your photo: The notion that if we cut our defense budget by as…

We could cut our defense budget and use that money to fix the economy, it’s ridiculous to think we need so much in our…

Actually, we probably couldn’t use that money to fix the economy because first of all, government spending doesn’t “fix” the economy and secondly, we are borrowing more money every fiscal year than we are spending on defense. That means that if we spent $0 on Defense next year, we’d still be losing money and have to borrow (about $500 billion dollars) to keep our massive Federal Government going. 

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