Most American's Support Defense Cuts

For Defense Sector, Americans’ Support For Military Cuts Is An Inconvenient Truth -- Defense News

For Pentagon officials, defense-sector CEOs and congressional hawks, it is perhaps the most inconvenient of all truths: Most Americans want Washington to spend less on the military.

More Americans pointed to the Defense Department and wars than to any other issue when asked for their opinion about areas where Washington spends too much, according to a new poll released Jan. 30.

Twenty-one percent pointed to Pentagon and war spending, with 17 percent identifying federal-employee salaries and campaigns, states the Reason-Rupe poll, conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International. Thirteen percent pointed to welfare and social programs, with the same percentage citing foreign aid.

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My Comment: Most Americans are disconnected from the military .... they do not serve and/or are not directly involved in the defense industry .... hence this altitude towards defense spending. But the reality is very different ..... many of us are employed indirectly with the military .... and the economy itself is heavily dependent on what the defense budget will fund. But after Afghanistan, the war of choice on Iraq, the war on terror .... the American public is getting tired of funding all of these conflicts .... and they want out. Cutting the defense budget is one way to accomplish that.