The US would like to see budget cuts in the military

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An overwhelming majority of U.S. citizens want deep and immediate cuts in military spending, according to a new poll. The Center for Public Integrity, a Washington, D.C.-based investigative news service, in conjunction with two other groups asked more than 600 Americans from across the country about their perceptions regarding U.S. defense spending. The survey went on to ask whether the respondent favored increasing, holding steady or decreasing military spending.

Seventy-six percent of survey-takers, including 90 percent of Democrats and 67 percent of Republicans, say they would cut the Pentagon's budget. That places the majority of respondents at odds with Democratic President Barack Obama's policies and the proposed budgets of the majority Republican Party in Congress. Obama has essentially held defense spending steady at around $550 billion by cutting its recent rate of increase. The Republicans have proposed adding billions of dollars to the president's budget.

I smell an ouster coming on... This Congress is truly losing legitimacy in a really bad way. Obama might gain a second term but I'm pretty sure that keeping the Tea Party in place will really destroy any chance of him actually being effective.

The military has been sitting pretty with their Billion dollar failure plane but those days may be going the way of the dodo. As expected, people don't like the ever present war state and constantly pushing for wars has gotten to a number of civilians. But how much longer can the politicians try to maintain that we need so much military expenditures when it's effectively done nothing but get contractors rich?