re: #4 glnmruser

Extremely well said. We need to downsize our military and I really think that we have to figure out how to move our military technical expertise into more productive functions. These folks are so highly skilled- if you could move them into non-military technical development America would zoom past the rest of the world in months. Some bipartisan strategy here would be a boon for America- bucks saved and bucks made.

It’s an interesting bunch of ideas but the fact that this guy is all alone says that he’s as rare among liberals as a global warming realist among conservatives. Not part of any team that can get anything done politically. For all practical political purposes, today’s liberals aren’t interested in finding domestic spending cuts.