re: #410 Spocomptonite

When I say “cut military spending”, I don’t mean arbitrarily gut it 10-25% overnight. I don’t want the troops we do have to suddenly lose all their equipment. But if we curtail enlistment, over time we can spend the same or more per soldier than we do now, but just have less of them. And no soldier goes into Iraq with shoddy/no body armor, so really its a win-win.

OOORRRrrr, we could quit doing absurd things like paying private contractors $100 per load to wash soldiers’ laundry (and mandating that they use the contractors, or ELSE).