Alex offers us a concerned insight into her Cutting Defense in the Face of Trillions blog post. I think we can all agree that these past years of war have cost our nation both in money and lives. However, it doesn’t seem that there will be an end anytime soon. Therefore, it’s necessary to begin to “lighten” this ballooning debt we are continuing to increase on a daily basis, the million dollar question is where do we take money from?
As a military wife, I agree with Alex that cutting military funding isn’t the way to go, but as with anything there are always some expenses that could be scaled back just not at the sacrifice of the soldiers or their families.
While your commentary is well written in favor of non DOD cut backs, I am left wondering what your ideas are for budget cuts in general. In the beginning of this course we filled out a survey about budget cuts and had to make decisions to take money from different areas, I think this would have been a perfect opportunity for you to add your budget cut choices into this blog to give us more of a solution. I remember having a difficult time making those choices, because everyone has a reason or a cause for why they need money and it is a very challenging position to be in, not one that I envy at all.
I appreciate your concern for the military and its possible impending cut backs and look forward to reading your blogs in the future.
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