c@lbob
I’m gonna help Mark32 out here, don’t say I don’t reach out to “conservatives”.
Here’s how we cans save trillions of dollars over the next decade, cut the defense department by 75%. Leave troops deployed everywhere possible within that limit.
Nationalize all the petroleum production within the sovereign territories of the United States, and declare it a national defense reserve.
We’d still be this biggest military power on the planet. Make the sole mission of the military the protection of those same US sovereign territories and leave the middle east to whoever wants to screw with it.
Cutting the military is one Ron Paul idea I can line up behind, he’s not nearly as far reaching as I am, but it’s a start.
But what about all those unnecessary soldiers and sailor and airmen that will come home, you ask? Why let’s put them to work in the domestic healthcare industry – research, public health, doctors, nurses, etc. Retrain those young minds for some productive purpose.
We are gonna need to get off the oil teat, as well, so battery production, research and deployment will be a big receptor of them. Development of tide, wind, solar — maybe even nuclear, if the waste problem can be solved.