Paul Krugman is one of my favorite liberal Economists. As he shows in the graph above and the article on the link below, defense spending has been steadily dropping as a percent of our national Gross Domestic Product. That does not mean it can't be cut more, but it does mean that cuts in defense spending will not solve our deficit problems. For that we either need more taxes, and/or cuts in entitlements.
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