Advice from a once not so great Socialist

McGovern: My Advice for Obama: We could defend ourselves with a military budget half the current size.

Most Americans probably agree that we have elected a highly articulate, talented president in Barack Obama. He has also given us a potentially great Secretary of State in Hillary Clinton. (Well, let me tell you Mr. McGovern, some Americans do not believe this at all and as things stand now, we will never know if Clinton is a good or a bad Secretary of State - The Obama controls every minute detail of his staff of yes-people that she has not a thought of her own. Many Americans are not easily swayed by large quantities of human green house gas emissions in the form of empty vapid speeches by a former Community Organizer.)

Nonetheless, our military budget is higher than ever -- $515 billion annually, not including the cost of Iraq and Afghanistan. (Well, it is the one thing that the Constitution actually mandates. We could easily save $2.5T by eliminating most of the social programs of the budget and just concentrate on protecting ourselves and paying down the huge deficit. If the Obama and congress (and by congress I mean not just the socialists but also the republicans - woops, I am almost being redundant) would focus on what the Constitution mandates as being their jobs then things would actually improve.)

Much of the arms spending is for things that are capital-intensive but low on job creation. The reverse is true for public investment in such things as upgrading our decaying infrastructure, protecting the environment, providing quality teachers and schools, and improved health care. (Unfortunately, Mr. McGovern, it is not the place of government to grow government. By spending trillions on social programs the government is doing no more than creating Trillions in debt. Little or nothing has come of the Obama's first package of economic squandering - people are still out of work and the debt grows. His budget will amount to the same thing but by a factor of 4.)