In this high level public appearance situation seeing my President producing a really less than even casual attention to the honored exchanging of salutes depresses me. It’s not like this saluting is too frequent to get the proper respect it deserves.

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War II, your dedicated spouses, those ladies who took part as military members and those known affectionately as “Rosie the Riveter”

What I ask has happened to your apparent lack of concern for todays’ course of events your Country is being led on that’s results will be directly opposite of those you helped maintain through your Patriotic endeavors.

Unfortunately in the twilight of our lifetime this still has to be our concern because everyone of your surviving family members will suffer the consequences.

Gee whiz – I hope & pray. It’s not an expression or feeling of “no longer my concern”.

The looming battle over the defense budget could produce a useful national discussion about American foreign and defense policy. But we would need to begin by dispensing with the most commonly repeated fallacy: that cutting defense is essential to restoring the nation’s fiscal health. People can be forgiven for believing this myth, given how often they hear it. Typical is a recent Foreign Affairs article claiming that the United States faces “a watershed moment” and “must decide whether to increase its already massive debt in order to continue being the world’s sheriff or restrain its military missions and focus on economic recovery.”

This is nonsense. No serious budget analyst or economist believes that cutting the defense budget will aid economic recovery in the near term—federal spending on defense is just as much a job-producing stimulus as federal spending on infrastructure. Nor, more importantly, do they believe that cutting defense spending will have more than the most marginal effect on reducing the runaway deficits projected for the coming years. The simple fact is, as my Brookings colleague and former budget czar Alice Rivlin recently observed, the scary projections of future deficits are not “caused by rising defense spending,” and even if one assumes that defense spending continues to increase with the rate of inflation, this is “not what’s driving the future spending.” The engine of our growing debt is entitlements.

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