How about just defunding the whole fucking Military-Industrial comple, and put the money toward building good relations with the rest of the world?

That’s not how things work, as nice as it sounds on paper. I wouldn’t advocate we abandon all our defenses, anymore than I would leave my door unlocked in the hopes that thieves would realize what a nice lady I am.  But yeah, there’s a shitload of lobbying in this, resulting in some fat contracts paying for private yachts and jets. Dollars to donuts major reductions could be made without risking our security.

Oh, and not getting into wars because it makes Dickwad and his buddies more money when we do—that would help too, I bet.

I leave my door unlocked all the time: it works out great. The burglars come in, look around, and seeing how everything I have is crap they’ll tend to leave me things, like post-80’s VCR’s, posters of Madonna when she was hot ( especially like the ones where it’s like a tour/show performance and you can see the sweat trickling down her thighs and imagine licking that off…

But seriously, we should stop treating military funding as something of an ivory tower: it’s poorly managed, highly ineffective, and the troops I’ve spoken to with field experience declare they never get the equipment they need, when they need it. The current infrastructure doesn’t help our troops, or our security, or our spin-off economy things.

But instead we want our political folks to discuss “Don’t ask, don’t tell.”—pretty damn sad. We should remember that the army lives by it’s stomach, and there’s nothing more invigorating than a gutload of man juice. Or girl emissions, if that’s how you swing.