I agree. Military spending is our greatest source of financial and political over reach. SS is not a problem and won't be for quite a while and even then it's an easy fix. Lift the payroll tax cap. Medicare costs will be rolled over into health care reform so that to is manageable, assuming a political will to manage the problem. So military spending is where a lot of the pain will start but cutting military spending during a recesion may not be a good idea. Having said that what we spend it rediculous. We could cut spending in half and still outspend the rest of the world combined.