Time to cut the Defense budget?

It makes no sense that the defense budget is always off limits. Why is cutting funding to the cops okay, but not DOD? Dead is dead. It doesn't make us any safer having more missiles and more tanks if the local thug knocks us off. And same goes for health care. More troops don't make you any safer if you're dead from the cancer you can't afford to treat.

Yes, the issue is more complicated than that. But it is a shame how defense spending, and the larger issue of the military, is so off limits for any serious discussion in this country. We're all supposed to salute and say "yes, spend more!" Well, maybe it's time to acknowledge that the Republican party bankrupted our country with their tax cuts and their wars and now the military needs to be on the block along with everything, and everybody, else.

Which brings us to another point. Why aren't Democrats, including the White House hammering home the point that the GOP wars and tax cuts have bankrupted us? We actually let the GOP use the deficit issue against us. Really? At some point Democrats need to acknowledge that they don't know how to fight back, and find someone who does.