Heads up, folks: $61B is pocket change at the Pentagon

Okay, so the Republicans are threatening to "shut down the government" again, this Friday, by not compromising with anyone else in Washington.

These guys just don't learn.

They did it before, in 1995, and took a beating for it but no, no, here they go again, threatening us all.

President Obama is playing this one smart, unlike other negotiations with them like health care.  He's pointing out that the military wouldn't get their pay and other necessities.

Shrewd move.

But seriously, if anyone really wanted 61 billion dollars out of our spending, for the love of pete, just take it out of defense spending.

On the real, hard budget books alone, we spend some $711 billion dollars a year on defense.

As I've said before, it's insane.

And that's just what's on the books.  What's not shown goes far beyond a trillion dollars.  They've got so much money, time and again we find they've lost a few billion here and unaccounted for a few billion more over there.

So for pity's sake, Republicans, if you want this precious $61 billion slashed from our spending, take it from the Pentagon.

It's just sitting there at the Pentagon, it's small potatoes for them and they won't even miss it.

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