With the deficit soaring, it might not be the easiest time to make the case for increased defense spending. But the long-term prognosis for the U.S. military isn’t good — we are embroiled in two tough wars, face threats along a spectrum of conflict that is at its widest in history (from cyber to space to terrorism to peer threats), and wholly dependent on a military that’s using equipment left over from the Reagan years. So credit to one of the champions of the Tea Party movement, Sarah Palin, for saying what must be said:
We have a federal government that is spending trillions, and that has nationalized whole sections of our economy: the auto industry, the insurance industry, health care, student loans, the list goes on – all of it at enormous cost to the tax payer. The cost of Obamacare alone is likely to exceed $2.5 trillion dollars.
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