Military Spending

Here's a good article in Slate about how ridiculous the US Defence budget is. The Pentagon is to politicians what Buddhas Vegetarian Restaurant is to Toronto commonfolk: You can't talk shit about it without severe consequences. And so they get away with wasting MASSIVE amounts of money.

I think this would be a good policy for Obams.....he says he's all about "changing the way people think". One of the benefits of having Obama as a candidate (or president) would be that he's good at articulating things to the general public that are a little more complicated then, say, "you're either with us or against us". I'm sure he could successfully make the case that just because you think the defense budget contains waste it doesn't mean you're a traitor or a terrorist. If nothing else, I bet something like this would've helped him in the primaries. He could propose to pay for new spending programs - universal health care? - by getting rid of all the bureaucratic bullshit in there, like how each part of the military (army, navy, air force, marines) gets exactly EQUAL funding (regardless of how much they actually need) because otherwise they bicker.

Also, this would be a fantastic way to make John McCain lose his temper.