As an ex marine myself I am of the opinion that our military spending is literally "killing" people at home at this point. Defense has become an oxymoronic word as the amount of money going to our military and the lack of money going to the social safety net is causing havoc across the country. And by havoc I mean lack of education that leads to derelict lives that lead to innocent people being murdered. Lack of money for health care programs that lead to innocent American children dying. Lack of funds for seniors to pay their rising utility bills and inevitable health care costs that eventually leads to their early demise. All these issues could be fixed and so many more if, as you wrote, we would just slash the massive military budget.

We on the left have capitulated for too long. This is a chance to be strong and show the spine that has been missing all along. I say we drive right off the fiscal cliff and get rid of these useless money sucking Republicans once and for all.

I would also like to point out to those not aware that the so called "Fiscal Cliff" was started being hyped massively the night of the election. This was no coincidence on the media's part. By now we all know the MSM does the MIC's and big business's bidding. It's a no brainer the whole shell game has always been about getting rid of the social safety net. It's the same game the evil powers that be have been playing all along. I seriously wish Obama would show them all up this time and be strong for us. But once again I feel the let down coming on.