To: President Donald Trump, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
Cut wasteful military spending
The United States is responsible for 40% of the world's total military spending and many of the other countries are even our allies. Almost 60% of all discretionary federal spending is now going to the military. As the military budget has almost doubled in the last ten years, we should make serious cuts in spending here before we cut vital programs such as Social Security, Medicare, clean energy development, medical research or infrastructure.
Why is this important?
I am self employed and pay 15% of everything I make into Social Security and Medicare. I will have difficulty retiring at all if these vital programs are cut. I grew up in the military and worked for the military for a short time and have witnessed first hand how much waste of money occurs in this department of government. I've also read how the military budget has now doubled in size so that 40% of all military spending on the planet is done by the United States.