Totally over blown and not needed. It gross and dishonest how we keep on hearing we hearing from are leaders in government that there is no money for stuff like a single payer health care system among other stuff like some how social security is running out of money and there is no money in the budget for any kind of spending that helps people, Yet we are in 7 different country's have 900+ bases around the world. Why is there always money for the military, bailing out the banks, corporate welfare and subsidies but we can't get health care?? Cut the budget by 50% and we'll still have the biggest military ever,

they are robbing us blind

SICK!

We all ready spending more than the next 5 nations. Split the amount so rest can go for Health Care

It's overkill.

That is a lot for one screw.

I'm torn on this, being an active duty service member, I see a lot of wasteful spending. And then I see a lot of places where we need more money. As far as spending more than our allies, well, let's not forget we have a larger population and our country is pretty much damn near a continent. That and it seems we fall on a double edged sword when it comes to world assistance. We are hated because we try to meddle and we are hated because we don't do enough.

I think it's very excessive.
I don't see why we need to spend more on our military then all of our allies combined.
Like others have said here, we could be spending a lot of that money on much better things.

We spend far more on our military than any other nation and it's mainly to enrich the countless military industries who profit greatly from our unnecessary and immoral wars. We neglect millions of the poor, the sick and the elderly and children who go to sleep hungry every night. 700 billion could be better spent to correct these inequities.

i personally think it is a waste of resources. the Military Industrial Complex is growing fat off of our taxes. We could have some really nice things if we would stop this endless war.

Not Happy about it.

I think we spend far too much on military and should clearly siphon much of it, if not most of it into other fields of government spending such as education and infrastructure. If we could figure out how to redistribute the budget more progressively, a lot of the country's issues would be a lot further along, with funds to spare for overseas relief...

Too damn much. We have a crumbling infrastructure and we pour more money into the military for weapons, and planes that will sit gathering dust.

Good thing we spend more than the next highest budgeted 20 countries COMBINED. Otherwise we would be vulnerable, oh wait, those countries are our allies...
It'll be ok. Our education system is failing so the next few generations will be easily manipulated by the wealthy in the government. Nothing to see here. Just work and live in your hovels.

honestly don't know enough about the budget or economy to say anything too meaningful about it

I feel we are spending quite a bit of money on protecting a country of uneducated people. (generally speaking, of course) We spend more on military than we do on education, caring for our elderly and basically taking care of our citizens. So, we're protecting something that we don't take care of. Doesn't make sense to me.

As a pacifist, I hate it. Think of what we could do with that money: better education, free college, fix our infrastructure, feed the hungry, help the homeless, healthcare for all and the list goes on. As long as we think the military is paramount, we will wage wars and make the world hate us. There are better ways to do things.

I see it as being a necessary expenditure, however, I think we should spare some for our education system. Our nation is only getting which will eventually lead to economical problems in the future.