What a shithead, we have no unnecessary bases left. In fact we have too few bases, because if we tried to duplicate the military effort of WW2 we'd have to build new ones.

But notice the declaration up front is, we're not going to have to fight an industrial power.  In fact we don't have to fight in Afghanistan either...when you decide up front that goatherders can bomb on New York and get away with it, sure, we can use a much smaller military.

Chris went straight to the bottle, he never got the teet and never had to be weaned off...

The Yell: "remember we're still on the hook to prop  up Wall Street every time it takes itself out."

Exactly. The government is like a lone iron man attempting to hold up the walls of a failing three-story house at the epicenter of a violent earthquake. I've not heard a single mainstream candidate argue that a policy of tax increases and bailouts are detrimental to the economic rejuvenation we all desperately seek.

As a professional in the (heavily unionized) airline industry for roughly 15 years (not counting military service), I can't tell you enough how subsidization does NOT work. Heck, any frequent flyer can tell you that just on the basis of their TSA encounters.

It takes guts to think 25 years' hence. 2040 represents about 30% of a lifetime and shares the burden of correcting America's economy between the current and next generation sensibly without - hopefully - damaging either too much.