USA spends less on defense per dollar of GDP than 45 other countries!

[mawilson 2,133]

Arguing that defense spending is historically low as a percentage of GDP, and therefore must be increased, is a bit like a landlord arguing that because a tenant received a much-deserved pay raise, their rent should be increased automatically.

Of course in reality landlords jack up the rent regardless of whether or not you had a raise...

it would be really nice if the rent was pegged to your salary.

[IAMX 3,055]

I wanted to see if they'd catch this part of the article. I guess not:

To tie defense expenditures to GDP, which under an ever-expanding economy is a prescription for ever-increasing defense spending, there are only three choices given the present budgetary constraints: cut domestic spending, raise taxes, or increase the deficit.

I'll take "increase the deficit" for 1000.