The other superpowers in the world are Russia, a corrupt and very new democracy and China, a communist country. The US is by no means without corruption, but you will find more freedom here than you ever will in the other two countries. I think a large defense budget is necessary to maintain our political strength in the world. I'd rather see savings in other places, but there is a lot of waste in the defense budget too that could be trimmed down. Take the F-35 for example, sure, it's a phenomenal weapon of war but the development of it was plagued with all kinds of problems and the production cost is insane for one unit of up to $122 million. Just cut out one plane production, and let's see what that money can do to fix all the potholes in SC roads. That is 10% of our state's direct maintenance budget. So yeah i'm with you, but defense is a huge part of our national security.