Does the United States spend too much money on defense?

1st answer: "yes." The way I see it, the U.S. spends approximately $600 billion a year on making sure our country is safe. Please don't get me wrong, I think that America needs to be protected from outside threats, but $600 billion a year? and increasing every year? what? I think there is a fine line between protecting our country and making a military safety bubble out of America.

2nd answer: "Yes." Now, I was told that the U.S. defense system actually benefits the economy. I think this might be a potential future problem. An economy that is dependent on one thing is double trouble (as we've seen with oil), and can only lead the economy into further turmoil. Also, if we cut spending, we won't necessarily be cutting military jobs, we would (SHOULD) be cutting the technology that goes behind weapons, seeing as we have the best in the world as of now.

3rd answer: "Yes." I understand that defense is a necessity, but so are shirts, and you don't see me spending $5,000 (how much per household it takes to protect the country) a year on those.

4th answer: "Yes." I understand that the world is a topsy turvy one, but (according to this article) we are the ONLY super duper country. As a super duper country, do we need to spend that much money on making sure we're safe? According to this, no one can touch America because of our CURRENT weapon technology state. Why not keep it like this? I don't think anyone can catch us for awhile...why don't we put that $600 billion a year towards something else?

Final answer: "Yes." Wow, this article really didn't change my opinion of anything at all. I thought I might find some "No's" in there, but apparently not. Maybe I'm just stubborn, who knows.