That's the problem. Any significant cut to the military will involve the loss of thousands of jobs that we as a society simply cannot afford. In my local area, Long Beach continues to rely on Boeing, with all those government contracts. In Burbank you've got Lockheed. And the list goes on. You take those contracts away, and it doesn't just affect those jobs, it affects the entire local economy.
I get that; any reasonable person does. But there's also the fact that Boeing and Lockheed and all of the others are producing a product that really isn't needed anymore. And rather than the painful process of trying to wean us off of those products, our politicians, fearing backlash, continue to authorize their purchase. And/or they push for other countries to buy them, which in turn forces us into relationships with unsavory partners like Saudi Arabia. It's a broken system and I have no earthly idea how to fix it.