What to tell a RW family member slamming Biden over budget cuts

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

for the Navy. I'm not saying Biden is necessarily correct in this, but the defense budget is so massive & surely bloated in many cases. I can only find RW & Hawkish D sources on the cuts to the Navy.

Opinions? Sources?

[Tetrachloride]

1. Missiles and drones are now more important than previously thought

and some of these are way cheaper than others.

Complicated

[Shermann]

4. To say nothing of carrier killer missiles

When your enemy is taking out your $13B aircraft carriers with a few missiles, you have a big problem.

[Permanut]

2. The US spends as much on weapons..

As the next EIGHT countries combined, including Russia and China. As an accountant, I would want to have a hard look at those numbers, politics aside.

[Shermann]

3. The world's second largest air force is U.S. Naval Aviation nt

[keithbvadu2]

6. Last I heard, DOD has at least four accounting systems that do not talk with each other.

Last I heard, DOD has at least four accounting systems that do not talk with each other.

[usonian]

5. If we took back those astronomical tax breaks for billionaires this probably wouldn't happen.

Nor the budget "crisis"
Don't blame the symptoms. Blame the cause.