Military Spending Budget Plan

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The United States is facing a large military budget spending issue with the Department of Defence reporting a cost of around $525.4 billion this past year. Washington Posts announced that, "The United States spent more on its military than the next 13 nations combined in 2011." While military spending is a large part of the government budget, and there is enough room to reduce spending as long as there are a set of precautions of which necessities the government cannot cut.
By cutting out unnecessary aircraft carriers, naval, and military bases we can reduce the amount of money needed to run those bases and use it in another budget plan for either military spending or other government funded programs. We can remove some of the Military bases located in Europe along the Atlantic Ocean and move the forces to other necessary places due to NATO pact that was signed in 1949, which will ensure that the military forces will come together in a state of crisis or terrorism. According to NATO about 82% of the 28 countries listed have their own military force, which means, "...it has the mili...

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