The OECD average for defense spending was 2.18% of GDP)

I am not disagreeing that we spend more than others - we can spend less, but then we have to pull way back on what we do and then the rest of the world will have to spend more to pick up the slack, its an option...but you have to look at trends and historical spending. Historically we have spent about 6% of GDP on military spending in the last 40 years, the fact that we are "only" spending 3.3% on military spend shows we are spending less in "real" terms; whereas, in entitlement spending we are spending more and more each year.

Now, a lot of this is a demographic problem that we saw a mile away and NO politician has been willing to address it and so here we are.

Actually, I would argue that are real problem on the budget is based on slowing demographics and its even a worse problem for others in the Western world, specifically in Europe, Russia and Japan. If we has more kids, growth in population we would have more workers, thus more tax revenue to cover others.

That isn't remotely true. 2009 the budget was passed with the Stimulus Act and the deficit went from $459B in 2008 to $1,413B in 2009. But the deficit remained above $1T for 2010, and 2011, and 2012. Sequestration and the government shutdown forced Congress's hand into cutting in 2013, but it wasn't the doing of Obama, in fact all his budget proposals had bigger deficits than were eventually passed.

I won't pretend this mess is Obama's, it's largely due to Congress not giving a shit about the debt and everyone looking out for their own lobbyists and pet projects, but you can't just say Obama somehow helped trim the deficit during his years in office.

Sequestration and the government shutdown forced Congress's hand into cutting in 2013, but it wasn't the doing of Obama,

That isn't remotely true. 2009 the budget was passed with the Stimulus Act and the deficit went from $459B in 2008 to $1,413B in 2009. But the deficit remained above $1T for 2010, and 2011, and 2012. Sequestration and the government shutdown forced Congress's hand into cutting in 2013, but it wasn't the doing of Obama, in fact all his budget proposals had bigger deficits than were eventually passed.

I won't pretend this mess is Obama's, it's largely due to Congress not giving a shit about the debt and everyone looking out for their own lobbyists and pet projects, but you can't just say Obama somehow helped trim the deficit during his years in office.

Read this article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_Control_Act_of_2011#Legislative_history

If you hate Wikipedia, read the source articles, and then please support your assertion that Obama and the White House weren't vitally involved in the sequestration deal.

The deficit is a liar's number. Only Congress and other swindlers could conjure up such a false number. For instance, in the mid 60's they changed the laws so that the annual social security surplus would be counted both as a debt (what it is) and revenue for deficit purposes. They tend not to count the funding of wars in the deficit. There are so many 'off the books' fundings that the annual deficit calc ignores.

Instead, look at the overall debt. That tells you what they really did.

I would wager that the first year social security runs a deficit, they will change the rules to no longer count it in the annual budget as revenue. If a company did any of these things accounting wise, they would be featured on American Greed and incarcerated.

Harbinger wrote:

This! They took our taxes for decades. Don't complain when we ask for the benefits promised. We paid for them.