Is Greenspan retarded or something? Hey, here's a thought on how to ease the mammoth half-trillion deficit and allow people like me to get social security when we retire: why not cut military spending? Ooh, there's a radical idea. Do you know that close to 300 billion dollars is spent each year on the military? Hell, a fraction of that would cover a lot of social programs. According to IISS (International Institute for Strategic Studies) figures, the US spends about as much on the military than practically any other nation in the world put together. And, of course, there is always the cost of the war in Iraq, which is not even mentioned in the 2005 budget, at the top of the page, ticking forever higher. Greenspan calls himself a smart economist. Bullshit.