Greece Today, America Tomorrow?

`` Even as its economy collapses and the government makes (minor) cuts in welfare spending, Greece's military budget remains among the largest in the European Union. Despite all the handwringing over how the phony sequestration cuts have weakened America's defenses, the United States military budget remains larger than the combined budgets of the world's next 15 highest spending militaries. Little, if any, of the military budget is spent defending the American people from foreign threats. ''