Military Spending: Romney vs Obama

I'm not a big fan of deficit spending.

I'm against Obama borrowing $10 million from China to hire 100K more teachers, because we don't really need them that badly.

I'm also against Romney borrowing $100 million from China to maintain current military spending.

After World War II, we stopped building as many tanks. It would have been wasteful to keep spending the same amount of money on tanks.

Similarly, wrapping up Afghanistan/Iraq/etc - we should cut down on military spending.

Romney wants to keep spending on the military because... he thinks military spending is good. (It's not like he's said, "We need to build more submarines, because our current fleet is too small!")

Romney thinks that China/Russia will be impressed if America spends 30X as much on our military, instead of only 15X as much as them.

Really? We already have a much bigger military than them. If we have a SUPER much bigger military - that's what's going to convince them to behave?

I think that the extra money for the military is just "vanity spending" so Romney can feel tough - and that's a lot of money just for vanity.