From today's news...

BAGHDAD--Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ruled out the presence of any U.S. troops in Iraq after the end of 2011, saying his new government and the country's security forces were capable of confronting any remaining threats to Iraq's security, sovereignty and unity. Mr. Maliki spoke with The Wall Street Journal in a two-hour interview.

So, add in the savings from pulling out of Afghanistan as quickly as we can and that's a saving in government spending of over $1 trillion per year.

Not a bad start on trimming government spending in a big way.

Sticking with military spending, how about slashing what we spend each year on our fleet of nuclear submarines? Even the admiral who is a member of the joint chiefs, when asked the value of the submarine service, answered that it has no real current value but it would be very valuable if the cold war was somehow renewed in 20 years or so. Whaaat?