but according to the constitution, only the Navy is required to be perpetually funded.The only people that really suffer when the defense budget is cut are the poor enlisted folks with a family and an E2 paycheck. And they enlisted to serve their country. They should be given a raise - not a cut.
I thought govt spending did not create jobs?
Not a job but a constitutional requirement.
and according to the constitution, a standing army can NOT BE FUNDED more than 2 years at a time?? and the State Militia is to be controlled by each state....meeting the requirements that congress sets.....they are to be ''called up'' by congress when needed?
To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;
To provide and maintain a navy;
To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;
To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;