Oh yeah, it's due a lot to greed, whether it's the fat cat's at the top making millions by manipulating the system or the losers at the bottom who just want to sit around and live on welfare (they're the same sort of people really), but that's a tough thing to fix in a (relatively) free society. We need to cut the budget somewhere and the largest cut I see possible is by reining in this global policy we got into in the wake of WWII. We don't need to be all over the globe, we're not wanted, and we can have a strong military ready to go where needed stationed right here at home. Also, active duty military personell account for about one half of on percent of the U.S. population so I don't see a problem finding stations for them at home - weren't there a lot of bases here deactivated a few years ago? There's a public works program; renovate those bases then bring home our kids to live, work and train there for when they're actually needed for combat.

And ditto on the Sunday backups - sometimes the site won't even come up.