[gingerbread-man]

That's a rather misleading statement. Discretionary spending makes up less than a third of the federal budget. Defense spending works out to about 15% of federal spending overall. Confusion seems to arise because mandatory spending programs (like social security, medicare, medicaid, and the VA) are budgeted separately, as is the interest paid on federal government debt.

The United States spent $609 billion on defense last year. Surely it's possible to make the case for DOD cutbacks without misleading statistics.