Forum Post: Cut defense spending first.

"I think we need to be honest about it," Paul said in an interview on CNN Sunday. "The interesting thing is there will be no cuts in military spending. This may surprise some people, but there will be no cuts in military spending because we're only cutting proposed increases. If we do nothing, military spending goes up 23 percent over 10 years. If we sequester the money, it will still go up 16 percent. So spending is still rising under any of these plans."

-rivals Mitt Romney and Rick Perry already criticizing the commander in chief for the proposed cuts in defense.-

"It's not a decrease in the military budget. It's reducing the increase,"

• lets cut the automatic defense increases - we still will not be cutting defense. but we save a trillion dollars. otherwise.. third world country with highest paying job around ... military.