My rough estimate for the the entire spend on the military given war, defense and other budgets together is about 800 billion / yr. Cut it 500 billion and that should leave 300 billion / yr which is still FAR more than anyone else spends.

Time to tell Pentagon that is the budget, period, make do. Yes this might clip the wings of the military, empire building corps and politicians, but I think that would be a good thing.

Yes I want to reduce the debt, and I think they are being too timid and looking in all the wrong areas. Here are my suggestions:

Massive cuts to the military
Restore taxes on wealthy to prior levels (raise them at least to Clinton levels of 45 %)
End Corp welfare
Put in place SIngle Payer Health care to reduce medical costs by 2/3
Cut Congressional benefits to 401k match like the rest of us.

Rough estimate I think that comes to at least 8 trillion over 10 years. Cut that first and let's see how the budget stacks up then.

Only afterward can you talk to me about 'share the burden' cuts to the average person