The whole thing is retarded.
Cut back on the military? Right. We'll get right on that, in between repeated calls to bomb the entire Middle East back to the Flat Age and send our troops to the Mexican border to battle drug cartels.
Cut back on government spending? Right. We'll get right on that, too, in between repeated calls to magically pull jobs from our asses, hand out welfare checks to people, school districts, and corporations, rebuild cities that were predictably devastated by hurricanes, skim half an ocean of oil, improve border security, magically pull yet more jobs from our asses, and prevent idiots from losing the houses they couldn't afford to begin with. Oh and my baby needs medical care, and I'm broke. Can you hand me some more cash?