$100 Million in Cuts? Easy.

President Obama yesterday asked his Cabinet to help him find $100 million in new spending cuts. Heck, I can do that, without breaking a sweat.
The new supplemental request for Iraq & Afghanistan is $83 billion. My suggestion is that we go ahead and get out of Iraq instead, and reverse course in Afghanistan. (Think about it, Barack--what would LBJ do if he had a second chance? Do you think--knowing what he learned from Vietnam--that LBJ would let himself get sucked into Afghanistan like he did Vietnam, even though he knew from the start it was a disaster?! A word to the wise...)
Let's close down hundreds of overseas bases, not force European Missile Defense down the throats of the Czechs & Poles who don't even want it, and help President Obama carry out his long-time goal of actually slashing our nuclear stockpiles (and Russia's!). That would save a few gazillion bucks.
Here's an idea--don't buy any more F-22s, since Secretary Gates says he wants to end them, not mend them. That specifically includes the 4 that somehow snuck into the Iraq/Afghanistan supplemental request, even though one of the big raps against the F-22 is that it has never been used in either of our current wars! Since each one costs something like $339M, cutting 4 of them would save over $1.3B--more than 13 times President Obama's goal!
And here's a swell idea--the Pentagon original asked for 2,458 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, each of which is estimated to cost a minimum of $100M--exactly the President's stated goal! So if we just cut one of them, bingo, we're there! And if we cut, say 2,458 of them, we'd save a cool $245.8 billion!!! (Some experts say it's closer to $1 trillion, more than the President's stimulus package!) Wouldn't $245.8 billion build a lot of new schools, levees, weatherized homes...?