China: U.S. Must Reduce Defense Spending So They Can Make Payments

From Top of the Ticket:

Following Friday's unprecedented credit downgrade of the federal government by Standard & Poor's (from AAA to AA+ with a negative outlook), China's official voice, the New China News Agency, demanded Saturday that America "learn to live within its means." And it suggested the U.S. might want to reduce its military defense spending further to make timely payments.

Read the whole thing here.

Of course they didn't call for entitlement reform or reductions in spending for pork or other silly things the government thinks it has to support, but defense. Plays right into their hands and the hands of those who think America should be punished because we're too powerful.

China would make a great liberal Democrat.