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I'm pretty sure that when people argue our military's budget isn't big enough, they really want more boots on the ground.
Unless those people are military contractors...but for everyday people they probably equate military budgets to necessities and primarily things that are troop-centric.
I think this flows from the discussion revolving around making sure we have enough troops and that they are properly compensated and geared, but the official response is that we have enough soldiers because our recruitment levels are being met as if the argument was we didn't have enough people wanting to work in the military. It follows that two rational responses would be either a) hire more people or b) quit sending what we've got all over the globe depending on one's personal stance about war/global military presence.
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