What if the you didn't build that speech was more like this...

saveUS222 said:

My question is, why can't the government just balance the budget with the current funds it's getting?

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Because that would require significant cuts immediately. That alone will depress aggregate demand which in turn will cause a decline in activity and tax revenue. This is the problem behind an annual balanced budget amendment. I haven't met a rational person who thinks that revenue will increase as demand goes down. Even the whackjobs here who think we should cut everything run away when asked how that creates jobs. So constantly balancing the budget annual during slow growth or a recession will theoretically cause a default as revenue keeps declining as cuts keep being made. The indirect spending of all federal employees is immense. To cut them entirely out means everyone who has a business that benefits from such spending now just lost those sales. You see this happen when a base closing happens. Dozens of business catering to base personnel fold up because demand just disappeared. Apply that to the entire federal workforce and revenue will drop like a rock. Which then requires you to cut even more. That's a death spiral into default.

obvious Child said:

You see this happen when a base closing happens. Dozens of business catering to base personnel fold up because demand just disappeared. Apply that to the entire federal workforce and revenue will drop like a rock. Which then requires you to cut even more. That's a death spiral into default.

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Well, guess what? This is already about to happen! I work on a base and have been told that my job will most likely be terminated next year. A RIF is coming, and it is going to cut deep. Seems like the libs are really helping those gov't jobs right?

saveUS222 said:

Well, guess what? This is already about to happen! I work on a base and have been told that my job will most likely be terminated next year. A RIF is coming, and it is going to cut deep. Seems like the libs are really helping those gov't jobs right?

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Last I checked, it was the GOP faction of the deficit commission that killed the compromise and then forced sequestering to occur. If you want to pick a bone with military cuts, go take it up with Veep Candidate Paul Ryan. He led the GOP faction to reject the deficit plan.

And I don't reject that cuts to military spending won't cause jobs. They will. What I find so puzzling is the GOP stance that non-military cuts won't cost jobs. They complain about Obama's weak employment numbers while at the same time pushing bills to make unemployment worse.