There's a caveat to the consumer spending, it must be spent in this country, not someone else's. The defense budget spends over a 1/3 of tax payer dollars to fight these unecessary, made up, bullshit wars against fictitious boogeymen, in country's on the other side of the planet. How can that possibly be good for average American's? We spent over a trillion dollars in Iraq and Afghanistan alone and what did the American tax payer get in return for that investment? Taxes should be spent to benefit American's and the US economy, not some country of goat herders who wish we'd just get the fuck off their land.
People who don't want to cut the defense budget are not really serious about reducing the deficit.
So explain to me how this all works, Loin...we cut the defense budget in half...which means defense contractors across the country will end up laying off workers by the tens of thousands and the military will cut tens of thousands of military personnel but that's going to make the unemployment situation better because progressives will have more money to give away in entitlement programs? And when the tax revenues from all of those defense contractors and their employees ceases to exist...all those high paying middle class jobs that are so hard to come by these days...are we going to make that up with imaginary shovel ready infrastructure jobs?
I love when you liberals try to formulate a cohesive economic policy!
