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patrice

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1. All of those "independent" contractors who did as all of the career-advice books tell you to,

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Wed Jan 30, 2013, 05:41 PM

Jan 2013

create your own job by studying a situation and finding something unique to sell to that enterprise whether it actually needs it or not, . . . . all of those hack, cough, choke . . . "independent" contractors who developed themselves within the constructs of MIC and, in some cases, even received no bid, guaranteed cost+ 15% contracts, have been recognized for the parasites that they are on the backs of the enlisted ranks and have been losing their hold on the Pentagon's jugular, so those incomes are now out of the economy and less spending is, thus, going on.

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Why do cuts in defense spending hurt the economy? Pretend I'm a 5th grader. [View all] raccoon Jan 2013 OP

All of those "independent" contractors who did as all of the career-advice books tell you to, patrice Jan 2013 #1

Because the defense industry is huge sharp_stick Jan 2013 #2

Military spending is still spending. To cut it would mean less spending but there is jwirr Jan 2013 #3

Inasmuch as people get paid, and spend the money, that "helps" the economy. immoderate Jan 2013 #4

Right... it is stimulative, but something of a dead end jberryhill Jan 2013 #6

I dunno. The Internet? GPS? Recursion Jan 2013 #10

That's small potatoes jberryhill Jan 2013 #15

there is a multiplier effect for military spending as well karynnj Jan 2013 #11

Plus the investments that are made Recursion Jan 2013 #13

I'm pretty sure the Internet is a net positive for the economy (nt) Recursion Jan 2013 #12

Since you are going to keep repeating this jberryhill Jan 2013 #16

The military was involved in the development of the net, but... immoderate Jan 2013 #20

There's a reason nobody remembers Banyan Vines Recursion Jan 2013 #21

I was thinking of the system at NPL, in Britain. immoderate Jan 2013 #22

They don't. They hurt the numbers that are used to guess about the state of the economy. Egalitarian Thug Jan 2013 #5

So until recently I contracted for the Navy Recursion Jan 2013 #7

Cuts in spending for ANYTHING mean fewer dollars going out karynnj Jan 2013 #8

Exactly right Blecht Jan 2013 #14

Because. Rex Jan 2013 #9

Let's be careful here: If we can get Repugs to understand that defense spending helps the economy... reformist2 Jan 2013 #17

This is why: baldguy Jan 2013 #18

There's something called "The General Macroeconomic Equation," laid out below: coalition_unwilling Jan 2013 #19