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Recursion

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7. So until recently I contracted for the Navy
Wed Jan 30, 2013, 06:02 PM
Jan 2013

I did circuit diagrams for their hovercraft fleet. With the money they paid me, I bought food and beer and XBox games. If I were still at that company, I would be laid off now, and not buying food or beer or XBox games.

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
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