Quantum Windbag
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State and local government spending has been declining. That has been shown from data compiled by the St Louis Fed. Hundreds of thousands of state and local employees have been laid off. Whether or not shell games are being played does not obviate this.
Unless you can show otherwise.
Ya--think? What did you expect??-- that unemployment in this country--should only be happening in the private sector?
The 868 billion dollar stimulus bill that was promised to create millions of private sector jobs--turned into saving government workers jobs. It temporarily worked for a time--but now that money has run out--and YES those government workers jobs that were saved by borrowed and spent taxpayer dollars are now getting their pink slips.
You aren't suggesting that we borrow more from China to keep government workers employed are you?
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Focus!
Before you go off all half-cocked, ranting and raving and everything, perhaps you can show us where I have a normative statement here about the proper level of government employees.
Now, if you want to be Mr. Angry Conservative, fine. I might even agree with you. But this discussion is about whether or not state and local government spending has declined. If you have something substantive to offer on whether or not state and local government has declined, I would love to hear it.
It has declined, but not to the point where overall government spending has declined. What has declined is the increase in projected government spending.
That does not meet my definition of austerity.