So your answer is more if it, SOP, move along. Yea, I got that the 1st time. Yea, much easier. Here's a hint, a 5% cost cutting across the board is obviously going to change the habits of those Federal employees no longer working for the Fed. It generally means what it means to the rest of us who lost far more jobs in the private sector. You find work elsewhere, and budget better until then
It would behoove you to examine your own answers rather than projecting what my answers might be?
So the loss of those jobs will have zero effect on whatever locales these employees reside? Is that your position?
Well considering you're playing some sort of zero-sum game, where if anything negative might affect the economy, we can rain all over it, so that we can can all go back to the easy talk of raising taxes again, which have been demonstrated over and over again, as one of the worst things you can do, in a recession. You know that, I know that, many a politician has spouted it and has been pasted here for all to see. This goal of yours to try and convince everyone that everyone's taxes need to go up, "to be fair", so that not just "the rich" are targeted, while noble and principled, misses the problem entirely
The way you outline your efforts to argue with me, has a position logically to maintain some status quo of big government, because if government employees are laid off, it can effect the economy negatively. I don't have a position that there is some zero effect. There *gasp* might be a small negative effect, as those Federal workers might have to find new jobs, like the millions more are having to do in the private sector. The point being the mess has been caused by rampant out of control spending, at all levels of Government. The housing meltdown is what lit the economic fire, and Obama's (democrats') liberal policies of spending is the gasoline that was poured all over it. THAT's what has to stop.
We can't take back the tarp money, or the bailouts, or all the Solydra's this administration has payed off. So, rather than take the easy way out and just keep harping on taxes, which will inhibit economic growth all the more, we start somwhere, and my somewhere was a 5% cut to all Federal Departments. Then we adopt the Ryan Plan
It's a start, but at least its the right thing to do