In what some are calling one of the biggest flip-flops in
history, Republicans who for months have argued that the federal government
spending does not and cannot create jobs now argue that federal spending is just
the thing needed to create and/or save jobs.
Donna Cassata at the Associated Press reports:
The same Republicans who insist that federal spending doesn't
create jobs and should be cut in the face of staggering deficits are leading
the charge against smaller military budgets because about a million defense
jobs would be lost.
Pentagon accounts are
coming down, and Republicans who repeatedly reject the idea that an infusion of
federal dollars can produce new jobs now say the government should keep
billions flowing to the makers of guns, tanks, aircraft and ships for the sake
of sparing jobs in home districts and states. It's the newest of several
arguments against reducing Pentagon budgets.
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