Posted by JM Ashby
"So be it."
WASHINGTON – The Republican budget proposal to sharply cut federal spending would cost 700,000 jobs through 2012, according to the independent analyst Moody's.
In a new report obtained Monday by the Washington Post, Moody's Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi analyzes the House Republican budget proposal cutting spending by $61 billion this year and projects that it will curtail job growth.
"The House Republicans’ proposal would reduce 2011 real GDP growth by 0.5% and 2012 growth by 0.2%. This would mean some 400,000 fewer jobs created by the end of 2011 and 700,000 fewer jobs by the end of 2012," Zandi concluded.
I wouldn't exactly categorize this as a revelation, as anyone who has taken even a basic economics class would see this coming, but 700,000 is a pretty big number. That number also does not include the jobs that individual states are already planning to cut from their budgets.
Mr. Boehner where are the jobs?