Stop the economic weather waffle
You cannot for the life of you, be thinking that these economic conditions are because you are, or you know someone, who has lost their job because the government (directly or indirectly), has stopped spending. If you are, what you are then saying is, our economy GDP is based on taxpayer funding. Are you serious? Our nations private debt (to commercial banks, $800B) against a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of around $450B! Do the math. Interest/bond dividens, is cost the taxpayer nearly $4B annually, on our national debt. It's no wonder, all we have drummed into us is productivity. Ask yourself, how the the nations (Monetary) private debt shapes politician driven fiscal policy, based on our nations private debt. Regardless of government spending.