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Originally Posted by Azure
Nice to pick and choose.
2012 budget cut 19,000 public sector jobs and around $4 billion in spending IIRC.
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Wait, I rely on numbers from 2006 to 2012, you rely on a single year (2013), and I'm the one picking and choosing?
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Originally Posted by Azure
And I'm not calling the spending increases GOOD. The point is that if governments want to cut spending, they can....and nobody is going to die a horrible death.
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Actually, you don't know that. Indeed, it is very likely that, for example, prison overcrowding caused by the omnibus crime bill will at least contribute to the deaths of guards and/or prisoners.