So we toss out $600 billion of $4 trillion in Bush tax cuts...

[Sekhmets Daughter]

32. Easily? C'mon.

Every $1 billion of Defense spending generates 11,600 jobs. Cut the defense budget by half and eliminate 3,944,000 jobs...with unemployment over 7.5%...Really, is that what you want?

Now here's the thing, because I don't disagree that we should be looking to cut the defense budget, just that we can't cut it by 50% either easily or immediately. Every $1 billion spent could create 17,100 jobs in clean energy jobs, but you'd have to overcome the fossil fuel industry first; 19,600 health care jobs, but you'd have to defeat the morons in congress who object to a rational health care policy; and 29,100 jobs in education but then you'd have to do battle with the fools who want to privatize education and repair a system which already delivers less for the money spent than the educational systems in other countries.

There are no easy fixes and certainly no quick fixes. It's taken 40 years to create this mess.