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Economy Shrinks Due to Military Cuts

JackBNimble Wrote: Jan 30, 2013 2:01 PM
All on the backs of the real "earners" in society. What happens when there are no more bridges to fix because the economy stops because everyone who didn't have a government job can afford innovation. I would rather build a bunch of new bridges than base my economy on fixing old ones. Maybe you should go to college and take an economics class. Moron.
A release from the Bureau of Economic Analysis today surprised analysts when the top-line number showed that the economy shrunk in the last quarter of 2013 by a slight 0.1%. While small, it was unexpected. This marks the first time the American economy has shrunk since the end of the 2008 recession.

Real gross domestic product -- the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States -- decreased at an annual rate of 0.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012 (that is, from the third quarter to the...
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