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Reply to "when the automatic budget cuts hit, is the metro DC economy going to go to hell in a handbasket?"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The hardest hit places will be the towns that live off of the business created by the local military base. Unfortunately, the defense cuts will hit red states hardest.[/quote] Exactly: the military-industrial complex will get paid. The military elites will get paid. Both of those groups will remain largely in the capital area. The losers will be the entry-level grunts, and the towns where far-flung military bases are sited as de facto pork-barrel spending. Half of America's rural economy is based on redundant military bases in the home district of politically connected politicians; the other half is based on ag-welfare. The future doesn't look so bright for the largely rural teabaggers.[/quote]
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