After all, every family incurs deficits all the time to buy a house or car, or to get an education. Politicians use the federal budget deficit as a way to silence reformers, said Ehrenreich. You just shrug and say, No, can t afford it. Our national parks, our clean air and water, are assets. If they were, much of the debt would be offset, according to some budget analysts.
Politicians talk as though cutting the is the only way to reduce the federal debt.
One reason is military contractors. Marian Anderson , Director of Employment Research Associates, does not think so. But the same amount of money put into education would create 35,000 jobs. Jane Midgely of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom presented a Women's Budget analysis for Expo 96. Providing universal health care and child care would not only create more jobs, but would also allow more women to enter the job market, thus providing more taxes for the government.