May 15, 2012
The Washington Post constantly uses both its news and editorial pages to push for its view of fiscal responsibility. While this ostensibly means lower budget deficits, the theme that is most consistent in Post reporting is that programs that benefit the middle class (e.g. Social Security and Medicare) should be cut.
This was very clear in a news story on the prospects for a year-end budget deal. The very first sentence in the piece was:
“defense contractors have slowed hiring.”
This is clearly written as though it is a bad thing. Later in the piece we get the specifics:
“Kaman Corporation chief executive Neal Keating said his firm is already scaling back hiring in Jacksonville, Fla., where the company builds cockpits for Blackhawk helicopters. He was hoping for new contracts to refit the nation’s aging fleet of A-10 Warthog attack planes.
“’So many of those things are now uncertain,’ Keating said, adding that plans to hire 200 workers have been put on hold. Without further clarity, Keating said, he could be forced to start ramping down purchases and cancelling shifts sometime this summer.”
Of course this is what happens when the government makes cutbacks. Businesses lose contracts and people lose jobs. One would have thought that the Post understood this fact, but apparently not.
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