text: I gave some more thought to what you may be getting at. Cutting spending at this point can help or harm. What the current administration wants is a 10% jump in military spending, which of course would stimulate a boom in shipyards, aviation and so forth, and that would indirectly lower deficits, all things being equal. How about cutting taxes for the top quintile? That's a sort of spending but not a productive one in terms of revenue generation, because the wealthy and big corporations are currently cash rich, meaning if they wanted to spend on expansion, they could do so without tax breaks. Tax cuts to the poor would have negative social effects and probably negative economic effects, since it would take money from people who spend all they have, which is stimulative. Spending cuts on government employments would destroy jobs and the revenue they return. I don't see the need to cut spending now, since monetary policy can keep inflation and interest rates low.