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     From The State:

Gov. Nikki Haley on Wednesday warned that deep, automatic cuts to the military that result from last year’s military debate could cost the state about 14,000 jobs as the state’s military industries lose contracts and lay off employees.

And U.S. Sen Lindsey Graham, who is proposing his own plan for what should be done, called on Congress and the president to spend an entire week in September addressing alternatives to the $1.2 trillion in cuts that will begin taking effect in January — half to the military and half to domestic spending.

“Everything has to be on the table,” he said. “This will be a death blow to our ability to defend ourselves.”

The two made their comments along with S.C. Adjutant Gen. Robert Livingston and other state military leaders at an S.C. National Guard armory in Columbia, flanked by two U.S. Army Humvees.

“I’m killing myself trying to create jobs in the private sector every day,” Haley said. “We’re trying to bring companies every day and we’re watching Congress turn around and undo everything I’m trying to do.”

She pointed to a George Mason University study about the military cuts to each state’s economy. It showed South Carolina losing 13,666 jobs and $307 million in earnings.

The Pentagon has already implemented $487 billion in cuts to take place over the next decade, due in part to the end of combat operations in Iraq and a proposed drawdown of troops in Afghanistan. But another $600 billion in cuts over 10 years could be required beginning Jan. 1 because of last year’s debt-ceiling standoff in Congress and the failure of a congressional super committee to make $1.2 trillion in deficit reductions. That failure could trigger the automatic cuts called “sequestering” unless another method is found to reduce spending.

Graham has been on a crusade to bring the state’s and the nation’s attention to the dangers of sequestration, not only to the military but to domestic programs as well, especially in transportation and education. In June he conducted a campaign-like tour of the state, holding news conferences in six South Carolina cities and military installations.

     Graham's solution? Lay off workers:

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham (R) called on government contractors to put employees on layoff notice before November's election as a way to pressure Congress to address the so-called "fiscal cliff."

Graham, joined by Republican Sens. John McCain (AZ) and Kelly Ayotte (NH), were in Florida for their first stop on a  two-day, four-state tour by these three members of the Senate Armed Services Committee designed to bring attention to the $500 billion in automatic cuts scheduled to begin in January if Congress does not find other ways to cut spending.

“Politicians, you know, quite frankly respond to pressure,” Graham said about the  cuts set to begin in 2013 under the so-called sequestration budget.

“I’m urging every defense industry that could be affected by sequestration to put your employees on notice before November,” he continued. “The more it becomes real to us as to what comes the nation’s way, the more likely we are to solve the problem.”

     But, as we all know, government doesn't create jobs. Florida Governor Rick Scott, congratulating Mitt Romney on his veep pick, says, "Like Governor Romney, Congressman Ryan understands that government doesn't create jobs, people do." Sen. John Kyl, R-Ariz., in 2011 said "government spending doesn't create jobs," and Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., insisted in 2010 that "it's not the government that's going to create jobs in this country." Governor Romney said it himself in January, so you can take it to the Swiss bank: “The Government doesn’t create jobs, the private sector creates jobs”.