Jack Reed actually said...

if passed without modification, there could be as much as a 2-percent decrease in the growth next year going forward and as many as 700,000 ...

if we contract spending at the Federal level... you do not anticipate a fall-off, a significant fall-off in growth?

Clearly, under the agreements entered into in the Bush administration, our military presence is ending in Iraq in the end of this year.

I think the kind of audits concerns and unintended consequences that you are talking about may well be the worst effects.