If, indeed, government spending in a recession is the right thing to do, and most non-ideological economists agree it is, we could spend about the amount of one month of the wars in the Middle East and balance all the state budgets for the year. Seems to me this would be a much a better use of the funds, and even if we have to put it on the tab, the economic (and psychic) benefits would be more than worth the additional interest in the long run.
More Pink Slips Coming for Public Employees: Is Austerity the Right Rx for a Weak Jobs Market? - Yahoo! Finance
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead (Mostly what other say will be in italics, what I say will not. There will be occasions when this is messed up or forgotten, but generally it will true- for those keeping track of the opining vs the reporting!)
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