"Economist Paul Krugman has a simple solution to America's economic woes: Prepare for an alien invasion. Arguing that the United States successfully ended the Great
Depression with government spending, he provided an interesting idea
about how to replicate that economic feat on Tuesday at the Take Back
the American Dream conference in Washington, D.C.
"If you actually look at what took us out of the Great Depression,"
the Princeton University professor said in an interview with Chris Hayes
of MSNBC. "It was Europe's entry into World War II and the U.S. buildup
that began in advance."
"So if we could get something that could cause the government to say,
‘Oh, never mind those budget things; let’s just spend and do a bunch of
stuff.' So my fake threat from space aliens is the other route,”
Krugman said before a laughing crowd. “I’ve been proposing that.”
--http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/19/paul-krugman-alien-invasion_n_1609805.html
Krugman, you just want to spend more money. How about pay one guy to dig holes and pay another guy to fill them back in again? As for the idea of war to get us out of a depression, what do you think we are doing in Afghanistan? What do you think Homeland Security is?
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