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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (103221)	2/5/2009 12:30:47 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) of 542077

John, this is the debate. Kugman and Ben Stein are saying get the money into the system anyway we can - dig the holes and fill them is. Build houses on one end of the development while we bull doze them on the other. Return to the old way. I doubt Stein is saying that but I don't read him so I don't know. Krugman is definitely not saying that. He is saying we need a larger stimulus package, much larger but I've not seen him arguing for hole digging. Not a position anyone would take. Now someone may be characterizing his positions as hole digging. I can't help that. I and others are saying that this can't be done. So instead of digging that hole (building another house), move these workers into something that needs to be done - build a bridge, a tunnel, a transit system, repair dams, the list is almost endless. That is a real difference. A difference between Krugman and what Americas in middle America really want. If you wish to debate with your caricature of Krugman, I can't keep you from doing so. But that's not his position. If you think it is and wish to debate it, you will need to find some quotes along with the context for the quotes.

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