http://dot.romkey.com/2009/04/15/you-cant-spend-your-way-out-of-debt/ Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 14 May 2009 02:59:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://dot.romkey.com/2009/04/15/you-cant-spend-your-way-out-of-debt/comment-page-1/#comment-17 rev412.livejournal.com/ Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:09:12 +0000 http://dot.romkey.com/2009/04/15/you-cant-spend-your-way-out-of-debt/#comment-17 I would make a distinction between spending and investing. Both involve money going out but one does so wiht the expectation that that spending would result in more money coming back in sometime in the future. People who think the government is doing good things like to call it investing. I'd guess that the people saying "you can't spend your way out of debt" disagree and think it's just spending. I would make a distinction between spending and investing. Both involve money going out but one does so wiht the expectation that that spending would result in more money coming back in sometime in the future. People who think the government is doing good things like to call it investing. I’d guess that the people saying “you can’t spend your way out of debt” disagree and think it’s just spending.

]]> http://dot.romkey.com/2009/04/15/you-cant-spend-your-way-out-of-debt/comment-page-1/#comment-15 cos.livejournal.com/ Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:43:18 +0000 http://dot.romkey.com/2009/04/15/you-cant-spend-your-way-out-of-debt/#comment-15 What the government is trying to do with spending now, is to more or less repeat <a href="http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2009020603/fdr-failed-myth" rel="nofollow">what worked before</a>. What the government is trying to do with spending now, is to more or less repeat what worked before.

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