Running Government Like A Business or Family – NYTimes.com.
…the funny thing is that real individuals and businesses don’t behave the way the balanced-budget scolds claim. Businesses often borrow and spend when borrowing is cheap or they see high payoffs to investing; so do families.
Paul Krugman with the perfect rejoinder to all those tiresome wankers who lecture us about the private sector and go on about how we should run government like a business.
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