Tuesday, September 7, 2010

$50 billion Obama Infrastructure plan

Paul Krugman
September 7, 2010, 5:30 AM

Infrastructure

Some bleary-eyed thoughts from Japan on the reported administration proposal for $50 billion in new spending:
1. It’s a good idea
2. It’s much too small
3. It won’t pass anyway — which makes you wonder why the administration didn’t propose a bigger plan, so as to at least make the point that the other party is standing in the way of much needed repair to our roads, ports, sewers, and more– not to mention creating jobs. Once again, they’re striking right at the capillaries.

"...[T]here’s a pretty good argument to be made that we are, in fact, starved for public goods in this country, so that it would actually be a good idea to shift some resources to public goods production even if we were at full employment; in that case, we should definitely give priority to public goods when trying to put unemployed resources to work."

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