The problem with economists is that they forgot math. The deal in illusionism and magic just l;ike the great Houdini did. Except these idiots have actually figured out how to make wealth disappear.
Oh, the government knows how to make debt disappear. They will simply print a boat load of paper, call it money, and send it to their debtors.
You know, when I was very small, probably only about 4 years old, I realized that money was nothing but pieces of paper with some ink on it. I told my mother that I was going to get some paper and use my crayons to make some money so she could buy her some nice things. She tried at the time to explain that the inked pieces of paper that my daddy had in his pocket were different from the pieces of paper that I could draw. It didn’t really sink in at the time but I never became a counterfeiter.
After the government services its debt with 14 trillion pieces of paper, a four year old making “money” with blank paper and crayons will suddenly not seem so silly.
I think the latin term is recio ad absurdum. You can reduce most of these arguments to the laughable just by pushing them to te limits. If cash for clunkers is smart, why not destroy all used cars? If $826 Billion in TARP funds can stimulate the economy, why not a quadrillion? If two years unemployment insurance is great, why not fifty?
Just don’t make their little pea brains work.