If government spending is the ultimate economic stimulus, then why don’t impoverished nations simply spend the necessary billions to upgrade their infrastructure and lift themselves out of penury? There’s no reason the Congo shouldn’t have an 8-lane autobahn, hospitals that rival the Mayo Clinic, and schools the equal of Oxford. What’s stopping them?
Well, according to those countries' rich, brutal dictators-for-life, American free enterprise is the reason they live with debilitating disease and crushing poverty.