Thread: In A Crashing Economy Which Government Spending Is Most Important?
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Old 10-13-2008
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Re: In A Crashing Economy Which Government Spending Is Most Important?
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Originally Posted by goober View Post
Spend on building the infrastructure for an economy that is not oil dependent.
Wind power, the transmission and storage capacity to make it work, high speed rail to replace shorter air routes, nuclear power in a sensible way.
Spending on Iraqi infrastructure makes sense, but I don't see the need to strongly tilt it away from oil. They have plenty. To invest in nuclear for the Iraqis seems to be a bad idea, I doubt Isreal would like this at all.
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