The left has run out of all other options-- so now they're banking on an alien invasion.
First Paul Krugman suggested that if we faked an alien invasion, the government would have the go ahead to spend the crazy amounts of money he wanted it to spend in the first place. Considering the 15 trillion dollar deficit, it's an open question of just what the debt pile for Krugman's War of the Worlds Economics would look like. But Krugman did argue that the stimulus was far too small, so the wages of Krugman's alien invasion might be quadrillions in debt.
