GUEST COMMENTARY: Save austerity measures for the next boom

Monday, July 2, 2012 | 6:14 p.m. CDT

There are two competing theories on how to pull us out of the economic slump we're in, but you'd hardly know it from the debate going on in Washington. Conservatives, who want us to cut our way to prosperity, keep drowning out those who think we should be pumping money into the economy by spending more on teachers, research, roads, bridges, and other public works.

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