The deficit hawks and their rube followers often make an analogy to household finance when trying to argue for draconian social spending cuts. One can try to acquaint them with a few concepts from Keynes but that rarely works but Carol Avedon has come up with a terrific metaphor:
"when the patient is hemorrhaging you give it a blood transfusion and right now the doctors are prescribing leeches."
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