Don't just stand there, spend something!

Mr. Brian Beutler complains that the Iraqi government has not spent much of its reconstruction funding. I find it interesting that so many people seem so obsessed with using the amount of money that the government has spent as their prime metric rather than, say, whether it built anything worthwhile.

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http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2008/01/don-apos-t-just-stand-there-spend-something/2574/