>Good to see you posting again. I hope you and Andy had a good holiday season.
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>It was pleasant. We spent 10 days in England visiting the family.
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>It sounds counterintuitive but government spending is exactly what we need now. Not forever, just long enough to pull us out of this ditch. Keynes was right. (He was not an advocate of wild spending, contrary to belief).
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>I know all about Keynesian economics and, funnily enough, not all economists agree that it is a solution. And most of the economists that I have read talk about using a short burst of targeted spending to "prime the pump". I would say that after over a trillion dollars in stimulus and tarp, we are well past that point.
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>Debt is not the problem.
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>When our debt is greater than our annual GDP, as it is now, I would disagree. I bet that Greece, Spain, Italy and Ireland would also say that debt is the problem.
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>Eh, enough political bickering. We will never agree. What kind of stuff are you working on these days?
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>Mostly C#. My biggest project is a winforms app with pieces parts of it exposed to the web. I still have a couple of small VFP clients that I do occasional work for. And an old VFP client whose application went live in January 2006 contacted me just before Christmas wanting me to rewrite his old FPW payroll system in VFP. So it looks like I am going to have a busy winter.
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>Andy does no VFP at all anymore. For years he has been a SQL Server developer and DBA. Oh, he still sometimes uses VFP for tools he uses at his current contract.

I am glad to hear you are doing well. My best to Andy also. I know I lost some friendships in my drunken dissolution and his is one of them.