How About a Fake Alien Invasion Stimulus

"[Y]ou know what would end the economic slump in 18 months? Aliens." Read Time, Paul Krugman: An Alien Invasion Could Fix the Economy:

"While talking off the cuff on Fareed Zakaria’s GPS program (Zakaria is also a TIME Magazine contributor), Krugman conjectured about what would happen if aliens landed on earth and attacked us.

'If we discovered that space aliens were planning to attack, and we needed a massive build-up to counter the space alien threat, and inflation and budget deficits took secondary place to that, this slump would be over in 18 months,' Krugman says, referencing an episode of The Twilight Show in which an alien threat was manufactured to bring about world peace."

Actually, it was "an episode of similar 1960s sci-fi series The Outer Limits, titled 'The Architects of Fear.'" [Link added.] Read Comic Alliance, Economist Paul Krugman Endorses 'Watchmen' Alien Invasion Plan for Fiscal Recovery, where "[y]ou can watch the full Outer Limits episode 'The Architects of Fear' now, via MGM Digital on Youtube."

The "[l]essons from WWII, [are] wasted on some people." Read The New York Times, Oh! What A Lovely War!