Calculated risk makes a very good point on any potential economic stimulus plan, you don’t just have to spend on building things, you can spend on tearing them down too.

He’s talking about spending money to demolish houses in neighborhoods with high vacancy rates.

They are actually doing this in Youngstown, where the city council has finally abandoned hairbrained growth schemes, and they are pulling down phone lines, demolishing roads, and buying people out from abandoned neighborhoods so as to live within their means.