Ryan Avent Asks Why David Brooks Has a Job

It is a very good question. Ryan Avent:

Deficit reduction: David Brooks doesn't inspire confidence: David Brooks' column.... I think it's a total mess.... [I:]t's meant, I think, to be about fiscally responsible ways to invest in America's future. But... odd detours.... The piece begins with a rumination on the effectiveness of last year's stimulus plan.... Mr Brooks then transitions:

Voters, business leaders and political leaders do not seem to think that the stimulus was such...