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Stimulus mirage

Memo to Europe: Don’t do it!

“It” being trying to prop up Europe’s pitiful economies with enough government spending to choke the Danube. (Unemployment among Spaniards under 25 is a breezy 51 percent, and the overall figure is a less-than-scintillating 24.1 percent.)

And then there’s Greece. And Italy. And … .

Well, you get the idea.

Anyhow, Euro-socialists are floating the notion that all that’s really necessary for prosperity to return is a lot more government spending.