November 18, 2008 1:03PM 

# Lord, Make Me Chaste, But Not Yet 

By [David Boaz](https://www.cato.org/people/david-boaz) 

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From a [WSJ blog](http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2008/11/17/summerss-new-view-on-stimulus-sustained-not-temporary/):

> Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, speaking at the same event, also pushed fiscal stimulus while stressing the importance of signaling concerns about the deficit. “The single most important thing we can do right now is a very large fiscal stimulus married with a commitment, once the economy is healthy again, to put in place a multi-year program to get back to a sound fiscal position,” he said.

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