I've got my hoverboard, you didn't see them in that exhibit down at Wal-Mart the other day? ;)

Weren't we supposed to be able to do that now based on the Back to the Future movies?

I have worked in the IT industry for a number of years. I had a client several years ago that did this and tried to run her computer. Do not think I ever got her to understand why this wouldn't work. She was a 1st grade school teacher so maybe that had something to do with it.

I know if I pull on my own boots hard enough I'll begin to levitate...

That's a good one. Thanks

We see it as pouring some water that's already been pumped upward down into the mechanism.
http://www.pumpfundamentals.com/images/s...
I know it's easy for statists to exploit, either to prop up failing industries and/or wrongly to justify deficit spending.

we get these clients in occasionally and have to keep straight faces

Simple, circular, irrational and unusually progressive.
A, with enough public debt you can get public gains, kind of guy.

Most of Keynes' arguments on money are equally circular.