All you need to do is cut interest rates, so that private spending takes up the slack.

First, it drew attention to the need for a balance between public and private spending.

Government spending is also said to crowd out private spending.

Q. Using health care as an example, explain why you think we can't separate government from private spending.

Other forms of high-end private spending are driven by similar forces.

Where the plan comes up short is in its failure to tilt public and private spending toward investment - the key to long-term growth.

To find any net effect on private spending, one must look farther beneath the surface.

To be precise, private spending on wages is up less than 0.1 percent.

But he insists that the Government must not impose limits on private spending for health care.

From 1994 to 2000, the President says the growth of private spending would be cut in half.