This Chronicle of Higher Education piece tells the unsurprising story that colleges and universities are pleading for some of the “economic stimulus” money from those generous, kind-hearted pols in Washington.

Why not just stimulate everyone and everything? The feds could print up vast numbers of $100 bills and scatter them from helicopters. Just imagine the stimulus as everyone goes on a buying spree.

What’s that you say? Inflation? Oh, stop worrying. That only happens in banana republics, right?