Last week Ezra Klein wrote this. His main point, the way I read it, is that the Obama stimulus was insufficient. But he makes a few other claims, one of which is that the government should have stopped firing people and it should have even hired more, even in totally bogus make-work jobs -- one assistant [...]

At the Stata command line, type "findit geocode". You will turn up a command that matches physical addresses with latitude and longitude coordinates using the Google Maps API. Then if you type "findit writekml" you will turn up my first contribution to the SSC: a command that writes a KML file using latitude and longitude [...]