All good points lighter,

But I think that this particular report set out to counter conventional economic thinking, supposedly with hard data, which make is especially confusing that the data wasn't checked.

The whole "austerity leads to prosperity" meme that some have been selling is about as credible as so called "trickle down." "economics"

This is one of the best refutations of trickle down dogma I have seen in a while.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBx2Y5HhplI