Again, this belief is not without justification: a quarter-century of calling the government bad has resulted in bad government. But the argument that stimulus spending is inevitably wasted is patently false: the New Deal produced the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Triborough Bridge in New York, and many other public utilities still in use today.
这一信条亦可谓不无道理。25年来，人们一直说政府是个扶不起的阿斗，结果，政府真的成了扶不起的阿斗。但要说刺激计划支出免不了要沦为浪费还是言过其实了：罗斯福新政就创造了田纳西河流域管理局（Tennessee Valley Authority）、纽约三区大桥（Triborough Bridge）等许多使用至今的公共设施。