But Germans – as well as some other Northern Europeans, and perhaps some Chinese economists – remain reticent. They believe that responding to calls for stimulus would simply lead to more such calls, creating a log-rolling, pork-barrel dynamic in which any hope for fiscal consolidation is ruled out.
但德国人——以及一些其他北欧国家的人，可能还有一些中国经济学家——仍有所保留。他们认为响应刺激要求只能导致更多的刺激要求，形成一个彼此强化的分肥动态，一切财政整合观点都会被排除在外。