Suppose that what the government spent money on is worth to us two-thirds on average of what private-sector spending is worth. In that case, we will have spent $600 billion and gotten $810 billion worth of stuff in return, for a net social profit of $210 billion (and those who would otherwise be cyclically unemployed cannot be said to place a high value on their lost leisure).
这就意味着 2009 年美国增加 130 万多就业人口， 2010 年增加 190 万， 2011 年增加 70 万。想象政府的支出相当于私营经济支出的三分之二，这也是值得做的。在这种情况下，我们支出 6000 亿美元，收回 8100 亿美元的回报。社会净利润达到 2100 亿美元（对于那些失业人口就不能说想要休假而不愿意工作了。）