And some of the government spending in the stimulus package will replace other outlays that would have occurred anyway. An optimistic estimate of the direct increase in annual demand from the stimulus package is about $300 billion in each of the next two years.
由此可见，刺激方案的效果会在随后的10年中慢慢起到作用，政府增加的支出也会起到一些作用。根据乐观的估计，经济刺激方案将会在两年内每年对GDP增加3000亿美元。