Politicians, however, prefer to couch the objective in more uplifting and persuasive terms than that of crassly increasing consumption. In the US, the expansion of home ownership – a key element of the American dream – to low- and middle-income households was the defensible linchpin for the broader aims of expanding credit and consumption.
与其通俗直白的称之为增加消费，政客们更倾向于使用高雅、有说服力的词句来陈述其政策的意义。在美国，美国梦的核心因素—“拥有自己的住宅”便被政府加以利用，政府以向广大低收入及中等收入家庭提供房贷为说辞，来掩盖其扩大信贷及消费的意图。