CNN 2010-01-31

So what that is is evidence that people are being hired using the stimulus¹ money, but what it leaves out is that someone is gonna have to pay the taxes to pay for that spending. So if you think that the extra spending now pay is creating jobs now, the extra taxes later to pay for that are of course going to destroy some jobs. So at best, we are maybe substituting some jobs in the future for some jobs now. Second in many these cases, a lot of people who get them were already employed, so you're shifting people from one kind of employment to another kind of employment. But even more it's not the whole story, the question has to be ‘are these uses of the stimulus, are the additional spending things productive?’ Katie, an example you had a few moments earlier about the smart grid² in Maine raises the right question: do we really want to insist that everyone build the smart grid now or where we get more productive gradual adoption³ of smarter electricity grids⁴ if we let individual city States, etc. develop them when they have the other infrastructure⁵ when they have the appropriate scientists and engineers available and things like that. If you told every homeowner go put a porch around your house now because that’s where we're gonna spend the stimulus. Of course a lot of these porches would be completely silly and useless, that's in effect when we're doing the stimulus money insisting that the private sector⁶ spent its money in ways which may or may not be productive.

 

1 stimulus   

n.刺激，刺激物，促进因素，引起兴奋的事物

参考例句：

• Regard each failure as a stimulus to further efforts.把每次失利看成对进一步努力的激励。
• Light is a stimulus to growth in plants.光是促进植物生长的一个因素。

2 grid   

n.高压输电线路网；地图坐标方格；格栅

参考例句：

• In this application,the carrier is used to encapsulate the grid.在这种情况下，要用载体把格栅密封起来。
• Modern gauges consist of metal foil in the form of a grid.现代应变仪则由网格形式的金属片组成。

3 adoption   

n.采用，采纳，通过；收养

参考例句：

• An adoption agency had sent the boys to two different families.一个收养机构把他们送给两个不同的家庭。
• The adoption of this policy would relieve them of a tremendous burden.采取这一政策会给他们解除一个巨大的负担。

4 grids   

n.格子( grid的名词复数 )；地图上的坐标方格；（输电线路、天然气管道等的）系统网络；（汽车比赛）赛车起跑线

参考例句：

• Typical framed structures are beams, grids, plane and space frames or trusses. 典型构架结构为梁、格栅、平面的和空间的框架或桁架。 来自辞典例句
• The machines deliver trimmed grids for use or stock. 这种机器铸出修整过的板栅，以供使用或储存。 来自辞典例句

5 infrastructure   

n.下部构造，下部组织，基础结构，基础设施

参考例句：

• We should step up the development of infrastructure for research.加强科学基础设施建设。
• We should strengthen cultural infrastructure and boost various types of popular culture.加强文化基础设施建设，发展各类群众文化。

6 sector   

n.部门，部分；防御地段，防区；扇形

参考例句：

• The export sector will aid the economic recovery. 出口产业将促进经济复苏。
• The enemy have attacked the British sector.敌人已进攻英国防区。