It's not because a lot of people felt this would be a great idea, let's all spend 10 trillion dollars to blow ourselves up, but the incentives were such that we were finding ourselves -- this could have been worse.
Non pas que beaucoup de gens pensaient que ce serait une super idée de dépenser 10 billions de dollars pour se faire sauter, mais les incitations étaient telles que nous nous trouvions -- cela aurait pu être pire.