Well, I'm sure they've been told that if the government spends a billion dollars playing whack-a-mole, they'll infuse the French economy with billions of dollars and millions of new jobs....
You betcha! (insert wink here from Caribou Barbie.) In the same manner that a $700B bailout for private corps in the U.S. will create and stimulate jobs in the healthcare industry and cut waste concurrently.