因此，我们还是把美国债务上限放在一边，先想一想债务上限僵局在过去半年以来是如何束缚住了美国政府的手脚的吧，让我们想一想到底有哪些有用的政策是应该讨论而未讨论的。
So, rather than talking about the US debt ceiling, let us think instead about all of the things that the debt-ceiling impasse has prevented the US government from doing during the past six months – all of the useful policies that might have been debated and enacted, but were not.