但美国政府解决不了这些问题，而且已经浪费了半年 — — 这半年本来可以花在通过基础设施投资、教育改革以及医保融资方案修正来提振美国经济长期潜力上，从而大大纾解美国长期赤字问题和债务困境。
But the US government won’t address them. Six months that could have been spent boosting the long-run growth potential of the American economy through infrastructure investment, educational reform, or an overhaul of health-care financing – greatly easing America's long-run deficit and debt dilemmas in the process – have been lost.