虽然美国债务相对GDP比率在过去十年增加了一倍，奥巴马政府和国会却刻意无视这一问题，相反着眼于2012年以来年度赤字额的逐步下降和赤字相对GDP比率的相对稳定。
Although the US debt-to-GDP ratio doubled in the past decade, the Obama administration and Congress ignored the problem, focusing instead on the annual deficit’s decline since 2012 and the relative stability of the deficit as a share of GDP.