英国首相戈登·布朗却大加赞赏奥巴马，认为作为世界最大的工业化国家的美国必须尽可能地刺激国内经济。 然而，英国央行行长默文·金却警告说，如果再推行一次经济刺激方案的话，英国人就会背负太多的债务。
And, while British Prime Minister Gordon Brown agrees with Obama that the world’s leading industrialized countries must stimulate their domestic economies as much as they can, Bank of England Governor Mervyn King has warned that Britain may already have taken on too much debt for another round of stimulus.