奥巴马讲话两天后，国会预算办公室发表的最新研究���告显示今年的预算赤字将达1.5万亿美元，如此庞大的赤字即使就美国的经济规模而言也远超人们的想象力。
America’s fiscal reality was made painfully clear two days after Obama’s speech, in a new study from the Congressional Budget Office, which revealed that the budget deficit this year will reach nearly $1.5 trillion – a sum almost unimaginable even for an economy the size of the US.