狂热的崇拜者把赤字作为全世界认可美国特殊性，愿意大宗买进的证据，而怀疑论者看到的却是一个依靠借钱、借时间度日的没落帝国。
The true believers view the deficits as evidence that the world recognizes how special the US is and wants to buy in. Skeptics see an empire living on borrowed money and borrowed time.