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By Barry Wood
Washington, DC
10 February 2006
 
watch Budget Deficit 1 report

President Bush has submitted a U.S. government budget for the fiscal 2 year beginning in October that totals $2.8 trillion.  VOA's Barry Wood reports that mainly because of tax cuts and the war in Iraq, the budget will be in deficit by an amount approaching nearly four percent of U.S. output (gross domestic product)

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Budget director Josh Bolton unveiled a spending plan that gives the defense 3 department a seven percent increase, to help cover the cost of the war in Iraq.

 

 
Josh Bolton
  

"The President has committed to provide our fighting men and women what they need to prosecute 4 this war correctly and as safely as they can."

Alice Rivlin, a former budget director now a scholar at Washington's Brookings Institution, worries that the war in Iraq is actually being paid for with borrowed money, since taxes are not going up with the budget. "This is the first time actually we have fought a war without paying for it. And worse than that, we're fighting a war and cutting taxes at the same time."

Those tax cuts -- which may have boosted economic growth -- did much to shift government finance from surplus to deficit. 


Alice Rivlin   
  
Ms. Rivlin says she is worried. "I worry a lot about the deficit.  In the near term, we can probably finance it.  The United States is a large, important economy and people are willing to lend us money all around the world."

The biggest foreign purchasers of U.S. government debt are the central banks of China and Japan. They buy U.S. bonds, in part, to hold down the value of their currencies so that it is easier to export to the United States.


John Snow  
  
John Snow, the U.S. treasury 5 secretary, says the Bush administration is determined 6 to bring down the deficit. "This budget also is committed to fiscal discipline.  It holds government spending below the level of inflation. In the non-security, non-homeland security area it reduces actual spending. And it's consistent with the president's commitment to cut the deficit in half by the time he leaves office."

Alice Rivlin doubts that the administration will make good on the president's promise. "I think that is very unlikely because spending will continue to escalate 7 and the president is very opposed to any increases in taxes."

Not surprisingly, opposition 8 lawmakers in Congress are particularly critical of President Bush's budget. Democratic Party Senator Kent Conrad of North Dakota. "This budget represents an absolute failure to face up to the country's fiscal condition."

Within his own party, President Bush's budget policies are increasingly being questioned.  The Republicans traditionally championed a smaller role for government in the economy. Under President Bush government spending has significantly increased.



n.亏空,亏损;赤字,逆差
  • The directors have reported a deficit of 2.5 million dollars.董事们报告赤字为250万美元。
  • We have a great deficit this year.我们今年有很大亏损。
adj.财政的,会计的,国库的,国库岁入的
  • The increase of taxation is an important fiscal policy.增税是一项重要的财政政策。
  • The government has two basic strategies of fiscal policy available.政府有两个可行的财政政策基本战略。
n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩
  • The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
  • The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
vt.告发;进行;vi.告发,起诉,作检察官
  • I am trying my best to prosecute my duties.我正在尽力履行我的职责。
  • Is there enough evidence to prosecute?有没有起诉的足够证据?
n.宝库;国库,金库;文库
  • The Treasury was opposed in principle to the proposals.财政部原则上反对这些提案。
  • This book is a treasury of useful information.这本书是有价值的信息宝库。
adj.坚定的;有决心的
  • I have determined on going to Tibet after graduation.我已决定毕业后去西藏。
  • He determined to view the rooms behind the office.他决定查看一下办公室后面的房间。
v.(使)逐步增长(或发展),(使)逐步升级
  • It would tempt Israel's neighbors to escalate their demands.它将诱使以色列的邻国不断把他们的要求升级。
  • Defeat could cause one side or other to escalate the conflict.失败可能会导致其中一方将冲突升级。
n.反对,敌对
  • The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
  • The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
学英语单词
acrid poison
advenced graphics port
air cleaners
antenna drive system
antigen cross-linking
aposematic colorations
approved collection area
aqueous solution of ammonia
aviatresses
be with someone
bestrew with
bip (binary integer programming)
Bongard problem
booed
bubble column fermentor
butylbromides
calcium acetylide
comfortss
consocies
continental cold high
d-homoandrostane
daily stock price
damage field
dary
decatur l.
degree of uncertainty
delta field
detonate
disk file manager
double linked ring
dual control unit
electrotubography
empirical equation of state
Epelinz
escapement timing
etalate
expanding carburetor
fairlings
flax rope
garcinol
generalizability theory
gin wheel
gross central melting
half integral
half-round eaves-tile ornament
half-through arch
heavy side
helena i.
her.
high fantasies
hillcraft
holy crickets
hypercoagulable
intransible
itineration
Kaybonga
Korean L.
labeling reader
legal abode
length of common normal
limbicsystem
Llewellyn
low lip line
macrostemum formosicolum
Maintal
mobbing us
monobutylphosphate (MBP)
nonvictimizing
norzhen
parvati
peyster
printing timer
Pseudomonas fiurescense
regression error
reigning winds direction
rocket engines
rombergs
roots compressor
sanes
Saussurea bella
shear gradient
shuttle experiment
solid coverage
sow-bug
straight-line seam welder
straw storage pile
suaveolant
suffix automaton
talkiness
tela reticularis
tenonitis
tetraphone
thrust something down someone's throat
turbeville
unhealing
unleading
upper quadrant arm
valve side winding
wilson's renormalization group transformation
xaxa
zetors
zone law