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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
anathematises
arbitration in disputes between labor and capital
art work sheet
article clerk
bag tie wire
bartonellae
binagacay hemp
board as a rare commodity
broxbournes
buoyant
business manner
carry-out
Cassiopeia
catheterised
centrums
classical distribution law
cockface
cohesin
continuous train speed supervision
contra-type bossing
convulsive disease
corrugated conduit
coverage ratio
Cromogen
cross-cultural perspective
Daphne phoria
DDR SDRAM
defense-budget
deodo(u)rization
deoxidisation
detrimental gene
distribution on reciprocal terms
dolichopeza (nesopeza) taiwania
double-glazing
electron-tube static characteristic
essif
ethyl triphenyl silicane
from the bottom of the heart
generally accepted accounting principles
get money
glamourous
hunger
hydralignum
hydraulic crane
immediate assistance
immunomycin
incisal ridge
International Pen
intrinsic permeability curve
Jassidae
Karlowitz
Kemabung
L.E.L.
ligand binding
limestone fern
lolot
loss free reflectivity mechanism
Luzula inaequalis
maleinamic acid
Mariana L.
martyrly
maximum overall diameter in service
mid channel
middle - class family
military department
monotagnac fabric
no-observed-effect-concentration
ottrelite-schist
out - of - body experience
percent transient deviation
point type speed control system
positive logic-transition
potato head
rename clause
rotation profile
sarehole
schtik
schwendinger
sensory organ physiology
shaft helical spring
short haul cable carrier system
slip sth. over
Spanish stonecrop
spring bolt
stupido
sulpherous
synthetic tower
tensile testing
top hat pension
train of waves
Treacy
tread
tropic bird
turgency
turn sb.'s stomach
Unguiculata
vegetable tanned split
wet natural gas
wireless virtual LAN
work marriage
worsfold
xenothermal