Nevertheless, Obama is under political pressure. The US public is deeply troubled by the accumulation of public debt, and the Republican opposition has been extremely successful in blaming the Crash of 2008 – and the subsequent recession and high unemployment – on government ineptitude, as well as in claiming that the stimulus package was largely wasted.
奥巴马政府在财政问题上一直端正无瑕，不过这并非出于财政需要，而是出于政治考虑。美国与欧洲那些债务深重的国家不同。欧洲债务国必须支付比德国高得多的溢价，而美国国债的利率一直在不断下滑，现在已接近历史最低点，这意味着金融市场认为会发生通缩，而不是通胀。