This came as a relief for the Bush administration, which claims to have given as much as its “budgetary processes” allow. The world’s richest country, which blithely gave its richest citizens a series of tax cuts worth hundreds of billions of dollars, now says that it simply can’t afford to spend much more on aid.
这一消息可是让布什政府松了口气。它总是宣称已经在“预算程序”允许的范围内尽可能地提供了援助。这个欣然给予最富有的公民总计千亿美金的一系列减税措施的，世界上最富有的国家，现在居然说自己无力负担更多的援助。