Even government deficit spending – long the bane of Africa – seems positively puny compared to the massive debts that the US and some European countries face. The new Obama administration is proposing spending plans that would create a record US deficit of more than one trillion dollars – and this coming on top of the outgoing Bush administration’s record deficit.
和美国以及一些欧洲国家面临的巨额债务相比，甚至连政府的赤字开支—长久以来这一直是非洲的祸害—似乎也完全是微不足道的。新的奥巴马政府提出了开支计划，其中赤字超过一万亿美元，这会创下新的纪录。而这还是在刚离任的布什政府已经创下了有史以来的最高赤字之后。