How would it look if he had openly expressed misgivings about Bush’s plan to cut the budget deficit in half by 2009 just days before it was made public? What Mr. Greenspan chose to overlook, however, is that most experts are extremely – and rightly – skeptical of the Bush plan, which leaves out big-ticket items such as the cost of the Iraq War, and uses an unrealistic benchmark from which to measure the alleged 50% cutback.
美联储主席正在“倾听这个声音”因为他是鼓励美国削减财政预算的参与者。若他就在布什公布2009年前削减一半预算赤字计划的前几天公开对此计划表示疑虑，那会是怎么样呢？大部分专家对布什计划持极度质疑的态度，他们是正确的，因为该计划遗漏了开销巨大的项目，诸如伊拉克战争费用，以及据称将费用减少了50%的不切实际的计算基准，然而，格林斯潘先生选择要忽略的正是这些质疑。