Fifth, the higher the unemployment rate goes, the wider budget deficits will become, as automatic stabilizers reduce revenue and increase spending (for example, on unemployment benefits). Thus, an already unsustainable US fiscal path, with budget deficits above 10% of GDP and public debt expected to double as a share of GDP by 2014, becomes even worse.
第五，失业率越高，则政府预算赤字越大，因为经济当中的一些自动稳定器会减少政府岁入而增加政府支出（例如失业者福利方面的支出）。这是给已经不堪重负的美国财政雪上加霜，美国的预算赤字已超GDP的10%，公共债务到2014年预计达到GDP的两倍。