在州一级，他们的影响力可能更可怕。

At the state level their influence can be even more fearsome.

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田纳西州 Dyersburg 61岁的护士 Jone Nell Norman 经常怀疑她花钱时的判断力，她说：“在我看来，我们这些中产阶级承担了大部分的负担。”

"It seems to me that we in the middle class bear most of the burden," says Jone Nell Norman, 61, a nurse in Dyersburg, Tenn., who often wonders about the government's judgement in spending her money.

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这都只是为了分散你的注意力，让你不会留意到她没有任何在纽约州行医所需要的执业医师执照。

Distraction, so you won’t notice she doesn’t hold the minimal qualifications needed in New York State to be practicing psychotherapy.

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