But the biggest threat to growth will probably come from a slowdown in consumer spending, the mainstay of the sustained economic expansion of the past decade.

对增长最大的威胁可能来自消费减缓，而过去十年来消费都是维持经济扩张的主要支柱。

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The long expansion was sustained by buoyant private consumption and public spending.

长期扩张有赖于繁荣的私人消费和公共支出。

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The discrepancy could be explained by the spending of money borrowed in 2010 but idled since then, and credit expansion outside the banking system.

其差异可以由以下两个原因解释，其一，2010年已签订贷款合同但尚未正式启用的那部分贷款；其二是银行体系之外的信贷扩张。

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Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, say the proposal is a massive expansion in spending and taxes that passes on to future generations a government they cannot afford.

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Obama, who has overseen an expansion in spending, does not have the fiscal credibility that helped give President Bill Clinton the winning political hand in 1995 and 1996.

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Mr Bush has also presided over the biggest expansion in government spending since his fellow Texan, Lyndon Johnson, provoking fury on the right.

ECONOMIST: The American right