Right now, the twin towers of stock-market declines and job losses have produced a remarkable bipartisan consensus that this simply isn't a time to worry about the deficit.

眼下，股市下滑和失业率上升两大困境使两党不同寻常地达成了一致，那就是：现在根本不是担心赤字的时候。

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Its mission is to reduce the deficit that is threatening job creation in our country.

它的使命是减少威胁我们国家创造就业的赤字。

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By the time Mr Obama spoke to Congress on September 8th, though, the deficit had taken a back seat to job creation.

不过，到了9月8日，奥巴马先生在国会发表演讲时，创造就业岗位代替了赤字问题，赤字问题退居二线。

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The job deficit is the worst since WWII in percentage terms, and second worst in terms of the unemployment rate.

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And that is what created a huge 2.3 million job deficit at the very start of the next presidential term.

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It will undoubtedly revive (someday), but this chart by Calculated Risk provides a good visual to how deep of a hole the US job deficit really is.

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