More generally, any significant elevation of tariffs that substantially reduces our overall imports, by keeping out competitively priced goods, would materially lower our standard of living.

更通常，实质上减少的关税任何的重要海拔我们的全部进口货，藉由竞争的保存出定货物的价格，会实质上降低我们的生活标准。

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Do we have to lower our expectation and our standard of living?

我们是否要降低期望，降低生活水平？

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Blinded by macro statistics that cover irrelevant government measures such as the mythical "trade deficit, " Bernanke is calling for government oversight of alleged "imbalances" that, if implemented, would lower our standard of living and force us to pursue labor out of necessity rather than the pursuit of work at which we excel.

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For the first time, the next generation of Americans, our grandchildren, risk having a lower standard of living than we enjoyed.

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