那些尝试平衡预算的做法只会让经济下降得更快，难道大萧条还没有给我们足够的教训吗？

Had not the Depression taught that attempts to balance the budget would only worsen an economic downturn?

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经济衰退是导火索，而不是引发当前混乱的源头，惠誉国际在解释降级一事时说过，当前的混乱是源于加州长期无法平衡其预算。

The recession was the trigger but not the cause of the current malaise, which stems, as Fitch put it when explaining its downgrade, from “the state’s continued inability” to balance its budgets.

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当富裕国家正处在自1930年代以来最严重的经济衰退边缘岌岌可危时，没有时间去坚持预算平衡了。

When the rich world is teetering on the edge of its worst recession since the 1930s, this is no time to insist on balanced budgets.

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