So any deal reached now would in practice be nothing more than a deal to slash Social Security and Medicare with no lasting improvement in the deficit.

所以，实际上现在能达成的协议都只能是一份大幅削减“社会保障”和“老年医保”的协议，不会对赤字有任何持续改善作用。

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So any deal reached now would, in practice, be nothing more than a deal to slash Social Security and Medicare, with no lasting improvement in the deficit.

所以，实际上现在达成的任何协议都只能是一份大幅削减“社会保障”和“老年医保”的协议，不会对赤字有任何持续的改进。

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Mr Obama has suggested extending a cut in employees' Social Security tax, enacted in December, but most of his, and Republicans', attention is now given to cutting the budget deficit.

奥巴马先生已经建议延长十二月颁布的雇员社会安全税的削减，但他和共和党人最多的注意力集中在削减预算赤字。

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What worries you about America today, terrorism, wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, economy, the deficit, medicare, social security or America's place in the world, which many say sliping or begining to slip?

今天的美国哪些地方让你担心呢，恐怖主义，对伊拉克和阿富汗战争，经济，赤字，医疗保险，社会保障,还是美国的国际地位，有人称美国的地位正在或开始下滑？

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a financial train wreck between the deficit social security and medical care.

就是社保和医保赤字的烂摊子。

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Thanks to this innovation, over the years the social-security deficit was first checked and then turned into surplus in the three years from 1999.

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We already are at the tipping point: In 2010, Social Security ran a deficit for the first time since the system was overhauled in the 1980s.

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Social Security is already in deficit this year, for the first time since President Reagan saved the program from bankruptcy 30 years ago.

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