毕竟，在长期经济停滞伴随着持续高失业率和社会不满情绪时，谁会相信削减开支的承诺能够坚持下去呢？

After all, who will believe that commitments to cut spending can survive a lengthy stagnation with prolonged high unemployment and social dissatisfaction?

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长期的经济停滞或衰退几乎总是使社会变得更加刻薄、更缺乏包容性，通常还会阻止或逆转权利和自由的进步。

Lengthy periods of economic stagnation or decline have almost always left society more mean-spirited and less inclusive, and have usually stopped or reversed the advance of rights and freedoms.

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更长期的衰退或者长期的经济停滞会带来两个明显的财政风险。

A longer recession or long-term stagnation pose two distinct fiscal risks.

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