If Barack Obama loses in November, the names Bowles and Simpson may come back to haunt him. Last year the US president rejected the findings of the 18-member fiscal commission even though it was he who created it. Most of the rest of 2011 was devoted to a game of fiscal high jinks with Congress that resulted in the first ever US sovereign credit rating downgrade. It is never too late for Mr Obama to embrace Bowles-Simpson. Indeed, it could help carry him over the electoral finishing line.
如果巴拉克?奧巴馬(Barack Obama)在今年11月的大選中失利，他以后可能會經(jīng)常想起兩個名字——鮑爾斯(Bowles)和辛普森(Simpson)。去年，奧巴馬否決了擁有18位成員的鮑爾斯-辛普森財政委員會的成果，盡管正是他一手創(chuàng)建了該委員會。之后，在2011年剩余的大部分時間里，政府與國會就財政問題展開激烈博弈，最終導(dǎo)致美國主權(quán)信用評級遭到有史以來的首次下調(diào)。對奧巴馬而言，無論什么時候支持鮑爾斯-辛普森提議都不算晚。實際上，它可能幫助奧巴馬沖過競選終點線。