The Hard Road to Deficit Reduction

摘要

"After all the talk about debt and deficits, it is long past time for America's leaders to put up or shut up. The era of debt denial is over, and there can be no turning back." So said Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, co-chairs of the President's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, when they presented a sweeping deficit reduction plan to their fellow commissioners on December 1.