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Americans worried that fiscal cliff could bite美国群众担心美坠落“财政悬崖” NEWS The United States is edging dangerously close to the fiscal cliff as lawmakers and the White House show no signs of coming close to a deal. 由于白宫和国会议员没有迹象表明达成协议，美国已经十分接近“财政悬崖”。 NEWS! Walking out of New York Downtown Hospital, Sheryl Joe, a 65-year-old African-American woman who lost her home in the city due to Hurricane Sandy, was worried about any changes to the Medicare program, a national social insurance package that every U.S. citizen is supposedly entitled to, before the fiscal cliff which Obama and the Congress are forced to deal with at the end of 2012. 一位刚刚在飓风桑迪中失去家的65岁非洲裔妇女从纽约市中心医院走出来，她表示非常担心之前每一个美国公民享有的社会保险制度会因为2012年底奥巴马和国会不得不面对的“财政悬崖”而使美国的医疗保险制度发生改革。 NEWS Actually, cutting spending, including social welfare, is one of the two most urgent problems, the other being increasing taxes, that the Democrats and the Republicans are fighting over in front of the so-called fiscal cliff. 事实上，削减开支包括社会福利以及增加税收是两个最迫切的问题。民主党和共和党为了眼前的“财政悬崖”争得不可开交。 NEWS The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released a series of statistics to describe the fiscal cliff: up to 3.4 million people may lose their jobs; the unemployment rate may rise to 9.1 percent from the current 7.7 percent; the cliff can cost as much as 671 billion U.S. dollars. 无党派的国会预算办公室发布了一系列的统计数据来形容财政宣言：高达3.4亿人可能会失去工作，失业率可能从目前的7.7％上升至9.1％;财政悬崖会导致花费高达671十亿美元。 NEWS Yet for some who earn about 250,000 dollars a year, which in Obamas proposal is the income line separating those who should continue enjoying a tax reduction and those who need to pay more, they are still far from being eligible to be called the rich. 然而根据奥巴马提议的收入分离线即应该享受税收减免或多交税，年收入25万美元的人仍然不够减免资格，他们被称作“富人”。 NEWS Hander said that the current healthcare system had many problems, including paying too much for illegal immigrants, but he did not believe the government could easily change it, because it concerns too many people. Hander说目前的医疗制度有许多问题，包括为太多的非法入境者买单，但他不相信政府可以轻易的改变它，因为它“涉及的人太多了。