Last week the Congressional Budget Office said that the national debt is on course to triple in ten years.

上周，国会预算办公室表示国家的债务将在十年内翻两番。

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When Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in Moscow, he was faced with a national debt that almost doubled in his first three years in office.

米哈伊尔•戈尔巴乔夫（Mikhail Gorbachev）在莫斯科上台的头3年内，国家债务几乎翻了一倍。

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But the White House and the Congressional Budget Office say that America's national debt will continue to expand for years to come, even assuming that the U.S.economy will begin to recover at the end of this year.

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Consequently, by Election Day 2012, Obama will have doubled the national debt in just one term of office, adding as much to the national debt as all prior Presidents, from George Washington to George Bush, combined.

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Consequently, by Election Day 2012, Obama will have doubled the national debt, in just one term of office.

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In the 12 years before I took office the deficit skyrocketed and our national debt quadrupled.

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