Although this family put up quite a front, they really are not very well off.

虽然这家人很会撑场面，其实并不富裕。

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Their ratings of corporate debt may have held up well, but they were way off in structured securities, not a lot better in sovereign debt, and now their municipal-bond ratings, too, are under fire.

他们对公司债券的评级倒还好说，但是对于结构性债券就不那么上道了，主权债券也好不到哪儿去，而最近他们对于市政债券的评级又被口诛笔伐。

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But I do not think people who are well off do, or at least should, want their children to have higher incomes than they.

但我不认为家境良好的人们确实，或者至少应该希望他们的子女比自己收入更高。

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My attitude is, everyone in America, whether they are well off or not, should have the same incentive and reward for giving.

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Sure, it makes sense that the less well-off will spend whatever they are given, but unfortunately, not on the things to spur a hiring binge.

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One mother said it was "not fair that only well off people are able to choose how long they can spend off work while poorer people have to go back to work".

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