第一篇：美国总统周末电台演讲：华盛顿白宫奥巴马每周电台演讲009
美国总统周末电台演讲：华盛顿白宫奥巴马每周电台演讲
WASHINGTON – In this week’s address, President Obama said that he expects Democratic and Republican leaders in Congress to find common ground as Congress focuses on a short term budget next week.The President will consider any serious ideas to reduce the deficit, regardless of which party proposes them.In fact, the President has already proposed freezing domestic spending, which would cut the deficit by $400 billion and bring this kind of spending to the lowest level, as a percentage of our economy, since the Eisenhower administration.But, cutting investments in education and innovation would hinder our ability to out-compete the rest of the world.While the President recognizes that everyone needs to be willing to sacrifice, we cannot sacrifice our country’s ability to win the future.Prepared Remarks of President
Barack Obama Weekly Address Saturday, February 26, 2011 Over the last month, I’ve been traveling the country, talking to Americans about how we can out-educate, out-innovate, and out-build the rest of the world.Doing that will require a government that lives within its means, and cuts whatever spending we can afford to do without.But it will also require investing in our nation’s future – training and educating our workers;increasing our commitment to research and technology;building new roads and bridges, high-speed rail and
high-speed internet.In cities and towns throughout America, I’ve seen the benefits of these investments.The schools and colleges of Oregon are providing Intel – the state’s largest private employer – with a steady stream of highly-educated workers and engineers.At Parkville Middle School outside of Baltimore, engineering is the most popular subject, thanks to outstanding teachers who are inspiring students to focus on their math
and science skills.In Wisconsin, a company called Orion is putting hundreds of people to work manufacturing energy-efficient lights in a once-shuttered plant.And in the small community of Marquette, in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, widely accessible high-speed internet has allowed students and entrepreneurs to connect to the global economy.In fact one small business, a third-generation, family-owned clothing shop called Getz’s is now selling their products online, which has helped them to double their workforce and make them one of America’s 5,000 fastest-growing companies
in a recent listing.Each of these places reminds us that investments in education, innovation, and infrastructure are an essential down payment on our future.But they also remind us that the only way we can afford these investments is by getting our fiscal house in order.Just like any family, we have to live within our means to make room for the things we absolutely need.That’s why I’ve called for a freeze on annual domestic spending over the next five years – a freeze that would cut the deficit by more than $400 billion over the next decade, bringing this kind of spending to its lowest share of our economy since Dwight Eisenhower was President.Just to be clear, that’s lower than it was under the past three administrations, and lower than it was under Ronald Reagan.Now, putting this budget freeze in place will require tough choices.That’s why I’ve frozen salaries for hardworking civil servants for three years, and proposed cutting programs I care deeply about, like community action programs in low-income neighborhoods.I’m not taking these steps lightly – but I’m taking them because our economic future demands it.Still, a freeze in annual domestic spending is just a start.If we’re serious about tackling our long-run fiscal challenges, we also need to cut excessive spending wherever we find it – in defense spending, spending in Medicare and Medicaid, and spending through tax breaks and
loopholes.I’m willing to consider any serious ideas to help us reduce the deficit – no matter what party is proposing them.But instead of cutting the investments in education and innovation we need to out-compete the rest of the world, we need a balanced approach to deficit reduction.We all need to be willing to sacrifice, but we can’t sacrifice our future.Next week, Congress will focus on a short-term budget.For the sake of our people and our economy, we cannot allow gridlock to prevail.Both Democratic and Republican leaders in the House and Senate have said they believe it’s important to keep the government running while we work together on a plan to reduce our long-term deficit.Given that, I urge and expect them to find common ground so we can accelerate, and not impede, economic growth.It won’t be easy.There will be plenty of debates and disagreements, and neither party will get everything it wants.Both sides will have to compromise.That’s what it will take to do what’s right for our country.And I look forward to working with members of both parties to produce a responsible budget that cuts what we can’t afford, sharpens America’s competitive edge in the world, and helps us win the future.Thanks everybody, and have
a great weekend.
第二篇：美国总统周末电台演讲：华盛顿白宫奥巴马每周电台演讲
美国总统周末电台演讲：华盛顿白宫奥巴马每周电台演讲
WASHINGTON—In this week’s address, President Obama told the American people that the Senate will vote on the American Jobs Act next week, which independent economists have said will put Americans back to work, grow the economy, and give working people and small businesses a tax break.It is time for those who oppose the jobs act to explain why they are fighting against something that we know will improve the American economy, put teachers in classrooms, cops on the streets, and construction workers back to work rebuilding our roads and bridges.President Obama urged all Americans who support the American Jobs Act to call their Senators and tell them to put a stop to the gridlock in Washington and pass the jobs act next week.Prepared Remarks of President
Barack Obama
Weekly Address
Saturday, October 8 , 2011
Next week, the Senate will vote on the American Jobs Act.It’s a bill that will put more people to work and put more money in the pockets of working Americans.And it will provide our economy with the jolt that it really needs right now
This is not the time for the usual games or political gridlock in Washington.The challenges facing financial markets around the world could have very real effects on our own economy at a time when it’s already fragile.But this jobs bill can help guard against another downturn here in America.This isn’t just my belief.This is what independent economists have said.Not just politicians.Not just people in my administration.Independent experts who do this for a living have said that this jobs bill will have a significant effect for our economy and middle-class families all across America.But if we don’t act, the opposite will be true – there will be fewer jobs and weaker growth.So any Senator out there who’s thinking about voting against this jobs bill needs to explain why they would oppose something that we know would improve our economic situation.If the Republicans in Congress think they have a better plan for creating jobs right now, they should prove it.Because one of the same independent economists who looked at our plan just said that their ideas, quote, wouldn’t ―mean much for the economy in the near term.‖
If their plan doesn’t measure up, the American people deserve to know what it is that Republicans in Congress don’t like about this jobs plan.You hear a lot of our Republican friends say that one of the most important things we can do is cut taxes.Well, they should love this plan.The American Jobs Act would cut taxes for virtually every worker and small business in America.And if you’re a small business owner that hires new workers, raises wages, or hires a veteran, you get an additional tax cut.Right now, hundreds of thousands of teachers and firefighters and police officers have been laid off because of state budget cuts.This jobs bill will put a lot of these men and women back to work.Right now, there are millions of laid-off construction workers who could be repairing our bridges and roads and modernizing our schools.Why wouldn’t we want to put these men and women to work rebuilding America?
The proposals in this bill are steps we have to take if we want to build an economy that lasts;if we want to be able to compete with other countries for jobs that restore a sense of security for the middle-class.But we also have to rein in our deficit and start living within our means, which is why this jobs bill is paid for by asking millionaires and billionaires to pay their fair share.Some see this as class warfare.I see it as a simple choice.We can either keep taxes exactly as they are for millionaires and billionaires, or we can ask them to pay at least the same rate as a plumber or a bus driver.And in the process, we can put teachers and construction workers and veterans back on the job.We can either fight to protect their tax cuts, or we can cut taxes for virtually every worker and small business in America.But we can’t afford to do both.It’s that simple.There are too many people hurting in this country for us to simply do nothing.The economy is too fragile for us to let politics get in the way of action.The people who represent you in Washington have a responsibility to do what’s best for you – not what’s best for their party or what’s going to help them win an election that’s more than a year away.So I need you to keep making your voices heard in Washington.I need you to remind these folks who they work for.And I need you to tell your Senators to do the right thing by passing this jobs bill right away.Thanks so much.
第三篇：美国总统奥巴马每周电台演讲2011obm0924
【美国总统电台演说】2011-09-24 Over the last few weeks, I’ve been making the case that we need to act now on the American Jobs Act, so we can put folks back to work and start building an economy that lasts into the future.Education is an essential part of this economic agenda.It is an undeniable fact that countries who out-educate us today will out-compete us tomorrow.Businesses will hire wherever the highly-skilled, highly-trained workers are located.But today, our students are sliding against their peers around the globe.Today, our kids trail too many other countries in math, science, and reading.As many as a quarter of our students aren’t even finishing high school.And we’ve fallen to 16th in the proportion of our young people with a college degree, even though we know that sixty percent of new jobs in the coming decade will require more than a high school diploma.What this means is that if we’re serious about building an economy that lasts – an economy in which hard work pays off with the opportunity for solid middle class jobs – we had better be serious about education.We have to pick up our game and raise our standards.As a nation, we have an obligation to make sure that all children have the resources they need to learn – quality schools, good teachers, the latest textbooks and the right technology.That’s why the jobs bill I sent to Congress would put tens of thousands of teachers back to work across the country, and modernize at least 35,000 schools.That's why Congress should pass that bill right now.But money alone won’t solve our education problems.We also need reform.We need to make sure that every classroom is a place of high expectations and high performance.That’s been our vision since taking office.And that’s why instead of just pouring money into a system that’s not working, we launched a competition called Race to the Top.To all fifty states, we said, “If you show us the most innovative plans to improve teacher quality and student achievement, we’ll show you the money.”
For less than one percent of what we spend on education each year, Race to the Top has led states across the country to raise their standards for teaching and learning.These standards were developed, not by Washington, but by Republican and Democratic governors throughout the country.And since then, we have seen what’s possible when reform isn’t just a top-down
mandate, but the work of local teachers and principals;school boards and communities.That’s why in my State of the Union address this year, I said that Congress should reform the No Child Left Behind law based on the same principles that have guided Race to the Top.While the goals behind No Child Left Behind were admirable, experience has taught us that the law has some serious flaws that are hurting our children instead of helping them.Teachers are being forced to teach to a test, while subjects like history and science are being squeezed out.And in order to avoid having their schools labeled as failures, some states lowered their standards in a race to the bottom.These problems have been obvious to parents and educators all over this country for years.But for years, Congress has failed to fix them.So now, I will.Our kids only get one shot at a decent education.And they can’t afford to wait any longer.Yesterday, I announced that we’ll be giving states more flexibility to meet high standards for teaching and learning.It’s time for us to let states, schools and teachers come up with innovative ways to give our children the skills they need to compete for the jobs of the future.This will make a huge difference in the lives of students all across the country.Yesterday, I was with Ricky Hall, the principal of a school in Worcester, Massachusetts.Every single student who graduated from Ricci’s school in the last three years went on to college.But because they didn’t meet the standards of No Child Left Behind, Ricci’s school was labeled as failing last year.That will change because of what we did yesterday.From now on, we’ll be able to encourage the progress at schools like Ricci’s.From now on, people like John Becker, who teaches at one of the highest-performing middle schools in D.C., will be able to focus on teaching his 4th graders math in a way that improves their performance instead of just teaching to a test.Superintendents like David Estrop from Ohio will be able to focus on improving teaching and learning in his district instead of spending all his time on bureaucratic mandates from Washington that don’t get results.This isn’t just the right thing to do for our kids – it’s the right thing to do for our country, and our future.It is time to put our teachers back on the job.It is time to rebuild and modernize our schools.And it is time to raise our standards, up our game, and do everything it takes to prepare our children succeed in the global economy.Now is the time to once again make our education system the envy of the world.
第四篇：美国总统奥巴马每周电台演讲09.08.02
Remarks of President Barack Obama
Weekly Address
Saturday, August 1st, 2009 Today, I’d like to talk with you about a subject that I know is on everyone’s mind, and that’s the state of our economy.Yesterday, we received a report on our Gross Domestic Product.That’s a measure of our overall economic performance.The report showed that in the first few months of this year, the recession we faced when I took office was even deeper than anyone thought at the time.It told us how close we were to the edge.But it also revealed that in the last few months, the economy has done measurably better than expected.And many economists suggest that part of this progress is directly attributable to the Recovery Act.This and the other difficult but important steps that we have taken over the last six months have helped put the brakes on this recession.We took unprecedented action to stem the spread of foreclosures by helping responsible homeowners stay in their homes and pay their mortgages.We helped revive the credit markets and open up loans for families and small businesses.And we enacted a Recovery Act that put tax cuts directly into the pockets of middle-class families and small businesses;extended unemployment insurance and health insurance for folks who have lost jobs;provided relief to struggling states to prevent layoffs of teachers and police officers;and made investments that are putting people back to work rebuilding and renovating roads, bridges, schools, and hospitals.Now, I realize that none of this is much comfort for Americans who are still out of work or struggling to make ends meet.And when we receive our monthly job report next week, it is likely to show that we are continuing to lose far too many jobs in this country.As far as I’m concerned, we will not have a recovery as long as we keep losing jobs.And I won’t rest until every American who wants a job can find one.But history shows that you need to have economic growth before you have job growth.And the report yesterday on our economy is an important sign that we’re headed in the right direction.Business investment, which had been plummeting in the past few months, is showing signs of stabilizing.This means that eventually, businesses will start growing and hiring again.And that’s when it will really feel like a recovery to the American people.This won’t happen overnight.As I’ve said before, it will take many more months to fully dig ourselves out of a recession – a recession that we’ve now learned was even deeper than anyone thought.But I’ll continue to work every day, and take every step necessary, to make sure that happens.I also want to make sure that we don’t return to an economy where our growth is based on inflated profits and maxed-out credit cards – because that doesn’t create a lot of jobs.Even as we rescue this economy, we must work to rebuild it stronger than before.We’ve got to build a new foundation strong enough to withstand future economic storms and support lasting prosperity.Next week, I’ll be talking about that new foundation when I head to Elkhart County in Indiana – a city hard hit not only by the economic crisis of recent months but by the broader economic changes of recent decades.For communities like Elkhart to thrive, we need to recapture the spirit of innovation that has always moved America forward.That means once again having the best-educated, highest skilled workforce in the world.That means a health care system that makes it possible for entrepreneurs to innovate and businesses to compete without being saddled with skyrocketing insurance costs.That means leading the world in building a new clean energy economy with the potential to unleash a wave of innovation – and economic growth – while ending our dependence on foreign oil.And that means investing in the research and development that will produce the technologies of the future – which in turn will help create the industries and jobs of the future.Innovation has been essential to our prosperity in the past, and it will be essential to our prosperity in the future.But it is only by building a new foundation that we will once again harness that incredible generative capacity of the American people.All it takes are the policies to tap that potential – to ignite that spark of creativity and ingenuity – which has always been at the heart of who we are and how we succeed.At a time when folks are experiencing real hardship, after years in which we have seen so many fail to take responsibility for our collective future, it’s important to keep our eyes fixed on that horizon.Every day, I hear from Americans who are feeling firsthand the pain of this recession;these are folks who share their stories with me in letters and at town hall meetings;folks who remain in my mind and on my agenda each and every day.I know that there are countless families and businesses struggling to just hang on until this storm passes.But I also know that if we do the things we know we must, this storm will pass.And it will yield to a brighter day.
第五篇：美国总统奥巴马每周电台演讲02.2
Remarks of President Barack Obama Weekly Address February 20, 2010
The other week, men and women across California opened up their mailboxes to find a letter from Anthem Blue Cross.The news inside was jaw-dropping.Anthem was alerting almost a million of its customers that it would be raising premiums by an average of 25 percent, with about a quarter of folks likely to see their rates go up by anywhere from 35 to 39 percent.Now, after their announcement stirred public outcry, Anthem agreed to delay their rate hike until May 1st while the situation is reviewed by the state of California.But it’s not just Californians who are being hit by rate hikes.In Kansas, one insurance company raised premiums by 10 to 20 percent only after asking to raise them by 20 to 30 percent.Last year, Michigan Blue Cross Blue Shield raised rates by 22 percent after asking to raise them by up to 56 percent.And in Maine, Anthem is asking to raise rates for some folks by about 23 percent.The bottom line is that the status quo is good for the insurance industry and bad for America.Over the past year, as families and small business owners have struggled to pay soaring health care costs, and as millions of Americans lost their coverage, the five largest insurers made record profits of over $12 billion.And as bad as things are today, they’ll only get worse if we fail to act.We’ll see more and more Americans go without the coverage they need.We’ll see exploding premiums and out-of-pocket costs burn through more and more family budgets.We’ll see more and more small businesses scale back benefits, drop coverage, or close down because they can’t keep up with rising rates.And in time, we’ll see these skyrocketing health care costs become the single largest driver of our federal deficits.That’s what the future is on track to look like.But it’s not what the future has to look like.The question, then, is whether we will do what it takes, all of us – Democrats and Republicans – to build a better future for ourselves, our children, and our country.That’s why, next week, I am inviting members of both parties to take part in a bipartisan health care meeting, and I hope they come in a spirit of good faith.I don’t want to see this meeting turn into political theater, with each side simply reciting talking points and trying to score political points.Instead, I ask members of both parties to seek common ground in an effort to solve a problem that’s been with us for generations.It’s in that spirit that I have sought out and supported Republican ideas on reform from the very beginning.Some Republicans want to allow Americans to purchase insurance from a company in another state to give people more choices and bring down costs.Some Republicans have also suggested giving small businesses the power to pool together and offer health care at lower prices, just as big companies and labor unions do.I think both of these are good ideas – so long as we pursue them in a way that protects benefits, protects patients, and protects the American people.I hope Democrats and Republicans can come together next week around these and other ideas.To members of Congress, I would simply say this.We know the American people want us to reform our health insurance system.We know where the broad areas of agreement are.And we know where the sources of disagreement lie.After debating this issue exhaustively for a year, let’s move forward together.Next week is our chance to finally reform our health insurance system so it works for families and small businesses.It’s our chance to finally give Americans the peace of mind of knowing that they’ll be able to have affordable coverage when they need it most.What’s being tested here is not just our ability to solve this one problem, but our ability to solve any problem.Right now, Americans are understandably despairing about whether partisanship and the undue influence of special interests in Washington will make it impossible for us to deal with the big challenges that face our country.They want to see us focus not on scoring points, but on solving problems;not on the next election but on the next generation.That is what we can do, and that is what we must do when we come together for this bipartisan health care meeting next week.Thank you, and have a great weekend.
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