奥巴马2014年4月5日电视讲话：总统预算案覆盖全民
Hi, everybody.Today our economy is growing and our businees are consistently generating new jobs.But decades-long trends still threaten the middle cla.While those at the top are doing better than ever, too many Americans are working harder than ever, but feel like they can’t get ahead (If you want to get ahead, you want to be succeful in your career.).That’s why the budget I sent Congre earlier this year is built on the idea of opportunity for all.It will grow the middle cla and shrink the deficits we’ve already cut in half since I took office.It’s an opportunity agenda with four goals.Number one is creating more good jobs that pay good wages.Number two is training more Americans with the skills to fill those jobs.Number three is guaranteeing every child acce to a great education.And Number four is making work pay—with wages you can live on, savings you can retire on, and health care that’s there for you when you need it.This week, the Republicans in Congre put forward a very different budget.And it does just the opposite: it shrinks opportunity and makes it harder for Americans who work hard to get ahead.The Republican budget begins by handing out maive tax cuts to households making more than $1 million a year.Then, to keep from blowing a hole in the deficit, they’d have to raise taxes on middle-cla families with kids.Next, their budget forces deep cuts to investments that help our economy create jobs, like education and scientific research.Now, they won’t tell you where these cuts will fall exactly.But compared to my budget, if they cut everything evenly, then within a few years, about 170000 kids will be cut from early education programs.About 200000 new mothers and kids will be cut off from programs to help them get healthy food.Schools acro the country will lose funding that supports 21000 special education teachers.And if they want to make smaller cuts to one of these areas, that means larger cuts in others.Unsurprisingly, the Republican budget also tries to repeal the Affordable Care Act – even though that would take away health coverage from the more than seven million Americans who’ve done the responsible thing and signed up to buy health insurance.And for good measure (另外地；附加地), their budget guts（to change something by removing some of the most important or central parts）the rules we put in place to protect the middle cla from another financial crisis like the one we’ve had to fight so hard to recover from.Policies that benefit a fortunate few while making it harder for working Americans to succeed are not what we need right now.Our economy doesn’t grow best from the top-down; it grows best from the middle-out.That’s what my opportunity agenda (/əˈdʒendə/) does – and it’s what I’ll keep fighting for.Thanks.And have a great weekend.
