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【2012.10.06】奥巴马每周电视讲话：国会应该继续推动美国向前发展 Weekly Address: Congress Should Keep America Moving Forward 每周电视讲话：国会应该继续推动美国向前发展 WASHINGTON, DC—In this week’s address, President Obama told the American people that as a nation we are moving forward four years after the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. While there’s more work to do, America’s businesses have added 5.2 million jobs over the past 31 months and the unemployment rate is at the lowest level since the President took office. To keep our country moving forward, Congress should act on the President’s plan to keep taxes low for 98% of the American people, rather than holding it hostage to give more budget-busting tax cuts to the wealthiest 2%. Congress should cut red tape so responsible homeowners can save about $3,000 a year on their mortgage by refinancing at lower rates, and act on the President’s proposal to create a veterans jobs corps to help our returning heroes find work. It’s time for our elected leaders to get back to work to help the middle class and build our economy from the middle-out, not the top down. 华盛顿：在本周的讲话中，奥巴马总统告诉美国民众，在遭遇大萧条以来最严重的经济危机的四年之后，我们正在推动国家向前发展。尽管美国的企业在过去31个月里提供了520万个工作岗位，失业率也降低到总统上任以来的最低水平，但我们还有更多的工作要做。为了让我们国家继续向前发展，国会应该通过总统提出的让98%的美国人的税率保持在较低水平的方案，而不是以此为要挟，用超预算的方式为最富有的2%的人减税。国会还应该简化繁琐的程序让有偿债能力的房屋所有者能利用低利率进行转按揭贷款，这样他们每年可以节省3000美元，国会还应该同意总统提出的创建一个退伍军人就业促进会的提案，以帮助回到家乡的英雄们找到工作。现在，我们的民选官员们应该回到工作岗位，以帮助中产阶级为出发点，而不是用自上而下的方式建设我们的经济。 Hi, everybody. Four years after the worst economic crisis of our lifetimes, we’re seeing signs that, as a nation, we’re moving forward again. 大家好！在我们遭遇人生当中最严重的经济危机四年之后，我们目睹了国家再次向前发展的信号。 After losing about 800,000 jobs a month when I took office, our businesses have now added 5.2 million new jobs over the past two and a half years. And on Friday, we learned that the unemployment rate is now at its lowest level since I took office. More Americans are entering the workforce. More Americans are getting jobs. 在我上任当月的80万人失业之后，我们的企业在过