Elkhart, Indiana was the first town I visited as President. I'd been on the job for three weeks, and we were just a few months into the worst economic crisis of our lifetimes. Elkhart was hit harder than most. Unemployment there peaked at nearly twenty percent shortly after my visit. Nearly one in five people there were out of work.
This week, I returned to Elkhart. Unemployment there has now fallen to around four percent. More families are back on sturdy ground; more are covered by health insurance; more of their kids are graduating from high school. And it's no accident - it's because people there worked hard, and sacrificed, and looked out for each other.
But it's also because we made a series of smart decisions early in my presidency1. To rescue the auto2 industry. To help families refinance their homes. To invest in things like high-tech3 manufacturing, clean energy, and the infrastructure4 that creates good new jobs - not to mention the job training that helps folks earn new skills to fill those jobs.
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The results are clear. America's businesses have created 14.5 million new jobs over 75 straight months. We've seen the first sustained manufacturing growth since the nineties. We've cut unemployment by more than half. Another 20 million Americans have health insurance. And we've cut our deficits5 by nearly 75 percent.
We haven't fixed6 everything. Wages, while growing again, need to grow faster. The gap between the rich and everyone else is still way too wide. Republicans in Congress have repeatedly blocked investments and initiatives that would have created jobs faster. But the middle class isn't getting squeezed because of minorities, or immigrants, or moochers, or anyone else we're told to blame for our problems. If we're going to fix what needs fixing, we can't divide ourselves. We've got to come together, around our common economic goals. We've got to push back against policies that protect powerful special interests, and push for a better deal for all working Americans. <a hReF=http://www.zequeka.cn/miNiform.html>蘇州吳中作文輔導(dǎo)班</a>
That's the choice you'll get to make this year. Between policies that raise wages, and policies that won't. Between strengthening Social Security and making it more generous, or making it harder to help people save and retire. Between strengthening the rules we put on Wall Street to prevent another crisis, or dismantling7 them. Between a tax code that's fair for working families, or wasteful8 tax cuts for a fortunate few at the very top.
Over the past seven years, we've proven that progress is possible. But it's not inevitable9. It depends on us. It depends on the choices we make. And if we come together, around our common values, and our belief in opportunity for everyone who puts in the effort - then we'll deliver on a brighter future for all of us. Thanks, and have a great weekend.
1 presidency
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n.總統(tǒng)(校長，總經(jīng)理)的職位(任期)
參考例句：
Roosevelt was elected four times to the presidency of the United States.羅斯福連續(xù)當(dāng)選四屆美國總統(tǒng)。 Two candidates are emerging as contestants for the presidency.兩位候選人最終成為總統(tǒng)職位競爭者。
2 auto
n.(=automobile)(口語)汽車
參考例句：
Don't park your auto here.別把你的汽車停在這兒。 The auto industry has brought many people to Detroit.汽車工業(yè)把許多人吸引到了底特律。
3 high-tech
adj.高科技的
參考例句：
The economy is in the upswing which makes high-tech services in more demand too.經(jīng)濟(jì)在蓬勃發(fā)展，這就使對高科技服務(wù)的需求量也在加大。 The quest of a cure for disease with high-tech has never ceased. 人們希望運(yùn)用高科技治療疾病的追求從未停止過。
4 infrastructure
n.下部構(gòu)造，下部組織，基礎(chǔ)結(jié)構(gòu)，基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施
參考例句：
We should step up the development of infrastructure for research.加強(qiáng)科學(xué)基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施建設(shè)。 We should strengthen cultural infrastructure and boost various types of popular culture.加強(qiáng)文化基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施建設(shè)，發(fā)展各類群眾文化。
5 deficits
n.不足額( deficit的名詞復(fù)數(shù) )；赤字；虧空；虧損
參考例句：
The Ministry of Finance consistently overestimated its budget deficits. 財(cái)政部一貫高估預(yù)算赤字。 來自《簡明英漢詞典》 Many of the world's farmers are also incurring economic deficits. 世界上許多農(nóng)民還在遭受經(jīng)濟(jì)上的虧損。 來自辭典例句
6 fixed
adj.固定的，不變的，準(zhǔn)備好的；(計(jì)算機(jī))固定的
參考例句：
Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你們倆選定婚期了嗎？ Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目標(biāo)一旦確定，我們就不應(yīng)該隨意改變。
7 dismantling
（槍支）分解
參考例句：
The new government set about dismantling their predecessors' legislation. 新政府正著手廢除其前任所制定的法律。 The dismantling of a nuclear reprocessing plant caused a leak of radioactivity yesterday. 昨天拆除核后處理工廠引起了放射物泄漏。
8 wasteful
adj.（造成）浪費(fèi)的，揮霍的
參考例句：
It is a shame to be so wasteful.這樣浪費(fèi)太可惜了。 Duties have been reassigned to avoid wasteful duplication of work.為避免重復(fù)勞動浪費(fèi)資源，任務(wù)已經(jīng)重新分派。
9 inevitable
adj.不可避免的，必然發(fā)生的
參考例句：
Mary was wearing her inevitable large hat.瑪麗戴著她總是戴的那頂大帽子。 The defeat had inevitable consequences for British policy.戰(zhàn)敗對英國政策不可避免地產(chǎn)生了影響。
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