奥巴马总统每周电台演讲:新的一年继续推动经济持续增长
Happy New Year! Everybody.
This week, I traveled to Cleveland, Ohio, to talk with folks about the biggest challenge we face as a country – rebuildour economy so that, once again, hard work pays off, responsibility is rewarded, and anyone, regardless of who they are or where they come from, can make it if they try. That’s the economy America deserves. That’s the economy I’m fighting every day to build.
Now, to get there, the most important thing we need to do is get more Americans back to work. And over the past three years, we’ve made steady progress. We just learned that our economy added 212,000 private sector jobs in December. After losing more than 8 million jobs in the recession, we’ve added more than 3 million private sector jobs over the past 22 months. And we’re starting 2012 with manufacturing on the rise and the American auto industry on the mend.
We’re heading in the rightdirection. And we’re not going to let up. On Wednesday the White House will host a forum called “Insourcing American Jobs.” We’ll hear from business leaders who are bringing jobs back home and see how we can help other businesses follow their lead.
Because this is a make or break moment for the middle class and all those working to get there. We’ve got to keep at it. We’ve got to keep creating jobs. And we’ve got to keep rebuilding our economy so that everyone gets a fair shot, everyone does their fair share – and everyone plays by the same rules. We can’t go back to the days when the financial system was stacking the deck against ordinary Americans. To me, that’s not an option. Not after all we’ve been through.
That’s why I appointed Richard Cordray as our nation’s new consumer watchdog this week. Richard’s job is simple: to look out for you. Every day, his sole mission is to protect consumers from potential abuses by the financial industry and to make sure that you’ve got all the transparent information you need to make the important financial decisions in your lives.
I nominated Richard for this job last summer. And yet, Republicans in the Senate kept blocking his confirmation – not because they objected to him, but because they wanted to weaken his agency. That made no sense. Every day we waited was a day you and consumers all across the country were at greater financial risk.
So this year, I’m going to keep doing whatever it takes to move this economy forward and to make sure that middle class families regain the security they’ve lost over the past decade. That’s my New Year’s resolution to all of you. Thank you, and have a great weekend.
大家新年快乐！
这个星期，我前往俄亥俄州的克利夫兰，跟民众谈论我们作为一个国家面临的最大挑战——重建我们的经济，以便，再一次，使努力工作有所回报，承担责任也有回报。而任何人，不管他们是谁或他们来自哪里，如果他们想做都能做到这一点。那才是美国应有的经济。这也是我每天努力想要建设的经济。
现在，到了那里，我们需要做的最重要的是让更多的美国人重返工作岗位。而在过去的三年中，我们已经取得了稳步进展。我们刚刚知道12月新增了212,000私人部门的就业机会。在经济衰退后，800万人失去了就业机会在过去22个多月，我们增加了3百万个私人部门的就业机会。制造业和美国汽车业制造在2012年开始好转。
我们正沿着正确的方向前进。我们不会放松。周三白宫将举办一个论坛，叫做“美国人的就业机会。”我们将听到来自商界领袖的发言，他们将就业机会带回，看看我们如何能够帮助其他企业跟着他们走。
因为这是一个中产阶级和所有工作者的破冰时刻。我们一定要坚持它。我们一定要坚持创造就业机会。我们一定要坚持经济重建，使每个人都得到一个公平的对待，每个人都其公平的收入——每个人都遵守相同的规则。我们不能回到过去的日子，那时金融体系和普通美国人的利益相悖。对我来说，这不是一个选择。不是我们经历了这么多后的选择。
这就是本周我任命Richard Cordray为我国新的消费监察人的原因。理查德的工作很简单：为你监督。每天，他唯一的使命就是是保护消费者免受金融业滥用职权的潜在危险，并确保在做重要的财务决策前，您已经了解了所有需要知道的透明信息。
去年夏天我提名理查德来担任这项工作。然而，共和党在参议院阻止他的任命——不是因为他们反对他，而是因为他们想削弱他的监察机构。这没有任何意义。你们和全国的消费者多等待一天，你们都要冒更大的财务风险。
所以今年，我要继续努力，不惜一切代价来推动经济向前发展，并确保中产阶级家庭重获在过去十年中已经失去的安全。这是我献给大家的新年决议。谢谢你们，周末愉快。
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