【正文】 it sides will have to ’s what it will take to do what’s right for our 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 petitive edge in the world, and helps us win the everybody, and havea great weekend.第二篇：美國總統(tǒng)周末電臺演講：華盛頓白宮奧巴馬每周電臺演講美國總統(tǒng)周末電臺演講：華盛頓白宮奧巴馬每周電臺演講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 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 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 Remarks of PresidentBarack ObamaWeekly AddressSaturday, October 8 , 2011Next week, the Senate will vote on the American Jobs ’s a bill that will put more people to work and put more money in the pockets of working it will provide our economy with the jolt that it really needs right nowThis is not the time for the usual games or political gridlock in challenges facing financial markets around the world could have very real effects on our own economy at a time when it’s already this jobs bill can help guard against another downturn here in isn’t just my is what independent economists have just just people in my experts who do this for a living have said that this jobs bill will have a significant effect for our economy and middleclass families all across if we don’t act, the opposite will be true – there will be fewer jobs and weaker 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 the Republicans in Congress think they have a better plan for creating jobs right now, they should prove 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 hear a lot of our Republican friends say that one of the most important things we can do is cut , they should love this American Jobs Act would cut taxes for virtually every worker and small business in if you’re a small business owner that hires new workers, raises wages, or hires a veteran, you get an additional tax now, hundreds of thousands of teachers and firefighters and police officers have been laid off because of state budget jobs bill will put a lot of these men and women back to now, there are millions of laidoff construction workers who could be repairing our bridges and roads and modernizing our 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 pete with other countries for jobs that restore a sense of security for the 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 see this as class see it as a simple 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 in the process, we can put teachers and construction workers and veterans back on the can either fight to protect their tax cuts, or we can cut taxes for virtually every worker and small business in we can’t afford to do ’s that are too many people hurting in this country for us to simply do economy is too fragile for us to let politics get in the way of 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 I need you to keep making your voices heard in need you to remind these folks