【正文】 第一篇：奧巴馬每周演講稿 (8)20100814Seventyfive years ago today, in the midst of the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt signed Social Security into law, laying a cornerstone in the foundation of America’s middle class, and assuring generations of America’s seniors that after a lifetime of hard work, they’d have a chance to retire with have an obligation to keep that promise。to safeguard Social Security for our seniors, people with disabilities, and all Americans – today, tomorrow, and , we’ve been talking for a long time about how to do that。about how to make sure Social Security is healthy enough to cover the higher costs that are kicking in now that baby boomers are I’m mitted to working with anyone, Democrat or Republican, who wants to strengthen Social ’m also encouraged by the reports of serious bipartisan work being done on this and other issues in the fiscal mission that I set up several months thing we can’t afford to do though is privatize Social Security – an illconceived idea that would add trillions of dollars to our budget deficit while tying your benefits to the whims of Wall Street traders and the ups and downs of the stock few years ago, we had a debate about privatizing Social I’d have thought that debate would’ve been put to rest once and for all by the financial crisis we’ve just ’d have thought, after being reminded how quickly the stock market can tumble, after seeing the wealth people worked a lifetime to earn wiped out in a matter of days, that no one would want to place bets with Social Security on Wall Street。that everyone would understand why we need to be prudent about investing the retirement money of tens of millions of some Republican leaders in Congress don’t seem to have learned any lessons from the past few ’re pushing to make privatizing Social Security a key part of their legislative agenda if they win a majority in Congress this ’s right up there on their todo list with repealing some of the Medicare benefits and reforms that are adding at least a dozen years to the fiscal health of Medicare – the single longest extension in agenda is wrong for seniors, it’s wrong for America, and I won’t let it while I’m ’ll fight with everything I’ve got to stop those who would gamble your Social Security on Wall you shouldn’t be worried that a sudden downturn in the stock market will put all you’ve worked so hard for – all you’ve earned – at should have the peace of mind of knowing that after meeting your responsibilities and paying into the system all your lives, you’ll get the benefits you years ago today, Franklin Roosevelt made a promised that from that day forward, we’d offer – quote – “some measure of protection to the average citizen and to his family againstamp。hellippovertystricken old age.” That’s a promise each generation of Americans has it’s a promise America will continue to keep so long as I have the honor of serving as for for have wonderful weekend.第二篇：奧巴馬每周演講稿20100626This weekend, I’m traveling to Toronto to meet with members of the , I hope we can build on the progress we made at last year’s G20 summits by coordinating our global financial reform efforts to make sure a crisis like the one from which we are still recovering never happens ’ve made great progress toward passing such reform here at I speak, we are on the cusp of enacting the toughest financial reforms since the Great don’t have to tell you why these reforms are so ’re still digging ourselves ou