【正文】 第一篇：Remarks of President Barack ObamaWeekly Address The White House Saturday, June 09, 2012This week, I spent some time talking with college students about how we can make higher education more one of the things I told them was how proud I was that they were making that investment in themselves – because in today’s economy, the best predictor of success is a good ’s not just true for our individual success。it’s also true for America’s jobs and new businesses will take root wherever they can find the most highlyeducated, highlyskilled I want those workers to be American want those goodpaying, middleclass jobs to take root right it should concern everyone that right now – all across America – tens of thousands of teachers are getting laid Pennsylvania alone, there are 9,000 fewer educators in our schools today than just a year Ohio, the number is close to 7, nationwide, over the past three years, school districts have lost over 250,000 about what that means for our there are fewer teachers in our schools, class sizes start climbing students start falling our economy takes a point is: teachers study found that a good teacher can increase the lifetime ine of a classroom by over $250, great teacher can change the course of a child’s the last thing our country needs is to have fewer teachers in our , I know states are still going through some tough realize that every Governor is dealing with limited resources and many face stark choices when it es to their that doesn’t mean we should just stand by and do states struggle, it’s up to Congress to step in and help 2009 and in 2010, we provided aid to states to help keep hundreds of thousands of teachers in the we need to do ’s why a critical part of the jobs bill that I sent to Congress back in September was to help states prevent even more layoffs and rehire even more teachers who had lost their months later, we’re still waiting on Congress to it es to this recovery, we can’t fully control everything that happens in other parts of the there are plenty of things we can are plenty of steps we can take, right now, to strengthen our teachers back in our kids’ classrooms is one of those there’s no excuse for work leaders should, at this makeorbreak moment for the middle know this is an election some things are bigger than an things are bigger than I hope you’ll join me in telling Congress to do the right thing。to get to work and to help get our teachers back in the can’t afford to wait any and have a great weekend.第二篇：奧巴馬電臺(tái)演講20112012 on Congress to Prevent Student Interest Rates from Doubling Saturday, April 21, 2012 week, I got the chance to sit down with some impressive students at Lorain County Community College in of them was a woman named Andrea years ago, Andrea lost her job as an HR , she’s getting certified in the fastgrowing field of electronic medical enrolling at Lorain, Andrea told me she was looking everywhere trying to find a new without a degree, she said that nobody would hire ’s story isn’t ’ve met so many Americans who are out there pounding the pavement looking for work only to discover that they need new I’ve met a lot of employers who are looking for workers, but can’t find ones with the skills they’re looking we should be doing everything we can to put higher education within reach for every American – because at a time when the unemployment rate for Americans with at least a college degree is about half the national average, it’s never been more here’s the thing: it’s also never been more who take out loans to pay for college graduate owing an average of $25, the first time, Americans owe more debt on their student loans than they do on their credit for many working families, the idea of owing that much money means that higher education is simply out of reach for their America, higher education cannot be a ’s an economic imperative that every family must be able to ’s why next week I’ll be visiting colleges across the country, talking to students about how we can make higher education more affordable – and what’s at stake right now if Congress doesn’t do something about see, if Congress doesn’t act, on July 1st interest rates on some student loans will seven and half million students will end up owing more on their loan would be a tremendous it’s pletely issue didn’t e out of some time now, I’ve been calling on Congress to take steps to make higher education more affordable – to prevent these interest rates from doubling, to extend the tuition tax credit that has saved middleclass families millions of dollars, and to double the number of workstudy jobs over the next five , over the past few years, Republicans in Congress have voted against new ways to make college more affordable for middleclass families, and voted for huge new tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires – tax cuts that would have to be paid for by cutting things like education and jobtraining programs that give students new opportunities to work and cannot just cut our way to it harder for our young people to afford higher education and earn their degrees is nothing more than cutting our own future off at the needs to keep interest rates on student loans from doubling, and they need to do it is a question of cannot let America bee a country where a shrinking number of people do really well, while a growing number of people struggle to get ’ve got to build an economy where everyone gets a fair shot, everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of ’s how the middle class gets ’s an economy that’s built to I’m not only going to take that case to college campuses next week – I’m going to take it to every part of the country this , and have a great ’s Time for Congress to Pass the Buffett RuleApril 14, 2012One of the fundamental challenges of our time is building an economy where everyone gets a fair shot, everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the