【正文】 第一篇：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009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 said that he expects Democratic and Republican leaders in Congress to find mon ground as Congress focuses on a short term budget next President will consider any serious ideas to reduce the deficit, regardless of which party proposes fact, the President has already proposed freezing domestic spending, which would cut the deficit by $400 billion and bring this kind of spending to the lowest level, as a percentage of our economy, since the Eisenhower , cutting investments in education and innovation would hinder our ability to outpete the rest of the the President recognizes that everyone needs to be willing to sacrifice, we cannot sacrifice our country’s ability to win the Remarks of PresidentBarack Obama Weekly Address Saturday, February 26, 2011 Over the last month, I’ve been traveling the country, talking to Americans about how we can outeducate, outinnovate, and outbuild the rest of the that will require a government that lives within its means, and cuts whatever spending we can afford to do it will also require investing in our nation’s future – training and educating our workers。increasing our mitment to research and technology。building new roads and bridges, highspeed rail andhighspeed cities and towns throughout America, I’ve seen the benefits of these schools and colleges of Oregon are providing Intel – the state’s largest private employer – with a steady stream of highlyeducated workers and Parkville Middle School outside of Baltimore, engineering is the most popular subject, thanks to outstanding teachers who are inspiring students to focus on their mathand science Wisconsin, a pany called Orion is putting hundreds of people to work manufacturing energyefficient lights in a onceshuttered in the small munity of Marquette, in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, widely accessible highspeed internet has allowed students and entrepreneurs to connect to the global fact one small business, a thirdgeneration, familyowned clothing shop called Getz’s is now selling their products online, which has helped them to double their workforce and make them one of America’s 5,000 fastestgrowing paniesin a recent of these places reminds us that investments in education, innovation, and infrastructure are an essential down payment on our they also remind us that the only way we can afford these investments is by getting our fiscal house in like any family, we have to live within our means to make room for the things we absolutely ’s why I’ve called for a freeze on annual domestic spending over the next five years – a freeze that would cut the deficit by more than $400 billion over the next decade, bringing this kind of spending to its lowest share of our economy since Dwight Eisenhower was to be clear, that’s lower than it was under the past three administrations, and lower than it was under Ronald , putting this budget freeze in place will require tough ’s why I’ve frozen salaries for hardworking civil servants for three years, and proposed cutting programs I care deeply about, like munity action programs in lowine ’m not taking these steps lightly – but I’m taking them because our economic future demands , a freeze in annual domestic spending is just a we’re serious about tackling our longrun fiscal challenges, we also need to cut excessive spending wherever we find it – in defense spending, spending in Medicare and Medicaid, and spending through tax breaks and’m willing to consider any serious ideas to help us reduce the deficit – no matter what party is proposing instead of cutting the investments in education and innovation we need to outpete the rest of the world, we need a balanced approach to deficit all need to be willing to sacrifice, but we can’t sacrifice our week, Congress will focus on a shortterm the sake of our people and our economy, we cannot allow gridlock to Democratic and Republican leaders in the House and Senate have said they believe it’s important to keep the government running while we work together on a plan to reduce our longterm that, I urge and expect them to find mon ground so we can accelerate, and not impede, economic won’t be will be plenty of debates and disagreements, and neither party will get everything