【正文】 d states across the country to raise their standards for teaching and standards were developed, not by Washington, but by Republican and Democratic governors throughout the since then, we have seen what’s possible when reform isn’t just a topdownmandate, but the work of local teachers and principals。第一篇：美國(guó)總統(tǒng)周末電臺(tái)演講：華盛頓白宮奧巴馬每周電臺(tái)演講009美國(guó)總統(tǒng)周末電臺(tái)演講：華盛頓白宮奧巴馬每周電臺(tái)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。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 who they work I need you to tell your Senators to do the right thing by passing this jobs bill right so much.第三篇：美國(guó)總統(tǒng)奧巴馬每周電臺(tái)演講2011obm0924【美國(guó)總統(tǒng)電臺(tái)演說】20110924 Over the last few weeks, I’ve been making the case that we need to act now on the American Jobs Act, so we can put folks back to work and start building an economy that lasts into the is an essential part of this economic is an undeniable fact that countries who outeducate us today will outpete us will hire wherever the highlyskilled, highlytrained workers are today, our students are sliding against their peers around the , our kids trail too many other countries in math, science, and many as a quarter of our students aren’t even finishing high we’ve fallen to 16th in the proportion of our young people with a college degree, even though we know that sixty percent of new jobs in the ing decade will require more than a high school this means is that if we’re serious about building an economy that lasts – an economy in which hard work pays off with the opportunity for solid middle class jobs – we had better be serious about have to pick up our game and raise our a nation, we have an obligation to make sure that all children have the resources they need to learn – quality schools, good teachers, the latest textbooks and the right ’s why the jobs bill I sent to Congress would put tens of thousands of teachers back to work across the country, and modernize at least 35,000 39。provided relief to struggling states to prevent layoffs of teachers and police officers。not on the next election but on the next is what we can do, and that is what we must do when we e together for this bipartisan health care meeting next you, and have a great weekend.