【正文】 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。one country39。 addition to your growing economy, we admire China39。why opportunity is available to all who would work for it。ve seen a 50 percent increase in the study of Chinese among our own are nearly 200 “friendship cities” drawing our munities and Chinese scientists cooperate on new research and of course, Yao Ming is just one signal of our shared love of basketballI39。s distant and the next day I hope to have a chance when I39。t know what he said, but I hope it was good.(Laughter.)Part 1What I39。offer quality, affordable choices to those who currently don’t。and bring health care costs for our families, our businesses, and our government under of all, if you are among the hundreds of millions of Americans who already have insurance through your job, or Medicare, or Medicaid, or the VA, nothing in my plan will require you or your employer to change the coverage or the doctor you my plan will do is make the insurance you have worked better for ’ll make it illegal for insurance panies to deny you coverage because of a preexisting condition, drop your coverage when you get sick, or water it down when you need it ’ll no longer be able to place some arbitrary cap on the amount of coverage you can receive in a given year or over a lifetime, and we will place a limit on how much you can be charged for outofpocket expenses – because no one should go broke just because they get , if you’re one of the more than thirty million American citizens who can’t get coverage, you’ll finally have quality, affordable you lose your job, change your job, or start your own business, you will be able to get as I have said over and over again, I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits – plan will be paid middleclass will realize greater security, not higher if we can successfully slow the growth of health care costs by just onetenth of one percent each year, it will actually reduce the deficit by $4 trillion over the long , quality care within reach for the tens of millions of Americans who don’t have it and security for the hundreds of millions who ’s the reform we have had a long and important now is the time for every day we wait, more Americans will lose their health care, their businesses, and their homes – but also the dreams they’ve worked for and the peace of mind they are why we have to if you’re willing to put country before party and the interests of our children above our own。d like to do is to make some opening ments, and then what I39。m in Beijing to see the majesty of the Forbidden City and the wonder of the Great , this is a nation that enpasses both a rich history and a belief in the promise of the same can be said of the relationship between our two , of course, is a city that has great meaning in the history of the relationship between the United States and was here, 37 years ago, that the Shanghai Communique opened the door to a new chapter of engagement between our governments and among our , America39。m only sorry that I won39。and why someone like me, who less than 50 years ago would have had trouble voting in some parts of America, is now able to serve as its 5And that is why America will always speak out for these core principles around the do not seek to impose any system of government on any other nation, but we also don39。s extraordinary mitment to science and researcha mitment borne out in everything from the infrastructure you build to the technology you is now the world39。s success need not e at the expense of that is why the United States insists we do not seek to contain China39。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。s dialogue, I hope that it is a mitment to continue this dialogue going thank you very I look forward now to taking some questions from all of you very much.(Applause.)第五篇：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 lif