【正文】 for creating jobs right now, they should prove one of the same independent economists who looked at our plan just said that their ideas, quote, wouldn’t ―mean much for the economy in the near term.‖If their plan doesn’t measure up, the American people deserve to know what it is that Republicans in Congress don’t like about this jobs hear a lot of our Republican friends say that one of the most important things we can do is cut , they should love this American Jobs Act would cut taxes for virtually every worker and small business in if you’re a small business owner that hires new workers, raises wages, or hires a veteran, you get an additional tax now, hundreds of thousands of teachers and firefighters and police officers have been laid off because of state budget jobs bill will put a lot of these men and women back to now, there are millions of laidoff construction workers who could be repairing our bridges and roads and modernizing our wouldn’t we want to put these men and women to work rebuilding America?The proposals in this bill are steps we have to take if we want to build an economy that lasts。folks who remain in my mind and on my agenda each and every know that there are countless families and businesses struggling to just hang on until this storm I also know that if we do the things we know we must, this storm will it will yield to a brighter day.第五篇：Remarks of President Barack Obama Weekly Address February 20, 2010The other week, men and women across California opened up their mailboxes to find a letter from Anthem Blue news inside was was alerting almost a million of its customers that it would be raising premiums by an average of 25 percent, with about a quarter of folks likely to see their rates go up by anywhere from 35 to 39 , after their announcement stirred public outcry, Anthem agreed to delay their rate hike until May 1st while the situation is reviewed by the state of it’s not just Californians who are being hit by rate Kansas, one insurance pany raised premiums by 10 to 20 percent only after asking to raise them by 20 to 30 year, Michigan Blue Cross Blue Shield raised rates by 22 percent after asking to raise them by up to 56 in Maine, Anthem is asking to raise rates for some folks by about 23 bottom line is that the status quo is good for the insurance industry and bad for the past year, as families and small business owners have struggled to pay soaring health care costs, and as millions of Americans lost their coverage, the five largest insurers made record profits of over $12 as bad as things are today, they’ll only get worse if we fail to ’ll see more and more Americans go without the coverage they ’ll see exploding premiums and outofpocket costs burn through more and more family ’ll see more and more small businesses scale back benefits, drop coverage, or close down because they can’t keep up with rising in time, we’ll see these skyrocketing health care costs bee the single largest driver of our federal ’s what the future is on track to look it’s not what the future has to look question, then, is whether we will do what it takes, all of us – Democrats and Republicans – to build a better future for ourselves, our children, and our ’s why, next week, I am inviting members of both parties to take part in a bipartisan health care meeting, and I hope they e in a spirit of good don’t want to see this meeting turn into political theater, with each side simply reciting talking points and trying to score political , I ask members of both parties to seek mon ground in an effort to solve a problem that’s been with us for ’s in that spirit that I have sought out and supported Republican ideas on reform from the very Republicans want to allow Americans to purchase insurance from a pany in another state to give people more choices and bring down Republicans have also suggested giving small businesses the power to pool together and offer health care at lower prices, just as big panies and labor unions think both of these are good ideas – so long as we pursue them in a way that protects benefits, protects patients, and protects the American hope Democrats and Republicans can e together next week around these and other members of Congress, I would simply say know the American people want us to reform our health insurance know where t