【正文】 he things we don39。 administration inherited a $ trillion budget deficit, the largest in we39。ve inherited a budgeting process as irresponsible as it is years, as Wall Street used accounting tricks to conceal costs and avoid responsibility, Washington did, kinds of irresponsible budgetsand inexcusable practicesare now in the the first time in many years, my administration has produced a budget that represents an honest reckoning of where we are and where we need to 39。s also a budget that begins to make the hard choices that we39。ve avoided for far too longa strategy that cuts where we must and invests where we 39。s why it includes $2 trillion in deficit reduction, while making historic investments in America39。s 39。s why it reduces discretionary spending for nondefense programs as a share of the economy by more than 10 percent over the next decadeto the lowest level since they began keeping these records nearly half a century that39。s why on Wednesday, I signed a presidential memorandum to end unnecessary nobid contracts and dramatically reform the way contracts are awardedreforms that will save the American people up to $40 billion each , because we cannot bring our deficit down or grow our economy without tackling the skyrocketing cost of health care, I held a health care summit on Thursday to begin the longoverdue process of ideas and opinions about how to achieve this reform will vary, but our goal must be the same: quality, affordable health care for every American that no longer overwhelms the budgets of families, businesses, and our , this is a moment of challenge for our we39。ve experienced great trials with every test, each generation has found the capacity to not only endure, but to prosperto discover great opportunity in the midst of great is what we can and must do I am absolutely confident that is what we will 39。m confident that at this defining moment, we will prove ourselves worthy of the sacrifice of those who came before us, and the promise of those who will e , March 14, 2009 Washington, DCI’ve often said that I don’t believe government has the answer to every problem or that it can do all things for all are a nation built on the strength of individual there are certain things that we can’t do on our are certain things only a government can one of those things is ensuring that the foods we eat, and the medicines we take, are safe and don’t cause us is the mission of our Food and Drug Administration and it is a mission shared by our Department of Agriculture, and a variety of other agencies and offices at just about every level of men and women who inspect our foods and test the safety of our medicines are chemists and physicians, veterinarians and is because of the work they do each and every day that the United States is one of the safest places in the world to buy groceries at a supermarket or pills at a citizens of so many other countries, Americans can trust that there is a strong system in place to ensure that the medications we give our children will help them get better, not make them sick。and that a family dinner won’t end in a trip to the doctor’s in recent years, we’ve seen a number of problems with the food making its way to our kitchen 2006, it was contaminated 2008, it was salmonella in peppers and possibly just this year, bad peanut products led to hundreds of illnesses and cost nine people their lives – a painful reminder of how tragic the consequences can be when food producers act irresponsibly and government is unable to do its , these incidents reflect a troubling trend that’s seen the average number of outbreaks from contaminated produce and other foods grow to nearly 350 a year – up from 100 a year in the early of the reason is that many of the laws and regulations governing food safety in America have not been updated since they were written in the time of Teddy ’s also because our system of inspection and enforcement is spread out so widely among so many people that it’s difficult for different parts of our government to share information, work together, and solve it’s also because the FDA has been underfunded and understaffed in recent years, leaving the agency with the resources to inspect just 7,000 of our 150,000 food processing plants and warehouses each means roughly 95% of them go is a hazard to public is it will change under the leadership of Hamburg, whom I am appointing today as Commissioner of the Food and Drug her research on infectious disease at the National Institutes of Health to her work on public health at the Department of Health and Human Services to her leadership on biodefense at the Nuclear Threat Initiative, brings to this vital position not only a reputation of integrity but a record of achievement in making Americans safer and more was one of the youngest people ever elected to the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of her two children have a unique distinction of their birth certificates feature her name twice – once as their mother, and once as New York City Health that role, brought a new life to a demoralized agency, leading an internationallyrecognized initiative that cut the tuberculosis rate by nearly half, and overseeing food safety in our nation’s largest her as Principal Deputy Commissioner will be Baltimore’s Health Commissioner, has been recognized as a national leader for his efforts to protect children from unsafe overthecounter cough and cold he’s designed an awardwinning program to ensure that Americans with disabilities had access to prescription critical work – and the critical work of the FDA they lead – will be part of a larger effort taken up by a new Food Safety Working Group I am Working Group will bring together cabinet secretaries and senior officials to advise me on how we can upgrade our food safety laws for the 21st century。foster coordination throughout government。and ensure that we are not just designing laws that will keep the American people