【正文】 a chance to get back in the workforce and earn their piece of the American 39。s what39。s at people back to economic security for the middle an economy where hard work is valued and responsibility isrewarded ? an economy that39。s built to I39。m going to travel all over the country over the next few weeks so we can remind Congress so that39。s the most important there39。s still time to create jobs and grow our economy right 39。s still time for Congress to do the right just need to .第五篇：奧巴馬6月16日電視講話Weekly Address: Ending the Stalemate in WashingtonJune 16, 2012 Over the last few weeks, I’ve been talking a lot about America’s economic ’ve told you how I believe we should go about creating strong, sustained growth。how we should pay down our longterm debt in a balanced way。and most of all, what we should do right now to create good, middleclass jobs, so people who work hard can get isn’t some abstract debate or trivial ’ve said that this is the defining issue of our time, and I mean ’ve said that this is a makeorbreak moment for the middle class, and I believe decisions we make over the next few years will have an enormous impact on the country we live in, and the one we pass on to our now, we’re still fighting our way back from the worst economic crisis since the Great economy is growing again, but it’s not growing fast businesses have created million new jobs over the last 27 months, but we’re not creating them fast we’re facing some pretty serious headwinds – from the effects of the recent spike in gas prices, to the financial crisis in here’s the have the answers to these have plenty of big ideas and technical solutions from both sides of the ’s not what’s holding us ’s holding us back is a stalemate in September, I sent Congress a jobs bill full of the kinds of bipartisan ideas that could have put over a million Americans back to work and helped bolster our economy against outside sent them a plan that would have reduced our deficit by $4 trillion in a balanced way that pays for the investments we need by cutting unnecessary spending and asking the wealthiest Americans to pay a little bit more in then, Congress has passed a few parts of that jobs bill, like a tax cut that39。s allowing working Americans to keep more of your paycheck every on most of the ideas that would create jobs and grow our economy, Republicans in Congress haven’t lifted a ’d rather wait until after the election in this past week, oneof them said, “Why not wait for the reinforcements?” That’s a you can bet plenty of his colleagues are thinking the same think that’s isn’t about who wins or loses in is about your jobs, your paychecks, your children’s ’s no excuse for Congress to stand by and do nothing while so many families are now, Congress should pass a bill to help states put thousands of teachers, firefighters and police officers back on the should have passed a bill a long time ago to put thousands of construction workers back to work rebuilding our roads and bridges and instead of just talking about job creators, they should give smallbusiness owners a tax break for hiring more workers and paying them higher now, Congress should give every responsible homeowner the opportunity to save an average of $3,000 a year by refinancing their should extend tax credits for clean energy manufacturers so we don’t walk away from 40,000 good instead of giving tax breaks to panies who ship jobs overseas, Congress should take that money and use it to cover moving expenses for panies that are bringing jobs back to ’s no reason to problem we face is within our power to ’s lacking is our your Members of Congress why you sent them to Washington in the first them to stop worrying about the next election and start worrying about the next ’m ready to work with anyone – Republican, Democrat, or Independent – who is serious about moving this country I hope Members of Congress will join , and have a great weekend.