【正文】 hellippovertystricken old age.” That’s a promise each generation of Americans has it’s a promise America will continue to keep so long as I have the honor of serving as for for have wonderful weekend.。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 lifetime of hard work, they’d have a chance to retire with have an obligation to keep that promise。m absolutely confident that America has no better ambassadors to offer than our young they, just like you, are filled with talent and energy and optimism about the history that is yet to be let this be the next step in the steady pursuit of cooperation that will serve our nations, and the if there39。s why I39。s success need not e at the expense of that is why the United States insists we do not seek to contain China39。ve said many times that I believe that our world is now fundamentally jobs we do, the prosperity we build, the environment we protect, the security that we seekall of these things are given that interconnection, power in the 21st century is no longer a zerosum game。m looking forward to deepening the partnership between the United States and China in this critical area above all, I see China39。s country now has the world39。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 generation can do better than today39。our mitment to international law。s openness to other countries。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 why immigrants from China to Kenya could find a home on our shores。that merce should be open, information freely accessible。m is no coincidence that the relationship between our countries has acpanied a period of positive has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of povertyan acplishment unparalleled in human historywhile playing a larger role in global the United States has seen our economy grow along with the standard of living enjoyed by our people, while bringing the Cold War to a successful 4There is a Chinese proverb: “Consider the past, and you shall know the future.” Surely, we have known setbacks and challenges over the last 30 relationship has not been without disagreement and the notion that we must be adversaries is not predestinednot when we consider the , because of our cooperation, both the United States and China are more prosperous and more have seen what is possible when we build upon our mutual interests, and engage on the basis of mutual yet the success of that engagement depends upon understandingon sustaining an open dialogue, and learning about one another and from one just as that American table tennis player pointed outwe share much in mon as human beings, but our countries are different in certain believe that each country must chart its own is an ancient nation, with a deeply rooted United States, by parison, is a young nation, whose culture is determined by the many different immigrants who have e to our shores, and by the founding documents that guide our documents put forward a simple vision of human affairs, and they enshrine several core principlesthat all men and women are created equal, and possess certain fundamental rights。m only sorry that I won39。the promotion of peace and security in Asia and around the of these issues will be on the agenda tomorrow when I meet with President in 1979, the connections among our people were , we see the curiosity of those pingpong players manifested in the ties that are being forged across many sec