【正文】 n jobs, new American industries, and free us from the dangerous grip of foreign oil. This budget puts us on that path, through a marketbased cap on carbon pollution that will make renewable energy the profitable kind of energy。t produce shared prosperity without firm rules of the road, and we can39。t help people find work or pay their bills unless we unlock credit for families and businesses. We can39。s sober in its assessments, honest in its accounting, and lays out in detail my strategy for investing in what we need, cutting what we don39。ve inherited. On Tuesday, I will speak to the nation about our urgent national priorities. And on Thursday, I39。t fail to plete the journey. That will require stemming the spread of foreclosures and falling home values, and doing all we can to help responsible homeowners stay in their homes, which is exactly what the housing plan I announced last week will help us do.It will require stabilizing and repairing our banking system, and getting credit flowing again to families and businesses. It will require reforming the broken regulatory system that made this crisis possible, and recognizing that it39。 and families can lower their energy bills by weatherizing their homes.Because of what we did, our children can now graduate from 21st century schools and millions more can do what was unaffordable just last week and get their college degree.Because of what we did, lives will be saved and health care costs will be cut with new puterized medical records.Because of what we did, there will now be police on the beat, firefighters on the job, and teachers preparing lesson plans who thought they would not be able to continue pursuing their critical missions. And ensure that all of this is done with an unprecedented level of transparency and accountability, I have assigned a team of managers to make sure that precious tax dollars are invested wisely and well.Because of what we did, 95 percent of all working families will get a tax cut in keeping with a promise I made on the campaign. And I39。Earlier this week, I signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act the most sweeping economic recovery plan in history. Because of this plan, million Americans will now go to work doing the work that America needs done.I39。 that we invest in the things we need, and dispense with the things we don’t. This is a challenging agenda, but one we can and will achieve.This morning, I’m reminded of words President Kennedy spoke in another time of uncertainty. Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.America, we will prove equal to this task. It will take time, and it will take effort, but working together, we will turn this crisis into opportunity and emerge from our painful present into a brighter future. After a week spent with the fundamentally decent men and women of this nation, I have never been more certain of that.Thank you.February 21, 2009 and upgrading classrooms, libraries, and labs in our children’s schools across America. The work of building wind turbines and solar panels and the smart grid necessary to transport the clean energy they create。s show them that we are. And let39。s children for generations to e.Americans across this country are struggling, and they are watching to see if we39。ve lost their jobs. And it helps our states and munities avoid painful tax hikes or layoffs for our teachers, nurses, and first responders.That39。t expect Democratic solutions or Republican solutions – they expect American solutions.From the beginning, this recovery plan has had at its core a simple idea: Let39。t rely on a losing formula that offers only tax cuts as the answer to all our problems while ignoring our fundamental economic challenges – the crushing cost of health care or the inadequate state of so many schools。s be clear: We can39。t afford to make perfect the enemy of the absolutely necessary. The scale and scope of this plan is right. And the time for action is now.Because if we don39。s election was all about. Legislation of such magnitude deserves the scrutiny that it39。m pleased to say it ended on a more positive note.In the morning, we received yet another round of alarming employment figures – the worst in more than 30 years. Another 600,000 jobs were lost in January. We39。ll help lower mortgage costs and extend loans to small businesses so they can create jobs. We39。s why I am calling on the Senate to pass this plan, so that we can put people back to work and begin the long, hard work of lifting our economy out of this crisis. No one bill, no matter how prehensive, can cure what ails our economy. So just as we jumpstart job creation, we must also ensure that markets are stable, credit is flowing, and families can stay in their homes. Last year Congress passed a plan to rescue the financial system. While the package helped avoid a financial collapse, many are frustrated by the results and rightfully so. Too often taxpayer dollars have been spent without transparency or accountability. Banks have been extended a hand, but homeowners, students, and small businesses that need loans have been left to fend on their own. And adding to this outrage, we learned this week that even as they petitioned for taxpayer assistance, Wall Street firms shamefully paid out nearly $20 billion in bonuses for 2008. While I39。s future by investing in energy independence and education, affordable health care, and American infrastructure. Now this recovery plan moves to the Senate. I will continue working with both parties so that the strongest possible bill gets to my desk. With the stakes so high we simply cannot afford the same old gridlock and partisan posturing in Washington. It39。t keep pace with tuition. And workers don39。s a story. Many Americans have seen their lives turned upside down