【正文】 on’t get to hold our democracy or our economy hostage over a settled don’t get to kick a child out of Head Start if I don’t agree to take her parents’ health insurance ’s not how our democracy is supposed to 39。the public servants kicked off the job without today, I want to let the Americans dealing with those realworld consequences have their these are just a few of the many heartbreaking letters I’ve gotten from them in the past couple weeks – including more than 30,000 over the past few Mumper lives in rural works in early education, and she has three kids of her own in the ’s what she wrote to me on Wednesday.“Our Head Start agency?was forced to stop providing services on October 1st for over 770 children, and 175 staff were am extremely concerned for the welfare of these are parents who work and who attend are they leaving their children?is it a safe environment?are [they] getting the food that they receive at their Head Start program?”O(jiān)n the day Julia Pruden’s application to buy a home for her and her special needs children was approved by the USDA’s rural development direct loan program, she wrote me from Minot, North Dakota.“We put in an offer to purchase a home this weekend, and it was accepted?if funding does not go through, our chances of the American Dream [are] down the drain?We have worked really hard to get our credit to be acceptable to purchase a home?if it weren’t for the direct lending program provided by the USDA, we would not qualify to buy the home we found.”These are just two of the many letters I’ve received from people who work hard。第一篇：美國總統(tǒng)每周電臺演講6月12日Prepared Remarks of PresidentBarack ObamaWeekly AddressSaturday, Junne12th, 2010More than a decade ago, Congress set up a formula that governs how doctors get paid by the Medicare intent was to slow the growth of Medicare costs, but the result was a formula that has proposed cutting payments for America’s doctors year after year after are cuts that would not only jeopardize our physicians’ pay, but our seniors’ health 2003, Congress has acted to prevent these pay cuts from going into votes were largely bipartisan, and they succeeded when Democrats ran Congress and when Republicans ran Congress – which was most of the year, a majority of Congress is willing to prevent a pay cut of 21%a pay cut that would undoubtedly force some doctors to stop seeing Medicare patients this time, some Senate Republicans may even block a vote on this years of voting to defer these cuts, the other party is now willing to walk away from the needs of our doctors and our , I realize that simply kicking these cuts down the road another year is not a longterm solution to this years, I have said that a system where doctors are left to wonder if they’ll get fairly reimbursed makes absolutely no I am mitted to permanently reforming this Medicare formula in a way that balances fiscal responsibility with the responsibility we have to doctors and addition, we’re already taking significant steps to slow the growth of Medicare costs through health insurance reform – not by targeting doctors and seniors, but by eliminating 50% of the waste, fraud, and abuse in the system by not only strengthens Medicare, it saves taxpayer ’m absolutely willing to take the difficult steps necessary to lower the cost of Medicare and put our budget on a more fiscally sustainable I’m not willing to do that by punishing hardworking physicians or the millions of Americans who count on ’s just that’s why in the shortterm, Congress must act to prevent this pay cut to they don’t act, doctors will see a 21% cut in their Medicare payments this week, doctors will start receiving these lower reimbursements from the