【正文】 can create jobs. We39。 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。 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.The White HouseSaturday, February 7, 2009Yesterday began with some devastating news with regard to our economic crisis. But I39。ve now lost more than million jobs since this recession began.But by the evening, Democrats and Republicans came together in the Senate and responded appropriately to the urgency this moment demands.In the midst of our greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression, the American people were hoping that Congress would begin to confront the great challenges we face. That was, after all, what last November39。s received over the last month, and it will receive more in the days to e. But we can39。t move swiftly to put this plan in motion, our economic crisis could bee a national catastrophe. Millions of Americans will lose their jobs, their homes, and their health care. Millions more will have to put their dreams on hold.Let39。t expect relief from the tired old theories that, in eight short years, doubled the national debt, threw our economy into a tailspin, and led us into this mess in the first place. We can39。 our addiction to foreign oil or our crumbling roads, bridges, and levees.The American people know that our challenges are great. They don39。s put Americans to work doing the work America needs done. It will save or create more than 3 million jobs over the next two years, all across the country – 16,000 in Maine, nearly 80,000 in Indiana – almost all of them in the private sector, and all of them jobs that help us recover today, and prosper tomorrow.Jobs that upgrade classrooms and laboratories in 10,000 schools nationwide – at least 485 in Florida alone – and train an army of teachers in math and science.Jobs that modernize our health care system, not only saving us billions of dollars, but countless lives.Jobs that construct a smart electric grid, connect every corner of the country to the information superhighway, double our capacity to generate renewable energy, and grow the economy of tomorrow.Jobs that rebuild our crumbling roads, bridges and levees and dams, so that the tragedies of New Orleans and Minneapolis never happen again.It includes immediate tax relief for our struggling middle class in places like Ohio, where million workers will receive a tax cut of up to $1,000. It protects health insurance and provides unemployment insurance for those who39。s what is at stake with this plan: putting Americans back to work, creating transformative economic change, and making a down payment on the American Dream that serves our children and our children39。re equal to the task before us. Let39。s do whatever it takes to keep the promise of America alive in our time.Thank you.SATURDAY, February 21, 2009WEEKLY ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENTTO THE NATION THE PRESIDENT: 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。 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。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。ve inherited. On Tuesday, I will speak to the nation about our urgent national priorities. And on Thursday, I39。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。t help people find work or pay their bills unless we unlock credit for families and businesses. We can39。t produce shared prosperity without firm rules of the road, and we can39。 a government that treats their tax dollars as responsibly as they treat their own hardearned paychecks. That is the change I promised as a candidate for president. It is the change th