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1、Remarks of President Barack ObamaWeekly AddressThe White HouseNovember 6, 2010This week, Americans across the country cast their votes and made their voices heard. And your message was clear.Youre rightly frustrated with the pace of our economic recovery. So am I.Youre fed up with partisan politics
2、and want results. I do too.So I congratulate all of this weeks winners Republicans, Democrats, and Independents. But now, the campaign season is over. And its time to focus on our shared responsibilities to work together and deliver those results: speeding up our economic recovery, creating jobs, an
3、d strengthening the middle class so that the American Dream feels like its back within reach.Thats why Ive asked to sit down soon with leaders of both parties so that we can have an extended discussion about what we can do together to move this country forward.And over the next few weeks, were going
4、 to have a chance to work together in the brief upcoming session of Congress. Heres why this lame duck session is so important. Early in the last decade, President Bush and Congress enacted a series of tax cuts that were designed to expire at the end of this year.What that means is, if Congress does
5、nt act by New Years Eve, middle-class families will see their taxes go up starting on New Years Day.But the last thing we should do is raise taxes on middle-class families. For the past decade, they saw their costs rise, their incomes fall, and too many jobs go overseas. Theyre the ones bearing the
6、brunt of the recession. Theyre the ones having trouble making ends meet. They are the ones who need relief right now.So somethings got to be done. And I believe theres room for us to compromise and get it done together.Lets start where we agree. All of us want certainty for middle-class Americans. N
7、one of us want them to wake up on January 1st with a higher tax bill. Thats why I believe we should permanently extend the Bush tax cuts for all families making less than $250,000 a year. Thats 98 percent of the American people. We also agree on the need to start cutting spending and bringing down o
8、ur deficit. Thats going to require everyone to make some tough choices. In fact, if Congress were to implement my proposal to freeze non-security discretionary spending for three years, it would bring this spending down to its lowest level as share of the economy in 50 years.But at a time when we ar
9、e going to ask folks across the board to make such difficult sacrifices, I dont see how we can afford to borrow an additional $700 billion from other countries to make all the Bush tax cuts permanent, even for the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans. Wed be digging ourselves into an even deeper fiscal
10、 hole and passing the burden on to our children.I recognize that both parties are going to have to work together and compromise to get something done here. But I want to make my priorities clear from the start. One: middle class families need permanent tax relief. And two: I believe we cant afford t
11、o borrow and spend another $700 billion on permanent tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires.There are new public servants in Washington, but we still face the same challenges. And you made it clear that its time for results. This a great opportunity to show everyone that we got the message and that were willing, in this post-election season, to come together and do whats best for the country we all love.Thanks.
