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1、拜登拜登为中产阶级提供机会为中产阶级提供机会英语演讲英语演讲 稿稿ladies and gentlemen, this is joe biden, im filling in for president obama, while he addresses the nato summit in wales.when the president and i took office in january of XX, this nation was in the midst of the greatest economic crisis since the great depression. our
2、 economy had plummeted1 at a rate of 8% in a single quarter-part of the fastest economic decline any time in the last half century. millions of families were falling underwater on their homes and threatened with foreclosure. the iconic american automobile2 industry was under siege.but yesterdays job
3、s report was another reminder3 of how far weve come. weve had 54 straight months of job creation. and thats the longest streak4 of uninterrupted job growth in the united states history.weve gone from losing 9 million jobs during the financial crisis to creating 10 million jobs. weve reduced the unem
4、ployment rate from 10% in october of XX to % today. and for the first time since the 1990s, american manufacturing is steadily5 adding jobs-over 700,000 since XX. and surveys of both american and foreign business leaders confirm that america once again is viewed as the best place in the world to bui
5、ld and invest.thats all good news.but an awful lot of middle class americans are still not feeling the effects of this recovery. since the year XX, gross domestic product-our gdp - has risen by 25%. and productivity in america is up by 30%. but middle class wages during that same time period have go
6、ne up by only fourteen cents.folks, its long past time to cut the middle class back into the deal, so they can benefit from the economic growth they helped create. folks, there used to be a bargain in this country supported by democrats6 and republicans, business and labor7. the bargain was simple.
7、if an employee contributed to the growth and profitability of the company, they got to share in the profits and the benefits as well. thats what built the middle class. its time to restore the bargain, to deal the middle class back in. because, folks, when the middle class does well, everybody does
8、well-the wealthy get wealthier and the poor have a way up.you know, the middle class is not a number. its a value set. it means being able to own your home; raise your children in a safe neighborhood; send them to a good school where if they do well they can qualify to go to college and if they get
9、accepted youd be able to find a way to be able to send them to college. and in the meantime, if your parents need help, being able to take care of them, and hope to put aside enough money so that your children will not have to take care of you.thats the american dream. thats what this country was bu
10、ilt on. and thats what weredetermined8 to restore.in order to do that, its time to have a fair tax structure, one that values paychecks as much as unearned income and inherited wealth, to take some of the burden off of the middle class. its time to close tax loopholes so we can reduce the deficit9,
11、and invest in rebuilding america - our bridges, our ports, our highways, rails, providing good jobs.with corporate10 profits at near record highs, we should encourage corporations to invest more in research and development and the salaries of their employees. its time for us to invest in educational
12、 opportunity to guarantee that we have the most highly skilledworkforce11 in the world, for 6 out of every 10 jobs in the near term is going to require some education beyond high school. folks, its long past due to increase the minimum wage that will lift millions of hardworking families out of pove
13、rty target poverty and in the process produce a ripple12 effect that boosts wages for the middle class and spurs economic growth for the united states of america. economists13 acknowledge that if we do these and other things, wages will go up and well increase the gross domestic product of the unite
14、d states.my fellow americans, we know how to do this. weve done it before. its the way we used to do business and we can do it that way again. all the middle class in this country want is a chance. no guarantee, just a chance.americans want to work. and when given a fair shot, the american worker has never, ever, ever, let his country down. folks, its never a good bet to bet against the american people.thanks for listening.
