1、奥巴马总统呼吁加强美国基础设施投资英语演讲稿THE PRESIDENT: Hello, St. Paul! (Applause.) It is good to be back in Minnesota. (Applause.)AUDIENCE MEMBER: We love you!THE PRESIDENT: I love you back. Thats why I came here. Good to see you.Although, can I just say that when we got off the plane, Secretary Foxx, who is from No
2、rthCarolina, turned to me and he said, this is the coldest Ive ever been in my life. (Laughter.)Now, we were only out there for like a minute - (laughter) - which goes to show how soft thesefolks from North Carolina are when it comes to the weather. (Laughter and applause). I, on theother hand, am f
3、rom Chicago - (applause) - I walked off those stairs and I was like, this isbalmy, this is great. (Laughter.) February, in Minnesota - cant beat it. Cannot beat it.Now, in addition to Secretary Foxx, who I want to - give him a big round of applause forthat introduction. (Applause.) Youve two champio
4、ns for the people of Minnesota who are heretoday. Youve got Representative Betty McCollum - (applause) - and Representative KeithEllison. (Applause.) Youve got your Mayor, Chris Coleman, in the house. (Applause.) The newMayor of Minneapolis, Betsy Hodges, is here. (Applause.) And my great friend, wh
5、o actually toldme I was running for President before I knew I was running for President - R.T. Rybak. Lovethat name. (Applause.) Wheres R.T.?Now, I want to thank everybody who showed me around Union Depot and gave me apreview of this new light rail line. It is fantastic. (Applause.) And I also just
6、want to say -even though hes not here today - I want to say to everybody how Michelle and I have beenkeeping in our thoughts and prayers one of the great Americans that we know, as well as agreat Minnesotan - Walter Mondale. (Applause.)Now, like millions of Americans, Ive spent some time with Minnes
7、otans lately - because Iwas watching the Olympics. (Laughter.) Minnesota sent 19 athletes to the games. (Applause.)Thats tied for second most of any state, and they did us all proud. It is not shocking thatMinnesotans might be pretty good at the Winter Olympics. (Laughter.) What is particularlyinter
8、esting is that, once again, the tiny town of Warroad proved that it really is Hockeytown,USA, thanks to T.J. Oshie and Gigi Marvin, who were just so proud of. And T.J.s shootoutperformance against the Russians I might say I enjoyed a lot. (Applause.) I tweeted at himabout it.So weve spent some time
9、over the last few weeks on hockey, but Im not here to talk abouthockey. By the way, I cannot play hockey. (Laughter.) I grew up in Hawaii - we do not havehockey in Hawaii. But Im here to talk about what youre doing in the Twin Cities, and howyoure helping to create new jobs and new opportunities for
10、 every American.We are at a moment when our economy is growing. Our businesses have created about 8.5million new jobs in the past four years. Unemployment is at the lowest its been in over fiveyears; in Minnesota, its lower than its been in six and a half years. (Applause.) And, by theway, youve got
11、 a great governor who I served with in the Senate, Mark Dayton, who is helpingto make that happen. (Applause.)So in a lot of ways things are looking up. But in some ways, the trends that had beenbattering middle-class families for a long time have gotten even starker, because those at thetop are doi
12、ng better than ever, while wages and incomes for a lot of families have barelybudged. And too many families are working harder than ever just to keep up. So as I said atthe State of the Union address a few weeks back, our job is to reverse those trends. (Applause.) Weve got to build an economy that
13、works for everybody. Weve got to restoreopportunity for all people, so that no matter who you are, where you come from, what youlook like, you can get ahead if you work hard and youre responsible.And so I laid out an opportunity agenda that has four parts. Number one, good jobs thatpay good wages in
14、 manufacturing, in energy, in innovation and infrastructure. Number two,train folks with the skills they need to get those good jobs, something that your senator, AlFranken, is doing great work on every single day. He cares a lot about that job training issue. (Applause.) Number three, guaranteeing
15、every child has access to a world-class education. (Applause.) And, number four, making sure that hard work is rewarded with wages you can liveon, and savings you can retire on, and health care you can count on. Thats what were fightingfor. (Applause.)Minnesota is helping to lead the way on these is
16、sues. Your state legislature is poised toraise your minimum wage this year. (Applause.) In my State of the Union address, I called fora new womens economic agenda. Its actually a family economic agenda - equal pay for equalwork, paid sick leave and more. And there are leaders in your state legislatu
17、re that areworking hard at this, because they know when women succeed, America succeeds. (Applause.)So on all these issues, were reaching out to members of Congress, looking to see if theyrewilling to work with us on some of these priorities. But what I also said at the State of theUnion is, in this
18、 year of action, whenever I can partner directly with states or cities or businessleaders or civic leaders to act on this opportunity agenda, Im going to go ahead and do it.We cant wait. Weve got to move. Weve got to get things going. Too many families arecounting on it. (Applause.)So yesterday, I l
19、aunched new hubs to attract 21st century manufacturing jobs to America.And today, Im here to launch a new competition for 21st century infrastructure and the jobsthat come with it, because any opportunity agenda begins with creating more good jobs. Andone of the fastest and best ways to create good
20、jobs is by rebuilding Americas infrastructure -our roads, our bridges, our rails, our ports, our airports, our schools, our power grids. Weve gota lot of work to do out there, and weve got to put folks to work. (Applause.)One of the most difficult things about the financial crisis we went through wa
21、s the housingbubble bursting, and construction workers were hammered harder than just about anybody.And while weve cut the unemployment rate for construction workers almost in half sinceXXXX年, too many are still looking for jobs at a time when weve got so much that we could putthem to work on rebuil
22、ding. Weve got ports that arent ready for the next generation ofsupertankers. Weve got more than 100,000 bridges that are old enough to qualify forMedicare. (Laughter.)Everybody knows, and nobody knows better than Minnesotans, when weve gone through awinter like this, roads are wrecked, full of poth
23、oles all across the country. (Applause.)Now, other countries are not waiting to rebuild their infrastructure. Theyre trying to out-build us today so they can out-compete us tomorrow. As a percentage of GDP, countries likeChina, Germany, theyre spending about twice what were spending in order to buil
24、dinfrastructure - because they know that if they have the fastest trains on the planet or thehighest-rated airports or the busiest, most efficient ports that businesses will go there.But we dont want businesses to go there. We want them to come here to Minnesota. (Applause.) We want them to come her
25、e to the United States of America. And that means thebest airports and the best roads and the best trains should be right here in America.At a time when companies are saying they intend to hire more people this year, we need tomake that decision easier for them. And we can create jobs at the same ti
26、me, rebuilding ourtransportation systems, our power grids, our communications networks - all the things thatcommerce relies on and that help get workers to those jobs.So the bottom line is theres work to be done, workers ready to do it. Rebuilding ourinfrastructure is vital to business. It creates g
27、ood-paying jobs that, by the way, cannot beoutsourced. (Applause.) This is one of Congresss major responsibilities - helping states andcities fund new infrastructure projects. (Applause.)And part of the reason Im focused on this is Congress has an important deadline comingup. If Congress doesnt fini
28、sh a transportation bill by the end of the summer, we could seeconstruction projects stop in their tracks, machines sitting idle, workers off the job.So next week, Im going to send Congress a budget that funds rebuilding ourtransportation infrastructure in a more responsible way - by doing it over f
29、our years, whichgives cities and states and private investors the certainty they need to plan major projects.Projects like repairing essential highways and bridges; building new transit systems in fast-growing cities and communities, so folks who live there can get to work and school every dayand sp
30、end less time sitting in traffic. (Applause.) And were going to have to constructsmarter, more resilient transportation systems that can withstand the worst impacts ofclimate change, like bigger surges of water that weve seen in recent floods.So, all told, my transportation budget will support milli
31、ons of jobs nationwide. And wellpay for these investments in part by simplifying the tax code. Were going to close wasteful taxloopholes, lower tax rates for businesses that create jobs here at home, stop rewardingcompanies for sending jobs to other countries, use the money we save in this transitio
32、n tocreate good jobs with good wages rebuilding America. It makes sense. (Applause.)Now, Ill be honest with you, there are leaders in both parties who are willing to reachacross the aisle in Congress when it comes to American infrastructure. They know howimportant it is. And infrastructure didnt use to be a partisan issue - shouldnt be Democrator Republican. Everybody uses roads, everybody uses ports, airports. Unfortunately, time andagain over the past few years, there have been some Republicans in Congress who r
