It is great to be back in Jacksonville. As President, I've been to all 50 states. I have seen some pretty incredible things, but I've also got a bucket list of things I still need to get done. Apparently, I have not yet made it to the world's largest outdoor cocktail party. So there's some local things I've got to check out at some point. That's the kind of thing you do once you are not President anymore. So, hopefully, I'll see you back, but it is great to be in Florida on a Friday afternoon. 回到杰克逊维尔真是太好了。作为总统，我已经走遍了所有五十个州。我见过一些非常了不起的事物，但我还有一份遗愿清单，上面列着我还需要完成的事情。显然，我还没有去过世界上最大的户外鸡尾酒会。所以还有一些当地的地方我得找时间去看看。那种事是你卸任总统之后才会做的。所以，希望以后还能再见到你们，不过周五下午能来到佛罗里达真是太棒了。
I want to thank Jaime not only for the introduction, but more importantly, for your service to our nation. Thank you so much. 我要感谢海梅，不仅感谢你的介绍，更重要的是，感谢你为我们国家的服务。非常感谢你。
I also want to recognize two outstanding members of Congress w Yay, Corrine! And Representative Patrick Murphy. And I also want to thank everybody at Saft America for hosting us today, especially Tom Alcide and Chris Kaniut. You can't miss him. 我还要表彰两位杰出的国会议员——耶，科琳！还有帕特里克·墨菲众议员。我还要感谢赛富特美国公司今天接待我们，特别是汤姆·阿尔西德和克里斯·卡纽特。你不会错过他的。
We're here to talk about the great things you guys are doing at this facility. But before I begin, I do want to say a few words about yet another mass shooting that we've had to endure. Some of you may have heard, yesterday a gunman murdered three people and injured 14 others in Hesston, Kansas. And this morning, I spoke with Mayor Kauffman and expressed our deepest condolences for the victims, their families, and the community as a whole. 我们今天来这里是为了谈谈你们在这个工厂所做的了不起的事情。但在开始之前，我确实想就我们不得不承受的又一起大规模枪击事件说几句话。你们中有些人可能已经听说了，昨天一名枪手在堪萨斯州赫斯顿杀害了三人，打伤了十四人。今天早上，我与考夫曼市长通了话，向受害者、他们的家人以及整个社区表示最深切的慰问。
This comes after last weekend's rampage in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where six more innocent Americans were gunned down. And these acts may not dominate the news today, but these are two more communities in America that are torn apart by grief. And I felt it was important for me to say something today because somehow, as I've said before, this becomes routine -- these sort of mass shootings that are taking place. 在此之前，上周末密歇根州卡拉马祖发生了枪击暴行，又有六名无辜的美国人被枪杀。这些事件今天可能不会占据新闻头条，但美国又有两个社区因悲痛而支离破碎。我觉得今天有必要说些什么，因为不知何故，正如我之前所说，这已经变得习以为常——这类大规模枪击事件一再发生。
We cannot become numb to this. Anybody who says they want to keep the American people safe has to care about this, because it's happening in far too many towns and affecting far too many innocent Americans. And there are some things we can do about it. And right now, this Congress may not have any appetite to do something about it, but we need one that does. 我们不能对此变得麻木。任何说想要保护美国人民安全的人都必须关心这个问题，因为它发生在太多的城镇，影响了太多无辜的美国人。我们对此是可以做些事情的。而现在，这届国会可能没有意愿为此采取行动，但我们需要一届有意愿的国会。只要我还在任，我就会不断提出这个问题，即使它没有得到应有的关注。
As long as I hold this office, I'm going to keep on bringing this up, even if it's not getting the same attention that it should. And I wish I didn't have to keep on talking about it. Lord knows I wish I didn't have to make these phone calls and comfort families. The real tragedy is the degree to which this has become routine. 我真希望我不必一直谈论这件事。天知道我多么希望我不必打这些电话、安慰这些家庭。真正的悲剧在于，这一切已经变得多么司空见惯。
So I hope all of you pay attention to this. I hope the media pays attention to this. Once a week, we have these shootings. And it doesn't dominate the news, and that's got to change. 所以我希望你们所有人都关注这件事。我希望媒体关注这件事。我们每周都有这样的枪击事件。而它却没有成为新闻焦点，这种情况必须改变。
So thank you for allowing me to talk about that for a moment. 谢谢你们允许我花一点时间谈论这个问题。
The truth is, though, that even when we've got some real challenges out there, the reason I'm here today is because Saft is telling a story about the amazing work that people all across this country have done to bring America back from one of the worst financial crises in our history. 然而，事实是，即使我们面临一些真正的挑战，我今天来到这里的原因是，赛富特公司讲述了一个故事，一个关于全美人民为将美国从我们历史上最严重的金融危机之一中挽救回来所做的非凡工作的故事。
So think about it. Sometimes people also forget where we've been, and if you forget where you've been, sometimes you don't know where you need to go. Seven years ago, the ground we were standing on was an empty plot of swampland. I don't know if gators make it up this far -- (laughter) -- but it was not some place you'd want to be wondering around. It had been ignored for more than a decade since the Navy base here closed. 所以想一想吧。有时候人们也会忘记我们走过的路，而如果你忘记了自己从哪里来，有时候你就不知道该往哪里去。七年前，我们脚下的这片土地还是一片空旷的沼泽地。我不知道短吻鳄会不会跑到这么远的北方来——（笑声）——但那不是你会想去闲逛的地方。自从这里的海军基地关闭以来，它已经被忽视了十多年。
Back then, all around us, the economy was in a free fall -- 800,000 Americans were losing their jobs every single month. That's almost the entire population of Jacksonville joining the unemployment line every few weeks. Families lost their homes, families lost their savings. And people here in Florida were especially hard hit -- the unemployment rate here in Florida hit 11.2 percent, which was even higher than the national average. 那时候，在我们周围，经济正在自由落体——每个月都有八十万美国人失去工作。那几乎相当于每隔几周就有整个杰克逊维尔市的人口加入失业大军。家庭失去了住房，家庭失去了积蓄。而佛罗里达州的人们受到的打击尤其严重——佛罗里达的失业率达到了百分之十一点二，甚至高于全国平均水平。
Fast-forward today. Businesses like yours have created jobs for 71 straight months -- 14 million new jobs overall. We've cut the unemployment rate by more than half. Nationally, the high was 10 percent -- it's now down to 4.9 percent. And here in Jacksonville, it is even lower. Our auto industry just had its best year ever. We've created more than 900,000 new manufacturing jobs in the past six years. 快进到今天。像你们这样的企业已经连续七十一个月创造就业岗位——总共创造了一千四百万个新工作岗位。我们已经将失业率降低了一半以上。在全国范围内，最高时是百分之十——现在已经降到了百分之四点九。而在杰克逊维尔，失业率甚至更低。我们的汽车工业刚刚迎来了有史以来最好的一年。在过去六年中，我们创造了超过九十万个新的制造业就业岗位。
Meanwhile, our high school graduation rate is at an all-time high. Nearly 18 million Americans have gained health care coverage -- although here in Florida, there are a whole bunch of folks who haven't because the state hasn't expanded Medicaid, but that's another topic. Businesses like Saft are leading a clean energy revolution that's creating jobs and making our planet safer and more secure at the same time. 与此同时，我们的高中毕业率创下了历史新高。近一千八百万美国人获得了医疗保险——尽管在佛罗里达，还有很多人没有获得，因为该州没有扩大医疗补助计划，但那是另一个话题。像赛富特这样的企业正在引领一场清洁能源革命，它既创造了就业机会，同时也让我们的星球更加安全。
Now, you don't hear a lot about this from the folks who are on the campaign trail. They're spending all their time talking down America. I don't know when it became fashionable to do that. But I sure am proud of what I've seen Americans do over the course of these last seven years since the crisis hit. And anybody who says we are not absolutely better off today than we were just seven years ago -- they're not leveling with you. 现在，你从竞选造势的人那里听不到太多关于这些的消息。他们把所有时间都花在唱衰美国上。我不知道什么时候这变成了一种时髦。但我确实为危机爆发以来这七年里我所看到的美国人的所作所为感到自豪。任何说我们今天的境况不比七年前好的人——他们没有对你们说实话。他们没有说出真相。
They're not telling the truth. By almost every economic measure, we are significantly better off, and Florida is significantly better off. Jacksonville is a whole lot better off. 几乎从每一项经济指标来看，我们的境况都明显好转了，佛罗里达的境况明显好转了。杰克逊维尔的境况也好了很多。
And the reason I make this point is none of this was an accident. It happened because of your hard work. It happened because of your resilience. It happened because Americans looked out for one another, and families scrimped and saved, and workers re-trained, and businesses hired and expanded, and students hit the books. And it happened because, early on, my administration put in place some pretty smart policies to rebuild our economy on a new foundation for growth and prosperity. 我提出这一点的原因是，这一切都不是偶然的。之所以会这样，是因为你们的辛勤工作。之所以会这样，是因为你们的韧性。之所以会这样，是因为美国人互相照应，家庭精打细算、努力储蓄，工人接受再培训，企业招聘和扩张，学生刻苦学习。之所以会这样，是因为在早期，我的政府实施了一些非常明智的政策，在新的增长和繁荣基础上重建我们的经济。
And thanks to America's steady, persistent work, those policies are paying off in big, tangible ways -- and we're not talking about it enough. And if we don't talk about why it is that things got better, then we may end up pursuing policies that will make things worse. 而多亏了美国人民坚定不移、持之以恒的努力，这些政策正在以切实可见的方式带来回报——而我们对此谈论得还不够。如果我们不谈论情况为什么会变好，那么我们最终可能会推行会让情况变得更糟的政策。
It's not to argue that everything is perfect. There are still folks who are looking for work. There are still problems in terms of people getting higher wages. Being able to save for college, being able to retire. But if we don't recognize the progress we've made and how that came about, then we may chase some snake oil and end up having policies that get us back in the swamp. 这并不是说一切都完美了。仍然有人在找工作。人们在获得更高工资方面仍然存在问题。能否为大学存钱，能否退休。但如果我们不认可我们取得的进步以及进步是如何取得的，那么我们可能会去追逐一些江湖骗术，最终采取的政策会让我们重新陷入泥潭。
So part of what made us able to recover was something called the Recovery Act -- which I fought for from my first days in office. We just marked the seventh anniversary. And that recovery plan was a success. At the time, there were a bunch of folks who said, what, it's not working, it's not happening -- because it didn't happen overnight. But you ask any credible economist, and they will tell you that if we had not acted, if we had not passed the Recovery Act, if we hadn't saved the auto industry, if we hadn't taken the steps we did, we could have fallen into another Great Depression. 让我们能够复苏的部分原因是一项名为《复苏法案》的法案——我从就职第一天起就为之奋斗。我们刚刚纪念了它的七周年。而那个复苏计划是成功的。当时，有很多人说，什么，这不起作用，这不会发生——因为它不是一夜之间发生的。但你去问任何一位可信的经济学家，他们都会告诉你，如果我们没有采取行动，如果我们没有通过《复苏法案》，如果我们没有拯救汽车工业，如果我们没有采取我们所做的那些措施，我们可能会陷入另一场大萧条。
And if you doubt that, you look around the world. Because in places like Europe, where they took a path of cutting and cutting, and not investing in clean energy, and not investing in transportation, and not investing in working retraining -- some of the same strategies that some politicians were arguing for right here in the United States, and are still arguing for -- those countries still have double-digit unemployment today. Some of these countries still face double-digit unemployment. We're doing better than them on almost every measure. 如果你对此表示怀疑，你看看世界各地就知道了。因为在欧洲这样的地方，他们走的是一条不断削减开支的道路，不投资清洁能源，不投资交通运输，也不投资工人再培训——其中一些策略正是某些政客当时在美国主张的，而且现在仍然在主张——那些国家至今仍有两位数的失业率。其中一些国家仍然面临两位数的失业问题。我们在几乎所有指标上都比他们做得好。
Here's what the Recovery Act did. It cut taxes for businesses investing in the future. It cut taxes for 95 percent of working families -- more than 100 million families in all. The extensions of some of these measures are still in effect, and they're helping more than a million families here in Florida making ends meet. 《复苏法案》做了这些事情。它为投资未来的企业减税。它为百分之九十五的工薪家庭减税——总共超过一亿个家庭。其中一些措施的延期仍然有效，它们正在帮助佛罗里达州超过一百万个家庭维持生计。
We extended aid to help working people put food on the table, kept millions of people from falling into poverty. And that, in turn, meant that they could be customers at local businesses, and that helped support local businesses in the area. 我们扩大了援助，帮助工薪家庭维持温饱，使数百万人免于陷入贫困。而这反过来又意味着他们可以成为当地企业的顾客，这有助于支持当地的企业。
We helped states and communities keep hundreds of thousands of teachers and first responders on the job, which meant they could afford to pay their mortgage. and they could afford to go to a restaurant once in a while, and they could afford to buy the computer that their child needed for school -- all of which kept the economy going. 我们帮助各州和社区让数十万教师和急救人员保住了工作，这意味着他们能够负担得起房贷，能够偶尔去餐馆吃饭，能够为孩子购买上学需要的电脑——所有这些都维持了经济的运转。
We put people back to work repairing our roads and our bridges and our ports -- even sprucing up the National Mall, and Ellis Island, and the Grand Canyon. And we did this all while making this one of the most transparent, aboveboard pieces of legislation in our history; almost zero waste or fraud. I put Joe Biden in charge, and we call him the sheriff -- he wasn't putting up with any nonsense. 我们让人们重返工作岗位，修复我们的道路、桥梁和港口——甚至整修了国家广场、埃利斯岛和大峡谷。而我们在做这一切的同时，也让这成为了我们历史上最透明、最光明正大的立法之一；几乎没有浪费或欺诈。我让乔·拜登负责这件事，我们称他为警长——他不容许任何胡闹。
We also aimed higher than just preventing another Great Depression. We wanted to build a new foundation for a stronger, smarter economy. We wanted to build a future where prosperity wasn't fueled by reckless speculation on Wall Street, and excessive consumer debt, pursuing paper profits. We wanted a future that was solid, where prosperity is built and shared by a skilled, productive workforce. A prosperity that rests on sound investments that spread opportunity at home, and help America lead the world in technology and innovation and the discoveries that will help shape the 21st century. 我们的目标也不只是防止另一场大萧条。我们想要为一个更强大、更智能的经济奠定新的基础。我们想要建立一个未来，在那里繁荣不是由华尔街的鲁莽投机和过度的消费者债务所驱动的，不是追求账面利润。我们想要一个坚实的未来，繁荣由一支熟练、高效的劳动大军所建立和共享。这种繁荣建立在稳健的投资之上，这些投资在国内传播机会，并帮助美国在技术、创新和将塑造二十一世纪的发现方面引领世界。
And so I came here to Saft to show what it means to invest in the future. The future is built by the workers here at Saft and in companies like it all across the country. Because there are few areas where our efforts to build a new economy have paid off in a bigger way than in how we manage energy -- make it cleaner, make it more efficient -- help consumers, help businesses, and create jobs. 所以我来到赛富特这里，是为了展示投资未来意味着什么。未来是由赛富特这里的工人以及全国各地类似企业的工人所建造的。因为在我们建设新经济的努力中，很少有领域比我们如何管理能源——让它更清洁、更高效——取得了更大的回报，既帮助了消费者，也帮助了企业，同时还创造了就业机会。
When I took office, we were hopelessly addicted to foreign oil. The future of our renewable energy industry was pretty cloudy and it looked like it might start collapsing. But we knew that there were technologies out there that existed -- the problem was they were too expensive. And because credit had frozen during the recession, it meant that a lot of entrepreneurs, a lot of businesses -- they couldn't scale up to start taking advantage of these new technologies. 我就任时，我们 hopelessly 依赖外国石油。我们可再生能源产业的前景相当黯淡，看起来可能要开始崩溃了。但我们知道，已经存在一些技术——问题是它们太昂贵了。而且由于经济衰退期间信贷冻结，这意味着很多企业家、很多企业——他们无法扩大规模来开始利用这些新技术。
Meanwhile countries like Germany and China were racing ahead towards clean energy, creating the jobs that come with it, and we were falling behind. And I knew that the nation that won the race to drive the global economy and new energy, that was going to be the nation that won the 21st century, and I wanted America to win that race. 与此同时，像德国和中国这样的国家正在向清洁能源迈进，创造随之而来的就业机会，而我们却落在了后面。我知道，那个在推动全球经济和新能源方面赢得竞赛的国家，将是赢得二十一世纪的国家，而我希望美国赢得那场竞赛。
So here's what we did. As part of the Recovery Act, we made the largest single investment in clean energy in our history. We invested in solar power. We invested in wind power. We invested in geothermal power. We gave seed money to entrepreneurs and businesses to get them to work with these promising new technologies and get them out of the door faster. Almost 98 percent of those investments that we made under one of our loan programs are paying off. Taxpayers are getting their money back, and some, and these businesses are thriving. 所以我们是这样做的。作为《复苏法案》的一部分，我们进行了我国历史上最大规模的单笔清洁能源投资。我们投资了太阳能。我们投资了风能。我们投资了地热能。我们向企业家和企业提供种子资金，让他们运用这些有前景的新技术，更快地将其推向市场。我们在其中一个贷款项目下进行的投资中，几乎百分之九十八都获得了回报。纳税人正在收回他们的钱，甚至还有盈余，而这些企业正在蓬勃发展。
And overall, the clean energy investments we made in the Recovery Act have combined to support hundreds of thousands of jobs -- including nearly 300 right here at Saft. This was an example of the fruits of those investments that we made -- jobs that America needs done, getting done right here in Florida. 总体而言，我们在《复苏法案》中进行的清洁能源投资合计支持了数十万个就业岗位——包括就在赛富特这里的近三百个。这就是我们所做的那些投资结出硕果的一个例子——美国需要完成的工作，就在佛罗里达这里完成了。
Just look around -- you see what a different hardworking Americans, with some smart help from the government, have been able to accomplish. Seven years ago, electricity from solar was just getting off the ground; today, we've multiplied the amount of solar power America produces 30 times over. Seven years ago, there were just a handful of large-scale utility solar plants in America; today, there are more than 30. 环顾四周——你会看到，勤劳的美国人在政府的一些明智帮助下，已经取得了多么了不起的成就。七年前，太阳能发电刚刚起步；今天，美国的太阳能发电量已经增长了三十倍。七年前，美国只有屈指可数的几家大型公用事业太阳能发电厂；今天，已经有三十多家了。
Solar jobs are growing 12 times faster than other jobs; they're paying better than average. Meanwhile, we've tripled the power we harness from the wind. We've cut our net imports of foreign oil by nearly 60 percent. 太阳能就业岗位的增长速度是其他就业岗位的十二倍；薪资也高于平均水平。与此同时，我们的风力发电量已经增加了两倍。我们的外国石油净进口量减少了近百分之六十。
And all of you have helped us do this. Thanks to the investments we made in the Recovery Act, we've seen huge gains in our advanced battery industry. Because solar and wind don't work unless we've got good ways to store power when the sun is out or the wind is blowing, so that it can be used in a regular, reliable way. 而你们所有人都帮助我们做到了这一点。多亏了我们在《复苏法案》中进行的投资，我们的先进电池产业取得了巨大进展。因为除非我们有好的方法来储存阳光照耀或风吹时产生的电力，以便能够以稳定可靠的方式使用，否则太阳能和风能就无法发挥作用。
And the good news is, America now has more than two dozen factories manufacturing batteries and components for electric cars. And these batteries are nearly 70 percent cheaper and 60 percent more powerful than just five years ago. That's how fast we've been making progress in this area. And we're not just making advanced batteries for cars, we're putting them together so they're making batteries the size of cars. We just saw some -- looked like trailer parks. And these batteries help stabilize our energy grid, which is allowing us to transition faster to renewable energy. 好消息是，美国现在有二十多家工厂在生产电动汽车的电池和零部件。这些电池比仅仅五年前便宜了近百分之七十，能量密度提高了百分之六十。我们在这个领域的进步就是这么快。我们不仅在为汽车制造先进电池，我们还在把它们组装起来，制造出汽车那么大的电池。我们刚刚看到了一些——看起来像拖车场一样。这些电池有助于稳定我们的电网，这使我们能够更快地向可再生能源转型。
That's what you're doing here at Saft. On my tour, I stepped inside -- I took a look at a shipping container filled with cutting-edge lithium-ion batteries. It stores energy for times when the wind's not blowing or the sun's not shining. These batteries are the kinds of things folks don't always think about when it comes to renewable energy, but it couldn't be more important. So the good news is that over the final three months of last year, we deployed more advanced energy storage capacity than over the previous two years combined. 这就是你们在赛富特所做的事情。在参观时，我走进去看了看——我看了一个装满尖端锂离子电池的集装箱。它储存的能量可以在无风或无阳光的时候使用。当谈到可再生能源时，人们并不总会想到这类东西，但它的重要性无与伦比。好消息是，去年最后三个月，我们部署的先进储能容量超过了前两年的总和。
And that's what we should be investing in. Clean energy is about owning the kind of innovation where America has always been the leader. Clean energy is about unleashing the potential of all these new technologies -- because we can figure some stuff out just about better than anybody else. And just think about what we can do with something like solar in a place like the Sunshine State. 而这正是我们应该投资的方向。清洁能源意味着拥有那种美国一直以来都处于领先地位的创新。清洁能源意味着释放所有这些新技术的潜力——因为我们几乎比任何人都更能把事情搞明白。试想一下，在阳光之州这样的地方，太阳能这样的技术能发挥多大的作用。
Clean energy is about cutting carbon emissions and fighting climate change, so that we can help our kids breathe cleaner, and protect the planet for future generations -- and make sure that Florida doesn't get flooded. Clean energy is about making our economy less dependent on foreign oil from some of the most unstable parts of the world. And clean energy is about a steady stream of good jobs that give families a chance to reach for something higher and leave something better behind for their kids. 清洁能源意味着减少碳排放、应对气候变化，这样我们就能帮助我们的孩子呼吸更清洁的空气，为子孙后代保护地球——并确保佛罗里达不会被淹没。清洁能源意味着让我们的经济减少对世界上一些最不稳定地区的外国石油的依赖。清洁能源还意味着源源不断的好工作，让家庭有机会追求更高的目标，为他们的孩子留下更好的东西。
And here's one other great fact about clean energy. It's providing thousands of jobs for veterans, including vets that we brought home from Iraq and Afghanistan. 关于清洁能源还有一个很棒的事实。它为退伍军人提供了数千个工作岗位，包括那些我们从伊拉克和阿富汗接回来的老兵。
I've often said to CEOs across the country, if you want a job done right, hire a vet. And that's why, working with them, we've been able to see the solar industry commit to hiring 50,000 more vets in the coming years -- this has been part of Michelle's and Jill Biden's Joining Forces program. So here at Saft, more than one-third of your employees are veterans. In fact, if you're a veteran, please stand up so we can thank you for your service. 我经常对全国各地的首席执行官们说，如果你想把工作做好，就雇一名退伍军人。这就是为什么，与他们合作，我们已经看到太阳能行业承诺在未来几年再雇用五万名退伍军人——这一直是米歇尔和吉尔·拜登的"携手共进"项目的一部分。所以在赛富特这里，你们超过三分之一的员工是退伍军人。事实上，如果你是退伍军人，请站起来，让我们感谢你的服役。
So companies like this are powered by veterans like Jaime. Jaime's got five kids. He grew up in Puerto Rico, lived in Atlantic City, served in the military for 26 years. For the last four years, he's been a team leader at the company that's building our energy future. And he's seen a lot, but the one thing he's learned is that -- and I'm quoting him now -- "There's always so much that changes very fast, but so much possibility." 所以像这样的公司是由像海梅这样的退伍军人所驱动的。海梅有五个孩子。他在波多黎各长大，住在大西洋城，在军队服役了二十六年。在过去的四年里，他一直在这家建设我们能源未来的公司担任团队负责人。他见过很多世面，但他学到的一件事是——我现在引用他的话——"总有那么多变化发生得非常快，但也有那么多可能性。"
And that's what Saft is about; that's what this recovery has been about. Things are changing fast, and that's scary sometimes. It means that you've got to constantly retrain for the jobs of the future. It means that the economy is interconnected and what happens on the other side of the world will affect us -- because you may be selling some batteries over there. 而这就是赛富特的意义所在；这就是这次复苏的意义所在。事情变化很快，有时这很可怕。这意味着你必须不断接受再培训，以适应未来的工作。这意味着经济是相互关联的，世界另一端发生的事情会影响到我们——因为你可能正在那边销售一些电池。
Sometimes it's disorienting. But there's so much possibility. And that's the story of these last seven years. So much has changed fast, but there's one country on Earth that sees possibility where others see peril. There's on country on Earth that has the power to make change work for us and not against us, and that's the United States of America -- as long we're not scared of it. We always adapt to change. We always figure it out. Because we're a nation of innovators and risk-takers, we make change work for us. 有时这令人困惑。但可能性是无穷的。而这就是过去七年的故事。变化发生得如此之快，但地球上有一个国家在别人看到危险的地方看到了可能性。地球上有一个国家有能力让变化为我们所用，而不是与我们作对，那就是美利坚合众国——只要我们不害怕它。我们总是适应变化。我们总是能找到办法。因为我们是一个由创新者和冒险者组成的国家，我们让变化为我们服务。
So we turned recession into recovery faster than almost any other country. We took an empty swamp, turned into an engine of innovation. And we knew that it was going to take more than one year, or even one President, to get to where we need to go, but we can see real, tangible evidence of what a new economy looks like. It looks like this facility right here. 所以我们比几乎任何其他国家都更快地从衰退走向复苏。我们把一片空旷的沼泽地，变成了创新的引擎。我们知道，要达到我们需要的目标，需要不止一年，甚至不止一位总统的时间，但我们可以看到新经济是什么样子的真实、切实的证据。它看起来就像眼前的这个工厂。
It's an economy that's brimming with new industry and commerce, and new energy and new technologies, and highly skilled, higher-wage workers. It's an economy that is producing for the United States and U.S. markets, but is also selling stuff overseas -- because we make it better than anybody else because we've got the best workers and the best innovators and the best scientists than anybody else. 这是一个充满新产业和新商业、新能源和新技术，以及高技能、高工资工人的经济。这是一个既为美国和美国市场生产，同时也向海外销售产品的经济——因为我们比任何人都做得更好，因为我们有最好的工人、最好的创新者和最好的科学家。
The future is ours. But to finish the job requires steady, persistent effort. We can't grow complacent. We can't chase false promises. We've got to be smart. We've got to work together. But I've never been more optimistic than I am now that we will get to where we need to go, because I've seen what you can do. And if we keep working together, everything is possible and our best days are just ahead. 未来是我们的。但要完成这项工作需要坚定不移、持之以恒的努力。我们不能自满。我们不能追逐虚假的承诺。我们必须明智。我们必须共同努力。但我从未像现在这样乐观地相信我们会到达我们需要去的地方，因为我已经看到了你们能做什么。如果我们继续共同努力，一切皆有可能，我们最美好的日子就在前方。
So, thank you, Jacksonville. Thank you, Saft. Thank you, veterans. 所以，谢谢你们，杰克逊维尔。谢谢你们，赛富特。谢谢你们，退伍军人们。
God bless you. 上帝保佑你们。
God bless the United States of America. 上帝保佑美利坚合众国。
Thank you. 谢谢你们。
