Please be seated. Good morning, everybody. 请就座。大家早上好。
Yesterday we talked about the need to jump-start our economy. I speak to you today, mindful that we meet at a moment of great challenge for America, as our credit markets are stressed, and our families are struggling. 昨天我们谈到了刺激经济的必要性。今天我向你们讲话，深知我们正处在美国面临重大挑战的时刻，我们的信贷市场承压，我们的家庭在苦苦挣扎。
But as difficult as these times are, I’m confident that we're going to rise to meet this challenge -- if we’re willing to band together and recognize that Wall Street cannot thrive so long as Main Street is struggling; if we’re willing to summon a new spirit of ingenuity and determination; and if Americans of great intellect, broad experience, and good character are willing to serve in our government at its hour of need. 但无论时局多么艰难，我都相信我们将迎难而上应对这一挑战——只要我们愿意团结一致，并认识到只要主街还在挣扎，华尔街就不可能繁荣；只要我们愿意唤起一种全新的独创精神与决心；只要拥有卓越才智、丰富经验和优良品格的美国人愿意在政府需要之时挺身而出，为政府效力。
Yesterday, I announced four such Americans to help lead the economic team that will advise me as we seek to climb out of this crisis. Today, I'm pleased to announce two other key members of our team: Peter Orszag as Director, and Robert Nabors as Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget. 昨天，我宣布了四位这样的美国人，他们将帮助领导经济团队，在我寻求摆脱这场危机的过程中为我出谋划策。今天，我很高兴地宣布我们团队的另外两位关键成员：彼得·奥尔扎格出任管理与预算办公室主任，罗伯特·纳博斯出任副主任。
Before I explain why I selected these outstanding public servants, let me say a few words about the work that I'm asking them to undertake. As I said yesterday, the economic crisis we face demands that we invest immediately in a series of measures that will help save or create two and a half million jobs and put tax cuts in the pockets of the hard-pressed middle class. Many of those new jobs will come in areas such as energy independence, technology, and health care modernization that will strengthen our economy over the long term. 在我解释为何选择这些杰出的公仆之前，请允许我先谈谈我要他们承担的工作。正如我昨天所说，我们面临的经济危机要求我们立即投资于一系列措施，这些措施将有助于保住或创造250万个就业岗位，并让减税落到处境艰难的中产阶级口袋里。许多新就业岗位将来自能源独立、技术和医疗现代化等领域，这些领域将在长期内增强我们的经济实力。
But if we are going to make the investments we need, we also have to be willing to shed the spending that we don’t need. In these challenging times, when we're facing both rising deficits and a shrinking economy, budget reform is not an option; it's a necessity. We can't sustain a system that bleeds billions of taxpayer dollars on programs that have outlived their usefulness, or exist solely because of the power of politicians, lobbyists, or interest groups. We simply can't afford it. 但如果我们要进行必要的投资，也必须愿意砍掉不必要的支出。在当前这个充满挑战的时期，我们既面临赤字上升又面临经济萎缩，预算改革不是一种选择，而是一种必然。我们无法维持一个在已经失去作用的、或仅仅因政客、说客或利益集团的势力而存在的项目上浪费数十亿美元纳税人资金的制度。我们实在承受不起。
This isn’t about big government or small government. It’s about building a smarter government that focuses on what works. That's why I will ask my new team to think anew and act anew to meet our new challenges. We are going to go through our federal budget, as I promised during the campaign -- page by page, line by line -- eliminating those programs we don’t need, and insisting that those that we do need operate in a sensible, cost-effective way. 这不是关于大政府还是小政府的问题，而是要建立一个更精明、专注于行之有效之事的政府。这就是为什么我会要求我的新团队以新的思维和新的行动来应对我们面临的新挑战。正如我在竞选期间所承诺的，我们将逐页、逐行地审查我们的联邦预算——剔除我们不需要的项目，并坚持要求我们确实需要的项目以合理、节约成本的方式运作。
Let me just give you one example of what I’m talking about. There’s a report today from -- that from 2003 to 2006, millionaire farmers received 49 million dollars in crop subsidies even though they were earning more than the 2.5 million cutoff for such subsidies. Now, if this is true -- and this was just a report this morning -- but if it's true, it is a prime example of the kind of waste that I intend to end as President. 让我给大家举一个我所说的例子。今天有份报告指出——从2003年到2006年，百万富翁农场主获得了4900万美元的农作物补贴，尽管他们的收入已经超过了享受此类补贴所规定的250万美元上限。如果这是真的——这只是今天早上的一份报告——但如果属实，那就是我作为总统打算根除的那种浪费的典型例子。
We're also going to focus on one of the biggest, long-run challenges that our budget faces -- namely, the rising cost of health care in both the public and private sectors. This is not just a challenge but also an opportunity to improve the health care that Americans rely on and to bring down the costs that taxpayers, businesses, and families have to pay. 我们还将关注我们的预算所面临的最大长期挑战之一——即公共和私营部门不断上涨的医疗成本。这既是一个挑战，也是一个机遇，可以改善美国人所依赖的医疗保健，并降低纳税人、企业和家庭必须支付的费用。
Now, that's what the Office of Management and Budget will do in my Administration. It will not only help design a budget and manage its implementation, but it's also going to make sure that our government -- your government -- is more efficient and more effective at serving the American people. 这就是管理与预算办公室在我的政府中将承担的工作。它不仅将帮助设计预算并管理预算的实施，还将确保我们的政府——你们的政府——在服务美国人民方面更加高效、更加有效。
And there is no better person to help lead this effort as Director of the OMB than my friend Peter Orszag. Peter's been one of our nation’s leading voices on budgetary issues. It's said that a nation’s budget reflects its values and its priorities. I believe that's true. And I know that Peter will bring to his work at the OMB a set of priorities that I -- and the American people -- share. 由我的朋友彼得·奥尔扎格出任管理与预算办公室主任来领导这项工作，再合适不过了。彼得一直是我国在预算问题上的主要发声者之一。有人说，一个国家的预算反映了它的价值观和优先事项。我相信这是对的。我也知道，彼得将带着一套我和美国人民所共同认同的优先事项来到管理与预算办公室开展工作。
Throughout his career, he's made significant contributions in our understanding of all the major economic challenges that we're now confronting -- from reducing medical costs to saving Social Security to fighting global climate change to helping put the dream of a college degree within the reach for more students. 在他的职业生涯中，他在我们理解当前所面临的所有重大经济挑战方面做出了重要贡献——从降低医疗成本，到拯救社会保障，到应对全球气候变化，再到帮助更多学生实现获得大学学位的梦想。
As Director of the Congressional Budget Office, he reenergized and reinvigorated the agency, while shifting its focus to confront the health care crisis that is not only a cause of so much suffering for so many families, but a rapidly growing portion of our budget and a drag on our entire economy. 在担任国会预算办公室主任期间，他为该机构注入了新的活力，同时将其工作重点转向应对医疗危机——这一危机不仅给如此多的家庭带来了巨大痛苦，而且在我们预算中所占比重迅速增长，并对我们整个经济形成拖累。
But it's not simply that Peter’s past career makes him qualified for this new appointment; it's also that he has a vision for the future that I share. He believes, as I do, that even as we take steps to restore discipline to our budget, we also have to take -- take the steps right now that are necessary to solve our immediate crisis. Peter doesn’t need a map to tell him where the bodies are buried in the federal budget. He knows what works and what doesn’t, what's worthy of our precious tax dollars and what is not. 但不仅仅是彼得过去的职业生涯使他有资格担任这一新职务，他还拥有与我共有的对未来的愿景。他和我一样相信，即使我们采取措施恢复预算的纪律性，我们也必须立刻采取必要步骤来解决眼前的危机。彼得不需要一张地图来告诉他联邦预算中哪里藏着猫腻。他知道什么行得通、什么行不通，什么值得我们宝贵的税款投入、什么不值得。
Just because a program, a special interest tax break, or corporate subsidy is hidden in this year’s budget, does not mean that it will survive the next. The old ways of Washington simply can’t meet the challenges of today and tomorrow. 某个项目、某项特殊利益税收减免或企业补贴藏在了今年的预算中，并不意味着它能在下一年的预算中幸存。华盛顿的旧有方式已无法应对今天和明天的挑战。
And no one's more able or more qualified to assist Peter in this work than Deputy Director of the OMB that I am nominating, Robert Nabors. Rob will bring to this post experience in the Executive Branch, at the OMB, where he helped the Clinton Administration achieve balanced budgets, as well as in the Legislative Branch, where he led the Appropriations Committee staff as a driving force for a responsible budget. Together, Peter and Rob will help steer our budget through Congress so that I can sign it into law. 在协助彼得开展这项工作方面，没有人比我即将提名的管理与预算办公室副主任罗伯特·纳博斯更有能力、更有资格。罗布将带着他在行政部门、在管理与预算办公室的经验来到这一职位——他曾帮助克林顿政府实现预算平衡——同时也带着他在立法部门的经验，在那里他领导拨款委员会工作人员，是负责任预算的推动力量。彼得和罗布将携手推动我们的预算在国会获得通过，以便我将其签署为法律。
Now, let me be clear: These appointments, as well as the appointments that I announced yesterday, are not the sum of my economic team. These appointments are going to work closely with those that I have not ye[t] announced -- those including the secretaries of Energy and Labor, Commerce, and Health and Human Services, as well as others in my Administration -- to design a recovery path for both Wall Street and Main Street, and to put our economy on a path to long-term growth and prosperity. 现在，让我把话说清楚：这些任命，以及我昨天宣布的任命，并不是我经济团队的全部。这些任命将与我尚未宣布的那些人密切合作——包括能源部长、劳工部长、商务部长、卫生与公众服务部长，以及我政府中的其他成员——共同为华尔街和主街设计一条复苏之路，并让我们的经济走上长期增长与繁荣的道路。
Because at this moment, we must not only restore confidence in our markets. We also must restore the confidence of middle class families that their government is on their side, that it’s working for them and on their behalf to meet their families’ needs. 因为在这一时刻，我们不仅要恢复对市场的信心。我们还必须让中产家庭重拾信心，让他们相信他们的政府站在他们一边，正在为他们、代表他们而努力，以满足他们家庭的需要。
That's what I intend to do as President of the United States. 这就是我作为美利坚合众国总统打算要做的事。