Good afternoon, everybody. Congress has now approved a compromise to reduce the deficit and avert a default that would have devastated our economy. It was a long and contentious debate. And I want to thank the American people for keeping up the pressure on their elected officials to put politics aside and work together for the good of the country. 下午好，各位。国会现已批准了一项妥协方案，以减少赤字并避免一场本将摧毁我国经济的违约。这是一场漫长而充满争议的辩论。我要感谢美国人民不断向他们选出的官员施压，促使他们放下党派政治，为国家的利益共同努力。
This compromise guarantees more than $2 trillion in deficit reduction. It’s an important first step to ensuring that as a nation we live within our means. Yet it also allows us to keep making key investments in things like education and research that lead to new jobs, and assures that we’re not cutting too abruptly while the economy is still fragile. 这项妥协方案保证将削减超过两万亿美元的赤字。这是确保我们作为一个国家量入为出的重要第一步。然而它也允许我们继续在教育、研究等能够带来新就业岗位的关键领域进行投资，并确保在经济仍然脆弱之时不会削减得过快。
This is, however, just the first step. This compromise requires that both parties work together on a larger plan to cut the deficit, which is important for the long-term health of our economy. And since you can’t close the deficit with just spending cuts, we’ll need a balanced approach where everything is on the table. Yes, that means making some adjustments to protect health care programs like Medicare so they’re there for future generations. It also means reforming our tax code so that the wealthiest Americans and biggest corporations pay their fair share. 然而，这仅仅是第一步。这项妥协方案要求两党共同制定一个更大规模的减赤计划，这对于我国经济的长期健康至关重要。既然仅靠削减开支无法消除赤字，我们需要一种平衡的方案，让一切都摆上桌面。是的，这意味着需要对医疗保障等医疗项目做出调整，以确保它们能为子孙后代延续。这还意味着改革我们的税法，让最富有的美国人和最大的企业缴纳他们应承担的那份份额。
And it means getting rid of taxpayer subsidies to oil and gas companies, and tax loopholes that help billionaires pay a lower tax rate than teachers and nurses. 这也意味着取消对石油和天然气企业的纳税人补贴，堵住那些让亿万富翁缴纳比教师和护士更低税率的税收漏洞。
I’ve said it before; I will say it again: We can’t balance the budget on the backs of the very people who have borne the biggest brunt of this recession. We can’t make it tougher for young people to go to college, or ask seniors to pay more for health care, or ask scientists to give up on promising medical research because we couldn’t close a tax shelter for the most fortunate among us. Everyone is going to have to chip in. It’s only fair. That’s the principle I’ll be fighting for during the next phase of this process. 我以前说过，我现在再说一遍：我们不能在那些已经承受了此次经济衰退最大冲击的人身上来平衡预算。我们不能让年轻人更难上大学，不能要求老年人支付更多医疗费用，也不能要求科学家放弃前景广阔的医学研究，仅仅因为我们无法为最富有的人堵住一个避税港。每个人都必须做出贡献。这才公平。这就是我在下一阶段进程中将要为之奋斗的原则。
And in the coming months, I’ll continue also to fight for what the American people care most about: new jobs, higher wages and faster economic growth. While Washington has been absorbed in this debate about deficits, people across the country are asking what we can do to help the father looking for work. What are we going to do for the single mom who’s seen her hours cut back at the hospital? What are we going to do to make it easier for businesses to put up that “now hiring” sign? 在接下来的几个月里，我将继续为美国人民最关心的事情而奋斗：新的就业岗位、更高的工资和更快的经济增长。当华盛顿一直沉浸在这场关于赤字的辩论中时，全国各地的民众都在问我们能为寻找工作的父亲做些什么。我们要为那位在医院看到工时被削减的单亲妈妈做些什么？我们要怎样让企业更容易挂上"正在招聘"的牌子？
That’s part of the reason that people are so frustrated with what’s been going on in this town. In the last few months, the economy has already had to absorb an earthquake in Japan, the economic headwinds coming from Europe, the Arab Spring and the [rise] in oil prices -- all of which have been very challenging for the recovery. But these are things we couldn’t control. Our economy didn’t need Washington to come along with a manufactured crisis to make things worse. That was in our hands. 这也是人们对这座城市正在发生的事情如此沮丧的部分原因。在过去几个月里，经济已经不得不承受日本地震、来自欧洲的经济逆风、阿拉伯之春以及油价上涨——所有这些都对经济复苏构成了巨大挑战。但这些是我们无法控制的事情。我们的经济不需要华盛顿再来制造一场危机让事情变得更糟。那本是我们手中的事。
It’s pretty likely that the uncertainty surrounding the raising of the debt ceiling -- for both businesses and consumers -- has been unsettling, and just one more impediment to the full recovery that we need. And it was something that we could have avoided entirely. 围绕提高债务上限的不确定性——无论对企业还是消费者而言——很可能一直在令人不安，也成为我们实现全面复苏的又一障碍。而这本是我们完全可以避免的事情。
So, voters may have chosen divided government, but they sure didn’t vote for dysfunctional government. They want us to solve problems. They want us to get this economy growing and adding jobs. And while deficit reduction is part of that agenda, it is not the whole agenda. Growing the economy isn’t just about cutting spending; it’s not about rolling back regulations that protect our air and our water and keep our people safe. That’s not how we’re going to get past this recession. We’re going to have to do more than that. 所以，选民可能选择了分治政府，但他们绝不是在为一个失能的政府投票。他们希望我们解决问题。他们希望我们让经济增长、创造就业。虽然削减赤字是这项议程的一部分，但并非全部。促进经济增长不仅仅是削减开支，更不是要撤销那些保护空气、水源和保障人民安全的法规。那不是我们走出这场衰退的办法。我们需要做的远不止于此。
And that’s why, when Congress gets back from recess, I will urge them to immediately take some steps -- bipartisan, common-sense steps -- that will make a difference; that will create a climate where businesses can hire, where folks have more money in their pockets to spend, where people who are out of work can find good jobs. 正因如此，当国会休会结束后回来，我将敦促他们立即采取一些措施——两党合作的、常识性的措施——这些措施将带来实质改变；创造一个让企业能够招聘、让民众口袋里有更多钱消费、让失业者能找到好工作的环境。
We need to begin by extending tax cuts for middle-class families so that you have more money in your paychecks next year. If you’ve got more money in your paycheck, you’re more likely to spend it. And that means small businesses and medium-sized businesses and large businesses will all have more customers. That means they’ll be in a better position to hire. 我们首先需要延长中产阶级家庭的减税政策，这样你们明年的工资单上就能有更多的钱。如果你的工资单上有更多的钱，你更可能把它花出去。这意味着小型企业、中型企业和大型企业都将拥有更多客户。这意味着他们将更有能力招聘员工。
And while we’re at it, we need to make sure that millions of workers who are still pounding the pavement looking for jobs to support their families are not denied needed unemployment benefits. 同时，我们需要确保数百万仍在四处奔波寻找工作以养家糊口的工人不会因此被拒发所需的失业救济金。
Through patent reform, we can cut the red tape that stops too many inventors and entrepreneurs from quickly turning new ideas into thriving businesses -- which holds our whole economy back. And I want Congress to pass a set of trade deals -- deals we’ve already negotiated -- that would help displaced workers looking for new jobs and would allow our businesses to sell more products in countries in Asia and South America, products that are stamped with the words “Made in America.” 通过专利改革，我们可以减少繁文缛节，这些繁文缛节阻碍了太多发明家和创业者迅速将新想法转化为蓬勃发展的企业——从而拖累了我们的整体经济。我还希望国会通过一系列贸易协议——这些协议我们已经谈判完成——它们将帮助寻找新工作的失业工人，并使我们的企业能够在亚洲和南美洲国家销售更多产品，这些产品上印有"美国制造"的字样。
We also need to give more opportunities to all those construction workers out there who lost their jobs when the housing boom went bust. We could put them to work right now, by giving loans to private companies that want to repair our roads and our bridges and our airports, rebuilding our infrastructure. We have workers who need jobs and a country that needs rebuilding; an infrastructure bank would help us put them together. 我们还需要为那些在房地产繁荣破灭后失去工作的建筑工人提供更多机会。我们可以立即让他们重返工作岗位，方法是向那些想要修缮公路、桥梁和机场的私人公司提供贷款，重建我们的基础设施。我们有需要工作的工人，也有需要重建的国家；一个基础设施银行可以帮助我们把二者结合起来。
And while we’re on the topic of infrastructure, there’s another stalemate in Congress right now involving our aviation industry which has stalled airport construction projects all around the country and put the jobs of tens of thousands of construction workers and others at risk -– because of politics. It’s another Washington-inflicted wound on America, and Congress needs to break that impasse now –- hopefully before the Senate adjourns -– so these folks can get back to work. 说到基础设施，国会目前在航空产业方面又陷入了一场僵局，这场僵局导致全国各地的机场建设项目停滞，并让数以万计的建筑工人及其他人员的就业面临风险——这完全是因为政治。这是华盛顿给美国的又一处自伤，国会需要现在就打破这一僵局——最好在参议院休会之前——这样这些人就能重返工作岗位。
So these are some things that we could be doing right now. There’s no reason for Congress not to send me those bills so I can sign them into law right away as soon as they get back from recess. Both parties share power in Washington, and both parties need to take responsibility for improving this economy. It’s not a Democratic responsibility or a Republican responsibility; it is our collective responsibility as Americans. And I’ll be discussing additional ideas in the weeks ahead to help companies hire, invest and expand. 这些是我们现在就可以做的事情。国会没有理由不把这些法案送交给我，这样他们一休会回来我就能立即签署使之成为法律。两党在华盛顿共享权力，两党也都需要为改善经济承担责任。这不是民主党的责任，也不是共和党的责任；这是我们作为美国人的共同责任。我将在未来几周讨论更多想法，帮助企业招聘、投资和扩张。
So, we’ve seen in the past few days that Washington has the ability to focus when there’s a timer ticking down, and when there’s a looming disaster. It shouldn’t take the risk of default -– the risk of economic catastrophe -– to get folks in this town to work together and do their jobs. Because there’s already a quiet crisis going on in the lives of a lot of families, in a lot of communities, all across the country. They’re looking for work, and they have been for a while; or they’re making do with fewer hours or fewer customers; or they’re just trying to make ends meet. 所以，我们在过去几天里看到，华盛顿在倒计时滴答作响、灾难迫在眉睫的时候是能够集中精力的。不应该非得有违约的风险——经济灾难的风险——才能让这座城市里的人团结协作、做好本职工作。因为在全国各地许多家庭和社区的生活中，一场无声的危机早已在进行。他们在寻找工作，而且已经找了很长时间；或者他们靠更少的工作时长或更少的客户勉强维持；或者他们只是在努力做到收支平衡。
That ought to compel Washington to cooperate. That ought to compel Washington to compromise, and it ought to compel Washington to act. That ought to be enough to get all of us in this town to do the jobs we were sent here to do. We’ve got to do everything in our power to grow this economy and put America back to work. That’s what I intend to do, and I’m looking forward to working with Congress to make it happen. 这应该足以促使华盛顿合作。这应该足以促使华盛顿妥协，也应该足以促使华盛顿行动。这应该足以让我们这座城市里的每一个人去做我们被派来做的本职工作。我们必须竭尽全力发展经济，让美国人民重返工作岗位。这就是我打算做的，我也期待与国会合作使之成为现实。
Thanks very much, everybody. 非常感谢各位。
