Obama's Weekly Address WEEKLY ADDRESS: Time to Pass Bipartisan Legislation to Extend Emergency Unemployment Insurance
奧巴馬每周電視講話:總統呼吁兩黨齊心協力 延長《緊急失業保險法案》

Hi, everybody, and Happy New Year.
大家好，新年快樂。

This is a time when we look ahead to all the possibilities and opportunities of the year to come-when we resolve to better ourselves, and to better our relationships with one another.
一元復始，萬象更新。新的一年我們將成就更好的自己，也為自己打造更好的人際關系。

And today, I want to talk about one place that Washington should start-a place where we can make a real and powerful difference in the lives of many of our fellow Americans right now.
今天，我想跟大家討論一下華盛頓當下應該做好的事情，這件事情將為當下眾多美國民眾的生活帶來切實有效的改變。

Just a few days after Christmas, more than one million of our fellow Americans lost a vital economic lifeline-the temporary insurance that helps folks make ends meet while they look for a job.
剛過圣誕節，100多萬美國同胞就失去了基本的生活保障—臨時失業保險，這一幫助人們在尋找工作的時候實現收支平衡的福利政策。

Republicans in Congress went home for the holidays and let that lifeline expire.
國會的共和黨人回家過節去了，任由這一生命線一般的福利政策過期作廢。

And for many of their constituents who are unemployed through no fault of their own, that decision will leave them with no income at all.
大多數人的失業并不是由于本人原因造成的，而這一決定讓讓他們失去了唯一的收入。

We make this promise to one another because it makes a difference to a mother who needs help feeding her kids while she's looking for work; to a father who needs help paying the rent while learning the skills to get a new and better job.
我們之所以提出這一提案，正是因為有了它，將給還在尋找工作的母親撫育孩子們帶來改變；給還在學習新技能適應新需求的父親支付房租帶來改變。

And denying families that security is just plain cruel.
拒絕為這些家庭提供基本保障帶來的痛苦是殘忍的。

We're a better country than that. We don't abandon our fellow Americans when times get tough-we keep the faith with them until they start that new job.
我們應該可以做的更好。我們不能看著我們的同胞經受困苦而遺棄他們，我們要始終與他們同心同德，直到他們找到新的工作。

What's more, it actually slows down the economy for all of us.
更重要的是，失業已經拖累了整個經濟的發展。

If folks can't pay their bills or buy the basics, like food and clothes, local businesses take a hit and hire fewer workers.
如果人們不能應付日常的衣服食品之類的基本支出，本地企業將受到打擊，雇傭員工人數也將下降。

That's why the independent Congressional Budget Office says that unless Congress restores this insurance, we'll feel a drag on our economic growth this year.
正因如此，獨立的國會預算辦公室稱除非國會重新出臺失業保險政策，否則我們今年的經濟增長將受到明顯拖累。

And after our businesses created more than two million new jobs last year, that's a self-inflicted wound we don't need.
去年企業創造了200多萬就業崗位，我們不能承受這樣的自我傷害。

So when Congress comes back to work this week, their first order of business should be making this right.
因此，這周國會議員們回來上班的第一件事就是在這方面做出正確選擇。

Right now, a bipartisan group in Congress is working on a three-month extension of unemployment insurance-and if they pass it, I will sign it.
現在，國會的一個兩黨聯合小組正在起草一項三個月的失業保險延期方案，如果該方案獲得通過，我會立即簽署。

For decades, Republicans and Democrats put partisanship and ideology aside to offer some security for job-seekers, even when the unemployment rate was lower than it is today.
十多年來，共和黨和民主黨在為求職者提供保障問題上一直在進行合作，雙方拋棄了黨派和意識形態的差異，即便在失業率遠比今天還低的時候也是如此。

Instead of punishing families who can least afford it, Republicans should make it their New Year's resolution to do the right thing, and restore this vital economic security for their constituents right now.
共和黨不應該讓眾多家庭承受不可承受之重，而應該在新的一年妥善解決這一問題，為他們提供至關重要的基本生活保障。

After all, our focus as a country this year shouldn't be shrinking our economy, but growing it; not narrowing opportunity, but expanding it; not fewer jobs, but doing everything we can to help our businesses create more of the good jobs that a growing middle class requires.
總之，作為一個國家，新的一年，我們的重點工作不是讓經濟萎縮，而是促進其增長；不是減少機會，而是創造更多機會；不是減少就業崗位，而是盡一切可能幫助私營企業創造更多待遇優厚的就業崗位，滿足持續增加的中產階級的需求。

That's my New Year's resolution-to do everything I can, every single day, to help make 2014 a year in which more of our citizens can earn their own piece of the American Dream.
這是我新的一年的施政取向，每一天盡我一切努力，在2014年里，讓更多公民實現他們的美國夢。

After five years of working and sacrificing to recover and rebuild from crisis, we have it within our power, right now, to move this country forward.
經濟危機之后，我們經歷了5年的艱辛努力和付出，終于從危急中復蘇，我們依靠的是自己的力量，現在，我們要靠自己將國家繼續推向前進。

It's entirely up to us.
這要依靠我們所有人。

And I'm optimistic for the year that lies ahead.
我對新的一年充滿了期望。

Thank you, and have a great weekend.
謝謝大家大家，祝你們周末愉快！

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