Obama's Weekly Address WEEKLY ADDRESS: End the Government Shutdown

奧巴馬每周電視講話:總統呼吁盡早結束政府關閉

Good morning.

大家早上好。

Earlier this week, the Republican House of Representatives chose to shut down a government they don't like over a health care law they don't like.

本周早些時候，眾議院共和黨人以對醫保法不滿為由讓政府關閉。

And I've talked a lot about the real-world consequences of this shutdown in recent days-the services disrupted; the benefits delayed; the public servants kicked off the job without pay.

而且我最近也談到了這種現狀對現實生活產生的很多影響，包括公共服務的終止、福利的延遲發放、公職人員因停薪而被迫離開工作崗位等等。

But today, I want to let the Americans dealing with those real-world consequences have their say.

但今天，我希望通過應對這些現實生活中連鎖反應的美國人民來表達自己的意見。

And these are just a few of the many heartbreaking letters I've gotten from them in the past couple weeks-including more than 30,000 over the past few days.

以下是我最近幾個星期收到的大量令人心酸信件中的幾份，這樣的信在最近幾天就超過了3萬封。

Kelly Mumper lives in rural Alabama.

凱利?姆普爾生活在亞拉巴馬州鄉村。

She works in early education, and has three children of her own in the Marines.

她的職業是一名幼兒園教師，而她的三個孩子都在海軍陸戰隊服役。

Here's what she wrote to me on Wednesday.

這是她周三寫給我的信。

“Our Head Start agency…was forced to stop providing services on October 1st for over 770 children, and 175 staff were furloughed.

“10月1日我們的幼兒園被迫停止了770個孩子的課程，175名員工被迫休假。

I am extremely concerned for the welfare of these children.

我十分關心這些孩子們的福利問題。

There are parents who work and who attend school.

孩子們的家長也來到學校做工作。

Where are they leaving their children…is it a safe environment…are getting the food that they receive at their Head Start program?”

他們想知道，他們把孩子送到這里來，這里能否給孩子們一個安全的環境，孩子們是否能得到學前教育計劃規定的食物？”

On the day Julia Pruden's application to buy a home for her and her special needs children was approved by the USDA's rural development direct loan program, she wrote me from Minot, North Dakota.

在茱莉亞?普雷登為她和殘障孩子提交的購房申請被農業部農村發展直接貸款計劃批準的當天，北達科他州的米諾特市的她寫信給我。

“We put in an offer to purchase a home this weekend,

“我們這周末提交了購房申請，

and it was accepted…if funding does not go through, our chances of the American Dream down the drain…

申請被批準…如果貸款沒有了，我們實現美國夢的機會也就隨即破滅…

We have worked really hard to get our credit to be acceptable to purchase a home…

我們都非常勤勞地工作才爭取到買房子的信用資格…

if it weren't for the direct lending program provided by the USDA, we would not qualify to buy the home we found.”

如果沒有農業部提供的直接貸款計劃，我們是沒有條件自己買房的。”

These are just two of the many letters I've received from people who work hard; try to make ends meet; try to do right by their families.

這只是我收到的眾多辛勤工作，勉強維持生活，努力為家庭做貢獻人們來信中的兩封。

They're military or military spouses who've seen commissaries closed on their bases.

他們當中有軍人和軍人家屬眼看著基地的供應中心關門。

They're veterans worried the services they've earned won't be there.

有退伍老兵擔憂他們應得的福利不再發放。

They're business owners who've seen their contracts with the government put on hold, worried they'll have to let people go.

有企業主眼看著他們與政府的合同被束之高閣，還要擔憂讓員工離職。

I want them to know, I read the stories you share with me.

我希望讓你們知道，你們的信我都已經讀過。

These are our fellow Americans. These are the people who sent us here to serve.

這些都是我們的同胞。他們是選擇我們到這里來為人民服務的人。

And I know that Republicans in the House of Representatives are hearing the same kinds of stories, too.

我知道眾議院的共和黨人也在親身經歷著同樣的事情。

As I made clear to them this week, there's only one way out of this reckless and damaging shutdown:

正如我本周明確表示的一樣，對于當前這種不計后果和造成巨大傷害的政府關門現狀只有一條出路：

pass a budget that funds our government, with no partisan strings attached.

通過沒有任何附加條件的預算法案為政府提供資金。

The Senate has already done this.

參議院已經完成了這項工作。

And there are enough Republican and Democratic votes in the House of Representatives willing to do the same, and end this shutdown immediately.

而且眾議院也有大量共和黨人和民主黨人同意這么做，以盡快結束這種政府關門現狀。

But the far right of the Republican Party won't let Speaker John Boehner give that bill a yes-or-no vote.

但共和黨的極右派分子并不想讓約翰?博納議長同意對此進行投票表決。

Take that vote.

事不宜遲，

Stop this farce.

終止鬧劇，

End this shutdown now.

現在就結束政府關閉吧。

The American people don't get to demand ransom in exchange for doing their job. Neither does Congress.

美國人民不能為換取他們正常的工作而支付勒索贖金。國會也是。

They don't get to hold our democracy or our economy hostage over a settled law.

他們不能因為一部既定法律就以我們的民主制度或經濟發展為要挾。

They don't get to kick a child out of Head Start if I don't agree to take her parents' health insurance away.

他們也不能因為我不同意將孩子們的父母的醫療保險取消就要取消孩子們的學前教育計劃。

That's not how our democracy is supposed to work.

我們的民主制度不是為了這種結果而存在。

That's why I won't pay a ransom in exchange for reopening the government.

因此我不會為換取政府的重新開門而屈服去支付贖金。

And I certainly won't pay a ransom in exchange for raising the debt ceiling.

我也絕對不會為換取債務上限的提高而支付贖金。

For as reckless as a government shutdown is, an economic shutdown that comes with default would be dramatically worse.

與這種不計后果的政府關門相比，伴隨債務違約而來的整個經濟停止運轉帶來的后果才更加嚴重。

I'll always work with anyone of either party on ways to grow this economy, create new jobs, and get our fiscal house in order for the long haul.

我將一如既往的與任何黨派的任何人合作，共同推動經濟發展，創造就業，為財政的長遠發展建立秩序。

But not under the shadow of these threats to our economy.

但前提是不能威脅到當前經濟的發展。

Pass a budget. End this government shutdown.

通過預算，結束政府關閉。

Pay our bills. Prevent an economic shutdown.

按期償還債務，避免經濟崩潰。

These Americans and millions of others are counting on Congress to do the right thing.

美國人和其他成千上萬的人都在期待著國會做出正確的選擇。

And I will do everything I can to make sure they do.

我也將繼續竭盡所能確保他們做好這件事。

Thank you.

謝謝大家。

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