奧巴馬每周電視演講20150328：總統(tǒng)呼吁保住工薪階層的工資(中英lrc)
Weekly Address: Protecting Working Americans' Paychecks(March 28, 2015)
奧巴馬每周電視講話：總統(tǒng)呼吁保住工薪階層的工資
Hi, everybody. Five years ago, after the worst financial crisis in decades, we passed historic Wall Street reform to end the era of bailouts and too big to fail.
大家好！五年前，在經(jīng)歷幾十年來最為嚴(yán)重的金融危機(jī)之后，我們破天荒地通過了《華爾街改革法》，結(jié)束了對那些太大而不能倒下的公司提供援助的時代。
As part that reform, we created an independent Consumer Financial Protection Bureau with one mission: to protect American consumers from some of the worst practices of the financial industry.
作為該改革法的一部分，我們成立了獨(dú)立的消費(fèi)者金融保護(hù)局，該局的使命只有一個：保護(hù)美國的消費(fèi)者免受金融行業(yè)某些嚴(yán)重惡行的侵害。
They've already put 5 billion back in the pockets of more than 15 million families. And this week, they took an important first step towards cracking down on some of the most abusive practices involving payday loans.
幾年來，該局幫助1500多萬個家庭挽回了50多億元的損失。本周，他們又采取了一項(xiàng)新的舉措，打擊包括發(fā)薪日貸款注在內(nèi)的對部分金融工具的濫用。
Millions of Americans take out these loans every year. In Alabama, where I visited this week, there are four times as many payday lending stores as there are McDonald's. But while payday loans might seem like easy money, folks often end up trapped in a cycle of debt. If you take out a 500 loan, it's easy to wind up paying more than 1,000 in interest and fees.
每年，有數(shù)百萬美國人借貸此類貸款。在我本周到訪的阿拉巴馬州，這種發(fā)薪日貸款店的數(shù)量是麥當(dāng)勞的四倍。盡管發(fā)薪日貸款看起來可以緩解現(xiàn)金壓力，但人們通常會因此而陷入債務(wù)陷阱。如果你借出500塊，最后很可能需要償還1000多塊的利息和各種費(fèi)用。
The step the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced this week is designed to change that. The idea is pretty common sense: if you're a payday lender preparing to give a loan, you should make sure that the borrower can afford to pay it back first.
消費(fèi)者金融保護(hù)局本周采取的措施就是要改變這一狀況。該措施的想法很簡單：如果你是發(fā)薪日放貸人，準(zhǔn)備發(fā)放一筆貸款，你首先應(yīng)該確認(rèn)這個借款人有能力償還這筆貸款。
As Americans, we believe there's nothing wrong with making a profit. But there is something wrong with making that profit by trapping hard-working men and women in a vicious cycle of debt.
作為美國人，我們都堅信謀取利潤是天經(jīng)地義的事情。但是采用讓辛勤勞動的人們陷入惡性的債務(wù)循環(huán)的方式攫取利潤就不對了。
Protecting working Americans' paychecks shouldn't be a partisan issue. But the budget Republicans unveiled last week would make it harder, not easier, to crack down on financial fraud and abuse. And this week, when Republicans rolled out their next economic idea, it had nothing to do with the middle class. It was a new, more-than-250 billion tax cut for the top one-tenth of the top one percent of Americans. That would mean handing out an average tax cut of 4 million a year to just 4,000 Americans per year, and leaving the rest of the country to pay for it.
保護(hù)工薪人士的工資不應(yīng)該成為一個黨派爭論的話題。但共和黨上周提出的預(yù)算方案會使打擊金融欺詐和剝削變得更加困難，而不是更容易。本周，共和黨推出的另一個經(jīng)濟(jì)發(fā)展方案，跟中產(chǎn)階級一毛錢關(guān)系也沒有。而是一項(xiàng)新的，為百分之一的富有的美國人中的十分之一的人提供2500億美元的稅收減免。這意味著平均每年要向4000個美國人提供4百萬的稅收減免，讓剩下的所有人為此買單。
I don't think our top economic priority should be helping a tiny number of Americans who are already doing extraordinarily well, and asking everybody else to foot the bill. I think our top priority should be helping everybody who works hard get ahead. This country does best when everyone gets their fair shot, everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules.
我從不認(rèn)為我們最重要的頭等經(jīng)濟(jì)政策應(yīng)該是幫助極少部分已經(jīng)極為富有的美國人，而讓剩下的每個人為此買單。我認(rèn)為我們的頭等大事應(yīng)該是幫助每一位辛勤付出的人取得進(jìn)步，獲得成功。只有當(dāng)每個人都得到公平的機(jī)會，承擔(dān)共同的責(zé)任，遵守共同的規(guī)則的時候，這個國家才能發(fā)展的更好。
That's what middle-class economics is all about, and as long as I'm your President, that's what I'll keep on fighting to do.
這才是有利于中產(chǎn)階級的經(jīng)濟(jì)政策需要做的，只要我還是總統(tǒng)，我就將為此而不懈奮斗。
Thanks, and have a great weekend.
謝謝大家，祝你們周末愉快。
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