【每日阅读训练第二期——速度越障5系列】【5-12】

babybearmm

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越障   This passage really interesting to me~~   9'02''

The passage is mainly about Obama's optimistic address to pessimistic US citizens. (background pessimism, what he talked about, what he has done as a president and the outcomes, how others comment on him)  

1.
American people are very pessimistic nowadays. According to a survey last Oct, about 2/3 of people think the American economy is not doing well.  Obama is not satisfied at this public pessimism at all. Therefore, he delivered an address (when?  记不住了，好像"this Tue"？), saying that:
NO pessimistic views allowed!
People are wrong! Actually we are doing pretty good - list some good news, for example: Irac （本拉登）; the good news from automobile industry....
We do need American spirit... We are strong... Our economy is doing well right now and we have even brighter future....
....
To sum up, his speech was just as enthusiastic as always.

2.
What he has done during his presidency?

He proposed a bunch of proposals aiming at boosting the American economy, but, ironically, most of them were killed by Congress.

One example is the on the tax issue. Obama proposed to eliminate some tax deduction and increase the tax rate for high-income people. According to Obama's proposal, people who earn 1 million a  year would probably pay about 30% of their income as tax.  

Obama's argument was contradictory to HT's statement about fairness in 1949. Obama reasons that: if the tax law helped the rich save some money on tax (the saving that was not a big deal from the aspect of the rich, but huge for the society), then there would be a "breach" in the US treasury that must be made up by people in poverty, otherwise there would be an issue of deficit.

This proposal affects high-income people, for example one of his rival (?) who makes a lot of money by investment.  Of course, this proposal was not passed by Congress.

3. how others comment on him

Republicans said that Obama's recent address was just similar to that a year go. "Same rhetorics", they commented.  They simply criticized Obama, saying that he was merely good at bombasting and that he had not done any effective work.    Interestingly, Obama also commented the statement made by his rival as "same rhetorics".

Obama is now preparing for the upcoming presidential election, and in this address he somehow showed some of this argument/proposal.

babybearmm

Self-correction:

I missed the most important info that the on-site audience of this address should be the lawmakers, rather than the public....

Also, I mistook the tax proposal for an example of what Obama had done during his presidency. Actually, this is a new one, a central proposal for his re-election. "This proposal, as well, is essentially dead on arrival in Congress." does NOT say that it has already been OFFICIALLY turned down by congress.

Detail issue: I wrote, "Obama proposed to eliminate some tax deduction and increase the tax rate for high-income people. "
Actually, the two ways should be: 1. eliminate some tax deduction; 2. a new minimum tax
the "increase of the tax rate" to at least 30% is simply the outcome

速度：
1'30
1'30
1'43
1'43
1'10

越障   This passage really interesting to me~~   9'02''

The passage is mainly about Obama's optimistic address to pessimistic US citizens. (background pessimism, what he talked about, what he has done as a president and the outcomes, how others comment on him)  

1.
American people are very pessimistic nowadays. According to a survey last Oct, about 2/3 of people think the American economy is not doing well.  Obama is not satisfied at this public pessimism at all. Therefore, he delivered an address (when?  记不住了，好像"this Tue"？), saying that:
NO pessimistic views allowed!
People are wrong! Actually we are doing pretty good - list some good news, for example: Irac （本拉登）; the good news from automobile industry....
We do need American spirit... We are strong... Our economy is doing well right now and we have even brighter future....
....
To sum up, his speech was just as enthusiastic as always.

2.
What he has done during his presidency?

He proposed a bunch of proposals aiming at boosting the American economy, but, ironically, most of them were killed by Congress.

One example is the on the tax issue. Obama proposed to eliminate some tax deduction and increase the tax rate for high-income people. According to Obama's proposal, people who earn 1 million a  year would probably pay about 30% of their income as tax.  

Obama's argument was contradictory to HT's statement about fairness in 1949. Obama reasons that: if the tax law helped the rich save some money on tax (the saving that was not a big deal from the aspect of the rich, but huge for the society), then there would be a "breach" in the US treasury that must be made up by people in poverty, otherwise there would be an issue of deficit.

This proposal affects high-income people, for example one of his rival (?) who makes a lot of money by investment.  Of course, this proposal was not passed by Congress.

3. how others comment on him

Republicans said that Obama's recent address was just similar to that a year go. "Same rhetorics", they commented.  They simply criticized Obama, saying that he was merely good at bombasting and that he had not done any effective work.    Interestingly, Obama also commented the statement made by his rival as "same rhetorics".

Obama is now preparing for the upcoming presidential election, and in this address he somehow showed some of this argument/proposal.

-- by 会员 babybearmm (2012/1/27 8:43:09)

linhan50

10'11
Obama 对于美国的现况是optimistic的。但是事实上人们认为美国正在走下坡路。
Obama把注意力集中在silver lining ,那些美国过去所获得的反恐成就，就认为美国情况相当好
举了很多的例子说美国正在变好。但其中很少的例子被人认为是有用的根据
Obama说的话都被认为是“Familiar Rhetoric”
后面失忆了。。。

LEO1990

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shelvey

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220..读到最后彻底走神了。。。