美国经典英文演讲100篇11(编辑修改稿)

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s so high that they will pierce the clouds and the sight of them will frighten our enemies into submission. Now we39。 re proud of this diversity as Democrats. We39。 re grateful for it. We don39。 t have to manufacture it the way the Republicans will next month in Dallas, by propping up mannequin delegates on the convention floor. But we, while we39。 re proud of this diversity, we pay a price for it. The different people that we represent have different points of view. And sometimes they pete and even debate, and even argue. That39。 s what our primaries were all about. But now the primaries are over and it is time, when we pick our candidates and our platform here, to lock arms and move into this campaign together. If you need any more inspiration to put some small part of your own difference aside to create this consensus, then all you need to do is to reflect on what the Republican policy of divide and cajole has done to this land since 1980. Now the President has asked the American people to judge him on whether or not he39。 s fulfilled the promises he made four years ago. I believe, as Democrats, we ought to accept that challenge. And just for a moment let us consider what he has said and what he39。 s done. Inflation Inflation is down since 1980, but not because of the supplyside miracle promised to us by the President. Inflation was reduced the oldfashioned way: with a recession, the worst since 1932. Now how did we We could have brought inflation down that way. How did he do it? 55,000 bankruptcies。 two years of massive unemployment。 200,000 farmers and ranchers forced off the land。 more homeless more homeless than at any time since the Great Depression in 1932。 more hungry, in this world of enormous affluence, the United States of America, more hungry。 more poor, most of them women. And And he paid one more thing, a nearly 200 billion dollar deficit threatening our future. Now, we must make the American people understand this deficit because they don39。 t. The President39。 s deficit is a direct and dramatic repudiation of his promise in 1980 to balance the budget by 1983. How large is it? The deficit is the largest in the history of the universe. It President Carter39。 s last budget had a deficit less than onethird of this deficit. It is a deficit that, according to the President39。 s own fiscal adviser, may grow to as much 300 billion dollars a year for as far as the eye can see. And, ladies and gentlemen, it is a debt so large that is almost onehalf of the money we collect from the personal ine tax each year goes just to pay the interest. It is a mortgage on our children39。 s future that can be paid only in pain and that could bring this nation to its knees. Now don39。 t take my word for it I39。 m a Democrat. Ask the Republican investment bankers on Wall Street what they think the chances of this recovery being permanent are. You see, if they39。 re not too embarrassed to tell you the truth, they39。 ll say that they39。 re appalled and frightened by the President39。 s deficit. Ask them what they think of our economy, now that it39。 s been driven by the distorted value of the dollar back to its colonial condition. Now we39。 re exporting agricultural products and importing manufactured ones. Ask those Republican investment bankers what they expect the rate of interest to be a year from now. And ask them if they dare tell you the truth you39。 ll learn from them, what they predict for the inflation rate a year from now, because of the deficit. Now, how important is this question of the deficit. Think about it practically: What chance would the Republican candidate have had in 1980 if he had told the American people that he intended to pay for his socalled economic recovery with bankruptcies, unemployment, more homeless, more hungry, and the largest government debt known to humankind? If he had told the voters in 1980 that truth, would American voters have signed the loan certificate for him on Election Day? Of course not! That was an election won under false pretenses. It was won with smoke and mirrors and illusions. And that39。 s the kind of recovery we have now as well. But what about foreign policy? They said that they would make us and the whole world safer. They say they have. By creating the largest defense budget in history, one that even they now admit is excessive by escalating to a frenzy the nuclear arms race。 by incendiary rhetoric。 by refusing to discuss peace with our enemies。 by the loss of 279 young Americans in Lebanon in pursuit of a plan and a policy that no one can find or describe. We give money to Latin American governments that murder nuns, and then we lie about it. We have been less than zealous in support of our only real friend it seems to me, in the Middle East the one democracy there, our fl。