Bush Promises to Double Money for Job Training

 

Scott Stearns

President Bush campaigned in the state of North Carolina Monday, where he promised to double the amount of U.S. job training. Democrats¹ have made American job losses a central issue in this year's race for the presidency², but President Bush says the creation of more than 300,000 new U.S. jobs last month shows his record tax cuts are working.
"The economy is strong, and it's getting stronger," Bush said. "We've overcome the challenges from the past three years. Listen, most of those challenges would have cratered³ most economies. Not America's economy, because the ingredients for growth are there. We've got visionary business leaders, we've got great productive workers and we've had good policy."
Mr. Bush told a community college outside the city of Charlotte that he plans to double U.S. job training. The plan includes no new funding and would cover the increase, in part, by cutting $300,000,000 in what the White House calls unnecessary overhead. The state of the economy is central to the president's drive for re-election, especially on the issue of jobs, where Democrats blame him for the loss of nearly two million jobs since he took office.
Democratic challenger John Kerry says those job losses show Americans need and deserve a new economic strategy. He is promising⁴ to create 10 million jobs in four years, in part, by rolling-back tax cuts for Americans earning more than $200,000 a year. President Bush says those tax cuts are working and he wants Congress to make all of those reductions permanent. His campaign is warning that Democrats will raise taxes if they win the White House.
Mr. Kerry's fellow Democratic Senator from Massachusetts, Edward Kennedy, attacked the president's economic plan Monday, saying Mr. Bush has failed to stop U.S. companies from using cheaper labor⁵ overseas.
"This administration says it is for a strong economy," said Senator Kennedy, "...but with each unemployed⁶ worker, each job shipped overseas, each underpaid minimum wage worker, each denial of overtime⁷ pay, each loss of unemployment benefits, each decline in wages, the credibility gap of this administration on the economy grows even wider."
A spokesman for the Kerry campaign called the president's vow⁸ to double job training an election-year scramble⁹ to come up with a jobs program which the Democratic campaign says is not good enough for America's workers.
The White House says nearly two-thirds of the new jobs in the 21st century will require post-secondary education and not enough American workers are currently being trained to take advantage of those jobs.

注释：
presidency [5prezidEnsi] n. 总统任期
cratered [5kreitEed] adj. 有坑洞的
ingredient [in5^ri:diEnt] n. 因素
visionary [5viVEnEri] adj. 有远见的
deserve [di5zE:v] vt. 应该得到
strategy [5strAtidVi] n. 策略
Massachusetts [7mAsE5tFu:sits] n.（美国州名）马萨诸塞州
underpay [5QndE5pei] v. 不付足够的工资,
credibility [7kredi5biliti] n. 可信
take advantage of 利用

 

1 democrats   

n.民主主义者，民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
• The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 presidency   

n.总统(校长，总经理)的职位(任期)

参考例句：

• Roosevelt was elected four times to the presidency of the United States.罗斯福连续当选四届美国总统。
• Two candidates are emerging as contestants for the presidency.两位候选人最终成为总统职位竞争者。

3 cratered   

adj.有坑洞的，多坑的v.火山口( crater的过去分词 )；弹坑等

参考例句：

• The surface cratered with the constant dropping of water. 表面因经常滴水而成坑。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• Artillery cratered the roads. 炮击后大路布满了弹坑。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

4 promising   

adj.有希望的，有前途的

参考例句：

• The results of the experiments are very promising.实验的结果充满了希望。
• We're trying to bring along one or two promising young swimmers.我们正设法培养出一两名有前途的年轻游泳选手。

5 labor   

n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦

参考例句：

• We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
• He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。

6 unemployed   

adj.失业的，没有工作的；未动用的，闲置的

参考例句：

• There are now over four million unemployed workers in this country.这个国家现有四百万失业人员。
• The unemployed hunger for jobs.失业者渴望得到工作。

7 overtime   

adj.超时的，加班的；adv.加班地

参考例句：

• They are working overtime to finish the work.为了完成任务他们正在加班加点地工作。
• He was paid for the overtime he worked.他领到了加班费。

8 vow   

n.誓(言)，誓约；v.起誓，立誓

参考例句：

• My parents are under a vow to go to church every Sunday.我父母许愿，每星期日都去做礼拜。
• I am under a vow to drink no wine.我已立誓戒酒。

9 scramble   

v.爬行，攀爬，杂乱蔓延，碎片，片段，废料

参考例句：

• He broke his leg in his scramble down the wall.他爬墙摔断了腿。
• It was a long scramble to the top of the hill.到山顶须要爬登一段长路。