里根的就职演说.docx

里根的就职演说
里根的就职演说
　　罗纳德·威尔逊·里根，生于美国伊利诺伊州坦皮科城。美国杰出的右翼政治家，曾担当第33任加利福尼亚州州长，第40任美国总统。他也是一名宏大的演讲家。你看过他的就职演讲吗？不如就让我带您了解一下吧。
　tax burden is, it has not kept pace with public spending. For decades, we have piled deficit upon deficit, mortgaging our future and our childrens future for the temporary convenience of the present. To continue this long trend is to guarantee tremendous social, cultural, political, and economic upheavals.


　　You and I, as individuals, can, by borrowing, live beyond our means, but for only a limited period of time. Why, then, should we think that collectively, as a nation, we are not bound by that same limitation?
　　We must act today in order to preserve tomorrow. And let there be no misunderstanding--we are going to begin to act, beginning today.
　　The economic ills we suffer have come upon us over several decades. They will not go away in days, weeks, or months, but they will go away. They will go away because we, as Americans, have the capacity now, as we have had in the past, to do whatever needs to be done to preserve this last and greatest bastion of freedom.
　　In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem.
　　From time to time, we have been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. But if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden. The solutions we seek must be equitable, with no one group singled out to pay a higher price.


　　We hear much of special interest groups. Our concern must be for a special interest group that has been too long neglected. It knows no sectional boundaries or ethnic and racial divisions, and it cros