Reporter: Here in Ohio, you won this state by about 165,000 votes in the year 2000. In the last three years they’ve lost about 200,000 jobs in this state. How do you look at those people who may be out of work and say, “Rehire me?”
记者：2000年，你在这儿，俄亥俄州 以16.5万张左右的选票获胜。而在过 去的3年里，这个州有20万人失去了 工作。你怎么向那些已经失去工作的人 说：“再雇我一次吧？”
George Walker Bush: Well, that’s a great question and the answer is that, here’s my plan to move us forward. I remind them about what we’ve been through. We’ve been through a recession. We’ve been through an attack. The September 11 attacks hurt our economy. We’ve been through corporate scandals. I’ve said we dealt with all that and here’s the plan to keep the economy growing 一 it’s an energy policy, it’s a health-care policy，it’s tort reform, it’s keeping taxes low.
乔治沃克布什：嗯，问得好。我 的回答是，我有计划推动我们向前发 展。我提醒他们我们经历了什么。我 们经历了经济萧条，经历了恐怖袭击。 9 11事件影响了我们的经济。我们 经历了合伙人丑闻。我说过我们应对 了这一切，这个是保持经济增长的计 划——即能源政策、医疗政策、民事 侵权改革政策和降低税收政策。
Reporter: So you think if you look out the window here, it’s raining, you think...
记者：那么你认为如果你看窗外，外面 正下雨，你觉得……
George Walker Bush: I think I’m gonna...
乔治沃克布什：我认为我会……
Reporter: ...of the rain.
记者：……在这雨天里。
George Walker Bush: ...win Ohio.
乔治沃克布什：……赢得俄亥俄州。
Reporter: You think?
记者：你这么想？
George Walker Bush: I do.
乔治沃克布什：是的。
Reporter: You think you will? They’re struggling in a lot of places.
记者：你认为你会赢？很多地方都很困难。
George Walker Bush: Well, some places they are and some places the economy’s growing.
乔治沃克布什：嗯，一些地方确实 艰难，但是一些地方经济正在增长。
Reporter: So you think they will answer that famous question, “Are you better off today than you were four years ago，” in the affirmative?
记者：所以你认为他们会以肯定的语气 回答“你比4年前富裕了吗”那个著名 的问题吗？
George Walker Bush: I think over 50 percent will.
乔治沃克布什：我认为，50%以上 的人会这样。
Reporter: Are you disappointed by the job numbers here? I mean, in your meeting just now, you talked about some success stories: small businesses adding 30 and 10 jobs here and there.But overall, in terms of the predicted number of jobs that were supposed to be created by your tax cuts, you haven’t gotten there.
记者：你对这儿的 就业率失望吗？我 的意思是，你在刚 才的会议中讨论了 一些成功的例子： 小企业在这里增加 了 30个工作岗位， 在那里增加了 10个 工作岗位。但是总 体来看，从你减税 政策预计创造的工作岗位数目来看，你 还没有达到。
George Walker Bush: Well we’re up to about a million-five, and this month will be added in _ it’s progress. I mean, we’re headed in the right direction. That’s the point I keep making, and if you raise the taxes on the people, it will cause us to go in the wrong direction. I，ve laid out a plan that says, “Here’s how we keep jobs in America.” And it’s a six-point plan, one that is, I think, based upon common sense and good sound principle that is important for job creators. And what the people want to know is, “Do you have a plan?”
乔治沃克布什：我们增加了大约1.5 万个工作岗位，本月还将继续增加—— 这是一个进步。我想说的是，我们正朝 着好的方向发展。我一直强调，如果 增加税收，我们就会朝着错误的方向迈 进。我已经公开了计划，并且说“我们 就是这样保持美国就业率的”。这是个 六点计划，我认为这个计划是基于常识和对提供工作岗位的人们来说很重要的 稳固原则而制定的。而人们想要知道的 就是“你有计划吗？ ”
Reporter: You talk about winning the war on terror You talked about being stable in terms of an economy. John Kerry says the same things. And so...
记者：你谈起了赢得反恐战争。你谈起 了经济的稳定。而约翰凯利谈的是 同样的问题，那么……
George Walker Bush： That’s what elections are all about.
乔治沃克布什：竞选都是这样。
Reporter: All right. So what is the major difference between you and Sen. Kerry, other than that you’re a
记者：好吧。那么除了你是共和党人， 他是民主党人外，你和凯利议员最大的 区别是什么？
乔治沃克布什：嗯， 我认为是哲学思想的区 别。如果你观察我的政 策，你会发现它们的目的都在于给人们权利自 己作决定。但是人们将 能下定决心。现在到选 举曰还会有很多辩论， 他们能够选出他们觉得 舒服的那个人。