President Obama said the current system has led the country to a breaking point, imposing hardships on middle-class Americans who struggle to pay for health care, who are unable to obtain it.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

Until that point, we have no reason to really give up on our current existing ideas about what justice is.

直到完全了解，我们没有理由放弃,我们目前现存有关正义的概念。

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Economists point out that the current jobless rate is already higher than the hypothetical rate that was used to calculate the health of banks and other financial institutions in so-called "stress tests" earlier this year.

VOA: standard.2009.06.07