VOA标准英语2012--US Presidential Campaign Divides Small Business Owners in Key Battleground
时间：2019-01-14 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2012年(十月)
US Presidential Campaign Divides Small Business Owners in Key Battleground
Larry Guinn manufactures de-mountable interior wall partitions at his factory in Summerfield, North Carolina. He worries about the future.
"I am not going to hire many people. I just see more and more unemployment in the country, and that is not good for America," Guinn said.
Not far away in Greensboro, immigration lawyer Jeremy McKinney prepares to defend another client in court. He thinks the country is on the right course.
"From out vantage point I do not see any reason to change the captain of the ship," McKinney said.
Both men are small business owners, but on opposite ends of the political divide when it comes to presidential politics and which candidate has the right plan to drive economic growth. Guinn, a Republican, supports Mitt 1 Romney over President Obama.
"If we do not get someone in there who knows and understands how businesses operate and what is required of them to be profitable and stay in business, I am not sure how much longer small businesses are going to be able to hang on," Guinn said.
Jeremy McKinney, a Democrat 2, credits President Obama's policies for the current economic recovery. He says his firm suffered its worse financial year in 2008, but now times are better.
"Each year we have been able to climb back. And this year has been our best year ever in the history of this law firm. We can see the president and this administration and its policies creating this economic recovery in action," McKenney said.
Guinn says Romney's plan to cut corporate 3 taxes will allow small business owners to hire more workers. But he worries President Obama's health-care reform law will cost his company more, because he currently does not provide health insurance for his workers.
"If I am at the point where I have to furnish insurance for all the employees that I would put on my solid payroll 4, I would almost have to use more casual [part-time] workers because I just could not afford the insurance program and still stay in business and make a profit," Guinn said.
McKinney says the health-care law is already helping 5 his business by providing tax credits to offset 6 the costs of health-care coverage 7 for his employees.
"With less than 50 employees we pay a lot more for our health insurance than large employers. That will hopefully change in 2014 as we combine with other small businesses to negotiate health-care contracts with insurance companies," McKinney said.
Both small business owners are hoping for better times, but they paint the upcoming presidential contest as a stark 8 choice between two competing visions of economic vitality 9.
- I gave him a baseball mitt for his birthday.为祝贺他的生日，我送给他一只棒球手套。
- Tom squeezed a mitt and a glove into the bag.汤姆把棒球手套和手套都塞进袋子里。
- The Democrat and the Public criticized each other.民主党人和共和党人互相攻击。
- About two years later,he was defeated by Democrat Jimmy Carter.大约两年后，他被民主党人杰米卡特击败。
- This is our corporate responsibility.这是我们共同的责任。
- His corporate's life will be as short as a rabbit's tail.他的公司的寿命是兔子尾巴长不了。
- His yearly payroll is $1.2 million.他的年薪是120万美元。
- I can't wait to get my payroll check.我真等不及拿到我的工资单了。
- The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
- By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
- Their wage increases would be offset by higher prices.他们增加的工资会被物价上涨所抵消。
- He put up his prices to offset the increased cost of materials.他提高了售价以补偿材料成本的增加。
- There's little coverage of foreign news in the newspaper.报纸上几乎没有国外新闻报道。
- This is an insurance policy with extensive coverage.这是一项承保范围广泛的保险。
- The young man is faced with a stark choice.这位年轻人面临严峻的抉择。
- He gave a stark denial to the rumor.他对谣言加以完全的否认。