万花筒 2013-10-07&10-10 联邦雇员们想对华盛顿说

 Federal government here is to protect the people, help the people, not to screw over like what they are doing.

We are hoping that cooler heads will prevail, somewhere north of here, so that they can address this issue. Because we have people who are living pay cheque to pay cheque. That pay cheque is not coming.

How do you pay for your insurance, how do you support your family, how do you buy groceries, how do you get gas? You are affecting so many hundreds of thousands of families because you can not come to a decision.

They could not get the votes to get rid of Obama Care, so now they are saying well we are gonna blackmail¹.

Haven't agreed, we are talking about things are dead on a rival. They can't have that, I mean, both sides have to talk.

It was a mass because a lot of people are upset and you know, we have some, you know, breaking down because, you know, they are worried about paying the bills.

You are playing games, you know. And your game playing is associating with our pockets.

We can't spend any money without making any money.

Make compromise a verb and not something that, you know, is a word we told around rather cavalierly.

1 blackmail   

n.讹诈，敲诈，勒索，胁迫，恫吓

参考例句：

• She demanded ＄1000 blackmail from him.她向他敲诈了1000美元。
• The journalist used blackmail to make the lawyer give him the documents.记者讹诈那名律师交给他文件。