纽约市长曼达尼： 在我们纪念250周年之际，我们看到了什么？我们看到，在充满矛盾的国家里，有座充满矛盾的城市。 我们看到，世界历史上最富有的国家里，孩子们饿着肚子入睡，而世界上第一个万亿富翁还在贪求更多。 我们看到，垄断企业主宰每个行业，寡头收买选举。我们看到，大批执法人员在街头制造恐惧。 他们吃着无证邻居做的食物，随后又把这些邻居塞进没有标识的面包车，秘密带走。 我们看到，这个国家的巨大财富，是由那些双手长满老茧、沾满尘土的人创造的。他们在工厂车间辛勤劳作，在石头上凿刻雕琢。 1/3
"As we mark 250 years, what do we see? We see a city of contradictions within a nation of contradictions. We see the wealthiest country in the history of the world, one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more. We see monopolies that dominate every industry and oligarchs who buy elections. We see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by our undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans. We see a nation whose immense wealth has been built by those with calloused, dirt-streaked hands, those who toil on factory floors and chisel into stone. And we see a nation that has allowed so much of that wealth to be held instead in the soft hands of a precious few. Yes, we see America in a health insurance industry that exploits the sick, but that is not all we see when we look for America. We see it, too, in the nurse who works a double shift and then stops on her way home to check on an ailing neighbor. Yes, we see America in corporate landlords for whom negligence is a business model. We see it, too, in the father who tucks his children into bed beneath a ceiling stained with leaks, who wakes before dawn to go to work and still believes his country can do better by his family. Yes, we see America when we spend our tax dollars on bombs and bailouts, when we sell our elections for the highest bidder. Yet we see it just as clearly in every American who still believes this country belongs to we, the people. We see America each time neighbors link arms with neighbors without asking how long they have lived here or what papers they have, as ICE invades our neighborhoods. We see America each time those young and old stand in the beating rain or the stifling heat to cast their ballots. We see America each time working people demand more, not just for themselves, but for their fellow Americans."
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纽约市长曼达尼： 在我们纪念250周年之际，我们看到了什么？我们看到，在充满矛盾的国家里，有座充满矛盾的城市。 我们看到，世界历史上最富有的国家里，孩子们饿着肚子入睡，而世界上第一个万亿富翁还在贪求更多。 我们看到，垄断企业主宰每个行业，寡头收买选举。我们看到，大批执法人员在街头制造恐惧。 他们吃着无证邻居做的食物，随后又把这些邻居塞进没有标识的面包车，秘密带走。 我们看到，这个国家的巨大财富，是由那些双手长满老茧、沾满尘土的人创造的。他们在工厂车间辛勤劳作，在石头上凿刻雕琢。 1/3
