【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 at makes America more attractivewhen ites to business investment decisions.
　　And weamp。rsquo。ve tackled a broken healthcare system. Obviously, weamp。rsquo。re not doneyet. (Applause.)Obviously, weamp。rsquo。re not done yet. But over the last three years, health carecosts have grown at theslowest pace on record. And this is a great place to work thanks to a great steelworkersunionand cooperation between management and labor. (Applause.) But just keep in mindthatif businessesamp。rsquo。 health care costs are growing at about onethird the ratethat they were a decadeago, that makes America a more affordable place to dobusiness, and it also means that theinvestors here, if theyamp。rsquo。re putting lessmoney into health care costs, they can put more money interms of hiring moreworkers and making sure that theyamp。rsquo。re getting good pay.
　　So thatamp。rsquo。s what all these toughdecisions are about: Reversing theforces that have hurt themiddle class for a long, long time, and building aneconomy where anybody, if you work hard,you can get ahead. Thatamp。rsquo。s what plants like this have always beenabout. Itamp。rsquo。s not that itamp。rsquo。seasywork. But it means if you work hard, youamp。rsquo。vegot a chance to buy a home, youamp。rsquo。ve got achance to retire, youamp。rsquo。ve got a chanceto send your kids to school, you have a chance to maybetake a little vacationonce in a while. Thatamp。rsquo。s what peoplestrive for. And thatamp。rsquo。s what will makethe21st century an American century, just like the last century was.
　　But I didnamp。rsquo。t run for President togo back to where we were. I want us togo forward. I want usto go towards thefuture. (Applause.) I want us to get us to where we need tobe. I want tosolve problems, not justput them off. I want to solveproblems. And weamp。rsquo。ve got to do moretocreate more good, middleclass jobs like the ones folks have here.
　　That means weamp。rsquo。ve got to doeverything we can to prepare our children and our workers forthe petitionthat theyamp。rsquo。re going to face. We should bedoing everything we can to help putsome sort of advanced education withinreach for more young people. Noteverybody has got togo to a fouryear college, but just looking at theequipment around here, youamp。rsquo。ve got to have alittle bit of advancedtraining. It may e through amunity college or it may e througha technical school, but weamp。rsquo。ve got tomake sure you can get that education, your kids can getthat education withoutgoing broke without going broke, without going into debt. (Applause.)So weamp。rsquo。re working on that.
　　Another thing we should beworking on: Fixing a broken immigrationsystem. (Applause.)When you think about this whole region, a lotof folks forget, but almost everybody who workedin that plant 100 years agocame from someplace else. And so weamp。rsquo。vegot now a new generation ofhopeful, striving immigrants。 weamp。rsquo。ve got to makesure that they e legally and that we dowhat we need to secure our borders,but weamp。rsquo。ve also got to make sure that weamp。rsquo。re providing themopportunity just likeyour parents, grandparents, greatgrandparents received when theyarrived atthis plant. And thatamp。rsquo。s important. (Applause.) And, by the way, it will help oureconomy grow because then theyamp。rsquo。repaying taxes and helping to invest and build here inAmerica.
　　We should do everything we can torevitalize American manufacturing. Manufacturing is thatamp。rsquo。s the hub of our economy. When our manufacturing base is strong, theentire economy isstrong. A lot ofservice jobs depend on servicing manufacturing jobs. And, typically,manufacturing jobs pay alittle bit better. So thatamp。rsquo。s been apath, a ticket to the middle we make steel and cars, make them here in America, that helps. Like I said, the workmay be hard but itgives you enough money to buy a home and raise a kid, retire and send yourkidsto school.
　　And those kinds of jobs also tellus something else. Itamp。rsquo。s not just howmuch you get in yourpaycheck, itamp。rsquo。s also a sense of, “。Iamp。rsquo。m making something andIamp。rsquo。m helping to build this country.”。Ithelps establish a