【正文】 ks whopay their premiumson time get jerked around. And weamp。rsquo。re not going to walk away from the 40 million Americanswithouthealth insurance. (Applause.) We are not going to gut this law. We will fix what needsto be fixed, but weamp。rsquo。regoing to make the Affordable Care Act work. And those who say theyamp。rsquo。reopposed to it and canamp。rsquo。t offer a solution, weamp。rsquo。llpush back. (Applause.)
　　I got to give your Governor alittle bit of credit. John Kasich, alongwith a lot of statelegislators who are here today, they expanded Medicaidunder the Affordable Care Act. Andthinkabout that. Just that one step means asmany as 275,000 Ohioans are going to have healthinsurance. And it doesnamp。rsquo。t depend on a website. Thatamp。rsquo。s already happening because oftheAffordable Care Act. (Applause.)
　　And I think itamp。rsquo。s fair to say thatthe Governor didnamp。rsquo。t do it because he just loves me so much. (Laughter.) We donamp。rsquo。t agree on much, but he saw, well, this makes sense why wouldnamp。rsquo。twe dothis? Why wouldnamp。rsquo。t we make surethat hundreds of thousands of people right here in Ohio havesomesecurity? It was the right thing todo. And, by the way, if every Republicangovernor didwhat Kasich did here rather than play politics about it, youamp。rsquo。dhave another million Americanswho could get access to health care nextyear, regardless of what happens with the amp。rsquo。s their decision not to do it. And itamp。rsquo。s the wrong decision. Theyamp。rsquo。ve got to go ahead andsign folks up.
　　So the bottom line is sometimeswe just have to set aside the politics and focus on whatamp。rsquo。sgood forpeople. Whatamp。rsquo。s good to grow our middleclass? Whatamp。rsquo。s going to help keep planslike thisgrowing? Whatamp。rsquo。s going to makesure weamp。rsquo。re putting more people back to work? Whatamp。rsquo。s going toreally make a difference in terms of our kids getting agreat education?
　　And, look, weamp。rsquo。ve done itbefore. Thatamp。rsquo。s the good news. The good news is that America is look, wemake mistakes. We have ourdifferences. Our politics get screwed donamp。rsquo。t worksometimes. (Laughter.) But we just keep going. We didnamp。rsquo。t bee thegreatest nation on Earthby accident. We did it because we didwhat it took to make sure ourfamilies could succeed, make sure our businessescould succeed, make sure our munitiescould succeed. And if you donamp。rsquo。t believe me, listen to one ofyour coworkers.
　　So Sherrod Brown, earlier thisyear, brought a special guest along with him to the State ofthe Union address one of your coworkers, Cookie Hall. Whereamp。rsquo。s Cookie? Is Cookie here?
　　AUDIENCE MEMBER: No, sheamp。rsquo。s back at the hall.
　　THE PRESIDENT: Sheamp。rsquo。s back at the hall working. (Laughter.) Well, let me say somethingnice about her behind her back. (Laughter.) So Cookie said, one of let me make sure I canfind this. She said that night she said, “。If I get achance to meet President Obama, Iamp。rsquo。ll tellhim my greatest pride is in our 2020production record at Cleveland Works. Weamp。rsquo。rethe mostproductive steelworkers in the world.”。 (Applause.) More than a ton ofsteel produced for everysingle one of the workers at this plant. Thatamp。rsquo。s pretty good. Thatamp。rsquo。s pretty good. (Applause.)
　　So all of you are an example ofwhat we do when we put our minds to it. This plant wasclosed for a while. We go through hard times. And alot of our friends are still going throughhard times. But when we work at it, we know we can get toa better place, and we can restoresome security to a middle class that wasforged in plants just like this one, and keep givingladders of opportunity forfolks who were willing to work hard to get into the middle amp。rsquo。s what Iamp。rsquo。m about. Thatamp。rsquo。s what this plant is about. Iamp。rsquo。m proud to be with you.
　　And as long as I have the honorof being your President, Iamp。rsquo。m going to be waking up everysingle day thinkingabout how I can keep on helping folks like the ones who work in thisplant. (Applause.)
　　God bless you. Thank you. God bless you, and God bless the United States of you.