【正文】 that everyone would understand why we need to be prudent about investing the retirement money of tens of millions of some Republican leaders in Congress don’t seem to have learned any lessons from the past few ’re pushing to make privatizing Social Security a key part of their legislative agenda if they win a majority in Congress this ’s right up there on their todo list with repealing some of the Medicare benefits and reforms that are adding at least a dozen years to the fiscal health of Medicare – the single longest extension in agenda is wrong for seniors, it’s wrong for America, and I won’t let it while I’m ’ll fight with everything I’ve got to stop those who would gamble your Social Security on Wall you shouldn’t be worried that a sudden downturn in the stock market will put all you’ve worked so hard for – all you’ve earned – at should have the peace of mind of knowing that after meeting your responsibilities and paying into the system all your lives, you’ll get the benefits you years ago today, Franklin Roosevelt made a promised that from that day forward, we’d offer – quote – “some measure of protection to the average citizen and to his family againstamp。s one thing that we can take from today39。s the contrary, we wele China as a strong and prosperous and successful member of the munity of nationsa China that draws on the rights, strengths, and creativity of individual Chinese like 6To return to the proverbconsider the know that more is to be gained when great powers cooperate than when they is a lesson that human beings have learned time and again, and that is the example of the history between our I believe strongly that cooperation must go beyond our must be rooted in our peoplein the studies we share, the business that we do, the knowledge that we gain, and even in the sports that we these bridges must be built by young men and women just like you and your counterparts in 39。s future in youyoung people whose talent and dedication and dreams will do so much to help shape the 21st 39。s largest Internet userwhich is why we were so pleased to include the Internet as a part of today39。and our faith in the are all things that you should know about also know that we have much to learn about around at this magnificent cityand looking around this roomI do believe that our nations hold something important in mon, and that is a belief in the the United States nor China is content to rest on our while China is an ancient nation, you are also clearly looking ahead with confidence, ambition, and a mitment to see that tomorrow39。t believe that the principles that we stand for are unique to our freedoms of expression and worshipof access to information and political participationwe believe are universal should be available to all people, including ethnic and religious minoritieswhether they are in the United States, China, or any , it is that respect for universal rights that guides America39。and that laws, and not simply men, should guarantee the administration of course, the story of our nation is not without its difficult many waysover many yearswe have struggled to advance the promise of these principles to all of our people, and to forge a more perfect fought a very painful civil war, and freed a portion of our population from took time for women to be extended the right to vote, workers to win the right to organize, and for immigrants from different corners of the globe to be fully after they were freed, African Americans persevered through conditions that were separate and not equal, before winning full and equal of this was we made progress because of our belief in those core principles, which have served as our pass through the darkest of is why Lincoln could stand up in the midst of civil war and declare it a struggle to see whether any nation, conceived in liberty, and “dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal” could long is why Luther King could stand on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and ask that our nation live out the true meaning of its 39。t be able to see a Shanghai Sharks game while I39。stopping the spread of nuclear weapons and the scourge of climate change。s ties to this cityand to this countrystretch back further, to the earliest days of America39。s journey to the 21st century, I39。m really looking forward to doing is taking questions, not only from students who are in the audience, but also we39。s President Yang for his hospitality and his gracious 39。if you refuse to settle for a politics where scoring points is more important than solving problems。men and women who worry that one accident or illness could drive them into I’ve heard from Americans with insurance who thought that “the uninsured” always referred to someone else – but between skyrocketing costs and insurance pany practices。they’re beginning to worry that they could find themselves uninsured ’s an anxiety that’s keeping more and more Americans awake at the last twelve months, nearly six million more Americans lost their health coverage – that’s 17,000 men and women every single ’re not just talking about Americans in poverty, either – we’re talking about middleclass other words, i