【正文】 that we’re on the cutting edge of research and development。to safeguard Social Security for our seniors, people with disabilities, and all Americans – today, tomorrow, and , we’ve been talking for a long time about how to do that。when countries that outeducate us today will outpete us tomorrow, giving our kids the best education possible is an economic ’s why, from the start of my administration, we’ve been fighting to offer every child in this country a worldclass education – from the cradle to the classroom, from college through a this week, I announced a new Skills for America’s Future initiative that will help munity colleges and employers match what’s taught in the classroom with what’s needed in the private sector, so we can connect students looking for jobs with businesses looking to ’re eliminating tens of billions of dollars in wasteful subsidies for banks to administer student loans, and using that money to make college more affordable for millions of we’ve launched a Race to the Top in our states to make sure our students, all of them, are graduating from high school ready for college – so we can meet our goal of graduating a higher proportion of students from college than any other country in the world by yet, if Republicans in Congress had their way, we’d have a harder time meeting that ’d have a harder time offering our kids the best education they’d have us cut education by 20 percent – cuts that would reduce financial aid for eight million students。to help our small business owners grow and hire。to rebuild our economy so it lifts up a middle class that’s been battered for so even as we focus on doing all that。cuts that would leave our great and undervalued munity colleges without the resources they need to prepare our graduates for the jobs of the , it is true that when it es to our budget, we have real challenges to if we’re serious about getting our fiscal house in order, we’ll need to make some tough ’m prepared to make those what I’m not prepared to do is shortchange our children’s I’m not prepared to do is undercut their economic future, your economic future, or the economic future of the United States of would be more detrimental to our prospects for success than cutting back on would consign America to second place in our fiercely petitive global China and India aren’t playing for Korea and Germany aren’t playing for ’re playing for first – and so should the United States of of being shortsighted and shortchanging our kids, we should be doubling down on should be giving every child in America a chance to make the most of their lives。about how to make sure Social Security is healthy enough to cover the higher costs that are kicking in now that baby boomers are I’m mitted to working with anyone, Democrat or Republican, who wants to strengthen Social ’m also encouraged by the reports of serious bipartisan work being done on this and other issues in the fiscal mission that I set up several months thing we can’t afford to do though is privatize Social Security – an illconceived idea that would add trillions of dollars to our budget deficit while tying your benefits to the whims of Wall Street traders and the ups and downs of the stock few years ago, we had a debate about privatizing Social I’d have thought that debate would’ve been put to rest once and