US Presidency
2013

I need you involved in this debate to remind Washington what's at stake. And over the next several weeks, in towns just like this one, I am going to lay out my ideas for how we build on the cornerstones of what it means to be middle class, what it takes to work your way into the middle class a good job with good wages in durable, growing industries; a good education for our kids and our workers; a home to call your own; affordable health care that's there for you when you or your family members get sick a secure retirement even if you're not rich more ladders of opportunity for people who want to earn their way into the middle class as long as they're willing to work for it. And what we need what we need is not a three month plan, or even a three year plan we need a long term plan based on steady, persistent effort to reverse the forces that have conspired against middle class families for decades.