It is wonderful to be here in the Upper Peninsula with so many Yoopers. How many of you are Green Bay fans, too? I've been seeing too many Green Bay fans lately. 能来到上半岛与这么多尤珀人相聚，真是太好了。你们中有多少人也是绿湾包装工队的球迷？我最近看到太多绿湾球迷了。
It is great to be here. It is great to be at Northern Michigan University. We've got some wonderful guests here that I just want to mention. First of all, somebody who is as good a public servant, not just good at what he does but good at heart and works tirelessly on behalf of the entire state, your senior senator, Carl Levin, is here. 来到这里真是太好了。能在北密歇根大学真是太好了。这里有一些我想提到的尊贵客人。首先，有一位不仅工作出色，而且心地善良、为整个州不知疲倦地工作的优秀公仆，你们的资深参议员卡尔·莱文在这里。
Now, his partner in the Senate could not be here because she's actually leading a Democratic caucus retreat, but she's been fighting for manufacturing, for broadband, for a lot of things that we're talking about here today. So I just want to acknowledge Debbie Stabenow, who deeply cares about the work that you do up here. 现在，他的参议院搭档没能来，因为她正在主持民主党党团会议，但她一直在为制造业、宽带以及我们今天讨论的许多事情而奋斗。所以我想感谢黛比·斯塔贝诺，她深切关心你们在这里所做的工作。
I want to thank the great hospitality of Mayor John Kivela, who has been showing me around town. Thank you so much, Mayor Kivela. The President of Northern Michigan University, Dr. Les Wong, is here. And all of you are here. And you guys are pretty special. Absolutely. 我要感谢约翰·基维拉市长的热情款待，他一直带我参观这座城市。非常感谢您，基维拉市长。北密歇根大学校长莱斯·黄博士在这里。你们大家都在这里。你们真的很特别。绝对是。
Before I begin, I just want to say that we are following today's events in Egypt very closely. And we'll have more to say as this plays out. But what is absolutely clear is that we are witnessing history unfold. It's a moment of transformation that's taking place because the people of Egypt are calling for change. 在开始之前，我想说我们正在密切关注今天埃及的局势。随着事态发展，我们会发表更多声明。但非常清楚的是，我们正在见证历史的展开。这是一个转型的时刻，因为埃及人民正在呼唤变革。
And they've turned out in extraordinary numbers representing all ages and all walks of life, but it's young people who've been at the forefront -- a new generation, your generation, who want their voices to be heard. And so going forward, we want those young people and we want all Egyptians to know America will continue to do everything that we can to support an orderly and genuine transition to democracy in Egypt. 他们以非凡的数量出现，代表了各个年龄和各个阶层，但年轻人一直走在前沿——新一代，你们这一代，希望他们的声音被听到。因此，展望未来，我们希望这些年轻人和所有埃及人民知道，美国将继续尽我们所能支持埃及有序和真正的民主转型。
Now, as we watch what's taking place, we're also reminded that we live in an interconnected world. What happens across the globe has an impact on each and every one of us. And that's why I've come to Marquette today -- not only because it's beautiful, and the people are really nice -- which is true. 现在，在我们观看事态发展的同时，我们也提醒自己生活在一个相互联系的世界中。全球发生的事情对我们每个人都有影响。这就是我今天来到马凯特的原因——不仅仅因为这里美丽，人们也非常好——这是事实。
But I've come here because in the 21st century, it's not just the big cities where change is happening. It's also in towns like this where the jobs and businesses of tomorrow will take root, and where young and talented Americans can lead. It's towns like this where our economic future will be won. 但我来到这里是因为在21世纪，不仅仅是大城市在发生变革。像这样的城镇也将成为明天就业和企业扎根的地方，年轻有才华的美国人可以在这里引领未来。像这样的城镇将赢得我们的经济未来。
Now, in the short term, the best thing we can do to speed up economic growth is to make sure families and businesses have more money to spend, and that's exactly what -- got a little applause there. That's exactly why we passed those tax cuts in December. That's what it's doing. Because Democrats and Republicans came together, Americans' paychecks will be a little bigger this year and businesses will be able to write off their investments and companies will grow and they'll add workers. But we've got more to do. 短期内，加快经济增长的最佳方式是确保家庭和企业有更多钱可花，这正是——获得了一些掌声。这正是我们在十二月通过那些减税措施的原因。这就是它正在做的事情。因为民主党和共和党走到一起，美国人的薪水今年会稍微多一点，企业将能够注销他们的投资，公司将增长并增加工人。但我们还有更多要做。
Our measure of success has to be whether every American who wants a job can find a job; whether this country is still the place where you can make it if you try. In a world that's more connected and more competitive, other nations look at this moment as their moment, their turn to win the jobs and industries of our time. I see things differently. I see this as America's moment to win the future, so that the 21st century is the American century just like the 20th century was. Yes we can. 我们成功的衡量标准必须是：每个想要工作的美国人都能找到工作；这个国家是否仍然是你努力就能成功的地方。在一个更加联系和竞争更加激烈的世界里，其他国家把这个时刻视为他们的时刻，轮到他们赢得我们这个时代的就业和产业。我有不同的看法。我把它视为美国赢得未来的时刻，这样21世纪将成为美国的世纪，就像20世纪一样。是的，我们能做到。
But to do this, we're going to have to up our game, Marquette. We got to up our game. To attract the best jobs, the newest industries, we're going to have to out-innovate, out-educate, out-build. We're going to have to out-hustle the rest of the world. 但要做到这一点，我们必须提升我们的竞争力，马凯特。我们必须提升竞争力。为了吸引最好的工作、最新的产业，我们必须在创新、教育和建设方面超越他人。我们必须超越世界其他地方。
That means investing in cutting-edge research and technology, like the new advanced battery manufacturing industry that's taking root right here in the state of Michigan. It means investing in the skills and training of our people, just like it's taking place at this university. It means investing in transportation and communications networks that move goods and information as fast as possible. 这意味着投资于尖端研究和技术，就像正在密歇根州扎根的新型先进电池制造业一样。这意味着投资于人民的技能和培训，就像在这所大学进行的那样。意味着投资于尽可能快速运输货物和信息的交通和通信网络。
And to make room for these investments, we're going to have to cut whatever spending we can do without. We've got a real issue with debts and deficit, and so we've got to live within our means. And that means that we've got to cut out things that aren't adding to growth and opportunity in order to invest in those things that are. 为了腾出空间进行这些投资，我们必须削减一切可以削减的开支。我们确实面临债务和赤字问题，所以我们必须量入为出。这意味着我们必须削减那些不能促进增长和机会的东西，以便投资于那些能促进的东西。
And that's why I've proposed that we freeze annual domestic spending for the next five years. That will reduce the deficit by more than 400 billion dollars over the next decade. It will bring spending to the lowest share of our economy since Eisenhower was President. That's a long time ago. Even I wasn't born then. 这就是为什么我提议在未来五年冻结年度国内支出。这将在未来十年减少超过4000亿美元的赤字。它将使支出降至自艾森豪威尔总统以来占我们经济的最低比例。那是很久以前的事了。那时我甚至还没出生。
So government has to do what American families do every day: live within our means. But even as we do so, we can't sacrifice our future. I'll just give you guys an analogy. If you're trying to cut back in your family, you might decide, we're not going to go out to dinner so often; maybe we'll skip the vacation; we're not going to remodel the kitchen. But you wouldn't stop saving for your child's college education. You wouldn't stop saving for your own retirement. If your boiler was broken or your roof had a leak, you'd still go ahead and make those investments. 所以政府必须像美国家庭每天做的那样：量入为出。但即使这样做，我们也不能牺牲我们的未来。我给你们打个比方。如果你家在缩减开支，你可能会决定，我们不会那么经常出去吃饭；也许我们会跳过假期；我们不会重新装修厨房。但你不会停止为孩子的大学教育存钱。你不会停止为自己的退休存钱。如果你的锅炉坏了或者屋顶漏水，你仍然会进行这些投资。
Well, the same is true with our country. We've got to cut out the equivalence of eating out and vacations. I know there may be some restaurant owners here -- go eat at their restaurants -- but I'm just making a general point. Even as we cut out the things we can afford to do without, we got a responsibility to invest in those areas that will have the biggest impact on our future, and those things are innovation, education and infrastructure. 嗯，我们的国家也是如此。我们必须削减外出就餐和度假的开支。我知道这里可能有一些餐厅老板——去他们的餐厅吃饭——但我只是在做一个总体说明。即使我们削减那些我们可以负担得起的东西，我们也有责任投资于对我们未来影响最大的领域，那就是创新、教育和基础设施。
And that last area -- infrastructure -- is why I've come here today. Connecting a country of our size has never been easy. Just imagine what Americans experienced when they fanned out from 13 colonies to settle a continent. If you wanted to get from one coast to the other, it would take you months; it would cost you a small fortune. If you settled in the heartland, you were an island, with no real market to sell your goods or buy what you needed. You might have to wait until the traders came by before you stocked up. 最后一个领域——基础设施——这就是我今天来到这里的原因。连接像我们这样大的国家从来都不容易。想象一下美国人从13个殖民地扩展到定居整个大陆时的经历。如果你想从一个海岸到另一个海岸，可能需要几个月；花费你一大笔钱。如果你定居在内陆地区，你就成了一个孤岛，没有真正的市场来出售你的商品或购买你需要的东西。你可能不得不等到商人路过才能进货。
So we decided to build a railroad to span a continent -- one that would blast through mountains of granite and use thousands of miles of steel, and put to work an army of citizens and immigrants to work. It was an endeavor that would also require support of our government. It didn't just happen on its own. As General William T. Sherman said, "Uncle Sam is the only giant I know who can grapple the subject." 所以我们决定修建一条横贯大陆的铁路——一条能够穿越花岗岩山脉、使用数千英里钢铁的铁路，让一支公民和移民大军工作。这是一项也需要政府支持的事业。它不是自己发生的。正如威廉·谢尔曼将军所说："山姆大叔是我所知道的唯一能够抓住这个问题的巨人。"
So even as President Lincoln tried to hold the North and South together, he was determined to see this railroad unite East and West. And private companies joined the charge, racing one another to meet in the middle. And eventually, a telegraph operator sent out a simple message to the cheers of a waiting nation. The telegraph just said: "Done." Done. Now, if he knew that we were still talking about it today, he might have come up with something more inspiring. 所以，即使林肯总统试图维持北方和南方的统一，他也决心看到这条铁路连接东方和西方。私营公司加入了这场竞赛，相互竞争以在中间会合。最终，一位电报员向等待的国家发出了一个简单的信息。电报只说："完成了。"完成了。现在，如果他知道我们今天还在谈论这件事，他可能会想出一些更鼓舞人心的话。
But overnight, the transcontinental railroad laid the way for a nationwide economy, not a bunch of local economies, but a nationwide economy. Suddenly, a cross-country trip was cut from months to days. The cost to move goods and mail plummeted. Cowboys drove cattle to railcars that whisked them back East. Entrepreneurs could sell anything, anywhere. 但一夜之间，横贯大陆的铁路为全国性经济奠定了基础，不是一堆地方经济，而是一个全国性经济。突然间，跨国家旅行从几个月缩短到几天。运输货物和邮件的成本急剧下降。牛仔将牛赶到铁路车厢，快速运回东部。企业家可以在任何地方销售任何东西。
After the railroad was completed, a newspaper proclaimed: "We are the youngest of peoples. But we are teaching the world to march forward." Teaching the world to march forward. 铁路建成后，一家报纸宣称："我们是最年轻的民族。但我们正在教导世界前进。"教导世界前进。
That's who we are. We are a nation that has always been built to compete. And that's why, decades later, FDR set up the Rural Electrification Administration to help bring power to vast swaths of America that were still in darkness. Companies said that building lines to rural areas would be too costly. I mean, big cities already had electricity. But they said, it's too costly to go out into remote areas. It's too costly to come up into the Upper Peninsula. 这就是我们。我们是一个始终为竞争而生的国家。这就是为什么几十年后，罗斯福设立了农村电气化管理局，帮助将电力带到美国仍然处于黑暗中的大片地区。公司说建设通往农村地区的线路成本太高。我是说，大城市已经有电了。但他们说，延伸到偏远地区成本太高。延伸到上半岛成本太高。
So Americans in these towns went without refrigeration or running water. If you wanted a glimpse of the larger world, your town might run a movie off a small diesel engine. It might not even last the full film. 所以这些城镇的美国人没有冰箱或自来水。如果你想看看更大的世界，你的城镇可能会用一台小型柴油发电机放映电影。它甚至可能撑不到整部电影。
Once power lines were laid down, electricity flowed to farms across the country, transforming millions of lives. There's a well-known story of a Texas family returning home the first night their farmhouse was hooked up, and a woman thought it was on fire. And her daughter said, "No, Mama, the lights are on." Think about that. 一旦电力线铺设完毕，电力就流向了全国各地的农场，改变了数百万人的生活。有一个著名的故事，一个德克萨斯家庭在他们农舍通电的第一个晚上回家，一位女人以为房子着火了。她的女儿说："不，妈妈，灯亮了。"想想看。
That wasn't that long ago, and government was there to help make sure that everybody -- everybody, not just some -- but everybody -- not just those who folks could make an immediate profit off of -- but everybody had access to electricity. 那不是很久以前的事，政府在那里帮助确保每个人——每个人，不仅仅是部分人——但每个人——不仅仅是那些能立即获利的人——但每个人都能用上电。
So years later, as our nation grew by leaps and bounds, we realized that a patchwork system of back roads and dirt paths couldn't handle the biggest economy in the world. So President Eisenhower helped make it possible to build an Interstate Highway System, and that, too, transformed the nation -- as much as the railways had. 所以多年后，随着我们国家的飞速发展，我们意识到一个由土路和泥路拼凑的系统无法承载世界上最大的经济体。所以艾森豪威尔总统帮助建设了州际公路系统，这也改变了国家——就像铁路一样。
And finally, we could ship goods and services to places that the railroads didn't reach. It meant that we could live apart from where we worked. We could travel. We could see America. 最终，我们可以将货物和服务运送到铁路无法到达的地方。这意味着我们可以住在远离工作的地方。我们可以旅行。我们可以看到美国。
Each of these achievements -- none of them just happened. We chose to do them. We chose to do big things. And every American benefited -- not just from new conveniences. Not just from the jobs created by laying down new lines or tracks or pavement. We benefited enormously from new economic growth -- from the scores of businesses that opened near each town's new train station, or new power line, or new off-ramp. 这些成就中的每一项——没有一项是自然发生的。我们选择去做它们。我们选择做大事。每个美国人都受益了——不仅仅是从新的便利中。不仅仅是从铺设新线路或轨道或路面创造的工作中。我们从新的经济增长中获益匪浅——从每个城镇新火车站、新电力线或新匝道附近开业的众多企业中。
So this is a new century, and we can't expect tomorrow's economy to take root using yesterday's infrastructure. We got to think about what's the next thing, what's the next big thing, and make sure that we're at the forefront -- just like we were in the last century. 所以这是一个新世纪，我们不能期望明天的经济使用昨天的基础设施扎根。我们必须思考下一个是什么，下一个大事是什么，确保我们处于前沿——就像上个世纪一样。
Today, new companies are going to seek out the fastest, most reliable ways to move people, goods and information, whether they are in Shanghai or in Chicago. So if we want new jobs and businesses here in America, we've got to have the best transportation system and the best communication network in the world. It's like that movie, Field of Dreams: If we build it, they will come. But we've got to build it. We've got to build it. 今天，新公司将寻求最快、最可靠的方式来运输人员、货物和信息，无论他们在上海还是在芝加哥。所以如果我们想要新的就业机会和企业在美国，我们必须拥有世界上最好的交通系统和最好的通信网络。就像那部电影《梦幻之地》：如果我们建造它，他们就会来。但我们必须建造它。我们必须建造它。
Over the last two years, we've begun rebuilding for the 21st century. This is a national project that has meant thousands of jobs for the hard-hit construction industry. And I've now proposed redoubling these efforts. We want to put more Americans to work repairing crumbling bridges and roads. Within 25 years, our goal is to have 80 percent of Americans with access to high-speed rail, which could allow you to go to places in half the time it takes by car. Within five years, we want to make it possible for businesses to put high-speed wireless services in reach of virtually every American. 在过去的两年里，我们已经开始为21世纪重建。这是一个国家项目，为遭受重创的建筑业带来了数千个工作岗位。我现在提议加倍努力。我们想让更多美国人参与修复破旧的桥梁和道路。在25年内，我们的目标是让80%的美国人能够使用高速铁路，这可以让你以汽车一半的时间到达目的地。在五年内，我们希望使企业能够将高速无线服务覆盖到几乎每个美国人。
And that last part, high-speed wireless, is why I chose to come to Northern Michigan University today. Now let me give you some context. Today, more than 90 percent of homes in South Korea subscribe to high-speed broadband. They just have better networks than we do. 最后这部分，高速无线，就是我今天选择来到北密歇根大学的原因。让我给你们一些背景信息。今天，韩国超过90%的家庭订阅了高速宽带。他们的网络就是比我们好。
In America, the nation that created the Internet -- by the way, because of government investment; it didn't just happen by itself magically -- because of government R&D, we created the Internet, but yet only 65 percent of households here in America can say the same. When it comes to high-speed Internet, the lights are still off in one-third of our households. One out of every three households in America don't have that same access. For millions of Americans, the railway hasn't showed up yet. 在美国，这个创造了互联网的国家——顺便说一下，因为政府投资；它不是自己神奇地发生的——因为政府研发，我们创造了互联网，但美国只有65%的家庭能这样说。当涉及到高速互联网时，我们三分之一的家庭仍然处于黑暗中。美国每三个家庭中就有一个没有同样的接入。对数百万美国人来说，铁路还没有出现。
For our families and our businesses, high-speed wireless service, that's the next train station; it's the next off-ramp. It's how we'll spark new innovation, new investment, new jobs. 对我们的家庭和企业来说，高速无线服务，那是下一个火车站；那是下一个匝道。它将激发新的创新、新的投资、新的就业机会。
And you know this here in Northern Michigan. That's why I showed up, in addition to it being pretty and people being nice. For decades now, this university has given a new laptop to every incoming student. Wi-Fi stretched across campus. But if you lived off-campus, like most students and teachers here, you were largely out of luck. Broadband was often too expensive to afford. 你们在北密歇根知道这一点。这就是我出现的原因，除了这里漂亮、人好之外。几十年来，这所大学为每位新生提供一台新笔记本电脑。校园覆盖了Wi-Fi。但如果你住在校外，像这里大多数学生和老师一样，你基本上没有运气。宽带往往太贵了。
And if you lived a bit further out of town, you were completely out of luck, because broadband providers, they often won't build networks where it's not profitable, just like they wouldn't build electrical lines where it wasn't profitable. 如果你住得离城更远一点，你就完全没有运气了，因为宽带提供商往往不会在无利可图的地方建设网络，就像他们不会在无利可图的地方建设电力线一样。
So this university tried something new. You partnered with various companies to build a high-speed, next-generation wireless network. And you managed to install it with six people in only four days without raising tuition. Good job. Good job, Mr. President. By the way, if you give me the name of these six people -- there's a whole bunch of stuff in Washington I'd like to see done in four days with six people. 所以这所大学尝试了一些新东西。你与各家公司合作建设了一个高速、下一代无线网络。你只用六个人在四天内就安装好了，而且没有提高学费。干得好。干得好，校长。顺便说一下，如果你告诉我这六个人的名字——华盛顿有一大堆事情我希望六个人在四天内完成。
So today, this is one of America's most connected universities, and enrollment is near the highest it's been in 30 years. 所以今天，这是美国连接最好的大学之一，入学率接近30年来的最高水平。
And what's more -- and this is what makes this special -- you told nearby towns that if they allowed you to retrofit their towers with new equipment to expand your network, then their schools, their first responders, their city governments could use it too. And as a result, police officers can access crime databases in their cars. And firefighters can download blueprints on the way to a burning building. And public works officials can save money by monitoring pumps and equipment remotely. 更重要的是——这正是特别之处——你告诉附近的城镇，如果他们允许你用新设备改造他们的塔来扩展网络，那么他们的学校、急救人员、市政府也可以使用它。结果，警察可以在车里访问犯罪数据库。消防员可以在去着火建筑的路上下载蓝图。公共工程官员可以通过远程监控泵和设备来节省资金。
And you've created new online learning opportunities for K-12 students as far as 30 miles away, some of whom -- some of whom can't always make it to school in a place that averages 200 inches of snow a year. Now, some of these students don't appreciate the end of school [snow] days. I know Malia and Sasha get really excited about school [snow] days. Of course, in Washington things shut down when there's an inch of snow. But this technology is giving them more opportunity. It's good for their education, it's good for our economy. 你为30英里范围内的K-12学生创造了新的在线学习机会，其中一些人——一些人在一个平均每年降雪200英寸的地方不能总是上学。现在，一些学生不喜欢学校下雪天的结束。我知道玛利亚和萨沙对学校下雪天非常兴奋。当然，在华盛顿，一英寸的雪就会让一切停摆。但这项技术给了他们更多机会。这对他们的教育有好处，对我们的经济有好处。
In fact, I just came from a demonstration of online learning in action. We were with Professor Lubig and he had plugged in Negaunee High School -- and Powell Township School in Big Bay. So I felt like the guy in Star Trek. I was being beamed around -- across the Upper Peninsula here. But it was remarkable to see the possibilities for these young people who are able to, let's say, do a chemistry experiment, and they can compare the results with kids in Boston. 事实上，我刚从一个在线学习演示中回来。我们和卢比格教授在一起，他接入了尼格尼高中——和大湾的鲍威尔镇学校。所以我感觉像《星际迷航》里的人。我被传送到了上半岛各地。但看到这些年轻人的可能性真是了不起，他们能够，比如说，做一个化学实验，并且可以和波士顿的孩子们比较结果。
Or if there's some learning tool or material they don't have immediately accessible in their school, they can connect here to the university, and they're able to tap into it. 或者如果他们学校没有立即可用的学习工具或材料，他们可以连接到大学，就能够利用它。
It's opening up an entire world to them. And one of the young people who I was talking to, he talked about foreign policy and what we were seeing in places like Egyptian. And he said, what's amazing especially for us is that now we have a window to the entire world, and we can start understanding other cultures and other places in ways that we could never do without this technology. 这为他们打开了一个完整的世界。和我交谈的一位年轻人谈到了外交政策和我们在埃及等地看到的情况。他说，对我们来说特别令人惊奇的是，我们现在有了通向整个世界的窗口，我们可以开始以没有这项技术时无法做到的方式理解其他文化和其他地方。
For local businesses, broadband access is helping them grow and prosper and compete in a global economy. In fact, Marquette has been rated one of the top five "eCities" in Michigan for entrepreneurship. That's right. 对当地企业来说，宽带接入帮助它们在全球经济中成长、繁荣和竞争。事实上，马凯特被评为密歇根州前五大"电子城市"之一，用于创业。没错。
So here's a great example, Getz's Clothiers. The Getzes are here. Where are the Getzes? They're around here somewhere. There they are right there. 这是一个很好的例子，格茨服装店。格茨一家在这里。格茨一家在哪里？他们在这里 somewhere。他们就在那里。
This is a third-generation, family-owned, Marquette institution. They've occupied the same downtown store for more than a century -- but with the help of broadband, they were recently listed as one of America's 5,000 fastest-growing companies. Now how did they pull that off? 这是一个第三代、家族拥有的马凯特机构。他们在同一家市中心商店经营了一个多世纪——但在宽带的帮助下，他们最近被列入美国5000家增长最快的公司。他们是怎么做到的？
Obviously they've got great products, great service. But what's also true is online sales now make up more than two-thirds of their annual revenue. Think about that. You got a downtown department store; now two-thirds of its sales are online. It can process more than 1,000 orders a day, and its workforce has more than doubled. So you've got a local business with a global footprint because of technology. 显然他们有很好的产品，很好的服务。但同样真实的是，在线销售额现在占他们年收入的三分之二以上。想想看。你有一家市中心百货商店；现在三分之二的销售额来自线上。它每天可以处理1000多个订单，其员工人数增加了一倍多。所以你有一个因为技术而拥有全球足迹的当地企业。
Now, if you can do this in snowy U.P. -- we can do it all across America. In fact, many places already are. So in Wagner, South Dakota, patients can receive high-quality, lifesaving medical care from a Sioux Falls specialist who can monitor their EKG and listen to their breathing -- from 100 miles away. 现在，如果你能在多雪的上半岛做到这一点——我们可以在全美国做到这一点。事实上，许多地方已经在做了。所以在南达科他州的瓦格纳，患者可以从100英里外的苏福尔斯专家那里获得高质量、挽救生命的医疗护理，专家可以监测他们的心电图并听他们的呼吸。
In Ten Sleep, Wyoming -- I love the name of that town, Ten Sleep -- it's a town in Wyoming of 300 people. A fiber-optic network allowed a company to employ several hundred teachers who teach English to students in Asia over the Internet, 24 hours a day. You've all heard about outsourcing. Well, this is "insourcing" -- where overseas work is done right here in the United States of America. 在怀俄明州的十眠镇——我喜欢那个城镇的名字，十眠——它是怀俄明州一个300人的小镇。光纤网络使一家公司能够雇用数百名教师，通过互联网24小时向亚洲学生教授英语。你们都听说过外包。嗯，这是"内包"——海外工作就在美国这里完成。
So we want to multiply these stories -- we want to multiply your story -- all over the country. We want to invest in the next generation of high-speed wireless coverage for 98 percent of Americans. 所以我们想要复制这些故事——我们想要复制你们的故事——遍及全国。我们想要投资于下一代高速无线覆盖，为98%的美国人服务。
This isn't just about faster Internet or being able to find a friend on Facebook. It's about connecting every corner of America to the digital age. It's about a rural community in Iowa or Alabama where farmers can monitor weather across the state and market across the globe. It's about an entrepreneur on Main Street with a great idea she hopes to sell to the big city. It's about every young person who no longer has to leave his hometown to seek new opportunity -- because opportunity is right there at his or her fingertips. 这不仅仅是关于更快的互联网或能在Facebook上找到朋友。这是关于将美国的每个角落连接到数字时代。这是关于爱荷华州或阿拉巴马州的农村社区，农民可以监测全州的天气并在全球市场销售。这是关于主街上的一位企业家，她有一个好点子希望卖给大城市。这是关于每个年轻人不再需要离开家乡寻找新机会——因为机会就在他或她的指尖。
So to make this happen, we're going to invest in research and development of emerging technologies and applications. We're going to accelerate breakthroughs in health and education and transportation, and deploy a new nationwide, interoperable wireless network for first responders. 为了让这成为现实，我们将投资于新兴技术和应用的研发。我们将加速健康、教育和交通方面的突破，并部署一个新的全国性、可互操作的无线网络供急救人员使用。
We're making sure they've got the funding and the frequencies that they were promised and that they need to keep us safe. It's important. By selling private companies the rights to these airwaves, we won't just encourage private investment and expand wireless access; we're actually going to bring in revenues that lower our deficits. 我们确保他们获得承诺的资金和频率，以及保护我们安全所需的东西。这很重要。通过向私营公司出售这些频谱的权利，我们不仅会鼓励私人投资和扩大无线接入；我们实际上会带来降低赤字的收入。
Now, access to high-speed Internet by itself won't make a business more successful, or a student smarter, or a citizen more informed. That takes hard work. It takes those late nights. It takes hustle. It takes that quintessentially American drive to be the best. That's what's the most important ingredient for our success. 现在，高速互联网本身不会让企业更成功，或让学生更聪明，或让公民更知情。这需要努力工作。需要那些深夜。需要奋斗。需要那种典型的美国动力成为最好的。这是我们成功的最重要因素。
But we've always believed that we have a responsibility to guarantee all our people every tool necessary for them to meet their full potential. So if they're willing to work hard, they can succeed. And in a 21st-century economy, that has never been more important. Every American deserves access to the world's information. Every American deserves access to the global economy. We have promised this for 15 years. It's time we delivered on that promise. It's time we delivered on that promise. 但我们一直相信，我们有责任保障所有人获得充分发挥潜力所需的一切工具。所以如果他们愿意努力工作，他们就能成功。在21世纪的经济中，这从未如此重要。每个美国人都应该有权获取世界信息。每个美国人都应该有权进入全球经济。我们承诺这一点已经15年了。是时候兑现这个承诺了。是时候兑现这个承诺了。
So connecting our people. Competing with the rest of the world. Living within our means without sacrificing what's required to win the future. We can do all this because we've done it before. 所以连接我们的人民。与世界其他地方竞争。在不牺牲赢得未来所需的情况下量入为出。我们能做到这一切，因为我们以前做过。
In 1960, at the height of his presidential campaign, JFK came to Michigan. And it was a moment similar to this one. Other nations were doing their best to try to take our place at the top. And here in Michigan, he made it clear that if we wanted to keep from being knocked off our perch, there could only be one goal for the United States. It could be summed up in one word: "first." First. 1960年，在总统竞选的高潮，肯尼迪来到了密歇根。那是一个类似于现在的时刻。其他国家正在尽最大努力试图取代我们的位置。在这里，在密歇根，他明确表示，如果我们不想被赶下台，美国只能有一个目标。可以用一个词来概括："第一。"第一。
"I do not mean first, but," he said. "I don't mean first, when. I don't mean first, if. I mean first -- period." And "The real question now," he continued, "The real question," he continued, "is whether we're up to the task -- whether each and every one of us is willing to face the facts, to bear the burdens, to provide the risks, and to meet our dangers." That was 50 years ago. But things haven't changed in terms of what's required to succeed. "我不是说第一，但是，"他说。"我不是说第一，当。我不是说第一，如果。我是说第一——句号。"他继续说，"现在真正的问题是，"他继续说，"是我们是否能胜任这项任务——我们每个人是否愿意面对事实，承担负担，提供风险，面对危险。"那是50年前。但就成功所需而言，事情并没有改变。
And we were up to the task then. I believe we're up to the task today. Time and again, whether westward or skyward, with each rail and road that we've laid, in every community, we've connected with our own science and imagination, and we forged anew our faith that we can do anything. We do big things. That's who we are. And that's who we're going to have to be again -- a young nation that teaches the world to march forward. 那时我们能胜任这项任务。我相信我们今天也能胜任这项任务。一次又一次，无论是向西还是向天空，随着我们铺设的每一条铁路和道路，在每个社区，我们用自己的科学和想象力连接起来，我们重新锻造了我们能做任何事情的信念。我们做大事。这就是我们。这就是我们再次需要成为的——一个教导世界前进的年轻国家。
That's what you're doing up here in U.P. That's what you're doing here at Northern Michigan University. That's what we're all going to do together in the months and years to come. 这就是你们在上半岛正在做的事情。这就是你们在北密歇根大学正在做的事情。这就是我们在未来几个月和几年中将要一起做的事情。
Thank you. God bless you. God bless the United States of America. 谢谢你们。上帝保佑你们。上帝保佑美利坚合众国。
