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If we are to remain competitive we will have to do
more to develop our "human potential." To
put it in a more familiar way, we should help every
American to "be all he or she can be."
For some this means only providing a framework of opportunities
- for others it means more direct assistance in areas
such as education, health care, and retirement security.
And these are thirty year challenges -
- educating young people from preschool until they
are at their most productive,
- helping adults transition from job to job and profession
to profession during their adult lives;
- promoting physical vigor and good health through
public health measures,
- improved diagnostics,
- preventive health, and
- continuing health care to extend longevity and productivity
to our natural limits; and
- strengthening retirement security,
simply because it is right; first for our society to
assure that all its members who have contributed throughout
their lifetimes are assured a minimal standard of living,
and secondly to free the American worker and family
to concentrate on the challenges of today.
Such long-term challenges must be addressed right away,
with a new urgency.
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