terms of making schools more competitive. this program initiative, the president just put in the last year-and-a-half and got through congress. a lot of money going to schools all around the country. but also, the president wants a heavy emphasis in this speech on actual college completion. he's going to talk about how one of the problems is a lot of people start college in the united states, but don't finish it. and so he wants to attack that in a number of levels. first of all, dealing with making sure community colleges are strong, it's not counting on all of the major, you know, ivy league schools, for example, to bail the u.s. out. you've got to look all across the spectrum, but another important issue you have talked about before is college affordability, challenging administrators around the country to lower some of those costs, and he's going to also talk about what he's trying to do to make college more affordable. cutting down the cost on student loans, for example, ali. >> and they have done that. this administration has done that. but as you point out, this has been going on for a while. these -- this decline in young