But America has not provided it – a point recently made by Jeb Bush, a leading contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016. “In our country today,” Bush said in a speech to fellow conservatives, “if you’re born poor, if your parents didn’t go to college, if you don’t know your father, if English isn’t spoken at home, then the odds are stacked against you.”
那些无法从家庭中获取人生良好开端的儿童应该得到帮助。但美国却没能提供这种帮助——共和党2016年总统提名人竞争的领先者杰布·布什（Jeb Bush）最近提出了这一点。“现在在我们国家，”布什在对党内保守派的演讲中提到，“如果你出生在贫穷的家庭，如果你的父母没上过大学，如果你连自己的父亲是谁都不知道，如果你家里不说英语，那么你成功的机会就很渺茫。”