WEBVTT 00:06.940 --> 00:08.980 please welcome the president of the 00:08.980 --> 00:12.060 United States Joe biden 00:12.440 --> 00:15.350 accompanied by Shane Cali . 00:17.140 --> 00:18.140 Mhm 00:24.140 --> 00:26.450 Yeah . Mhm 00:30.240 --> 00:31.050 Yeah . Okay . 00:40.540 --> 00:41.540 Mhm 00:50.340 --> 00:52.340 Good evening . I'd like to start by 00:52.340 --> 00:54.507 saying it's an honor to be with all of 00:54.507 --> 00:56.673 you here today . My name is Shane Cali 00:57.120 --> 00:59.960 And I'm a 4th generation union iron 00:59.960 --> 01:03.450 worker . Okay . 01:06.740 --> 01:08.740 I was born and raised right here in 01:08.740 --> 01:11.270 Scranton , not Green Ridge but west 01:11.270 --> 01:15.040 side . I'm a proud member of 01:15.040 --> 01:17.760 ironworkers local 404 and I've worked 01:17.760 --> 01:20.510 on many projects all over the northeast 01:20.510 --> 01:24.490 during my 15 years in the trade . I'm a 01:24.490 --> 01:26.750 married man and the proud father of two 01:26.750 --> 01:30.630 daughters ages 14 and two and a four 01:30.630 --> 01:32.680 year old son . I'm invested in my 01:32.680 --> 01:35.070 community and I serve as a township 01:35.070 --> 01:37.350 auditor and ransom township and I'm a 01:37.350 --> 01:40.190 proud member of the ST Patrick's Parade 01:40.190 --> 01:42.260 Day Association of lackawanna County 01:43.840 --> 01:46.090 President biden's build back better 01:46.090 --> 01:48.270 agenda is important for working 01:48.270 --> 01:51.630 families just like mine in pennsylvania 01:51.640 --> 01:54.350 and across the country we work hard for 01:54.360 --> 01:56.700 every dollar that we earn . But some 01:56.700 --> 01:58.930 days it feels like the odds are stacked 01:58.930 --> 02:02.570 against us . The historic 02:02.580 --> 02:04.469 infrastructure investments in the 02:04.469 --> 02:07.180 bipartisan infrastructure deal would 02:07.180 --> 02:09.590 put food on my family's table for years 02:09.590 --> 02:13.010 to come . But President biden's broader 02:13.020 --> 02:16.330 vision , I would go further . The build 02:16.340 --> 02:18.690 back better act addresses the rising 02:18.690 --> 02:21.750 cost of all child care and elder care , 02:22.140 --> 02:24.196 which would help ensure that both my 02:24.196 --> 02:26.350 young son , my daughters and my aging 02:26.350 --> 02:29.720 parents are taken care of with dignity . 02:29.730 --> 02:33.690 Grace and understanding My wife 02:33.690 --> 02:35.746 is going to school for nursing . But 02:35.746 --> 02:38.760 with three kids and both of us working . 02:39.220 --> 02:41.387 It's tough to find enough hours in the 02:41.387 --> 02:44.570 day joe biden's american rescue plan 02:44.570 --> 02:47.450 gave us an expanded child tax credit 02:47.840 --> 02:50.350 which helps us to cover the cost of two 02:50.350 --> 02:53.450 weeks of childcare every single month . 02:54.240 --> 02:56.407 This has given my wife the flexibility 02:56.407 --> 02:58.760 to devote more time to her studies . 02:59.540 --> 03:02.380 President Biden's build back better act 03:02.420 --> 03:04.850 would extend the child tax credit and 03:04.850 --> 03:07.570 invest more in child care helping my 03:07.570 --> 03:10.360 family and families just like mine . 03:10.840 --> 03:13.007 With this help my wife and others like 03:13.007 --> 03:15.050 her will be able to pursue their 03:15.050 --> 03:17.760 passion for helping others and fill a 03:17.760 --> 03:20.400 role in health care that our community 03:20.410 --> 03:23.710 desperately needs . Right now my wife 03:23.710 --> 03:26.000 and I have talked about the possibility 03:26.340 --> 03:29.260 of having more Children one day but 03:29.640 --> 03:32.390 like millions of americans I only get 03:32.390 --> 03:35.370 paid for the days I lace my boots up 03:35.380 --> 03:37.990 and go to work . I have zero paid time 03:37.990 --> 03:41.090 off for the birth of a new child . But 03:41.090 --> 03:43.720 the paid family leave called for in the 03:43.720 --> 03:46.000 build back better act would give my 03:46.000 --> 03:48.650 wife and I the ability to plan for 03:48.650 --> 03:50.817 another child with less worrying about 03:50.817 --> 03:53.070 making ends meet we'll be able to focus 03:53.070 --> 03:57.010 on what truly matters . Our family and 03:57.010 --> 03:59.650 without further ado is my honor and my 03:59.650 --> 04:02.390 privilege to introduce to all of you 04:02.400 --> 04:04.511 the President of the United States of 04:04.511 --> 04:05.622 America joe biden . 04:08.340 --> 04:12.050 Mhm . We do . Mhm . 04:12.840 --> 04:16.570 Hello . Hello . Hello . 04:16.580 --> 04:19.050 It's good to be 04:19.050 --> 04:22.540 home . Yeah , 04:23.740 --> 04:25.962 thank you all please please be seated . 04:27.040 --> 04:28.762 I just want you know we have a 04:29.340 --> 04:32.400 tradition and the biden Finning and 04:32.400 --> 04:35.190 family when you see relatives you go 04:35.190 --> 04:37.412 see them first . These are my relatives 04:37.412 --> 04:38.634 in the front row here 04:40.940 --> 04:44.350 and spend an awful lot of time 04:45.040 --> 04:47.950 across from ST paul's church at my 04:47.950 --> 04:50.120 uncle Jack Finnegan's house . His 04:50.120 --> 04:53.930 daughters are here and he was 04:53.940 --> 04:57.830 taught up at the U . And I just 04:57.830 --> 05:00.510 want you to know that Amtrak is here . 05:00.510 --> 05:02.760 They can tell you you could you should 05:02.760 --> 05:06.120 name half the line after me . I am the 05:06.120 --> 05:08.120 most railroad guy you're ever gonna 05:08.120 --> 05:11.660 meet 2,100,000 miles on Amtrak 05:12.340 --> 05:15.860 Hear me now not a joke . What happened 05:15.860 --> 05:19.600 was when you are a 05:19.610 --> 05:22.020 president or vice president . They keep 05:22.020 --> 05:24.680 meticulous mileage of when you fly an 05:24.680 --> 05:28.620 Air force aircraft and so about I guess 05:28.620 --> 05:31.850 it was seven years in 05:32.340 --> 05:36.000 to my tenure as vice president . And I 05:36.000 --> 05:38.700 used to always like to uh take Amtrak 05:38.700 --> 05:40.867 home on friday . My I tried to go home 05:40.867 --> 05:42.978 and see my mom who was living with us 05:42.978 --> 05:45.089 at time after my dad passed and I try 05:45.089 --> 05:47.610 to get home and the Secret Service are 05:47.610 --> 05:49.610 wonderful . They're the best in the 05:49.610 --> 05:51.610 world . They never liked me take an 05:51.610 --> 05:53.721 Amtrak because it stops too often and 05:53.721 --> 05:55.777 too many people get on and you don't 05:55.777 --> 05:58.400 know . And uh but I also there is uh 05:58.410 --> 06:01.460 but I turned out I was about number 06:01.840 --> 06:04.007 three and seniority on the road at the 06:04.007 --> 06:06.010 time . If you know well in terms of 06:06.010 --> 06:09.180 actual time on the road and a lot of 06:09.180 --> 06:11.570 the folks and Amtrak became my family . 06:11.610 --> 06:14.550 Not a joke . I'd ride every day . I I 06:14.550 --> 06:18.240 commuted every single day for 36 years 06:18.240 --> 06:20.407 as President . Vice President , United 06:20.407 --> 06:22.407 States . After my wife and daughter 06:22.407 --> 06:24.407 were killed , I went home to see my 06:24.407 --> 06:26.629 family never stopped going doing that . 06:26.629 --> 06:30.440 And uh so uh Angelo negri was from 06:30.450 --> 06:32.820 remember Anche and she came up to me 06:32.820 --> 06:35.400 one day when I was , when they just had 06:35.400 --> 06:38.920 announced that I had flown one 06:38.920 --> 06:42.270 million some x number of miles on Air 06:42.270 --> 06:44.780 Force aircraft . And the answer comes 06:44.780 --> 06:46.836 up and I'm getting in the car and it 06:46.836 --> 06:48.891 goes Joey baby , what do you ? And I 06:48.891 --> 06:51.058 thought the Secret Service is going to 06:51.058 --> 06:50.950 shoot him . I said no , no . Normally 06:50.950 --> 06:53.283 it's good . It's good . It's your story . 06:53.940 --> 06:56.850 And he said , I just read a big deal , 06:57.440 --> 06:59.500 big deal , whatever was a million , 06:59.500 --> 07:02.610 200,000 miles Air Force , you know how 07:02.610 --> 07:05.230 many miles you did Amtrak ? I said no . 07:05.230 --> 07:07.286 And I don't have any idea , pal . He 07:07.286 --> 07:09.508 said , let me tell you , we were at the 07:09.508 --> 07:11.674 retirement dinner and he said , we add 07:11.674 --> 07:13.619 it up . You average the hunter . I 07:13.619 --> 07:16.390 think it says 21 days a year . 121 days . 07:16.390 --> 07:18.668 You're 36 years plus as vice president . 07:18.668 --> 07:20.723 Boom , boom . You have traveled over 07:20.723 --> 07:22.890 two million miles joe I don't hear any 07:22.890 --> 07:26.090 more about the Air Force uh huh But in 07:26.090 --> 07:28.330 the bill back better plan . I got more 07:28.330 --> 07:30.219 money for passenger rail than the 07:30.219 --> 07:32.570 entire Amtrak system cost to begin with . 07:32.580 --> 07:34.747 We're gonna change the nation in a big 07:34.747 --> 07:38.050 way . 07:38.060 --> 07:40.100 I want to thank you for the 07:40.100 --> 07:42.360 introduction . I really do . And uh , 07:42.640 --> 07:44.807 Madam Mayor page , you've done a great 07:44.807 --> 07:46.862 job . Great , great job . Not really 07:46.862 --> 07:49.800 mean it . I'm a big fan and I , she , 07:50.240 --> 07:54.020 when I got elected mr God's truth 07:54.020 --> 07:56.190 after I checked on what the margin was 07:56.190 --> 07:58.357 in the state of Delaware , I called up 07:58.357 --> 08:01.300 here . She had won that year too and I 08:01.300 --> 08:05.280 found out that I won every precinct in 08:05.280 --> 08:07.830 Scranton and I looked up as a mom . I 08:07.840 --> 08:10.850 did it . I did it look 08:12.140 --> 08:14.640 it's great to be here . It's great to 08:14.640 --> 08:17.400 be here in pennsylvania with a very 08:17.400 --> 08:19.456 close friend , become a close friend 08:19.456 --> 08:21.622 and a great governor . Governor Wolf . 08:21.622 --> 08:24.340 It's good to see you God and matt , 08:24.350 --> 08:26.406 thank you for the passport to let me 08:26.406 --> 08:29.760 back into the district . And you know , 08:30.240 --> 08:33.280 uh , you know , we uh it's interesting , 08:33.290 --> 08:35.490 I grew up not very far from bobby . 08:35.490 --> 08:38.340 We're assuming that the senator where 08:38.340 --> 08:41.530 he grew up is about A total of , if you 08:41.530 --> 08:44.120 added up to about five blocks 6 blocks 08:44.640 --> 08:47.160 and his dad 08:48.310 --> 08:51.920 and I were about 18 years apart and 08:51.920 --> 08:54.070 were 17 years apart . So it's like a 08:54.070 --> 08:56.126 continuum going on here . But I just 08:56.126 --> 08:58.380 want to know we went to the same 08:58.380 --> 09:01.610 schools . Uh , same parish just a few 09:01.610 --> 09:04.230 years apart . Give a few take a few 09:04.230 --> 09:06.710 years and Scranton is where I played 09:06.710 --> 09:08.877 shortstop of the Grammys little league 09:08.877 --> 09:10.988 in the first year . That it would put 09:10.988 --> 09:13.210 up , My dad helped build the field down 09:13.210 --> 09:16.140 there and spend a lot of time at 09:16.150 --> 09:19.380 Sammy's buying pretty candy and hank's 09:19.380 --> 09:22.050 hoagies on Woodlawn street , watching 09:22.050 --> 09:24.810 movies of the Ruzizi on the weekend and 09:24.810 --> 09:27.520 trying to reenact all they did and when 09:27.520 --> 09:30.080 you watch those movies , I think I was 09:30.080 --> 09:32.191 told , I know that's true . I was the 09:32.191 --> 09:34.302 only kid in my , in my ear that I was 09:34.302 --> 09:36.469 able to walk across the lackey on that 09:36.469 --> 09:38.691 pipe that was just above the thing . If 09:38.691 --> 09:40.913 you found the lucky you were , you were 09:40.913 --> 09:43.560 lucky you were in trouble . But um , 09:43.560 --> 09:46.960 anyway , that's 09:46.960 --> 09:50.260 right . Look , no matter how long you 09:50.260 --> 09:52.610 live here in Scranton , it's a place 09:52.610 --> 09:54.820 that climbs into your heart and it 09:54.820 --> 09:56.876 never really leaves you . And that's 09:56.876 --> 09:59.042 the God's truth . You know , it's like 09:59.042 --> 10:01.264 that old saying goes , you can take the 10:01.264 --> 10:01.060 boy out of Scranton , but you can't 10:01.060 --> 10:03.227 take Scranton out of the boy . There's 10:03.227 --> 10:05.360 something special about it . And I 10:05.360 --> 10:07.138 believe that home is where your 10:07.138 --> 10:09.360 character is etched . And I really mean 10:09.360 --> 10:11.582 that some of you have heard me say this 10:11.582 --> 10:13.638 before , it's where your view of the 10:13.638 --> 10:15.804 world begins where you begin and where 10:15.804 --> 10:17.971 it takes shape And that happened to me 10:17.971 --> 10:21.060 in 24 46 North Washington Avenue . We 10:21.060 --> 10:25.040 used to come back after 1030 mass at ST 10:25.040 --> 10:27.270 paul's ST Clair's wasn't built till I 10:27.270 --> 10:30.710 had moved at Saint Paul's and my 10:30.710 --> 10:33.150 grandfather would hold court and back 10:33.150 --> 10:35.370 in those days , all the men had 10:35.380 --> 10:37.436 breakfast in the kitchen . My mother 10:37.436 --> 10:39.324 was one of five Children and four 10:39.324 --> 10:41.380 brothers , one was lost in World War 10:41.380 --> 10:44.570 Two and a guy who was the chief 10:44.570 --> 10:46.910 political reporter at the newspaper 10:46.910 --> 10:49.350 Tommy phillips who was lived the street 10:49.360 --> 10:51.527 behind us . It was a good friend of my 10:51.527 --> 10:53.638 grandfather's and all the women would 10:53.638 --> 10:55.527 go in the dining room on the lace 10:55.527 --> 10:58.560 tablecloth and have tea and men would 10:58.940 --> 11:02.560 would in fact have have a big breakfast . 11:03.140 --> 11:05.910 And if you're a kid , you're young boy , 11:05.910 --> 11:07.910 you could sort of wander around the 11:07.910 --> 11:10.188 table . You can never sit at the table . 11:10.188 --> 11:12.354 And so I used to every once in a while 11:12.354 --> 11:14.243 walk in and just sort of wandered 11:14.243 --> 11:17.140 around . I stand by my grandpa and and 11:17.140 --> 11:20.680 I I put my hand on his 11:20.680 --> 11:23.060 shoulder and they talk and they talked 11:23.060 --> 11:25.510 about everything from sports and 11:25.610 --> 11:29.570 politics and and that's where I learned 11:29.570 --> 11:32.400 an awful lot at the kitchen table . I 11:32.400 --> 11:34.456 learned from my grand pop that money 11:34.456 --> 11:36.430 doesn't determine your worth . I 11:36.430 --> 11:38.580 learned , he told me and that's not a 11:38.590 --> 11:40.757 joke , those of you know me know it to 11:40.757 --> 11:43.570 be true and you guys know it is that no 11:43.570 --> 11:45.792 one in the world was more word than you 11:45.792 --> 11:47.792 Joey . But everyone is your equal , 11:47.792 --> 11:49.792 everybody's drinking . My mom would 11:49.792 --> 11:51.960 remind me , she said Joey , this is a 11:51.960 --> 11:54.740 God's truth . Remember you're defined 11:54.740 --> 11:57.560 by your courage and you're redeemed by 11:57.560 --> 12:00.420 your loyalty , defined by your courage . 12:00.420 --> 12:03.460 You redeemed by a loyalty . And my dad , 12:03.840 --> 12:05.790 when things got tough and Scranton 12:05.820 --> 12:08.000 after the war , when there weren't any 12:08.000 --> 12:10.167 work , my dad did not work in the coal 12:10.167 --> 12:12.111 mines . My great grandfather was a 12:12.111 --> 12:14.111 mining engineer , but my dad was in 12:14.111 --> 12:16.056 sales and he worked for the follow 12:16.056 --> 12:18.111 trucking company and things got slow 12:18.111 --> 12:20.333 and Scranton . So we moved , I remember 12:20.333 --> 12:22.430 the day he came , but I think the 12:22.430 --> 12:24.597 longest walker parent can make is up a 12:24.597 --> 12:26.763 short flight of stairs to tell the kid 12:26.763 --> 12:28.986 you can't live here anymore . You can't 12:28.986 --> 12:31.097 because my dad has dad doesn't have a 12:31.097 --> 12:33.263 job or mom doesn't have a job . And my 12:33.263 --> 12:35.430 dad had moved from Wilmington Delaware 12:35.430 --> 12:37.430 to Scranton when he was a senior in 12:37.430 --> 12:39.486 high Junior in high school . He went 12:39.486 --> 12:41.708 there was called saint thomas , not the 12:41.708 --> 12:43.930 prep , but since called Saint thomas in 12:43.930 --> 12:46.152 those days . And I remember him walking 12:46.152 --> 12:48.208 up and into the bedroom and saying , 12:48.208 --> 12:50.208 honey , I'm going to dad's going to 12:50.208 --> 12:52.374 have to move , I'm going to , But it's 12:52.374 --> 12:54.597 gonna probably take about a year , I'll 12:54.597 --> 12:54.360 come home every single weekend . It's 12:54.360 --> 12:56.650 only 155 miles . I thought that was 12:56.650 --> 13:00.050 like 600 miles away , come home every 13:00.050 --> 13:02.290 weekend , but I wouldn't want to get 13:02.290 --> 13:04.620 enough getting enough money . I'm gonna 13:04.620 --> 13:07.310 bring you a mom and and everyone down 13:07.320 --> 13:09.487 to Wilmington , you're gonna like it . 13:09.740 --> 13:11.940 And I thought that was like , uh , you 13:11.940 --> 13:14.051 know , and you know , an awful lot of 13:14.051 --> 13:16.273 parents who left Scranton back in those 13:16.273 --> 13:18.273 days , who moved away , had to move 13:18.273 --> 13:20.460 away . And you know , I , 13:21.240 --> 13:24.220 I gained so much respect for my father 13:24.220 --> 13:26.387 as I got older because I thought about 13:26.387 --> 13:29.380 how much , how much it must have hurt 13:29.380 --> 13:31.491 him in the pride . It took it for him 13:31.491 --> 13:33.560 to walk into my grandfather's pantry 13:33.940 --> 13:36.650 and Saint Ambrose is that kind of leave 13:36.650 --> 13:38.483 jeanne and the kids with you ? I 13:38.483 --> 13:40.539 promise I'll make it up to you , but 13:40.539 --> 13:42.483 I'll be back every weekend , but I 13:42.483 --> 13:44.706 promise I'll make it up . That's a hard 13:44.706 --> 13:46.872 thing for a proud man or woman to do . 13:46.872 --> 13:48.761 But somebody had to do it . And I 13:48.761 --> 13:51.094 remember when we moved down to Delaware , 13:51.094 --> 13:52.928 my dad would say Joey and all my 13:52.928 --> 13:55.094 friends know this . I'm literally this 13:55.094 --> 13:57.261 phrase , you've heard him saying , you 13:57.261 --> 13:59.428 know how many times Joey a job's about 13:59.428 --> 14:01.650 a lot more than a paycheck . It's about 14:01.650 --> 14:03.650 your dignity , it's about respect . 14:03.650 --> 14:05.761 It's about being a kid in the eye and 14:05.761 --> 14:07.817 say , honey , it's gonna be okay and 14:07.817 --> 14:10.150 think about it . Think about what it is , 14:10.150 --> 14:12.261 it means a lot more than just whether 14:12.261 --> 14:14.483 you get a paycheck , it defines who you 14:14.483 --> 14:17.090 are in his mind . And I learned that at 14:17.100 --> 14:19.267 the kitchen table and Scranton a place 14:19.267 --> 14:21.322 where you Take care of one another . 14:21.740 --> 14:25.100 And as I said , my mother , I used to 14:25.100 --> 14:27.100 stutter badly when I was a kid , if 14:27.100 --> 14:29.267 Tommy bell and charlie Roth and all of 14:29.267 --> 14:31.544 my old friends were here at Saint paul . 14:31.544 --> 14:34.160 So you know , my nickname was 14:34.640 --> 14:36.510 Blackbeard was baba ba bye bye 14:36.510 --> 14:38.510 Blackbird . There wasn't meant as a 14:38.510 --> 14:42.250 compliment and I wasn't very big , but 14:42.640 --> 14:44.807 you could beat me , but I'd hurt you . 14:45.540 --> 14:47.707 Um , you think I'm kidding ? I'm not . 14:48.340 --> 14:50.670 And , but you know , it's one of those 14:50.670 --> 14:53.880 things that I was fortunate because the 14:53.890 --> 14:55.723 people , I was surrounded by our 14:55.723 --> 14:57.830 neighbors and Scranton as well that 14:57.840 --> 15:00.360 people are people stuck up for you , 15:00.840 --> 15:03.710 stuck up for one another . And my 15:03.710 --> 15:05.877 mother used to say , and I never quite 15:05.877 --> 15:08.210 understood . Remember Joey , look at me , 15:08.210 --> 15:10.432 look at me Joey , you're a biden . Like 15:10.432 --> 15:12.488 I'm a Dupont or something . You know 15:12.488 --> 15:14.710 what I mean ? You're , I swear to God , 15:14.710 --> 15:16.880 you're a biden . Nobody is better than 15:16.880 --> 15:19.160 you and everybody is equal to you . 15:19.170 --> 15:21.410 Nobody . The point I'm making is , the 15:21.410 --> 15:24.300 truth is , Scranton isn't is in my home 15:24.300 --> 15:26.411 because of the memories you gave me . 15:26.440 --> 15:28.662 It's my home because of the values that 15:28.662 --> 15:31.060 gave me . So when I ran for president , 15:31.060 --> 15:33.590 I came back to scram , I came back to 15:33.590 --> 15:35.812 Scranton and I started here in Scranton 15:35.940 --> 15:38.200 and I resolved to bring Scranton values 15:38.200 --> 15:41.290 to bear to make a fundamental shift in 15:41.290 --> 15:43.179 how our economy works for working 15:43.179 --> 15:45.234 people to build the economy from the 15:45.234 --> 15:47.401 ground up in the middle out , not from 15:47.401 --> 15:49.568 the top down . I've never known a time 15:49.568 --> 15:51.790 in the middle class has done well . The 15:51.790 --> 15:54.012 wealthy haven't done very , very well . 15:54.012 --> 15:56.123 I've never known such a time . So I'm 15:56.123 --> 15:56.030 here today to talk about what's 15:56.030 --> 15:58.086 fundamentally at stake right now for 15:58.086 --> 16:00.680 the families and for our country For 16:00.680 --> 16:02.847 most of the 20th century , we lead the 16:02.847 --> 16:05.090 world by a significant margin because 16:05.090 --> 16:07.740 we invested in our people . We invested 16:07.740 --> 16:10.520 in ourselves not only in our roads and 16:10.520 --> 16:12.631 our highways and bridges , but on our 16:12.631 --> 16:14.631 people and our families . We didn't 16:14.631 --> 16:16.798 just build interstate highway system . 16:16.798 --> 16:18.964 We build a highway to the sky to outer 16:18.964 --> 16:21.380 space . We were also , we invested to 16:21.380 --> 16:23.950 win the space race and we want were 16:23.950 --> 16:26.117 also among the first to provide access 16:26.117 --> 16:28.283 to free education . Be getting back in 16:28.283 --> 16:30.061 the late 18 hundreds , early 19 16:30.061 --> 16:32.339 hundreds , we invested in our Children . 16:32.339 --> 16:34.339 Does anybody think today for making 16:34.339 --> 16:36.561 that decision ? For the first time We'd 16:36.561 --> 16:38.860 say 12 years is enough In the 21st 16:38.860 --> 16:41.270 century . 12 years enough . It's not , 16:41.740 --> 16:43.851 but back then they did . And it's the 16:43.851 --> 16:45.962 reason why we leapt ahead the rest of 16:45.962 --> 16:48.190 the world . Not a joke became among the 16:48.190 --> 16:50.357 best educated countries in the world , 16:50.640 --> 16:53.330 but somewhere along the way we stopped 16:53.330 --> 16:56.060 investing in ourselves . America is 16:56.060 --> 16:58.338 still the largest economy in the world . 16:58.338 --> 17:00.227 We still have the most productive 17:00.227 --> 17:01.893 workers in the world and most 17:01.893 --> 17:04.004 innovative minds , but we risk losing 17:04.004 --> 17:05.560 our edges . A nation in our 17:05.560 --> 17:07.671 infrastructure used to be the best in 17:07.671 --> 17:09.727 the world . Not a joke . The best in 17:09.727 --> 17:11.671 the world Today . According to the 17:11.671 --> 17:13.782 World Economic Forum . We ranked 13th 17:13.782 --> 17:16.500 in the world in terms of infrastructure , 17:16.720 --> 17:18.831 our roads , bridges , highways and at 17:18.831 --> 17:21.840 the whole works 13th in the world . We 17:21.840 --> 17:23.951 used to lead the world in educational 17:23.951 --> 17:26.010 achievement Today . The Organization 17:26.010 --> 17:27.621 for Economic Cooperation and 17:27.621 --> 17:31.060 Development in Europe ranks America 35 17:31.060 --> 17:33.330 out of 37 major companies when it comes 17:33.330 --> 17:35.108 to investing in early childhood 17:35.108 --> 17:38.060 education and talk about an equalizer , 17:38.820 --> 17:40.931 The greatest equalised in the world . 17:40.931 --> 17:43.042 The Great University has done studies 17:43.042 --> 17:45.264 the last 15 years . You give a kid , no 17:45.264 --> 17:47.431 matter what . The kids background from 17:47.431 --> 17:49.598 a broken home from a home where mom or 17:49.598 --> 17:51.820 dad didn't go to school or whatever and 17:51.820 --> 17:53.987 you put them in school , third grade , 17:53.987 --> 17:56.042 you increased by 50 per school , not 17:56.042 --> 17:58.209 take care , you increased by 56% . The 17:58.209 --> 18:00.431 chance that they will complete 12 years 18:00.431 --> 18:02.653 of school and build confidence . What's 18:02.653 --> 18:05.250 education all about ? It's about 18:05.250 --> 18:08.730 building confidence in a child . It's 18:08.730 --> 18:11.360 about giving the tools to do something . 18:12.240 --> 18:14.240 We can't be competitive in the 21st 18:14.240 --> 18:16.240 century economy . If we continue to 18:16.240 --> 18:18.296 slide to what we have , that's why I 18:18.296 --> 18:20.351 resolve that . We have to once again 18:20.351 --> 18:22.573 build America from the bottom up in the 18:22.573 --> 18:24.950 middle out again , not the top down and 18:24.950 --> 18:27.061 by the time a capitalist , I think if 18:27.061 --> 18:28.672 you can be a billionaire , a 18:28.672 --> 18:30.839 billionaire , fine , just do your fair 18:30.839 --> 18:33.480 share , just do your fair share , you 18:33.480 --> 18:35.480 know , trickle down . Economics has 18:35.480 --> 18:37.536 always failed That hadn't built this 18:37.536 --> 18:39.536 country , you know , who built this 18:39.536 --> 18:41.536 country like the young man had just 18:41.536 --> 18:43.830 introduced me union people , people who 18:43.830 --> 18:46.550 in fact can make a decent , hard wage 18:46.940 --> 18:48.996 build the country . I'm not it's not 18:48.996 --> 18:51.107 hyperbole . I mean it from the bottom 18:51.107 --> 18:53.329 of my heart , that's why I proposed two 18:53.329 --> 18:55.551 critical pieces of legislation that are 18:55.551 --> 18:57.718 being debated back in Washington . Now 18:57.718 --> 18:59.662 there's some really smart national 18:59.662 --> 19:01.600 press with me today and they have 19:01.600 --> 19:03.711 understandably believed that there is 19:03.711 --> 19:05.989 no possibility of my getting this done . 19:06.040 --> 19:08.207 This has been declared dead on arrival 19:08.207 --> 19:10.429 from the moment I introduced it . But I 19:10.429 --> 19:12.373 think we're going to surprise them 19:12.373 --> 19:14.596 because I think people are beginning to 19:14.596 --> 19:16.818 figure out what's at stake . You know , 19:16.818 --> 19:19.040 when I use the phrase build back better 19:19.040 --> 19:21.151 is being used internationally . I got 19:21.151 --> 19:23.262 the G7 , the largest countries in the 19:23.262 --> 19:25.318 world , to agree that we're going to 19:25.318 --> 19:27.540 have a bill back better world and we're 19:27.540 --> 19:29.484 going to invest and we're going to 19:29.484 --> 19:31.096 build around the world , the 19:31.096 --> 19:33.207 democracies and ability . So the rest 19:33.207 --> 19:35.390 of the countries don't fall prey to 19:35.400 --> 19:38.780 those like the belt road initiative out 19:38.780 --> 19:40.836 of china and other initiatives where 19:40.836 --> 19:43.002 there's , I'll do something for you if 19:43.002 --> 19:45.950 you give me , if you give me folks look , 19:46.820 --> 19:49.010 these bills are not about left versus 19:49.010 --> 19:51.300 right , about moderate versus 19:51.300 --> 19:54.000 progressive Or anything that pits one 19:54.000 --> 19:56.420 American against another . These bills 19:56.420 --> 19:58.640 are about competitiveness versus 19:58.640 --> 20:01.400 complacency , about expanding 20:01.400 --> 20:04.250 opportunity , not having an opportunity 20:04.250 --> 20:06.420 denied . They're about leading the 20:06.420 --> 20:08.587 world and continue to let the world or 20:08.587 --> 20:11.930 let it pass us by and by the way they 20:11.930 --> 20:14.700 will not increase one single penny of 20:14.700 --> 20:18.480 the deficit they are fully paid for and 20:18.480 --> 20:20.647 all Wall Street points out , they will 20:20.647 --> 20:23.510 grow employment by tens of thousands of 20:23.520 --> 20:25.950 people , 10s of thousands of people , 20:27.040 --> 20:30.840 17 Nobel laureate , spontaneously Nobel 20:30.840 --> 20:33.560 Laureates and economy in the economy 20:33.940 --> 20:36.250 Sent me a letter three weeks ago saying 20:36.250 --> 20:38.790 it will also reduce , not increase 20:38.790 --> 20:40.920 inflation . Here's what these 20:40.920 --> 20:43.250 initiatives are all about . First 20:43.250 --> 20:45.230 infrastructure bill . When I say 20:45.230 --> 20:47.397 infrastructure back home , people look 20:47.397 --> 20:49.341 like infrastructure . What are you 20:49.341 --> 20:50.952 talking about ? Jo they know 20:50.952 --> 20:53.063 infrastructure generically , but it's 20:53.063 --> 20:55.119 about rebuilding the arteries of our 20:55.119 --> 20:57.341 economy . That's what it's about across 20:57.341 --> 20:59.350 this country right now . There are 20:59.350 --> 21:02.170 45,000 bridges according to Society of 21:02.170 --> 21:05.670 Engineers . 45,000 . A significant 21:05.670 --> 21:08.870 portion of their ready to fall fall 21:09.100 --> 21:11.750 fall into the water into the gap that 21:11.750 --> 21:15.690 they cover . There are 173 21:15.690 --> 21:17.857 miles of roads in poor conditions that 21:17.857 --> 21:20.550 have to be built up , Including more 21:20.550 --> 21:24.410 than 3300 bridges over 7500 21:24.410 --> 21:26.577 miles of highways here in the state of 21:26.577 --> 21:29.410 Pennsylvania that need to be repaired 21:29.600 --> 21:32.460 and built , increase timing and 21:32.460 --> 21:35.060 commerce . We're gonna put hardworking 21:35.060 --> 21:37.004 americans on the job to bring hard 21:37.004 --> 21:39.510 infrastructure up to speed good union 21:39.510 --> 21:43.450 jobs , Not $7 an hour , $15 an 21:43.450 --> 21:46.370 hour , but prevailing wage wage , you 21:46.370 --> 21:48.537 can raise your family and you can look 21:48.537 --> 21:50.670 at your family with pride jobs that 21:50.680 --> 21:54.350 can't be outsourced jobs replacing lead 21:54.350 --> 21:56.239 water pipes like you have here in 21:56.239 --> 21:59.550 Scranton area kids getting brain damage 21:59.550 --> 22:01.770 because of the ingestion of lead , 22:02.440 --> 22:06.020 clean water all across America . We're 22:06.020 --> 22:08.242 going to replace every single lead pipe 22:08.242 --> 22:10.890 in the nation again , creating jobs but 22:10.900 --> 22:13.670 doing more than that , increasing the 22:13.670 --> 22:16.170 health and well being of our Children , 22:16.940 --> 22:19.380 44,000 schools in a position where they 22:19.380 --> 22:21.570 have lead pipes , you send your kid to 22:21.570 --> 22:23.514 the water fountain , you've got to 22:23.514 --> 22:25.670 wonder about jobs laying thousands of 22:25.670 --> 22:27.950 miles of transmission lines and 22:27.950 --> 22:31.160 building a modern energy grid folks . 22:31.640 --> 22:33.807 We're in a situation now where you see 22:33.807 --> 22:35.973 what's happening . I've flown all over 22:35.973 --> 22:37.918 this country since coming in . You 22:37.918 --> 22:39.807 realize more of our land has been 22:39.807 --> 22:41.862 burned to the ground , burned to the 22:41.862 --> 22:45.170 ground in the west , in the northwest 22:45.280 --> 22:47.770 than the entire state , New Jersey , 22:48.340 --> 22:50.560 every single square mile in New Jersey 22:50.940 --> 22:53.550 more has been burned down this year , 22:54.040 --> 22:58.000 this year in the 22:58.000 --> 23:00.390 west because of climate change . And 23:00.390 --> 23:02.850 because of electric utilities , failing 23:03.540 --> 23:06.840 wires falling , we know if we can put 23:06.840 --> 23:09.430 these wires underground , we increase 23:09.430 --> 23:11.980 exponentially the service but it costs 23:11.980 --> 23:15.490 a lot of money . We have to do it . We 23:15.490 --> 23:17.830 know that we in fact allow people to be 23:17.830 --> 23:20.080 able to store , We have this incredible 23:20.080 --> 23:23.050 energy . We have , I've visited one of 23:23.050 --> 23:26.510 the largest , the largest uh 23:26.520 --> 23:29.630 solar fields in America . It's in the 23:29.630 --> 23:33.380 southwest . Guess what ? You can 23:33.380 --> 23:35.780 transmit all that energy enough to 23:35.780 --> 23:38.850 really light up half half of the state 23:38.850 --> 23:41.340 of Nevada . But guess what , how do you 23:41.340 --> 23:43.800 transmit it ? What lines do you put it 23:43.800 --> 23:45.856 over ? Do we have the capacity to do 23:45.856 --> 23:48.189 that ? We have the engineering capacity . 23:48.189 --> 23:50.356 But do we have the will to do it ? And 23:50.356 --> 23:52.760 imagine what that does . You realized 23:52.760 --> 23:56.360 we had $90 billion dollars and 23:56.360 --> 23:59.660 lost this calendar year Because of 23:59.660 --> 24:02.810 natural disasters , $90 billion dollars 24:05.240 --> 24:09.220 jobs . Making sure there's a high speed 24:09.220 --> 24:11.220 internet , affordable and available 24:11.220 --> 24:12.942 anywhere everywhere in America 24:12.942 --> 24:15.560 including For nearly one in six 24:15.560 --> 24:17.960 families who go without internet . 24:18.640 --> 24:20.473 They're kind of , you saw what's 24:20.473 --> 24:23.160 happened when we've had this covid try 24:23.160 --> 24:25.500 teaching from home . How many people do 24:25.500 --> 24:27.720 you see out in Mcdonald's parking lots 24:27.800 --> 24:29.967 with their kids and their cars because 24:29.967 --> 24:32.330 they get access to the internet to be 24:32.330 --> 24:35.220 able to help the kid in school . What 24:35.220 --> 24:37.170 are we doing ? This is the United 24:37.170 --> 24:40.800 States of America . it . What are we 24:40.800 --> 24:44.150 doing ? And both these bills are going 24:44.150 --> 24:46.039 to help us meet the moment on the 24:46.039 --> 24:48.094 climate crisis in a way that creates 24:48.094 --> 24:50.150 good jobs makes us more economically 24:50.150 --> 24:52.430 competitive , $66 billion dollars in 24:52.430 --> 24:55.580 passenger rail and freight rail . Why I 24:55.580 --> 24:57.636 always talk about passenger rail and 24:57.636 --> 24:59.580 particularly high speed rail . You 24:59.580 --> 25:01.636 realize the Chinese are now building 25:01.636 --> 25:03.858 another high speed rail line will go up 25:03.858 --> 25:06.140 to 300 mph . You say ? What does that 25:06.140 --> 25:08.630 make biden ? Well , guess what ? If you 25:08.630 --> 25:10.810 can get on the train and go from here 25:10.810 --> 25:13.110 to Washington much faster than go in an 25:13.110 --> 25:15.800 automobile . You take a train , you 25:15.800 --> 25:18.600 take the train , we will take literally 25:18.650 --> 25:21.560 millions of automobiles off the road 25:22.240 --> 25:25.950 off the road , Saving 10s of millions 25:25.950 --> 25:29.890 of barrels of oil , dealing with 25:29.890 --> 25:32.820 cleaning up the air . This is not 25:32.820 --> 25:35.300 hyperbole . This is a fact . These are 25:35.300 --> 25:36.160 facts 25:39.240 --> 25:41.610 right now . When I went out to Silicon 25:41.610 --> 25:43.832 Valley , they show we're in a situation 25:43.832 --> 25:46.010 where if you put solar panels on your 25:46.010 --> 25:49.090 roof , guess what ? When , when the sun 25:49.090 --> 25:51.640 is not shining , you're in trouble 25:51.650 --> 25:53.983 except they have now battery technology , 25:53.983 --> 25:56.206 you can have batteries in your basement 25:56.206 --> 25:58.206 about the size of the width of this 25:58.206 --> 26:00.317 podium and about that thick that keep 26:00.317 --> 26:03.880 you going for seven days . So what do 26:03.880 --> 26:06.380 we have in this legislation ? We have 26:06.380 --> 26:09.850 $39 billion American transit . 26:10.340 --> 26:13.200 I remember riding a trolley . I lived 26:13.200 --> 26:15.311 at the end of the line as they say in 26:15.311 --> 26:17.550 Green Ridge , three blocks at the end 26:17.550 --> 26:19.717 of the line beyond the end of the line 26:19.717 --> 26:21.828 with the dump . But maloney field was 26:21.828 --> 26:23.830 on the right and the little league 26:23.830 --> 26:26.052 baseball field . I played , it was down 26:26.052 --> 26:28.219 the bottom of the hill . But the point 26:28.219 --> 26:32.060 is it made it work . Most people live 26:32.060 --> 26:34.810 in cities . You know the vast majority 26:34.810 --> 26:36.866 of people now working people live in 26:36.866 --> 26:39.230 cities , their jobs are out of town , 26:39.230 --> 26:42.170 no longer in town , no longer in town , 26:43.140 --> 26:46.840 But 65% do not own an automobile . They 26:46.840 --> 26:48.951 live in a black hispanic neighborhood 26:48.951 --> 26:51.690 or poor neighborhood and all the time 26:51.690 --> 26:53.634 they waste trying to get to work , 26:55.840 --> 26:58.540 look More than $7 billion dollars to 26:58.540 --> 27:00.429 build out the national network of 27:00.429 --> 27:02.484 electric vehicle charging stations . 27:03.040 --> 27:05.220 The way my grandpa got up here , my 27:05.220 --> 27:07.560 grandpa biden Who died at Mercy 27:07.560 --> 27:09.900 Hospital of an aneurysm when he was 46 27:09.900 --> 27:11.900 years old . Two months before I was 27:11.900 --> 27:14.130 born in Mercy Hospital , he was with 27:14.130 --> 27:16.297 the american oil company was up here . 27:16.297 --> 27:18.950 Opening up gas stations in 19 . 27:19.340 --> 27:22.470 That's how we got here . This was 1942 , 27:22.470 --> 27:25.550 late 42 . Well guess what ? 27:26.510 --> 27:28.732 The same thing happens . We build these 27:28.732 --> 27:30.566 charging stations . What happens 27:30.566 --> 27:32.830 communities build up around them . You 27:32.830 --> 27:35.052 get everything from the make the figure 27:35.052 --> 27:37.163 of Mcdonald's or the Dunkin donuts to 27:37.163 --> 27:40.790 the drug store And $21 billion 27:40.790 --> 27:42.901 dollars for environmental cleanup and 27:42.901 --> 27:45.480 remediation . Look , it means putting 27:45.480 --> 27:47.702 people to work in good job , prevailing 27:47.702 --> 27:49.960 wages capping hundreds of thousands of 27:49.960 --> 27:51.830 abandoned wells in southeastern 27:51.830 --> 27:55.380 pennsylvania . And Ohio get the same 27:55.380 --> 27:57.602 salary that you paid the mine worker to 27:57.602 --> 28:00.040 dig the well , they've got to be capped . 28:00.330 --> 28:02.497 We have thousands of need to be kept . 28:02.640 --> 28:05.080 In addition to that we have methane 28:05.080 --> 28:07.191 leaks that are all over and you won't 28:07.191 --> 28:09.413 understand in pennsylvania about that . 28:09.840 --> 28:12.007 But guess what increases the health of 28:12.007 --> 28:14.340 the community provides good paying jobs . 28:15.240 --> 28:17.407 My plan also makes historic investment 28:17.407 --> 28:19.620 in clean energy , including a tax 28:19.620 --> 28:21.620 credit for people to do things like 28:21.620 --> 28:23.780 winterize their homes , install solar 28:23.780 --> 28:26.058 panels , develop clean energy products , 28:26.058 --> 28:28.391 help business produce more clean energy . 28:28.720 --> 28:32.490 It's real . I promise you , I won't be 28:32.490 --> 28:34.560 around to see it . But I promise you 28:35.440 --> 28:38.220 your kids are going to see a time when 28:38.220 --> 28:40.400 they're not in fact generating any 28:40.400 --> 28:42.950 energy from the homes here in Scranton 28:42.960 --> 28:45.500 other than renewable energy . Not a 28:45.500 --> 28:48.250 joke . And by the way , one of the 28:48.250 --> 28:50.950 things that president put me in charge 28:50.950 --> 28:53.560 of my , I want to be clear here . 28:53.940 --> 28:55.940 President Obama put me in charge of 28:55.940 --> 28:58.290 when I was vice president , I was able 28:58.290 --> 29:00.401 to invest in that legislation that we 29:00.401 --> 29:02.234 put together , put together , we 29:02.234 --> 29:05.380 brought down the price of the of solar 29:05.380 --> 29:08.920 and wind cheaper than coal and 29:08.920 --> 29:12.590 cheaper than oil on a BTU basis . It's 29:12.600 --> 29:13.350 cheaper 29:16.340 --> 29:18.396 cole built this town in this part of 29:18.396 --> 29:21.110 the country . But we've got to provide 29:21.120 --> 29:23.410 other avenues for people to make the 29:23.410 --> 29:25.521 same kind of living . They used to be 29:25.521 --> 29:28.860 able to make look all told , 29:29.540 --> 29:31.707 I just said this project is gonna save 29:31.707 --> 29:33.596 literally hundreds of millions of 29:33.596 --> 29:35.762 barrels of oil annually . But folks in 29:35.762 --> 29:37.707 pennsylvania know that cost him in 29:37.707 --> 29:39.984 action when it comes to climate change . 29:39.984 --> 29:42.207 Extreme weather has cost this state $10 29:42.207 --> 29:44.262 billion dollars over the last decade 29:44.262 --> 29:46.262 And nationally I said extreme other 29:46.262 --> 29:48.400 conditions cost $99 billion dollars 29:48.400 --> 29:51.530 last year and I flew over all this 29:51.530 --> 29:54.370 territory and helicopter marine one , 29:54.370 --> 29:57.590 not a joke . See it , see reservoirs 29:57.590 --> 30:01.120 that are down 60 80 ft concerned about 30:01.120 --> 30:03.120 the Colorado River . Whether or not 30:03.120 --> 30:05.231 we're going to be able to keep things 30:05.231 --> 30:07.398 moving . Not a joke , It's real , this 30:07.398 --> 30:11.150 is serious stuff . And so you know , 30:11.150 --> 30:13.317 it's not going to ease up on its own . 30:13.317 --> 30:15.317 We have to invest in our resilience 30:15.540 --> 30:17.484 building roads higher . When I say 30:17.484 --> 30:19.429 build back better . We're the only 30:19.429 --> 30:21.318 country in the world historically 30:21.340 --> 30:23.450 that's gone through a crisis and has 30:23.450 --> 30:25.561 come out at the other end better than 30:25.561 --> 30:27.672 before the crisis hit . That's who we 30:27.672 --> 30:29.783 are as americans , not a joke , think 30:29.783 --> 30:32.006 about it from those who teach history , 30:32.006 --> 30:34.850 think about , we come out better than 30:34.850 --> 30:38.760 it was before because we don't give 30:38.760 --> 30:41.560 up , we invest , 30:43.340 --> 30:45.350 we trust our instincts . 30:47.340 --> 30:50.590 So that's what I'm talking about . You 30:50.590 --> 30:53.320 know , we need more stronger levees , 30:53.490 --> 30:55.960 stronger power grids , more adorable 30:56.440 --> 30:58.329 able to withstand ever increasing 30:58.329 --> 31:00.551 ferocity intensity of extreme weather . 31:00.551 --> 31:02.551 Any road it used to be , you have a 31:02.551 --> 31:04.690 catastrophe and the road gets washed 31:04.690 --> 31:06.857 out . You build it back to whatever is 31:06.857 --> 31:09.079 before . You can't build it back to the 31:09.079 --> 31:11.301 same standard . You've got to build the 31:11.301 --> 31:13.523 road back literally higher . Not a joke 31:13.523 --> 31:16.160 because the weather has already changed 31:17.540 --> 31:19.707 And if we don't do something before we 31:19.707 --> 31:23.550 reach 1.5°C, we're in trouble . Look , 31:24.640 --> 31:26.807 I haven't packed , we haven't passed a 31:26.807 --> 31:28.918 major infrastructure bill for decades 31:28.918 --> 31:31.029 in this country . The last four years 31:31.029 --> 31:32.973 you hear every month is you know , 31:32.973 --> 31:35.196 infrastructure month didn't do a single 31:35.430 --> 31:39.330 thing , nothing . I mean nothing for 31:39.330 --> 31:42.560 four years we can't afford to sit 31:43.140 --> 31:45.084 while other countries pass us by . 31:45.740 --> 31:47.796 We're going to breathe new life into 31:47.796 --> 31:49.962 the economy and our workforce . Here's 31:49.962 --> 31:52.350 the deal these jobs will create that 31:52.350 --> 31:54.406 we're going to create for people who 31:54.406 --> 31:56.572 are too often left out and left behind 31:57.040 --> 31:59.096 the vast majority of the jobs and my 31:59.096 --> 32:01.730 infrastructure bill don't require for 32:01.730 --> 32:04.650 your degree , 98% don't require four 32:04.650 --> 32:07.760 year degree . Guess what though ? It's 32:07.760 --> 32:10.120 the ultimate blue collar blue collar 32:10.130 --> 32:13.760 middle class renewal , real 32:13.760 --> 32:17.460 serious work . It needs to get done 32:18.240 --> 32:20.407 folks . It isn't enough just to invest 32:20.407 --> 32:22.407 in our physical infrastructure . We 32:22.407 --> 32:24.629 also have to invest in our people which 32:24.629 --> 32:26.750 we always did . We invested in our 32:26.750 --> 32:29.460 people . That's why the second build is 32:29.460 --> 32:31.627 the so called build back better plan . 32:31.840 --> 32:34.060 Here's what it does . It takes 32:34.060 --> 32:37.340 education and I said When American made 32:37.340 --> 32:39.562 12 years of public education standard a 32:39.562 --> 32:41.451 century ago , it gave us the best 32:41.451 --> 32:43.618 educated , best prepared work force in 32:43.618 --> 32:45.729 the world and you saw what happened ? 32:45.729 --> 32:47.951 Think of what what happened after world 32:47.951 --> 32:50.062 War One and how America moved because 32:50.062 --> 32:51.951 we were the best educated overall 32:52.740 --> 32:55.310 country in the world And we lead in the 32:55.310 --> 32:58.080 20th century . But as I said earlier , 32:58.080 --> 33:00.302 we know that 12 years is not enough any 33:00.302 --> 33:02.413 longer to compete in the 21st century 33:02.640 --> 33:05.260 study after study shows that earlier 33:05.260 --> 33:07.427 our Children began to learn the better 33:07.427 --> 33:09.649 for themselves , their families and for 33:09.649 --> 33:11.750 the nation . You know , you all know 33:11.750 --> 33:13.528 the statistics and some of your 33:13.528 --> 33:15.694 teachers and your husband used to talk 33:15.694 --> 33:17.639 to me about this and it was really 33:17.639 --> 33:20.170 basic that if you come from a home 33:20.170 --> 33:23.160 where the mom or dad have books on the 33:23.160 --> 33:25.270 shelves on the coffee table and read 33:25.740 --> 33:27.851 and you come from a home where mom or 33:27.851 --> 33:29.629 dad can't read or has 1/6 grade 33:29.629 --> 33:31.684 education or has a little difficulty 33:32.740 --> 33:34.907 the child coming from the middle class 33:34.907 --> 33:37.018 home is going to have heard a million 33:37.018 --> 33:39.840 more words spoken , not different words 33:39.840 --> 33:42.170 spoken spoken 33:43.440 --> 33:45.440 then the child coming from a middle 33:45.440 --> 33:48.400 class home . And that's because look , 33:48.410 --> 33:50.466 what do you all do you all know with 33:50.466 --> 33:52.577 your Children and grandchildren ? You 33:52.577 --> 33:54.688 start talking to them in the cradle , 33:54.688 --> 33:56.743 you engage them , they're the people 33:56.743 --> 33:58.854 who sit at the dinner table and still 33:58.854 --> 34:01.132 talk . They're engaged . So many homes , 34:01.540 --> 34:03.429 mothers or fathers don't have the 34:03.429 --> 34:05.429 capacity , frankly , I shouldn't do 34:05.429 --> 34:07.630 that . But right now , what are we 34:07.630 --> 34:11.250 doing ? We're lagging behind today , 34:11.250 --> 34:13.361 only about half of the three and four 34:13.361 --> 34:15.528 year olds in America enrolled in early 34:15.528 --> 34:17.639 education at all Germany France . The 34:17.639 --> 34:20.660 UK Latvia Their numbers over 34:20.660 --> 34:23.660 90% of the Children . It's not just 34:23.660 --> 34:26.810 early education According to one study , 34:26.820 --> 34:29.520 we ranked 12th among advanced economies 34:29.520 --> 34:31.464 when it comes to percentage of our 34:31.464 --> 34:33.576 young people who've retained any sort 34:33.576 --> 34:35.576 of post-high school degree . Ranked 34:35.576 --> 34:38.610 12th in the world , build back better 34:38.610 --> 34:41.810 plan gets us back on track . We'll make 34:41.820 --> 34:43.820 two years of high quality preschool 34:43.820 --> 34:45.876 available . Every child in America , 34:45.876 --> 34:48.750 every child we're going to make . Mhm . 34:49.140 --> 34:52.680 Okay . Okay . Make 34:52.680 --> 34:54.680 investments . Education beyond high 34:54.680 --> 34:56.847 school . That includes increasing pell 34:56.847 --> 34:59.300 grants , Which nearly 200,000 students 34:59.300 --> 35:01.570 in Pennsylvania from low-income 35:01.570 --> 35:03.626 families rely on to attend college . 35:04.840 --> 35:07.200 We're gonna increase by $500 up to , so 35:07.200 --> 35:11.010 it becomes $1900 . The bill 35:11.020 --> 35:13.242 invests in our workforce providing much 35:13.242 --> 35:15.464 needed breathing room for families . My 35:15.464 --> 35:17.798 dad , I remember we moved to Wilmington . 35:17.798 --> 35:20.020 We finally were able , after four years 35:20.020 --> 35:22.410 dad could buy a house . We lived in a 35:22.420 --> 35:24.531 quota development is a lovely area in 35:24.531 --> 35:26.850 suburban area , But it was a 3-bedroom 35:26.850 --> 35:30.840 split level home and we had four kids 35:30.840 --> 35:33.630 and my grandpa who live with us or 35:33.630 --> 35:35.797 another relative for all those years . 35:35.797 --> 35:39.200 We lived there and my bed was up in my 35:39.200 --> 35:40.922 head board and I didn't have a 35:40.922 --> 35:43.033 headboard . My bed was up against the 35:43.033 --> 35:45.420 wall that was my dad and mom's bed was 35:45.430 --> 35:48.240 up against the wall and I look back . I 35:48.240 --> 35:50.530 I it was great for us having grand pops 35:50.530 --> 35:52.697 and relatives there . I don't know how 35:52.697 --> 35:54.474 my parents quite did it . But I 35:54.474 --> 35:56.586 remember one night I'm serious was in 35:56.586 --> 35:59.000 high school and dad said I could , I 35:59.010 --> 36:01.010 could feel my dad was restless . He 36:01.010 --> 36:03.010 moving , I could hear it in bed . I 36:03.010 --> 36:05.343 asked the next morning , I asked my mom , 36:05.343 --> 36:07.454 it's true story . I said , what's the 36:07.454 --> 36:09.677 matter ? But dad , mom , he said he got 36:09.677 --> 36:11.843 bad news honey . His company just said 36:11.843 --> 36:10.890 they're no longer to pay for health 36:10.890 --> 36:14.040 insurance . Well guess what ? 36:15.530 --> 36:17.641 My dad used to , everybody's entitled 36:17.641 --> 36:19.863 all . We're looking for . Just a little 36:19.863 --> 36:21.974 breathing room . Just a little bit of 36:21.974 --> 36:24.750 extra room , a little breathing room . 36:26.030 --> 36:27.974 How can we compete in the world of 36:27.974 --> 36:29.697 millions of american parents , 36:29.697 --> 36:31.419 especially moms can't join the 36:31.419 --> 36:33.641 workforce because they can't afford the 36:33.641 --> 36:35.808 cost of childcare or eldercare or they 36:35.808 --> 36:38.260 have to stay home . I heard my 36:38.260 --> 36:40.482 colleagues speaking before . I did here 36:40.482 --> 36:42.538 in Pennsylvania . The average annual 36:42.538 --> 36:44.704 cost of child care for your toddlers , 36:44.704 --> 36:48.540 $11,400 . It's higher in other places . 36:49.130 --> 36:51.510 So average two parent family With two 36:51.510 --> 36:54.030 young kids spends 22% of their income 36:54.030 --> 36:56.860 for childcare . Every year I was a 36:56.860 --> 37:00.680 single dad for five years . I got 37:00.680 --> 37:02.902 elected the Senate . I got a phone call 37:02.902 --> 37:05.124 before I got sworn in when I was hiring 37:05.124 --> 37:07.236 staff saying my wife and daughter had 37:07.236 --> 37:09.236 just been killed . My two boys were 37:09.236 --> 37:11.080 seriously injured . They're 37:11.080 --> 37:13.570 hospitalized for a long time . So 37:13.570 --> 37:15.348 that's why I eventually started 37:15.348 --> 37:17.514 community . But I continued to commute 37:17.630 --> 37:20.170 because I could no more afford and I 37:20.170 --> 37:22.340 was making a lot of money . Then . Now 37:22.340 --> 37:24.562 granted I was listed for 36 years , the 37:24.562 --> 37:26.830 poorest man in Congress , but I was 37:26.830 --> 37:30.710 making $42,000 a year . I think my job 37:30.710 --> 37:32.877 is to make money when I was in college 37:33.730 --> 37:36.250 because it's not a joke . I could no 37:36.250 --> 37:39.330 more for childcare then fly . But 37:39.330 --> 37:41.960 fortunately I had a hell of a family . 37:42.330 --> 37:45.080 Those valleys . I talked about my 37:45.080 --> 37:48.800 sister and her husband after a little 37:48.800 --> 37:50.920 bit they gave up their home . I came 37:50.920 --> 37:53.142 home one night and they were moved into 37:53.142 --> 37:55.680 my home , help me raise my kids . Five 37:55.680 --> 37:57.902 years later , no man deserves one great 37:57.902 --> 38:00.124 love , let alone two , five years later 38:00.124 --> 38:02.740 when I met and married Jill , I came 38:02.740 --> 38:04.962 home after the wedding . They had moved 38:04.962 --> 38:07.830 out . My brother Jimmy , my best friend , 38:08.520 --> 38:11.360 my mother , they all help me take care 38:11.360 --> 38:13.740 of my kids . I couldn't have done it . 38:14.520 --> 38:17.120 So I understand how in God's name do 38:17.130 --> 38:19.960 people make it if you look at the world , 38:19.960 --> 38:22.182 advanced economics and those advanced , 38:22.182 --> 38:25.530 those with advanced economies , The 38:25.530 --> 38:27.780 country's invest an average of each of 38:27.780 --> 38:29.836 those countries invest an average of 38:29.836 --> 38:32.580 $14,000 per year and child state 38:32.580 --> 38:36.110 sponsored child toddler care America 38:36.110 --> 38:39.940 invests $500 . 28 times less than our 38:39.940 --> 38:42.000 competitors . Here's what it does to 38:42.000 --> 38:43.944 our economy . You all know it . 30 38:43.944 --> 38:46.000 years ago . We ranked 7th and 7th in 38:46.000 --> 38:48.111 the world among advanced economies in 38:48.111 --> 38:50.222 the share of women in the workforce . 38:50.222 --> 38:53.040 Today in America , we rank 23rd 38:54.220 --> 38:57.830 and women are becoming not joke better 38:57.830 --> 39:01.490 educated than men . If you look at and 39:01.490 --> 39:03.712 I do about five college commencements a 39:03.712 --> 39:06.050 year , Four of those five , the 39:06.050 --> 39:08.217 valedictorian out of those classes for 39:08.217 --> 39:10.272 the last 10 years has been a woman . 39:11.020 --> 39:14.200 And if you read the data now we're 39:14.200 --> 39:16.700 worried about the number of men 39:16.770 --> 39:20.750 attending college . Once again , 39:20.750 --> 39:23.310 our competitors invested where stan is 39:23.310 --> 39:26.660 still My bill back . Better plan is 39:26.660 --> 39:28.938 designed to get us moving again . Look , 39:28.938 --> 39:31.160 it's going to cut the cost of childcare 39:31.160 --> 39:33.382 for most Pennsylvania families and have 39:33.382 --> 39:35.493 no middle-income family will pay more 39:35.493 --> 39:37.549 than 7% of their income on childcare 39:37.549 --> 39:41.170 under my proposal 7% . It's going to 39:41.170 --> 39:43.226 help more people get back to work in 39:43.226 --> 39:45.448 the workforce and make ends meet . It's 39:45.448 --> 39:47.337 also going to extend the historic 39:47.337 --> 39:49.170 middle class tax cut for parents 39:49.170 --> 39:51.448 everybody talks about . And by the way , 39:51.448 --> 39:53.710 I have a , I'm gonna say something self 39:53.710 --> 39:55.890 serving . But I , I got on pretty well 39:55.890 --> 39:58.001 in the Senate for all those years . A 39:58.001 --> 40:00.057 lot of Republican friends as well as 40:00.057 --> 40:02.057 Democratic friends for real kind of 40:02.057 --> 40:04.168 like bobby . I mean they're friends . 40:04.168 --> 40:06.650 We used to travel together a lot and 40:06.650 --> 40:09.740 here's the deal though . You know what 40:09.740 --> 40:11.573 I was able to do . We passed the 40:11.573 --> 40:14.560 American rescue plan in the first month 40:14.560 --> 40:16.393 of my administration , which has 40:16.393 --> 40:18.690 allowed us to have all the funding for 40:18.700 --> 40:20.760 COVID and when I started off , there 40:20.760 --> 40:23.410 were two million people in America that 40:23.410 --> 40:27.200 had gotten a vaccine . Well , 40:27.200 --> 40:29.367 guess what ? We're up to 190 million . 40:30.110 --> 40:32.054 That's how we got to pay for . But 40:32.054 --> 40:35.990 here's the deal . What it meant 40:35.990 --> 40:39.430 was , what it meant was that , you know , 40:39.440 --> 40:41.330 right now , there's a whole new 40:41.330 --> 40:44.750 attitude is out there . How do we not 40:44.750 --> 40:47.360 invest ? So in that act that we passed , 40:47.390 --> 40:50.030 we provided for a child tax credit . 40:51.610 --> 40:54.130 And you heard my introducer speak to it 40:55.410 --> 40:57.530 because we're in such dire straits , 40:58.310 --> 41:00.580 you were able to put in a position a 41:00.590 --> 41:02.670 tax cut for middle class people . 41:02.670 --> 41:04.920 That's what it is . No one has a tax 41:04.920 --> 41:07.200 cut . We want to cut the capital gains 41:07.200 --> 41:09.870 tax for the wealthy or anybody . No one 41:09.870 --> 41:12.550 has a problem . We deal with that . We 41:12.550 --> 41:14.717 have over 55 corporations in America . 41:14.717 --> 41:16.661 The Fortune 500 don't pay a single 41:16.661 --> 41:19.030 solitary penny in taxes . Not one cent , 41:19.410 --> 41:22.730 not one cent . I make $40 billion 41:22.920 --> 41:26.440 dollars a year . But when you talk 41:26.440 --> 41:28.773 about a tax cut for middle class people , 41:28.773 --> 41:31.910 that's exactly what it is by what we 41:31.910 --> 41:35.880 did increasing Making a refundable 41:35.880 --> 41:38.213 tax cut . You know the way it works now , 41:38.213 --> 41:40.324 if you're made enough money to have , 41:40.324 --> 41:42.380 oh , more than $4,000 in taxes . You 41:42.380 --> 41:45.440 had two kids , you got to deduct it and 41:45.440 --> 41:47.650 here's the deal . The fact of the 41:47.650 --> 41:50.730 matter is that if you did make that 41:50.730 --> 41:52.674 kind of money , you didn't get the 41:52.674 --> 41:55.180 benefit at all . It wasn't refundable . 41:55.180 --> 41:57.291 You didn't get the benefit at all the 41:57.291 --> 41:59.402 tax cuts Because you didn't have more 41:59.402 --> 42:01.624 than $4,000 in taxes . You didn't , you 42:01.624 --> 42:04.990 know , you still paid and you know , it 42:04.990 --> 42:07.101 wasn't refundable . You didn't get it 42:07.101 --> 42:09.434 back . Well , here's the way we work it . 42:09.500 --> 42:11.611 We said , all right , for temporarily 42:11.611 --> 42:13.722 we're gonna do is make sure there's a 42:13.722 --> 42:15.889 child care tax credit . If you had one 42:15.889 --> 42:18.167 kid under seven , you get $3600 a year . 42:18.167 --> 42:21.930 And if you have one over 7-17 , You get 42:21.940 --> 42:25.370 3000 a year were up from 2000 . Well , 42:25.370 --> 42:27.540 guess what has cut child poverty in 42:27.540 --> 42:31.230 Pennsylvania by 55 In the nation by 42:31.230 --> 42:32.610 50% . Okay , 42:35.600 --> 42:39.490 It's a flat out tax cut for ordinary 42:39.490 --> 42:42.100 people . That's what it does . I make 42:42.100 --> 42:45.830 no apologies for it . But look , folks , 42:46.480 --> 42:48.591 there's so many things that we can do 42:48.591 --> 42:51.150 to change the way in which we work all 42:51.150 --> 42:54.010 of this and I'm realizing I'm going on 42:54.010 --> 42:56.177 here . But the fact is there's so much 42:56.177 --> 42:59.320 at stake so much at stake . Look , 43:00.300 --> 43:02.580 the fact is that most of all what it 43:02.590 --> 43:05.500 does is , you know , we have a sandwich 43:05.500 --> 43:09.310 generation that exists and many of you 43:09.310 --> 43:11.680 are part of that generation . You have 43:11.680 --> 43:13.847 a mom or dad needs some help , you get 43:13.847 --> 43:16.420 older and you have a child that needs 43:16.420 --> 43:18.642 some help if you're going to be able to 43:18.642 --> 43:21.110 be in the workforce and it's hard to 43:21.110 --> 43:23.510 sell hard as hell to make it work . 43:25.200 --> 43:27.422 You've got to give these folks a little 43:27.422 --> 43:29.256 bit of reading room . The single 43:29.256 --> 43:31.478 greatest champion for elder care in the 43:31.478 --> 43:33.478 United States . America is this guy 43:33.478 --> 43:35.700 right here , bobby Casey , not a joke , 43:35.700 --> 43:36.700 not a joke . 43:40.400 --> 43:44.000 The way it works right now to qualify 43:44.000 --> 43:46.222 for Medicaid , you have to have a lower 43:46.222 --> 43:48.180 income to qualify for Medicaid . 43:49.200 --> 43:51.510 Medicaid , not Medicare Medicaid . 43:52.400 --> 43:55.220 There are 820,000 seniors . 43:56.200 --> 43:58.422 People with or people with disabilities 43:58.422 --> 44:00.610 who are on Medicaid on a waiting list 44:01.090 --> 44:02.923 to get home care , which they're 44:02.923 --> 44:05.440 entitled to . How many families are 44:05.440 --> 44:07.650 living this story . Your parents get 44:07.650 --> 44:09.680 older , they need some help getting 44:09.680 --> 44:12.040 around the house , making the meals for 44:12.040 --> 44:14.207 themselves . Don't want to put them in 44:14.207 --> 44:16.780 nursing homes only not only because of 44:16.780 --> 44:18.891 the cost , but because of a matter of 44:18.891 --> 44:20.947 dignity . They do better . They live 44:20.947 --> 44:23.002 longer if they can stay in their own 44:23.002 --> 44:25.224 home , but you also don't have the time 44:25.224 --> 44:27.280 or the money to take care of them at 44:27.280 --> 44:29.502 home to do it . You're just looking for 44:29.502 --> 44:31.447 an answer so your parents can keep 44:31.447 --> 44:33.669 living independently . And if they hold 44:33.669 --> 44:35.891 here a second one of the things that is 44:35.891 --> 44:38.970 important . Think about this in order 44:38.970 --> 44:41.137 to get into that nursing home , you've 44:41.137 --> 44:43.430 got to sell everything , you have , you 44:43.430 --> 44:46.690 can't have any private property , you 44:46.690 --> 44:48.801 have to empty your bank account . You 44:48.801 --> 44:51.780 have to do it all to move in a nursing 44:51.780 --> 44:53.960 home . I'm not saying nursing homes 44:53.960 --> 44:56.410 aren't valuable . They are extremely 44:56.410 --> 44:59.530 valuable . But that's not where I 44:59.530 --> 45:02.720 remember my uncle was moved in with his 45:02.720 --> 45:05.180 wife into a assisted living center and 45:05.180 --> 45:07.980 he wanted . And the folks who who had 45:07.990 --> 45:09.768 built the facility has a lovely 45:09.768 --> 45:11.920 facility . Delaware asked if I'd come 45:11.920 --> 45:14.800 and speak on the , on the opening of it 45:15.290 --> 45:17.512 and we're walking out and I said mom in 45:17.512 --> 45:19.679 this beautiful , She looked at me said 45:19.679 --> 45:21.679 and she was then 76 years old . She 45:21.679 --> 45:24.540 said this is for old people Joey not 45:24.540 --> 45:28.540 for me , but think about for 45:28.540 --> 45:30.373 millions of families is the most 45:30.373 --> 45:32.484 important issue they're facing . It's 45:32.484 --> 45:36.170 personal . It's personal and bob Casey 45:36.180 --> 45:39.100 gets it , bobby fights for something . 45:39.100 --> 45:41.211 He never gives up in case you haven't 45:41.211 --> 45:43.544 noticed . So here's what we're gonna do . 45:43.590 --> 45:45.923 We're gonna expand services for seniors . 45:45.923 --> 45:48.090 So found as you can get help with well 45:48.090 --> 45:50.090 trained , well paid professionals , 45:50.090 --> 45:52.312 help them take care of their parents at 45:52.312 --> 45:54.312 home to cook a meal for them to get 45:54.312 --> 45:56.368 them their groceries and then to get 45:56.368 --> 45:58.423 groceries to help them get around to 45:58.423 --> 46:00.701 just put in and railings on their home . 46:00.701 --> 46:03.070 And my mom lived with me . She moved in 46:03.070 --> 46:05.890 with me . We finally talked her and her 46:05.890 --> 46:09.360 doing it and guess what ? My sister 46:09.360 --> 46:11.304 takes her up . You remember this . 46:11.304 --> 46:13.304 Junior remembers just talking about 46:13.304 --> 46:16.410 this too . She takes up to get her 46:16.410 --> 46:18.790 prescriptions , drives her back , gets 46:18.790 --> 46:20.901 out of the house and she was , it was 46:20.901 --> 46:24.000 this little home off of our home . She 46:24.000 --> 46:26.167 wouldn't move into the physically move 46:26.167 --> 46:28.333 into the house even though we had done 46:28.333 --> 46:30.556 the whole thing over for and she's just 46:30.556 --> 46:33.010 standing there and moves and breaks her 46:33.010 --> 46:35.910 hip . She didn't trip or anything 46:37.080 --> 46:40.850 broke her hip . Well guess what ? Just 46:40.850 --> 46:43.017 having a railing , just having a place 46:43.017 --> 46:45.128 where she could walk from one room to 46:45.128 --> 46:47.183 the other and help them in their own 46:47.183 --> 46:49.294 home with the dignity deserve . Quite 46:49.294 --> 46:51.720 frankly what we found is that this is 46:51.720 --> 46:53.720 more popular than anything else I'm 46:53.720 --> 46:55.970 proposing when you do this individual 46:55.970 --> 46:57.840 polling data , this is extremely 46:57.840 --> 47:00.290 popular because you all feel that 47:00.290 --> 47:02.401 obligation to our parents and we want 47:02.401 --> 47:04.960 them to live with because the american 47:05.020 --> 47:07.680 people understand the need . It's a 47:07.680 --> 47:09.736 matter of dignity . It's a matter of 47:09.736 --> 47:12.610 pride . Look that's both these dishes 47:12.610 --> 47:14.870 are all about and frankly they're about 47:14.870 --> 47:16.870 more than giving working families a 47:16.870 --> 47:18.759 brake there about position in our 47:18.759 --> 47:20.759 country to compete in the long haul 47:20.880 --> 47:22.824 economists left , right and center 47:22.824 --> 47:24.769 agree earlier this year , the wall 47:24.769 --> 47:26.824 street outfit moody's projected that 47:26.824 --> 47:29.070 the investments I'm talking about Will 47:29.070 --> 47:31.700 create for the next 20 years on average 47:31.750 --> 47:34.100 two million additional jobs per year . 47:34.580 --> 47:38.510 Good paint job is transformative and 47:38.510 --> 47:40.343 we can make these transformation 47:40.343 --> 47:42.710 investments to be fiscally responsible 47:43.380 --> 47:45.390 take the infrastructure bill . All 47:45.390 --> 47:47.612 those investments , road bridges , high 47:47.612 --> 47:49.668 speed rail internet , the whole deal 47:49.880 --> 47:52.410 They represent less than one half of 1% 47:52.410 --> 47:54.632 of our economic growth each year , less 47:54.632 --> 47:57.790 than one half of 1% . And the cost of 47:57.790 --> 47:59.901 the bill back better bill in terms of 47:59.901 --> 48:03.500 adding to the deficit 00 zero 48:05.070 --> 48:07.292 because we're going to pay for it all . 48:07.292 --> 48:09.403 In addition to that , half of it is a 48:09.403 --> 48:12.020 tax cut . It's not spending money , 48:12.020 --> 48:14.353 it's a tax cut for working class people . 48:15.770 --> 48:18.380 It's about time as I said , and I come 48:18.380 --> 48:20.602 from the corporate state of the world , 48:21.570 --> 48:25.530 not a joke . More corporations are 48:25.540 --> 48:28.010 registered in my state than every other 48:28.010 --> 48:30.121 state in the United States combined . 48:30.870 --> 48:32.981 And I represented the state of Dupont 48:32.981 --> 48:36.150 is used to call it for 36 years . I'm 48:36.150 --> 48:40.100 not anti business , but I'm about just 48:40.110 --> 48:43.000 begin pay your fair share . 48:44.170 --> 48:47.810 Look folks under this proposal and 48:47.810 --> 48:49.921 under this proposal , these proposals 48:49.921 --> 48:52.200 I'm talking about , I guarantee you 48:52.870 --> 48:56.290 That no one making under $400,000 a 48:56.300 --> 48:59.010 year , we'll see one single penny in 48:59.010 --> 49:02.870 tax goal , not one . In fact , the plan 49:02.870 --> 49:05.350 cuts taxes for working people . And by 49:05.350 --> 49:07.517 the way , if you notice the , you know 49:07.517 --> 49:09.683 the way usually pay for infrastructure 49:09.683 --> 49:13.390 infrastructure is by gasoline taxes , I 49:13.390 --> 49:15.557 wouldn't allow that because that would 49:15.557 --> 49:17.779 tax people making under 400,000 . I'm a 49:17.779 --> 49:20.590 man of my word . Not one single penny 49:21.070 --> 49:23.292 When you pay if you make more than less 49:23.292 --> 49:26.970 than $400,000 . So , but there's no 49:26.970 --> 49:30.040 reason . There's no reason why someone 49:30.040 --> 49:33.210 making $400 million dollars a year . By 49:33.210 --> 49:35.266 the way , you know , during this all 49:35.266 --> 49:38.080 the crisis we've had with Covid , there 49:38.080 --> 49:39.858 is an absolute finite number of 49:39.858 --> 49:42.080 billionaires . They can count up in the 49:42.080 --> 49:44.590 tax code . You know how much money the 49:44.600 --> 49:46.400 billionaires made last year , 49:46.410 --> 49:49.610 collectively , they're not bad guy 49:49.700 --> 49:53.310 saying that and made one trillion 49:53.320 --> 49:55.660 dollars increase their collective 49:55.660 --> 49:59.280 income , $1 trillion 50:01.060 --> 50:04.890 just pay a fair share . You know , 50:05.260 --> 50:07.380 if you are a multi millionaire 50:07.380 --> 50:09.713 billionaire , you have a lower tax rate , 50:09.760 --> 50:11.960 then a family that has a teacher and a 50:11.960 --> 50:14.810 firefighter as a percent of taxes you 50:14.810 --> 50:18.610 pay lower . So I said 55 , our 50:18.610 --> 50:20.499 largest corporations paid zero in 50:20.499 --> 50:23.440 income tax , 40 billion bucks . This 50:23.440 --> 50:25.680 needs to change working folks 50:25.680 --> 50:27.736 understand that . That's why despite 50:27.736 --> 50:30.460 your tax and misinformation about my 50:30.460 --> 50:32.182 plans are still overwhelmingly 50:32.182 --> 50:34.238 supported by the american people . I 50:34.238 --> 50:36.404 understand when families have a little 50:36.404 --> 50:38.627 breathing room . America is in a better 50:38.627 --> 50:40.460 spot and they know this is about 50:40.460 --> 50:42.571 dignity and respect about building an 50:42.571 --> 50:44.460 economy from the bottom up in the 50:44.460 --> 50:46.682 middle out , not from the top down as I 50:46.682 --> 50:48.904 said , Name me a time in american issue 50:48.904 --> 50:51.127 in the middle class has done well . The 50:51.127 --> 50:53.238 wealthy haven't done very well . Name 50:53.238 --> 50:55.349 me a time . So let me close with this 50:55.349 --> 50:57.460 for too long . Working people of this 50:57.460 --> 50:59.404 nation in the middle class in this 50:59.404 --> 51:01.516 country . The backbone of the country 51:01.516 --> 51:03.738 have been dealt out . It's time to deal 51:03.738 --> 51:05.890 him back in . I ran for president . 51:07.460 --> 51:10.200 Yeah . I ran for president sand , it 51:10.200 --> 51:12.422 was time to rebuild the backbone of the 51:12.422 --> 51:15.210 nation . And by that I was very precise . 51:15.860 --> 51:18.070 The middle class has been the backbone 51:18.070 --> 51:21.160 of this nation . I couldn't have been 51:21.160 --> 51:23.550 any clearer . That's why I wrote both 51:23.550 --> 51:26.100 these bills in the first place and took 51:26.100 --> 51:28.100 him to the people . I campaigned on 51:28.100 --> 51:31.660 them . The american people spoke . I 51:31.670 --> 51:33.910 learned they have no doubt about what I 51:33.910 --> 51:37.240 ran out . Both these bills were all 51:37.240 --> 51:39.407 what I talked about . But guess what , 51:39.960 --> 51:43.930 81 million people voted for me . More 51:43.930 --> 51:46.097 people voted than any time in american 51:46.097 --> 51:48.720 history . Okay . Yeah . And their 51:48.720 --> 51:51.550 voices deserve to be heard not to be 51:51.550 --> 51:55.240 denied or worse be ignored because 51:55.240 --> 51:58.020 here's what I know if we make the 51:58.020 --> 51:59.909 investments , There's gonna be no 51:59.909 --> 52:02.076 stopping American the remainder of the 52:02.076 --> 52:04.880 21st century . I've long said , I mean 52:04.880 --> 52:06.991 this to every world leader I've known 52:06.991 --> 52:09.760 and I've now spoken to over , I've 52:09.760 --> 52:13.550 known them many and before that I tell 52:13.550 --> 52:15.720 them it's never , ever , ever been a 52:15.720 --> 52:19.180 good bet to bet against America . Never , 52:20.050 --> 52:23.260 never , never . Which means it's always 52:23.260 --> 52:25.480 a good , good bet to bet on America . 52:26.450 --> 52:28.840 That's what these initiatives do they 52:28.850 --> 52:31.040 met in America . It's about believing 52:31.040 --> 52:33.270 in the american people about believing 52:33.650 --> 52:35.610 about believing . Just look at the 52:35.610 --> 52:37.832 history of the journey of this nation . 52:37.832 --> 52:40.054 What becomes clear as this , Given half 52:40.054 --> 52:43.960 a chance , have a chance . The american 52:43.960 --> 52:46.600 people have never , ever , ever , ever , 52:46.610 --> 52:49.260 ever , ever let the country down . Just 52:49.260 --> 52:51.880 a fighting chance . No guarantees . 52:51.890 --> 52:55.460 Just a chance . And that's what this is 52:55.460 --> 52:59.450 all about . And it does not increase 52:59.460 --> 53:03.060 the debt when you talk about the number , 53:03.060 --> 53:04.893 we shouldn't even talk about the 53:04.893 --> 53:07.490 numbers because it's all paid for , 53:07.500 --> 53:09.700 written in the same piece of 53:09.700 --> 53:12.450 legislation . So you pass the spending , 53:12.450 --> 53:15.180 your also passing the tax cuts and 53:15.180 --> 53:17.291 you're passing the taxes are going to 53:17.291 --> 53:21.180 be increased . Scranton . Thanks 53:21.180 --> 53:23.236 for always treating me so nicely . I 53:23.236 --> 53:26.410 really mean it . God bless you all and 53:26.410 --> 53:28.688 may God protect our troops . Thank you . 53:29.850 --> 53:32.250 Okay . Yeah . 53:42.150 --> 53:43.150 Yeah . 53:47.250 --> 53:49.070 Mhm . Mhm .