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Joe Biden...Sounds Off On Trump Administration · Gil I Am

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  Speaker 1: Me, cheer.
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  Speaker 2: Me backs, mesten the ball back you back, you back here.
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  Speaker 1: So supposed to shock one of my sabot Jill, who
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  Speaker 1: deserve help and paid for most of it. You know.
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  Speaker 1: Uh my great friend. He is a great friend. Governor
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  Speaker 1: O'Malley he uh my, uh my, my dad. The Biden
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  Speaker 1: family started off in Baltimore. They don't say Baltimore, it's
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  Speaker 1: balmart In, baldmart and uh but uh we've been friends
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  Speaker 1: for a long time. And I just want to say
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  Speaker 1: at the outset, if you everyone, anybody on your team,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's an athletic team, whether you're in a battle,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's a political team, whether there's a team just
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  Speaker 1: trying to help you want O'Malley, the guy has guts. No, no,
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's sin silly. He not only has you know,
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  Speaker 1: political courage, has physical courage. He's across the board. Anybody
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  Speaker 1: standing next to me. I went on Malley there with me,
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  Speaker 1: and I mean that's sincerely, that really mattered. You know.
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  Speaker 1: I always kid the Maryland because the Delaware of the
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  Speaker 1: second small estate. We we share the eastern shore of
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  Speaker 1: Maryland with Maryland. But we're close friends and folks. You know,
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  Speaker 1: there's no surprise that he did a hell of a
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  Speaker 1: job when I asked him to be Commissioner of the
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  Speaker 1: Social Security And the reason I did that was not
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  Speaker 1: an ordinary transition for a governor. But I knew, I
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  Speaker 1: mean this is from the out of my heart. I
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  Speaker 1: knew we needed someone with some guts, some toughness, who
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  Speaker 1: would fight for every single penny doesn't needed. They would
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  Speaker 1: try to restore the integrity of the system. And to
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  Speaker 1: everyone here today, I want to thank you all of
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  Speaker 1: you very much for this award means a great deal
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  Speaker 1: to me. Coming from you, I mean that sincerely means
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  Speaker 1: a great deal. You're in the front lines every single day.
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  Speaker 1: You're helping, you're advocating for your fellow Americans, Americans with disability.
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  Speaker 1: It's a big deal. We talk about what happened in
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  Speaker 1: the physical side of it if we didn't have self security.
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  Speaker 1: Think of what the psychic calm give so many people
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  Speaker 1: who just don't know where to go, don't know how
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  Speaker 1: to traverse, what's they needs to be done or alone.
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  Speaker 1: Last fall on the White House Law and we celebrate
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  Speaker 1: the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. As a
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  Speaker 1: United States senator four hundred years ago, I was looking
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  Speaker 1: back on it. God, I might have been doing this
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  Speaker 1: fifty years. It's hell turned four years old anyway. But
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  Speaker 1: back in the year nineteen ninety, I was a co
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  Speaker 1: sponsor of the American's Disabilities Access the United States Senator.
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  Speaker 1: In my view, I suspect many of you was the
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  Speaker 1: most It was one of the most consequential civil rights
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  Speaker 1: laws in American history. And she got me involved in
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  Speaker 1: politics in the first place. Delaware, like Maryland, was one
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  Speaker 1: of those states with the Slave State. We had all
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  Speaker 1: the vestiges of what was going on back in the day.
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  Speaker 1: We were one of those states that still I remember
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  Speaker 1: moving from Scranton, Pennsylvania, down to Wilmington, Delaware, and Cole died.
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  Speaker 1: My dad moved back to where he had we could
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  Speaker 1: get a job. I remember I pulled into My mom
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  Speaker 1: would drive us on the Philadelphia Pike connecting Wilmington and Philadelphia,
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  Speaker 1: and we lived in an apartment company Licks and she
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  Speaker 1: drive us about It's only about half a mile to
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  Speaker 1: Holy Rosary School and claim On, but it was so
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  Speaker 1: dangerous she wouldn't let us walk up because of access road.
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  Speaker 1: I remember pulling in and pulling into the parking lot
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  Speaker 1: and I had never seen I'd never seen hardly any
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  Speaker 1: black people and scranting at the time when I and
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  Speaker 1: I was only going in fourth grade, and I remember
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  Speaker 1: seeing the kids going by at the time, called colored
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  Speaker 1: kids on a bus going by. They never turned right
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  Speaker 1: to go to Claimant High School. I wondered why, asked
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  Speaker 1: my mom, why so on delaw were not allowed to
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  Speaker 1: go to school in public school with white kids. Honey.
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  Speaker 1: That sparked my sense of outrage as a kid, just
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  Speaker 1: like it does. I mean, and these young kids right
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  Speaker 1: here can tell you things affect them when they learned
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  Speaker 1: about something that's really just unfair and unjust. You know,
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  Speaker 1: my dad, my dad was an honorable man and used
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  Speaker 1: to have an expression he said, Joey, your job's about
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  Speaker 1: a lot more than paycheck. It's about your dignity. It's
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  Speaker 1: about respect. It's about being able to look at your
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  Speaker 1: kid now and say, honey, it's going to be okay,
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  Speaker 1: and mean it. That's what you're all about. That's what
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  Speaker 1: that's what the legislation is about. It's about dignity, simple dignity. Everyone,
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  Speaker 1: Everyone deserves to be treated with dignity, regardless of their standard,
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  Speaker 1: regardless of the economics, regardless of who they are, making
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  Speaker 1: sure the more than sixty million Americans we're living with
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  Speaker 1: disabilities are treating with dignity. Is that who we are
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  Speaker 1: as Americans. That's what it's about. I mean it, dignity
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  Speaker 1: at work, at school, in their communities, in every corner
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  Speaker 1: of American life. Laws like the ADA beat advocates like you.
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  Speaker 1: You're the ones that keep it going. God love you.
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  Speaker 1: You fight like hell every single day to make sure
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  Speaker 1: the laws respected and your client's rights are protected. So
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  Speaker 1: from the bottom my heart of meanings, they give you
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  Speaker 1: my word as a Biden, from the bottom of my heart,
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  Speaker 1: I say thank you, thank you for what you're doing,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for your commitment to the dignity of all Americans,
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  Speaker 1: because that's what all of this is about. Folks, Today,
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk to you about an issue that's
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  Speaker 1: front and center right now for a million Americans. Social Security.
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  Speaker 1: You know, some of you may know the Democrats have
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  Speaker 1: declared today to save social Security and National Action Day,
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  Speaker 1: National Day of Accent. I should say, we know just
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  Speaker 1: how much social security matters to people's lives. Everyone in
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  Speaker 1: this room fights for people with disabilities to rely on
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  Speaker 1: social Security to survive, to survive. It's just the physical side,
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  Speaker 1: it's the mental side. It's the mental side. You make
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  Speaker 1: sure folks get the benefits they earn after a lifetime
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  Speaker 1: of hard work. The work they do is more than
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  Speaker 1: just a profession. What you do, it's a calling, not
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  Speaker 1: just a profession. And Social Security is more than the
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  Speaker 1: government program. It's a sacred promise. We made it in
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  Speaker 1: a sacred promise. Seventy three million Americans receive Social Security
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  Speaker 1: from the first paycheck for their entire life. They pay
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  Speaker 1: into Social Security and return they count on solid security
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  Speaker 1: be for them when they're going to need it. Folks
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  Speaker 1: must never ever betray that trust or turn our backs
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  Speaker 1: on an obligation. That's why during my presidency we protected
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  Speaker 1: Social Security and made it stronger. Martin, the governor can
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  Speaker 1: tell you we came in off of Social Security administration
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  Speaker 1: has lowest staff and she referenced it low staffing levels
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  Speaker 1: in fifty years, and demand was going through the roof
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  Speaker 1: because of my generation, the and the Baby Booth generation
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  Speaker 1: reaching the retirement edge. So the demands on Social Security
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  Speaker 1: increased significantly. Our administration security nearly two billion dollars, produced
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  Speaker 1: the black backlogs and improved customer service. We slashed wait
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  Speaker 1: times for folks in need we're calling the one to
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  Speaker 1: eight hundred number. We got it down to under thirteen minutes.
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  Speaker 1: There used to be three times that long. We took off.
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  Speaker 1: This made it easier for people to get help with
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  Speaker 1: their claims online, reduced how long it takes to review
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  Speaker 1: a case. We fixed the appeal system to make a
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  Speaker 1: uniform in all fifty states, which made a difference. When
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  Speaker 1: we strengthened the anti fraud measures to protect people's identities
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  Speaker 1: and to make sure benefits are going to people who
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  Speaker 1: actually they belonged to. By the way, those three hundred
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  Speaker 1: year old Polka and that social Security I want to
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  Speaker 1: meet them because I like to figure out how they
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  Speaker 1: lived out the hell of a thing. Man, I'm looking
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  Speaker 1: for longevity, because it's hell when you turn forty years old.
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  Speaker 1: But as a result, by the time we left office,
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  Speaker 1: we'd improved every single line of customer service, from applying
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  Speaker 1: for disability to filing appeal to reporting fraud. It all
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  Speaker 1: became more efficient and more effective. I'll bet at major
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  Speaker 1: jobs easier too in the process. Now these achievements, these
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  Speaker 1: achievements may not sound so glamorous to most people. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, absolutely essential and might be one of the
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  Speaker 1: most important jobs of any elected official is that makes
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  Speaker 1: you the government works for the people, works for all
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  Speaker 1: People's understandable, they can understand what it is, then we
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  Speaker 1: keep our promises to the people, to all the people.
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  Speaker 1: That's exactly what we did, thanks to all of you.
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  Speaker 1: Also signing the law, the Social Security Fairness Act. That
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  Speaker 1: act eliminated two unfair rules so public employees wouldn't get
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  Speaker 1: short changed. The government pension offset and the windfall elimination
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  Speaker 1: provision can never command ever again the l As a result,
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  Speaker 1: more than two million people are now finally receiving the
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  Speaker 1: full benefits they earned. And remember we're also faced a
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  Speaker 1: constant threat by some members Republican members of the Congress
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  Speaker 1: to cut and gut Social Security period, cut and gut
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  Speaker 1: it period. They wanted to let so security expire every
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  Speaker 1: five years. That was a proposal. Let it expire every
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  Speaker 1: five years unless we're authorized by the Congress. Who in
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  Speaker 1: the hell do they think they are every five years
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  Speaker 1: and then wait around and be well, I will not
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  Speaker 1: go further and get in trouble. But that folks can
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  Speaker 1: imagine the cast would have charged every five years Congress
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  Speaker 1: is going to step up. You imagine this Congress stepping up.
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  Speaker 1: They threatened to raise the retirement as well. Now that
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  Speaker 1: might not be a hardship for someone working at a
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  Speaker 1: comfortable job, but if you're on your feet all day,
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  Speaker 1: you're doing manual labor all day, you're working with the disability,
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  Speaker 1: it's a very different matter. And then they even try
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  Speaker 1: to face cuts forced customer social security during the negotiation
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  Speaker 1: of the dead ceiling. These are wonderful guys. Last time
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  Speaker 1: this guy had the job, he raised the dead ceiling
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  Speaker 1: because of an enormous and profligate tax cut to the
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  Speaker 1: super wealthy. And then he said, look, then they started
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  Speaker 1: talking to us his colleagues, Well, maybe we can do
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  Speaker 1: something about social Security, but we gotta do something about
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  Speaker 1: the debt ceiling. How are we going to we make
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  Speaker 1: we can find the money in social security. Most we
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  Speaker 1: do what they wanted. They wanted to cut social Security.
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  Speaker 1: Not on my watch. We refused to go along with
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  Speaker 1: any of that. Look, Americans, can I've always made ale
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  Speaker 1: account of these benefits. And let me pause a second
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  Speaker 1: and say this. We talk about the physical needs that
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  Speaker 1: social security provides for people, particularly hardworking people. People retired
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  Speaker 1: people on the edge. But the psychological impact is profound, profound.
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  Speaker 1: You're a man or a woman, they're seventies, eight years old,
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  Speaker 1: you're out in good shape, they have a disability, and
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  Speaker 1: you hear the check may not come. How do you
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  Speaker 1: sleep at night? How do you sleep at night? We
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  Speaker 1: lived up in Wilmington, the three bedroom, split level home
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  Speaker 1: and the development forty homes with four kids, and the
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  Speaker 1: grandpa lived with us. And I remember my bed, our
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  Speaker 1: bedroom headboards was near my dad's a mom's room, and
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  Speaker 1: you could tell when dad was restless. I remember asking
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  Speaker 1: one night my mom was the matter with Dad? The
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  Speaker 1: next morning she has found out that that they're not
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  Speaker 1: gonna We're not gonna provide insurance anymore where he works.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine if you're somebody who's been struggling your whole life,
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  Speaker 1: you literally count on Social Security to buy your food,
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  Speaker 1: just to get bye, and you hear the threats, what
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  Speaker 1: what might happen? Many of these beneficiaries are the only
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  Speaker 1: income if the recruder taken away of being devastating, devastating
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  Speaker 1: for many of the people. In the psychological pressure we
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  Speaker 1: put people under by having this debate, it's absolutely devastating.
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  Speaker 1: That's why we work so damn hard to make SUBI
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  Speaker 1: security administrations stronger that I've been in years, and that's
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  Speaker 1: why I asked the governor to take over. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: but look what's happened now fewer than one hundred days,
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  Speaker 1: this new administration has made so much done, so much damage,
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  Speaker 1: and so much destruction. It's kind of breathtaking. It could
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  Speaker 1: happen that soon. They've taken a hatchet in the SOID
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  Speaker 1: Security Administration, pushing there's seven thousand employees, seven thousand out
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  Speaker 1: the door in that time, including the most seasoned career officials.
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  Speaker 1: Now they're getting ready to push thousands more out the door.
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  Speaker 1: Already we can see the effects. For example, thousands of
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  Speaker 1: people use the Social Security website every single day to
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  Speaker 1: check on their benefits and submit their claims. But now
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  Speaker 1: the Technology Division and Solid Security Administration are cut in half,
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  Speaker 1: and so the website's crashing. People can't sign under their accounts.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think it does that woman's living alone
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  Speaker 1: at seventy four years checking just not able to even
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  Speaker 1: find out whether she can't even find out what that
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  Speaker 1: disability claim is she had. She can't file a new
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  Speaker 1: disability claim. It's all of these people being told incorrectly
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  Speaker 1: if the benefits of ended, folks, imagine the panic that
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  Speaker 1: causes if you're a retiring living alone with only social
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  Speaker 1: Security depend upon. So now people are overwhelming the phone
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  Speaker 1: lines or showing up at the local Social Security office,
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  Speaker 1: tearful and frantic and told do you have an appointment?
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  Speaker 1: In that tone. By the way, I can give you
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  Speaker 1: a personal example if I'm not going to go the
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  Speaker 1: capital all off. Serious. People are now generally concerned for
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  Speaker 1: the first time in history, for the first and only
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  Speaker 1: time in history, and social security benefits may be the
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  Speaker 1: layed or interrupted. Folks. Let's put this in perspective. In
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  Speaker 1: the ninety years since Frank and Rosevel created the Social
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  Speaker 1: Security system, people have always gotten their social Security checks.
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  Speaker 1: They've gotten them during wartime, during recessions, during the pandemic,
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  Speaker 1: no matter what, they got them. But now, for the
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  Speaker 1: first time ever, that might change. It would be calamity
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  Speaker 1: for millions of families, millions of people. The current Secretary
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  Speaker 1: of Commerce doesn't seem to get it, or based on
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  Speaker 1: his comments, he doesn't seem to even care. Many of
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  Speaker 1: you sew what he said the other day, and by
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  Speaker 1: the way as a billionaire. God loved him. As my
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  Speaker 1: mother would say, pain ain't a half percent in taxes,
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  Speaker 1: all right, because he's paying. But when he talked about
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  Speaker 1: the possibility to Social Security checks not going out this month,
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  Speaker 1: he shrugged it off. Here's what he said. He said
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  Speaker 1: his ninety four year old mother in law wouldn't complain,
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't bother her. She probably a lovely woman, no kidding.
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  Speaker 1: Her son in law is a billionaire. What about that
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  Speaker 1: ninety four year old mother. They're all by herself. I
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  Speaker 1: don't have a billionaire in the family. All the retirees
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  Speaker 1: that depend on that monthly check to feed themselves, all
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  Speaker 1: those people with disabilities have no other source. What about
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  Speaker 1: all those people? That's who you fight for, so they
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  Speaker 1: shaild desperately need you, folks. Is not just the sectary
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  Speaker 1: of common where you heard how others empowered and emboldened
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  Speaker 1: by this administration talk about Social Security.
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  Speaker 3: One of them called it a ponzi scheme. A ponzi scheme.
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  Speaker 3: What the hell are they talking about. People earn these benefits,
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  Speaker 3: they paid it to that benefit.
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  Speaker 1: They're relying that benefit, and no one, no one, no
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  Speaker 1: one should take it away, you know, Franklin Roosevelt had
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  Speaker 1: a different view. He was president of coming out of
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  Speaker 1: the Great Depression. He and all his colleagues saw a
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  Speaker 1: great suffering, so much poverty. He also took steps to
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  Speaker 1: raise standards of living for ordinary Americans, including creating Social Security.
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  Speaker 1: He himself was from a very wealthy family. He did
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  Speaker 1: the Social Security but understood how much it would be
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  Speaker 1: to minions of Americans. He knew it would make America
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  Speaker 1: stronger in the process. It has makes our economy stronger,
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  Speaker 1: makes a community stronger, it makes family stronger, it gives
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  Speaker 1: peace of mind. And so the vast majority of Americans,
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  Speaker 1: including many wealthy Americans, still support, thank God, social Security.
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  Speaker 1: Very wealthy billionaires still support so Security. They may not
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  Speaker 1: rely on themselves, but they know, they know Social Security
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  Speaker 1: deserves to be protected for the good of the nation
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  Speaker 1: as a whole. And every God, ask yourself, God, ask yourself,
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  Speaker 1: why is this happening? Why are these guys take your
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  Speaker 1: name of social security now? Well, they're following that old
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  Speaker 1: line from tech startups. The quote is move fast, break things. Well,
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  Speaker 1: they're certainly breaking things. They're shooting first and even later.
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  Speaker 1: As a result, the result is a lot of needless
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  Speaker 1: pain and sleepless nights. My friend Governor O'Malley knows what
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  Speaker 1: they're really up to, he says, and I love his quote.
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  Speaker 1: They want to wreck it so they can rob it.
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  Speaker 1: They want to wreck it so they can rob it.
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  Speaker 1: Why do they want to rob it? In order to
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  Speaker 1: deliver huge tax cuts to billionaires in big corporations and
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  Speaker 1: keep it going. They want to make permanent the twenty
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  Speaker 1: seventeen tax cuts, which overwhelmingly benefits the wealthiest Americans and
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  Speaker 1: the biggest corporations. That's going to cost five trillion dollars?
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  Speaker 1: Or are they gonna get five billion dollars to pay
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  Speaker 1: for work other than continue to run the deficit up?
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  Speaker 1: What were they always do by winning by running up
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  Speaker 1: the national debt number one, and then by taking the
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  Speaker 1: money from someplace else? One are the two big pots
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  Speaker 1: of money out there, and raw numbers so Security and Medicaid,
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  Speaker 1: well from other programs people rely on and have paid
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  Speaker 1: indu Republicans. These guys are willing to hurt the middle
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  Speaker 1: class and the working class in order to deliver significant
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  Speaker 1: greater wealth that they're already very wealthy. Who in the
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  Speaker 1: hell that they think they are? I really think they
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  Speaker 1: I mean just basic based, basic decency. Who do you
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  Speaker 1: think they are. I think anybody should go out. They
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  Speaker 1: can make it a billion dollars here. They can fine
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  Speaker 1: pay your fair share. You know what the average We
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  Speaker 1: have a thousand billionaires in America. You know they have
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  Speaker 1: a schedule tax. They pay eight point two percent. Any
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  Speaker 1: want to trade that number, that's your pay Cloaks cloak,
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  Speaker 1: they close. I'm sorry to go on so long. It
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  Speaker 1: was just anyway. I grew up inrant, Pennsylvania as a kid,
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  Speaker 1: and then Claimont, Delaware, middle class towns, working class towns,
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  Speaker 1: places where people worked hard all their lives with the
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  Speaker 1: promise that to be able to retire someday a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of dignity because they'd been paying anything called Social
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  Speaker 1: Security since the very paycheck they ever earned. These people
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  Speaker 1: get knocked down every day. Learn to get up. My
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  Speaker 1: dad's wanted for to get knocked down. Just get up.
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  Speaker 1: Get up. They get up every day. The last they
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  Speaker 1: need from their government is deliberate cruelty. It's about people
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  Speaker 1: and neighbors across the country who look out for each other.
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  Speaker 1: They don't see empathy, they don't see there's a sign
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  Speaker 1: of weakness. They see empathy as a decent instinct. They
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  Speaker 1: don't see cruelty as a sign of strength. Social security
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  Speaker 1: is about more of than retirement accounts. It's about honoring
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  Speaker 1: a fundamental trust between government and people. It's about peace
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  Speaker 1: of mind for those who work their whole lives so
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  Speaker 1: you're rest assured they have a chance to get back
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  Speaker 1: some of what they are and what they deserve. But
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  Speaker 1: more than anything else, I mean it sincerely, and as
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  Speaker 1: my friend says, it's maybe it's the Irish o it
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  Speaker 1: in any minute. It's about who we are as Americans.
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  Speaker 1: Who are we what makes us distinct from the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the world. It comes down to basic, in my view,
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  Speaker 1: fundamental American values. Nobody's king, nobody's the boss. Everybody has
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  Speaker 1: a shot, all people asking for us a shot. Honesty, decency,
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  Speaker 1: we're hard workers, rewarded, have some faith in each other. Fairness,
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  Speaker 1: simple fairness. We can't go on like this as a
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  Speaker 1: divided nation, as divide as we are. Like I said,
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  Speaker 1: I've been doing this a long time. It's never been
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  Speaker 1: this divided. Granted it's roughly thirty percent, but it's a
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  Speaker 1: thirty percent that has no heart. But we see in America,
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  Speaker 1: so we believe in fairness, and that's the America we
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  Speaker 1: can never forget or walk away from. Folks. I mean this,
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  Speaker 1: I know it sounds true, but I have to remember
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  Speaker 1: who we are. We're the United States of America, the
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  Speaker 1: United States of America, the most unique country and the
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  Speaker 1: history of the world. And that's not hyperbole. Every in
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  Speaker 1: the nation was found because of religion, geography, ethnicity. We're
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  Speaker 1: the only nation in the world found on a notion.
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  Speaker 1: We hold these truths to be self evident that all
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  Speaker 1: men and women are created equal to endowed with their creator.
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  Speaker 1: That's the one thing you united is an idea every
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  Speaker 1: other nations because of purpose. It's an idea, and how
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  Speaker 1: can we fulfill the outcome the meaning that idea we
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  Speaker 1: walk away from just basic fundamental decency. Folks. Sorry once
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  Speaker 1: so long deeply about this. You know heard me say
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  Speaker 1: it before. I'll say it again. There's nothing, nothing beyond
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  Speaker 1: the capacity of America to do. When we do it together.
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  Speaker 1: Let's do what you do. God, bush you all. May
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  Speaker 1: God protect our truths. Thank you, I mean thank you
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  Speaker 1: for what you do. Thank you for this wonderful world.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you that