{"id":17405,"date":"2022-07-08T13:08:08","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T17:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crankers.com\/?p=17405"},"modified":"2024-01-31T10:41:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T14:41:38","slug":"joe-biden-fish-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/joe-biden-fish-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden appears to imitate a FISH after delivering remarks in Cleveland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden was speaking with a small crowd of people when he appears to start imitating a fish while looking down at someone&#8217;s child and it was all captured on video. This took place after President Biden gave a speech in Cleveland, at the Cuyahoga Community College.<br \/>\n<strong>WATCH BIDEN IMITATE A FISH ON VIDEO:<\/strong><br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 720px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-17405-1\" width=\"720\" height=\"650\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Joe-Biden-appears-to-imitate-a-fish-while-speaking-with-someone-video.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Joe-Biden-appears-to-imitate-a-fish-while-speaking-with-someone-video.mp4\">https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Joe-Biden-appears-to-imitate-a-fish-while-speaking-with-someone-video.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div><br \/>\nWhat did Biden say during his remarks? A partial transcript is below:<br \/>\nTHE PRESIDENT: Thank you, all. Thank you. Thank you. Please, please, please, please sit down.<br \/>\nShilaah, thank you very much for sharing your story; it\u2019s impressive. Dr. Johnson, everyone at Cuyahoga Community College, thank you for being here and having me here.<br \/>\nAnd, by the way, to all the elected officials: You know what we call this in my business? We call this a \u201cbusman\u2019s holiday\u201d \u2014 (laughter) \u2014 to have to come and ride a bus again with another guy. You\u2019re awful nice to be here. The only thing worse for an elected official when the President shows up is to say \u2014 the worst sentence in the English language is, \u201cI\u2019m at the airport.\u201d (Laughter.) And so \u2014 so \u2014 thank you all so much.<br \/>\nYou got some really great friends here, starting with Marcy. Anyway, Mr. Mayor, thank you. Dr. Johnson, thank you very much and \u2014 for letting me borrow, by the way, Marcia Fudge to serve as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. (Applause.)<br \/>\nYou know, certain places, just by chance and circumstance, can become markers in the course of your life or of a na- \u2014 of the course of the nation. And for me, Tri-C is one of those places.<br \/>\nJust a little over a year ago, March 10, 220- \u2014 in 2020, I came to Cleveland as a candidate running for President to rally \u2014 hold a rally here at the community college. Upon unloading, we got word that Governor DeWine \u2014 he did the right thing \u2014 wanted large indoor events to shut down because of the growing concerns over the virus and \u2014 spreading all across America.<br \/>\nThere would be no rally that night, and life in America had changed. And a long, dark year was about to descend upon all of us.<br \/>\nFourteen months later, we finally made it to campus. And from a year of darkness, we\u2019re now emerging into the light. And I said from the very beginning: There\u2019s no chance \u2014 no chance for this economy to come back unless we beat the pandemic.<br \/>\nI remember Congressman Ryan and I talking about that a lot on the campaign trail. You had to beat the pandemic to bring the economy back. And so that\u2019s what we set out to do with the help of a lot of the people that are right here.<br \/>\nAnd after administering 271 million doses of vaccine in the first 120 days \u2014 and we have \u2014 the cases are down now from January from \u2014 they\u2019re down 83 percent \u2014 COVID cases \u2014 down. The number of deaths has fallen by 85 percent.<br \/>\nSchools are reopening. Businesses are reopening. Restaurants are reopening. I hear that, as last night\u2019s vaccine lottery, Ohio has a new millionaire. (Laughter.) I tell you what: Who woulda thunk it? A million bucks for getting the vaccine. (Laughter.) But it\u2019s working.<br \/>\nNow, 56 percent of Ohioans have had at least one shot. We got to get to 70 percent. That\u2019s the goal.<br \/>\nWe\u2019ve turned the tide on the once-in-a-century pandemic. We\u2019ve turned the tide on a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. And families are beginning to be able to breathe just a little bit easier.<br \/>\nWe still have work to do, but our future today is as bright and as wide open as it ever has been. And now we\u2019re faced with a question: What kind of economy are we going to build for tomorrow? What are we going to do?<br \/>\nI believe this is our moment to rebuild an economy from the bottom up and the middle out, not a trickle-down economy from the very wealthy. That has never benefited people who are at this college or any other place where they\u2019re trying to make a living.<br \/>\nTo build an economy that rewards work, not just wealth. An economy that works for the backbone of this country \u2014 the people who get up every single day, work hard, raise their families, pay their taxes, serve their country, volunteer in their communities \u2014 just looking for a little bit of breathing room.<br \/>\nMy dad used to say, \u201cJust a little bit of breathing room, honey.\u201d And Tim has heard me say this a thousand times \u2014 my dad used to say, \u201cJoey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It\u2019s about your dignity. It\u2019s about respect. It\u2019s about your place in the community. It\u2019s about being able to look your kid in the eye and say, \u2018Honey, it\u2019s going to be okay.\u2019\u201d<br \/>\nThe last few months have demonstrated what that economy can look like. When \u2014 when our event here was canceled in March, our economy was on the brink of collapse. My mom used to have \u2014 especially say, \u201cYou know, the greatest gift God gave mankind was the ability forget. Because if it didn\u2019t do that, every woman would only have one child.\u201d (Laughter.)<br \/>\nBut all kidding aside, the good news is we forget the bad times. That\u2019s the good thing about we Americans: We\u2019re always optimistic. But 10 months \u2014 10 months ago, we were in trouble.<br \/>\nWhen I was sworn in, there were 10 million fewer jobs in America, and a lot here in Ohio. But in my first three months in office, the economy has added back 500,000 jobs per month. In fact, we\u2019ve created \u2014 with the help, again, of the members of Congress that are here today \u2014 1.5 million jobs, more jobs than have ever been created in the first three months of any presidency in the history United States.<br \/>\nBefore I took office, the average initial claims for unemployment insurance were over 830,000. This morning, we learned that number has fallen below 460,000 \u2014 cut in half the \u2014 and we\u2019re at the lowest level we\u2019ve seen since March 2020 when the pandemic first struck.<br \/>\nBefore I took office, almost 24 million Americans were going hungry. Marcy has heard me say this before: Did you ever think you\u2019d see people lined up for miles and miles and miles, going into a stadium to get someone to put a box of food in their trunk? People who never ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever thought they\u2019d need that kind of help.<br \/>\nWell, that number of hungry Americans \u2014 food-starved Americans \u2014 has dropped by 30 percent. Still too many, but there\u2019s clear progress.<br \/>\nBefore I took office, independent experts were projecting that our economy would grow at 3 to 4 percent in the year 2021. But they\u2019re now projecting that growth will be 6 percent or higher in 2021 \u2014 the fastest growth in this country in 40 years.<br \/>\nTo sum it up: COVID cases are down, COVID deaths are down, unemployment filings are down, hunger is down, vaccinations are up, jobs are up, growth is up, people gaining health coverage is up, small business confidence is up. Put it simply: America is coming back. America is on the move. (Applause.)<br \/>\nAnd that wasn\u2019t an accident. It wasn\u2019t luck. It happened for two reasons. First, we made the vaccine program a priority. As my friends in Congress will tell you, I got a lot of heat for just focusing on the vaccine. It goes back to what we all talk about. You\u2019ve got to fix the pandemic before you can fix the economy.<br \/>\nWe were able to, with a lot of hard work, get 600 million doses of the vaccine \u2014 enough for every single solitary American.<br \/>\nWe didn\u2019t have enough vaccinators, so we went to FEMA, the United States military, went to the AMA and got retired docs and nurses to come out of retirement \u2014 got thousands and thousands of additional people to administer the vaccines that we didn\u2019t have before.<br \/>\nWe created more places to get vaccinated, hitting my target to ensure that 90 percent of all Americans would have a vaccination site within five miles of where they live. And now, 50 percent of all of America \u2014 more than any other country \u2014 is fully vaccinated. (Applause.) Seventy-five \u2014 seventy-five percent of seniors \u2014 Black, white, Hispanic \u2014 across the board are fully vaccinated.<br \/>\nWe\u2019re getting lives back. The American economy is coming back. And that\u2019s the second reason we\u2019re on the move. I committed to an approach of building an American economy, a re- \u2014 a different economy to build back better, not just build back \u2014 build back better. That approach recognizes that we do \u2014 all do better when we all do well. And the best way to grow our economy is from the bottom up and the middle out.<br \/>\nYou know, I don\u2019t have any anything against \u2014 against anybody in Wall Street. I don\u2019t have anything against anybody making a million bucks, but Wall Street did not build this country. (Applause.) The middle class built this country, and unions built the middle class. (Applause.) That\u2019s a fact.<br \/>\nAn approach that recognizes that this time when we rebuild the middle class, we have to bring everybody along, regardless of their background, regardless of their religion, regardless of their race. That\u2019s the approach reflected in the American Rescue Plan, which my friends in the Congress helped get passed.<br \/>\nBecause of that law, more than 167 million Americans got a rescue payment of $1,400 that\u2019s gone out helping families pay their rent, pay their bills, buy their groceries \u2014 and maybe most important, gives them, for the first time, some hope \u2014 a little bit of hope.<br \/>\nHope goes a long, long, long way. Those checks matter. Small businesses, restaurants are getting \u2014 were getting killed. Now we\u2019re delivering the loans and support they need to reopen and stay open.<br \/>\nSchools were struggling to reopen, so we made targeting vac- \u2014 teachers to get the vaccine as a priority. We delivered schools much-needed support. State and local governments \u2014 and you know, Mr. Mayor \u2014 a lot of them had to lay off their employees \u2014 cops, firefighters, first responders \u2014 because you have to balance your budget.<br \/>\nWell, now they\u2019re coming back, thanks to the Rescue Plan. Beginning this summer, families with children will get tax relief \u2014 tax credit \u2014 the Child Tax Credit \u2014 which is going to deposit money directly into their banks every month until that money is paid out.<br \/>\nBy the way, we had no problem passing a $2 trillion tax plan that went to the top 1 percent that wasn\u2019t paid for at all; it just increased the debt $2 trillion. Every time I talk about tax cuts for working-class people, it\u2019s, \u201cOh my god.\u201d (Laughter.) \u201cWhat are we going to do?\u201d Well, we\u2019re going to take back some of that 1 percent money and make them pay for it. (Applause.)<br \/>\nAnd thanks in part to a part of the Rescue Plan named for an Ohio labor leader, Butch Lewis, championed by Sherrod Brown, who \u2014 I don\u2019t think Sherrod is here today \u2014 hundreds of thousands of retirees and workers across Ohio and millions more across the country can trust that their pensions they work so damn hard for and sacrificed to secure will be there for them, unlike my dad who busted his neck his whole life, and when the company went under, he lost his pension completely.<br \/>\nEven my Republican friends in Congress, not a single one of them voted for the Rescue Plan. I\u2019m not going to embarrass any one of them, but I have here a list \u2014 (laughter and applause) \u2014 of how, back in their districts, they\u2019re bragging about the Rescue Plan.<br \/>\nThey touted the re- \u2014 the Restaurant Revitalization Fund. They touted the fact that we\u2019re in a situation where the \u2014 dealing with \u2014 touted grants to community healthcare centers, touted \u2014 I mean, some people have no shame. (Laughter.)<br \/>\nBut I\u2019m happy. I\u2019m happy they know that it\u2019s benefited their constituents. That\u2019s okay with me. But if you\u2019re going to try to take credit for what you\u2019ve done, don\u2019t get in the way of what we still need to do. (Applause.)<br \/>\nThe bottom line \u2014 the bottom line is this: The Biden economic plan is working. We\u2019ve had record job creation. We\u2019re seeing record economic growth. We\u2019re creating a new paradigm \u2014 one that rewards work, the working people in this nation, not just those at the top.<br \/>\nWe did a study: 85 percent of my Jobs Plan \u2014 or 95 percent of my Jobs Plan, you don\u2019t need a bachelor\u2019s degree; 75 percent, you don\u2019t even need a degree that\u2019s a community college degree \u2014 it helps, but guess what? The bottom line is that people are going to be going back to work. There\u2019s a new bargain: Everyone is \u2014 is going to be in on the deal this time.<br \/>\nNow, as our economy recovers, there\u2019s going to be some bumps in the road; we know that \u2014 of course there will be. You can\u2019t reboot a global economy like flipping on a light switch. There\u2019s going to be ups and downs in jobs and economic reports. There\u2019s going to be supply chain issues, price distortions on the way back to a stable and steady growth.<br \/>\nIn the coming weeks, my administration will take steps to combat these supply pressures, starting with the construction materials and transportation bottlenecks, and building off the work we\u2019re doing on computer chips. We\u2019re also announcing new initiatives to combat anti-competitive practices that hurt small businesses and families.<br \/>\nFixing those problems can help build a more dynamic, innovative economy, and we\u2019re going to have a lot more to say about that in the days ahead.<br \/>\nBut this \u2014 this is already clear: We\u2019re on the right track. The American Rescue Plan laid a strong foundation for a new economy that brings everybody along, but it\u2019s just a first step. We\u2019re going to build on the incentive and incredible progress that we\u2019ve made and set America on a sustainable path to a faster, more inclusive economic growth. We have to start investing in ourselves again and the American people again.<br \/>\nConsider this: Three decades ago, the United States was number one \u2014 and some would argue number two \u2014 in the world for R&amp;D spending \u2014 research and development \u2014 as a share of our economy. You know where we are now in the international competition? We\u2019re number nine. Nine.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, China was number eight in their overall spending in research and development three decades ago; they\u2019re now number two. Number two.<br \/>\nThis past year, Japan, Canada, Italy, France, and the EU have announced significant infrastructure spending. China has announced that they\u2019re increasing their research and development spending dramatically. Japan is making huge investments in reducing carbon emissions and building out the digital capacity they have. The \u2014 the European Union as well.<br \/>\nWe\u2019re in a race to see who wins the 21st century. Now if I could hold just for a second here \u2014 one of the things I\u2019ve found \u2014 I\u2019ve s- \u2014 you know, I\u2019m supposedly \u2014 they\u2019d always announce me in the past as an expert in foreign policy. Well, let me tell you something: Economic policy is harder than foreign policy. You know what the basis of foreign policy is in our stature in the world? One thing: our economic prowess. Our economic prowess.<br \/>\nWe must be number one in the world to lead the world in the 21st century. It\u2019s a simple proposition. (Applause.)<br \/>\nAnd the starting gun has already gone off. We can\u2019t afford to fall any further behind. Now is the time to build the foundation that we\u2019ve laid \u2014 to make bold investments in our families, in our communities, in our nation. We know from history that these kinds of investments raise both the floor and the ceiling of the economy for everybody.<br \/>\nLike, when we brought electricity to every household in the country in 1930s or we connected the country through the Interstate Highway System in the \u201950s. They created millions of jobs, good-paying jobs. They set the economy up to grow more quickly and share prosperity more broadly for decades to come. Those electrical poles and wires still help power rural communities 80 years after they were built, and it\u2019s time now to rebuild them.<br \/>\nA quarter of all the miles Americans travel on roads are on the Interstate Highway System built 60 years ago \u2014 60 years after we build it. These are generational investments. Private sector does not make these kind of investments. We\u2019ve neglected that kind of public investment for much too long.<br \/>\nThe pandemic exposed just how badly we need to invest in the foundation of this country and the working people of this country. That\u2019s why I proposed the American Jobs Plan and the American\u2019s Family Plan \u2014 the generational investments we need today to succeed for tomorrow.<br \/>\nYou know, as my wife Jill, who\u2019s been a teacher for a long time \u2014 she used to be about 10 years younger than me; now she\u2019s 30 years younger than me \u2014 (laughter) \u2014 and she is in every way, God love her. (Laughter.) She\u2019s the only First Lady ever to work full time \u2014 full time. She teaches 15 credits at a community college \u2014 15 credits. She\u2019s a remarkable person. And she\u2019s out in Missouri right now and Kansas [City] doing other things \u2014 nothing to do with her job as a teacher.<br \/>\nBut my point is this, Jill has a constant refrain: \u201cJoey, any nation that out-educates us is going to outcompete us.\u201d It\u2019s a simple proposition.<br \/>\nYou know, think about this: One of the reasons that \u2014 that caused us to move ahead so significantly as a world leader \u2014 an economic leader in the world was that in the late 1800s, early 1900s, we were the first nation in the world to say, \u201cWe\u2019re going to have 12 years of free \u2014 without any limitation \u2014 free education. Twelve years.\u201d<br \/>\nNow imagine if \u2014 and the rest of the world has caught up with us, and they\u2019ve now passed us in many cases. Imagine if we were sitting today and say, \u201cWe\u2019re going to set up an education system.\u201d Does anybody think 12 years of education is enough for us to compete in the world in the second quarter of the 21st century? I\u2019m not joking. Just \u2014 just consciously think about that. Is it enough? It\u2019s not.<br \/>\nAnd so, I\u2019m proposing four additional years of education: two years of high-quality pre-K for three- and four-years-old \u2014 not in daycare, in school. The studies show that if you do that, those children have an opportunity of 56 better \u2014 56 percent better chance of going through all 12 years of school and beyond without getting into any trouble, no matter what the background or the family they come from. No matter what. On the front end, those two years are important.<br \/>\nAnd then two years of free community college. Free community college \u2014 (applause) \u2014 to better prepare our people to get these good-paying jobs of the future \u2014 jobs I saw students training for throughout the Manufacturing Technology Center.<br \/>\nYou know, we need to invest in transportation infrastructure. Drive anywhere and you can see why we\u2019re rated 13th in the world in infrastructure. The United States of America is viewed to have the 13th-best infrastructure in the world. Come on. This United States of America, for God\u2019s sake.<br \/>\nWe need to invest in universal high-speed Internet, more seamlessly connect our businesses and their customers, expand the possibilities of job opportunities in every hometown in America, no matter how big or small.<br \/>\nAnd, by the way, if you\u2019ll hold for a second \u2014 think about this. How many of you men and women have children who were doing remote learning? Think of all the children throughout the country, in inner cities and in rural areas, that had no Internet connection. It\u2019s estimated that some of those kids are going to be pushed \u2014 although it\u2019s only been one year \u2014 three years behind in their education.<br \/>\nLook, investment in high-growth industries like clean energy and electric vehicles \u2014 it\u2019s not just we want to deal with the environment. We want to lead the world in exports of these new technologies instead of ceding the global market and job creation to the Chinese. They\u2019re building 20 times as many electric vehicles as we\u2019re doing now, and the technology that goes with that. What are we doing? It\u2019s millions of jobs in China instead of here. It\u2019s not that it\u2019s the jobs we\u2019re going to create here, but that we\u2019re going to create to the export the technology. We used to be the net exporter of major technologies.<br \/>\nI also think and am pushing very hard to make major investments in medicines and cures of the future. Folks, diseases like Alzheimer\u2019s, diabetes, cancer \u2014 they\u2019re all on the cusp of being able to be dealt with. You know, if we don\u2019t do something about Alzheimer\u2019s in America, every single, solitary hospital bed that exists in America \u2014 as the nurses can tell you \u2014 every single one will be occupied in the next 15 years with an Alzheimer\u2019s patient \u2014 every one \u2014 costing us in excess of a trillion dollars.<br \/>\nSo what are we doing? I came up with an idea, and I think is going to get done. And that is that \u2014 you know, there\u2019s a thing called DARPA, which is the Defense Applied Application Research \u2014 it\u2019s an outfit that came up with the Internet in the Defense Department, it came up with geospacing and a whole range of things that are related to our security. I want to do the same thing at the NIH to focus on those diseases.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s estimated if we do spend \u2014 if we spend $5 billion a year on that research and development, focusing with \u2014 on insurance companies can\u2019t \u2014 don\u2019t have the money to focus on \u2013we can make significant breakthroughs. We\u2019re already doing that \u2014 already doing that.<br \/>\nIf we invest, we can create millions of jobs rebuilding the foundation of a strong, fair, resilient, competitive economy, and save hundreds of thousands of lives.<br \/>\nAnd 100 percent of our investment is going to be guided by one principle: Make it in America. Make it in America. (Applause.)<br \/>\nIf I can hold that for just a second, there is a law that was passed in the \u201930s \u2014 doesn\u2019t violate any trade principle \u2014 saying that whatever money \u2014 that whatever program that taxpayers are paying for, you can spend it all on American contractors. No one\u2019s ever done it \u2014 though, I promise you, I signed an executive order. If in fact we\u2019re building the new deck of an aircraft carrier \u2014 well, guess what? \u2014 I get, as President, to make \u2014 let contracts for over $600 billion a year.<br \/>\nI promise you, there\u2019ll be no contract let to a foreign company or any of the product down the line. Right now, what can happen is you can hire an American company and they can sublet to \u2014 and they can \u2014 their downstream product can all be foreign. All you got to do is get that particular agency to say, \u201cYou got an exception. We can\u2019t find that job here in America.\u201d<br \/>\nWell, guess what? They\u2019re going to find the job here in America, I promise you, or they\u2019re not going to get the contracts. These jobs will be good jobs \u2014 American jobs that deliver good wages and dignity.<br \/>\nAnd look, this is about choice. We can give \u2014 we can keep giving every break in the world to corporations and CEOs, or we can raise the corporate tax rate back to 28 percent. It was, by the way, 36 percent. It came down to 28 percent, which is still lower than it was at any point between World War One and 2017, and they\u2019re making trillions of dollars.<br \/>\nI\u2019m going to tell you this to the press again: In the 10-year period between \u201914 and \u201924 \u2014 excuse me, between \u201910 and \u201920 \u2014 2010 and 2020, they made over a trillion dollars. I think that\u2019s good. You know what they did with a trillion dollars? They went out and they bought back 56 percent of their stock. Because the more they buy back, the more valuable the stock, and that\u2019s how CEOs get paid.<br \/>\nCEOs used to get paid 35, 36 times to the average employee, and they should get paid. Now it\u2019s over 370 times more than the average employee. As my mother would say, \u201cWho died and left them boss?\u201d (Laughter.) No, I\u2019m serious about it.<br \/>\nNow \u2014 so you got over 50 percent going to stock buybacks. And the other percent \u2014 I think it\u2019s 42 percent \u2014 you get \u2014 let me see, 56 \u2014 it\u2019s 40 \u2014 no, it\u2019s 38 percent goes to dividends, which is reasonable.<br \/>\nBut here\u2019s the point. After all is said and done, that leaves 8 percent of that trillion dollars for research and development, salaries, new product, new enterprises, new initiatives \u2014 8 percent.<br \/>\nI come from the corporate capital of the world, literally. More corporations are incorporated in the state of Delaware than in any place in America combined \u2014 all the rest of the corporate registrations combined don\u2019t equal what\u2019s in my state.<br \/>\nIt used to be corporations felt they had responsibilities beyond their taxpayer \u2014 beyond their shareholders and beyond their executives. But what is it now? The average CEO becomes a CEO for six to seven years.<br \/>\nAnd by the way, capitalism has incentives. One of the worst votes ever made was during the Carter \u2014 the Clinton administration, to say a corporation could not deduct in tax \u2014 deduct from their taxes more than a million dollars of pay for any CEO. So guess what they start doing? Eighty-some percent of CEOs now get paid in stock options.<br \/>\nWhy do you think they buy back the stock? To raise the price in \u2014 of the stock. They\u2019re not bad guys. It\u2019s just the incentives.<br \/>\nSo if we just raised the corporate tax to 28 percent, which is still lower than where it was, as I said, between World War One and 2017, that generates 90 billion additional dollars into the Treasury for a year, per year. That could put hundreds of thousands of people to work to modernize our roads, our bridges, our ports, our airports, and pay for it \u2014 pay for it. (Applause.)<br \/>\nPut people to work to make sure every American has access to high-speed Internet so businesses can compete in the 21st century, kids in every community can get ahead. Another choice.<br \/>\nWe can ask the top 1 percent of the taxpayers in America to get \u2014 pay the same tax rate they paid when George W. Bush was President. You know how much that would generate? That would generate $13 billion per year, allowing every student in America to go to community college for free.<br \/>\nWhen I was in the last administration that I was part of \u2014 Obama-Biden \u2014 the President asked me to find out what the major corporate entities thought was the most important thing they needed. We interviewed over 340 \u2014 I think it was 348 CEOs. You know what they said \u2014 everyone of them? A better-educated workforce.<br \/>\nBut they\u2019re not spending money to educate the workforce, so imagine what we\u2019d do \u2014 corporate America benefits with a better-educated population. Do you want to give the wealthiest people in America another tax cut? I \u2014 by the way, I don\u2019t begrudge them the money they made, just start paying your fair share, just a little bit.<br \/>\nIn consequence, it would help every high school graduate earn an education like students here at Tri-C, one that puts people on a path to good-paying jobs in industries of the future.<br \/>\nLook, I know \u2014 I know you know what\u2019s best for America. And by the way, better-educated public helps everybody. Look, my plan is \u2014 my plan is the right way to invest, spreading key investments over time so we limit the price pressure.<br \/>\nThis is the right time to invest when we have historically low interest rates, investing now with a plan to pay for it. That is the fiscally responsible thing to do.<br \/>\nOf course, there are critics out there who want to stand still. By the way, some of those critics are the same people who said that money was no object when it came, as I said, to that $2 trillion tax cut that went to the wealthiest 1 percent of America, who hold 30 percent of all the wealth in the country.<br \/>\nBut when we need to fix a road or a water system, or help millions of people return to the workforce by helping them afford childcare or eldercare, or help afford \u2014 attend \u2014 the ability to attend Tri-C, they think that\u2019s \u2014 that\u2019s a bridge too far.<br \/>\nInvesting in America again is going to create growth and more jobs, but there\u2019s something else we have to do to ensure the high-quality jobs exist. We must restore the connection between the success of our economy and the people who produce that success \u2014 hardworking Americans. The connection has been severed.<br \/>\nYou all remember \u2014 it used to be the case in this country when you were a part of generating success of a company, you got to share in the benefits. That\u2019s long since gone \u2014 not a joke.<br \/>\nAnd by the way, I \u2014 I\u2019m a capitalist. But here\u2019s the deal: From 1948 after the war, to 1977 \u2014 I think it was 1977 \u2014 \u201979 \u2014 productivity in America grew by 100 percent. We made more things \u2014 productivity. You know what the workers\u2019 pay grew? By 100 percent.<br \/>\nSince 1979, all that changed. Produc- \u2014 productivity has grown four times faster than pay has grown. The basic bargain in this country has been broken. If you work hard and contribute to the success of enterprise, you get to share in the success \u2014 that\u2019s not the case anymore \u2014 so you could carve out your place in the middle class.<br \/>\nThat\u2019s how it happens. That\u2019s how it works in healthy capitalist economies. But along the way, we started seeing the stock market and corporate profits and executive pay as the sole measure of our economic success.<br \/>\nLet me tell you something. My sole measure of economic success is how working families are doing, whether they have jobs that deliver dignity. That means we have to focus on wages like we used to.<br \/>\nWhen it comes to the economy we\u2019re building, rising wages aren\u2019t a bug; they\u2019re a feature. We want to get \u2014 we want to get something economists call \u201cfull employment.\u201d Instead of workers competing with each other for jobs that are scarce, we want employees to compete with each other to attract work. We want the \u2014 the companies to compete to attract workers.<br \/>\nThat kind of competition in the market doesn\u2019t just give workers more ability to earn a higher wage, it gives them the power to demand to be treated with dignity and respect in the workplace. And it helps ensure that America \u2014 when you walk into work, you don\u2019t have to check your right to be treated with respect at the door.<br \/>\n\u201cFull employment\u201d also means more options and opportunities for workers \u2014 including Black, Hispanic workers, Amer- \u2014 Asian American workers, women \u2014 who\u2019ve been left behind in previous economic recoveries when the labor market never tighten- \u2014 tightened up enough.<br \/>\nLook, this isn\u2019t just good for individual workers, it also makes our economy a whole lot stronger. When American workers have more money to spend, American businesses benefit. We all benefit. Higher wages and more options for workers are a good thing.<br \/>\nA lot of companies have done extremely well in this crisis, and good for them. Good for them. The simple fact is, though, corporate profits are the highest they\u2019ve been in decades, and workers\u2019 pay is at the lowest it has been in 70 years.<br \/>\nWe have more than ample room to raise workers pay without raising customer prices. Soaring corporate profits and stagnant wages aren\u2019t the American Dream, and they aren\u2019t the American deal.<br \/>\nLook, I\u2019m not looking to punish anyone or to say business shouldn\u2019t be able to make a significant profit. I understand the risk and challenges businessowners face, and they should be rewarded for the success and the risks they take. I just think, after decades of workers getting a raw deal, it\u2019s time they be given a fair shake. (Applause.)<br \/>\nWell, wait until you see what happens when employers have to compete for workers. Companies like McDonald\u2019s, Home Depot, Bank of America, and others \u2014 what do they have to do? They have to raise wages to attract workers. That\u2019s the way it\u2019s supposed to be.<br \/>\nAnd we got to do two more things. Congress should raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. (Applause.) No one \u2014 no one should work 40 hours a week and live in poverty, live below the poverty level. And we ought to pass the Protect the Right to Organize \u2014 the PRO Act \u2014 supported by union workers. (Applause.)<br \/>\nLook, let me close with this. You know, it\u2019s an overused phrase these days, but it\u2019s still accurate: We\u2019re at an inflection point in American history. It happens every several generations. We have a chance to seize the economic momentum of the first months of my administration not just to build back, but to build back better.<br \/>\nAnd this time, we\u2019re going to deal everyone in \u2014 everyone that has been left out \u2014 and breathe new life into the middle class and new hope into those struggling to break into the middle class.<br \/>\nWe have a chance to make investments that Moody\u2019s \u2014 not a liberal think tank \u2014 Wall Street, Moody\u2019s \u2014 says my plan will increase the size of our economy by $4.5 trillion \u2014 Moody\u2019s \u2014 $4.5 trillion over the next decade, and create well over 16 million new good-paying jobs.<br \/>\nIf we make these investments now, in 50 years, people are going to look back \u2014 and not even that long \u2014 your children or grandchildren will look back and say this was the moment when America won the future. Won the future.<br \/>\nFolks, I\u2019ve said it a thousand times \u2014 I mean it from the bottom of my heart: There is not a single thing America can\u2019t do when we do it together. Never. We\u2019re the only country in the world that has \u2014 when we set our mind to something, that has never ever, ever, ever failed.<br \/>\nThis is an opportunity for the wealthy to stay wealthy, the poor to have a shot at the middle class, and the middle class to be able to breathe more easily. That\u2019s what this is about. But this time, bring everybody along \u2014 everybody.<br \/>\nThank you. And God bless you. And may God protect our troops. Thank you. (Applause.)<br \/>\n3:02 P.M. 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