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Look, Joe Biden and I have been traveling all across the country and there are a lot of places where we’re doing a lot of great work.
Just like you did in 2008, you can defy the conventional wisdom, the kind of conventional wisdom, the stale wisdom that says you can’t overcome cynicism in our politics, that says, no, you can’t overcome all the special interests and the special interest money, that says, no, you can’t tackle the biggest challenges in this country.
For most of the last decade, middle-class families have been struggling.
This didn’t just start a year ago, it didn’t just start two years ago.
Between 2001 and 2009, the average middle-class family saw their incomes across the country go down by 5 percent when the other side was in charge.
Between 2001 and 2009, job growth was slower than any time since World War II.
Meanwhile, the costs of everything, from health care to sending a child to college, kept on going up and up and up.
Too many families couldn’t send their kids to college.
Too many families couldn’t visit a doctor when somebody got sick. Americans, too many of them were working two, three jobs and still couldn’t make ends meet, and a whole lot of folks couldn’t find a job at all.
And these problems were then compounded by the worst economic crisis, the worst financial crisis, since the Great Depression.
I mean, think about it, we had a recession that was so bad we lost 4 million jobs before Joe and I were even sworn into office.
Then we had another 750,000 jobs lost the month we took office, 600,000 the month after, 600,000 the month after that.
We lost almost 8 million jobs before our economic policies could even be put into place.
Now, when Joe and I got to Washington, our hope was that both parties would put politics aside to meet this once-in-a-generation challenge.
Because although we are proud to be Democrats, we are prouder to be Americans, and we had confidence and continue to have confidence that there are Republicans out there who feel the same way.
But, the Republican leaders in Washington, they had a different calculation.
Their basic theory was, you know what, the economy is so bad, we made such a mess of things, that rather than cooperate, we’ll be better off just saying no to everything.
We’ll be better off not even trying to fix the economy, and people will get angry and they will get frustrated and maybe two years from now they will have forgotten that we were the ones who caused the mess in the first place.
In other words, their basic political strategy has been to count on you having amnesia.
They’re betting all of you forgot how we got here.
Well, it’s up to you to let them know we have not forgotten.
It’s up to you to remember that this election is a choice between the policies that got us into this mess and the policies that are leading us out of this mess.
If they win this election, the chair of a Republican campaign committee promised to pursue the “exact same agenda” as they did before I came into office.
I need you to go vote.
I need you to get your friends to vote, because if you are willing to step up to the plate, we will win this election.
We will restore our economy.
We will rebuild our middle class, and we will reclaim the American Dream for future generations.
Just like you did in 2008, you can defy the conventional wisdom, the kind of conventional wisdom, the stale wisdom that says you can’t overcome cynicism in our politics, that says, no, you can’t overcome all the special interests and the special interest money, that says, no, you can’t tackle the biggest challenges in this country.
For most of the last decade, middle-class families have been struggling.
This didn’t just start a year ago, it didn’t just start two years ago.
Between 2001 and 2009, the average middle-class family saw their incomes across the country go down by 5 percent when the other side was in charge.
Between 2001 and 2009, job growth was slower than any time since World War II.
Meanwhile, the costs of everything, from health care to sending a child to college, kept on going up and up and up.
Too many families couldn’t send their kids to college.
Too many families couldn’t visit a doctor when somebody got sick. Americans, too many of them were working two, three jobs and still couldn’t make ends meet, and a whole lot of folks couldn’t find a job at all.
And these problems were then compounded by the worst economic crisis, the worst financial crisis, since the Great Depression.
I mean, think about it, we had a recession that was so bad we lost 4 million jobs before Joe and I were even sworn into office.
Then we had another 750,000 jobs lost the month we took office, 600,000 the month after, 600,000 the month after that.
We lost almost 8 million jobs before our economic policies could even be put into place.
Now, when Joe and I got to Washington, our hope was that both parties would put politics aside to meet this once-in-a-generation challenge.
Because although we are proud to be Democrats, we are prouder to be Americans, and we had confidence and continue to have confidence that there are Republicans out there who feel the same way.
But, the Republican leaders in Washington, they had a different calculation.
Their basic theory was, you know what, the economy is so bad, we made such a mess of things, that rather than cooperate, we’ll be better off just saying no to everything.
We’ll be better off not even trying to fix the economy, and people will get angry and they will get frustrated and maybe two years from now they will have forgotten that we were the ones who caused the mess in the first place.
In other words, their basic political strategy has been to count on you having amnesia.
They’re betting all of you forgot how we got here.
Well, it’s up to you to let them know we have not forgotten.
It’s up to you to remember that this election is a choice between the policies that got us into this mess and the policies that are leading us out of this mess.
If they win this election, the chair of a Republican campaign committee promised to pursue the “exact same agenda” as they did before I came into office.
I need you to go vote.
I need you to get your friends to vote, because if you are willing to step up to the plate, we will win this election.
We will restore our economy.
We will rebuild our middle class, and we will reclaim the American Dream for future generations.
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