Today because of coronavirus. Deaths all across this nation. And undoing tables, kitchen tables that weeks and months ago were filled with a loved one, a mom, dad, brother or sister. In many cases, the pain was made a lot worse. With people tell me this Close Friends of the family telling me because they were unable to visit their elderly parent or grandparent in the nursing home before they passed away. No matter how many stories i heard from the nurses, saying they held up the cell phone to the patient on the ventilator, in the bed. That is all they can speak to. Were notthat people able to hold Funeral Services where they could pray together and remember the loved ones that they lost. Rituals have come to help us cope with pain and loss, to help us honor the lives of those we loved. They are just not available in the middle of this pandemic. Me now is that we have been living with this pandemic for so long, that i worry that we risk become numb to the toll that is taken on us and our country, and communities like this. We cannot let that happen. Tocannot lose the ability feel the sorrow, loss and anger for so many lives lost. Becomeot let the numbers statistics and background noise, just a blur in the nightly news. They are no longer with us. So many of them did not have to lose their lives to this virus. If only the president had acted sooner. Columbia university released a study saying if we had acted on month sooner, we would have saved 70 lives. The leading model being used to track the virus, that model says between now and the end of this year, while we are waiting for a vaccine, between now and the end of the year, we will lose up to 200,000 additional lives. It points out that if we act by doing what you are doing here in wisconsin, wearing a mask and making minimum requirements, we could save over 115,000 of those lives. I hope to god we will not have to learn the same bad lesson we learned the first nine months. We have seen one of the greatest losses of American Life in history. Sadly, it is not over. Past year hase been, it could be worse. 178,000 be looking at lives lost. All the president does is deliberately change the subject. It is infuriating. , if we juste lives take simple steps. Still, the president refuses. We watched tim holden indoor rally with thousands of people. President knew of these dangers back in february. He hid it from the American People. Was. Derstood how bad it moreis a deadly virus, far but that isany flu, not what he was saying to us publicly. Publicly, he told us it was just like the flu and that it would disappear in the warm weather. It was all a lie. He knew it. What was his explanation . He said he did not want to see the American People panic. Trump panicked. The virus was too big for him. With this crisis, a real crisis that required serious president ial leadership, he was not up to it. He froze. He failed to act. America has paid the worst price of any nation in the world. It is important to understand what donald trump was saying. E do not panic understand what he was saying because it crystallizes his whole worldview. When donald trump said he did not want to create a panic, he was not just talking about a health panic. He was worried that if he told the public the truth, there would be a panic of the financial markets, which would hurt his chances of being reelected. World from park avenue. Inee it from where i grew up scranton, pennsylvania. Hard work. Look at the world from park avenue, all you can see is wall street. You think wall street built this country . Thanksnk donald trump giveaway,ng out a tax primarily for large corporations and wealthy qualifiers is an economic plan . Is think like trump that 15 too much for americas essential workers . Eliminated overtime pay for millions of American Workers. Tried to take away health care from 20 million americans in the middle of this pandemic. Away preexisting conditions for 130 billion americans. Proposed a plan, in order to make it look good, you will get a little bump in your pay, but we will not take out withholding for your Social Security, but guess what . Social security says if he does that, Social Security will be bankrupt by the middle of 2023. You might get that out of your paycheck, a little more in your paycheck, but guess what . Tell your mom and dad, say goodbye to Social Security. They will have to work for their whole lives. That is basically what we got out of it, a lot of Dairy Farmers and manufacturing went under, but guess what . Aarting a trade war that surge in bankruptcy, but you know what happened . I did not know this at first. Up inas bank got to open beijing. They were not able to before. Lower Prescription Drug prices. He had a deal, but he wanted the pharmaceutical companies, before they lowered the prices, to do something that they thought was unethical. He asked them to send out 100 tocks with his name on it the elderly. Aying that is the down payment they said, google not do that. The deal fell apart. Now, some 30 Million People are on unemployment. Here is what they are doing. The tax rate all of you pay is going to be higher than billionaires who make their money on investments. Again, lowerower the Capital Gains tax. Someone who makes their money off the market is paying the 50 rate. It depends on the tax bracket. Clewiston percent. Will cost billions of dollars a year. Who is hyde does it come out of . Donald trump ran for office saying he would represent the in thisn man and woman country. Not only did he forget them, the truth is that he never really respected us very much. He loves his rallies. One, lookime he holds closely. He keeps his distance from anyone in the rally. Those who come are tight as can be, risking disease, but not trump. He keeps his distance. To come up andd he said no, you have to keep your distance. I do not get close to these people. Everybody in the crowd risks their lives, but not him. Now we know what he thinks about people in his rallies. Said he callsyee his employees disgusting. She does not have to shake their hands. That is the good thing about the pandemic. These are all about entertainment and not respect. Do not kid yourself. This is a oneway street. Nothing is more offensive than the way he spoke about many of you brave men and women who served your nation in uniform. It has been confirmed by every outlet that he referred to them as losers and suckers. That is what trump called the people who served and made the ultimate sacrifice. My son served as a volunteer to go to iraq for a year. Came home decorated and died of cancer. He was not a loser. He was not a sucker. He was a patriot. All those people with whom he. Erved volunteered just like your sons and daughters. I have dealt with people like trump my whole life. He looked down on us because we did not have a lot of money. Guys who think they are better than you, guys who inherit everything they have ever gotten in their life and squandered it. Who stiff electricians and contractors just to put a few more bucks in their pocket. They do everything they can to avoid paying their taxes because they figure the rest of us, the Little People can pick up the tab for the country. Do you have any doubt that the reason we have not seen trumps tax returns is because he does not want us to know what he paid . He had to summon them over. They show that he paid zero. He paid zero, nothing. That is a fact. And he was asked about it, you know what he said . This is why i really do not like guys like this. He said, it makes me smart. Put another way, i am not a sucker. Why should i pay . Zero. Wall street is a long way from scranton, pennsylvania. You get to see the world a little more clearly there. Wall street did not build this country. Hardworking people built this country. Unions built the middle class. Union labor, like the people in this room. Lessonsd a few simple from my parents that i never forgot. One is from my mother. , nobody isremember better than you, but everyone is your the equal. It is pretty simple. We are all equal and we should be treated that way. Got my back up recently about something that i saw on National Television about the race. Buy it. Joe biden will be only the first president who did not go to an iv League School ivy League School in a long time. Somehow, it meant that i could not belong. How could a guy who went to a state school be president . It. Ve to admit, i said i am not proud of it. He closed the door on me. You think i am not good enough . I am going to bust down that door. A lot of you feel the same way because of our standing. I say, it is about time that a state School President sat in the oval office. If i am sitting there, you will be sitting there too. Another lesson, i learned from my dad. Up we had to job move we had to go to his fatherinlaw and a, can jean and the kids stay with you for about a year . I will make it up to you. I have a job in delaware. I will come home every weekend. Talk about pride. He used to say, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. ,t is about your dignity respect, your place in the looknity, being able to your kid in the eye and say, it is going to be all right. He dignity of work what you do matters. You matter. I do not want to punish anybody. It is about time that we start to reward work. Nobody making less than forton thousand dollars 400,000 in this country will see their taxes go up. If you make more, you will start to pay more. I am not looking to punish anyone. Some of the wealthiest corporations need to pay their fair share. Many of them are paying zero. They take no tax at all. How can that be fair . The president talks all the time about how great the economy is. The billionaires in this country are seeing their wealth increase by 800 billion. America,illionaires in during the pandemic, their net worth, combined have increased by 800 billion. The rest of us . 30 Million People are unemployed. 20 million americans are at risk of losing their home. Seven plus million americans are working parttime, who want to work fulltime. On the rise. For a lot of families, the kids are at home and not at school. It is the working people who knew hed who need a tax break. You are going to be able to afford it. I said it many times. Need to ive said it many times during this pandemic, we need to do more than just praise our essential workers, we need to pay them. We need to make Health Care Affordable for every american. My plan will lower Prescription Drug costs by 60 . Its going to make sure we keep protections for preexisting conditions obama and i put in place and make it a lot more affordable to have that health care. We need to empower labor unions in this country. Fair labor standards act didnt say in the 1930s, you cant have labor unions. It said we should promote labor unions. Thats what it said, and i will. One more thing. Under my build back better plan, were not only going to build infrastructure with Union Workers and prevailing wage, were going to do something else. Were going to rebuild manufacturing in this country. Well do it by enforcing a real buy american plan. Look, the federal government has spent 600 billion a year in purchasing power that the federal government has every year from tax dollars and determines how its used. When im president of the United States, god willing, American Companies with American Workers building American Products using american supply chains are going to be the only ones who get the contracts. That means american aluminum for infrastructure, for developing more wind and solar and hydroelectric power. Electric vehicles will replace cars in the federal fleet. We have one of the largest fleets in the world, the federal government. Were going to shift them all to electric vehicles. Guess what . That means youre going to be providing much more lighter frames, more aluminum for automobiles that already if they are aluminum built, they can reduce by 15 , even with a combustion engine. 1. 5 million new Affordable Homes and housing. Were going to build. This is going to require a lot of work, increased work at home. Were going to make sure that we transfer 40 million buildings around america to make them weather resistant so they are change the windows, doors, walls, the whole range. Building back better means firing up our shuttered foundries and moving forward to business that is truly made in america. I want to spend a few moments talking to those who vote for donald trump last time. When i was out here in our administration, you voted for us. Then an awful lot of people in this county changed, and they voted for trump last time. I know many of you are frustrated, angry, believed you werent being seen, represented or heard. I get it. It has to change. I promise you this, it will change with me. You will be seen, heard, and respected by me. This campaign isnt just about winning votes, its about restoring the basic dignity in this country that every worker deserves. Basic dignity we all have without winning back hearts and soul of america, were not going to make it. Just a few days ago when i was asked about the death count approaching 200,000, the president said, and i quote, he said i wont quote him. The president said, if you take out the blue states run by democratic governors and just look at the red states, republican governors are doing quite well. Now, of course, its a simple factual matter, its just not true. If you count all the deaths in the red states, we are number two in the world in deaths just behind brazil. But more fundamentally, it reflects on the part of donald trump that he has a deeply flawed and divisive view of the United States. This nation and the job he holds. Think about what hes saying. If you live in a state like wisconsin, michigan, states with democratic governors, youre not his problem. He has no obligation to you. Hes not responsible for you as president , your family or wellbeing. I dont see it that way. I dont pledge allegiance to red states or blue states of america, i pledge allegiance to the United States of america, one nation under god for real. Im running as a proud democrat. Im not going to govern as a democratic president , im going to governor as president. I get criticized for saying that sometimes to some in my party, but thats not what im going to do. Im going to fight as hard for those who supported me as those who did not support me. This is not a partisan moment, for gods sake, this has to be an american moment. In the next few weeks, we have a chance to put anger and division and the darkness thats overtaken this country behind us. We have to put it behind us. I know ive been criticized since i entered primaries about uniting the country. We have to unite the country. This is not who we are. We can. Weve done it so many times in our history. Weve begun anew. If we get control of this virus, we can. We can reward work. We can fix the health care system. We can be a safe and just nation. We can deal with the existential threat of climate change, which aluminum is going to be a gigantic part of. We can be what we are at our best, one nation. One nation. One people. One america. We just have to remember who in gods name we are. This is the United States of america. In our long history, theres been nothing weve been unable to do nothing we have been unable to overcome when weve done it together. Im confident going all over this nation, we can do it together. The American People are hungry. We have to bring the nation together. Thats going to be my primary job. I want to thank you all. God bless you for what youre doing. Yall stay safe and may god protect our troops. Thank you so much, mr. Mayor. Thank you. And thank you, maam. Appreciate it. [applause] ongoing Global Pandemic in many schools shifting to online learning, the studentcam competition gives students a platform to engage in a national conversation. We are asking Middleton High School students to create a documentary for 2020. The constitution was invested in giving American Students and completing time as shown in the amendment. The issues with the quality. 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