thank you. thank you so much. mr. speaker, mr. vice president, members of congress, my fellow americans. today in america, a teacher spent extra time with a student who needed it, and did her part to lift america s graduation rate to its highest levels in more than three decades. an entrepreneur flipped on the lights in her tech start-up, and did her part to add to the more than 8 million new jobs our businesses have created over the past four years. an autoworker finetuned some of the best, most fuel efficient cars in the world, and did his part to help america wean itself
for it and you don t rob peter to pay paul and you don t want to take money out of people s pockets. one of the things about unemployment insurance is when people get the $300 on average they are spend it in the local grocery store, the local auto repair shops so they can get their car working so they can go out and look for jobs and they are looking for jobs. they have to be looking for jobs to get this. a hundred years ago this week, henry ford announced he was going to pay every worker in his plant from the young man sweeping the floor to the autoworker himself $5 a day. he did that not necessarily to be jagainus. he knew it would people money in people s pocket to maybe buy a gm and unemployment insurance is difference. by the same token you put that money in people s pockets, they spend it. most economists say it will create some 200 plus jobs by
pbs award-winning series p.o.v. in 2014. in 1941, grace was part of the effort for a proposed march on washington to protest the defense industry s refusal to hire black workers. at the height of the red scare, mccarthy era, grace spent a decade studying and organizing with famed marxist c.l.r. james and as a result has a pretty impressive fbi file. that file grew thicker when grace moved to detroit because, as she put it, that was where the workers were, the people with whom she sought to be in solidarity and struggle. in detroit, grace became involved in the black power movement and met her husband, james boggs, an autoworker, writer, intellectual, and an african-american man who was himself a revolutionary thinker. grace helped to organize a massive 1963 freedom march in detroit. and after the tradition nal civil rights establishment
they ll always have access and influence. the people who need a champion are the americans whose letters i read late at night, the men and women i meet on the campaign trail every day. the laid off furniture worker retraining for a career at 55 in biotechnology. she she ds a champion. the small restaurant own who needs a loan to expand after the bank turned him down, he needs a champion. the cooks and waiters and staff working overtime at a vegas hotel trying to save enough to buy a first home or send their kid to college, they need a champion. the autoworker who s back on the job, filled with pride and dignity because he s building a great car, he needs a champion about the young teacher doing her best in an overcrowded classroom with outdated textbooks, she needs a champion. all of those kids in inner
protect his own tax rate. governor romney said it s fair he pays a lower tax rate than a teacher or autoworker who makes $50,000. he is wrong. i refuse to ask middle-class families to give up their deductions for owning a home or raising their kids just to pay for another millionaire s tax cut. i refuse to pay for that tax cuss by asking you students to pay more for college or kicking kits out of headstart or eliminating health care for millions who are poor or disabled or elderly. here in america we believe we re all in this together. we understand that america is not about what can be done for us it s about what can be done by us together as one nation and as one people. we re in this together. it s about what can be done by us as one nation. it s a message that s resonating with voters e. despite how some