state of the union speeches, had a darkness to them. yeah. joe biden had a lightness to him tonight, which was unusual. the surprise to me was that there wasn t much you could ve gained from a good speech tonight. but he seemed to have taken all the juice out of a relatively dry lemon and squeeze it. out i think it was important for him to do. though the state of the union speech, this was the biggest platform that president biden was gonna have, i think until he announces what we expect to be his reelection campaign. and there are people that will see this speech but usually don t tune into political speeches. they re gonna replay this on local news and places and spaces where they wouldn t really play this, in a local papers. this was an opportunity for folks to parse through maybe what they ve seen on social media, what they ve seen on fox news, and get it direct from joe biden. if you turn it to union in heard them today, you d be like yeah, there is not a world leader that w
blank. i don t call it socialism we re the only industrialized nation in the world just for the record that doesn t pay for, guarantee that every citizen has access to insurance, but if you talk to the auto companies, if you talk to corporations, their biggest cost is health care. there s more health care when i worked at general motors which for the record for everybody, i worked at gm for 30 years. the biggest cost wasn t steel in the car, it was health care. the drug companies have been escalating prices that don t justify what the cost of producing it is and we did cap insulin at $35 a month because people are desperate and republicans voted against it, stripped it out when we would have done the same thing for private insurance. republicans voted against putting a cap on how much people have to pay on their medicine for $2,000 a year if you re a social security recipient and voted against medicare being able to do, go in and negotiate cost prices on some of the most expensive medi
inflation reduction in the immediate future, but people want to see reactions, they want to see people acting and that s what i would say. i would also say the american people also understand that it s republicans that are preventing more from actually happening. absolutely. so not only are they saying we don t want a woman s right to choose but we don t want to help you. we don t want to cap insulin. we don t want gas prices to go down. we want to give corporations tax breaks and not middle america. when you put that contrast together that everyday american in my hometown of youngstown, ohio, know they might not agree with everything, but it s democrats thr going to fight for them and try to improve the quality of their life. republicans also didn t want to pay off student loan debt oh, that s another one. don t get me started. people that worked hard to have no college debt, now have college debt. some. but their idea of incrementalism will probably fit into all the
help you. we don t want to cap insulin. we don t want gas prices to go down. we want to give corporations tax breaks. and when you put that contrast together that everyday american and my hometown of youngstown, ohio know that they might not agree with everything, but it s democrats that are going to fight for them and try to improve the quality in life. republicans also didn t want to pay off student loan debt for people. that s another whole segment. people who worked hard to have no college debt now have college debt. some. but you know what, their idea of incrementalism will probably fit into all of these conversations. it s the idea, the old sort of curse of politics. have you done enough? is it too little? is it too much? we ll see in november. doug, alice, and ashley, thank you so much. look a much different debate ahead. you know the miranda warning, right? you could recite it. you watched every law and order marathon, every what, new year s day and sunday too? anythi
and historic investment on addressing the climate crisis. in my state of nevada, that is the wildfires. it is also historic drought that you are facing. and that inflation reduction act is four billion dollars of funding that we help to secure to address the drought in the west, as well as to reduce costs for nevada s, everything from lowering restriction drug costs, including my provision to cap out of pocket costs for seniors annually at $2, 000, and a cap insulin for medicare beneficiaries of $35. it also makes sure that you are protecting people under the affordable care act, so that they have lower cost premiums, and it actually base down the deficit with a 264 billion dollar of funding to help reduce the deficit. so, while my opponent and republicans in congress are trying to deny women their freedoms to make their own health care decisions, i am