conversation about the bipartisan infrastructure bill and the larger reconciliation bill, what you ve probably heard about is how much these bills cost and what certain politicians in particular are willing to spend. what you re not hearing enough about is what s actually in these bills and what they mean for you. because here is the reality. this debate isn t about numbers. the debate is about what policies you, the american people believe should become law, and therefore are worth spending money on. and it so happens that the things in both of these bills are things joe biden campaigned on, won on, and vowed to deliver if and when he was elected. we re at a great inflection point in history. we have to do more than just build back better and build back. we have to build back better. well also need to make a once in a generation investment in our families and our children. trickle-down economics has never worked. it s time to grow the economy
greets in iowa. not only one time did people bring up these issues. almost 20% of rural hospitals are at risk of closing right now. at least from my perspective, i ll come on and talk to david any day. when i m talking to voters, we can talk about how to make the economy work for you and have a fair shot at better life. talking about the debate, you haven t qualified for. i talked to another candidate marian who said the debate isn t that important. how important are these debates? what do you say to those who say, you haven t qualified? look, i think the dnc s intentions were well but we ve
us they aren t going to vote for donald trump. what do these debates talk about? not donald trump. half an hour on the most arcane details of affordable care act when at one point john delaney said at the debate i believe that s in section 1200. you know a debate isn t really resonating when you re talking about section 1200. democrats need to be talking about donald trump. they also need to talk about supreme court existential threats to democrats like gerrymandering. existential like election security and they didn t have a chance to do that. should they have leaned into the economy last night? the president talks all day long about the economy. ten miles about the debate stage a gm plant closed. that is the bifurcated economy and they are barely talking about it. they hit fundamental economic anxiety that s impacting americans all over. in michigan. all over from all sectors. everyone worried about high college tuition, worried about
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my name is antonio and i m a technician at comcast. we re working to make things simple, easy and awesome. federal government shut down for more than a month now key point of contention in this debate isn t really funding for a border wall. it s funding for maybe a fifth of a border wall. a total of about $5 billion. so jeff bezos and having trouble getting perspective on how much is 5 billion? well, to start with it s about 1/8th of 1% of the federal budget and to put that in perspective that s less than the amount of money taxpayers send to ivy league colleges every single year. in 2017 report from open the books found that from 2010 to 2015 the 8 schools in the ivy league received about 41.6 billion in government support. that s about $7 billion per year. now, you are probably thinking well i m sure all