People, who would like to see more cooperation, a more elevated debate in washington, but feel trapped by the demands of gettingives elected. By the noise coming out of your bass. You have told me. Means if we want a better politics, and i am addressing the American People now, it is not enough to just change a congressman or a senator or even a president ; we have to change the system to reflect our better selves. I think we have got to end the practice of drawing our congressional districts so that politicians can pick their voters, and not the other way around. [applause]] i believe we have to reduce the influence of money in our politics, so that a handful of families and hidden interests cant bankroll our elections and if our existing approach to Campaign Finance reform cant pass muster in the courts, we need to Work Together to find a real solution. Because it is a problem. Likemost of you do not raising money. I know. I have done it. Easier tot to make it vote, not harder. We ne
[applause] this is america. We want to make it easier for people to participate. Over the course of this year ii intend to travel the country and push for reform to do just that. But. But i can do these things on my own. Change is not political process and not just who gets elected but having elected will only happen to the American People demand. It depends on you. That is what is meant by government of, by, and for the people. What i am suggesting is hard it is a lot easier to be cynical. To accept the change is not possible in politics is hopeless and the problem is all the folks who were elected dont care and they believe that our voices and actions dont matter. But if we give up now that we forsake a better future. Those with money and power will gain greater control over the decisions that could send a young soldier to work for allow another Economic Disaster or roll back the rights and Voting Rights that generations of americans fought for. And then has frustration grows there w
Have to be undercut by foreign nationals as they look for desperately needed jobs. Its obvious and the president knows it well. Last night without warning he tweeted this. In light of the attack from the invisible enemy as well asng needing to protect the jobs of our Great American citizens i will be signing an executive order temporarily suspending immigration intoin the United States. And that seems to come out of nowhere. Americans have been consistently demanding this and its measurable. I knew absaloms poll found a remarkable 79 of American Adults support the temporary suspension of all immigration into the country for the duration of this pandemic. A Harvard Harris poll found that 83 of adults want a moratorium on immigration from mexico. And these are not new sentiments. They have been around a long time. Another harvard poll from two years ago found that 81 of voters wanted Legal Immigration cut to below itslar current lev. Of about 1 Million People a year. 63 wanted that numbe
Its pretty clear that right now is literally the last moment that unemployed americans should have to be undercut by foreign nationals as they look for desperately needed jobs. Its obvious and the president knows it well. Last night without warning he tweeted this. In light of the attack from the invisible enemy as well as needing to protect the jobs of our Great American citizens i will be signing an executive order temporarily suspending immigration into the United States. And that seems to come out of nowhere. Americans have been consistently demanding this and its measurable. I knew absaloms poll found a remarkable 79 of American Adults support the temporary suspension of all immigration into the country for the duration of this pandemic. A Harvard Harris poll found that 83 of adults want a moratorium on immigration from mexico. And these are not new sentiments. Another harvard poll from two years ago found that 81 of voters wanted Legal Immigration cut to below its current level.
Vulnerable we are. We needed masts, we know longer make masks here. We need specific medicines and we know longer need those either. Ct scans in an endless list of other critical devices, none of them are made here anymore. All of these things are now made in china, just like our phones and our routers and our Machine Tools in our airplane parts. China makes an awful lot of what we use and by the way, a lot of what a our military uses. China has grown rich from selling all of this to us and thats why when we need to raise money in a crisis, this crisis for example, we sell our debt to china. If america goes bankrupt after all this, bankruptcy and the way that our leaders are responding to the pandemic that could happen. It will likely be the chinese who bail us out, they are thehe only ones who can afford it. All of this is real and horrifying and most of us are just waking up to it now. So the question is, how did itan happen . How did the worlds richest democracy become dependent upo