impacts significantly on how they ll finish. we can t be competitive in the 21st century global economy if we continue to slide. that s why i ve said all along we need to build america up from the bottom up and the middle out, not from the top down, with the trickle-down economics that s always failed us. i can t think of a single time the middle class has done well that the wealthy haven t done very well. i can think of many times when the wealthy and super wealthy do very well and the middle class don t do well. that s why i proposed the investments congress is now considering in two critical pieces of legislation, positions i ran on as president, positions announced when i laid out in a joint session of congress what my economic agenda was. these are not about left versus right or moderate versus progressive or anything else that pits americans against one another. this is about competitiveness versus complacency,
we can t be competitive in the 21st century global economy if you continue this slide. that s why i ve said all along we need to build america from the bottom up and the middle out. not from the top down with the trickle down economics that s always failed us. i can t think of a single time when the middle class hasn t done well that the wealthy hasn t done very well. that s why i propose the investments congress is now considering. in two critical pieces of legislation. positions i ran on as president, positions i announced when i laid out in a joint session of congress what my economic agenda was. these are not about left versus right. or moderate versus progressive or anything else that pits americans against one another. this is about competitiveness versus complacency. it s about expanding
springs from? no. it has a lot in the bill and we have to continue to make sure the public does. but whether they know it or not they overwhelmingly support it. harris: i have to pause there. what does that mean? i m not sure. maybe that s how they came up with their framework. you know, whether the american people think about this i m biased. we ll find out on the mid-term elections. i think a majority of americans are saying republicans aren t perfect but the democrats are now crazy. they think they can tax, spend and regulate us into prosperity and they think america can only be great through its federal government. federal government didn t make america great. ordinary people doing extraordinary things did. a lot of them are thinking what i said before. america was founded by geniuses
protect the troops and i will see you in italy and in scotland. thank you. good day, everyone. this is andrea mitchell reports in washington. that was president biden speaking about the deal to get the infrastructure bill on his desk. the positions i announce when i laid in and out a joint session of congress. these are not about left versus right or moderate versus progressive. or nen else that pits americans against one another, this is competitiveness versus complacency. claiming that he had demand for this. there is a new top line number,
education for all americans beginning back in the late 1800s, that decision alone to invest in our children and families was a major part of why we were able to lead the world for much of the 20th century. but somewhere along the way we stopped investing in ourselves, investing in our people. america is still the largest economy in the world. we still have the most productive workers and innovative mind in the world. but we risk losing our edge as a nation. our infrastructure used to be rated the best in the world. today according to the world economic forum we rank 13th in the world. we used to lead the world in educational achievement. now the organization for economic cooperation and development ranks america 35th out of the 37 major countries when it comes to investing in early childhood education and care. we know how our children start