1860 s and 1970 s, he was busy with highway 5, 99. he had worked all the time except for when it rained. but he knew as son as soon as the sun was out, he would be working. he was not making a whole lot as a laborer. he had about a sixth-grade education and he got paid about $14 per hour with benefits stable enough for nine months that he could take care of us. as i said, i got to go to college because of that. how many road construction workers do you know could send their kids to stanford university? that s the difficulty. we have to get to the point where we honor the middle class. we look at them for what they are, the jewel. it is the largest segment of america. if we make them feel like they can afford to get that clothes washer, interest rates will go up and that s ok because i can afford to get the car now that i need. that s what keeps the economy going. i agree with you in that sense. in terms of how you handle the banks, i want to be a little realistic. i m not h
that will be signed by the president, so that will be underway. two, we just signed a bill on transportation. in l.a., we have seen major rojects going forward. the purple line is moving west toward the ocean. we were able to secure funding that will help us move forward with that project, that is costing several billion dollars. we secured close to $800 million in federal loan moneys. that s about $2 billion to help extend that subway line to the west. we recently secured about two thirds of a billion dollars for what is being called the regional connector line owntown. if you try to travel mass transit downtown on the trains and subways, you often have to get off one to get on another. with the regional connector, it will be a seamless trip. it will be a lot more convenient for people who want to use mass transit to get around. we got a grant commitment from the federal government for two thirds of a billion dollars and about another $200 million in loan guarantees as well.
there are ways to make it work better. i can only have so much money. i m going to enforce the broken laws, i m going to try to do it the best i can. easy give me resource money to deport them because they are here without documents, let me go after the criminals, the drug dealers, guys trying to do us harm before after before i go after the kid in school who might be the valedictorian. president opposed a program called deferred action for children, daca. kids who were brought into this country usually through their parents when they were very small and have spent most of their life in this country and most of them do not remember the home country they came from. many have gone on to be valid dorians and many are going to great universities. rather than go after those folks and trying to hunt them down, let me have down the ones trying to sell drugs to our kids. using his discretion on how to use the resources to deport people in the country without documents. that is the
summers i worked construction with my dad. had it not been for pell grants, financial aid, student loans at low interest rates, i could not have gone to stanford. we have to do what we can. the best way to do well abroad is to do well at home. if we are strong domestically, we can be strong abroad. your point is well taken. we are a country for a reason. hopefully by our example and with our assistance, we can help others do it well also. right now, especially since we re barely coming back from that deep recession, it s time to really make sure that we take care of folks in america who work very hard to build this country. i don t think we will ever shirk our responsibility around the world, i do think we need to be very smart about how we do things. whether it is iraq or people who come to our border, we have to do this the smart way. we don t want to give the wrong impression of what we are trying to do whether it is an iraq war kids at the border. thank you for your quest