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, UNLESS YOU HAVE
MANAGED TO BREAK YOUR TELEVISION
SETS, YOU ARE PROBABLY AWARE
THAT IT IS CAMPAIGN SEASON.
I KNOW IT IS NOT ALWAYS PRETTY
WATCH.
ARE SAYING MORE MONEY
FLOODING INTO THE SYSTEM THAN
EVER BEFORE.
MORE NEGATIVE ADS, MORE
CYNICISM.
ABOUT WHOEPORTING IS
DOWN AT THE IS
POLLS SINCE OF TALKING ABOUT
MATTER AND ENTER
YOUR DAY TO DAY LIFE.
I KNOW ALL THIS MAKES IT
THE TV SET,TURN OFF
AWAY FROM POLITICS.
PEOPLE BETTING
THE YOU LOSE INTEREST.
HERE TELLSYOU ARE
STILL READY TO WORK
MAKE THIS A BETTER COUNTRY.
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
ON HOPESTILL BETTING
CHANGEG ON
AND I AM STILL BETTING ON YOU.
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
I LOVE YOU BACK.
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
THIS.SAY
IF I WIN VIRGINIA, I AM GOING
MORE YEARS.
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
THAT I CAN SAY WITH SOME
CONFIDENCE.
THE REASON YOU ARE HERE TONIGHT
HOW PETTY NO
SMALL POLITICS SEEMS
SOMETIMES, YOU RECOGNIZE THAT
NOT BE BIGGER.D
WAYS THE STAKES ARE EVEN
THAN 2008.
WHAT IS NOT AT STAKE IS JUST TWO
TWO POLITICAL PARTIES.
WHAT IS AT STAKE IS A DECISION
BETWEEN TWO FUNDAMENTALLY
DIFFERENT VIEWS ABOUT WHERE WE
TAKE THE COUNTRY RIGHT NOW.
THE CHOICE IS UP TO YOU.
Y LAST POLITICAL
CAMPAIGN.
IT IS TRUE.
A TERM-LIMIT THING TO
THE PRESIDENCY.
YOU GET TWO.
THIS WILL BE MY LAST CAMPAIGN.
IT MAKES TOO NOSTALGIC
SOMETIMES.
ABOUT MY THINKING
WAST CAMPAIGNS WHEN I
TRAVELING ACROSS ILLINOIS.
ILLINOIS IS A BIG STATE AND IT
HAS CITIES LIKE CHICAGO AND
TOWNS AND RURAL AREAS AND
SUBURBAN AREAS.
AND YOU MEET PEOPLE FROM EVERY
,WHITE-- BLACK,
AMERICAN.
YOU STOP AT DINERS AND GO TO
CHURCHES AND GO TO SYNAGOGUES.
YOU ARE GOING
HAVE A CHANCE TO MEET PEOPLE
DIFFERENT WALKS OF LIFE.
WHEN I THINK ABOUT THE FIRST
CAMPAIGN.
IS THAT NOS ME
MATTER WHERE I WENT AND NO
TO, INGHO I WAS
OWN LIFE IN THE
PEOPLE WHOSE VOTE I WAS
ASKING FOR.
MET AN ELDERLY VET AND I
GRANDFATHER WHO
II.HT IN WORLD WAR
MY GRANDMOTHER WORKED ON THE?
ASSEMBLY LINE.
HOW WOULD MY
COME,ATHER CAME BAC
COUNTRY HE WAS
TO GET AN EDUCATION ON THE
GI BILL.
THEY WERE ABLE TO BUY THEIR
HOME USING AN FHA LOAN.
SINGLE MOMN A
I WOULD THINK
ABOUT MY MOTHER.
I NEVER KNEW MY DAD.
HE LAUGHED WHEN I WAS BARELY A
BABY.
BARELY AWHEN I WAS
BABY.
MY MOTHER WAS STRUGGLING AND SHE
HAD TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL AND
A KID.
LATER RAISING MY SISTER.
WORK WHILE SHE WAS IN
SCHOOL.
, BECAUSE SHEF THAT
AMERICA, SHE WAS ABLE TO
SCHOLARSHIPS AND
TO GET GRANTSBLE
AND SCHOLARSHIPS.
THEY COULD GO AS FAR AS THEIR
DREAMS COULD TAKE THEM.
KNOW, I HAVE TALKED TO SOME
PEOPLE.
THINK ABOUT MICHELLE'S FAMILY.
WAS A BLUE-COLLAR
WATER AND WORK THAT DAY
FILTRATION PLANT IN CHICAGO.
A SECRETARY.
DESPITE NEVER HAVING A LOT,
WAS SO MUCH LOVE AND SO
PASSION.
HER DAD HAD MS SO HE HAD TO WAKE
UP AN HOUR EARLIER TO GET TO
WORK.
HE NEVER MISSED A DAY OF WORK.
THAT,K PRIDE IN THE IDEA
WAY ANDRN MY
MY FAMILY.
I SEE THAT SAME PRIDE IN THE
PEOPLE I WAS TALKING TO.
AT THEIS REMINDED ME
COUNTRY, ITS
INATAL IDEA IS THE IDEA
COUNTRY IF YOU ARE WILLING
HARD, IF YOU ARE
TAKE RESPONSIBILITY,
A JOB THATN
SUPPORTS A FAMILY.
AND FIND A HOME YOU CAN MAKE
OWN.
THEY WILL NOT GO BANKRUPT WHEN
YOU GET SICK.
LITTLEBE YOU CAN TAKE A
VACATION WITH YOUR FAMILY ONCE
IN AWHILE.
FANCY BUT JUST TIME TO
WITH THOSE YOU LOVE.
MAYBE SEE THE COUNTRY A LITTLE
BIT.
MAYBE COME DOWN TO ROANOKE.
[APPLAUSE]
THAT YOUR KIDS CAN GET A GREAT
AREATION AND IF THEY
HARD, THEY CAN
THINGS HE WOULD NOT HAVE
EVEN IMAGINES ACHIEVING.
YOU CAN MAYBE RETIRE WITH
SOME DIGNITY AND SOME RESPECT
PART OF A COMMUNITY AND
GIVE SOMETHING BACK.
THE IDEA OF AMERICA.
IT DOES NOT MATTER WHAT YOU LOOK
LIKE.
NOT MATTER WHERE YOU
FROM.
IT DOES NOT MATTER WHAT YOUR
IS. NAME
CAN RAISE -- LIVE OUT THE
AMERICAN DREAM.
THAT IS WHAT BINDS US ALL
TOGETHER.
[APPLAUSE]
THAT I THINK SO MANY
TOGETHER IN 2008 WAS
SAW THE FOR A DECADE,
THAT DREAM WAS SLIPPING AWAY.
THERE WERE TOO MANY PEOPLE WHO
WORKING HARD BUT NOT SEEN
INCOMES OR WAGES GO UP.
WE HAD TAKEN A SURPLUS AND
TURNED IT INTO A DEFICIT.
RUNNING TO WARS ON A
.CARIT
JOB GROWTH WAS THE MOST SLUGGISH
IT HAS BEEN IN 50 YEARS.
WAS A SENSE THAT THOSE WHO
CHARGE DID NOT FEEL
CAMEONSIBLE AND SO WE
TOGETHER TO SAY WE ARE GOING TO
CHANGEST THE KINDS OF
THAT ALLOW US TO GET BACK TO
BASICS.
ALLOW US TO RESTORE AND LIVE OUT
THOSE VALUES.
THAT SOME NOT REALIZE
, SOME OFNESS
THAT IRRESPONSIBILITY WOULD LEAD
CRISIS WEST FINANCIAL
SEEN SINCE THE GREAT
DEPRESSION.
YOU WHATNEED TO TELL
THROUGH OVER THE
LAST THREE AND A HALF YEARS
BECAUSE YOU HAVE LIVED IT.
JOB, TOOST
THEIR SAVINGSW
TAKE A HIT.
ME YOU KNOW WHAT IS GIVING
FAITH IS THE FACT
AS I HAVE TRAVELLED AROUND
LIKE I USED TOT
ILLINOIS, THAT
DECENCY, THOSE SAME VALUES
ALIVE.LL
AT LEAST OUTSIDE WASHINGTON.
[APPLAUSE]
BEEN TOUGH BUT
AMERICA'S CHARACTER HAS NOT
CHANGED.
THE COURT DECENCY OF THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE IS UNDIMINISHED.
OUR WILLINGNESS TO FIGHT THROUGH
THROUGH THE TOUGH
THAT'SME TOGETHER,
STILL THERE.
JUST AS WE CAME TOGETHER IN THE
CAMPAIGN, NOT JUST
DEMOCRATS BUT REPUBLICANS AND
INDEPENDENTS, BECAUSE WE ARE
REPUBLICANSS OR
FIRST.
WE ARE AMERICANS FIRST.
[APPLAUSE]
JUST LIKE WE CAME TOGETHER IN
2008, WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE TO
WORKING, KEEP MOVING
IN 2012.
IT WAS BACK THEN THAT
TO BE EASY.
THESE PROBLEMS WE ARE FACING,
THEY DID NOT HAPPEN OVERNIGHT.
NOT BE SOLVED
OVERNIGHT.
UNDERSTOOD IT MIGHT TAKE MORE
YEAR OR ONE TERM OR
EVEN ONE PRESIDENT.
WHAT WE ALSO UNDERSTOOD WAS
THAT WE WERE NOT GOING TO STOP
UNTIL WE HAVE RESTORED THAT
PROMISE THAT
GREATEST COUNTRY ON
EARTH.
[APPLAUSE]
JUST TO PUT'T
BACK TO WORK ALTHOUGH
PRIORITY NUMBER ONE.
IT IS TO BUILD AN ECONOMY WHERE
THE WORK PAYS OFF.
AN ECONOMY WHERE EVERYONE,
WHETHER YOU ARE STARTING A
OR PUNCHING A CLOCK,
WORK ANDOUR HARD
RESPONSIBILITY REWARDED.
WHAT THIS CAMPAIGN IS
ABOUT, ROANOKE, AND THAT IS WHY
RUNNING FOR A SECOND TERM
AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES.
[APPLAUSE]
YEARS!ORE
ME SAY THIS -- IT IS
FASHIONABLE AMONG SOME PUNDITS,
THIS HAPPENS EVERY TIME AMERICAN
HITS A ROUGH PATCH.
IT IS FASHIONABLE TO SAY THIS
DIFFERENT, THIS TIME WE
ARE IN THE SOUP.
TO STARK -- TO
SOLVE OUR PROBLEMS.
WHAT IS MISSING IS NOT BIG
IDEAS.
NOT THAT WEING IS
AN ABSENCE OF TECHNICAL
TO DEAL WITH ISSUES
EDUCATION OR ENERGY OR OUR
DEFICIT.
THE PROBLEM WE HAVE RIGHT NOW IS
STALEMATE IN
WASHINGTON.
DEBATESOUTCOME
HAVING IS GOING TO SET
STAGE, NOT FOR JUST THE NEXT
BUT THE NEXTYEARS
20.
HAVE MYNE SIDE, YOU
OPPONENT IN THIS PRESIDENTIAL
RACE AND HIS REPUBLICAN ALLIES.
WE ARE HAVING A
HEALTHY, DEMOCRATIC
DEBATE.
THAT IS HOW THIS WORK.
SIDE, THEY HAVE A BASIC
HOW YOU GROW THE
ECONOMY.
IS VERY SIMPLE --
ECONOMYNK THAT THE
GROWS FROM THE TOP DOWN.
IS IFTHEORY
ARE DOINGVESTORS
DOING WELL.ODY IS
IF HE SPENT TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS
MORE TAX CUTS MOSTLY FOR THE
THAT IS SOMEHOW GOING
CREATE JOBS.
EVEN IF WE HAVE TO PAY FOR IT BY
EDUCATION,
PROJECTS AND ABC
FOLKS HAVE A HIGHER
TAX BURDEN.
MIDDLE-CLASS SEE
TAX BURDEN.
THEY BELIEVE IF YOU TEAR DOWN
REGULATIONS BE PUT IN
EXAMPLE ON WALL
OR ON INSURANCE
OR ON CREDIT CARD
THATNIES OR ON POLLUTERS,
SOMEHOW THE ECONOMY IS GOING TO
MUCH BETTER.
THOSE ARE THERE TO THEORIES.
THE TAX CUTS FOR THE HIGH END
BACK TO REGULATE --
ROLLBACK REGULATIONS.
HERE IS THE PROBLEM.
WE TRIEDAVE GUESSED
THIS.
DECADETHIS IN
AND IT DID NOT WORK.
SAY BEFORE I FINISH, CAN I
THAT SOME OF YOU HAVE
WHILE AND IG FOR
SLUMPINGPLE O
DOWN A LITTLE BIT.
MAKE SURE YOUR DRINKING WATER.
KNEES, CANNOT STAND UP
TO DATE.
-- DO NOT STAND UP TOO
STRAIGHT. \
THE PARALEGALS WELL -- THE
PARALEGALS.
THE PARAMEDICS WILL COME BY TO
FOLKS A LITTLE HELP.
THIS HAPPENS EVERY DAY EVENT.
I LOVE YOU BACK.
[APPLAUSE]
BUT I JUST WANT TO POINT OUT
TRIED THEIR THEORY FOR
ALMOST TEN YEARS.
AND HERE IS WHAT IT GOT US -- WE
IN THE SLOWEST JOB GROWTH
DECADES.
GOT DEFICITS AS FAR AS THE
EYE CAN SEE.
YOUR INCOMES AND YOUR WAGES DID
NOT GO UP.
AND IT CULMINATED IN A CRISIS
BECAUSE THERE WERE NOT ENOUGH
STREET AND ON WALL
MAKE RECKLESS BETS
OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY THAT
FINANCIALN THIS
CRISIS AND YOU HAD TO FOOT THE
BILL.
THAT'S WHERE THEIR THEORY
TURNED OUT.
WE DO NOT NEED MORE TOP-
DOWN ECONOMICS.
DIFFERENT VIEW.
WAY YOU GROWT THE
IS ON THE MIDDLE
OUT.
I BELIEVE THAT YOU GROW THE
ECONOMY FROM THE BOTTOM UP.
WORK AND --AT WHEN
DOING WELL,LE ARE
THE COUNTRY DOES WELL.
[APPLAUSE]
FOR THEE IN FIGHTING
IT THEY ARE
PROSPERING, ALL OF US WILL
PROSPER.
IS WHAT I AM FIGHTING FOR
IS WHY I AM RUNNING FOR
AS PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES.
[APPLAUSE]
WHAT I HAVE BEEN FOCUSED
OFFICE.BEEN IN
IN 2008, I PROMISED TO MAKE SURE
THE MIDDLE CLASS TAXES DID NOT
GO UP.
RECESSION, YOU
HELP SO WE CUT THE INCOME
BY $3,600.
[APPLAUSE]
IF YOU HEAR SOMEBODY SAY I AM A
BIG TAX GUIDE, YOU JUST
$3,600 FOR THE TYPICAL
FAMILY.
THE TAX BREAK YOU HAVE
I HAVE BEEN IN
OFFICE.
[APPLAUSE]
RUNNINGATER, I AM
CLASS TAX ISLE-
LOWER.
WEEK, I CALLED ON CONGRESS
IMMEDIATELY EXTEND INCOME TAX
OFN THE FIRST $250,000
INCOME.
MEANS IS 98% OF
AMERICANS MAKE LESS THAN TO LEND
$250,00000 -- LESS THAN
-- SAID HE WOULD HAVE THE
SECURITY THAT YOUR INCOME TAXES
WOULD NOT GO UP A DIME.
THAT YOU WOULD HAVE THE
THAT YOUR INCOME TAXES
DIME.NOT GO UP A
NOT SOME CAMPAIGN, AS
-- PROMISE.
IF CONGRESS DOES NOT DO ANYTHING
NOW, ON JANUARY 1, ALMOST
HERE, YOUR TAXES WILL
GO UP.
1,600.GE OF 1600
YOU WOULD THINK THIS MAKES
SENSE.
REPUBLICANS SAY THEY ARE THE
WITH NO NEW TAXES.
S WHAT THEY ALWAYS SAY.
EXCEPTS SO FAR, THEY HAVE
REFUSED TO ACT.
THIS MIGHT CONFUSE YOU.
SAY WHY WOULD THEY
OF WANT TO GIVE 90%
AMERICANS AND THE CERTAINTY OF
THIS INCOME TAX CUT?
OUT, THEY DO NOT WANT
TAX RATE UNLESS
THEYER 2%, THE TOP 2%,
THEIR TAX BREAK AS WELL.
THE TOP 2%, ALL,
ONES MOST BENEFITED
FROM THE LAST DECADE AND NOT
BUT ALSO A LOT
INCREASEDEY
PRODUCTIVITY WENT UP
TO%. TOP
THE BOTTOM LINE IS, THE TOP TO%
DOES NOT NEED HELP.
NOT NEEDOES
HELP.
WHY THEY WOULD NOT
TAXES. PAY MORE
NOBODY WANTS TO.
YOU CONTINUE THEIR TAX
BREAKS, THAT COSTS $1 TRILLION.
SINCE WE ARE TRYING TO BRING
DEBT, IF WEICIT AND
SPEND $1 TRILLION ON TAX CUTS
FOR THEM, WE WILL HAVE TO FIND
THAT $1 TRILLION SUMMERHOUSE --
SOMEWHERE ELSE.
THAT MEANS WE MIGHT HAVE TO MAKE
EXPENSIVE FOR
MIGHT HAVE TO CUT
THE SERVICES WE ARE
PROVIDING OUR GREAT VETERANS
WHEN THEY COME HOME.
OR WE MIGHT HAVE TO STOP
IN BASIC SCIENCE AND
KEEPS US AS A
LEADING EDGE ECONOMY.
, AS THEY HAVE SUGGESTED,
WE WOULD HAVE TO TURN
MEDICARE INTO A VOUCHER PROGRAM.
I DO NOT THINK THOSE ARE GOOD
IDEAS.
WHAT I HAVE SAID TO THE
HAVE THISS
DEBATE ABOUT THE TAX CUTS FOR
FOLKS BUT IN THE
MEANTIME, LET'S DO WHAT WE AGREE
WHICH IS GIVE 98% OF
AMERICANS SOME CERTAINTY AND
SECURITY.
[APPLAUSE]
FAR, THEY HAVE NOT TAKEN ME
UP ON MY OFFER.
HOW GIVES YOU A SENSE OF
CONGRESS WORKS THESE DAYS.
YOU HAVE THE POSSIBILITY OF YOUR
UP A DENTAL FOUR,
FIVE MONTHS AND INSTEAD OF
THAT, GUESS WHAT THEY
THIS WEEK?
TIME TOOR THE 33RD
REPEAL A HEALTH-CARE BILL
PASSED TWO YEARS AGO, AFTER
THE SUPREME COURT SAID IT IS
CONSTITUTIONAL AND WE ARE GOING
GO AHEAD AND IMPLEMENT THAT
WALL
-- HAT LAW.
[APPLAUSE]
I DO NOT KNOW ABOUT YOU,
THINK THEY HAVE
BETTER WAY TO USE THEIR TIME.
I THINK HELPING YOU MAKE SURE
TAXES DID NOT GO UP, THAT
USE OFE A GOOD
CONGRESSIONAL TIME.
OFS IS JUST A SMALL EXAMPLE
BETWEEN MYSELF
MYSELF ROMNEY, BETWEEN
THE REPUBLICANS RUNNING
CONGRESS.
VIRGINIA, I WANT TO REPEAT
THIS IS A CHOICE.
IF YOU THINK THEIR WAY OF DOING
THINGS IS A RECIPE FOR ECONOMIC
HELPING THE MIDDLE
CLASS, YOU SHOULD VOTE FOR THEM.
YOU CAN SEND THOSE FOLKS TO
WASHINGTON.
I PROMISE YOU THEY WILL CARRY
OUT WHAT THEY PROMISED TO DO.
BUT THAT IS NOT WHAT I WENT TO
WASHINGTON.
TO FIGHT WASHINGTON
FOR THE MIDDLE-CLASS.
I WENT TO WASHINGTON TO FIGHT
PEOPLE WHO ARE
TO GET INTO THE MIDDLE
AND HAVE SOME SENSE OF
THEIR LIVES.
PEOPLE LIKE ME AND MR. ROMNEY DO
NOT NEED ANOTHER TAX CUT.
SOME HELP RIGHT NOW TO
KIDS ARE LIVING
KIND OF LIFE YOU WANT FOR
THEM.
IS WHY I AM RUNNING FOR
TERM AS PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES.
[APPLAUSE]
ISSUE, YOU HAVE
SAME KIND OF CHOICE.
WHEN THE AUTO INDUSTRY WAS ABOUT
GO UNDER, WHEN MILLION JOBS
LET'S LETNT SAID
DETROIT GO BANKRUPT.
WHAT DID I SAY?
I AM BETTING ON AMERICA'S
WORKERS.
I AM BETTING ON AMERICAN
INDUSTRY.
GUESS WHAT?
IS NUMBERR
AGAIN AND THE AMERICAN AUTO
IS ROLLING BACK.
SO I BELIEVE IN AMERICAN
MANUFACTURING.
BELIEVE IN MAKING STUFF HERE
AMERICA.
INOPPONENT, HE INVESTED
COMPANIES WHO ARE CALLED
OUTSOURCING.
IN SOURCING.
I WANT TO STOP GIVING TAX BREAKS
THAT SHIP JOBS
OVERSEAS.
GIVE TAX BREAKS TO
INVESTING RIGHT HERE
IN THE UNITED STATES.
INVEST IN AMERICAN
AMERICAN WORKERS TO
COMMIT PRODUCT AND SHIP THEM
THE WORLD WITH THOSE
WORDS MADE IN AMERICA.
[APPLAUSE]
BECAUSE OUR MEN AND
IN UNIFORM HAVE SACRIFICED
.MUCH
WE COULD NOT BE PROUDER OF THEM
WE CANNOT BE PROUDER OF OUR
VETERANS.