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THE PRESIDENT: Well, I inform you what, I don’t know the place that phrase “It’s a big deal” got here from. (Laughter.) If anyone remembers that — which you appear to all keep in mind — after the President spoke, and I spoke after then-President Obama — he was again to my proper. And I went again and I made certain I used to be speaking on his left ear, as a result of it was — all of — he was down the hallway. And I whispered what I mentioned. (Laughter.) How in God’s identify anyone heard it, I do not know. (Laughter.)
And I shouldn’t waste your time and inform you this, however we have been going to go from there over to the Department of Transportation — no, excuse me, the Department of Education. And I walked out the again and bought in the presidential limo on the driver’s facet, in the again seat, and the President — he was already in there, and he was laughing like the satan. He was nearly hysterical. I mentioned, “What’s so damn funny?” And he advised me. And I mentioned, “You’re just lucky my mother is not alive. I’d be one dead man.” (Laughter.)
Look, earlier than I start, I’d wish to say a phrase a couple of good friend of mine who we misplaced this weekend, a person a number of hours west of Russell, Kansas. Came from not removed from right here — in Russell, Kansas.
Numerous Americans right now keep in mind Bob Dole as a presidential candidate. But for the households he represented throughout the border, he represented Kansas for 36 years. And for these like me who had the honor of calling him a good friend, Bob Dole was an American big. A person of extraordinary braveness, each bodily and ethical braveness. A conflict hero who sacrificed past measure, who almost gave his life for our nation in World War Two. Among the best of the Great Generation. A pacesetter of honesty, decency, and good humor — the similar qualities that made him such a cherished good friend to me and my spouse, Jill, and to so many others by the years.
We didn’t agree on every thing. But I all the time admired and revered him and his willingness to work with anybody, any social gathering when it mattered most.
And our nation owes Bob Dole a debt of gratitude for the exceptional service and a life properly lived. (Applause.)
And being right here this week jogs my memory of one other nice American big or, slightly, an American monarch: Buck O’Neil of the Kansas City Monarchs. (Applause.) An awesome ballplayer, the first Black coach in the Majors, one among the sport’s best ambassadors, and at last — lastly — a Hall of Famer. (Applause.)
Now, if the solar shined just a little brighter on Kansas City this week, it’s as a result of Bob and Buck are up there sharing fun with each other. (Laughter.)
I additionally wish to acknowledge Mayor Quinton Lucas. Mayor Q, you’ve carried out a tremendous job, each by way of financial justice in addition to financial progress. (Applause.)
And I wish to thank County Executive Frank White. He lived the life I had hoped to stay. He began off as a laborer; he helped construct the Royals Stadium. As a participant, he was one among the finest to ever play there. And now he’s a county govt in Jackson County — resident of the enterprise — to — as properly. You know, I imply this man has carried out all of it. I believed perhaps I may make it in the professionals, however look what occurred. (Laughter and applause.)
I really was silly sufficient to ask Floyd Little whether or not he may get his — he was a good friend of mine in Syracuse — if he may get his agent to see if I may stroll on. You know, 50 — yearly, they permit 50 of us to stroll on. (Laughter.) Well, guess what? He mentioned — he got here again to me, laughed, and he mentioned, “My agent said they’re afraid if they let you walk on, they’d have to just carry you off.” (Laughter.)
Look, the infrastructure regulation I signed on Thanksgiving wouldn’t be doable — and this isn’t hyperbole — with out the leaders right here right now.
Congressman Emanuel Cleaver was an ideal mayor — (applause) — a big chief in the House. Before he was each of these issues, he was a pastor. And he noticed — he noticed a freeway lower by the neighborhood a lot of his congregants name residence. So he is aware of that we have to construct our infrastructure the proper approach — not simply construct it, however construct it the proper approach.
He is also an enormous cause Kansas City is including electrical buses to this fleet. Zero fare, zero emissions. Congressman, nice thought. (Applause.) Great thought.
And Congresswoman Sharice Davids — there’s no stronger advocate for infrastructure funding in the United States Congress — that I’ve ever met anyway. And as Vice Chair of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, your management was key in getting this handed. So I wish to thank — there you’re. Thank you, thanks, thanks. (Applause.)
And I additionally wish to thank any individual else: Roy Blunt. He couldn’t be right here right now, however he was an vital a part of the bipartisan effort to get the infrastructure handed. (Applause.) And that’s what this — we’re right here about.
And we’re right here speaking about rebuilding America, investing in America, constructing a greater America.
In the coming weeks, I’m going to be touring throughout the nation and so will Vice President Harris, my Cabinet, and people all through our administration.
Our “Building A Better America” tour goes to provide us an opportunity to fulfill folks the place they work — the place they work — and listen to what the communities that they stay in, what they want — hear firsthand — and showcase how our Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which is able to change their lives for the higher, took place as a result of we labored collectively.
We can be taught extra about this regulation and what it means for your neighborhood. Go to Build.gov.
Look, the higher a part of the twentieth century, we led the world by a big margin in our willingness to spend money on ourselves — in ourselves.
We invested in our infrastructure. We invested in analysis and growth, in our roads, highways, bridges, ports, and airports — the arteries of the nation that permit commerce to perform easily and transfer swiftly.
And we invested in our folks. We gave alternative.
We have been amongst the first to supply entry to common training — highschool training at the starting of the twentieth century, which put us in the forefront of main the remainder of the world. We invested to win the Space Race, and we gained it. We led the world in analysis and growth that led to the creation of the Internet.
But we all know that China and the remainder of the world are catching up and, in some respects, really transferring past us.
We’re additionally going to reinvest in our nation and our folks to reclaim our management to create hundreds of thousands of jobs by constructing a greater America — (applause) — with the finest infrastructure in the world, constructed overwhelmingly with prevailing wage, union — union, union. (Applause.)
There’s a variety of — (applause) — there’s a variety of good and respectable folks in the monetary business, however they didn’t construct the center class. Unions constructed the center class. (Applause.) No, not a joke. Not a political assertion. It’s a actuality. It’s a actuality.
And, look, this infrastructure invoice — which, with out the unions’ help behind me to get this carried out, would have by no means gotten carried out — it begins with the most vital funding in roads and bridges in America in 70 years — fixing a lot of these 3,500 bridges and almost 10,000 miles of roads in Kansas and Missouri in poor situation, like the Central Avenue Bridge, which was closed earlier this 12 months for a “fear of failure.”
The same bridge not removed from right here, going to (inaudible), there was “fear of failure”; it collapsed, killing an entire heck of lots of people.
But this created an entire lot of complications and wasted time for 8,500 individuals who used to drive it each single day.
The decaying roads value Missouri and Kansas drivers greater than $500 per individual per 12 months — the drivers — in extra fuel and repairs and longer commute occasions, and greater than $500 in hidden tax on Kansas and Missouri households.
And talking of the value of residing: Two weeks in the past, I introduced the largest-ever launch of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve to extend the provide of oil to assist convey down costs. And I met with our buddies round the world; different international locations joined us. And these financial savings are beginning to attain drivers.
Now, right now, the common worth you’re paying right here in Kansas City is beneath two [sic] {dollars} a gallon — three {dollars} a gallon. It’s all the way down to $2.90 a gallon. Twenty % [cents] down from — cents — from a month in the past.
Nationally, costs are down 7 cents a gallon and proceed to fall.
We’re making progress, and we’re going to maintain at it to make sure the American persons are paying their fair proportion for fuel — not being gouged for fuel. (Applause.)
And, look — look, as Emanuel mentioned, we’re in a scenario the place we’ve recognized that our infrastructure had issues for a protracted, very long time. I don’t suppose I may take yet another phrase that’s going to be “Infrastructure Week.” (Applause.)
But guess what? It’s going to be “Infrastructure Decade” now, man. (Applause.)
No extra speaking. Action.
The regulation additionally consists of the most vital funding in passenger rail in 50 years — $66 billion for passenger and freight rail.
You know, I used to be speaking with the members about enhancing cross-state, interstate passenger rail — one thing I do know just a little about. I’ve been doing it for a very long time. You know, the truth is that you simply’re “Mr. Amtrak” right here. (Laughter.) I’ve traveled over — it’s the God’s fact — I’ve traveled over 1,250,000 miles on Amtrak.
Everybody thought that — anyway — as a result of I went residence each single evening after my spouse and daughter have been killed as a result of I couldn’t afford a house in Delaware and in Washington, so I commuted each day.
I keep in mind, sooner or later, the — as Vice President — the authorities retains fastidious data of what number of miles you journey on authorities planes. And so, there’s an enormous headline: “Biden Travels…” — I neglect what it was — “…a Million Miles on Air Force Two” — and so on and so forth.
And I used to be getting on the practice to go residence with the Secret Service — they’re nice. They’re with me right here right now, all 800 of you. But all kidding apart, they’re fantastic.
And I used to be getting on the practice — as a result of they didn’t like me getting on the practice, Congressmen, as a result of there’s — it’s a extra harmful circumstance. You can cease folks with issues on tracks, et cetera. And — however I used to be going residence to see my mother, who was sick.
And one among the conductors I’ve recognized for years walked up and grabbed me. He mentioned, “Joey, baby!” And grabbed my cheek. (Laughter.) And — not a joke. (Laughter.) And I believed that he was going to get shot. (Laughter.) True story.
And I mentioned — I mentioned, “No, no, it’s okay. We’ve known each other.” He mentioned, “Joey, big deal — a million miles…” — or wherever it was — “…a million miles on Air Force Two. Come on, Joey. You know how many miles you traveled on Amtrak?” I mentioned, “No, Ang. I don’t know how many miles.”
He mentioned, “We calculated it at the retirement dinner.” He mentioned, “36 years, 119 days a year, back and forth.” “Then as Vice President,” he mentioned, “we figure you’ve done X number of trips; it adds up to 1,200,000 miles on Amtrak.” (Applause.)
And I mentioned, “If my dad were here, he’d call it ‘a misspent adulthood.’” (Laughter.)
But all kidding apart, you already know, again in the early ’70s — in all probability ’74, I feel it was — there was a man named Charlie Wheeler who talked about this — your mayor. (Applause.) Seriously. There’s no cause why it needs to be two hours quicker to drive from Kansas City to St. Louis than take a practice. No cause.
All the knowledge reveals that if you may get from level A to level B at a quicker charge by rail than by car, you’ll take the rail. And guess what that does? First of all, it’s safer. But secondly, it’s going to avoid wasting, over time, hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil — hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil — as a result of it’s electrical.
Look, of us, we’ve the largest funding in public transit ever on this laws.
Imagine changing buses which might be previous their helpful life, switching from diesel to electrical, getting extra folks the place they’re attempting to go extra safely, quicker, cleaner, like what you’re doing right here along with your “zero-fare, zero-emission” buses.
Electric buses you’re including to the fleet — it’s a win-win-win. They’re manufactured right here in America, creating good union jobs. They’re good for the setting. And they’re making them free for all riders.
Mayor, you’re serving to common riders save about 2,000 bucks a 12 months. That’s an enormous deal for somebody making 50, 60 grand a 12 months. (Applause.)
And our Infrastructure Law means extra tasks like the extension of the Kansas City Streetcar so we are able to join Union Station with KM- — excuse me — UMKC, and every thing in between. It means college students can simply get to internships and jobs in the downtown core.
It means households can get to eating places, shops, the plaza, to re — the riverfront to catch a Kansas City Current sport at the new stadium — the first stadium, by the approach, I’d particularly level out, particularly constructed for girls’s soccer. (Applause.) I used to be in a position to see them win the Olympic — anyway, it’s a protracted story, however — (laughter) —
It means extra jobs, alternative, financial growth.
The regulation invests $42 billion to modernize our ports and airports in America, like the new terminal you’re constructing at Kansas City International, or enhancements to the island [inland] port on the Missouri River, serving to get agricultural merchandise from the Midwest to the remainder of the nation. And this invoice has $16 billion in it to enhance ports like yours.
These investments make it simpler — simpler for corporations to get their items to market, lowering provide chain bottlenecks, reducing prices for households.
Here in Kansas City, the potentialities are limitless. You’ve bought the fastest-growing port in the Midwest. You’re in the coronary heart of the Heartland for freight rail, for remodeling your airport. You’re constructing a nationwide hub, making a cycle of jobs and development that might be — be felt for a long time, making the proper investments. And you’ve the cash to do it now.
Of course, that’s not all the regulation achieves.
Under the management of mayors like, you already know, our mayor right here, KC Water has — goes to exchange all recognized [lead] service strains in Kansas City, however there’s extra work to be carried out in the area.
The regulation begins by changing all one hundred pc of the nation’s lead pipes and repair strains so each youngster in Missouri and Kansas and throughout America can flip on that faucet — in the 4,000 [sic] faculties you possibly can’t do it — 44,000, I ought to say — and drink clear, respectable water.
We’re going to want — you’re going to want tens of 1000’s of plumbers and pipefitters making a union wage to do that and receives a commission a prevailing wage — (applause) — with advantages, the capacity to construct a middle-class life.
I grew up like a variety of you probably did. I grew up in a pleasant, three-bedroom, split-level residence in a growth of about 70 different houses prefer it, with 4 children and a grandpop residing with us. But I keep in mind each time one thing would occur, my dad — I keep in mind when he misplaced his medical health insurance — his firm. You may inform — the partitions have been skinny — how upset he was that evening, simply rolling in mattress. I keep in mind asking my mother, “What’s the matter?” She mentioned, “We’re not — Dad doesn’t have — we don’t have health insurance for a while, honey.”
And my dad used to say, “Everybody deserves just a little bit of breathing room. A little bit of breathing room.”
This regulation goes to make high-speed Internet inexpensive and out there in every single place in America, creating jobs deploying these broadband strains.
Across the high-speed Internet on — entry to high-speed Internet unlocks alternative in every single place. It permits farmers in Kansas to make use of precision agriculture to enhance their yields, or a health care provider in St. Louis to have a distant check-up with a home-bound most cancers affected person.
Today, roughly one out of each 4 Missourians, and one out of each three — six in Kansas, don’t have high-speed Internet of their residence.
In some locations, there’s no broadband infrastructure in any respect.
This regulation will make high-speed Internet inexpensive and out there in every single place in Missouri and Kansas — city, suburban, and rural.
In the twenty first century in America, no father or mother ought to must do what many needed to do final semester — and that’s sit in the parking zone of a quick meals restaurant so their youngsters may use their Internet to get their homework carried out. This is the United States of America, for God’s sake.
This regulation additionally builds out a resilience towards excessive climate occasions fueled by local weather change. Nationally, final 12 months, excessive climate occasions value this nation $99 billion.
And I toured most of it. I used to be out in California — you already know, extra forest burned to the floor — burned to the floor than the complete sq. mileage of the state of New Jersey from Cape — the Cape all the approach as much as New York City — to Long Island. That’s how a lot we misplaced, and it goes on.
And Missouri and Kansas aren’t any stranger to those results. In truth, Missouri and Kansas have been each in the high 10 states in the U.S. final 12 months for energy outages.
Then Texas — then Texas noticed the huge blackouts final winter. Because you’re on the southwest energy grid, you misplaced energy too.
This summer season, you noticed heavy storms shut roads in Waverly, Kansas — triggered flooding in St. Joseph to Columbia to Jefferson City.
And when you consider the impression of extra intense climate, extra extreme storms, none of us are ever going to neglect the devastation in Joplin.
In 2014, I went there to assist reopen the rebuilt Joplin High School. On that day, I advised the folks of Joplin, “We never break. We never stop. We Americans always rebuild.” And we are going to rebuild this nation. (Applause.)
And this regulation builds again our bridges, our water methods, our powerlines, electrical grids higher, stronger, extra proof against the adverse results of local weather change.
Because, by the approach, it was once — as the elected officers right here can inform you — if you happen to had storm harm and also you certified for federal support, you bought simply the quantity of dam- — of cash — cash to get you again to precisely what it seemed like earlier than.
But you possibly can’t do this, as a result of now that freeway will get flooded out. It’s by no means going to return to much less rain due to world warming. Pray God it gained’t worsen. So, you bought to construct that freeway a pair ft greater. It prices extra money. You’ve bought to construct again higher.
There’s a lot extra on this regulation. Most of all, the regulation does one thing really historic. The regulation helps rebuild what I —
When I introduced for workplace, I mentioned I used to be operating for three causes: one, to revive the soul of this nation — a way of decency and honor.
Two, to rebuild the spine of this nation — working-class and hardworking middle-class folks. That’s the spine of this nation.
And thirdly, to unite the nation, which is popping out to be one among the most tough issues, however we’re going to get it carried out.
Look, the truth of the matter is that we’ve been in a position to do an terrible lot. We’ve constructed America, and we’ve left behind a lot for so lengthy.
We’re going to assist rebuild the economic system — this time from the backside up and the center out. You know, a blue col- — this invoice is a blue-collar blueprint for working Americans.
Ninety-five % of the jobs created in the infrastructure invoice don’t require a school training. The solely approach this works is that if blue-collar Americans do the constructing — and the solely approach it ever labored. And we’re going to do it once more. Mark my phrases: We’re going to do that once more.
And the similar goes for my plan to construct again higher for our folks.
This invoice goes to ship, for instance, common pre-Okay for each three- and four-year-old in America. One research — (applause).
Great universities have carried out a variety of research on this in the final decade. One research reveals that low-income youngsters from poor houses collaborating in preschool are 47 % extra prone to go on to earn an affiliate’s diploma or greater after highschool.
They begin off at an ideal drawback as a result of their mother or their dad, their single father or mother doesn’t have the training, doesn’t have the coaching. But at three years previous, the mind is quickly growing so shortly. It issues.
We must construct that basis for the future for success.
My spouse, Jill, is a primary — is a full-time instructor. And, you already know, she says any nation that out-educates us goes to outcompete us. That’s merely a truth.
And guess what? Hold it right here. Every nation — of the 38 most superior nations, we rank 34 in the world — 34 in the world — in early training for youngsters — the United States of America.
My Build Back Better plan — which is handed in the House of Representatives, because of my two colleagues which might be right here right now — Representatives — will even make sure that dad and mom can afford childcare. Childcare will get staff the increase — and childcare staff get a increase they deserve.
Folks, look, in Missouri and Kansas, the common annual value to ship a toddler to childcare is $6,500 a 12 months. If you reside in Chicago, it’s extra like $22,000 a 12 months per youngster. Okay?
It implies that the common household with two younger youngsters is roughly 20 % of their after-tax revenue on childcare — $20 out of each $100 {dollars} they’ve.
Our Build Back Better invoice goes to make a large distinction in your life as a result of your childcare prices might be capped at 7 % of your revenue. Period. (Applause.) That’s 7 % of your revenue.
It’s going to make an enormous distinction for hundreds of thousands of staff who’ve needed to drop out of the workforce not as a result of they didn’t wish to work however as a result of they couldn’t discover inexpensive care. Look in any respect of the girls who’re completely certified who needed to drop out of the workforce as a result of they’ll’t afford the childcare and nonetheless work.
Look, of us, you already know, it’s not the similar, however I began — about commuting — one among the causes I began commuting was, once I bought elected and my household was killed — my spouse and daughter have been killed — I couldn’t afford to go away Delaware. Because I had a sister as my finest good friend, my brother, my mom, my father helped me increase my children. I used to be making good cash. I used to be making $42,000 a 12 months as a senator. I may no extra afford full-time childcare than fly.
We’re going to make school extra inexpensive. Right now, the value of a two-year diploma in Missouri is over $4,000 a 12 months. In Kansas, it’s over $3,000 a 12 months. There are about — 140,000 college students in these two states rely on what we name Pell Grants. They make lower than $50,000 a 12 months. Pell Grants to assist cowl the value.
This plan I’ve additionally goes to extend Pell Grants by $550 a 12 months. It makes it simpler to remain in class. It makes an enormous distinction. (Applause.)
We’re additionally — we’re additionally going to decrease prescription drug costs. This week, I spoke to a younger girl who advised me the value of insulin for her diabetes — simply to remain — Type 1 diabetes — meant having to decide on between lease, groceries, and drugs, she mentioned, “relentlessly, without relief, every day.”
So she couldn’t do it, so she started to ration her provide of insulin. She ended up in a coma and nearly died. Think about that: The distinction between almost dying and thriving is the value of 1 drug that value $10 to make years in the past — nothing has modified in it — that may value customers now $1,000 a month.
Well, so, if you happen to’re a kind of Americans which might be paying an excessive amount of for insulin, my Build Back Better plan goes to alter that too as a result of we’re going to ensure you pay not more than $35 a month. (Applause.)
It’d be completely different in the event that they invested one other 1,500 bucks in analysis; they did nothing to alter it.
That’ll make sure that dad and mom of the 200,000 youngsters in America with Type 1 diabetes have the capacity to father or mother — have the capacity to say to a baby, “Honey, it’s going to be okay.” Can you think about the dignity you’d be disadvantaged of as a father or mother understanding your youngster has Type 1 diabetes and you may’t afford their insulin? You can’t afford it since you don’t have insurance coverage and your state doesn’t have Medicare [Medicaid].
Look, it’s all about what working- and middle-class folks must pay to get by, to get forward, and to get, as my dad mentioned, that “little bit of breathing room.”
My entire plan is designed to convey down the prices you face. For instance: Lower prices for childcare, ensuring you don’t pay greater than 7 % of your revenue, implies that a household making 50,000 bucks a 12 months will save $3,000 a 12 months on youngster prices; reducing the prices of prescribed drugs, ensuring you pay not more than $35 a month for insulin, not 100 — $1,000 a month; saving $600 per individual, per 12 months, on healthcare premiums.
The listing goes on: eldercare, housing, assembly the second on local weather change. That’s what this plan does.
All in, one research discovered that my plan would imply the equal of $7,400 in tax cuts and financial savings for the typical household of 4 with two children. And guess what? Let’s discuss inflation. It’s actual. There is inflation.
But Nobel — 17 Nobel winners of the — in economics have written a letter — nearly three weeks in the past to me — affirming that this invoice would ease long-term inflationary pressures in the economic system.
Two of the main ranking businesses in the world — the Wall Street Journal — confirmed my plans don’t add to inflationary pressures. Not liberal suppose tanks — Wall Street, Moody’s, and — anyway.
Look, I’ve additionally proposed — properly, what I proposed is, in a approach, to decrease a few of the tough prices households must pay each month by asking firms and the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair proportion for a change. (Applause.)
Look, proper now — (applause) — all people talks about the price ticket for this laws: a trillion and 7 hundred and fifty billion {dollars}. It is not going to value the taxpayers a penny.
If you’re making lower than $400,000 a 12 months, you’re not going to have your taxes go up one single penny. Not a cent. And guess what else? It additionally implies that there isn’t a — no improve — no improve to your taxes and persons are going to only pay a fair proportion.
For instance, there are 50 firms in America in the final three years of the Fortune 500 that made $40 billion that didn’t pay one single, solitary penny — not one single penny in taxes.
Come on, of us.
You have — it was once throughout the final Bush administration the high charge for the high 1 % paid 37.5 %. It bought lowered to 36 %. It didn’t have any impression; it simply means whether or not or not they’re going to have an additional swimming pool for the further residence.
But all kidding apart, if you happen to simply take it from — down from 36 again as much as 37.5, it pays for each little bit of preschool and it pays for each little bit of what we’re speaking about by way of insulin.
Now, what’s higher for American firms? What’s higher for the rich, for a more healthy nation: all people being higher educated or having that further amount of cash that they have already got an excessive amount of?
I’m a capitalist. I all the time have — I’m a superb good friend of Bernie’s, however we disagree. I’m not a socialist; I’m a capitalist. You ought to have the ability to make 1,000,000 or a 100 million bucks if you happen to can, however pay your fair proportion. (Applause.)
Folks, look, there’s a lot we are able to do, so many issues which might be inside our energy. If you went to the common American household making $60 to $70 grand, otherwise you went to a household the place dad was a instructor and mother was a police officer, making $120 [grand], they’re paying at the next tax charge than somebody making a trillion {dollars} — I imply, a billion {dollars}. For actual. How can that be truthful?
Look, one among the causes I really feel so firmly in the proposals is as a result of I do know what this nation could be. We’ve all the time been a nation of potentialities. We didn’t grow to be this nation by considering small; we’ve all the time thought large.
Throughout our historical past, we’ve emerged from disaster by investing in ourselves, in our folks.
During the Civil War — earlier than it was over, Lincoln began to construct the transcontinental railroad. It was constructed at the finish of and through the Civil War.
During the Cold War, Eisenhower constructed the Interstate Highway System, remodeling the approach Americans lived.
And now, we’re at work starting and constructing the economic system of the twenty first century to construct a greater America.
I actually imagine — and I promise you this — I imagine that fifty years from now when historians look again at this second, they’re going to say this was the second that America gained the competitors for the twenty first century.
Think about it: Most of you who’re over 40 keep in mind us all the time having the primary infrastructure in the world, the most — finest training, et cetera. We rank now quantity 8 in the world, by way of funding in useful resource and growth; 14th in infrastructure — the United States of America.
And if you happen to’re a businessman on the market otherwise you work otherwise you’re a laborer, a union individual working for a enterprise — the place is the enterprise going to go? Where they’ll get the merchandise to market quickest, most secure, the place they’ve entry to get out and in, the place they’ve entry to maneuver. That’s why we’re dropping. That’s why we’re dropping.
And we’re not going to lose anymore,. I promise you. The time of dropping is over. It’s over, over, over, over. (Applause.)
God bless you all. And might God shield our troops.
Thank you for your endurance. I respect it. Thank you. Thank you. (Applause.)
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