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EDWARDS Dubuque, IA - John Edwards attends a Town Hall at Loras College Fox, tape Tape 1 Edwards holds a town hall meeting at Loras College, Alumni Center Ballroom NY1/X75 Slugged: 1445 EDWARDS IA X7504 15:33:10 They came from big corporate America that's where they came fromthe profits of big companies just keep going up and up and up 15:33:41 Elizabeth spoke about thisI want to add with what she saidit was in south Carolina my father had to borrow 50 dollars to get me and my mother out of the hospital 15:34:17 leaving the house because my parents were working She's leave her house with her apron on, she'd leave the house go to the mill, work her shift and come back 15:34:44 and making his way over to the mill to work his shifthe's usually work the night shift 15:35:04 the question is why did they do it? Why did your parents do it? Because you would have a better life and the reason I keep talking about corporate power, corporate greed is they are robbing your children of their future 15:35:47 just like the jobs gone from the Maytag plant in Newton IA This is not rocket scienceit is so easy to understand this Why are the trade companies for NAFTA 15:36:27 you think they're worried about Americans 15:36:46 you think about what happened in 1993we ran the government theoreticallythey killed it Then NAFTA came along 15:37:20 if we don't take the power away from these peoplethe people that you grew up with 15:37:42 the easiest thing in the world to say is we can be nice about thisand negotiate with them and they will voluntarily give their power awayit will never happen 15:38:22 we have very good people running for the democratic nominationI like senator obama and I respect him on that 15:38:52 I think you have to bring these people to the table and negotiate with themI think we have an epic fight in front of usthe same things going to happen the next year, the following year 15:39:35 we got a fight on our hands and we're going to win that fight 15:39:50 we need a president who says to the American people corporate greed is not going to work 15:40:08 I met this fellow a few monthscould have been fixed with a simple operation 15:40:30 something finally came along and helped himthe problem was this they fixed it when he was 50 years old 15:40:54 how long are going to let drug companies run this countrynow its time to have your voice heard in this democracy 15:41:20 I believe we need a person that doesn't just think about it and talk about it but do it 15:41:51 I came home bleeding one dayyou never start a fireyou never walk away from the fire and that is exactly what we're faced with 15:42:22 this is not about me now I spent twenty yearsI think sometimes people think oh we won all these cases 15:42:50 it was usually me and a child and a familywe won over and over and over and then I've done exactly in public life 15:43:30 the men and women who worked in that mill my mother and my dad that's who I'm fighting for 15:43:55 Bruce mentioned this a few minutes agoif we're not willing to fight for, stand up and show some backbonewe have no soulwhat do we exist for It is the reason we exist as a party 15:44:26 and I've listened to these reports coming out 15:44:56 last year 35 million Americansthink about it that wayevery single person in California 15:45:26 all while we glorify the profits of big corporationsthis has to stop It's wrong, it's immoral It's time to step up and stop this 15:45:54 you have so much ability to change this thing if you stand up and say this isn't ok this isn't going to happen anymore 15:46:15 when we stand up for 200,000 veterans who are living homeless America stands up 15:46:34 it's about America rising again We can do this together We need you I cannot do this myselfI need you in this with