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LU 2 ANDREW YANG LAS VEGAS NV TOWN HALL CBS POOL 100219 2020 STARTS AND ENDS WITH PARTS OF KAMALA'S GAGGLE. INBETWEEN IS YANG'S TOWN HALL. TVU 15 ANDREW YANG LAS VEGAS RALLY ABC UNI [22:21:09] This. Is tremendous. [22:21:11] Trouble. What a day. First I just want to take a moment to acknowledge Bernie Sanders because I know he's on all of our minds. [22:21:27] Well we know Bernie he'll be back soon. I have to say that when you're campaigning for president you end up hanging onto the candidates like moments big and small. And so you can imagine campaigning around the country and then seeing someone week after week and then hearing minute that they get hospitalized because of a health problem. But you were like this on a personal. Note. He was fine. Alan Hardy and so I did what I did to all of you to do which is call your parents call your loved one just tell them that you love them and just know that you know we have to make the most of the time you have. [22:22:02] And that's what we're doing tonight here in Las Vegas. We're going to come together and talk about the future and what we can do to make it one that we're actually excited about. Now I'm sorry I missed my intro. [22:22:14] No what about that. It was the Russians though is how many. Mess with. Opportunity. [22:22:21] Yes. But I love being among union workers and leaders how many of you all working in a union shop. [22:22:37] So the unions are like a fortress against the storm. There's been a storm brewing for decades and the storm of course news is gaining strength. It's this inhuman punishing economy that now is seeing us less and less as human beings and more and more as inputs into a giant machine. And unions have been fighting this tide for years decades. And unfortunately unions have been fighting a losing battle. I met some of the leaders of the UAW and they had me look into the history of the UAW and know Holy cow. Was that enlightening. Well you look into the history of the UAW and Walter Reuther and his brother. [22:23:21] And what they had to do to fight for worker's rights. This man was literally shot in his own home and then came back and said You can't keep me down. His brother gets shot I can't keep him down and they fight and fight and unions are the reason why we have so many of the rights we enjoy today. But union membership peaked at 33 percent earlier. Well said gets 1940s and then today it's down to 10 percent. Only 7 percent of private sector workers are in unions today. [22:23:56] And so what happened was there was like a literal life or death fight for workers rights that went on and then slowly they just chipped away at it over time like you didn't really notice it but it is like undermine unions undermine labor at every turn. And the biggest thing that they managed to do is they managed to turn us all. They made us to brainwash us all into thinking that economic value in human value the same things. [22:24:24] They managed to make us think that if you can't add value in today's punitive economy that somehow your fault and unions have been such a force in letting us know that does not right. Now we have to fight for a justice system that actually. Serves us well and serves our kids well. It's one to acknowledge the history of the union movement in our place. Where we are today. [22:24:51] So I'm running on a campaign you've all heard at some point that there's an Asian man running for president who wants to give everyone 1000 dollars a month. And now we're hearing that. And. [22:25:03] The first time you've heard it you were like Ha ha that's a good. That's good. It's OK. I get it. Nothing like the first time was Vegas. [22:25:13] But when you dig into it this is not an intriguing idea. This is a Martin Luther King idea. This is a Thomas Paine idea. This is a view on most idea visionaries from all over the map have said what you all are feeling right now which is that we're in an era of economic change and we need to think differently we need to think of ourselves as the owners and shareholders of the economy. And I know that you all feel this because Nevada is the number one state out of the entire country for the proportion of jobs that are going to be lost due to automation. [22:25:48] How many of you knew that number one of the whole country. [22:25:54] And do you think about it. What are the main economic drivers here in Las Vegas which I know. What are the big industries here. Gambling. Tourism gambling sex tourism size hospitality other. How many of you saw that MGM recently fired hundreds of bartenders and replaced them with robot bar. Soda to other parts of the country. [22:26:16] They're like oh that's an interesting tidbit. That's an interesting little story. But you all know that those hundreds of bartenders have families they rely upon those jobs to be able to feed and clothe their kids. And you also know that if MGM did it how long was it going to take before some of the other casino companies. Follow suit. Not long happening that. You're seeing that and then you're seeing it creep into other parts of the hospitality and gaming industry. You're seeing the video blackjack replace the human dealer. [22:26:48] You're seeing the self-service kiosk pop up more and more. I you seen the seltzer just pop out of a better McDonald's or some sort of. Food service and food preparation. The third most common job in the United States. And you know they're trying to shred that many people here in Nevada work in call centers. When you. Call a customer service line of a big company you get the bar or software you probably do the same thing I do when just you go 0 0 0 a year and do it right haven't you. I'll do that in two or three short years the software is going to sound like this. Hey Andrew how's it going. [22:27:28] What can I do for you. It'll be efficient. Delightful. A little bit sexy apparently. What what is this going to mean for the tens of thousands of Nevadans to answer a phone right now for 14 hours now. I was just in New York City and I asked 70 CEOs point blank I said how many of you are looking at replacing your back office calls center workers and other workers with technology and software. [22:27:56] Yes only hands on about a 70. All in all 70 went up. The truth is you can fire that CEO. You didn't do that deal. Because of our capital incentives they optimize only one thing and that's the bottom line. That's the profitability that CEO almost has no choice but to get rid of those office workers and replace them with machines and software. How many of you noticed stores closing around where you live here in Nevada. And why are those stores closing. [22:28:25] Amazon. One word answer. Amazon soaking up 20 billion dollars in business every single year. How much today was I pay in taxes last year. Well that is your math. [22:28:35] About 20 million out. Zero back. Being a retail clerk is the most common job in much of the country. The average retail cashier or worker is a 39 year old woman making between nine and 11 dollars. Now when her store or mall closes What is her next move going to be. We're in the midst of the greatest economic transformation in the history of our country. What experts are calling the fourth industrial revolution. When is the last time you heard a politician say the words fourth industrial revolution just now just now. [22:29:08] And you know I'm barely a politician about. [22:29:17] My intention was not to become president. [22:29:20] I'm the high school photos to it. [22:29:26] I'm an entrepreneur and I started a nonprofit to help create jobs around the country and cities. I spent some time in Las Vegas and capacity to. [22:29:38] Help create thousands of jobs. Got medals and awards and accolades. I've got to bring my wife to meet President Obama in the White House. My in-laws lied to me for about a week. [22:29:49] Ago. I guess you did all right. [22:29:56] And then Donald Trump won the election in 2016. Now. Many of you. Proved that result to his side. You're watching TV you're like oh what happened. Some of you I'm sure celebrating we're happy about it. At a minimum everyone here knows people. Friends and family who are happy about it. To me this was a giant red flag. Imagine being the entrepreneur that was getting celebrated getting medals and awards for creating thousands of jobs and then feeling like your work is like pouring water into a bathtub that's a giant hole in the bottom. [22:30:30] That's what I felt. With Donald Trump when I was like oh my gosh the stuff I'm doing needs to be much much bigger to actually stem the tide. Particularly because I saw firsthand the aftermath of the loss of manufacturing jobs in these communities where if you turn on cable news today why would you think that Donald Trump won the election. [22:30:50] Racism Racism Russia not a stock market that no other guy named Hillary can get glass based. FBI and the economy. [22:31:05] But the real scandal is that the number is not a numbers guy was that we automated away four million manufacturing jobs in Michigan Ohio Pennsylvania Wisconsin Iowa and Dallas those state sounds familiar. Those are the states that Donald Trump needed to win and did win. You want every single one of them. And if you dig into the voter district data you find there's a straight line up between the adoption of industrial robots. And the movement towards Donald Trump. So I went to Washington D.C. with the facts and figures saying look it's not immigrants that are causing these problems. [22:31:39] Am I right. Las Vegas. It's. [22:31:46] Not immigrants. It's the fact that technology is now evolving and advancing to a point where we're pushing more Americans to the side. And what do you think the folks in Washington D.C. said to me when I said What are we going to do about the fourth industrial revolution. [22:32:00] Have you. The guy was like God. We're number one. [22:32:06] We cannot talk about that. Number two we should study that further. And number three the most common was we have to educate and retrain all Americans for the jobs of the future. That sounds very responsible. Well Las Vegas. You all know how effective the government funded retraining programs were for the manufacturing workers in the Midwest. [22:32:30] A 15 percent. That's right. They're a total dud. [22:32:34] When I said that to the folks in these numbers that we're in education we treat everyone else like hey we suck at that. Here's. Their response to that was I guess we'll get a better idea then. And then one person said something that brought me here to you all tonight in Las Vegas he said Andrew none of us here in these here knew anything about this set of problems. Because this is not a town of leaders it's the type of followers. And the only way we would do anything about it is if you create a wave in other parts of the country and bring them wave crashing down on our heads here in the east. [22:33:06] And I said challenge fucking accepted. [22:33:27] So you all are the wave. We're all here because we need your help here in Nevada. You will set the direction for the future of the country. I'm so glad a colleague with me when this guy gave me this little speech music thing I was beating the shit out. [22:33:42] Of you. Get him on the phone. You were there. [22:33:47] Because that sounds like a movie supervillains. Turns out it was a DC lobbyist. They're very civil. [22:33:57] So I said Okay I get it. I have a mission we're going to that wave started running for president. It's a little while ago but I stand before you today. I was born in the country in a recent poll for. Come. [22:34:28] Not. And if you dig into the numbers it gets even better. [22:34:32] Ninety nine percent of that money was from small donors people like you. 0. 4 5 0 0 masters the answer to it's all about the people. This is a campaign this is an uprising of the people. We're a very cheap gang to join. [22:34:56] They're mostly going to. [22:35:01] So the question is what do we do with the way we bring it crashing down their heads and we say look we need a different vision for the economy and that's where the freedom dividend of a thousand dollars a month gets us started. Now I want you all to imagine after our President thank you about. I'm president of the checks started going out. Where would you actually spend the money in real life. It's all. Over me. I was. On. Student loan and someone said. Free time. [22:35:34] To buy time and safeguard their savings. And how much I would say right here. It's also. All right. I want to legalize weed to. [22:35:54] We all know it is unbelievable. We all know that and I'm going to go a step further. I'm going to mass pardon everyone who was in jail for. Of. Geared. In 2014. Twenty. [22:36:09] 21. High five them on the way out of jail. I feel like things have changed since I went to. I. [22:36:20] Really got to ask why are we always pardoning these rich weirdos. I want to pardon people. No one has ever heard of. The anonymous American who just had not been jailed in the first place. That's the kind of person I was. [22:36:42] So how much of the money coming into your hands would stay right here and about a lot most of it. And a little bit of it would float up to Amazon and Netflix you'd like upgrade your your Netflix subscription. [22:36:58] Buy some extra appliances on Amazon. But most of it would stay right here in Nevada. It would go to car repairs you've been putting off at daycare expenses and Little League sign ups and local organizations. It would end up creating tens of thousands of jobs right where you live and work. This is the trickle up economy from our people our families our communities all. Together. I talk a lot about my wife who's at home with our boys right now one of whom is autistic. [22:37:33] And right now there are so many women around the country who are doing work that the market recognizes that zero. And I think that's wrong. Well we can change that. We have to we have to change that. We don't. Give it if you go further. For people in the market right now is leaving out and unfortunate that that tends to be women and underrepresented minorities in our society. But it doesn't stop just by putting economic buying power into our hands. We have to actually change the measuring sticks for our economy. How many of you are excited about GDP when you woke up this morning. [22:38:15] I hope I make a big contribution today. I feel it. [22:38:19] And how much does my wife's work count out in GDP. Zero zero zero. And you know that's perverse. I mean she's doing such hard work. And I was off the trail for a couple of days taking care of my kids. You know I said it after a couple of days getting back to doing something easy like running for president. And if you're a parent you don't talk about it so challenging. But it's the best thing we do. So if GDP does not excite you all or any of us really. And you know how messed up it is that GDP is at record highs in this country right now. [22:38:49] Also record highs. Suicide drug overdose drug overdoses stress levels financial anxiety and insecurity. Divorce rates divorce rates student loan indebtedness all also are record highs. It has gotten so bad that American life expectancy has declined for the last three years in a row for the first time. Well when was the last time that happened. With the Spanish Flu of 1918 100 years ago. A global pandemic that killed millions. We are now back in Spanish blue territory because of suicides and drug overdoses overtaking vehicle deaths for the first time in American history. You don't see that on the news right. [22:39:32] It's all like oh it must have been Russia. I mean the fact is you have this rot in our society that's been eating us up for years and it's not a Republican or Democrat thing. We've just been unfortunately subject to a government that does not care about us. That is not responsive to us. It does not care of our way of life gets better or worse. No it's. [22:39:54] And I've been in D.C. and that town. The worst part about running for president is that after I win I have to move to that fucking town. [22:40:10] Oh sorry. So D.C. right now is not my formally connected to our well-being. And part of it is that it is push these measurements on to us. It said how are we going to measure the health of our society GDP stock market prices headline unemployment rate and we all know on some level that these measurements are bogus. Even Donald Trump as a candidate. What did you say. Big news these numbers are. Remember that when. He gets into office and all the sudden he is like. The numbers are real. He was right the first time. The numbers are not real. So GDP as our record highs even as our social ills are piling up. [22:40:53] Stock market prices the top 20 percent of Americans own ninety two percent of stock market. Bottom 80 percent own 80 percent bottom 50 percent owns zero. Why on earth would you cheerlead for an economic indicator that only corresponds to the top 20 percent of your population. I make no sense at all. And then headline unemployment. They beat us like a with the headline unemployment stat all the time. Oh it's great it's great. 4 percent at 2.0 percent thinks it does not measure labor force participation rate. [22:41:25] Like if you drop out of the workforce all of a sudden you count. Right now our labor force participation rate is the same level as Costa Rica El Salvador. You see that on the news. Also does not measure underemployment. If you're doing a job that is not what you're supposed to be doing based upon your excuse treaty doesn't matter. Temp gig or contract work that don't have benefits. Also those men there they're all of these problems that are economic measurements are not actually telling us about. [22:41:58] And then they're beating us in with them saying hey these are great things are great things are great even though we know they're not great. Donald Trump's our president in part because Americans knew things were not great. He said we're going to make America great again. And then what did Hillary say in response. America's already great. No. And then it did not work out well. That was not the right answer. [22:42:23] So if you have these economic measurements that are driving us off a cliff even the adventure of GDP said this he said there's a terrible measurement for national well-being which never use it is that a hundred years ago we said no. Here we are following it off the cliff. So what measurements have they got better for you here in Nevada. You would actually get excited about it if I said hey this went up. On. National. Health. [22:42:49] Helped in life expectancy. Someone's an air quality raising of that air quality. How about. [22:42:56] Mental health and from substance abuse. Other. Countries this century. [22:43:06] Things got better. You'd actually be very very excited and you're very happy as you were president. I will make these the new measurements of our economic progress. It's actually not that hard as our president when to go down the street to the Bureau of Economic Analysis and say hey GDP one hundred years old and useless. We're going to modernize it to include our health and life expectancy our clean air and clean water mental health the freedom substance abuse criminality recidivism we can actually like make in the measurements that we care about. And then I'll report how we're doing by these measurements to you all every year in the state of the Union. [22:43:41] I'll be the first president to use a PowerPoint deck in the state of the Union. You know the haredi campaign where people actually cheering. [22:43:57] PowerPoint. So these are the things that would actually get us on track to solve our problems. [22:44:08] You don't have the right measurements you can never make progress. How many of you run a business or starting a business or run an apartment or like a massive you have the wrong measurements. How that business going to do over time. Importantly that's where we are as a society today. So here. So those are a couple of the big ideas that we can actually make happen very very quickly. And this is the secret. [22:44:31] A lot of times in politics we talk about things that we cannot actually change. But there is nothing stopping the majority of citizens of a democracy from getting together and voting ourselves to do nothing at all. Companies do it all the time. If you look at the companies that have defined a dividend horizon Microsoft Coca-Cola. Oh they get together and say you know what. Our we should get some of our profits and earnings. Everyone says such a great idea. It's time for the United States to do the same thing. Republicans. [22:45:07] Did this in one state in what state is that. I was Alaska pay for it. And what is the oil of the 21st century technology. [22:45:19] I saw where someone's in marijuana right. [22:45:23] Throw that in there why not. A study just came out that said that big data on our data is now worth more than oil. How many of you saw that study. Yeah. All right raise your hand if you remember getting your data check in the mail. What happened to the data chip did it get lost. No it went to Amazon Facebook Google Microsoft. [22:45:48] Those companies are now profiting the tune of tens of billions of dollars although our data. And then I was looking around saying like oh where's the money going. Where's the money going. The money is going up into the cloud into the hands of these trillion dollar tech companies that are literally paying zero in taxes. And I want to ask you all a question if you have a trillion dollar tech company paying zero in taxes. Whose fault is that. That's our fault. That is not their fault. Their job is to pay as little in taxes as possible. And you can imagine the scene at Amazon headquarters. Their accounts come in and say hey Jeff great news. Zero in taxes again. And then what does Jeff do. [22:46:30] Yeah Jeff goes to his ball takes out bags of gold coins into the car and drive home. They then do like a gold coin Don like St.. [22:46:42] That is their job. [22:46:44] It is our job to make sure they can't do that. And I write about it. So this is the vision of a modern humans centered economy that actually works for us. And I come to you today again I wouldn't ask you all. Is it harder to go from anonymous fourth in the polls or fourth to first. What do you think about it. [22:47:09] I think it's harder to go monogamist boring. I think you've already done the hard part. [22:47:24] The hard right now is going to be the easy part. The fun part and you will play a crucial role in this. Presidential candidates are going to come to Nevada. Over and over again because you are some of the most powerful people in our country today. You may not be like you're just living your lives. I can go to this thing. So most powerful people in our society today how many of you consider yourselves really into politics demands. Raise your hand it is like the first political thing you can do right. [22:47:52] That's a really good sense of remorse. So I got break down for you all. [22:48:00] What we need to do to win and it's very very doable. So here's the path for those of you who are new to politics now what's the first state that votes in the Democratic primary. I don't know. That's right. I was never a third. What's the second state you have Hampshire. It's right. It's like 10 or so. And it was the third state. That's right First Person. [22:48:27] First in the West. The odds of this race being resolved by the time it gets to you are essentially zero. And by the time it comes to you it's still going to be up in the air. It's going to be a dogfight. Who you vote for it ends up with a huge leg up like a giant turbo boost. New Hampshire forwards wait before you guys and the young and you're going to do three in New Hampshire. What does the third part. What if a third party in the state of New Hampshire people libertarians. [22:49:08] And libertarians love the freedom dividend. Like. You. [22:49:12] Think about the way the state motto in New Hampshire your die. That's right. And New Hampshire has an open primary. [22:49:21] If you're on registered Republican or independent you can vote in the Democratic primary. So I'm going to give you this thought. If you're a Republican in New Hampshire and your choice was either participating in Donald Trump stomping on William Weld or voting in a much more interesting Democratic primary for the crossover candidate I think you're going to choose the latter. [22:49:44] And anytime you see polls of people in New Hampshire who are really polling Democrats led by registered Democrats so they're going to undercut our support at every turn. Because we're going to get the libertarians the independents the Republicans are crossing over. One of the reasons why our campaign is growing by leaps and bounds what's the number one criteria. We're all Democratic primary voters as to who should be the nominee. Who can beat Donald Trump. [22:50:13] Well I. [22:50:26] That's right. That is the man. So here is that man. [22:50:30] I'm one of only two candidates in the field that 10 percent of Donald Trump voters say they will support in the general election. [22:50:37] Which means that for the nominee we win the whole thing in 2020. [22:50:46] Democrats are waking up to this reality. They're looking around and saying who's Usher is meant to be Donald Trump. It's one reason why Joe Biden's number one in the polls because people think he's the most sure bet but they're going to figure out they have another shoe event in this race. You're looking at a. Why. [22:51:10] Are we going to be so successful. [22:51:11] Because this is the campaign now I can draw in disaffected Trump voters some of your ideas. I know. [22:51:20] Whatever you think of you balance on someone somewhat. They're the black. Trump. Voters. [22:51:34] Libertarians. Independence. Not for. [22:51:45] Newcomers to politics. [22:51:49] Democrats and progressives. We can build a much broader coalition to take on and defeat Donald Trump in 2020 than any other candidate in the field. Because it's not lift. It's not right. [22:52:00] It's going to be. Will. Be. People from. From and that's exactly what we're going to do with my life. Donald Trump. [22:52:20] Is our president today because he got some of the problems right. [22:52:24] We have to acknowledge that but his solutions were not what we need. They were the opposite of where we need to go. What were his solutions. Now all. Build a wall. A job we're going to turn the clock back. [22:52:36] We're gonna bring the old jobs back America half the. [22:52:40] We have to do the opposite of these things and we have to turn the clock forward. We have to accelerate our economy and society to rise to the challenge of the 21st century. [22:52:52] We have to evolve in the way we think about work and value. [22:52:55] And I have the ideal candidate for that job because the opposite of Donald Trump is it a. [22:53:39] Also I think now we're going to take some questions as I write. There's a question. Is. Why. It's what I always do it's like I sought out to someone who is supposed to like you to take a life that doesn't make sense. [22:53:55] Hello. Well it's kind of amazing. I actually started back in April and I really haven't seen it yet. But anyway. Yes. All right. So this is actually something that really matters to me and it's something that I think really need some more recognition. So. I'm 19 years old I'm turning 20 in just a few days. But my brother is 18 and he has type 1 diabetes and it is something that affects so many people in the United States diabetes. [22:54:25] And what people while a lot of people are seeing is that people with diabetes are dying because insulin prices in this country are insanely high and they're dying because they're rationing out their insulin. They're dying because. There's a huge problem in this country where people can't get their insulin. It's not happening in Canada or Mexico or Britain or any other developed country in the world. And when he turns 26 when he's off of his own plan when he's off the payment plan. What's gonna happen is that he's not going to have access to this health care plan or he's going to be on his own. [22:55:04] I don't know what's going to happen. By the time it's 20 26 I don't know if you know what's going to change if he's going to have access to this location and there's so many people who already have diabetes or diabetes or rationing out there and so on. And I want someone as president who can deal with that and that has the capability to do it. Thank you. Thank you. Let's get more. And. [22:55:32] Of what's gone wrong in our country and what we need to fix. I mean you have a teenager who needs life saving drugs and he's already stressed out about his ability to afford it. You notice that drug prices only go in one direction in this country. Why is that. I mean they literally have a business model where it's like hey let's just take the prices up a notch and then we collect more money. So we have to do is we have to get prescription drug prices under control. We have to get our entire health care industrial complex under control because the wrong part is that our health care system right now was designed not to make us healthy. It's designed to maximize revenue. Orthodox. [22:56:08] Again it's an incentive problem. So I got a four part but the short answer is as president I will make sure your brother does not need to worry about this ever again.