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TVU 20 ANDREW YANG LONDONDERRY NH TOWN HALL ABC UNI 011220 2020 NO MAJOR NEWS AT ALL HIGHLIGHTS Someone asked a question about how to deal with coal miners and balancing the need to help the climate change problem Yang circled back to UBI as a solution, but then slipped into the coal miners can't become coders speech - a possible jab at Joe Biden from when he made the suggestion: 161617 So one of the jokes I tell is that anyone who thinks a coal miner should become a coder is generally neither of those things Because if you talked to coders, they're not like yeah, you should definitely jump into this I mean, coding is like a sophisticated foreign language Would you suggest that, like coal miners all become Russian translators like, doesn't make any sense (laughs) Oh, yeah, sure I'll just I was just venting a little bit Yang also took a jab at Trump for the way he has handled trade with China, saying he thinks the trade war has been counterproductive, but yet not offering specific solutions of his own: 161756 You have to try to create paths for them to be able to look good for their people in a way that, that meets our goals and ends So, I'm very much against the way that Trump has run the China trade war Because I've seen the victims in America of that trade war, and as far as I can tell, it has not really remedied the abuses that it was, it was meant to Unprompted, Yang started talking about why climate change was so important to him, and how his hopes to fix people's income would help create a path to fixing the climate faster: 162552 I'm, I'm going to throw one last thing that's hopefully will tie this together In a country where 78% of us are living paycheck to paycheck, and almost half of us can't afford an unexpected 500 dollar bill, if you go to that person, say We need to worry about climate change what is a natural response? How much is it going to cost me? I can't pay next month's rent I'm worried about this week, not like years from now 162616 We have to get the boot off of our people's throats and then we will be able to make much more rapid progress on climate change We're gonna find that out in my administration A light moment came when someone's phone interrupted the room Only highlighting this moment because it demonstrates how quick Yang is on his feet, making a specific joke based on the exact way the ring tone sounded: 160625 (PHONE RINGS) No, it's fine, it's the Russians always trying to interrupt my events I'm totally kidding That was, that was very operatic, though It was like with those Academy Awards where like the speech goes on too long and it's like the rising music and then I'm like, I just want to thank -- I just wanna thank three more people HIGHLIGHTS Coders/Coal Miners 161250 Q: Those coal miners that we're putting out of work and we need to put out of work, they have a real strong sense of place, but something must be done to combat climate changeTalk to me about how you would deal with that issue? 161333 YANG>> Thank you, and this is the crux of my campaign in many ways So, I'll tell you what I would not do I would not say that we're gonna turn coal miners into coders because that's, essentially, ridiculous, and talking about it is a waste of time and immensely counterproductive for a society So, the question is what are the roles of the future? For starters, if you put $1,000 a month into a community, let's say in West Virginialet's say there's a town of 10,000 people in West Virginia 161404 They're getting an additional 10 million dollars a month in buying power Then, the money will flow to local non-profits and religious organizations and local businesses that will each need to hire, accessibly, right there in that community One of the messages, I think, is a loser for Americans everywhere, and it's the subtext of a lot of what's going on, is that you have to move and leave your home and leave your family if you want to live a good life 161435 That's a losing message [FEED FREEZES] 161445 We're the richest, most abundant country in the history of the world We're up to twenty one trillion dollars and counting, and we can easily put the resources into that town so that people are more able to do the kind of work that they want to do, and can reconstitute organizations and businesses that serve the needs of their community 161505 One of the biggest farces in American life right now is that we don't have the resources to get things done I'm the numbers guy Does anyone here remember voting for the 4 trillion dollar bailout of Wall Street? Does anyone remember anyone there being like, Where are we gonna get the money? Where are we gonna get the money? No they had a choice between nailing out the banks and keeping Americans in their homes 161529 And they chose the banks I was so disgusted by this decision I found it so corrupt that I quit my job, started a nonprofit, ran it for seven years to create several thousand jobs because I thought that would be generative and productive And that's the kind of choice that we're making where towns are concerned, too We're saying, hey, your coal mine has been stripped bare Now you're dead Now you have no value Your furniture manufacturing plant closes You're also dead 161558 What we have to say instead is that this is the richest country in the history of the world We can easily put resources into the hands of every single American to help those communities have a path forward that will work for them (applause) 161617 So one of the jokes I tell is that anyone who thinks a coal miner should become a coder is generally neither of those things Because if you talked to coders, they're not like yeah, you should definitely jump into this I mean, coding is like a sophisticated foreign language Would you suggest that, like coal miners all become Russian translators like, doesn't make any sense (laughs) Oh, yeah, sure I'll just I was just venting a little bit trump-trade war 161645 Q>> Are tariffs a policy that you think would help equalize our relation with China and other rising economies? Or are there other solutions that you propose that would be more productive? 161656 YANG>> Thanks for the question I like it Tariffs are a tool that sometimes can be handy and useful I think initiating a trade war is counterproductive and I, I wa sin Iowa and their people are very angry because they've had their prices change and had to fire people and disinvest and do all these nasty things for things they had nothing to do with 161729 Which are the Chinese piracy of intellectual property So to me, tariffs are there as a tool, you'd want to use them very very judiciously You'd want to use them with a lot of transparency and lead time so that if, if you are going to use them, you'd say, hey, in 2 years time, if you don't change these practices these tariffs are going to go up And actually use them as an instrument to push people in a direction you want to go You don't want to put other adminst-- country's governments in a position where they feel like they're going to like win or lose 161756 You have to try to create paths for them to be able to look good for their people in a way that, that meets our goals and ends So, I'm very much against the way that Trump has run the China trade war BEcause I've seen the victims in America of that trade war, and as far as I can tell, it has not really remedied the abuses that it was, it was meant to PHONE RINGS 160625 (PHONE RINGS) No, it's fine, it's the Russians always trying to interrupt my events I'm totally kidding That was, that was very operatic, though It was like with those Academy Awards where like the speech goes on too long and it's like the rising music and then I'm like, I just want to thank -- I just wanna thank three more people Climate Change 162552 I'm, I'm going to throw one last thing that;s hopefully will tie this together In a country where 78% of us are living paycheck to paycheck, and almost half of us can't afford an unexpected 500 dollar bill, if you go to that person, say We need to worry about climate change what is a natural response? How much is it going to cost me? I can't pay next month's rent I'm worried about this week, not like years from now 162616 We have to get the boot off of our people's throats and then we will be able to make much more rapid progress on climate change We're gonna find that out in my administration TRINT yang londonderrywav [15:42:29] No, I no It is incredible [15:42:35] It is [15:42:45] In 1992, they had to be back to speak about seven months ago And I said, I haven't been back since I graduated because I didn't have a lot of time with the school and the student body then erupted in applause [15:43:00] Now they go No, I wasn't my intended reaction I went to college not so far from here in Rhode Island and Brown University [15:43:10] And then I went to Yale Law School at York City, became known to have a lawyer for five months, and then I left to start a company How many of you have started a business or organization or club or mailing list? Raise your hand [15:43:23] So if you put your hand up, you know a couple things You know, number one, it's much harder than anyone ever lets on And number two, when someone asks you how it's going, what do you say? Great My business was great, too, until it failed My parents told people I was still a lawyer because they're Asian Among other things, I'd been bitten by the bug and I worked at a small company and then another And then I became the CEO of an education company that grew to become number one in the US, was bought by a big company in 2009, and 2009 was a very tough time in much of the country because of the financial crisis How many of you were here in New Hampshire in 2009? [15:44:05] Eleven years ago How was that time? Here in this part of the state? [15:44:12] Not very good I don't like to think about it [15:44:15] I ask the same question in another part of the state And this 14 year old boy raised his hand and said it was very, very hard I looked and I said this before years old How do you remember? [15:44:26] And he said, My parents had to sell the house And that's all I remember And I was like, oh, he would remember that And that's the kind of thing you don't forget It was such a tough time and so much of the country And I had this sense, I had an insight as to why our economy crashed And it crashed in large part because some of the wannabe whiz kids I'd go into eggs, Aaron Brown and Columbia with had gone straight to Wall Street and come up with mortgage backed securities, exotic financial instruments and derivatives So I thought what a disaster that is What a train wreck Let's try to have people do the opposite of that So I thought the opposite of that would be to head to a place like Detroit or Baltimore or Birmingham or St [15:45:10] Lewis to create businesses that would then create jobs in those communities I left my job to start a nonprofit How did you all work at non-profits now? [15:45:19] How many of you volunteer a nonprofit? [15:45:23] You also delis just pretend that allows one And it's like, are you a good person? Yes, I am So one time I think so [15:45:34] When I started this nonprofit, the way I started the nonprofit was I put some of our savings into this Bible and see through that I created And then I started calling rich friends with this question, Do you love America? This heart abundance said, What does it mean if I say yes? And then I said, Are these ten thousand dollars? And so I told them that I love America for 10000 I thought you did So I raised a couple hundred thousand that grew to the billions And over the next seven years running this nonprofit helped create several thousand jobs in 15 cities around the country, was honored by the Obama administration multiple times So I got to bring my wife to meet the president My in-laws are very excited about me that week [15:46:16] It's like she did All right [15:46:17] I take these pictures, but unfortunately, I had this sinking feeling while I was traveling the country, running a venture for America that things were getting worse, not better in many places How many of you grew up in New England or upstate New York, like me, like this general vicinity? [15:46:34] How about that? Midwest, South, West Coast or mountain, west or Southwest? [15:46:42] Yeah, I have never been to Missouri or Alabama or Louisiana or Ohio even before running a venture for America And I felt like when you flew between St Louis and San Francisco or Michigan in Manhattan, you felt like you were crossing dimensions or decades or ways of life and not just a few times month I don't know if you've had that experience yourselves going between parts of the country, but I was still stunned when Donald Trump became our president in 2016 Today, I know you all remember [15:47:13] Well, how did you all react when you want to cry, crush someone in another man's head [15:47:22] Berman To me Trump's victory was a red flag where tens of [15:47:40] As in friends and neighbors who celebrated his victory Now, if you were to turn on cable news that night or any night since then, why would [15:48:00] Facebook social media, for sure James Cole, Mees Lines FBI [15:48:11] Hillary Clinton emails complacency, turn out Electoral College, change, anti politician, all [15:48:24] All these things kind of mixed together into some sort of cocktail or brew But I'm a numbers guy and I love when looking in the numbers for an explanation And I found it over the past number of months and years, we have blasted away four million manufacturing jobs in this country And where were those jobs primarily? [15:48:48] Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa, all the swing states that not all Donald Trump needed to win and did win And you may know what this looks and feels like because this happened in New Hampshire a little bit earlier where you all lost 12000 manufacturing jobs, primarily in the northern part of the state And when those plants or mills closed, then the shopping district closed and people started to leave and the schools shrank And that community has never recovered I have been to those towns in northern New Hampshire I've been to towns that have had the exact same thing play out in Missouri, Ohio, Michigan, western Pennsylvania [15:49:32] And what happened to those jobs is now shifting to other parts of the economy How many of you have noticed stores closing around where you live here in Londonderry? And why are those stores closing? Amazon online Amazon alone is soaking up 20 billion dollars in business every year How much an Amazon pay in taxes last year? Zero So that's the math Londonderry 20 billion out 30 percent of your stores and malls close You get zero back Most common job in the economy is retail clerk, average retail clerks, a 39 year old woman making between eight to 10 dollars an hour What is her next move going to be when the store closes? [15:50:17] We all see the self-service kiosks at the CBS and the grocery store and the fast food restaurant But the changes are more pervasive in subtle When you all call the customer service line of the big company and you get the bot or the software on the other end I'm sure you do the exact same thing I do, which is you pound 0 0 0 say human, human, representative, representative, human, human until you get someone on the line Right Raise your hand if that's what you do Oh yeah, we all do that Well, Susan, you hear that software, you're like, oh no, I hope this company still employs a human that I will now get to But in two or three short years, the software is going to sound like this [15:50:57] Hey, Andrew, how's it going? What can I do for you? It'll be fast, efficient, peppy, delightful You might not even know its software What is this going to mean for the two and a half million Americans who work at call centers right now making 10 to 14 dollars an hour? [15:51:13] How many of you all know a truck driver here in New Hampshire? [15:51:17] It's the most common job in 29 states There are three and a half million truck drivers in our country My friends in California are working on trucks that can drive themselves They say they're in 98 percent of the way there And if you doubt that the robot trucks are coming A robot truck just transported 20 tons of butter from California to Pennsylvania two weeks ago with no human intervention [15:51:38] Why did they choose butter for this maiden voyage? I have no idea [15:51:43] But if you Google robot butter truck, you will see And then in Pennsylvania, there was a giant stack of pancakes Now there were [15:52:08] Our highway system has a circulatory system and the trucks are like blood cells carrying cargo, but they don't just carry what's inside the truck They also carry economic vitality Almost 10 percent of the jobs in the state of Nebraska Support truckers and trucking What will happen to all of those jobs when the robot truck does not need to stop in Nebraska anymore? 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's the last time you heard a politician say fourth industrial revolution? Just now Three seconds ago And I'm barely a politician My wife joked that I'd make a lousy politician because I'm a subpar liar Sure, I could barely Like I was trying to surprise her with a proposal, and I felt like I was like just like she knows, she knows we got to [15:53:02] Yes, eventually [15:53:06] So we're in the midst of this fourth industrial revolution It's transforming our way of life in fundamental ways [15:53:12] And I went to our leaders in Washington, DC I asked them in 2017 So Trump wins I'm like, oh, my gosh You know, here I am, Mr Job Creator Getting awards and accolades And I feel like I'm pouring water into a bathtub that has a giant hole ripped in the bottom The water's rushing out Well, it helps get Donald Trump elected We're scapegoating immigrants for things immigrants have nothing to do with So I go to our leaders in DC and I say, what are we going to do to help our people manage this economic transformation? I had my facts and my figures And what do you think the folks in DC said to me when I said, what are we going to do? Go home Nothing I didn't know that in New Hampshire Someone made this Scooby Doo noise was like, woo, woo [15:53:59] The main response I got out of DC were no one Andrew, we cannot talk about this now [15:54:05] It's verbatim One was very reassuring Number two, we should study this further Number three, we must educate and retrain all Americans for the jobs of the future How many of you heard that one before? Yeah, that one sounds somewhat responsible, but I'm the numbers guy [15:54:21] So I said, hey, I looked at the studies You all want to guess how effective the government funded retraining programs were for the manufacturing workers who lost their jobs [15:54:32] I'm asking you very low and you're guessing low and you're guessing low in part because, you know, people you know that people aren't all just going to march out of the factory and be like, take me to the coding school now Like, that's that's that's not the way people are So the success rates were between zero and 15 percent They're a total dud of the manufacturing workers in the Midwest who lost their jobs [15:54:54] Almost half never worked again And of that group, half filed for disability You then saw surges and suicides and drug overdoses in those communities to the point where America's life expectancy has now declined for the last three years in a row You know, the last time America's life expectancy declined for three years in a row worldwide 2 is a very good guess Depression's a very good guess It's earlier than both of those It's the Spanish flu of 1918, the global pandemic that killed millions You have to go back 100 years to a point where America's life expectancy declined three years in a row [15:55:28] It is highly unusual for your life expectancy to ever decline in a developed country It ordinarily just keeps going up and up because you're getting richer, stronger, healthier But in the US, it's gone down and then down and then down again [15:55:41] So when I said this to the folks in DC, one of them said, well, I guess we'll get better at the programs And another said something that brought me here to you all today, he said, Andrew, you're in the wrong town No one here in DC will do anything about this because fundamentally this is a town of followers, not leaders And the only way we will do something about it is if you were to create a wave in other parts of the country and bring that wave crashing down on our heads And I said Challenge accepted I'll be back in two years with the wave [15:56:13] As now, you may not know this, but you all are part of that wave You all are among the most powerful people in our country today I did the math You know how many Californians each New Hampshire voter is worth? One thousand Californians of So look around this cafeteria How many of us are there today? I'm going to give a Trump an estimate [15:56:46] There are eighteen hundred people here in the biggest room anyone's ever seen [15:56:54] There are about 200 people here today, but two hundred people here in New Hampshire is the equivalent of five football stadiums full of Californians That is the power you have to shape the future of this country You all can do something that other Americans only dream about Most of our fellow citizens look up and they see the government pipes just clogged full of lobbyist cash and they think there's nothing they can do about it They are generally correct There is next to nothing they can do But you all can flush the pipes clean in 30 short days That's the magic of this place So I love campaigning here so much [15:57:30] If you take a different message to the rest of the country, we can retake our own government and make it work for the people of this country This campaign raised sixteen point five million dollars in the fourth quarter of last year with zero corporate PAC money All grassroots donations Average donation of only thirty five dollars each So my fans are almost as cheap as Bernie's We are fifth in the polls and rising to become the Democratic nominee And this campaign is all about rewriting the rules of the 21st century economy To work for us, to work for you, to work for your families [15:58:16] This is the only way it's going to happen We're in the midst of the greatest winner take all economy in the history of our country You have trillion dollar tech companies like Amazon paying less in taxes than everyone here in this room today Now, you may not know this, but this is what you're here to change You are here to see to it that we get our fair share of all the value that's flowing out of your communities and bring it back, bring it back and then do what with it Put it directly into your hands Because when it's in your hands, what will you do with it? What does that trickle up economy look like? [15:58:49] How would you actually spend a thousand dollars a month if you were to get it? [15:58:57] Student loans, how much of it would stay right here in New Hampshire? Most all of it Some of it would flow out [15:59:09] You might get your own Netflix password, but most of it would stay right here in your communities Now, I know that at some point you've seen that there's a man running for president who wants to give everyone 1000 dollars a month And I know the first time you saw that, you thought that was too good to be true, a gimmick That will never happen But this is not my idea and it's not a new idea [15:59:36] Thomas Paine was forward at the founding of the country He called it the citizen's dividend for all Americans Martin Luther King, whose birthday we celebrate every year, was fighting for this when he was killed in 1968 It's called a guaranteed minimum income for all Americans I met with his son in Atlanta and he said this is what his dad was fighting for A thousand economists, including Milton Friedman, one of the fathers of modern economic theory, endorsed this plan in the 60s, passed the US House of Representatives twice in 1971 under Nixon [16:00:10] It's called the Family Assistance Plan would have guaranteed an income floor for all Americans And then 11 years later, one state actually passed a dividend where now everyone in that state gets between one and two thousand dollars a year No questions asked And what state is that and how do they pay for it? And what is the oil of the 21st century? Data technology, AI, self-driving cars and trucks A study just came out that said that our data is now worth more than oil Billions of dollars a year, where's all that money going? [16:00:55] Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple The trillion dollar Jeff Bezos singled out individual downstream Jeff Bezos is where the hundred fifteen billion dollars post divorce [16:01:08] No judgment I mean, it's just like a statement of fact [16:01:14] We have to make sure that we're getting our fair share from the biggest winners of the 21st century economy If we get our fair share of every Amazon sale, every Google search, every Facebook ad, eventually every robot truck mile and a I work unit, we can easily afford this thousand dollar dividend in our hands after we spend it in our communities Creates all sorts of new economic growth right here in New Hampshire, actually creates an environment where your kids don't necessarily feel like they have to leave your town or your state to have the kind of life that they want to lead [16:01:49] We say there was a corrections officer right here in New Hampshire who said to me we should pay people to stay out of jail because it costs so much more when they're in jail This was a corrections officer He got He knows he needs like staring at it every day So these are the things that we can do to build this trickle up economy that would actually pay for itself many times over One estimate said that just by making us stronger, healthier, better educated, it would increase GDP by 700 billion dollars just based on better health and education outcomes for our people [16:02:23] I've run several organizations and I know investing in people's what good organizations do here in America right now Are we investing in our kids? Are we setting them up to actually succeed? Are we putting them in a position where they're going to lead a better life than we have led? I know Steve said some of the same things Steve is a parent I'm a parent How many of you all are parents? If you're a parent, you've had this sinking feeling that we're leaving our kids a future that is less secure or less stable and less prosperous than the lives that we have led We feel that way because that is the truth of it in the numbers [16:02:57] I'm not running for president because I dreamt about being president Those are not the conversations in the Yang household I can guarantee you that it was more like your terrible clean up your room monthly And it was this [16:03:10] That's true And now I now my moms like me Like, how did you do it anyway? [16:03:19] I'm running for president because like those of you had your hands up, I'm a parent and a patriot and I have seen the future that lies ahead for our kids It is not something I'm willing to accept for them They deserve better [16:03:30] Applause [16:03:33] And you all, unlike anyone else in the country, can insure that they actually will do better Every other family in the country wants that kind of power that you all have And the question is how are you going to use it? In 30 days time? It's a really profound question, but it's an awesome one [16:03:54] As Steve said, we get told how great things are by these headline economic measurements They say corporate profits are at record highs, GDP figures are at record highs GDP is actually GDP GDP is at record highs [16:04:07] Also at record highs, United States of America right now Debt Student loan debt Financial insecurity Americans living paycheck to paycheck Stress Anxiety Mental illness Depression, suicides, drug overdoses, again, of corporate profits are going up and life expectancy is going down, which do you listen to? We know which one DC is listening to [16:04:35] DC can't even see people on life expectancy DC is just staring at the dollar signs Washington, DC today is the richest city in our country [16:04:43] Think about that What do they produce? [16:04:49] Whatever their producing business is very good Donald Trump said he wanted to drain the swamp and that actually evoked a lot of support in the American people I don't want to drain the swamp I want to distribute the swamp Why would you employ hundreds of thousands of workers in the most expensive metro area in the state, in the country? Why wouldn't you move some of those workers and jobs to Ohio, Michigan, New Hampshire, Missouri, much lower cost You save billions of dollars right off the bat [16:05:23] And I'd argue that the agency would make better decisions because they'd actually live someplace normal instead of a DC bubble where they look at each other all day I'm for term limits for members of Congress [16:05:40] The job of our representatives should be to head to DC, get work done on our behalf and then come home Their job should not be to go to DC and try and crouch there for as long as possible, being like Let me stay Let me stay as your president After I do everything I can for us for eight years, you will never hear from me again [16:06:05] And I'm certainly not going to stay in DC a day longer, and I have to, I'll be like, what's to help sort out? All right, I'm out [16:06:15] One of the reasons why we're so confused as a country is that certain economic measurements are going up while our quality of life is going down And when you have that kind of issue No, it's fine It's the Russians always trying to interrupt my events I totally get it That was that was very operatic, though It was like what those Academy Awards were like The speech goes on too long It is like polarizing music Best of luck I just want to thank what I think three more people [16:06:48] It's fine I'd have to say that you have to be a [16:06:54] So we have these measurements that are heading up even as our quality of life is going down What we have to do is bring them together And the most obvious way to do that is actually upgrade our measurements to tell us how we are doing instead of GDP and corporate profits that are going to go up when robot trucks come We need things that actually tell us how we are going to be progressing So instead of GDP, how about wellness and life expectancy? [16:07:21] Mental health and freedom from substance abuse Clean air and clean water Environmental sustainability Proportion of Americans who can retire in quality circumstances [16:07:31] Childhood success rates These are the real measurements of our society And as your president, it will be my pleasure to go to the Bureau of Economic Analysis and say, hey, GDP A hundred years old, really out of date, kind of useless Even the inventors had one hundred years ago This is a terrible measurement of national well-being, and we should never use it as that And here we are writing it off a cliff 100 years later [16:07:55] I'm going to modernize it to this scorecard that highlights how we are actually doing in our communities And I will present the real data to everyone every year at the State of the Union I will be the first president to use a PowerPoint deck in the State of the Union And I know how deeply flawed our economic measurements are because of my own family My wife is at home with our two boys every day taking care of Christopher and Damien, one of whom is autistic Our boys are 7 and 4 How much is her work included in our economic measurements every day or every year? [16:08:35] Zero evolution and all the stay at home parents around the country get a zero All the caregivers taking care of ailing loved ones Zero Volunteers and activists zero Coaches and mentors making people stronger Zero Ninety eight percent of artists, zero [16:08:58] Increasingly, local journalists, we have put 2000 local newspapers out of business over the last number of months because all the classified ads disappeared to the Internet You know, it doesn't function as well without local journalism, democracy Because how the heck are you going to vote on what's going on in your community if there's no one telling you what's going on in your community? [16:09:20] These are some of the things that we claim to value most highly in our lives, our families, our communities, our democracy And we are allowing them to get zeroed out one by one by one I talked to my wife about this when I started the campaign and she said, how has America gotten so far to this side? And I said that we have allowed ourselves to get collectively confused, that economic value and human value are somehow the same things when they are not The message you have to take to our fellow Americans in 30 days is that we all and our children all have intrinsic value as Americans, as citizens and as human beings ourselves [16:10:05] We have to say that the machines work for us, and it's not that we all work for this giant capital efficiency machine [16:10:20] This is the way we humanize our economy and get it working for us This is how we're able to look our kids in the eyes and say that their country loves them, their country values them, and their country will invest in them for real [16:10:40] I love New Hampshire because you golf can make this real in a heartbeat I know I can feel it Energy is rising Everything is getting focused on February 11th right here in this state Donald Trump is our president today because he had a very, very simple message He said he was going to make America great again What did Hillary Clinton say in response? [16:11:01] America's already great Remember that? It's been a long three years, I know, but it's about to end [16:11:14] Hillary's response did not go over well because the problems are real [16:11:18] We have to acknowledge the depth and severity and reality of the problems in our community But then we need real solutions that will actually help move the country forward What we're Donald Trump's solutions Build a wall Turn the clock back Bring the old jobs back [16:11:37] Londonderry You know, we have to do the opposite of these things We have to turn the clock forward We have to accelerate our economy and society to rise to the real challenge [16:11:54] Deal candidate for this job, because the opposite of Donald Trump is an Asian man who likes math [16:12:01] Thank you very much, Londonderry You may not know this, but math is an acronym And what does it stand for? [16:12:10] Make America think harder That's right That is your job in 30 days It is your job to move this country, not left now Right But forward And I know that's just where you take us [16:12:21] Let's go Let's make history together New Hampshire Thank you Thank you, Londonderry [16:12:33] The greatest room of all time [16:12:36] I also love to take some questions I think Lacey has a mike and we'll select you at her discretion But what lazy criteria are? [16:12:49] Wow First question, I've spent a lot of time in West Virginia and I know this is New Hampshire and I'm from here, but those coal miners that we're putting out of work and we need to put out of work, they have a real strong sense of place And this is something we understand here in New England They want to make a living in the mountains that they love Yet we need to move forward on a climate change issue, which is going to put them out of work In some ways, it's like the furniture guys up in Grafton Talk to me about how you would deal with that issue [16:13:33] Thank you And this is the crux of my campaign in many ways So I'll tell you what I would not do I would not say that we're going to turn coal miners into coders, because that's essentially ridiculous And talking about it is a waste of time and immensely counterproductive for society So the question is, what are the rules of the future? For starters, if you put a thousand dollars a month into a community, let's say in West Virginia, let's say there's a town of 10000 people in West Virginia They're getting an additional 10 million dollars a month in buying power Then the money will flow to local nonprofits and religious organizations and local businesses that will each need to hire excessively [16:14:18] Right there in that community, one of the messages, I think is a loser for Americans everywhere And it's the subtext of a lot of what's going on is that you have to move and leave your home and leave your family if you want to live a good life That's a losing message It's where the richest, most abundant country in the history of the world, where up to twenty one trillion dollars and counting And we can easily put the resources into that town so that people are more able to do the kind of work that they want to do and can reconstitute organizations and businesses that serve the needs of their community [16:15:05] One of the biggest farces in American life right now is that we don't have the resources to get things done I'm the numbers guy Does anyone here remember voting for the four trillion dollar bailout of Wall Street? Does anyone remember anyone there being like where we're going to get the money we're running? Get the money [16:15:23] No They had a choice between bailing out the banks and keeping Americans in their homes and they chose the banks I was so disgusted by this decision I found it so corrupt that I quit my job, started a nonprofit and random for seven years to create several thousand jobs because I thought that would be generative and productive [16:15:42] And that's the kind of [16:15:44] Choice that we're making where towns are concerned, too, we're saying, hey, your coal mine has been stripped bare Now you're dead Now you have no value Your furniture manufacturing plant closes You're also dead Well, we have to say instead is that this is the richest country in the history of the world We can easily put resources into the hands of every single American to help those communities have a path forward that will work for them [16:16:16] So one of the jokes I tell is that anyone who thinks coal miners should become a coder is generally neither of those things because you talked to coders, they're like, yeah Incidentally, you jump into this I mean, coding is like a sophisticated foreign language Would you suggest that, like coal miners all become Russian translators like this that make any sense? [16:16:39] Oh, yeah, sure I'll just I was just venting a little bit [16:16:44] Hello Our tariffs, a policy that you think would help equalize our relation with China and other rising economies Are there other solutions that you propose that be more productive? [16:16:57] Thanks for the question I like it [16:17:03] Tariffs are a tool that sometimes can be handy and useful [16:17:11] I think initiating a trade war is counterproductive And I was in Iowa and there people are very angry because they've had their prices change and had to fire people and disinvest and do all these nasty things for things they had nothing to do with, which are the Chinese piracy of intellectual property So to me, tariffs are there is a tool You'd want to use them very, very judiciously You'd want to use them with a lot of transparency and lead time [16:17:39] So if you are going to use them, you'd say, hey, in two years time, if you don't change these practices, these tariffs are going to go up and actually use them as an instrument to push people in a direction you want to go You don't want to put other countries, governments in a position where they feel like they're going to like win or lose You have to try and create paths for them to be able to look good for their people in a way that that meets our goals and ends So I'm very much against the way that Trump has run the China trade war, because I've seen the victims in America of that trade war And as far as I can tell, it has not really remedied the abuses that it was it was meant to [16:18:18] Thank you Good question, though Feel like you're studying economics at the high school level was your college [16:18:25] So you've discussed about automation and lots of and how jobs have been increasingly taken over by machines In your debates, as we've seen previously But one issue that I'd like to discuss is immigration So what are your plans for immigration reform? [16:18:46] Thanks for the question [16:18:49] I'm the son of immigrants myself I instinctively believe that immigrants make our country stronger and more dynamic And I talk about my family's history So my family, my parents met us graduate students at UC Berkeley My father went on to get a P H D in physics And when I was a kid, I thought that everyone's dad had a PGD So I would go and be like, what's your dad's pitched in? And then eventually someone was like, here's what is pitched He was in And I was like, Oh, no [16:19:15] It's like [16:19:16] And then I learned then I got a little bit older and I found out that my dad generated patents for GE and IBM and it sounded very important So I went to him and said, how much do you get paid when you generate a patent? I was waiting for him to say like, well, it's lots of money And he was like, I get paid about two hundred dollars And then I said, that does not sound like a lot And he said, well, I also get paid a salary so I can feed, housing, clothe you and your brother with a message being like, shut up [16:19:43] And then I was like, oh I see how that that bargain worked So I raise the story because that was a huge win for my family, a game to this country Create a better life for me and my brother And I would argue that my father, generating sixty nine US patents for GE and IBM was great for the United States to So that's the kind of equation that we need to be running more of, where we need to stay magnet for people around the world who want to come here and innovate and drive value in various ways Almost half of the Fortune 500 companies were founded by either immigrants or children of immigrants as one very big signal So I'm pro immigrant We do need to enforce the southern border and have real policies in place [16:20:37] But I believe that the people who are here and trying to create a better life for themselves We need to have a path to citizenship for people who are here and undocumented, because right now we're in a very, very bad situation for everyone where you can pretend you can deport 12 million plus people, which would destroy regional economies and destroy families and be inhumane and all this other So they're very deeply problematic elements in real life You can do what we're doing now, which is just not know what's going on And then have people run into institutions when they get into a car accident or an emergency room or have a problem [16:21:28] Is the right one It's a path that Marco Rubio and other Republicans supported until they lost their political courage [16:21:35] And and even when we put this new third path in effect, the fact is many or many people who are here will never actually trust the government anyway And they'll try and stay in the shadows So we have to actually create a path that has like a legitimate hope for them and can inspire and inspire in them that this is all a long term place for them and their families Like above, like the shadows or out of the shadows [16:22:10] So you were talking earlier about, like that robot butter trucks and like all those like technology stuff taking over jobs But I'm I'm on the robotics team here at the school and I'm an aspiring engineer So I'm just wondering how you're planning on still encouraging people to get active in these like plenty of opportunities in these jobs that are engineering, architecture, all those things and like still be able to compete with other nations and things like that If we try to decrease the amount of people in those [16:22:42] Oh, no First, let me say, let's give her a round of applause for being all over the robots in the future That's so cool [16:22:51] I'm friends with a guy named Dean came in Do you know Dean came in, as you might have done? I am the most pro progress, pro innovation guy around I think I'm just also very pro human being Like I want human beings to all be excited about progress and innovation Right now, eight percent of Americans work in STEM fields, science, technology, engineering and math So it's not realistic to say, hey, we're going to turn 92 percent of you and 8 percent That's not realistic But we do need to invest a lot in helping channel Americans towards fields and livelihoods that will be here for a long time to come [16:23:27] So one massive opportunity here in the US we are under investing in technical, vocational and trade programs from the high school level, up only 6 percent of American high school students are in technical or apprenticeship or trade programs in Germany That's 59 percent Think of that Gulf You think we're missing something there [16:23:48] So we need to invest in those jobs and those jobs will be with us for a long time to come We have millions of unfilled roles in those in those industries And one joke I tell, but it's true Can you imagine what it would take to have a robot each back repair person come to your home or, you know, it's like impossible that they're going to be humans doing very important technical work for a long time It's just right now we are not investing enough in those programs I'm going to team up with Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs and go around saying like, these jobs are awesome and then like invest billions and trying to push Americans in that direction because that's what we need more of So keep it up You're awesome progressives, awesome inventions Awesome And I'm going to throw an A into stem for steam a is arts We need to invest a lot more in arts education [16:24:42] You see, you have another victim forum, and I'm actually all yours [16:24:48] I guess that might be selfie time, is that what happened? It is selfie time You never want the candidate to say, I can't take any more questions because I got to get in a flight to Des Moines So you have somebody else do it for him [16:24:59] So let me just say one thing, or we we close So when I say I haven't talked that much about climate change, but how many of you are concerned about climate change? You should know that climate change is a top maybe the top priority for me and my administration One of my first acts will be to put a price on pollution and carbon emissions so that the people that are actually speeding up climate change have to pay back into the system And then we use all of that to move us towards renewable sources of energy [16:25:33] So you should know I'm serious [16:25:34] Like like I see how this is already endangering us, not just here in New Hampshire, but everywhere We've all seen these horrific images out of Australia How many of you seen them? Like it's like out of a science fiction nightmare movie And we need to make progress as rapidly as possible I'm going to throw one last thing that's hopefully a tie this together in a country where 70 percent of us are living paycheck to paycheck and almost half of us can't afford an unexpected five hundred dollar bill If you go to that person, say we need to worry about climate change, what is a natural response? How much is going to cost me I can't pay next month's rent, I'm worried about this week, not like years from now We have to get the boot off of our people's throats and then we will be able to make much more rapid progress on climate change And we're gonna find that out My administration [16:26:32] OK, first of all, ladies and gentlemen, give it up one more time, New Hampshire [16:26:36] Andrew yes Yes Yes