[cheers and applause] you also have a great mayor in racine, corey mason.cheers and applause] brad smith, president of microsoft, thank you for your partnership, for showing how we get things done and big things done in america. send thank you for your friendship. [applause] thank you for all that you do to benefit the american union movements. i got called to the most pro-union president in american history. i make no apologies for it. [applause] nine. i am serious. the middle-class built america. but unions built the middle class. [applause] i have been saying that for a long time. folks, i am here to talk about a great comeback story in america. i i'm sure you remember, racine was once a manufacturing town all the way through the 1960's. power companies. they invented the manufacturing windex, portable vacuum cleaners and so much more, powered by middle-class jobs. from then came trickle down economics, that cut taxes for the very wealthiest and biggest corporations. in the 1960's we shipped american jobs overseas because labor was cheaper. we slashed pu