will fail. that is what liberalism is doing. and if it fails, people will notice. they will even get angry. and despite the mistakes that you have made in the past, if you dedicate yourself to those principles, you will have a chance to have a conversation with the american people. and he was right. jimmy carter brought us 15%, with the inflation, 10% unemployment and 21% interest rates. the iran hostage crisis, and this was so bad that in 1980, brought reagan had the best line in politics. he said, a recession is when your neighbor loses his job. a depression is when you lose your job, and recovery is when

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. . . . >> you and your predecessors beat back presidential under jimmy carter. beat back government meant on bill clinton. you won the first two. it's time to go three for three! [applause] >> we can do a hat trick.

now, this will require the people in this room and people you know and friends and relatives requireed the to do thing many of you don't normally do. many of you are very busy. your family and your church and your home and hobbies and your jobs. you don't naturally want to spend all your time in politics but this summer and fall of 2009 you have to make an investment in america and in defending america. you know, we all ways hear and speak kindly and admiringly of the greatest generation and you all know what that was. the generation that survived the great depression. one world war ii and the policies that survived the cold war. the again investigation only great until the next generation that has a challenge that threatened america's core values. every 20 years we have one that

summoned to do something on behalf of the defense of america. civil war generation. 75 years later we ended slavery and had to unite the country and bind the nation's wounds. 75 years after that the depression, world war ii. the cold war. i'm not here to tell you the challenges before us are of that magnitude but they could be. especially if you lose. 75 years after the world war and depression with another challenge to america's freedom and independence. big government. i'm here to tell you if you win this fight as you wanted in 1977 and 1973. if you win it again your children and your grandchildren the children will be able to say to you, i know what you did in the spring, summer and fall of

2009. you became the next generation and beat that big government and stopped it in it's tracks! [applause] let me tell you, i not only think you can win, i think you are winning. let's go finish the job. thank you. [applause] >> i'm told we have the podium until 2 o'clock so there's time for some questions and i'm happy to take them. >> john, thanks. i love it every time you speak. i can't believe you write for a major newspaper. [laughs] i don't know how to take that. in the best way.

two short questions. first, do you think if the democrats fail to pass the healthcare bill, it means we can assume they will be unable to pass cap and trade or cart check? >> look i think the recession killed cap and trade. how much have you heard about that lately? look. cap and trade was never about global warming. it was ability about political control. they failed energy g to exercis political control over the economy. using excuse of global warming was like a burglar through a neighborhood trying every door until he finds one he can unlock. that's what that was. i'll never forget the first meeting of the former communist nations, their environmental

communities the midwest virginia was looking like a scenic wonder and western that never met them because of the iron curtain. i remember the sek environmental leader standing up on a table and yelling at the spanish president saying, i've heard enough from you! we have nothing common. you're not environmentalist. i know what you are. i've lived with you all my life. your watermelons. your green on the outside and red on the inside. [laughs] we have learned through the cap and trade debate because they tried this in europe and failed at it. we learned much of what's motivateed the debate is the desire for the control of the economy and not for improving environment. i think it's dead for now but once again it will rise up again

from the grave after the economy has recovered. >> one just quick speculative question. you think hillary would like to see obama care fail? >> oh, that's above my pay grade. let me just say this. i think after six months of being put in an isolation booth as secretary of state. hillary clinton. what was the song i am woman, hear me roar. have you noticed that joe biden has disappeared? i think he's in the witness protection program. i think one gap too many. i think there are some in team hillary that realize how much of a disaster i'd energy is proven to be and i think they're sharp earning the long knives. say president barack obama has an approval rating drop but i see them saying you need to

spice up the ticket next time. you need a proven political veteran to join you on the ticket next time. i would not be surprised if that happens. couple more questions? yes? >> um... as we all know, the media is pretty much bought and paid for at the white house level. not yourself of course, but there appears to be a huge slant. >> by the way to interrupt the media can never be bought. only leased or rented. sorry. >> okay. well we need to cancel that lease. if you know of someone who actually has proof that the election was rigged, who would you speak with because i know that you in fact wrote a book on this. >> i did but the election was not rigged but i'm happy to hear

you out after the meeting but i think that's - well on the media all of you have perhaps legitimate action to grind about the media. ronald reagan in 1981. two landslide elections in 1984 with the entire judicial media against him and technological constraints we had cnn not even existing. we had two national magazines and basically one national paper. the "wall street journal" and that was only a business paper. and we had basically, 40 talk ratios around the country. how things have changed. you think things bad now? you won elections over and over again with that media environment and now you have the internet bringing you every magazine and blogger to you free, at least until they go out of business, you have 1,400 talk

ratios. you have cable news networks 24-hours a day and an incredible a. array. c-span. you can get your message out. i think this is a classic case. conservatives have to look at the media glass as half full and stop looking at it is half empty. i think one or two more. >> last question over here. john, got one? >> john, i agree with you 100% we have a fantastic opportunity this cycle in 2010, but the fat lady has yet to sing and you're absolutely right we need to finish job. you pointed out the colorado democracy alliance that's being exported to other states. my first question is how can we convince people that have the resources to support a counter to that and support

organizations like the steam both institute and independent institute and small grass roots going out there doing great things and alternative media groups and other organizations because we you all know we can't exist without some going to them. >> do many things well in life but i'm not a fund-raiser and it's not my role know to give you advice. i'll say this. in business nothing succeeds like sus success. go out and win the battle on healthcare and cap and trade and go out and win this battle on cart check and it's evil twin, binding arbitration. go out and win those fights and you will have more allies than you can imagine because when people smell success they gravitated towards it. as tom paine reminded us.

there many summer patriots out there. people that don't ride to the sound of the guns. but if you win those battles you'll have more support than you know what to do with. and i have to tell you, on the other side, you will so de moralize the left, because they have lived for 75 years with the uncompleted mission of controlling this economy and nationalizing healthcare and every single time something went wrong. harry truman got in scandals and john kennedy was an assassinated. jimmy carter was - jimmy carter was jimmy carter. enough said and bill clinton well was easily distracted. [laughs] there's always an excuse and then if they didn't have a president they could trust didn't have 60 votes in the senate. they didn't have a ramming of it

through. had nancy pelosi. all of the stars have aligned for them now. if they lose now they have no excuses. they'll come up with some, but have no plausible excuses if you win you will, you will so put a crimp in their plans and moral. your really going to have a good 2010. ♪ captioned by the national captioning institute ---www.ncicap.org--- [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] >> here's our schedule. next remarks from barack obama in a speech to the francis yoon workers at the labor day picnic. at 7 eastern it's "washington journal". topics in cloud healthcare legislation and breast breasara speech to students at wake field

high school in arlington, virginia. >> wednesday president goes before joint section to talk about healthcare legislation. see his remarks at 8 profit margins eastern on c-span. watch at c-span dot org or listen on c-span radio. >> president obama visited to talk about jobs in a speech at the,a fl annual labor day picnic. also he addressed healthcare legislation in the congressional debate. his remarks are 40 minutes. >> i'm going to bring him out in a minute but i got something i want to say. hello but there's and sisters i'll a member of labors local 265 out of cincinnati, ohio.

i was asked to introduce the president today because i'm living proof the stimulus package he enact supply and demand working. the first time it effected my life was while i was laid off while looking for new employment my insurance started run out and i had to make cobra payments but they were partially cut by the stimulus package saving me and my family money when it counted the most. it's provided extra money for my family and i. um... for going further in debt. finally when i started back to work the company i work for out of ohio was awarded, putting up signs and doing other road construction work on highways and state routes and their directly funded by the stimulus package. i'm apparent of a special needs child and it's of the utmost

important we get behind our president in the support of healthcare reform. therefore without furth a due - [applause] >> without furth a due, it's a privilege and honor for me to bring our president barack obama out here. [cheers] >> - hello cincinnati! thank you! thank you ohio. thank you labor!

all right. it's good to be back in cincinnati. it's good to be back in ohio. it's good to be back among great friends, great leaders and i want everybody to give a big round of applause to charlie dill better for that great introduction. i want to thank kathy matte o and the band for entertainment. give her and them an applause. how ya'll feeling today? are you fired up? are you ready to go? i can't think of a better place to be on labor day. than in america's biggest labor day picnic and with the workers

and families of the cincinnati,a fl,cil. i'm so proud to be on the stage with charlie because charlie reminds us that in these tough times, america's working men and womanr ready to roll up their sleeves and get back to work. i want to solute your local leaders. executive secretary treasurer. doug size more. president, joe zimmer. state president, joe ruing l.a. and you're out standing national leaders a man who we thank for devoting his life to working americans. president john sweeney. he's right there.

and man who will pick up the mantle and take the baton of leadership, who we need to succeed be because a strong labor move is part of a strong economy, secretary treasurer ray stromka. although ohio's wonderful governor and great friend of mine ted strickland couldn't be here. we have ed fischer in the house. secretary of state, jennifer bruner. attorney general, richard caldera and cincinnati mayor. mark mallory and the county commissioner. commission president, david piper. we're joined by members of ohio's out standing

congressional, steve greenhouse. and a great friend at the forefront of ohio's working men and women including the battle for health reform. senator sharon brown. [applause] i'm also proud to be here with a leader who is re-energizeing the department of labor who realizes it's not the department of management but it's the department of labor. a daughter of union members bears. a daughter of a teamster. celebritying restair hill da so list. my director, of recovery from autocommunities and governors in the house and he's doing outstanding work. now, cincinnati, like a lot of

americans, your having some fun today. taking day off. spending time with the kids. some of you may be proud of your grilling skills. [laughs] every man thinks he can grill. whether he can or not. that's what michelle says. [laughs] michelle says she's a better griller than me. i don't know. we'll have to have a grill off some day. but your enjoying some good music and some good food and famous cincinnati chichili. but today we also pause. we pause to remember and to reflect and to reaffirm. we remember that the rights and benefits we enjoy today weren't

simply handed to america's working men and women. they had to be won. they had to be fought for. by men and women of courage and conviction from the factory floors and industrial revolution and shopping aisles of today's supermarkets they've stood up and demanded affair shake and an honest days pay for an honest day's work. many risked and gave their lives and made it a cause like senator dave kennedy who we remember toda today. so let us never forget. much of what we take for

granted. the 40 hour work week. the minimum wage. health insurance. paid leave, pension. social security. medicare they all bear the francis yoofran francis younion label. people returned to make our economy the envy of the world. it was labor that helped build the largest middle class in history. each if you're not a union members bear everybody owes something to america's labor union. because we remember this history. let's reflect on it's meaning in our own time. like so many americans, you work hard.

you meet your responsibilities and you play by the rules and you pay your bills. but in recent years the american dream seems like it's been slipping away. because from washington to wall street, too often a different attitude prevails. wealth was valued over work. selfishness over sacrifice. greed over responsibility. the right to organize was under mined rather than strengthened. that's what we saw. and it may have worked out well for those folks at the top, but it didn't workout for you and it didn't workout well for our country. that culture, that culture and policies that float from it, under mine the middle class. and helped create the greatest economic crisis of our time. so today, on this labor day we

rea firm our commitment to rebuild to live up to the legacy of those that came before us and to combine the enduring values that have served us so well for so long. hard work and responsibility with new ideas for a new century. to ensure our great middle class remains the backbone of our economy, not just a vanishing idea we celebrate at picnics once a years summer turns to fall. we want ate reality for the families of ohio and the families of america. that's what we been work together do every since i took office. i know this some people have already forgotten how bad it was 7 months ago. they have sort of selective

amnesia. so let's just remind them for a second. a financial system on the verge of collapse. about 700,000 workers losing their jobs each month. the worse recession of our lifetime. threatening to become an another great depression. that's what was happening just 7 months ago. that's why we took bold swift action. that's why we pass an unprecedented recovery act and we did it without the usual washington earmarks and pork barrel spending and ohio it's working! [applause] times are still tough, times are still tough i know that but

we've given 95 percent of america's working family as tax cut. 4 point 5 million families in ohio including here in cincinnati. a promise we made during the campaign and a promise i kept as president of the united states. we cut taxes for small businesses. made new loans to more than one thousand new businesses to grow and hire new workers. extended unemployment benefits for 12,000,000 families including nearly 570 thousand ohio citizens. across america, we saved the jobs oftens of thousand state and local workers including teachers and first responders here in o hoo/.

don't ask folks what they would have done if we hadn't made the recovery act. the taxes they would have had to raise. we're rebuilding america's infrastructure including improvements toi 75 led by a local cincinnati contractor. we've got more than 200 other highway projects across ohio. we're making a historic commitment to innovation. much of sit still to come in the months and years ahead. doubling our capacity for renewable energy and building a new smart grid to carry electricity coast-to-coast and laying down high speed rail lines and providing the largest boost in basic research in history. all of which will put people back to work.

steel workers, plumbers. pipe workers. engineers. you name it. so, our recovery plan is working. bricklayers too. the final financial system has been saved from collapse. home sales are up. we're seeing signs of life in the auto industry. business investment is starting to stabilize. for the first time in 18 months we're seeing growth in manufacturer. when was the last time you heard that here in the united states of america. on friday we learned the economy lost another 216,000 jobs in

august. and whenever america's are losing jobs, that's simply unacceptable. but for the second straight month we lost fewer jobs than the month before and was the fewest jobs we've lot or lost in a year. so make no mistakes, we're moving in the right direction. we're on the road to recovery ohio. don't let anybody tell you otherwise. yes, we will. yes, we are. cheer ch we still have a long way to go. we're not going to rest. we're not going to let up. not until workers looking for job cans find them.

good jobs to sustain families and sustain dreams. not until responsible mortgage owners can stay in their homes and all-americans have their shot at the american dream. now, we can't do that if we go back to that old economy. over leverage banks and inflated profits. maxed out credit cards and bankers getting multimillion-dollar bonuses. an economy of pebbles and bursts. your wages and incomes, stagnant while corporate profits soar. so even as we recover from the recession. and work to cut the deficit, we have to build a new foundation for prosperity. we need an american with a

reform n financial system. we have to have regulations to protect consumers to never have a crisis again. i want to bail out anymore banks and we've got to make sure we have regulations in place to prevent it ch. . and america where energy reform creates green jobs that can never be outsourced and frees america from the grip of foreign oil. an america that committees to education. because the country without education today will outcome pete us tomorrow and best jobs go to the best educated. we got to do a better job educating our sons and our daughters and yes, i'm going to have to have something to say

some tomorrow to our children telling them to stay in school and work hard because that's right message to send. we need an america that once again invests in the middle class. that's why i've create oured task force for middle class working families led by our outstanding vept joe biden. making sure we benefit you the american worker. today, we're taking another step. i'm naming ron bloom. raise your hand right here in the front, ron. i'm naming ron bloom to lead our efforts to revitalize the sector that helped build the middle

class. american manufacturing. ron, ron has worked with steelworkers service employees and management to create jobs and helped guide our autotask force and is my now point person he'll help craft the policies for the next generation of great manufacturing jobs and ensure competitiveness in the 21's century. by the way, just in case you were wondering, we're also going to build an america where health reform delivers more stability and security to every american.

we're going to reform the system for those that have insurance and those who don't. i'll have a lot more to say about this on wednesday night. i might have to save my voice a little bit and not get too excited. i don't want to give anything away. i want ya'll to tune in. but let me just say a few things. about this healthcare issue. we've been fighting for quality affordable healthcare for every american for nearly a century. since teddy roosevelt. think about that. long-time. the congress and country have now been vigorously debateing the issue for many months. the debates been good. and that's important because we've got to get this right.

but every debate, at some point, comes to an end. at some point, it's time to decide. at some point, it's time to act. ohio it's time to act and get this thing done. we have never been this close. we've never had such broad agreement on what needs to be done. and because we're so close to real reform, someone of special interests do what they always do where they try to just scare the heck out of people. but i've got a question for all these folks that say we're going to pull the plug on grandma and this is all about illegal immigrants. you heard all the lies.

i've got a question for all those folks. what are you going to do? what's your answer? what's you're so looks. and you know what? they don't have one. their answer is to do nothing, and we know what that future looks like. insurance companies rakeing in the profits while discriminating people because of pre-existing conditions and denying and dropping coverage when you get sick. your never negotiating higher wages because your spending your time trying protect the benefit use fought for. that means premiums continuing to skyrocket three times better

and faster than your wages. more families put in bankruptcy and more americans losing health insurance. 14 thousand every day. more americans dying because they don't have health insurance. that's not the future i see for americans. i see stability for folks that have insurance today. never have to worry about going without coverage if you lose your job or change your job or get sick, you got coverage there for you. where there's a cap on you're out of pocket expansions so you don't have to worry a serious illness will break your family even if you have insurance. you never again have to worry that you or someone you love will be denied coverage because of a pre-existing condition.

i see reform where americans and small businesses that are shut out of health insurance today will be able to purchase coverage at a price they can afford. they'll be able to shop and compare and a new health insurance exchange. marketplace where competition and choice will continue to hold down cost and help deliver them a better deal. i continue to believe public option in that basket will help improve quality and bring down costs. i see reform where we protect our senior citizens. by closing the gaps in the prescription drug coverage on medicare that costs older mens thousand every year out of their pockets. reserves that will put them on a sounder financial footing and

cut waist and fraud. health insurance system that works as well for the american people as it does for the insurance industry. they should be free to make a profit. they also have to be fair. they also have to be accountable. that's what we're talking about. security and stability for those and coverage they need at a price they can afford. time to bring costs under control. that's reform that's needed. that's reform we're fighting for and that's why it's time to do what's right for america's working families and put aside partisanship and stop saying things that aren't true and coming to as a nation and pass health insurance reform now,

this year. [applause] you have fought harder and longer for american workers than you? but there's and sisters of organized labor. just as we know we have to adopt to all the changes of a global economy we know in good economic times and bad, labor is not the problem. labor is part of the solution. that's why secretary solis made it her priority to protect workers. your safety, benefits and you're right to bargain collectively. that's why some of the first executive orders iraqi sued overturned the previous administrations attempts to stifle organized labor that's why organized to level the

playing field to let labor unions that want a union to form a union. when labor is strong, america is strong. when we all stand together we all rise together. that's why the first piece of legislation i signed the law was the susan li led better better pay act guaranteeing equal pay for equal work. susan she did her job and did it well. after nearly two decades she discovered after years she was paid less than male colleges for doing the same work. over the years she lost 100,000s of dollars in wages and pensions and social security benefits.

she could have just moved on. instead, this alabama grandmother made a decision. she said a principal was at stake. she stood up and spoke up for what was right all the way to the supreme court and finally in the white house as she stood next to me when i signed the law that bore her name. [applause] ohio, that's the se lesson this day that some things are worth fighting for. equal pay. fair wages, dignity in the work place. justice on the job. an economy that works for everybody because in america there's no second class citizens. an economy where you can make a living and care for your families leaving your kids something better. where we live up to the fundamental ideas.

those words put on paper some 200 years ago. we're all created equal and we all deserve a chance to pursue our happiness. that's calling to which we're summoned this labor day. that's the cause of my presidency. and that is the commitment we must fulfill to preserve the american dream for all of america's working families. but i'm going to need you to do it. at the beginning of this speech i talked about whether you were fired up. [applause] i know that over the last couple of months the economy has been bad, recession has been wearing on folks and people losing their jobs and healthcare and been the usual bickering in washington. doesn't seem like that ever

stops. pug nants on t.v. say how all this isn't working and that's < you know, you start getting into a funk. and whenever i - i see folks in that negative place, i always think back to a story i told during the campaign. some of you heard it. but i said i'd say it again. it's about where the phrase fired up comes from. so, right at the beginning of the campaign from the presidency. no one gave us chance and none of ya'll could pronounce my name. and i went down to south carolina. i went down, i think it was um... where was i?

i was in greenville. am i right? greenville. legislators were having a banquet and invited me to come down to speak. - and i sat next to a state representative i didn't know supported me back then so i said, would you support my campaign as president of the united states state and she looked me up and down and said you know, i'll give you my endorsement if you come to my hometown at green wood south carolina. i had a glass of wine so i said, right away, okay. let's shake on it ch. come to find out, green wood is about an hour and a half from every place else. so about a month later i fly in and i've been campaigning for two weeks straight.

i'm exhausted and tired and get to the hotel room and i'm dragging my bag in about to go to bed and i get a tap on my should around the staff member said excuse me sir. i said what! say they'd said, you have to be in the car in the moshing at 6:30 in the morning. i said, why? he said you have to go to green wood like you promised. so the next day, i wake up and i feel worse than when i went to bed. i stagger over to the window and it's pouring down rain outside. ugly day. i go out and get my newspaper and there's a bad story about me in the "new york times". i pack up my stuff and go downstairs and my umbrella breaks and i get soaked. so that by the time i'm in the car i'm sleeping, i'm wet and

i'm mad. and we start driving and we just keep on driving. we're driving and driving. goes on forever! hour and a half of this driving. finally we get to green wood. though you don't know your there right away. [laughs] got a lot of fields. we pull up next to a little field house in a park. and i get back out and i get a little more wet and i go inside and after this hour and a half drive. low and behold there's only 20 people inside. and most of them are wet and don't look like they really want to be there either. so, you know i've a professional, i go and shake everybody's hands. i've got a little tight smile on my face. how do you do?

what do you do? nice to meet you. suddenly i hear this voice behind me shouting out, fired up! fire it up! and i'm surprised. i'm scared almost. but, everybody else acts like this is normal and they all say, fire it up! and ready to go! people say ready to go! i don't know what's doing on. i look behind me and there's this little woman couldn't me more than five foot two. watch all out. little lady. about 50 pse&g 60 years olor 60. got a church hat on. smiling at me and says, fire it up!

turns out this woman is a city coucilmember from green wood who is famous for her chant. every event she goes to she likes to go, fire it up! ready to go! and she does a little dance while she's doing it. [laughs] so for the next five minutes it seems like she just keeps on saying this little chant. fire it up! ready to go! and i'm standing there thinking, this woman is up staging me. i don't know what to do. i was looking at my staff thinking when is this thing going obstacle over. but here's the thing, ohio. after about a minute or two, i'm starting to feel kind of fired up. i'm starting to feel like i'm

ready to go. so i start joining in the champ and it's making me feel good. and for the rest of the day, whenever we campaign the whole day and i saw my staff and said are you fired up? and they said we're fired up. you ready to go? i'm ready to go. just goes to show you how one voice can change a room. [applause] and if it can change a room, it can change a city. and if it can change a city, it can change a state. and if it can change a state, it can change a nation. and if it can change a nation, it can change the world! you are a voice. you can change the world. your voice- get healthcare passed and your investors will

make our the american worker is protected. you can build america. i need your help. thank you cincinnati! are you fired upxp ready to go. fired up! ready to go! fired up. ready to go! i love you. bye -b bye-bye! ♪ ♪ [applause]

>> you're watching c-span. next "washington journal". today at noon eastern. barack obama delivers a speech on the importance of completing

school to students at arlington, virginia and then the house returns from it's august recess and comes in on several bills dealing with lands and historic land sites. starting next on c-span is "washington journal". our guests include christina of the washington times and paul cane of the "washington post" looks at how the white house and congress are preparing for healthcare debate as they return from the august recess. then more with iowa senator chuck grassly. he'll look at how members of the finance committee are negotiated and then maryland congressman talks about how democrats are moving ahead with healthcare and other issues such as global climate change and then finally the,