but in the house, they investigated epa, and they found that there was a woman who had not been to work in 20 years. she had not communicated with work in five years, but she was still being paid, and we think, gosh, we discovered her, and we got rid of her. she is a federal employee. you cannot fire a federal employee. there was a woman who hired 17 of her family members, and she still works at the epa. another guy was downloading hours a day. did you think he was fired? they did fire one guy. jonathan. was the right hand to gina mccarthy. do you know what his specialty was? global warming. gina mccarthy's right-hand man makes $150,000 per year, and they started looking at his

attendance record, and he had not been to work and like six months. and they to his boss, did something extraordinary. they actually asked his boss, why is he not showing up for work? he works for the cia and the epa. really? so they went to the cia, and , and theyjonathan said jonathan who? never heard of him. he had lied for 11 years and was just not showing up. so i imagine this guy with a swimming pool because he makes $100,000 per year, and his boss calls and says, jonathan, are you coming in? i am in istanbul. a secret assignment. this is your government from top to bottom. recently, you might have heard about ebola. anybody not heard about ebola? so when something bad happens, and government does have a

responsibility, they say republicans did not give us enough money. the last 10 years, the nih got $40 billion just for infectious disease. do you know how much they spent on ebola? less than 1% of that. do you know how much they spent on condoms? million on condoms at the nih. they spent $939,000 trying to determine whether male fruit flies like a younger female fruit flies. during out a possible answer to that one. determining117,000 that monkeys like to throw things with their right hand and that monkeys throw poop on the best communicators. what i want to know is what where there is -- those monkeys trying to communicate?

this is just one agency. this goes throughout government. let me give you one more example. we spent half $1 million developing a menu for mars. kidou have got a 26 rolled who lives in your basement, and you are trying to find him a job, perfect job. two weeks in hawaii, all a $5,000paid, plus stipend to work on a menu for mars. what do you think they came up with after two weeks? pizza. probably beer also. is the thing. the last time you had a president look item for item was calvin coolidge, and he really did look at it. his salary included the food for all of the dignitaries, so he would be down in the kitchen. they would have the ambassador for france, and they would have

a leftover turkey, and he would say, next time, i want only two hams, not three hams. a president who would look at every item of government. we really could cut. just a waste and the fat we could cut from government. we have $20 billion we give to corporations, and i say you want to get working class people? how about this. -- about we take not what not one penny from the safety net before we cut every penny from corporate welfare? this administration has been scandal after scandal. like oldt of mcdonald's farm of scandals. ,ere a scandal there as scandal everywhere a scandal. but benghazi, the whole idea

that they could, or one specific person, the secretary of state, that hillary clinton could deny requests after request after request for security. the media wants to think that this is about the talking points and the video that never really was part of the reason. that is important, but what is even more important is the person in charge of security, the person in charge of the state department for six maybe even nine months denied request after request. why? because they wanted to be politically correct. want the military to wear military style boots because the libyans might be offended by a military presence. when we finally sent help, they had a 90 minute delay. why? she made them take their uniforms off. long, there were requests. there were teams. the first two were let go because they didn't want to have a military presence.

they did not want to make it look like we were there in force to protect our people. they did not want to offend the libyans. year, theyng of that requested a plane. they wanted a play to evacuate and go through the country. strickland denied. three days after the plane was tonight, do you know what hillary clinton did approve? she approved analytical starting -- charging station. they had all of these electric cars, and then they figured out after the fact they did not have a charging station, so she was willing to spend 1000 dollars on that, but she does not want any special forces there. the summer before the ambassador was killed, they spent $650,000 on facebook ads. it seems hillary clinton and the state department did not have enough friends on their facebook. they spent 650 thousand dollars on ads and money on landscaping for the embassy in brussels, and they spent $100,000 sending

three comedians around. at the stateessity department. you can't august 1 month before the attacks, and there is a 16-man personnel led by a kernel you may have seen on television. and againking again for please, and the state department sent him home, once again not wanting to offend the libyans, but the worst was in the final days, in the final weeks leading up to this, heassador stephens said pleaded for more security. protect us. the ambassador from britain had been attacked. the place was a mess. and never really had calm down from the civil war, and when hillary clinton was given those cables, no answer. her 3:00 a.m. moment, who do you want to answer the phone at 3:00 a.m.,

at 3:00 a.m., the phone was just ringing and ringing and ringing, so when she can before my committee, i asked her, i said, and mcclinton, did you read those cables that were sent to you? act on those?t and she said, i could not be bothered to read those. and i said, if you are not going to provide security for our embassies, if you are not going to provide security for our soldiers, it should permanently preclude you from ever holding higher office. as we move forward in election person atd it is one a time, at i going at a getting more voters, but it is also for our party, our party at large pre-we have to figure out how to be a bigger party. annsylvania has been

republican state, now we are sort of a back and forth republican state. we lose some cities. we can win a game, but we have got to go to pittsburgh and philadelphia. we have to work on getting more votes from people who have not been considering us, and i made some comments the other day about our brand not being so great. it is true. you go on campus, and you need a young african-american woman, and does she say, republican party, great? no way. because our brand is broken. but what we have to do is show up and have something to offer. our cities have more problems. education, higher unemployment. a struggling economy. more of a drug problem. the three things i have done in the last you to try to make things better and open doors for us, number one, if a kid is caught with marijuana were selling marijuana, i do not think we need to jail them for 10 or 20 or 30 years.

jails areionally, our filled with black and brown and poor kids primarily. you think it does not affect you, think it through. one of your friends or cousins did something wrong in their life, and the question is, are we for a second chance? are we for retention? do you get to vote again? you do not get to vote again. i want people to vote. my neighbor had marijuana 30 years ago, and now as a felon cannot vote. mark a box has to when he goes for employment to say he has been a felon. 30 years ago. we have to have compassion for people who may not be in the same circumstances as us in realize that poverty and crime goes back to poverty and crime and back to prison. we have to realize this is a problem. economic opportunity. democrats come and say we're going to help you. we are going to help poverty and

unemployment. a lot of objective evidence is not working, but what are we going to offer them? what i'm going to offer them is something called economic freedoms those. an area that is poor in pittsburgh or louisville or appalachia in my state and say, you know what? we are going to rejuvenate your economy by leaving more money in it, dramatically more money in it. in detroit, $1 billion. in philadelphia, over $500 million. in pittsburgh, over $500 million. just leave money in philadelphia that originated there. but it will stimulate jobs, and that it is an argument. does government stimulate it, or would it be better to leave it in businesses in philadelphia? we have that argument. we show up. all of a sudden, we will be the party again. and finally i would say how we compete and how we win nationally again is we have to notent optimism and hope,

one that casts aspersions, not one that is always looking to criticize people, but one that says our message hasn't for everyone. i am reminded of the danger who said two young painters, he said paint like a man coming over the hill singing. ourink if we present message with the passion of patrick henry but also the hope of a man coming over the hill singing, then i think we will be the dominant party again. thank you very much, and good luck. [applause] >> president obama campaign today in pennsylvania for tom wolf, the democratic candidate for governor, he spoke at a

rally at the university in philadelphia. a businessman and former revenue secretary going against republican incumbent tom corbett, who is seeking a second term. ♪ >> hello, philly. hello. give it up for your next governor, tom wolf. [cheers and applause] we have also got one of the best senators in the country, bob casey, and your congressman. [cheers and applause]

your mayor, michael nutter, and your next lieutenant governor, mike. we have got three outstanding congressional candidates here today who deserve your vote, so i want you guys to pay attention. you have to go all of the way down the ballot. we have got a doctor who is going to be a great member of congress, served this country with the marines in iraq. we have got kevin, strauss who served as an army ranger in iraq and afghanistan. we have gotten brandon boil, who has lived the american dream as the first in his family to go to college. all three of them. they are young. they are sharp. they are hard-working. they are ready to fight for you if you send them to washington. make sure you vote for them. and we have got all of you.

it is a good-looking crowd right here. now, those of you, if you have got a seat, if you want to sit down feel free. , you want to stand up, yes? all right. that is good, because i am going to try to get you out of your seats, because we have got some work to do. because two days from now, you get to choose your future. now, if you came to this rally, i suspect you already know there is an election, and you are planning to vote. otherwise, you thought there was a basketball game here, and that is not the case. so i need all of you to go grab your friends, grab your classmates, talk to your coworkers, knock on some doors, make some phone calls, check out

iwillvote.com -- >> i love you. >> i love you also, but i need you to vote. [laughter] so go to iwllvote.com, find out where your voting place is, and take your friends and neighbors to the polls, and when you do, make sure they vote for tom wolf. let me tell you why. let me tell you why. first of all, tom is just a nice guy. you can't tell. -- you can tell. he is a sincere person. he is not a professional politician. he is somebody who knows how to create jobs, knows how to start a business, knows how to serve the public. he is in it for the right reasons. you know he is going to do a good job, but also, i need everybody to recognize the moment we are in. this country has made real progress since the worst economic crisis of our lifetime.

you think about where we were when i came into office. the economy was in freefall, the auto industry was about to disappear, housing prices were collapsing, the financial system in chaos, our unemployment rate went over 10%, and now over the past 4.5 years, america's businesses have created more than 10 million new jobs. over the past six months, our economy has grown at the fastest pace in more than a decade. there is almost no economic measure where we are not doing better. the deficit is cut by more than half. energy production up. high school graduation rates up. college attendance rates up.

clean energy we have doubled. carbon emissions we have slowed, so we have made progress on every item, but what we also know, the reason we are here is because we have got so much more work to do. not everybody has felt growth in the economy. you know right here in pennsylvania, and unfortunately because we have had a governor who does not always work with us, pennsylvania ranked second to last in the country in job growth. second to last. you do not want to be second to last. and over the next week, you have got a chance to change that. you can choose a governor who does not put political ideology first. he puts you first. and that is the kind of governor you want. and tom understands the economy as a successful businessman.

tom helped grow his family's company into the largest supplier of kitchen cabinets in the united states. now, there are a lot of kitchen cabinets in the united states, so i am just saying. you think about how many kitchen cabinets there are. if you are the largest, that is a lot of kitchen cabinets. [laughter] in 2006, he left that business and served as your secretary of revenue, then in 2009, he was getting ready to run for governor, but he got a phone call, and the company he had spent 25 years growing, a company he had left three years harder was facing a very time because the recession was hitting, so like other businesses in the country, it was on the brink of bankruptcy. and tom could have decided, that is not my problem anymore -- on

-- anymore. so he put his future on hold, brought the company back, starting to source cabinets made in america to compete with chinese imports, making sure his workers earned good benefits and good wages. he gave more than 20% of his profits back to his employees because tom believes if you work hard, then everybody in the company should share your success, not just those at the top but the workers who are actually doing the work. so tom just does not talk the talk. talk is cheap. he walks the walk. he is walking that walk. tom knows how to create jobs here in pennsylvania. he has done it, and now he is running because he believes if you work hard in this state, if you work hard in this country, you should share in the

country's success, and tom has proven that when the going gets tough, he has got your back. that is what this election is all about. when you step in the voting booth, you are making a choice not just about party, not just about candidates. you are making a choice about two different visions of america, and you have got to ask yourself, who is going to be fighting for you? who is going to be on your side? who cares about the single mom? who cares about the student who may be the first in their family to go to college? who is going to fight for you? tom wolf. that is a good answer. you're paying attention. now, listen. listen. i want to say this. you know, republicans are patriots too. you know, they love their families, they want what is best the country. -- i was trying to explain

was down in connecticut and i was trying to explain, you know, there are a lot of people in my family who i really love, but i would not put them in charge. you know? because they have got bad ideas. right? so i am not saying there is anything wrong with the republican leadership as sort of like, as americans. i am just saying they have got bad ideas. [applause] you know, they keep on offering -- they keep on offering a theory of the economy that you give more tax breaks to folks at the top, you cut investments in things like education, you loosen up regulations on the big banks and polluters and credit card companies, you cut the safety net for folks who have fallen on hard times, and somehow everybody's going to get better off. here is the thing. you know, i guess if we had not tried that for 10 years,

resulting in ultimate disaster, maybe they would have an argument, but we did try it. it didn't work. we cannot go back to that. we have to go forward with tom wolf. tom has a different vision for what this country should look like, and it is rooted in that core belief in america, the notion that prosperity does not trickle down from the top. prosperity derives from a thriving middle class and folks working their way up into the middle class, and when everybody is doing well, then the entire country does well. that is his understanding of how the economy works. he wants -- tom wants to build pennsylvania 's economy from the middle class up, and he is not ideological about it. look, here is the thing you know about tom. he does not care whether the

idea is republican or democrat as long as the idea works. he is a practical person who just wants to make it work for the people of pennsylvania. so he knows for example, that , education is the key, not just for economic growth but also for personal advancement in the modern economy. he is not going to run on an agenda of slashing budgets for schools or laying off thousands of teachers. he knows teachers matter. he knows that you should support teachers, not run down teachers, that we should respect teachers, and treat them as the professionals they are. he knows we should invest in our kids and early childhood education and make college a reality for more young people and make it more affordable. that is tom's plan for pennsylvania. tom believes that in a democracy like ours, elected officials serve the public, not the other

way around, so he is not running to serve special interests or the status quo. he is running to change the way business is done in harrisburg. he believes that nobody who works full-time in this country should have to raise a family in poverty. you know, tom -- we had one republican governor recently who said the minimum wage serves no purpose. you are not going to hear tom say that because he knows the difference that a little bit of money can make for that hard-working mom or dad who is trying to make ends meet and save maybe for their kids' college education, pay a few bills. that is why atomic is not running against a minimum wage -- tom is not running against a minimum wage increase,

that is why tom is wanting to give pennsylvania a raise. tom believes that america is stronger when women are full and equal participants in the economy. it is bad enough that we have got republicans in congress who voted no on a fair pay law. you had one republican who is running for national office say you could argue the money is more important for men. that is a quote. he said that. i know he did not talk to michelle when he said that. i know he did not talk to you either, did he? if we are going to strengthen the middle class for the 21st century, we need leaders who understand the 21st century and understand that women are in the workforce and understand that women are increasingly breadwinners in their family and understand that they should be able to get paid the same as men for doing the same job, and while we are at it, we should make sure that women have control of their health care choices, not some politician.

you know, it is funny. when you ask republicans about climate change, they say, i am not a scientist. that is what they say. but when you ask them about a woman's right to make a health care decision, they all act like they are doctors. i want women to make those decisions. i mean, "mad men" is a good show, but we do not want that show in harrisburg. because when women succeed, america succeeds, and i want malia and sasha to have the same opportunity. -- opportunities as somebody's a sans. sons.ebody's that should be common sense. so look. here is the bottom line. the biggest corporations, they

do not need another champion. the wealthiest americans do not need another champion. they are doing just fine. but you know what is in need of a champion is somebody who understands opportunity for all is what american is all about. -- america is all about. opportunity for all is what pennsylvania is about. and that is what tom believes, but listen. you all have to vote. that is what this comes down to. you have got to vote. you know, i was talking to one of my staff members, and we were just running through the numbers, and the number of eligible voters who vote typically in a midterm is like in the 30's. i mean, ukraine just went through an election, and they have got a war going on, and they had about a 60% turnout. there is no excuse for us to just give away our power.

if you wonder why things do not happen, if you wonder why sometimes elected officials do not seem responsive it is because so many of us stay-at-home. so i know i am preaching to the choir, but i am hoping you then take this message to folks who are not planning to vote. if you believe that we do not need to give millionaires another tax break, maybe give childcare tax breaks to families who are really struggling, you have got to vote for it. if you believe that our kids should have the best schools, then you have got to vote for it. if you think that we should make it easier for young people to go to college without adding up the -- ending up with tens of thousands of dollars worth of debt, you have got to vote for it. if you believe that an honest day's work deserves an honest days pay, you have got to vote

for it. you have got to vote. you got to vote. vote. you have got to vote. this is straightforward. i have got a simple message. we have got to vote. four years ago, democrats lost. vote. vote. vote. vote. vote. [crowd chanting, "vote, vote, vote!"] good job you can i just say, it took