So the point I'm making-and [Blanche Lambert] is exactly right-we've got to be nonideological about our approach to these things. We've got to make sure that our party understands that, like it or not, we have to have a financial system that is healthy and functioning, so we can't be demonizing every bank out there. We've got to be the party of business, small business and large business, because they produce jobs. We've got to be in favor of competition and exports and trade....
Okay, gentleman's turn. By the way, I just want to announce that the Senate just passed our recovery and reinvestment plan. That's good. So that's good news; that's good news. That's because-that's good news. That's good news, and I want to thank all the Members of the Senate who moved the process forward.
Now, here's the problem, that in order for us to save money, in some cases, we've got to spend some money up front. Let me give you some very specific examples. Health care IT: Health care is the only area where you still have to fill out five different forms. I'll bet when you go into the bank you don't have to do that. You've got an ATM. If you use your credit card, they'll find you real quick, and the billing is real easy-[laughter]-right?
The answer to our tax problem is to stop taxing everybody -- thus providing the wherewithal for the top folks who already control 95 percent of the wealth in this country to control it all -- then re- create the feudal system of nobility and serfs that worked so well in the past, Seriously, there has to be a way to get back to reality where real people have real jobs that allow them to feed, clothe and shelter themselves and their families. This is not a socialistic concept but the vision of our forefathers who designed the Constitution. It is also the quickest way to get the economy jump- started when you consider the multiplier effect of each job.
That's why I've taken on our broken health insurance system, so that families and businesses won't have to cope with double-digit premium increases year after year. That's why my Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, is taking on our education system, so that our kids can compete in the 21st-century economy. And that's why we are working to upgrade America's most underappreciated asset, community colleges just like this one.
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