Transcripts For CSPAN Campaign 2020 Andrew Yang Hosts Marsha

Go check it out, elizabeth warren. Com. The second one, i have planned to put 50 billion in two new schools i am supposed to be chewbacca ie. Wilkie wook introduceould like to to people that i know very well and respect very much. Served oure have country and have signed up to make the ultimate sacrifice. Whats talked about some other people who made the ultimate sacrifice which is our Union Members. We need to support our unions, so without further ado, jim. Ate i, i am president here uaw local 8 in marshalltown. Im going to hand this over to the veterans [indiscernible] hi, thank you guys for coming. We are with veterans for humanity. We are andrew yangs veterans group. I will tell you when i first heard about andrew yang, it was probably like a lot of you guys, the same thing you guys went through, you watched the video and immediately loved him. Personality, his commitment, his authenticity really came through and you fell in love with him. As a veteran, i have been keep an eye keep an eye on various candidates keep an eye keeping an eye on various didates in not only did i and not only did i get a policy page, i got a blog post that is about 10,000 words. It is not like with other candidates. With other candidates you get a lot of fluff and they are trying to just appeal and it is not very substantiated. His posts are amazing and goes through all of his veterans oficies and in detail reverse boot camp in helping after the military. When you go through training it puts you in a certain mindset and when you leave, you have to learn how to be a civilian again and he goes into great detail about all of these things. It is not fluff, it is here is the problem and heres what were going to do. It is absolutely amazing. Veterans for humanity, we love andrew. Withhold our veterans and asked them what you like about andrew and one thing they said was we understand the freedom dividend because a lot of veterans receive compensation payments, so we are to know what having this money does for our families. Heals allowed parents to and veterans to heal and allow them to focus on their health and healing and allows them to stay home with children and family and allows a spouse to stay home and focus on education and allows them to not worry if their car broke down or things like that, so veterans understand it and we want these things for everyone else. We know what having that money does. Im going to handy microphone to talk about will union policies. And i i am in iowa went iowan. I love andrew yang for so many reasons. I am a parent of an autistic child. What initially drew me to andrews candidacy was the fact he has policies specific to childrens with special needs. As a parent, he speaks heavily about the need to have an environment for our children that is safe and accessible. Member, think about what the freedom dividend did for striking workers. Imagine what the freedom dividend would give them from the strength to protest and give them more leverage from their. Mployer eventually, you just weed them out. , advocating onan behalf of veterans is so important to me. Right now, the v. A. Has about a 45,000 shortage and trying to get health care in the v. A. Is extraordinarily difficult. Whichss recognized that is why they allow certain veterans to receive local care, but it kind of skates by the issue that we still have this massive hiring shortage. Qualified to recruit providers is such a big deal and andrew has policies, more than the handshake then heidi was talking about a bit ago. I would encourage you all to , listen those options to the man. He has over 150 policies on his website. He is not just about rhetoric, he is a problem solver. He has a policy for just about everything. Stands for make america think harder. He has the solutions to be able to help veterans and help everyone out in that regard. Trying to think what else we could talk about. If you guys are interested in more on what he is doing for veterans, you can go to v eteransforyang. Com. I can speak for myself when i say it is a big thing and that is how important his presidency is. One other thing, it is so vet. Tant as a we have been in afghanistan for 18 years. There are Service Members there that were not even born. Andrew has pledged to for it to end the forever wars. Think about that. The money we spent on defense could be to providing a social Safety Program to provide a Safety Network to all of our poor. The man wants to generally eliminate poverty. Name one other candidate who has to eliminatehe has poverty. That is one of the primary focuses. E are happy to be here does anybody have questions for us . [inaudible] that is an interesting question. He is aill to you is veteran and has obviously provided service to his country. The reason why we support andrew has more to do with a substance of the following some sensitive policy. We love him and appreciate his service. Veteransndrew yang and are growing more and more everyday. What you guys have all been waiting for, im very proud to announce what is hopefully our future commanderinchief, andrew yang. You guys got me for another five minutes. Have any of the questions for the veterans . No more trick questions. [inaudible] has such indepth policies. Andrew has such indepth policies. He has really sat down and looked into this. Post, check out this blog it identifies problems that veterans have with their educational benefits. As someone who is currently using bgi bill, i cant to you how many times out of nowhere your school is supposed to be paid or you received your stipend, it does not show up. He addresses those issues. Also excited about, he also wants to help veterans businesses. The blogid, check out post. I could have read it to you, but we love him so much. It is fax, math, numbers. We are used to having people talk to us and try and speak about veterans and a lot of times there is not substance and this is what i really appreciated. He knows about building businesses, about creating jobs. Who could be better than someone had already have significant insurance in that field . He starts with focusing on transitions right when they are getting out of the military. There is such a large adjustment that people have to face when they are getting ready to switch and starting those programs to help is tremendous. Third time is always the charm. Yang. E is, mr. Andrew thank you all for being here. Yang. Im andrew how many of you have seen me speak before . You. Gosh, so many of im going to give a combination who justs for people come here because you are curious. We are here in iowa, politics is a combination of events and Community Gathering all in one. I have been joking that iowans are a special breed because this is one of the only places where democracy functions as intended. Here in iowa, also very lucky and privileged and custom to where democracy works as the way that it is intended. Most americans look up and they lobbyistsate cash and. Most look up and say theres not much i can do with that. Can flush theyou pipes. It is the indie of the rest of the country. You are little bit accustomed to it. You are used to having people in your living room and see in a way back and hopefully do better insight. What makes me tick is the fact that i see what lies ahead not just in iowa, but around the country and i felt compelled to do something about it. Im going to go down to memory lane. My parents immigrated and met in grad school at berkeley in california. My father is a physicist, my mom got a masters in massachusetts, so i was a very nerdy kid. Growing up, i thought everyones dad had a phd. I grew up in very nerdy kid in and was told to get good grades, do well in school, so i did my best to follow that advice and went to college in new england, did not know what to do so i went to law school, became a corporate attorney for five months. I thought it was a good job [indiscernible] the main focus was imagining what would go wrong. Imagine thinking about the first the worst thing that would happen. Why am i an office thinking about all the worst things that could happen . I should be positive and build something. Unless that let that job to start a business will stop how many business. Anything, you know it is much harder and when someone asks how it is going to you say it is going great. If you say it is not going great, they dont want to join the club. Business was going great until it failed. My business had crashed, i owed school loans, about six figures and then you leave. Invigorated that i said i have to try and get better at this. Me, i said i should try to i foundething better in an entrepreneur who found you had more experience than me and then i became the head of another company that did quite well in 2009. How many of you were here in during then iowa financial crisis . Because it was a hard time in most of the country, people were losing their homes all over the place. These oneause all of of the want to be with kids had gone to wall street to create these Financial Instruments that crashed the economy. I thought you have to have , so i Something Better quit my job with a goal of helping young people start businesses in detroit, st. Louis , baltimore and other cities around the country. Much tot it is way too ask to move to a new city and start a business, but i felt it would work is to send them or city not ton a new start a business, but work in a business that was just getting his legs and if they could work at that business a couple of years, they would grow the way i had grown. Essentially, the vision was evee the chance to learn under the wing of a more experienced company, builder, or entrepreneur. I quit my job to start this organization, venture for america. Is there a kid here . Yay. I am appearing too. When i hear a kid crying, i have the same thought every parent here does which is, is that mine . [laughter] mr. Yang in this case im like, no, its not. Quit my job to start this nonprofit venture. How many of you have worked for a nonprofit in some context . You have a sense as to what that looks like too. I quit my job to start this nonprofit and i started calling rich friends and asking them, do you love america . Whatmart among them said, does it mean if i say yes to this answer . And i said at least 10,000. 12 of them said i love america for 10,000. I put some of my own money and we launch this profit this nonprofit that grew and grew to the millions, helped create several thousand jobs in 15 cities around the country. Detroit, st. Louis, etc. I was honored by the Obama Administration as a champion of change. I got to bring my wife to meet the president. My inlaws are very excited about me for a week. Look at these pictures of our daughter with the president. My main story about president obama is he has a very large hands. You shake his hands and his hand like envelopes you. Oh, i thought i had a normal sized payment. This is what i did for seven years. Most people think of me as a business guy. Ive been a nonprofit guy for the last seven years. Ohio inver been to louisiana and alabama and missouri and all these places that venture for america brought me. During those seven years, i was blown away by the gulf between different parts of this country in terms of the way the academy has evolved. Where if you fly between michigan and manhattan or st. Louis in san francisco, you feel like you are traversing decades rather than time zones, sometimes. But i was still surprised when donald trump became our president in 2016. Some of you im sure were less surprised than i was because you saw many of your friends and neighbors and family members who were very excited about Donald Trumps candidacy. Being a numbers person and looking you are shaking your head, you are not happy about it. We are in an environment, i imagine the majority of you how did you all react when donald trump won . Cried. Mr. Yang tears, shock, disappointment. We used to go to Atlantic City and he destroyed that town. Mr. Yang he left a path of destruction. It is exactly the same thing. Doesnt change. Mr. Yang and to me, the giant lesson, the red flag was that tens of millions of our fellow americans were so fed up with the system and business as usual that they decided to take a bet on the narcissist reality tv star. They said it cannot get worse than this current set of institutions that is not actually solving problems. Im going to take a bet on this guy. I dont think most americans had any illusions. Donald trump wasnt really putting on a different type of show. We kind of knew what we were getting. I obviously did not vote for him, i was a bernie guy in 2016. Donald trump won. I said ok, stop the press. I had been getting medals and awards and accolades for helping to create thousands of jobs around the country and i have had a sinking feeling that my work is like pouring water into a bathtub that has a hole in the bottom. I felt that for months before donald trump wins. Then donald trump wins and im like, holy cow, this is heading in the other direction much faster than even i had thought. I started digging into the numbers. If you were to turn on cable news and ask why donald trump won . What is the explanation we are getting offered by the journalism . Racism. Russia. Mr. Yang facebook. Fbi. Hillary clinton. Dnc. Electoral college. Hillary again. These other reasons we are being offered by the press. When i dug into the numbers, i found a very clear factor that, to me, drove Donald Trumps victory. Including his victory in iowa by eight points. Wonreason why donald trump is that we automated a way for Million Manufacturing jobs in michigan, ohio, pennsylvania, wisconsin, missouri, and 40,000 here in iowa. There is a Straight Line up between the adoption of Industrial Automation in a voting area and the movement to trump. When a factory closes and a or a plant closes or cuts back in a town, blue goes to read in the community. You see not just a plant dry up but what drives up as well . The shopping centers, the property taxes, the entire Community Starts to go into a downward spiral. And then blue goes to read. This has happened here in iowa and in all of the other swing states that donald trump needed to win and did win. Unfortunately, what we did to the manufacturing jobs is picking up speed. How many of you have noticed Stores Closing around where you live here in this part of iowa . Or wherever some of you are from out of town. Why are so many of your Stores Closing . Thats right, amazon. Amazon is soaking up 20 billion of business every single year, closing 30 of americas stores and malls including in iowa. Most common job in most of the state is working as a retail clerk. The average retail clerk is a 39yearold woman making between nine dollars and 10 an hour. If 30 of americas stores and malls close, what does that retails clerks next move what is that retail clerks next move . It is not going to work for another store because the store across the street is not exactly hiring. How much did amazon put pay in federal taxes last year . Zero. That is the math. 20 billion out. Zero back. Seen ay of you have selfserve kiosk in a Fast Food Restaurant like at mcdonalds . They will be in every location in the country by 2021. Food service and saved prep and food prep, third most common job in the u. S. The rubber hits the road when we automate truck driving. My friends in california are working on robot trucks that never need to stop. They tell me they are 98 of the way there. How many of you know a truck driver in iowa . Thats the most common job and over half the states in the country. There are 3. 5 million truckers in the United States making 46,000 a year, average age, 49. Ive talked to a bunch of truckers and i know when they drive a truck, they have to stop after 14 hours to get out and go to sleep. I also know only 13 of truckers are unionized. That is not an industry where everyone is in a union. 87 are part of small momandpop businesses. Many of the truckers you know took out massive loans to lease their cars, their trucks. Imagine if you owed 80,000 on a truck, and then you saw the robot truck hit the highway that never needs to stop. What is your next move going to be . Smash your truck into that truck. [laughter] thereng this is real, was a protest in d. C. By a series of truckers the other week where they showed up and said, you cannot automate our jobs away. You know what the financial incentives are to automate freight . Year in costa savings. Thats not just labor. Thats equipment utilization, say. Fewer accidents, they im going to dig into this because i think it is important. They say they are 98 of the way to robot trucks. That sounds impressive but having a 2 error rate is problematic when you are talking about semi trucks. You cant have semi trucks smashing into things and say, we were mostly right. The trucks are really bad with snow because when it snows, the road gets covered up in the computer cannot see it and they dont know what to do. That is one reason why they are testing the robot trucks in arizona. Because, and california. Where there is not a lot of snow. The question is how can they get over that last 2 . Dram or the first time you saw a tv on your cell phone . Do you remember that . That is 3g. We are now rolling out 5g around the country. The vision they have for the robot trucks is to equipped the truck with a teleoperating software so when the truck gets confused and does not know what to do, it alerts a teleoperator who was sitting in a warehouse in nevada or arizona who then beams into the truck and drives it like a videogame. You know what i mean . Cameras in the front. It is like you are sitting there and you can see out the front of the cab. You take it over. When the computer is like ok, i know what to do again, you beam back out. Willdo you think the ratio be between tile operators and the 3. 5 million americans who drive a truck for a living . 2 , it is certainly not going to be one to one. What will that mean for the truckers or the 7 million plus americans who work in truck stops, motels and diners that rely on the truckers getting out and having a meal . I was at iowa 80 in davenport. How many of you all have been there . They say 5000 people stop their everyday. What happens when that number starts to drop because the truckers are robots and they do not need to get out and have a meal . They tell me this is five to 10 years away. Ups just invested in one of these companies. 160 billion a year is enough money to move mountains. Particularly in a country like ours where everything revolves around the almighty dollar. This is not a donald trump problem. He is a symptom of the fact that we are going through the greatest Union Members<\/a>. We need to support our unions, so without further ado, jim. Ate i, i am president here uaw local 8 in marshalltown. Im going to hand this over to the veterans [indiscernible] hi, thank you guys for coming. We are with veterans for humanity. We are andrew yangs veterans group. I will tell you when i first heard about andrew yang, it was probably like a lot of you guys, the same thing you guys went through, you watched the video and immediately loved him. Personality, his commitment, his authenticity really came through and you fell in love with him. As a veteran, i have been keep an eye keep an eye on various candidates keep an eye keeping an eye on various didates in not only did i and not only did i get a policy page, i got a blog post that is about 10,000 words. It is not like with other candidates. With other candidates you get a lot of fluff and they are trying to just appeal and it is not very substantiated. His posts are amazing and goes through all of his veterans oficies and in detail reverse boot camp in helping after the military. When you go through training it puts you in a certain mindset and when you leave, you have to learn how to be a civilian again and he goes into great detail about all of these things. It is not fluff, it is here is the problem and heres what were going to do. It is absolutely amazing. Veterans for humanity, we love andrew. Withhold our veterans and asked them what you like about andrew and one thing they said was we understand the freedom dividend because a lot of veterans receive compensation payments, so we are to know what having this money does for our families. Heals allowed parents to and veterans to heal and allow them to focus on their health and healing and allows them to stay home with children and family and allows a spouse to stay home and focus on education and allows them to not worry if their car broke down or things like that, so veterans understand it and we want these things for everyone else. We know what having that money does. Im going to handy microphone to talk about will union policies. And i i am in iowa went iowan. I love andrew yang for so many reasons. I am a parent of an autistic child. What initially drew me to andrews candidacy was the fact he has policies specific to childrens with special needs. As a parent, he speaks heavily about the need to have an environment for our children that is safe and accessible. Member, think about what the freedom dividend did for striking workers. Imagine what the freedom dividend would give them from the strength to protest and give them more leverage from their. Mployer eventually, you just weed them out. , advocating onan behalf of veterans is so important to me. Right now, the v. A. Has about a 45,000 shortage and trying to get health care in the v. A. Is extraordinarily difficult. Whichss recognized that is why they allow certain veterans to receive local care, but it kind of skates by the issue that we still have this massive hiring shortage. Qualified to recruit providers is such a big deal and andrew has policies, more than the handshake then heidi was talking about a bit ago. I would encourage you all to , listen those options to the man. He has over 150 policies on his website. He is not just about rhetoric, he is a problem solver. He has a policy for just about everything. Stands for make america think harder. He has the solutions to be able to help veterans and help everyone out in that regard. Trying to think what else we could talk about. If you guys are interested in more on what he is doing for veterans, you can go to v eteransforyang. Com. I can speak for myself when i say it is a big thing and that is how important his presidency is. One other thing, it is so vet. Tant as a we have been in afghanistan for 18 years. There are Service Members<\/a> there that were not even born. Andrew has pledged to for it to end the forever wars. Think about that. The money we spent on defense could be to providing a social Safety Program<\/a> to provide a Safety Network<\/a> to all of our poor. The man wants to generally eliminate poverty. Name one other candidate who has to eliminatehe has poverty. That is one of the primary focuses. E are happy to be here does anybody have questions for us . [inaudible] that is an interesting question. He is aill to you is veteran and has obviously provided service to his country. The reason why we support andrew has more to do with a substance of the following some sensitive policy. We love him and appreciate his service. Veteransndrew yang and are growing more and more everyday. What you guys have all been waiting for, im very proud to announce what is hopefully our future commanderinchief, andrew yang. You guys got me for another five minutes. Have any of the questions for the veterans . No more trick questions. [inaudible] has such indepth policies. Andrew has such indepth policies. He has really sat down and looked into this. Post, check out this blog it identifies problems that veterans have with their educational benefits. As someone who is currently using bgi bill, i cant to you how many times out of nowhere your school is supposed to be paid or you received your stipend, it does not show up. He addresses those issues. Also excited about, he also wants to help veterans businesses. The blogid, check out post. I could have read it to you, but we love him so much. It is fax, math, numbers. We are used to having people talk to us and try and speak about veterans and a lot of times there is not substance and this is what i really appreciated. He knows about building businesses, about creating jobs. Who could be better than someone had already have significant insurance in that field . He starts with focusing on transitions right when they are getting out of the military. There is such a large adjustment that people have to face when they are getting ready to switch and starting those programs to help is tremendous. Third time is always the charm. Yang. E is, mr. Andrew thank you all for being here. Yang. Im andrew how many of you have seen me speak before . You. Gosh, so many of im going to give a combination who justs for people come here because you are curious. We are here in iowa, politics is a combination of events and Community Gathering<\/a> all in one. I have been joking that iowans are a special breed because this is one of the only places where democracy functions as intended. Here in iowa, also very lucky and privileged and custom to where democracy works as the way that it is intended. Most americans look up and they lobbyistsate cash and. Most look up and say theres not much i can do with that. Can flush theyou pipes. It is the indie of the rest of the country. You are little bit accustomed to it. You are used to having people in your living room and see in a way back and hopefully do better insight. What makes me tick is the fact that i see what lies ahead not just in iowa, but around the country and i felt compelled to do something about it. Im going to go down to memory lane. My parents immigrated and met in grad school at berkeley in california. My father is a physicist, my mom got a masters in massachusetts, so i was a very nerdy kid. Growing up, i thought everyones dad had a phd. I grew up in very nerdy kid in and was told to get good grades, do well in school, so i did my best to follow that advice and went to college in new england, did not know what to do so i went to law school, became a corporate attorney for five months. I thought it was a good job [indiscernible] the main focus was imagining what would go wrong. Imagine thinking about the first the worst thing that would happen. Why am i an office thinking about all the worst things that could happen . I should be positive and build something. Unless that let that job to start a business will stop how many business. Anything, you know it is much harder and when someone asks how it is going to you say it is going great. If you say it is not going great, they dont want to join the club. Business was going great until it failed. My business had crashed, i owed school loans, about six figures and then you leave. Invigorated that i said i have to try and get better at this. Me, i said i should try to i foundething better in an entrepreneur who found you had more experience than me and then i became the head of another company that did quite well in 2009. How many of you were here in during then iowa financial crisis . Because it was a hard time in most of the country, people were losing their homes all over the place. These oneause all of of the want to be with kids had gone to wall street to create these Financial Instruments<\/a> that crashed the economy. I thought you have to have , so i Something Better<\/a> quit my job with a goal of helping young people start businesses in detroit, st. Louis , baltimore and other cities around the country. Much tot it is way too ask to move to a new city and start a business, but i felt it would work is to send them or city not ton a new start a business, but work in a business that was just getting his legs and if they could work at that business a couple of years, they would grow the way i had grown. Essentially, the vision was evee the chance to learn under the wing of a more experienced company, builder, or entrepreneur. I quit my job to start this organization, venture for america. Is there a kid here . Yay. I am appearing too. When i hear a kid crying, i have the same thought every parent here does which is, is that mine . [laughter] mr. Yang in this case im like, no, its not. Quit my job to start this nonprofit venture. How many of you have worked for a nonprofit in some context . You have a sense as to what that looks like too. I quit my job to start this nonprofit and i started calling rich friends and asking them, do you love america . Whatmart among them said, does it mean if i say yes to this answer . And i said at least 10,000. 12 of them said i love america for 10,000. I put some of my own money and we launch this profit this nonprofit that grew and grew to the millions, helped create several thousand jobs in 15 cities around the country. Detroit, st. Louis, etc. I was honored by the Obama Administration<\/a> as a champion of change. I got to bring my wife to meet the president. My inlaws are very excited about me for a week. Look at these pictures of our daughter with the president. My main story about president obama is he has a very large hands. You shake his hands and his hand like envelopes you. Oh, i thought i had a normal sized payment. This is what i did for seven years. Most people think of me as a business guy. Ive been a nonprofit guy for the last seven years. Ohio inver been to louisiana and alabama and missouri and all these places that venture for america brought me. During those seven years, i was blown away by the gulf between different parts of this country in terms of the way the academy has evolved. Where if you fly between michigan and manhattan or st. Louis in san francisco, you feel like you are traversing decades rather than time zones, sometimes. But i was still surprised when donald trump became our president in 2016. Some of you im sure were less surprised than i was because you saw many of your friends and neighbors and family members who were very excited about Donald Trumps<\/a> candidacy. Being a numbers person and looking you are shaking your head, you are not happy about it. We are in an environment, i imagine the majority of you how did you all react when donald trump won . Cried. Mr. Yang tears, shock, disappointment. We used to go to Atlantic City<\/a> and he destroyed that town. Mr. Yang he left a path of destruction. It is exactly the same thing. Doesnt change. Mr. Yang and to me, the giant lesson, the red flag was that tens of millions of our fellow americans were so fed up with the system and business as usual that they decided to take a bet on the narcissist reality tv star. They said it cannot get worse than this current set of institutions that is not actually solving problems. Im going to take a bet on this guy. I dont think most americans had any illusions. Donald trump wasnt really putting on a different type of show. We kind of knew what we were getting. I obviously did not vote for him, i was a bernie guy in 2016. Donald trump won. I said ok, stop the press. I had been getting medals and awards and accolades for helping to create thousands of jobs around the country and i have had a sinking feeling that my work is like pouring water into a bathtub that has a hole in the bottom. I felt that for months before donald trump wins. Then donald trump wins and im like, holy cow, this is heading in the other direction much faster than even i had thought. I started digging into the numbers. If you were to turn on cable news and ask why donald trump won . What is the explanation we are getting offered by the journalism . Racism. Russia. Mr. Yang facebook. Fbi. Hillary clinton. Dnc. Electoral college. Hillary again. These other reasons we are being offered by the press. When i dug into the numbers, i found a very clear factor that, to me, drove Donald Trumps<\/a> victory. Including his victory in iowa by eight points. Wonreason why donald trump is that we automated a way for Million Manufacturing<\/a> jobs in michigan, ohio, pennsylvania, wisconsin, missouri, and 40,000 here in iowa. There is a Straight Line<\/a> up between the adoption of Industrial Automation<\/a> in a voting area and the movement to trump. When a factory closes and a or a plant closes or cuts back in a town, blue goes to read in the community. You see not just a plant dry up but what drives up as well . The shopping centers, the property taxes, the entire Community Starts<\/a> to go into a downward spiral. And then blue goes to read. This has happened here in iowa and in all of the other swing states that donald trump needed to win and did win. Unfortunately, what we did to the manufacturing jobs is picking up speed. How many of you have noticed Stores Closing<\/a> around where you live here in this part of iowa . Or wherever some of you are from out of town. Why are so many of your Stores Closing<\/a> . Thats right, amazon. Amazon is soaking up 20 billion of business every single year, closing 30 of americas stores and malls including in iowa. Most common job in most of the state is working as a retail clerk. The average retail clerk is a 39yearold woman making between nine dollars and 10 an hour. If 30 of americas stores and malls close, what does that retails clerks next move what is that retail clerks next move . It is not going to work for another store because the store across the street is not exactly hiring. How much did amazon put pay in federal taxes last year . Zero. That is the math. 20 billion out. Zero back. Seen ay of you have selfserve kiosk in a Fast Food Restaurant<\/a> like at mcdonalds . They will be in every location in the country by 2021. Food service and saved prep and food prep, third most common job in the u. S. The rubber hits the road when we automate truck driving. My friends in california are working on robot trucks that never need to stop. They tell me they are 98 of the way there. How many of you know a truck driver in iowa . Thats the most common job and over half the states in the country. There are 3. 5 million truckers in the United States<\/a> making 46,000 a year, average age, 49. Ive talked to a bunch of truckers and i know when they drive a truck, they have to stop after 14 hours to get out and go to sleep. I also know only 13 of truckers are unionized. That is not an industry where everyone is in a union. 87 are part of small momandpop businesses. Many of the truckers you know took out massive loans to lease their cars, their trucks. Imagine if you owed 80,000 on a truck, and then you saw the robot truck hit the highway that never needs to stop. What is your next move going to be . Smash your truck into that truck. [laughter] thereng this is real, was a protest in d. C. By a series of truckers the other week where they showed up and said, you cannot automate our jobs away. You know what the financial incentives are to automate freight . Year in costa savings. Thats not just labor. Thats equipment utilization, say. Fewer accidents, they im going to dig into this because i think it is important. They say they are 98 of the way to robot trucks. That sounds impressive but having a 2 error rate is problematic when you are talking about semi trucks. You cant have semi trucks smashing into things and say, we were mostly right. The trucks are really bad with snow because when it snows, the road gets covered up in the computer cannot see it and they dont know what to do. That is one reason why they are testing the robot trucks in arizona. Because, and california. Where there is not a lot of snow. The question is how can they get over that last 2 . Dram or the first time you saw a tv on your cell phone . Do you remember that . That is 3g. We are now rolling out 5g around the country. The vision they have for the robot trucks is to equipped the truck with a teleoperating software so when the truck gets confused and does not know what to do, it alerts a teleoperator who was sitting in a warehouse in nevada or arizona who then beams into the truck and drives it like a videogame. You know what i mean . Cameras in the front. It is like you are sitting there and you can see out the front of the cab. You take it over. When the computer is like ok, i know what to do again, you beam back out. Willdo you think the ratio be between tile operators and the 3. 5 million americans who drive a truck for a living . 2 , it is certainly not going to be one to one. What will that mean for the truckers or the 7 million plus americans who work in truck stops, motels and diners that rely on the truckers getting out and having a meal . I was at iowa 80 in davenport. How many of you all have been there . They say 5000 people stop their everyday. What happens when that number starts to drop because the truckers are robots and they do not need to get out and have a meal . They tell me this is five to 10 years away. Ups just invested in one of these companies. 160 billion a year is enough money to move mountains. Particularly in a country like ours where everything revolves around the almighty dollar. This is not a donald trump problem. He is a symptom of the fact that we are going through the greatest Economic Transformation<\/a> in the countrys history. What people are calling the Fourth Industrial Revolution<\/a>. Here in iowa, it started on your farms which got gobbled up by mega farms and automated. Then it moved to the factories. You lost 40,000 manufacturing jobs. Factories around the state. Now it is heading to your main streets as your stores start to dry up. Then it will hit your highways when the robot trucks come. These waves of automation and innovation are pushing more and more of us to the sidelines. That is why donald trump is our president today. In 2017. Hat i unpacked he wins, i have a crisis of conscious where im like ok, this is not a situation where i should keep doing what im doing. Because im an entrepreneur. What entrepreneurs do in the best possible case is we solve problems. The problem i was trying to solve was the fact that i did not believe our economy was generating enough Small Business<\/a> entrepreneurship and job growth. Then i realized the problems are bigger. I said how do you solve that set of problems . I went to washington, d. C. With my facts and figures and book in my powerpoint deck. And i said to them, what are we going to do to help our people manage this transition . First we have to explain to the American People<\/a> it is not immigrants causing these problems. If you go to a factory in michigan, it is wall to wall robot and machines. The same is true in amazon fulfillment centers. Those things are walltowall robots. That is what is closing the malls and stores. What do you think the folks in washington, d. C. Said to me when i asked what are we going to do . Nothing. Mr. Yang i mean, nothing. Essentially it was nothing. The three answers i got were these. Number one, we cannot talk about this. That is verbatim. Number two, we should study that further. Number three, we must educate and retrain allamericans for the jobs of the future. I said ok, that one sounds halfway responsible. I look at the studies on the numbers, do you know how effective the governmentfunded retraining programs were for the manufacturing workers who lost their jobs in the midwest . 0 to 15 . A total dud. When i said look, the numbers say we are talking about 15 , 25 tops, you know what the next response was . I guess we would get better. Will get better. That is what passes for responsiveness out of d. C. One person in washington, d. C. Said to something that sent me here today. They said andrew, you are in the wrong town. No one here will do anything about this because fundamentally, washington, d. C. Is not a town of leaders, it is a town of followers. The only way we will do anything about it is if you create a wave and other prez of the country and bring that wave crashing down on our heads. I heard this and said challenge accepted. Ill be back. Like arnold, ill be back. [laughter] mr. Yang i didnt say it like that. Glad i get have someone with me. I wish i had someone with me because you would think i made it up. It is a d. C. Lobbyist speech. Turns out they are similar. But its real. This is what he said. When he said this to me, i got that feeling you have one someone tells you a deep and important truth. Because hes right. Washington, d. C. Will do nothing about this. The only way anything will change is if we create a wave and other parts of the country and bring it crashing down on their heads. And that is why iowa is such an incredible place because this is a place where you all have outsized power to actually change the course of history and bring a different vision to the rest of the country just like that. Thats why i love being here. You go a lot of other places, people dont think they can make that kind of difference. Here, you know you can. The question is how do you actually help the American People<\/a> manage this Economic Transformation<\/a>, this Fourth Industrial Revolution<\/a> . Those of you who are here today, at some point, you heard there is an asian man running for president who wants to give everyone 1000 a month. The first time you heard that you were like, thats a gimmick, that will never happen. This is a deeply american idea from our founding. Thomas payne was for it, he called it the citizens dividend. Martin luther king fought for it in the 1960s, the guaranteed minimum income for all americans. 1000 economists endorsed it in the 1960s. And passedainstream, the house of representatives twice in 1971 under richard nixon. Called the family assistance plan. 11 years later, one state passed a dividend where everyone in the state gets between 1000 in 2000 a year, no question asked. 21stis the oil of the century . Technology. A study came out and set our data is worth more than oil. How many of you saw that study . It was in a netflix documentary, called the big hack. Great hack . Everyone know anyone know . You can probably find it. How many of you have netflix . [laughter] mr. Yang i should say access to a Network Netflix<\/a> password. [laughter] mr. Yang it is a pretty good documentary. I enjoyed it. That was one of the studies in the documentary. Our data is worth more than oil. One question im asking is who got their data check in the mail last month . Obviously, none of us did. The data checks are going to facebook, amazon, google. To the tunes of 10 tune of tens of billions of dollars. When you subscribe to the services, you never read that boilerplate. You say get out of my way, i consent, i agree. We all do that. Were not crazy. What else are you going to do . All of this consent, agree, consent, agree, they are taking our data and packaging it and selling it and reselling it and occasionally they get hacked. Then you see the headline being like hey, yahoo got hacked. Then you are like, oh man, does that mean i have to change my password . Then you are like, sometimes you do or dont. Whats the worst that can happen . [laughter] mr. Yang and then you have this hodgepodge of passwords. Every time they ramp up their protocol, it is probably because they had a problem. Honestly. You show it to a company, we think you should consider changing your password. Make it really complicated. You should know that probably means they lost their stuff. [laughter] mr. Yang seriously. That is what is going on. This is the world we live and in the 21st century where we traded our data for convenience and the services. It seemed like a great deal because, its free. Im here to tell you it is not free. There is a lot of money changing hands and we are not seeing any of it. It is becoming fundamentally more dangerous because they know so many things about each of us that they can actually lead us with these breadcrumbs towards actions that you do not realize it is happening. I always wanted to go to bermuda. [laughter] mr. Yang turns out somehow, they have been sending you things to get you to bermuda. Foreign politics is fundamentally more corrosive. Dividend, one of the proposals im championing is our data should be ours. If we lend it to the Tech Companies<\/a>, it doesnt mean it is theirs, not ours. If they are profiting, they need to tell us and share it with us. Also, they need to let us turn it off if we want. Those are some of the big proposals that im championing as part of this campaign to try and balance the scales because we are completely outgunned by the Tech Companies<\/a> right now. The only way to balance it is through the government. The government has to make sure amazon does not pay zero in taxes, that we are getting a fair share of every amazon sale, google search, facebook at, robot truck mile. This would be enough to fund the 1000 a month dividend for each of us. Particularly because when this money comes into your hands in 2020 one, how are you going to spend the money in real life . Car repairs. Mr. Yang bills. Fixing a home. Bermuda. Mr. Yang trips to bermuda. [laughter] my head and sponsor, the bermuda tourism bureau. Im going around, excepting people. Iowa, new hampshire, it is a great place to visit this time of year. [laughter] mr. Yang how much of the money would stay right here in iowa . A lot. Mr. Yang most of it. Not all of it. Some of it would float up to the cloud. Buy an extra brill extra blender on amazon. Most of it would stay here in iowa. It would go to the daycare expenses and Little League<\/a> signups, and car repairs you have been putting off. It would end up infusing mainstream businesses and nonprofits in families with resources that would create and sustain jobs right here in iowa. This is the trickle up economy from our people, our families and communities up. Participants all and beneficiaries of the 21st century economy. Right now, there are two sets of rules. There are the rules for the Big Companies<\/a> and the rules for us. The Big Companies<\/a> screw up, it is like, no one can hold them accountable. If we screw up, someone pushes you into the ditch. It is all your fault. Is evolving economy in front of mental ways. Yorkke to 70 ceos in new and asked them how many are you looking at getting rid of your Call Center Workers<\/a> and replacing them with ai and software . Guess how many hands went up out of 70. All 70 of them. The fact that you can fire that ceo if he was not looking and making that deal, it was mainly guys. Honestly. That is the nature of the system we have built. Built abuilt we have system of capitalism that worships the almighty dollar and the bottom line. Almightynse is if the dollar and the bottomline benefit, then we benefit too. There was a point in American History<\/a> where that was kind of true. There was a point when if a company made a lot of money, it would hire more people, invest in more plants, give this people fulltime benefits, care about what happened in its own backyard, and we would benefit. This is the henry ford, im going to pay my workers enough to buy my car. Remember that stuff . In todays economy, none of this is true anymore. I can have a vastly Profitable Company<\/a> and not hire lots of people. If i hire lots of people, i make them temp and contract workers, lets call them uber drivers, and say i will not pay for health care for these folks. I dont care about what happens in my own backyard because i sell everywhere. Theres no place i need to look out for anymore. The rules of capitalism are breaking down. Our job has to be to try and rewrite them to work for us. Im a parent how many of you all our parents . A bunch of you. If you are a parent, you sense we are leaving a real mess for our kids. We are leaving them a shamble. If you want some numbers, if you were born in the 1940s or 50s in this country, there was a 93 chance that you were going to live a better life than your parents in terms of socioeconomic, income success and that sort of thing. If you were born in the 1990s, you are down to a 5050 shot. That number is dropping quick. It went from 93 to 50 and now it is below 50 . This is not just the feelings we have, it is the reality. It is going to be up to the folks in iowa to say enough is enough. We have to try and rewrite the rules to work for us. Thats why something that seemed so dramatic like all of us getting 1000 a month starts out as a gimmick or pieinthesky. When you start digging in, you realize it is necessary and inevitable. That if we do not take this set of steps, the winner take all economy is going to zero out tomorrow and more of us. One of the things im saying is look, it does not matter if im a hardworking conscientious truck driver or a nod hardworking truck driver, the computer truck driver can do it anyway. We have to evolve in the way we think about ourselves and our own value. Hopefully now, this 1000 a reasonable, ity really is. It would make us stronger, healthier, mentally healthier, less stressed out, give our kids a better chance to learn. Supercharge our regional economy. The big piece of it is trying to push how we even define our own economic success. One of the jokes questions i ask people is how many of you aware excited about gdp when you woke up this morning . I hope i make a contribution today, even though it is a sunday. Profits are record highs in this country, also record highs in the u. S. , stress, financial insecurity, student loan debt. Even drug overdoses and suicides. It has gotten so sat so bad that Life Expectancy<\/a> has declined for three years in a row. When was the last time that happened in American History<\/a> . 1918. The spanish flu that killed millions. That is the last time in american Life Expectancy<\/a> declined for three years in a row. We are back there now because suicides and drug overdoses have overtaken vehicle deaths for the first time in American History<\/a>. It is not normal for a Life Expectancy<\/a> two design to decline in a developed country in one year let alone for three years. We are falling apart. Gdp is setting the record highs all the time. I have to ask you if gdp and corporate profits are record highs and we are dying earlier, which do we value . Instead of having these corporate profits as the measurements that are beating us up on tv, they are like, gdp is up, and you were supposed to feel good about it even though you feel like that has little to do with me, what could we measure that would get you excited if i said it got better in marshalltown or iowa . Clean water. Mr. Yang clean air and clean water. If i got better, you would be happy. What else . Health and freedom from substance abuse. If i said eight americans are dying of drug overdoses every hour, it is unconscionable. That was a disease of capital capitalism as well. Purdue pharma in these Companies Made<\/a> millions of dollars by dispensing opioid prescriptions, hooking our people. It went to heroin and fentanyl. Then, it spiraled out of control. This is the darkest thing. Purdue pharma, this company that made tens of billions of dollars on oxycontin it went around saying oxycontin is not addictive. Then when their patent was coming due, they turned around and said it is super addictive. Because it made more money for them if they said it was super addictive because then they were going into generics and started selling a tamperproof version of it because they are pat because their patent on the original had expired. That is the darkness that is our current system. If we had measurements outside look, we have eight americans dying of opioids every single hour, we need to get that down in half, and one of or to zero, and one of the other proposals and championing is if this was a public failure at the highest levels, which it was, then when someone is addicted to oxy, we or heroin or should be referring them to treatment and counseling and not a jail cell. One of the reasons why i realized this was because a High School Senior<\/a> in storm lake and iowa told me his classmates had fentanyl patches on their shoulders and were already addicted. He said, what can we do . They would never admit to their problem because they would be afraid of getting into trouble. I heard this and i was like, hes right. We have to let people who are struggling with addiction know that if they want to step up and seek help, that they will not end up with a criminal record or in a jail cell. If you are selling or dealing, then you are going to jail. But if you are an addict and struggling, we should not send you to a prison cell, we should send you to treatment. This is how we can redefine the rules of the 21st century economy to work for us. We invented this Gross Domestic Product<\/a> of gdp measurement 100 years ago. Agoinventors on 100 years that this is a terrible measurement and we should never use it as that. He said that 100 years ago. Here we are 100 years later riding it off a cliff. Align our actually people in the measurements. And we do that by saying the new measurements of economic progress our health and Life Expectancy<\/a> and Mental Health<\/a> and clean air and clean water and how her kids are doing. As your president , i will upgrade gdp to these news met new measurements called the american scorecard and they will present these real measurements at the state of the union. I will be the first president to use a powerpoint at the state of the union. I hope thats appealing. [laughter] mr. Yang so then you will have this is where it is going. Then we can actually see what the real problems are and invest our resources and energy towards moving the country forward in a way that would be reflected in our own lives. This is the only way out, iowa. We are in a time of unprecedented technological change. If we persist in evaluating ourselves and our own value and worth by what the market says we are worth, we are lost. We are going to lose on an epic scale. Out, i know coming some of the most advanced technologists in the country, im friendly with them. The more they know, the more concerned they are. It is not a situation where someone is like i know what the cutting edge looks like it it will be fine. Those two things do not go handinhand. The people who know what the cutting edge looks like our very, very deeply concerned and very, very anxious. The best among them have said to an environment, where people feel like they are being left behind is bad for everyone. We have to actually make everyone feel included in some of these innovations that we are working on. Again, i love coming here to iowa because you are some of the only people in the country that can make this statement and make this difference for the rest of our country very quickly. The media is not going to help us, it is going to have to be you. You are the only people that can make this case. This message that we can send next february, oh my gosh, it is going to be so powerful if we present this vision to the country and say we can rewrite the rules to work for us. We can build a new way forward for the entire country. I would love to take some questions from you all but i will leave on just my closing stanza which is that donald he wasn 2016, he said going to make America Great<\/a> again and what did Hillary Clinton<\/a> say in response . America is already great. That did not work on many americans. Even though donald trump got to many of the problems right, his solutions where the opposite of what we need. What were his solutions . We are going to build a wall, turn the clock back, bring jobs back. Iowa, we have to do the opposite. We have to turn the clock forward. We have to accelerate our economy and society as quickly as possible. We have to evolve in the way we think about ourselves and our work and value. Im the ideal candidate for that job because the opposite of donald trump is an asian man who likes math. Thank you very much, marshalltown. [applause] ackerman,masses and n acronym. And sir, you have a question . What about people who are abroad making goods at a low wage and feeding into the system, for ain hightech . What isnd question is stopping my landlord from raising my rent to what im paying, plus 1000 . Why not use an algorithm to determine way to rule rather than 1000 acrosstheboard. Mr. Yang if you look at what is happening internationally with automation, america is somewhere in the middle in terms of the expected impact. The fact that we are a wealthier country actually works against us because the incentives to automate labor are much higher. If you have a worker getting paid 17 an hour in a factory floor. Maybeen in indonesia, they are getting two dollars an hour, in indonesia, you are like whatever, let them keep on doing their thing. In america they are like, we need to get rid of thick rid of people. The technologys impact will be uneven based on the industry and environment and frankly the cost of labor. Your question about trying to scale it and tailor it based on where someone is, what the cost is, there are many benefits to having it be a universal 1000. In part because it would be hard to administer if you buried it by cost of living. We all know how americans operate. There would be a lot of people who are like, i live someplace likely , that is why we borrow our friends Network Netflix<\/a> passwords. About your rent question. There are three sources of inflation in American Life<\/a> now driving us nuts. Number one is housing. What are the other two . Health care. Education. Those are the big three. If you look at your cost on things like clothing and food and electronics and cars, most of those things are relatively stable. Printeddata point, we 4 trillion for the wall street banks 10 years ago and there was not it was the worst thing to me, it was such a fiasco. It affected me so profoundly i quit my job and started a nonprofit. Because that is totally broken that we chose the banks over our people. We had a choice then of how to keep people in their homes or bail out the banks. What did we choose . The banks. This time, we are going to choose our people. You have these housing costs and education costs and Health Care Cost<\/a> going up. These costs are going up for Different Reasons<\/a> based upon each market. Lets say im a landlord and decide to stick it to you and say im going to ratchet your rent up something awful. The first thing you will do is be like mec is there if there is another landlord who has not done that. Lets say all the landlords tried to do that. At some point you would say wait a minute, we are getting another 2000 a month, the landlords are being jerks, lets try to find some fixerupper or some property we can take possession of. Then may become a get a couple of other people in the four of us, we have 4000. The income and dividend comes with you no matter where you are in the country. One of the reasons why landlords can stick it to us is because we have to live near certain places for employment. This 1000 a month makes us much harder to push around, makes us more mobile and dynamic because if they push us too far, we can take the money and put it to use in terms of pooling to buy a property. One of the reasons im confident about this is this idea not only was it from Martin Luther<\/a> king and thomas payne, a guy named andy stern champion this idea and he is one of the reasons im running for president. He was part of a union, remember andy stern . Andy stern was one of the people that confirmed for me that this automation of labor problem was worse than anyone was letting on. All of these technologists wrote a book saying we will automate away the jobs. People tended to look at it and say yeah, of course you think that. Andy stern who ran the biggest labor union in the country said hey, we will automate away all the jobs. I was like wait a minute, the labor guy is saying that and the tech guy is saying that, then it is probably true. When i dug into the numbers, yeah, it is true. It makes workers and tenants harder to push around. You have this income coming in that is yours and it goes with you wherever you go. For Union Members<\/a>, how many of you are Union Members<\/a> . Some people here. What andy stern said was this would be a built in strike fund for all Union Members<\/a> because imagine if you are your Union Leadership<\/a> goes to press for higher wages or better benefits. The Company Knows<\/a> you are all getting his passive income that enables you to at least scrape by. It is not like you will dip 100 into savings if you go on a strike. Do you think your leaders would be able to negotiate harder . Yeah. This was andy sterns rationale behind the freedom dividend. He said it actually empowers workers. It also recognizes the kind of work my wife does. My wife is at home with our two boys, one of whom is autistic. The market values her work at zero. We all know that is totally messed up. That work is among the most important and challenging work being done. It supercharges our ability to negotiate on our own behalf and recognizes the work being done in our homes and communities everyday. Manwoman with ease. You guys know each other . Holding all things, constant excluding betsy devos in your answer and excluding anything with active shooters, what are you going to do for the 12 Public Education<\/a> system when you become president . Mr. Yang are you an educator . Yes, elementary. Mr. Yang good for you. My younger sons in public school, and there are so many things i feel we should do to help kids like my son and students around the country and the teachers. Number one, we need to pay teachers more. That is not just a feelgood thing, the data clearly shows a good teacher is worth his or her weight in gold. The best way to enlist teachers is to pay them more. Highera also says having teacher to student ratios is good for the students. If you have classrooms of 30 kids and the teacher often has to do more Behavior Management<\/a> then education. It is not as ideal for the kids. We should hire more teachers. Those things go handinhand. Shouldrd thing is we deemphasize the sats and standardized tests that make it so that teachers are constantly having to teach to the tests instead of doing what they think is best for the kids. Do you know that we invented the s. A. T. During world war ii as a way to identify who not to send to the front lines . [laughter] mr. Yang you are laughing, its true. Now we treat our kids like every year his wartime and it stresses them out, makes teachers unfortunately, it distorts the behavior in the classroom. At this point, it is doing as much harm as good. We need to let our kids know that there are other ways to evaluate than filling out the scantron to sheets scantron sheets. We have to acknowledge colleges not for everyone and stop overselling college at the k12 level. We say colleges for everyone but only 33 of americans are going to attend college and graduate. What we need to do instead is we need to invest in apprenticeship, vocational, and technical training. 6 of American High School<\/a> students are in technical tracks right now. In germany, that is 59 . Think about that. A lot of those jobs are the jobs that are much harder to automate. Can you imagine what it would take to make a robot plumber . That is going to be human plumber for a long time. It is actually easier to automate away someone with basic , like accounting, rulesbased stuff, then it is technical work, lake hvac repair and plumbing. Like hvac repair and plumbing. It is more costly to educate our kids in the trade so we take the easy way out. Lets throw some textbooks and over prescribe college. It is one of the reasons why kids are going to college, they feel like that is the only path to success. We burn them with 1. 6 trillion dollars in student loan debt. College has gotten 2. 5 times more expensive. It has not gotten 2. 5 times better. Thated to try and scale back, stop overselling college, and if you imagine that high school is meant to train citizens and people of much college students, then you want to introduce different subject areas like Financial Literacy<\/a> and social and Emotional Learning<\/a> you know what corresponds. Two you know what corresponds to that . Arts education. The first thing they cut his arts the data shows the opposite to be true. These are the things we should be trying to invest in teaching our kids. Our kids have this sinking feeling that they are learning a lot of stuff that is not relevant to their futures, learning stuff that they can look up on their smartphone. So we need to teach them things that are more relevant and useful for them, not just in this academic track, but really in life. There are a lot of things i would do in k12, the biggest thing after i said all of that is the data shows that two thirds of our kids academic performance is determined outside of the school. This. Ors like you know we say come and kid, teach our kid. And you say, i can only control one third of your kids performance. The two thirds is from parental time spent with the child and words read to them before they showed up to school on day one, stress levels in the household, types of neighborhood, type of home. Right now we are holding teachers to an impossible standard. Then we are pumping money into our schools at a National Level<\/a> and being like why isnt this working . The reason it is not working is because the other two thirds is where we should be putting the resources. If we put money directly into the parents and the families hands, then the kid will show up with a much better chance to learn and give our teachers a better chance to teach. That is actually the biggest thing we can do in addition to the other things that i dimensioned. Im very pat i had mentioned. Im very passionate about that because we have let it stagnate over a long period of time. Thank you for being an Elementary School<\/a> teacher. Lets give her a round of applause. [applause] you need a mic. [laughter] i just want to start by saying ive been working with Machine Learning<\/a>. I agree, its scary. Mr. Yang really . Doing Machine Learning<\/a>, doing the software stuff. Mr. Yang Machine Learning<\/a> is like training Artificial Intelligence<\/a> algorithms. Wright, the ai stuff. The automation. Its all scary. The other big issue ive heard you address is big agriculture in the monolithic system and how we need to get away from that and how we can get back to doing local agriculture. More nutrition, less pesticides, less hormones. So much healthier for everybody. I love the freedom dividend, if we can help people in rural america. If you could speak a little more about that. I dont know, one of the big things coming out lately is monsanto. All the court cases. Mr. Yang that company is so evil. They are so bad. They are offering 8 billion for cancer victims. Mr. Yang sounds like something they would do. Weve got a chance to start doing things the right away and realize these are incentives. Ive read through your plan, and i think its great. If you could share more about that. Mr. Yang i would love to p thank you for that. I have not seen the camo yang gang hat, thats so cool. Where do you even get that . I havent seen that before. What has happened to your farms is an emblem and is an emblem of what is happening in the country. Giant corporations have gobbled up the family farms. Americans still have this out of date reception of a farm as a place where animals are running around on people. You know what it looks like in real life. It is this freaking giant industrial operation with pesticides. Hard for a multigenerational farming family to pass it onto the next generation because they say is this the familys future . It is having a profound effect on our health, environment. This is how we are worshiping the almighty dollar and it chips away at our wellbeing over time. The goal has to be to try and redo our food and nutrition chain. The first big thing, and people said this, we make unhealthy food so much cheaper and easier to get in this country. My younger son loves mcdonalds. He calls it old mcdonalds. [laughter] mr. Yang we drive by it and he goes, can we go to old mcdonalds . I grew up in the 1980s, i love mcdonalds. We go into old mcdonalds and hes running around. Then im like, you can buy four mcnuggets for a dollar . What . That is the pricing that existed when i was growing up. How the heck is the price the same, 25 years later . That is the set of incentives weve created for families where the cheapest food is the worst for them in the worst for your kid. The single biggest way we can try and improve our own food supply and food chain is if you put buying powers into our hand and families can make different choices. If you are in a food desert or a produce desert which many communities are and, if people have more buying power, maybe the Fresh Grocery<\/a> actually opens in a new neighborhood because you can afford some kale or romaine lettuce or fresh fruit. Im a big structural incentives guy. I think what has gone wrong in america today, we have the worse incentives for everybody. Then we pretend they should do the right thing. Give you a basic example. I run businesses. We say it is like you should treat your workers well. You should make them fulltime employees, give them health care coverage. But all of your incentives are in the other direction. All of your incentives are to say, those uber drivers are not really employees, doesnt matter how many hours they drive. All of your incentives go in the direction. It is the same with food and parenting and treating our kids and getting the right food supply chain. Hey, you should do the right thing, but we will make it much easier for you to do the wrong thing. The question is how do you actually make the incentives match up to what we would want for ourselves . It starts by giving us a share in the 21st century economy so we can make meaningful choices. Right now, we are pretending we can make meaningful choices but we are task strapped and living paychecktopaycheck, borrowing from peter to pay paul. We are pretending we have choices when a big tech is concerned. Hope they are not abusing us. Back to the food supply, im passionate about this because what has happened on your farms in iowa is happening in academy. S across the it is like the mega consolidation. Monsanto is a very bad actor. Unfortunately, every industry has its monsanto. That was a bit of a tirade, sorry about that. I hope i answered the question. Thank you. Mr. Yang no problem, man. Really. Its you, i think. There was no other woman who had a hand up. Im curious as to what your proposal is to reign in the incredible price increases on lifesustaining Prescription Drug<\/a>s such as insulin . Mr. Yang yes, please. I cant tell you, i have heard so many heartbreaking stories of americans giving up food or heating so they can afford lifesaving drugs. Unnecessary, its immoral, it should not happen in this country. I have a fourpart plan to break the backs of these country these Drug Companies<\/a>. Did you all know that the government is not even allowed to negotiate for lower drug prices on our behalf . The lobbyists are so powerful. Number one, you say, of course we can negotiate for lower prices on our behalf. Number two, Drug Companies<\/a> have to charge us what they charge citizens of other countries. Sounds obvious. They regularly charge us three times what they charge citizens of other countries despite the fact that we subsidize the directive element in the first place. Imagine this. This is the ridiculousness. We pay for the drug development, they then gouge us, and use the drugs we helped them develop and sell it more cheaply overseas. We negotiate for lower prices. Number two, you have to charge what you charge other countries. If you fail and number two, then we can appropriate a license of the drug. Number four, we can manufacture that drug in a public facility to save consumers money. Do you think Drug Companies<\/a> what all of a setting get prices under control if these were the tests . Again, it is the same thing them, do the to right thing. Drug companies dont care about us or our health or someone making heartbreaking choices. About. Re the bottom line you have to tie doing the right thing to the bottom line and their behavior will change. I will say what their argument will be. They will say president yang, this is unacceptable because with these incentives, we will not be able to make money and not be able to invest in research avenue lifesaving drugs. I will call there are kids here, i will call bs on both of these things. Number one, their profits are at record levels now, beyond anything anyone has ever seen. Number two, they dont even do their own Drug Research<\/a> anymore. They dont. They are like hey, this inventing thing, too hard. You know what they do now . They buy the drugs from the biotech startups after they pass a certain level of fda examination and approval. They are essentially financial operators. The Drug Companies<\/a> use to have phds in the labs working on stuff. They dont do that anymore. Its too hard. Now they are like hey, you know how we can stick it to everyone . We buy a bunch of lobbyists, gouge the American People<\/a>, and anytime there is a drug in the pipeline, we buy it for . 40 on the dollar, and then we market the heck out of it. You know what i would do away with . Some of you may not like this. I would do away with those tv advertisements for drugs. Please. Mr. Yang the only two countries that allow those advertisements, us and new zealand. The other countries are like hey, you know what, if you need a drug, your doctor will tell you about the drug. That is what happens in every developed country in the world except here and new zealand. Why . The Drug Companies<\/a> have figured out you know how we will make more money, put tv ads out. Dont get me started. Thats how we get the Prescription Drug<\/a> prices down. Fourpart plan. Yeah . Are concerned about public support systems being withdrawn after the ubi is implemented, after you are you are president. Foring to worse outcomes those it needs how will you address this concern . Mr. Yang alaskas example, the freedom dividend has been popular for decades. Not love for taxes. This is a state that does not love taxes. The freedom dividend exists as a foundation for everyone, but then there are still going to be problems all under the sun around our Mental Health<\/a>, and housing, and the environment, and our food supply. The way i liken it, if you have a foundation, you do not stop building. You put the foundation down and you start trying to build a structure to solve the various problems. The thing im most excited about is just the way the petroleum did it dividend has stood for decades across administrations, the freedom dividend would sustain for generations as well. And it would, if anything, make the public appetite for ways to solve these problems higher. Heres whats going on now in American Life<\/a>. Hey, they are getting something. Maybe that means i cant have it. Because we are in a zerosum game. You get it, i dont. In this world, everyone is getting a certain amount. Thats cool. The mindset of scarcity makes us think if someone else is getting it, im losing out, lightens a bit. If you see that someone else has a problem and they are getting something, maybe it does not bother you as much because that makes sense. This is one of the things that has resulted in alaska. You have this constant dividend that has helped reduce income inequality. If you reduce income inequality, desirense of collective to have policies that solve problems, the studies ive seen go up. Income inequality is very bad for getting things done in a society. You wind up with much more Class Division<\/a> and strife and struggle. If you have lower income inequality, which there would be with a freedom dividend, then hopefully we can come together on the solutions. I really dont think it will get the appetite for other programs and solutions. Man, woman. Yes . Hi, andrew. I was a Bernie Sanders<\/a> supporter into a 16. I still love him to this day. I think after having trumped for president for the last several years, im more of a realist. The reason im not with bernie is because im not sure these things can actually his ideas can actually be passed. I just dont see it actually happening as much as i would love it. How will you get your policies, and especially the freedom dividend, through congress and the house . Mr. Yang thank you for the question. I was a bernie fan too. I think he is a hero. Im so glad to see him doing so well. I was next to him on the on the debate stage and was like wow, you seem really strong, which is great. One of the things that happened because of bernies Health Episode<\/a> is they have cut back on his appearance schedule and his travel in a way that i think is very positive. Before, i think it was like, this had him anyway, thats aside. Heres the vision. Raised 10 million last quarter in increments of 30 each. My fans are almost as cheap as bernie. There is no corporate pack money, all grassroots support. One reason why people feel like im a good bet to rake the backs of the Drug Companies<\/a> and monsantos of the world. No corporate money behind the campaign. Grassrootss revolution comes up, we win iowa, the headlines on february 4, what just happened . Who won iowa . Newspapers around the world being like anyway. [laughter] mr. Yang the new hampshire, nevada, south carolina, and then the democrats look up and are like, wait a minute, hes actually a very strong bet to be to donald trump. If you dig into the numbers, im one of only two candidates, and the other is Bernie Sanders<\/a>, that in one poll, 10 of trump voters said they would support in a general election. Im peeling off Trump Supporters<\/a> an independents and libertarians because they sense i am nonideological. The democrats at a certain point to say wait a minute, our number one criteria for beating donald trump and it turns out andrew yang is actually the best bet to be donald trump by the numbers. Them, we win. And then i come into d. C. January 2021 saying hey, everyone knows how i won. It is the freedom dividend. America wants that freedom dividend. They want that tax check. Democrats and progressives will be like, i love the dividend because it will make children and family stronger and every thing. Then the republicans in congress will look at it and say wait a minute, this helps rural areas, red states on the interior, places that have gotten blasted by automation. Am i really against the dividend . Can you imagine Mitch Mcconnell<\/a> standing there and being like this cash is going to hurt you . [laughter] mr. Yang it is really hard to make that argument. Then you go to content to kentucky. This will be the fun part. Im your president saying to you all, im your president , it is dividend time, lets rebuild our economy from the ground up. And then Mitch Mcconnell<\/a> is in kentucky saying i dont like it. Thenss i go to mitch district then i go to mitchs district in kentucky, do you know what his offices and phone lines will look like . You are standing between us and the dividend. What are you doing . Alaskans alaskas dividend was put by a republican governor. Conservatives hate Big Government<\/a> egging decisions for you. They dont hate economic freedom, autonomy in the hands of people to make their own decisions. I dont need 80 of congress to pass the freedom dividend. I just need a majority. You pass the dividend, the American People<\/a> have an unfamiliar feeling, i really like this. And i go to republicans, say, what else can we get done . Republicans see me as a person they can work with. Im not ideological. I have a bipartisan team. We can get things done. The opposite of a very polarizing president is someone who wants to solve problems and work with anyone. People have described me as a shuffler. I am of the things advocating for dont fall strictly along one party or the other. I am solutions oriented, datadriven, just want to solve problems. I believe i can get a dividend past and other Solutions Across<\/a> the finish line. I appreciate your ability to infuse your speech with humor. I think politics is not only just a battle of ideas, but showmanship and beating trump. The problems i have with some of your ideas is, one, i have heard that the way you will pay for the freedom dividend is that anybody who is already receiving assistance from the government like food stamps or disability will not be qualified, or it will subtract from their ability to get it. Supportnd is that you Nuclear Reaction<\/a> to fight Climate Change<\/a>. Those are my two problems without being able to really fully support you. Thank you first for the humor aspect. I appreciate that. Its necessary. You have to have the charisma and ability to put on a more appealing display of the person then trumpeters trumpeters. Trump does. Mr. Yang thats right. He is very blustery and combative. It may not go well if i tried to outserious him. I think Kelly Clinton<\/a> beat him on the merits, but the way she delivered it that kind of thing. To the point about existing benefits, i think most people can tell, i dont want to take anything away from anyone. There are certain existing programs that do have incentives attached to them that are not great. When i talk to people who are in these programs, they are constantly somewhat anxious about having those benefits reduced or taken away. Because their various administrative requirements accompany them. I would not touch a single program. If you are worried that you opt into a freedom dividend, youd be forgoing certain benefits. Those people needed the most. Is aang to me, yes, this foundation, i am open to expanding the programs and helping all those. Its a legitimate point of view. I dont disagree with you. Is, how many of you are concerned about Climate Change<\/a> . Everyone. If you dont have your hand up, you should. Not that concerned about it. Need are in a crisis, we to consider all options on the table. That includes considering nextgeneration Nuclear Energy<\/a> as a way to manage our energy consumption. Is superior to uranium. Its not intrinsically radioactive. It degrades faster. You cant make weapons out of it. To me, we dont explore this technology. If we dont explore this technology, we are leaving a solution of the table. People dont like the word nuclear in it. I understand that. Thank you for your three comments. I dont disagree with any of them, really. One last question, then selfies. If anyone wants those. We have books or anything for the people here . I wrote about. Lap in iowa because i can give my book away like candy. You consider a transfer. Period for people who receive user support in order to the trent ease the transition . Mr. Yang that a similar question. 100 yes. I dont want to pull the rug out from anyone. Ancould be that there was overlap period, where you can try out the dividend, you have a transition. Period,d transition and then you can say you want this program. I want to do more, not less. The task ahead of us is to rewrite the rules of the 21st century economy to work for us. And to let the citizens know. The biggest lie in america is that we dont have the wealth or the money. I have done the math. 21 trillion in gdp. We have the money. Even member them complaining about where the money was when they wanted to bailout wall street to the tune of 4 trillion . I dont member that. They pulled the lever and hoped we didnt notice. They called it quantitative easing. Who knows what that is . Nobody. You guys know. Now, it is time for us to build wherekle up the economy, people are looking at each other like we dont have the money for this. We want to rebuild our communities and families. Helpve the resources to them solve those problems. Lets make history together in 2020. Thank you so much, marshalltown. I love iowa, because you have the power. Lets do this. Thank you so much. [applause] picture time. Where will i be . That makes sense. [inaudible] mr. Yang thank you both for being here. [laughter] you are the background of his photo. 1,2,3. Hello. G you definitely could. Is there anything else i could do for you . Can we get some books over here if we have them . Where did they taken that where they take them to . [laughter] mr. Yang thank you, preston. Thanks for being here. I love everything you do. You were on ubi before me . You probably were. I wasnt that early to it. Seen technology grow. Mr. Yang its crazy. Im 15. [laughter] thank you. Mr. Yang thats how the magic happens. I just want to thank you for actually answering peoples questions. I went to a panel last night and they dodged a bunch of questions. Eileen no one way of answering questions. Just try to answer. Writeope you feel he did right by bringing you. Mr. Yang did you have a camera . I will get my picture with you. I can put this next to my bernie picture. Hes a great patriot. Thank you both for being here. I will vote for your reelection when you win. You dontoff chance happen to win the presidency, will you come back in 2024 . Mr. Yang the plan is to win. The plan is to solve the problems. Problems arent going anywhere, and neither my, and neither of my kids. That came to that means were coming back. Mr. Yang that means im going to keep grinding until the problem solve them so until the poems are solved. Problems are solved. Thank you. Thank you for following me on twitter. Mr. Yang no problem. We have to get one more. [indiscernible] iou something. I will see you in a bit. Mr. Yang congratulations. [indiscernible] mr. Yang the cameras were here and my wife was there. Did you guys have a wedding date . [laughter] mr. Yang canonized i want can i spell your name right . Thank you, janet. [indiscernible] mr. Yang thank you for all you do. Good, how are you . [indiscernible] mr. Yang they will hire 1000 people then they start bringing in the robots. Great to meet you. Thank you. [indiscernible] mr. Yang thank you, sir. That means a lot. Hes a decent candidate. I supported bernie last time. I believe we have a lot of Energy Behind<\/a> the campaign. We have a lot of irons in the fire that will light up in the coming days. I believe you do. Mr. Yang thank you, sir. It means a lot. Joe and i are very aligned. Hank you very much [indiscernible] mr. Yang great to see you. Want me to sign your hat . That would be amazing. [indiscernible] want a high five . I just wanted to say thank you so much for sharing these ideas. Hi. Can you say hi five . High five . [laughter] its ok. Thank you very much. Thank you. [indiscernible] you are strong like my boy. Smile for daddy . At least a dozen in their. There. Perfect. Thank you so much. We appreciate every thing youre doing. 4 thank you mr. Yang thank you. Its a beautiful boy. We have to make it work for him. Appreciate you talking about boys with sensory issues. He will never build to take a test sitting down. Mr. Yang its not just him. Its a whole generation. [indiscernible] and you areu go in not the cookiecutter. [laughter] mr. Yang congrats to you. Transcending it all and leaving it behind. Thank you so much. Appreciate you. Mr. Yang congratulations. Thank you for the questions. Mr. Yang we do want to do much, much more. The freedom dividend would forre a secure retirement so many more people. It would be the biggest expansion. The security benefits are not working in my mind. I appreciate your questions. Yous there a way to send questions . Andrewyang2020. Com. Thank you, appreciate you. We will cut some of it out. [laughter] mr. Yang i think its pretty good. There we go. [laughter] good to meet you. Mr. Yang good to meet you as well. Its supposed to be on the title page, over your name. I will do that. Name urine . Does your your name . Bill. Thank you very much. Mr. Yang thank you. I wish you all the luck. I enjoyed seeing you today. I hope you can go on Fox News Sunday<\/a> some day. I think you have a good message. That is my biggest concern. Will you be able to get that message out to enough people to be able to bring in a win in iowa . Mr. Yang that is a challenge. Good luck. Mr. Yang your 100 right that is a challenge. Im glad to say e. U. Will be seeing more of us. To say you will be seeing more of us. Mr. Yang i remember. Lets do it. Smile got to get the flag in there. Mr. Yang great to see you guys. Yeah thank you. [laughter] [indiscernible] mr. Yang you are like the model, the role model. Really. I genuinely agree with you. The hidden cost. Know, i am aligned. You. Great seeing you again. Do army to sign your hat and silver do you want me to sign your hat in silver . Difficult and real [indiscernible] sets the agenda for america. I will either make a crummy or excellent politician. Thank you, sir. I appreciate it. [indiscernible] mr. Yang yeah. You were a nobody than. Now you are mr. Yang yeah, its like an indie rock band. You saw me play the cafe. Then the venue gets a little bit bigger. [indiscernible] mr. Yang i sense you are the cool high school teacher. You probably dont realize the impact you have when kids see you. Why we should try and be role models. Can you send this for me . Mr. Yang of course. [indiscernible] thank you. I will. [indiscernible] mr. Yang still goodlooking five minutes later. [laughter] mr. Yang oh my gosh its too late. Whats going on . Which way to the front . [laughter] mr. Yang sorry about that. You wanted me to sign it . [laughter] awesome. I was never did you want black . I appreciate it. Mr. Yang do army to sign your hat as well do you want me to sign your hat as well . Kid andd when i was a didnt have a helmet on. I took a turn to tight and fell and hit the back of my head. I remember my head ringing like nothing i had ever felt before. I was 15 or 16 and i was like, am i ok . It was like a cartoon character. Like birds flying around your head . It was like that. [laughter] after that, i still didnt wear a helmet, because i was an idiot. Whatever. That was the 90s. Who wore a helmet in the 90s . Nobody. Andrew, youre killing it. Mr. Yang silver or black . [indiscernible] mr. Yang the systems are more vulnerable. I am convinced there is something going on with our food supply that is affecting the rate of autism. If you look at it, its like, this is definitely not just a natural manifestation. There is something going on with our environment. You are shifting the whole conversation of our nation now. Mr. Yang poison is bad. Im going to tweak that right now. Poison is bad. This is now my way of taking notes. It will help spur a conversation for me. I like what you do. [laughter] mr. Yang thank you. Picture did we get a picture . Come on over. Whats your name . I can sign your hat if you want. Navy. Silver for the [laughter] mr. Yang of course man. Of course, man. No problem. Did you want me to send the shirt . Sign the shirt . Thats ok. [indiscernible] thank you. Mr. Yang sure. Anything people want. Mr. Yang who is up next . I say with the press club and asked you there about economic policy. The other night, i asked her about tech jobs, automation. Here im talking about flooding. Its always a huge issue facing iowa. How would your how do you deal with flooding and the climate shift . Mr. Yang the biggest change we is federalize the response. If you contextualize the magnitude of the damage of Climate Change<\/a>, it will be in the hundreds of billions or half trillion dollars. Often times, communities dont have the out resources to adequately protect themselves from floods, storms or wildfires. The costs and of being much greater in human life and economic devastation. We could go to the community ahead of time and elevate structures or clear underbrush seth controlled fires of controlled fires or make communities more resilient to high winds. There are many things we need to invest in. We are problem is leaving communities to fend for themselves in many instances and we respond after the fact. We have to become more clear eyed and proactive about the fact that Climate Change<\/a> is here to stay and it is already causing catastrophic effects in communities in the u. S. You mentioned designated flood zones. How they are not being chosen. Can you talk on that . Mr. Yang mr. Yang right now, and america, we are reactive. Thatve a disaster and say, is a disaster, and then, we clean it up, and that we wait for the next disaster. Proactive become more in identifying a place that could become a recurring flood adjust filament incentives or mitigation adjust incentives or mitigation measures. Are you hearing from people in davenport and places like that . Mr. Yang what im hearing is that people are deeply concerned about Climate Change<\/a> across the state because they are seeing how it affects them. I think the floods were one of the biggest reminders that the midwest to be impacted just like every other place. Thank you. President trump holds a Campaign Rally<\/a> monday in lexington, kentucky. Live coverage starts at 7 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Donna brazile, former Democratic National<\/a> committee houseand the former white can occasion director for President Trump<\/a> talk about the Divisive Political<\/a> climate, how do restore stability. Cspant 6 30 eastern on two, online on cspan. Org or listen with the free cspan radio app. Ahead of tuesdays election, President Trump<\/a> traveled to tupelo, mississippi to campaign for the governor. 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