Dealt with, but it must be dealt with intelligently. In my view, the best way to address that issue is to understand that Substance Abuse and addiction should not be treated as a criminal issued, it should be treated as a healthrelated issue. That means we need a revolution in this country on how we do Mental Health treatment. Right now there are people who are addicted, who are strung out, who would like to get help, but there is no treatment available for them that they can afford. And in addition to that, what is true, although it is very scary, is that walking the streets of america today, right now, youve got many thousands of people who are suicidal, and some are homicidal, and we all know about the terrible Mass Shootings that we have seen. In my view, what our approach should be is to say to anybody in america in Mental Health crisis you can get the treatment you need today, not six months from now. This campaign is what working people are telling me is they cant maybe it a 9, 10 or 11 an hour, which is why in my view were going to raise the minimum to a living wage, 15 an hour. S when we talk about equitable wages, i know that every man here will stand with the women in opposition to the fact that today women are making 79 cents on the dollar compared to men. Today we will fight and we will bring about pay equity for women, equal pay for equal work. This campaign is also listening to women who are hearing republicans all over this country. Donald trump and the others, who are touting family values. And you all know what they mean by family values. What they mean is that no woman in ventura, no woman in california, no woman in america should have the right to control her own body, we disagree. By the way, when republicans talk about family values, what they are also saying to our gay brothers and sisters, that they should not have the right to get married, we disagree. This campaign is not listening to wealthy Campaign Contributors and their needs. We are listening to young people and their needs. What young people are asking me, theyre asking me a very simp but very important question. That is, how is it that when they do exactly the right thing, when they go out and get the best education that they can, which is what we want all americans to be able to do, why is it that theyre ending up 20, 50, 70,000 in debt. I grew up in a family that didnt have a lot of money. My parents never went to college, but what i want to see in this country is that every child who studies hard, every child who takes school seriously and does well, i want to see that child be able to go to college, regardless of the income of his or her family. Now now heres the truth. 40, 50 years ago people went out and they got a High School Degree, and if you had a High School Degree 40 or 50 years ago, you know what . Good chance you would be able to go out and get a decent job and make it into the middle class. But the world, the economy, technology have changed over the last 40 years, and today in many respects, a College Degree is the equivalent to what a High School Degree was 40 years ago. That is why i believe that today, when we talk about public education, it is not good enough to be talking about first grade through 12th grade. We must be talking about making public colonels and universities, tuition free. Now, does anybody here honestly think that making public colleges and universities tuition free is a radical idea . It really is not. The world has changed, our educational system has got to change ago well. And by the way, as many of you know, in countries like germany and scandinavia, college today is free. They are smart enough to invest and smart enough to know that investing in their young people is investing in the future of their country. Its a lesson we should learn. How many people here are dealing with student debt . Raise your hand. Whoa. Well, welcome to the club. Were talking about millions of people. How much . 100 . 120,000 . Ok. All right. What im hearing is 100 thousand, 220,000, 80,000. Frankly think about it. What this campaign is trying to do is to get people to think outside of the box, to think outside of the options, the corporate mediaus. Ask yourself a simple question. We are living in a competitive global economy. We need the best educated work force in the world. Why in gods name are we punishing people for getting an education . [cheers and applause] we should be rewarded them, not punishing them. [cheers and applause] and that is why i believe that with regard to student debt anybody who is holding that debt should be able to refinance their loans at the lowest Interest Rates they can find. [cheers and applause] and this will mean a very significant reduction in student debt in this country. Now, my opponents and the establishment, they say, well, you know, bernie, hes like santa claus, hes got white hair, hes giving away all of this stuff, free tuition, reducing student debt. How are you going to pay for it, bernie . Let me tell you exactly how we will pay for it. [cheers and applause] eight years ago after the greed, the recklessness and illegal behavior on wall street helped bring this country into the worst economic recession since the 1930s congress against my vote bailed out wall street. [boos]well, today wall street is doing just fine. And i believe it is exactly appropriate to place a tax on wall street speculation. [cheers and applause] this country bailed out wall street, now its wall streets time to help the middleclass of this country. [cheers and applause] and that tax would more than pay to make public colleges and universities tuition free and substantially lower student debt. This campaign is listening to people and communities whose voices and pain are not often heard. We are listening to the latino community. [cheers and applause] there are 11 million undocumented people in this country. Many of them are living in the shadows and in fear. Many of them who are at work right now are being exploited because when you have no legal rights, you cant stand up to a boss who exploits you and cheats you on the job. And that is why in my view the time is long overdue for this country and for congress to pass comprehensive Immigration Reform and a path towards citizenship. [cheers and applause] our immigration policy must be to unite families, not divide them. [cheers and applause] and if elected president , i will end the current deportation policies. [cheers and applause] and if congress does not do its job, i will use all of the executive powers of the white house to do everything that i can. [cheers and applause] this campaign is listening to the Africanamerican Community. [cheers and applause] and what the Africanamerican Community is asking me absolutely correctly how does it happen that we could spend trillions of dollars on a war in iraq that we never should have gotten into and yet supposedly we dont have the money to rebuild our crumbling inner cities throughout this country. Brothers and sister, i have been all over this country in the last year. I was in flint, michigan, where children were poisoned because of lead in the water in a water system which was, to say the least, totally inadequate. I was in detroit, michigan, where the school system, the Public School system is on the verge of fiscal collapse. I was in baltimore, maryland, where tens of thousands of people are addicted to heroine and cant get the treatment that they need to get off of heroine. In my view, instead of rebuilding communities in afghanistan, we should be rebuilding communities in the United States of america. [cheers and applause] this campaign is listening to a people who are in real pain, but that pain is almost never heard. And this is the nayty american community. [cheers and applause] all of us know that the native American People were lied to, they were cheated and treaties they negotiated throughout our history have been broken. The native American People have given us so much that we have a debt owed to them that we can never repay. And maybe the most important lesson that they have taught us, an incredibly profound lesson, is that as human beings, we are part of nature. We must live with nature. [cheers and applause] and if we continue to destroy nature, what we are doing is ultimately destroying ourselves. [cheers and applause] but despite all that the native American People have given us, in native American Communities throughout this country, poverty and unemployment are sky high, health care and education is not of the quality it should be. If elected president we will fundamentally change our relationship to the native American People. [cheers and applause] i am a member of is u. S. Senate committee on the environment and let me tell you i have that listened and talked to scientists all over our country and all over the world and they are virtually unanimous in telling us what people like donald trump and other republicans refuse to acknowledge and this is Climate Change is real, it is caused by human activity and as the people of california already know it is causing devastating problems in our country and around the world. And what do scientists also tell us . If we do not get our act together now, a bad situation will become much worse, more drought, more floods, more extreme weather disturbances, more acidification of the ocean, more rising sea levels. We have a moral obligation as custodians of this planet. That is what we are. This is our planet, wur custodians of it. We must leave this planet in a way that is healthy and habitable to our children and future generations. [cheers and applause] what this campaign is about is getting people to think outside of the box, outside of the status quo and to ask some questions that you dont hear asked in congress and you dont hear discussed much in the corporate media. And one important question is how does it happen that in our great country, the wealthiest country in the history of the world, how does it happen that we are the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people . Let me ask you all a question. How many people here today have no Health Insurance . Raise your hands how many people here are is high deductibles and high copayments in their insurance policy. What you are seeing is a failed health care system. The Affordable Care act has done some good things but it has not done enough. So let me be very honest with you and tell you what i have said many times and it gets me criticized many times, but ill say it again. And this is in my View Health Care is a right of all people, not a privilege. [cheers and applause] i want every american to be able to go to the doctor when they need to go to the doctor [cheers and applause] we are losing thousands of people every single year who by the time they get into a Doctors Office their situation has become terminal. That is unacceptable. First more not only today do we have so many people uninsured, 29 million, every one of us is getting ripped off by the unconscionable greed of the pharmaceutical industry [boos]. There are people in america dying and there are people getting much sicker than they should because they can not afford the astronomical high prices that the drug industry is charging us today. It is crazy that one out of five americans cannot afford the medicine they need and it is equally crazy that the top five Drug Companies last year made 50 billion in profit. [boos]if elected president , the Drug Companies will not continue ripping off the people of this country. [cheers and applause] brothers and sisters, everyone here knows that real change in america has never taken place from the top on down, but always from the bottom on up. [cheers and applause] you know, its never about some guy up there saying, oh, you know, i think it would be a good idea to do this or that. It always occurs throughout our history when people by the millions stand up and fight back and demand dig any tie. [cheers and applause] you all know that 100 plus years ago many workers in america were working seven days a week, 12 hours a day, kids of 12 years of age were working in factories, losing their fingers because they were around machinery they should not have been around. And what working people said 100 plus years ago, they said were not animals, were not beasts of burden, were human beings, we want dignity, we peerre going to form trade unions and negotiate fair contracts. [cheers and applause] 150 years ago amidst the abomination of slavery and racism, africanamericans and their allies looked at the future and they stood up and they fight back to end racism in america and well never know, we will never know how many of these heroes and heroines were killed in that struggle, how many went to jail, how many were beaten, how many lost their jobs, but they had the courage to stand up and to demand a country which rid itself of racism and bigotry. People dont know this or have forgotten. 100 years ago, not a long time in human history. Women in america did not have the right to vote or the get the jobs or education they wanted. [boos] what the establishment said to women your job is to stay home and have babies. Thats what youre supposed to do. But women said you will not define us, we will define ourselves. [cheers and applause] and women and their male allies stood up, fought back, and said women in america will not be second class citizens. [cheers and applause] if you think not 100 years ago, think back 10 years ago. If i were to tell you or you were to tell me ten years ago, somebody jumps up and says you know, bernie, i think gay marriage will be legal in every state in this country by the year 2015. The person next to her would have said youre crazy. There is too much bigotry, too much homophobia, it will not happen. But the Gay Community and their straight allies stood up, fought back. [cheers and applause] and said loudly and proudly noo that in america people should have the right to love whoever they wanted regardless their gender. [cheers and applause] if we were here five years ago, no time at all and somebody were to jump up and say bernie, this 7. 25 federal minimum wage is ridiculous, weve got to raise it to 15 bucks an hour, the person next to him would have said 15 bucks an hour . Youre crazy, youre dreaming, youre too radical, youre an extremist, cant happen, youre canning for too much but three years ago workers in the fast Food Industry in mcdonalds, in burger king, in windyies, they went out on strike and they stood up and they told america they can not make it on starvation wages, they need 15 an hour. [cheers and applause] and few years ago in seattle 15 bucks an hour. In san francisco, in los angeles, 15 bucks an hour. [cheers and applause] in california, new york state, 15 bucks an hour. What is my point . My point is that the establishment always wants you to believe that real change is impossible that your dreams are so radical they can not be achieved and youve got to accept minor changes at best. And what this campaign is about is rejecting that entire approach. [cheers and applause] no, my republican friends think we have to cut Social Security and benefits for veterans [boos]no, were not going to do that, were going increase Social Security and benefits for veterans. And what i am seeing all over this country, literally from coast to coast, from maine to california is people are beginning to understand that something is fundamentally wrong. They are asking themselves why is it that i am working longer hours for lower wages and almost all new income and wealth is going to the top 1 . Why is it that were seeing a proliferation of billionaires and yet half of the children in america arein Public Schools are on free and reduced lunches. Why is it that kids are graduating school 90,000 or more in debt . Why is it that women are making 79 cents on the dollar compared to men . Why is it that we are the only major country on earth that doesnt gar tee paid family and medical leave . Why are we the only country, major country not to guarantee health care for all . Why is our infrastructure our roads and our bridges collapsing at the same time as millions of people desperately need jobs. Why are we firing teachers when we need more teachers to better educate our children . [cheers and applause] why havent we been more aggressive in taking on the fossil fuel industry and transforming our Energy System . [cheers and applause] why do we pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs . Why does wall street continue to rip off the American People every single day . Those are the questions that the American People are beginning to ask answer the answer is that when people come together by the millions, when people stand up and say that our government has got to represent all of us, not just a few [cheers and applause] when this country brings about a Political Revolution so that real power rests in the hands of working families not wealthy Campaign Contributors, thats when we bring real change to this country. [cheers and applause] on june 7 there will be in california the most important primary in the whole nominating process. [cheers and applause] there are 475 delegates at stake here in california. What i have learned throughout this campaign is when voter turnout is high, when working people and young people come out in large numbers, we win. [cheers and applause] and if we can win here in california and win in the other five states that have primaries on june 7, were going go marching into the Democratic Convention with enormous momentum [cheers and applause] and that i believe well be marc