Must include Economic Security, and that was roosevelts vision 70 years ago. Its my vision today. It is a vision that we have not yet achieved and it is time that we did. In that speech he developed the economic rights are rights that he believed every american was entitled too. The right to a descent job and descent pay. The right to adequate food, clothing and time off from work. The right for every business large and small to function in an atmosphere free and have a descent home and health care. What he was stating and what Martin Luther king jr. State and in terms and what i believe today is that true freedom does not occur without Economic Security and people are not free and when theyre unable to feed their family. They are not truly free when theyre unable to retire with dignity. Theyre not truly free when they are unemployed, underemployed or when they are exhausted by working 60, 70 hours a week. People are not truly free when they dont know how theyre going to get medical help when they or a Family Member are sick. So let me take this opportunity and define for you what democratic Socialism Means to me. It means building on what Franklin Roosevelt said when they fought for guaranteed economic rights and for all americans. And this country has socialism for the rich and then the poor. End of quote. My view of democratic socialism builds on the success of men other countries around the world who have done a far better job than we have. In protecting the needs of their working families, their elderly citizens, their children, their sick and their poor. Democratic Socialism Means that we must reform a political system which is corrupt, that we must create an economy that works for all, not just the very wealthy. Democratic socialism to my mind speaks to a system which for example, during the 1980s, i want you to hear this. Allowed wall street to spend 5 billion over a tenyear period, in lobbying and campaign contributes in order to get deregulated. They wanted the government off of their backs, they wanted to do whatever they wanted to do. Spent 5 billion over a tenyear period on lobbying and campaign contributions. Then ten years later after the greed and recklessness and illegal behavior led to their collapse and what the system enabled them to do and is to get bailed out by the United States government which provided millions of dollars to aide to wall street. In other words, wall street used their wealth and power to get congress to do their bidding for deregulation and then when wall street collapsed, they used their wealth and power to get bailed out. Quite a system. And then, to add insult to injury, we were told that not only were the banks too big to fail, we were told that the bankers were too big to jail. And this is the system. Young people who get caught possessing marijuana, they get Police Records and many, many hundreds of thousands of them have received Police Records, which have impacted their lives in very serious ways. On the other hand, wall street ceos who helped destroy the economy, they dont get Police Records. They get raises in their salaries and this is what dr. Martin lewuther king jr. Meant when he talked about socialism for the rich and rugged individualism for everyone else. In my view, it is time we had democratic socialism for working families. Not just for wall street. Billionaires and large corp. Races. It means that we should not be providing welfare for corporations. It means that we should not be are providing huge tax breaks for the wealthiest people in the country or trade policies which boost corporate profits while they result in workers losing their jobs. It means that we create a government which works for all of the American People not just powerful special interest. It means economic rights must be an essential part of what america stands for. Among many other things, it means that health care should be a rights of all people not a privilege. And imagine in the United States all of us having health care as a right, but i hope all of you know this is not a radical idea. Imagine. In the United States of america, all of us having health care as a right. But i hope all of you know this is not a radical idea, it is a conservative idea. It is an idea and a practice that exists in every other major country on earth. Not just in scandinavia, finland, norway. It exists in canada. I live 50 miles away from canada. Not a radical idea to exist in france and germany and taiwan. All over the world the countries have made the determination that all of the people are entitled to health care and i believe the time is long over due. For the United States to join the rest of the world. Med care for all single ones that i support would not only guarantee health care for all people, not only save middle class families and our entire nation significant sums of money because all of you should know that our Health Care System is by far the most expensive per capita of any system on earth. But u a medicare for all Single Payer Program would radically improve the lives of all americans and bring about significant improvements in our economy. Think about it. People who get sick will not have to worry about paying a deductible or making a copayment. Radical idea. When theyre sick, they can actually go to the doctor. And not end up in the emergency room at a much greater expense to the system. Think about it. Business owner will not have to spend enormous amounts of time worrying about how theyre going to provide health care for their employees. You have millions of people staying on jobs that they do not want to stay in, but theyre there because they have a descent health care and i dont have to worry about health care when young people can say, this is the job that i love. This is what i want to do and im going to go out and start this business or do this work. And i dont have to worry about health care. Because all of us in america have health care. And by the way, what a medicare for all system will bring about is ending the absurdity of the American People paying by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. Now when i talk about democratic socialism and what that means is that Public Education must today allow every person in the country that have the ability, qualifications and the desire and the right to go to a Public College or University Tuition free. Is this a radical socialistic idea . I dont think so. It exists in many countries all over the world and you know what, used to exist in the United States of america. We had great universities like the university of california and university of new york tuition free. Democratic Socialism Means that our government does everything it can to create a full employment economy. It makes far more sense to me to put millions of people back to work rebuilding our infrastructure than to have a real Unemployment Rate of almost 10 . Ten percent. Its far smarter to invest in jobs and Educational Opportunities for young people jobs and Educational Opportunities for young people who are unemployed than to lock them up and invest in jails and incarceration. Democratic Socialism Means that if somebody works 40 hours a week that person should not be living in poverty. That we must raise the minimum wage to a living wage 15 an hour over the next several years. It means that we join the rest of the world and pass the very strong paid family and medical league legislation now sitting in congress. I want you to think about this. I really want you to see what goes on in the country today. Its not only that every other major country. Not talking about you are europe or others, virtually every country in the world and poor country and small country reach the conclusion that when a woman has a baby, she should not be forced to be separated from that newborn baby after a week or two and have to go back to work. Making sure that moms and dads can stay home and get to love their babies is a family value that we should support. That is why i want and will fight to end the absurdity of the United States being one of the only countries on earth that does not guarantee at least three months of paid and family medical leave. Democratic socialism to me means that we have government policy. Strong government policy that does not allow the greed and to destroy our environment and our planet. It means to me that we have a moral responsibility to combat the Climate Change and leave this planet healthy for the kids and our grandchildren. Democratic Socialism Means that in a democratic civilized society, the wealthiest people and the largest corporations must pay their fair share of taxes. Yes, innovation and Business Success should be rewarded, but greed for the sake of greed is not something that Public Policy should support. It is not acceptable to me that in the last period of time. Last two years, 15 of the wealthiest people in this country. 15 people saw their wealth increased in this economy by 170 billion. Got it. Two years. 15 people 170 billion increased in their wealth. Thats more wealth than owned by the bottom 130 million americans. Let us know forget what pope francis has so elegant ly state and i quote, we have created new idols. The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking a truly humane goal, end of quote. In other words, we have got to do better than that. Its not a political issue. Not an economic issue. It is a cultural issue. We have got to stop worshipping people who make billions and billions and billions of dollars. While we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of any major country. Its not acceptable to me that major corporations snatch their profits in the Cayman Islands and other tax havens to avoid paying 100 billion a year in taxes. Its not acceptable that Hedge Fund Managers pay a lower rate than nurses or truck drivers. Its not acceptable that billionaire families are able to leave all of their wealth to their families without paying an estate tax. Its not acceptable that wall street is available to gamble trillions of dollars in the market without paying a nickel in taxes on that speculation. Socialism to me does not mean that we create a nation of Economic Social Justice and in sanity. Of course it does mean that. It also means that we must create a vibrant democracy based on the principal of one person, one vote. It is extremely sad and i hope that all f you will pay a lot of attention to this issue. Its extremely sad that the United States, one of the oldest stablest democracy in the world has one of the lowest voter turn out of any major country and that millions of young people and working people have given up on the political process entirely. In the last Midterm Election just a year ago, 63 of American People didnt vote. 80 of young people did not vote ch clearly, despite the efforts of some republican governors who want to suppress the vote, to make it hard for people of color to participate in the political system, our job together is to make it easier for people to vote, not harder for people to vote. It is not a radical idea and i will fight for this as hard as i can as president , to say that everyone in this country who is 18 years of age or older is registered to vote. End of discussion. So, the next time you hear me attack as a socialist like tomorrow, remember this. I dont believe government should take over you know, the Grocery Store down the street. Or or own means of production, but i do believe that the middle class and the working families of this country who produce the wealth of this country deserve a desents standard of living and that their incomes should go up, not down. I do believe in private companies that thrive and invest and grow in america, companies that create jobs here, rather than companies that are shutting down in america and increasing their profits by exploiting low wage labor abroad. I believe that most americans can pay lower taxes of Hedge Fund Managers who make billions manipulating the marketplace finally start paying the taxes that they should. I dont believe in special treatment for the top 1 . But i do believe in equal treatment. For africanamericans who are right to proclaim the moral principle that black lives matter. Jnnwr i despise appeals to nativism and prejudice and a lot of which we have been hearing in resent months, and i do proudly believe in Immigration Reform that gives hispanics and others a pathway to citizenship and a better life. And let me tell you what i have heard. To what ive been hearing from some of the republican candidates for president in recent months. People can have honest disagreements about immigration or anything else. Thats called democracy. But people should not be using the political process to inject racism into the the debate. If donald trump and others want who refer to latinos and people from mexico as criminals and rapists, if they want to open that door, our job is to shut that door and shut it tight. This country has gone too far and too many people have suffered and too many people have died for us to continue hearing racist words coming from Major Political leaders. Now, i dont believe in some foreignism, but i do believe in american idealism and one of the real joys ive experienced on this campaign so far, being here today with you, being all over the country, is seeing the huge numbers of young people who are coming out. Who want to make this country bett better, who want to use their intelligence and energy to address the many problems that we have. So i want to thank all of the young people here and owl over this country for their idealism and do not become cynical i am not running for president because its my turn. I was born in a three and a half room apartment in a working class family in brooklyn, new york. I dont think i got brooklyn, vermont. And by the way, i visited california but in seriousness, it is not quite my turn. Thats not why i am running for president. But i am running for president in order for all of us to be able to live in a nation of hope and opportunity. Not for some, but for my seven grandchildren and for all of you. Nobody understood better than Franklin Roosevelt the connection between american strength at home and our ability to defend america around the world and that is why he proposed a second bill of rights in 1944 and said in that same state of the union and i quote xwen, americas own rightful place in the world depends in large part upon how fully these and similar rights have been carried into practice for all our citizens. For unless theres security at home, there cannot be lasting piece peace in the world. End quote. Now i am not running for president to pursue the reckless adventures aboard, but to rebuild americas strength at home. I will never hesitate to defend the nation, but i will never send our sons and daughters to war under false pretension or pretenses about dubious battles with no end in sight. And as we discuss the Foreign Policy, i know that all of you share with me your shock and your horror at what happened in paris and you share with me the condolences for those that lost loved ones and the hopes and prayers and those wounded would recover and those same thoughts go out to the families for those that lost the loved ones and the russian flight that we believe was taken down by an isis bomb and also those that lost their lives to terrorist attacks in lebanon and elsewhere. To my mind its clear that the United States must pursue policies that destroy the brutal isis regime and to create conditions that prevent extremist ideology from flourishing. But we cannot and should not do it alone. We cannot and should not do it our response begins and it with an understanding of past mistakes and missteps in our previous approaches to Foreign Policy. It begins with the acknowledgment that unilateral military action should be a last resort, not a first resort. And that ill conceived military decisions such as the invasion of iraq can reek far reaching devastation and destabilization over regions for decades. It begins with the reflection that the failed policy decisions of the past, rushing to war, regime change in iraq. Or topplining mohammed moez dec in iran in 1953. Moez deck was the president , cia and others got rid of him to protect British Petroleum interests. The shaw of iran came in, a brutal dictator, he was thrown out by the Islamic Revolution and that is where we are in iran today. Decisions have consequences. Often unintended. So, rather it was Saddam Hussein or moez deck or bens in 1954, gular in 1964, al ye nrk di in 1973, this type of regime chak, this type of overthrowing governments, we may not like often does not work or, often makes a bad and difficult decision even worse. These are lessons we must learn. After world war ii in response to the fear and soviet aggression and european aggression the United States establishe