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Raising the minimum wage a little bit this and a little bit that and start having a conversation about vocational training to get jobs, real jobs for american workers with a future and with growth. talking about the wrong thing. >> john, it's not a little bit here and there. it's a big jump, isn't it? i mean, with the president suggesting $15 an hour, where are we going to go, 25? that is the goal here? >> it looks good on a bumper sticker. you raise the minimum wage and president obama was the one who delayed implementation because it was costing jobs. however, i agree with chuck. we said for...

Million. during that time, 4 million people came off food stamps from 2000-2015, almost 30 million went on. for every job since 2000 that has been created, almost three people slid into food stamps. the middle class has been destroyed. gdp, the afternoon is 3.3% annually, it is president obama's best year has been at 2.5%. only two years since 2000 have we seen over the average. i think america is starting to realize, we don't have leadership and haven't in d.c. for some time. >> go ahead. >> i agree with everything john said except america is just beginning to realize it. i think the problem ...

Knowing that this project is bigger than yourself. john's story is the american story. that's not hyperbole. it's the american story. grounded in respect and decency. basic fairness. the intolerance through the abuse of power. many of you have traveled the world. look how the rest of the world recently looks at us. they look at us a little naive. we are so fair. we're so decent. we're the naive americans. but that's who we are. that's who john was. and he could not stand the abuse of power. wherever he saw it, in whatever form, in whatever country.

Prepared to. it sounds corny. we hold these truths self evident that all men are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights. to john those words had meaning. as they have for every great patriot that has ever served this country. we both loved the senate. proudest years of my life were being a united states senator. and i was honored to be vice president, but being a united states senator. and we both lamented watching the change. during long debates in the '80s and '90s, some of the colleagues would know, i would sit next to john, next to his seat. or he'd come ov...

It was always about basic values with john. fairness, honesty, dignity, respect. giving hate no safe harbor. leaving no one behind. and understanding as americans, we are a part of something much bigger than ourselves. with john, it was a value set that was neither selfish nor self-serving. john understood that america was first and foremost an idea. audacious and risking. organized around not tribe, but around ideals. think of how he approached every issue. the ideals that americans have rallied around for over 200 years. the ideals that the world has