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(APPLAUSE) Now, folks, in Tampa a few days ago, we heard a lot of talk... (LAUGHTER) ... all about how the president and the Democrats don't really believe in free enterprise and individual initiative, how we want everybody to be dependent on the government, how bad we are for the economy. This Republican narrative, this alternative universe says that... (APPLAUSE)
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stop disagreeing. But their purpose was to get something done.

Now, why is this true? Why does cooperation work better than constant conflict? Because nobody's right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day. (APPLAUSE) And every one of us -- every one of us and every one of

them, we're compelled to spend our fleeting lives between those two extremes, knowing we're never going to be right all the time, and hopefully we're right more than twice a day.
(LAUGHTER) Unfortunately, the faction that now dominates the Republican Party doesn't see it that way. They think government is always the enemy, they're always right, and compromise is weakness. Just in the last couple of elections, they defeated two distinguished Republican senators because they dared to cooperate with Democrats on issues important to the future of the country, even national security. They beat a Republican congressman with almost 100 percent voting record on every conservative score because he said he realized he did not have to hate the president to disagree with

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enemies. I'm grateful for the relationship of respect and

partnership she and the president have enjoyed. And the signal that sends to the rest of the world, that democracy does not have a -- have to be a blood sporl, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest. (APPLAUSE) Now, besides the national security team, I am very grateful to the men and women who've served our country in uniform through these perilous times. (APPLAUSE) And I am especially grateful to Michelle Obama and to Jill

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Republicans on health care, debt reduction, and new jobs. And that didn't work out so well. (LAUGHTER) But it could have been because, as the Senate Republican leader said, in a remarkable moment of candor, two full years before the election, their number-one priority was not to put

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thing happen in 1994 and early'95. We could see that the policies were working, that the economy was growing, but most people didn't feel it yet. ThanKully, by 1996, the economy was roaring, everybody felt it, and we were halfway through the longest peacetime expansion in the history of the United States. But... (APPLAUSE)
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(APPLAUSE) So what's happened? There are now 250,000 more people working in the auto industry than on the day the companies were restructured. (APPLAUSE) So -- now, we all know thal Governor Romney opposed the plan to save G.M. and Chrysler. So here's another job score. Are you listening in Michigan and Ohio and across the country? (APPLAUSE) Here -- here's another job score. Obama: 250,000. Romney: zero.

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the management, labor, and environmental groups to double car mileage, that was a good deal, too- tt will cut your gas prices in half, your gas bill. No matterwhatthe price is, if you double the mileage of your car, your bill will be half what it would have been. ttwill make us moreenergyindependent. will cut greenhouse gas emission. And according to several analyses, over the nen 20 years, it will bring us another 500,000 good, new jobs into the American economy. (APPLAUSE) The president's energy strategy, which he calls
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mostly because the people who apply for them don't yet have the required skills to do them. So even as we get Americans more jobs, we have to prepare more Americans for the new jobs that
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community colleges and employers in working together to train people for jobs that are actually open in their communilies.
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(APPLAUSE) Now, finally, listen to

this. For the last two years,

after going up at three times the rate of inflation for a decade, for the last two years, health care costs have been under 4 percent in both years for the first time in 50 years. So let me ask you something. Are we better off because President Obama fought for health care reform? You bet we are. (APPLAUSE) Now, there were two other attacks on the presldent in Tampa Ithink deserve an answer. First, both Governor Romney and Congressman Ryan attacked the president for allegedly "robbing Medicare" of $716 billion. That's the same attack they leveled against the Congress in 2010, and they got a lot of votes on it. But it's not true. Look, here's what really happened. You be thejudge. Here's what really happened. There were no cuts to benefits at all, none.

What the presldent did was to save money by taking the recommendations of a commission of professionals to cut
unwarranted subsidies to providers and insurance companies that were not making people healthier and were not necessary to get the providers to provide the service. (APPLAUSE)

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close the donut hole in the Medicare drug (APPLAUSE) And

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you all got to listen carefully to this. This is

really important -- and to add eight years to the life of the Medicare trust fund so it is Solvent until 2024. So... (APPLAUSE)

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So President Obama and the Democrats didn't weaken

Medicare. They strengthened Medicare. (APPLAUSE) Now, when Congressman Ryan looked into that TV camera and attacked President Obama's Medicare savings as, quote, "the biggest, coldest power play," I didn't know whether to laugh or cry... (LAUGHTER)
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(APPLAUSE) You qot to qive one thing: lt takes some brass to attack a guy for doing what you did. (APPLAUSE) Now -- so -- wait a minute. (APPLAUSE) Now you're having a good time, but this is getting serious,

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(LAUGHTER) h's important, because a lot of people believe this stuff. Now, at least on this issue, on this one issue, Governor Romney

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He attacked President Obama, too, but he actually wants to

repeal those savings and give the money back to the insurance company.

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He wants to go back to the old system, which means we'll

reopen the donut hole and force seniors to pay more for drugs, and we'il reduce the life of the Medicare trust fund by eight full years.
(BOOTNG)

So if he's elected, and if he does what he promised to do, Medicare will now go broke in 2016. Think about that. That

means after all we won't have to wait until their voucher

program kicks in, in 2023, to see the end of Medicare as we know

it. They're going to do it to us sooner than we thought.

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Now, folks, this is serious, because it gets worse. And you won't be laughing when lfinrsh telling you this. They also want to block grant Medicaid and cut it by a third over the

coming 10 years. Of course, that's going to really hurt a lot of

poor kids. But that's not all. A lot of folks don't know it, but nearly two{hirds of Medicaid is spent on nursing home care for Medicare senlors who are eligible for Medicaid. tt's going to end lVedicare as we know it._Atd_algt includino... (APPLAUSE) ... a lot of middle-class families whose kids have Down's

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don't know what those families are going to do. So I know what I'm going to do: I'm going to do everything I can to see that it doesn't happen. We can't let it happen. We can't. (APPLAUSE) Now, wait a minute. Let's look... AUDIENCE: Four more yearsl Four more years! Four more years!

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(LAUGHTER) They actually have charged aiid run ads saying that President Obama wants to weaken the work requirements in the welfare reform bill I signed that moved millions of people from welfare to work. Wait. You need to know, here's what happened. (LAUGHTER) Nobody ever tells you what really happened. Here's what happened. When some Republican governors asked if they could ha've waivers to try new ways to put people on welfare bbck to work, the Obama administration listened, because we all know it's hard for even people with good work histories to get jobs today, so moving folks from welfare to work is a real challenge. And the administration agreed to give waivers to those governors and others only ifthey had a credible plan to

increase employment by 20 percent and they could keep the waivers only if they did increase employment.
Now, did

did I make myself clear? The requirement was

for more work, not less. (APPLAUSE) So this is personal to me. We moved millions of people off welfare. lt was one of the ieasons that, in the eight years I

was president, we had 100 times as many people move out of poverty into the middle class than happened under the previous 12 years, 100 times as many. tt's a big deal.
(APPLAUSE) But Iam telling you, the claim that President Obama weakened welfare reform's work requirement is just not true. But they keep on running ads claiming it. You want to know why? Their campaign pollster said, "We are not going to let our campaign be dictated by faclcheckers.,' (LAUGHTER) (APPLAUSE) Now, finally I can say: That is true. (LAUGHTER) (APPLAUSE)

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-- I couldn't have said it better myself.

(LAUGHTER) And I hope you and every American within the sound of my voice remembers it every time they see one of those ads, and it turns into an ad to re-elect Barack Obama and keep the

fundamental principles of personal empowerment and moving everybody who can get a job into work as soon as we can.
(APPLAUSE) Now let's talk about the debt. Today, interest rates .i low, Iower than the rate of inflation. People are practically paying us to borrow money, to hold their money for them. But it will become a big problem when the economy grows and interest rates start to rise. We've got to deal with this big long-term debt problem or it will deal with us. lt'll gobble up a bigger and bigger percentage of the federal budget we'd rather spend on education and health care and science and technology. tt

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lmean, consider this. What would you do if you had this .'Oh, problem? Somebody says, we've got a big debt problem. We've got to reduce the debt." So what's the first thing he
says we're going to do? "Well, to reduce the debt, we're going to have another $5 trillion in tax cuts, heavily weighted to upper-income people. So we'll make the debt hole bigger before we start to get out of it."
Now, when you say, "What are you going to do about this $5 trillion you just added on?" They say, "Oh, we'll make it up by eliminating loopholes in the tax code." So then you ask, "Well,

which loopholes? And how much?" You know what they say?
me about that after the election." (LAUGHTER) I'm not making it up. That's their position. "See me about that after the election." Now, people ask me all the time how we got four surplus budgets in a row. What new ideas did we bring to Washington? always give a one-word answer: arithmetic. (APPLAUSE)
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get rid of -- cover it by

deductions, cutting those deductions

one, they'll have to

eliminate so many deductions, like the ones for home morlgages and charitable giving, that middle- class families will see their tax bills go up an average of $2,000, while anybody who makes $3 million or more will see their tax bill go down $250,000.
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payments. Don't you ever forget, when you hear them talking about this, that Republican economic policies quadrupled the national debt before I took office, in the 12 years before I took office... (APPLAUSE) ... and doubled the debt in the eightyears after I left,

because it defied ariihmetic.

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ft's arithmetic. We simply cannot afford to give the reins of government to someone who will double-down on trickle-down.

Now, thlnk about (APPLAUSE)

this. President Obama...

President Obama's plan cuts the debt, honors our values, brightens the future of our children, our families, and our nation. lt's a heck of a lot better. lt passes the arithmetic

test and, far more important, it passes the values test.

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It/y fellow Americans, all of us in this grand hall and everybody watching at home, when we vote in this election, we'll be deciding what kind of country we want to live in. tf you

want a winner-take- all, you're-on-your-own society, you should suppori the Republican ticket. But if you want a country of
shared opportunities and shared responsibility, a

we're-all-in{his-together society, you should vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
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lf you want if you want America -- !f you want every American to vote and you think it is wrong to change voting

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