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My faith teaches me that I can sit in church and pray all I want, but I won't be fulfilling God's will unless I go out and do the Lord's work. But for all those who scratched and clawed their way to get a piece of the American Dream, there were many who didn't make it - those who were ultimately defeated, in one way or another, by discrimination. We want to talk about how to bring them home from a war that never should've been authorized and never should've been waged, and we want to talk about how we'll show our patriotism by caring for them, and their families, and giving them the benefits they have earned. Why else would he define middle-class as someone making under five million dollars a year? How else could he propose hundreds of billions in tax breaks for big corporations and oil companies but not one penny of tax relief to more than one hundred million Americans? How else could he offer a health care plan that would actually tax people's benefits, or an education plan that would do nothing to help families pay for college, or a plan that would privatize Social Security and gamble your retirement? Now is the time to help families with paid sick days and better family leave, because nobody in America should have to choose between keeping their jobs and caring for a sick child or ailing parent.
And yet, I know that, on this night, they look down on me with great pride. I am emphasizing such investments within my country. The issues that I have described will not be easy to address.
For alongside our famous individualism, there's another ingredient in the American saga. That together, our dreams can be one.
That is one option. Change means a tax code that doesn't reward the lobbyists who wrote it, but the American workers and small businesses who deserve it.
I was too young to be involved in that movement, but I felt I could play a small part in the continuing battle for justice by helping rebuild some of Chicago's poorest neighborhoods. And it's a testament to what we can achieve when good people with strong convictions stand up for their beliefs. I suppose the politically safe thing would be to move on from this episode and just hope that it fades into the woodwork.
God bless you.