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Obama, Barack - President

Hello, Las Vegas! (Applause.) Oh, what a beautiful evening! (Applause.) A spectacular evening! This is why I like coming to Vegas -- good weather...

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Obama, Barack - President

Now, first of all, before I get started, can everybody please give Chasstiry a big round of applause for the great introduction. (Applause.) I want...

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Obama, Barack - President

And it's good to see all of you. I hope you're having a good time. (Applause.)

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AUDIENCE, -

We love you!

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Obama, Barack - President

I love you back. (Applause.)

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Obama, Barack - President

Now, you may have heard that in a few days my opponent in this election and I are going to have a debate. (Applause.) I'm looking forward to it. ...

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You are!

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Obama, Barack - President

I don't know about that. Who's going to put the most points on the board.

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AUDIENCE, -

You are!

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Obama, Barack - President

No, no, Governor Romney, he's a good debater. I'm just okay. But what I'm most concerned about is having a serious discussion about what we need to...

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Obama, Barack - President

See, I believe that as a nation, we're moving forward again. We’re not where we need to be yet. We’ve got a lot more work to do here in Nevada...

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AUDIENCE, -

Obama! Obama! Obama!

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Obama, Barack - President

My opponent is a big believer in top-down economics. He thinks that if we just spend another $5 trillion on tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans,...

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Obama, Barack - President

There’s only one problem with that. We just tried that in the decade before I became President. It didn’t work. Top-down economics never works....

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Obama, Barack - President

We don't get very far when we've got leaders who write off half the nation as a bunch of victims who don't take responsibility for their lives. (Applause.)...

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AUDIENCE, -

No!

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Obama, Barack - President

But as I travel around the state, I don't see a lot of victims. I see a lot of hardworking Nevadans. (Applause.) I see students trying to work their...

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Obama, Barack - President

We don’t believe that anybody is entitled to success. We don’t believe government should help people who aren't trying to help themselves. But...

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Obama, Barack - President

That’s the country I believe in. That’s what I’ve been fighting for. That’s why I’m running for a second term as President of the United...

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Four more years! Four more years! Four more years!

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Obama, Barack - President

Now, see, what I want to promote is a new economic patriotism, one that’s rooted in the belief that we grow the economy best when everybody has got...

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Obama, Barack - President

And you know what, the path I’m offering may be harder, but it leads to a better place. So I’ve put forward a specific, practical plan to create...

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Obama, Barack - President

First, I want to export more products, but I want to outsource fewer jobs. (Applause.) You remember when the auto industry was about to go under,...

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AUDIENCE, -

Booo --

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Obama, Barack - President

Don’t boo -- vote. (Applause.)

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Obama, Barack - President

I said, let’s come together and reinvent a dying auto industry, and now it’s back on top of the world. We’ve created more than half a million...

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Obama, Barack - President

So now you’ve got a choice. We can keep giving tax breaks to companies that ship jobs overseas, or we can reward companies that are opening new plants...

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Obama, Barack - President

I want us to control more of our own energy -- that’s the second part of our plan. After 30 years of doing nothing, we raised fuel standards so by...

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Obama, Barack - President

We’ve doubled the amount of renewable energy we generate from sources like wind and solar right here in Nevada and all across the country. Thousands...

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Obama, Barack - President

So now you’ve got a choice -- we could reverse this progress, like Governor Romney wants to do.

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AUDIENCE, -

No!

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Obama, Barack - President

Or we can build on it. See, unlike my opponent, I’m not going to let the oil companies write our energy plan. I’m not going to let oil companies...

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Obama, Barack - President

We’ve got a better plan -– where we invest in wind and solar; and farmers and scientists who are harnessing new biofuels to power our cars; and...

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Obama, Barack - President

I want to give more Americans the chance to get a great education and get the skills they need to compete -- that’s the third part of my plan. (Applause.)...

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Obama, Barack - President

So now you’ve got a choice -– we can gut our investments in education, like Governor Romney wants to do, to pay for more tax breaks for the wealthy.

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AUDIENCE, -

Booo --

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Obama, Barack - President

Don’t boo --

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AUDIENCE, -

Vote!

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Obama, Barack - President

Vote.

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Obama, Barack - President

Or we can decide here in Nevada and here in the United States of America, no child should have her dream deferred because of an overcrowded classroom....

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Obama, Barack - President

So, Nevada, I need you to help me recruit 100,000 new math and science teachers, improve our early education system, create 2 million more slots in...

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AUDIENCE, -

Vote!

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Obama, Barack - President

You’re going to need to vote.

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Obama, Barack - President

Number four, I want to reduce our deficit without sticking it to the middle-class and working-class families. My plan would do just that. And I’ve...

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Obama, Barack - President

So that’s my plan. And in fairness, my opponent has got a plan, too. That's only one problem -- some of you heard Bill Clinton say there's no arithmetic...

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Obama, Barack - President

Governor Romney said he thought it was fair for somebody making $20 million a year, like him, to pay a lower tax rate than a cop or a teacher, or somebody...

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No!

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Obama, Barack - President

I don't think that's how we grow our economy.

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AUDIENCE, -

No!

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Obama, Barack - President

I refuse to ask middle-class families to give up the deductions they have for owning a home or raising their kids just so me or Governor Romney get...

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Obama, Barack - President

I don’t think the answer for all the hardworking folks here in Nevada and across the country whose homes are underwater is just to do nothing and...

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Obama, Barack - President

And by the way, I’m never going to turn Medicare into a voucher program. (Applause.) We’re not going to do that, either. If you’ve been working...

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Obama, Barack - President

And just like we’re doing work here at home, we’re going to continue to do work abroad. Four years ago, I said I’d end the war in Iraq -- I did....

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AUDIENCE, -

USA! USA! USA!

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Obama, Barack - President

Well, as we saw a couple of weeks ago, we still face serious threats around the world. And that's why, so long as I’m Commander-in-Chief, we will...

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Obama, Barack - President

But you know the thing that makes our military strongest is the amazing men and women in uniform. (Applause.) So when they take off that uniform,...

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Obama, Barack - President

Governor Romney has got a different set of ideas. He thinks the way I ended the war in Iraq is "tragic." He won’t tell us how he’ll end the war...

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Obama, Barack - President

So this is the choice we face in this election. This is what the election comes down to. And you are going to hear over the next two months -- I know...

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AUDIENCE, -

Booo --

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Obama, Barack - President

You know what -- that’s not who we are. I don’t think government can solve all our problems, but government is not the source of all our problems,...

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Obama, Barack - President

And that’s what you understood back in 2008. You’re the reason seniors across Nevada are averaging nearly $600 less on their medicines because...

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Obama, Barack - President

You’re the reason why a young immigrant who grew up here and went to school here, and pledged allegiance to our flag will no longer be deported from...

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Obama, Barack - President

I made this same point down in Florida the other day, and Governor Romney heard me say you can’t make change just from Washington. And somehow, he...

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Obama, Barack - President

Is he talking about the inside job where outsourcers are writing the tax code? Is he talking about the inside job where oil companies are writing the...

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Obama, Barack - President

Change is only going to happen when ordinary Americans, working together with their elected representatives, make all our voices heard. That’s how...

Obama, Barack - President

So the question then is, how hard are you willing to work for it?

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AUDIENCE, -

Hard!

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Obama, Barack - President

How hard are you willing to work for it?

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AUDIENCE, -

Hard!

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Obama, Barack - President

We’ve got just a few more weeks left. And in 2008, when I won, 47 percent of the people didn’t vote for me; they voted for John McCain. And that’s...

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Obama, Barack - President

Because I’m not interested in creating Democratic jobs or Republican jobs -- I’m interested in creating American jobs. (Applause.) I’m don’t...

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Obama, Barack - President

And those values of hard work and individual responsibility, but also looking out for one another, those are values that we all share. Those are values...

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Obama, Barack - President

If you are willing to work hard, harder than you did four years ago, if you’re willing to knock on some doors and make some phone calls, we can reclaim...

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Obama, Barack - President

We’re not going backwards. We’re not as divided as our politics suggest. I still believe we’ve got more in common than anybody understands....

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Obama, Barack - President

God bless you. God bless the United States of America. (Applause.)

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