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The MeidasTouch Podcast · President Biden EXCLUSIVE Interview with MeidasTouch · 19 Dec 2024 podcast

I mean, it hadn't trickled down to every single person yet, but we're in a situation where we have the strongest economy in the world by any measure. For example, we made sure that we got ourselves in a situation where we wanted to get results immediately. So I started to work on the things I thought were most consequential.

How can we lead the world without having the best infrastructure in the world, the best ports, airports, et cetera, roads, highways, transportation, electric connectivity? How can we lead the world if we're not dealing with the single greatest threat to humanity, the emergence of climate change? We go above 1.5 degrees Celsius. we're in real trouble.

Our children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren are in real trouble. And if we can't move in the direction of seeing to it that we take care of the people who are most in need, for example, the idea that we charge so much for prescription drugs in America,

I can take any one of you guys who have a prescription from any American drug company, put you in Air Force One and fly to any of 10 cities in the world. I can get you the same exact drugs from a drugstore, quote unquote, in those countries that is 40, 60% less. The only protected entity was Medicare could not negotiate with drug companies.

I also think it was really important that we do something about you know, 1% of the population. was defending 99% of us. And we weren't taking care of our veterans if we had to. So that's why I worked so hard to make sure we're in a situation where we're provided for the opportunity for the veterans to be cared for and their families to be cared for. We fundamentally changed that.

And we also moved in the direction of making sure that we're in a situation where we provide for opportunities and education and provide for opportunities to deal with the things that ordinary people have a shot of being able to do. And I guess maybe one of the big things we've done is we've attracted a trillion dollars off the sidelines. We invested in America by an American.

And so, for example, we invented that little computer chip. We made it more sophisticated. Well, when we found out that corporations were exporting to manufacturers, the cheapest labor around the world, But then, guess what? When COVID hit and those outfits shut down because of illness in the Far East, well, guess what? We found out we needed 300 to build an automobile.

We found out so on and so forth. We were in real trouble, so I decided to change that and make sure we were part of the supply chain. We were the beginning of the supply chain. And all that has resulted in real significant economic growth that hasn't yet gone to all the people because it takes time to get it up and running. But those are the things I focused on first.

Well, not many did, by the way, number one. Number two, I think that it's hard to translate. I think the one thing that I should have spent more time talking about is these things are going to take time to be put in place. For example, When we decide that we're gonna build a computer chip factory outside of Columbus, we're gonna invest billions of dollars in construction of that facility.

All the jobs are gonna be created by the construction needed to do it. And then there's what they call fabs, these great big things, twice the size of football fields, where people are going to be making these computer chips. And guess what? The average salary is going to be $102,000. And you don't need a college degree. It's going to fundamentally change the community.

But the problem is it's going to take time to get them up and going. The same with almost all the stuff we've done. And so I think the failure to connect between what was happening to the economy as a whole and what's going to happen to the middle class Americans as a consequence of what we've done is going to take a little bit of time.

Look, I've invested more in red states than in blue states, all these programs we just talked about. The reason for that was the red states didn't operate very well, and they really hurt their constituents. So those factories closed and the like. The fact is that I represent all of America, not just Democrats.

And I think what it's going to do is it's going to bring the country more together than separate it. For example, you already have folks like Marjorie Taylor Greene and others saying, don't eliminate the factory after talking about the proposal that we're going to build that. It was the worst idea anybody's ever had. She didn't vote for it.

So I think there's going to be a bit of a comeuppance here, but the bottom line is I'm convinced that over time, The American public will respond to what is the intention of the party to try to help ordinary people. And the fundamental change I made, and I made a speech at Brookings Institution about it recently, was in the economy.

The fact is that we had a long time this idea of trickle-down economics. Let the wealthy do very, very well. They'll have so much money, it'll trickle down on people's kitchen tables and coffee tables and like, and everyone will benefit. I've never bought that theory. And so what I've decided to do was to change it to build the comedy from the middle out and the bottom up.

Wealthy still do very well. But the middle class and working class people do much, much better. And that's exactly what's happening. And so I think the long term prospects for the country are very good.

Well, look, for your audience, there's these various organizations like the G7, the leaders of seven European nations and the like, G20, all these. And I've attended all this. The only advantage being the old guy in the presidency, I have more experience in this than anybody else does. And I've known all these folks.

And one of the things that we've done was they've said to me at the end of these meetings, come on, you can't walk away from this. Our democracy depends on it. Well, they're concerned and they're concerned whether Trump's going to do some of the foolhardy stuff he says he wants to do.

These extreme tariffs, which are going to cost America, taxing the middle American taxpayer, dealing with not supporting Ukraine by letting Russia have its way, moving in the direction where we walk away from. Look, I was able to expand NATO, expand it, not just maintain it, but bring it back and expand it.

you know henry kissinger called me 10 days before he passed away to say joe not since napoleon has europe not looked over its shoulder at russia with dread until now well we were able to i was able to convince two countries sweden and a country of the 800 mile border along the russian border to join nato And so it's a stronger organization.

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