Martin O'Malley Rails Against Wall Street in New Hampshire
Lis Smith @Lis_Smith 6m
GovernorOMalley rails against Wall Street in New Hampshire http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/237490-omalley-rails-against-wall-street-in-new-
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“I was on the front lines, and so were you,” O’Malley declared. “The activity that took place on Wall Street and led to this crash might have happened far from our states, but the damage happened in every neighborhood. Millions of jobs. Millions of homes. And instead of following through on the reforms that the American people expected of us, we backed off.”
“It seems like one party is entirely owned by big money, and the other party is nearly intimidated by it, and people expect better,” he continued. “They expect better. People play by the rules and work hard, and they expect Wall Street to play by the rules, and they expect the government to be on their side and stand up for us, stand up for our national interests.”
“Wages in America for the vast majority of moms and dads and their families have been going down for the last 12 years, not up,” O’Malley said. “And until wages start going up, until we make the American Dream true around the kitchen tables of America, we can’t let up. We have to continue to look for answers to solve this problem.”
“There’s a despondency out there, there’s a darkness that has crawled deep inside the soul of our country, and we need to acknowledge it, and hold it up and reject it for what it is,” he said.
“To these headline writers and pundits who would declare a premature obituary for the American Dream, we must all say, not on our watch. Not on our watch, we have better choices to make, and we still have time to be the great Americans our parents and our grandparents were, but we’re going to have to make the choices that are consistent with the truth of how our economy works.”
read: http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/237490-omalley-rails-against-wall-street-in-new-hampshire
watch entire speech + Q&A at 'Politics and Eggs' event: http://www.wmur.com/politics/raw-video-martin-omalley-at-politics-and-eggs-event/32107268
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