Name: エリザベス・ウォーレンの2012年民主党全国大会での発言 - スピーチ全文 (Elizabeth Warren's Remarks at the 2012 Democratic National Convention - Full Speech)
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I'm Elizabeth Warren and this is my first Democratic Convention.

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WARREN: Stop! Ok, now. Enough! I never thought I'd run for the Senate, and I sure never dreamed

I would be the warm-up act for President Bill Clinton.

He is an amazing man who had the good sense to marry one of the coolest women on this

I -- I want to give a special shout out to the Massachusetts delegation.

I am counting on you to help me win and to help President Obama win. I am here tonight

to talk about hard working people, people who get up early, stay up late, cook dinner

and help out with homework, people who can be counted on to help their kids, their parents,

their neighbors, and a lady down the street whose car broke down, people who work their

hearts out but are up against a hard truth: the game is rigged against them.

WARREN: It wasn't always this way. Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged

edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he

had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.

All three of my brothers served in the military. One was career...

...the second a good union job in construction...

...and the third started a small business. Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married

at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school.

I have a wonderful husband, two great children, and three beautiful grandchildren, and I am

grateful down to my toes for every opportunity that America gave me. This is a great country.

I grew up in an America that invested in its kids and built a strong middle class that

allowed millions of children to rise from poverty and establish secure lives, an America

that created Social Security and Medicare so that seniors could live with dignity, an

WARREN: ...in which each generation built something solid so the next generation could

But now, for many years, our middle-class has been chipped, squeezed, and hammered.

Talk to the construction worker I met from Malden, Massachusetts who went nine months

without finding work. Talk to the head of a manufacturing company in Franklin, trying

to protect jobs, but worried about rising costs, talk to the student in Worcester who

worked hard to finish his degree, and now he is drowning in debt. Their fight is my

fight, and it's Barack Obama's fight too.

People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part: they're

right. The system is rigged. Look around. Oil companies guzzle down billions in profits.

Billionaires pay a lower tax rate than their secretaries...

WARREN: ...and Wall Street CEOs, the same ones that wrecked our economy and destroyed

millions of jobs still strut around Congress, no shame, demanding favors, and acting like

we should thank them. Does anyone here have a problem with that?

I do, too. I talked to small business owners all across Massachusetts, and not one of them,

not one, made big bucks from the risky bets that brought down our economy. I talked to

nurses and programmers, salespeople and firefighters, people who bust their tails every day, and

not one of them, not one, stashes their money in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying their

These folks don't resent that somebody else made more money. We're Americans. We celebrate

success. We just don't want the game to be rigged. We fought to level the playing field

before. About a century ago when corrosive greed threatened our economy and our way of

life, the American people came together under the leadership of Teddy Roosevelt and other

Progressives to bring our nation back from the brink. We started to take children out

We began to give meaning to the word consumer protection by making food and medicine safe,

and we gave the little guys a better chance to compete by preventing the big guys from

rigging the markets. We turned adversity into progress because that's what we do.

Americans are fighters. We're tough, resourceful and creative, and if we have the chance to

fight on a level playing field, where everyone pays a fair share and everyone has a real

shot, then no one -- no one -- can stop us.

President Obama gets it because he spent his life fighting for the middle-class, and now

he's fighting to level that playing field, because we know the economy doesn't grow from

the top down but from the middle-class out and the bottom up. That's how we create jobs

And Mitt Romney [chuckles] he wants to give tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires,

but for middle-class families who are hanging on by their fingernails, his plan will hammer

them with a new tax hike of up to $2,000.

Mitt Romney wants to give billions in breaks to big corporations, but he and Paul Ryan

would pulverize financial reform, voucherize [sic] Medicare and vaporize Obamacare.

The Republican vision is clear -- "I got mine. The rest of you are on your own."

Republicans say they don't believe in government. Sure, they do. They believe in government

to help themselves and their powerful friends.

After all, Mitt Romney is the guy who said corporations are people.

No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people.

People have hearts. They have kids. They get jobs. They get sick. They cry, they dance.

They live, they love, and they die, and that matters. That matters.

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