But more importantly, we need you to talk to everybody you know.

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So we need you to talk to everybody you know.

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We need you to talk to everyone you know -- your friends, your neighbors, that nephew you haven't seen in a while, that high school classmate you stopped speaking to -- find them. (Applause.) Tell them what's at stake.

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And I think in order to accomplish that, we need people like you and me to continue to not only talk about it but propose some ideas about how to eliminate poverty in this country.

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Weekend -- just give your weekend, just hand it over. (Laughter.) But for the next five days, we need every single one of you to talk to everyone you know.

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Health care is part and parcel with where we need to take our economy. (Applause.) You talk to every small business -- how many small business owners are here?

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We believe that for politics to make a difference, you need to talk to people in other parties.

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But the fact we are still focusing on one-off factors, worth a fraction of 1% of GDP, when we talk about UK growth tells you all you need to know about the dismal state of the economy.

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So we need your help with this, and I appreciate, so much, Suzanna and Ty, Fred, the opportunity to talk to you about this - as hopefully an agenda item of the Defense Forum Foundation and all those of you who work for people on the Hill, and frankly for all of us in this country.

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