A very small minority have the best health care money can buy, the best education, the best of what you can have in the world. If the answer is no, we have to organize and build the Labor Party. There has been a time in my own lifetime where people were very desperate, and I found that in our society we were able to address, in a critical moment, to address a condition that is imposed from the outside. When you get confronted with an idea you may say that that's impossible, a dream, implausible. Yet we have, in our society, used techniques to feed, house, and employ everyone, at almost a moment's notice.
People ought to have a right to a job.
We want to amend the constitution to have a right to a job at a living wage. I woke up on a Sunday morning in December in 1941, with a house of about 16 people during the Depression. We were a nation that was ill housed and ill fed. But overnight, in a nation of 135 million people, we decide that we could uniform 17 million people, and provide them a place to sleep. We learned to distribute food, while we were told through the Depression that that couldn't' be done.