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Obama hates income inequality. He argues that the nation is much more similar in talent and drive and deserved income versus The Red State candidate's views.
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- 00:03
all right Shmoopers we're on our last stretch here last question of the Obama
- 00:07
inauguration 2013 speech so here we go question which choice gives the [text on screen]
- 00:11
strongest evidence for the answer to the previous question boy they do a lot of
- 00:14
these previous things here so let's go back the previous question right there
- 00:17
and the question was the stance the pres nobama takes in the last whatever graph
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- 00:19
can best be described as wide and we can do deep that's Cruz back there and think
- 00:23
about economic opportunities from about line 63 on limitless well quality since
- 00:29
we're like a little pride in where it wages which we got to be a little moment
- 00:31
we probably even understand that when programs are quittin protons all right
- 00:35
well we're kind of skimming and we're already swimming in this passively [students in class]
- 00:38
people in the red nine hundred times now the correct answer is yeah we know [woman swimming]
- 00:42
hardship the sentence that best reflects Obama's stance is the one that deals [text on screen]
- 00:46
directly with the dignity of work and the need for suitable wages it's a
- 00:51
strong statement about income inequality and the need to extend economic recovery [scale tipping]
- 00:56
widely when he discusses the character of the American people the president [time lapse of busy city]
- 01:00
talks about their enterprising spirit a and the main thrust of his argument [text on screen]
- 01:05
though is that he wants that spirit to be put to use he begins the paragraph by [Obama during a speech]
- 01:09
talking about overcoming hardship but the focus at the end of the speech is on
- 01:13
ways to guarantee economic equality Obama discusses ways that income
- 01:19
equality can be achieved D but while these general suggestions are part of [Obama tipping the scale back]
- 01:23
his solution to economic inequality so he kind of wants everyone to have about
- 01:29
the same hmm same opportunity I don't know I'm looking around and crowds and [time lapse of crowd]
- 01:34
football audience and not everyone equally talented yeah make us here rich
- 01:39
from up on the front line there and the disaster [footballer running]
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