ound issues two wars， an economy in recession， a planet in peril.

But that kind of politics is not why we re here. It s not why I m here and it s not why you re here.

We re here because of the more than one hundred workers in Logansport， Indiana who just found out that their company has decided to move its entire factory to Taiwan.

We re here because of the young man I met in Youngsville， North Carolina who almost lost his home because he has three children with cystic fibrosis and couldn t pay their medical bills； who still doesn t have health insurance for himself or his wife and lives in fear that a single illness could cost them everything.

We re here because there are families all across this country who are sitting around the kitchen table right now trying to figure out how to pay their insurance premiums， and their kids tuition， and still make the mortgage so they re not the next ones in the neighborhood to put a For Sale sign in the front yard； who will lay awake tonight wondering if next week s paycheck will cover next month s bills.

We re not here to talk about change for change s sake， but because our families， our communities， and our country desperately need it. We re here because we can t afford to keep doing what we ve been doing for another four years. We can t afford to play the same Washington games with the same Washington players and expect a different result. Not this time. Not now.

We already know what we re getting from the other party s nominee. John