“川普找对了问题, 我来解决问题”

——他与沃伦参议员、哈里斯参议员一样，是三名手持话筒、在台上自由走动，并脱稿演讲的竞选人之一；

——他是唯一多次与台下来宾互动提问的演讲者；

——他也是运用大量数据，条理清晰佐证，提出施政理念的演讲人；

——他的演讲正好控制在五分钟之内，没有被音乐赶下。

下面，一起来听听他讲了什么？

环顾这个大厅，大概有1000多个爱荷华人。我算了一下，你们每一个人，价值相当于1000个加州人（编注：爱荷华州是总统大选预选的第一州，堪称“大选风向标”，选票价值珍贵）。所以在我看来，这里有100万加州人。

回到这里感觉真好。我来这里，是为了帮助解决你们在过去两年多来一直纠结的问题。这个问题就是：川普如何以9个百分点的优势，赢得了爱荷华州? 那么，他又是如何赢了密歇根？他是如何赢了宾夕法尼亚州的？他如何赢了俄亥俄，甚至又如何赢了威斯康辛州？

算一算你就知道，最大的原因是，在密歇根、俄亥俄、宾夕法尼亚和威斯康星州，自动化取代了400万个制造加工业岗位；就在爱荷华州，也有4万个工作岗位因此流失。

我的很多朋友都是技术领域的领导者。我们深知，自动化对于制造业工作所带来的冲击，现在将波及到零售业、电话客服中心、快餐业、卡车运输业的工作岗位，等等……将持续影响到你们的经济状况。

你们当中有多少人注意到了，你们所居住的爱荷华州有商店在纷纷关闭？这些商店为何会关闭？

（观众答：亚马逊！）

回答正确。答案只有这一个词！亚马逊就像一个巨大的抽真空机，从你的社区里吸走了200亿美元。

亚马逊去年支付了多少联邦税呢？

（观众答：零！）

所以算一算吧：吸走200亿，交回来的是零。而在你的社区中，头个工作是零售业。一般的零售业员工，一名39岁的女性，一小时挣10美元。而当她工作的商场或市中心商店被关掉时，她能怎么办呢？

我刚刚去了爱荷华州80号公路的达文波特（Davenport），那里是美国最大的卡车停靠站。而我在硅谷的朋友正在开发能自动驾驶的卡车，他们说只需要5-10年的时间。

这对于350万以驾驶卡车为生的美国人，和700多万在为卡车司机服务的停靠站、汽车旅馆、餐馆、零售店工作的人来说，这将意味着什么？

川普今天之所以占据总统位置，是因为我们正处在美国历史上最大的经济和技术转型的第三局，也就是专家所说的“第四次工业革命”。

他有一种痼疾的症状。爱荷华州民主党人，向这个国家的人民开出药方是你们的责任。没有你们的眼光什么也不可能发生。

那么，药方究竟是什么呢？如果你在竞选活动中听说过任何关于我的事，就会知道有一个亚裔男在竞选总统，他要给每个人每月发1000美元——这三件事都是真的！

第一次听到我的主张，你可能认为是个噱头。但你接下来深入挖掘一下历史，托马斯·潘恩（Thomas Paine）在建国时就这样主张了，他称之为“公民红利”。马丁·路德·金（Martin Luther King）在60年代支持这一政策，并称之为“最低保障收入”。1971年尼克松执政期间两次在众议院通过。而有一个州已经发放红利近40年了，那个州的每个人每年拿一至两千美元，无条件。

请问爱荷华，是哪个州？

（观众答：阿拉斯加）

他们是从哪里出这笔钱的？

（观众答：石油）

什么是21世纪的“石油”？

（观众答：技术）

技术！回答正确。数据、人工智能、软件、自动驾驶汽车和卡车。

他们用石油的钱为阿拉斯加人所做的事，我们用科技的钱可以同样提供给爱荷华州和全国各地的每一个人。

现在想想，这对你的社区意味着什么？你们每个人会怎么花这笔钱？我知道你们会把钱花到哪里。你们会把钱花在辅导孩子学习上，花在汽车维修上，偶尔外出晚餐，大部分的钱都会花在爱荷华内。这会使你们的消费经济增长12％，将创造4万个新的工作岗位，将振兴边远地区，并为你的孩子提供出路。这将确保每个老年人都能体面退休，让他们不必在便利店工作以维持生计，直到他们离开的那天。

民主党重视女性赋权。我们知道全国有数百万女性在工作和婚恋关系上受到剥削或虐待，每月给她们1000美元能改善困境。我们可以谈论女性赋权，或者用行动去改变。

我会说：我们用行动去改变！

川普今天能当上总统，是因为他找到了问题所在，但他的解决方案背离了我们的需要。他的解决办法是把时钟拨回过去——修墙。我说，我们要反过来做，我们必须把时钟拨向未来! 我们必须前行，尊重劳动的价值。

我正是能实现这些目标的人选！因为，站在唐纳德·川普对面的，是一个热爱数学的亚裔男！

非常感谢你们，爱荷华！

我爱你们！谢谢！

It is fantastic to be back. Thank you!

When I saw the program for today, I saw the same thing you all did, which is this: Joe Biden must really not like to travel.

You look around this room, there are a thousand Iowans. I’ve got math. Each of you is worth about a thousand Californians. So this room to me looks like one million Californians.

It’s beautiful to be back. I’m here to help solve the problem that you’ve all been grappling with for the last two-plus years. And it is this, how did Donald Trump win your State Iowa by nine points?

How did he win Michigan? How did he win Pennsylvania? How did he win Ohio? How did he even win Wisconsin?

And when you look at the math, there’s one big reason：we automated away four million manufacturing jobs in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and forty thousand right here in Iowa.

And I have many friends who are leaders of technology. And we know that what we did to the manufacturing jobs, we will now do to the retail jobs, the call center jobs, the fast food jobs, the truck driving jobs, and on and on through your economy.

How many of you have noticed stores closing where you live in Iowa?

And why are those stores closing?

Amazon! That’s right. It’s a one-word answer. Amazon is like a giant vacuum sucking up twenty billion dollars out of your communities.

How much did Amazon pay in federal taxes last year?

Zero! So think about that math：twenty billion out，zero back in! And the number one job in your communities is working in retail. The average retail workers a thirty-nine-year-old woman making ten dollars an hour. And what is she going to do when her mall or main street store closes?

I was just at I-80 in Davenport, the biggest truck stop in the United States. And my friends in Silicon Valley are working on trucks that can drive themselves. They say there are five to ten years away.

What is that going to mean for the three and a half million Americans who drive a truck for a living and the seven million plus work in truck stops, motels, diners and retail establishments that need the truckers to get out and have a meal?

The reason why Donald Trump is our president today is that we’re in the third inning of the greatest economic and technological transformation in the history of our country. What experts are calling the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

He is a symptom of a disease. And it is your responsibility, the Democrats of Iowa to present the cure to the people of this country. It will not happen without your vision.

So what does that cure? If you heard anything about me in the campaign,  you know, there’s an Asian man running for president who wants to give everyone a thousand dollars a month! And all three of those things are true!

Now, when you first hear it, it sounds like a gimmick, but then you dig into our history. Thomas Paine was for this at the founding of the country, called it the Citizens Dividend. Martin Luther King, champion in the 60s, called it the Guaranteed Minimum Income.

It passed the US House of representatives twice in 1971 under Nixon. And one state has already had a dividend for almost forty years, where everyone in that state gets between one and two thousand dollars a year. No questions asked.

And what state is that, Iowa?

Alaska!

And how do they fund it?

Oil!

And what is the oil of the 21 century?

Technology! That’s right. Data, AI, software, self-driving cars, and trucks. What they’re doing for the people in Alaska with oil money, we can do for everyone here in Iowa and everyone around the country with technology money.

Now think about what that would mean for your communities. How would you all spend that money? I know how you’d spend that money. You’d spend it on tutoring for your kids, car repairs, the occasional night out and most of it would stay right here in Iowa. It would grow your consumer economy by twelve percent. It would create forty thousand new jobs. It would revitalize rural areas and it would give your kids a path forward. It would ensure that every senior citizen is able to retire with dignity and they’re not working at a convenience store to make ends meet until the day they die.

And the Democratic party is all about empowering women. We know there are millions of women around the country and exploited or abusive jobs or relationships that would be improved by a thousand dollars a month. We can either talk about empowering women or we can do something about it. I say we do something about it!

Donald Trump is our president today because he got the problems right. But his solutions are the opposite of what we need. His solutions were to turn the clock back, build a wall. And I’m saying we have to do the opposite of that. We have to turn the clock forward. We have to advance in the way we see work in value.

And I am the man for that job because the opposite of Donald Trump is an Asian man who likes math.

Thank you very much. Iowa.

Love you all. Thank you.

（感谢美国无国界教育“总统青年领袖计划”学员杜艳欣 英文记录）