Obama Orates on the Economy

President-elect Obama has to deal with the failing economy. He speaks with a reporter about the subject.
Reporter: Do you think the economic crisis will become worse before it becomes better?
Obama: If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Reporter: What, in your estimation, caused the economic fallout and how do you suggest that we get out of this mess?
Obama: It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The power and greed of the financial elite caused the crisis. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

Reporter: Do you believe that the nation should reward its working class to a greater degree?
Obama: Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.

Reporter: You are calling for drastic changes in the nation's economy...
Obama: We must change. America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous. We must focus on education. It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Reporter: What do you believe is the current status of the American Dream?
Obama: People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.