Tim Walz: “I can tell you when we go back home--and I live in a small house in Mankato, Minnesota, in southern Minnesota. The house…”

“I can tell you when we go back home--and I live in a small house in Mankato, Minnesota, in southern Minnesota. The house in front of me has been foreclosed for a year and a half. The property value on my house has dropped about 50 percent. We're seeing that across the country. The pinch of this economy coming down and the frustration amongst the American people is palatable. You can feel it. They are frustrated, and they are angry. And the questions they are asking is this: 'How come it seems like I'm working harder and getting further behind, and when I turn on the television, somebody else is taking a trip to the spa? Somebody else is getting a private jet? Somebody else is getting something for failing when I seem to be making the right decisions? I'm paying my mortgage. I'm trying to save money to send my child to school, and I'm not asking for the lottery. I'm not asking for a ten-bedroom house. I'm asking to try and achieve the American dream.'”