Ms. Clinton formally declared her president ial candidacy earlier this month. This trip marks her first stop in New Hampshire as an official candidate. She made a similar visit to iowa last week. This is just under an hour. I would like to welcome you [applause] i would like to welcome you to Whitney Brothers. This is really cool. [laughter] you have probably heard a little bit about it. We are a manufacturer of Early Childhood equipment, which you can see, if you samples around. But im a customer is aged six months to six years. And that is who we gear up products towards. We sell all over the United States and canada. We sell via dealers for architects. Our product will be, gosh, lot of places. Day care centers, i am cas, Jewish Community centers, ski areas, car dealerships, anywhere where mom and dad can leave their child for 10 minutes or longer, if they got a job or have to go shopping. You might find some whitney products. There are 40 of us employees and we are excited to have the secretary here, and i think the process will be is that briefly my coworkers will identify themselves, say one or two sentences about what they do here, how many years they have been here at whitney, where they live, and then i think we will have a discussion and the secretary will speak to us. Thanks. So i will start off. Again, i am dave stabler. I have been at whitney for 32 years, probably longer because i worked here as a boy during the summers. And i did not like it much when i was here. So i left keene in my 20s and came back in my 30s when i realized that keene was a great place to raise a family. And that made it worthwhile, and the business was a growing business, and that made it exciting. So i came back. I live in keene. I have three sons. And that is really about it. Billy, do you want to start us off . Bill i live in swansea. I have worked for whitney for a year. I work in the finishing department and spray area. I have one son in the navy and three stepchildren from my wife. Very nice working here, a very good place to work. My name is ken cooper. I have been here for about a year and a quarter. I run a machine for the finishing department. Which codes the sides of the boards with paint. Even though i do not have any children, this is very fulfilling and rewarding to be able to work with materials to make the furniture that i have seen in many churches over the years. My name is pam livingood. I have been with Whitney Brothers for 11 years. I am the lead person in the us family department. From when we received the work to manufacturing the beautiful product you see around us, we put the end product out into the shipping department, which goes out into our communities and daycare centers. I have lived in keene. I have three children, two daughters and a son, and three grandsons. I am mary. I worked for Whitney Brothers for 16 years, as a supervisor. I retired two years ago and came back to whitney two weeks ago. I have three children, grown. And i have six grandchildren. Jim . Jim i am jim, and i am from keene. I am in the engineering department. I take ideas that the customer will bring in or anyone will have or ourselves, providing new products for consumption out there. We do a little bit of everything. I thought i would come in here doing drafting work, and im doing testing, new designs. I come out and actually what i like about this place is i can walk around and see the thing being built, being manufactured, and to converse with my fellow employees. And personally, i have two daughters and a stepdaughter and a stepson. They are all grown. Dave chris . Chris my name is chris swanson. I have work at Whitney Brothers for 12 years. I started off as a receptionist. Now, i do a variety of things, from Human Research customer service, to clothing. I still help answer the phones so i may be one of the voices you hear when you call. I live in fitzwilliam, and i have two grown children, a boy and a girl and a new granddaughter. Secretary clinton well, thank you all so much for inviting me and giving me a chance not only to learn more about this business, which is a family business, 112 years young, and to meet some of the people who work here, as i did when i was walking through and as you just introduced yourselves. I am excited to hear from you about what it takes to get a Small Business up and going and keep it growing in an increasingly competitive global economy. Small business is the backbone of the american economy. Here in New Hampshire, 96 of all businesses are considered Small Businesses. And they employ more than half of the workers, the employees in the state of New Hampshire. So New Hampshire is a perfect example of what it takes to start and grow a Small Business. I come from a Small Business family. My father had a very Small Business. He printed drapery fabric. In a print plant. And he did much of the work himself, sometimes with day laborers, with my mother, my brothers, and me, taking the squeegee, you go down, you go to the next, and you keep going. I saw now there is a machine that you just bought that is printing on all kinds of material, and im thinking back to those years at my fathers plant. But he made a very good living because of his hard work and his absolute willingness to do whatever it took to design, to produce, to sell the products that were at the heart of what he produced. And so from my perspective, i want to be sure that we get Small Businesses starting and growing in america again. We have stalled out. I was very surprised to see that when i began to dig into it, because people were telling me this as i traveled around the country the last two years, but i did not know what they were saying. And it turns out that we are not producing as many Small Businesses as we used to, and a recent world study said that we are 46th in the world in the difficulty to start a Small Business. There are lots of issues, and we will get into some of those, i hope, today. I want to hear from each of you, because part of what i am doing in this campaign is making my own decisions about what we need to do. I want to embed as what i propose as policies, not in ideology, not in some philosophy, but in the real daily lives and experiences of American Workers and Business Owners and everybody who has a stake in making sure that the economy is working again. Really, we have to do more for young people because what were finding is that with student debt and New Hampshire has the highest student debt numbers of any state in the country that interferes with young people taking certain jobs buying a house, even getting married, and certainly starting a business. When i was in iowa last weekend, i met a young man, his dream had to been to own the Bowling Center is hometown. In his hometown. He graduated from college because he worked during the summers and he wanted to own that business, got a chance to do it, but with his student debt it was really a struggle because even though he was very responsible, he had done everything we expect a young person to do to try to better themselves, he was running into real credit problem. Even now he has got the business, but he runs it he has a little grill and restaurant, he with two employees are trying to make a go of it. Here is a young, ambitious guy and when i was thinking about my dad, it was a lot easier in those days to have an idea, what get what you needed, and go to work. As we were walking around, as dave was telling about all the incredible machines that are used here in production, all but one are from another country. And many of them, if i am right dave, are from europe. Dave that is correct. Secretary Clinton Europe has high wages, they have high costs. Why are they producing these advanced machines instead of us . What is wrong with this picture . You can see that maybe lower cost places that are mastering the art of the scene production would be competitive, these are highvalue machines, sophisticated machines. How do we get back into more basic production again so that we can resume our lead in manufacturing . Something that i can get i think its essential. A lot of people disagree with me. They say those days are over. I do not believe it. You walk around here, you see these machines from italy or germany or wherever else they are from why arent we producing these machines . What do we need to do to jumpstart manufacturing in our country . So, my bottom line is, weve gone through some tough times, and i think americans have done everything they could think of to do to get through those tough times. But now, it is not enough just to tread water. We need to get ahead and stay ahead, and people need to feel that their work is being rewarded, that the deck is not stacked in favor of those at the top, that they have a chance to go far with their hard work and their aspirations will take them. So in order to put together a set of policies for my campaign, i really want to make sure that they are in line with the real lives and real working experiences of the people that i would love to represent as your president. So were going to take on four big fights. Were going to fight to build the economy of tomorrow, not yesterday, and make the middle class mean something again in this country. We are going to fight to have Strong Families and strong communities, and, of course, it is no accident that i am at a place whose customer market is between six months and six years. That is right where i am focused these days. I want to make sure we have a functioning political system. I am going to fight for that. I will work with anybody. I have done that. I did it as senator. I will do it again. But i will also stand my ground when we need to. And part of that is getting unaccountable money out of politics, because we cannot afford that, even if it takes a constitutional amendment. And then finally, we always have to be vigilant to protect our country against the threats we know. We can see them. But then the threats we cannot see, pandemic diseases, cyber warfare, etc. So im excited about this campaign. Im thrilled to be back in New Hampshire. I see some of my friends out there in the audience. The first place i ever came for any Political Campaign was in 1991, when i was here campaigning for my husband. In october of 1991, celebrated my birthday here in keene, and i have a lot of wonderful memories. So with that, dave, im going to turn it back to you and we can start hearing from some of the folks. Dave i will ask the initial question, and you guys can chime in. Early childhood is our interest, but we are fathers and mothers and brothers and sisters. I would like you to elaborate on exactly what you think you might do for childcare in the future if you are elected. Secretary clinton that is a question near and dear to my heart because i think every society starts with our youngest citizens. And when i got out of law school, i went to work with the childrens defense fund. So my whole adult life, both professionally and my volunteer work, has been around children and families, and it is to me the most important commitment we can make. And now it is not only that we want to take care of our children, our grandchildren, but we now know that the way brains develop, thanks to all the Great Research that is being done by a our scientists, that those early years really are critical to the success that a child will have in school and what that child can learn and then what that child can choose to do, what kind of opportunities will be available. So i think we have to start in the family. And i have been working on a project to convince parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles, to read, talk, and sing to their babies, and that is equally important in any childcare setting. So when you are producing furniture that give kids a chance to be part of a circle, to work on a table, all of that it is safety and stimulation are the two most important needs that little, tiny babies have. And i think we need a much more broadly based universal Prekindergarten Program so that kids have a chance to get ready for school, and i really applaud states and they are not all the states that you might think of. Oklahoma has a universal prek program because their state decided they would invest in the early years to get their kids better for school. And i think that childcare problem i was looking at a statistic that it can cost as much as 12,000 a year in New Hampshire for quality childcare. That is more than the Community College costs, as i understand it. And what are we going to do about that . How can you expect most families to afford that kind of cost . So we have got to do more to support quality child care and universal prekindergarten because by the time a child enters kindergarten, a lot of their Brain Development has taken place, their vocabulary has been developed. So if we want them to do well in school, and i know there are a couple of retired teachers out there, you want our kids to do well in sc