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[applause] [applause] ♪ ♪ [applause] [military orders] ♪ ♪ [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please remain standing for the benediction. >> let us pray. eternal god, we thank you for the gift of a move -- admiral mullen, his wife debra, and the contribution to each branch of our armed forces and especially this great nation. may be blessed with your gift of counsel and discernment as they continue on the road of further service to their family, community, and nation. we ask your celestial blessing upon the general martin dempsey, his wife, and their family. be with them as he begins his new role. help them to bear the awesome responsibilities which are aced around -- upon him. guard him as he believes admiral mullen, and stand sentinel for each of us night and day. finally, has become to the lore -- caller: of this ceremony, may you continue to bless us and -- as we come to the end of the ceremony, may continue to bless us and keep us. mid-ofunshine warm up on your face, and the rain fall warlock on your fields, and until we meet again, -- fall upon your fields, and til we meet again, may god hold you in his hand. we ask this in his holy name, amen. >> ladies and gentlemen, admiral and mrs. mike mullen. 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[applause] [military chanting] [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> next, republican presidential candidate rick perry at a town hall meeting in new hampshire. live at 7:00 a.m., your calls and comments on "washington journal." >> the head of the american association of university professors says that tenure and academic freedom are in jeopardy and need to be protected. >> tenure creates an atmosphere on campus where people can speak freely, not just in their teachings, but also in terms of university governance. if you don't like a proposal that the board of trustees or the president makes, you have to be able to speak freely about it. administrators should be able to do that as well. so, that shared governance speech is part of what academic freedom protects. without that, you really don't have the expertise or the faculty available to you. >> cary nelson, author of "no university is an island," sunday night on c-span's "q&a." >> this is a dangerous time for britain and a dangerous time for britain's economy. the government's austerity plan is failing. you can sense the fear people have as we watch the economic crisis that stalks our country in 2008 threatened to return. >> with the british house of commons still in recess, annual party conferences are continuing in the u.k. watch labour party leader ed miliband's keynote address sunday at 9:00. and next sunday, british prime minister and conservative leader david cameron. now for regular updates of what's on c-span, with c-span now on twitter. gets tweets once an hour with quick program information, including which events are live, and links to help you watch. it's easy to sign up. just go to twitter.com/ cspannow, and you get the most latest information on what to watch now on twitter. >> next, republican presidential candidate and texas governor rick perry, holding a town hall meeting at the adams memorial opera house in derry, new hampshire. this is his first meeting in the state since announcing his candidacy for president in august. new hampshire is scheduled to hold its primary in february, though the date has not been officially set. this event is just over 45 minutes. >> thank you, john, and thank you, governor, for coming. i don't know if you saw i dropped some money in it, just like what's happening in washington, d.c., throwing money away, but i picked it up real quick. i think i know now how it must feel in texas. it's hot. and i'm going to invite the governor back to new hampshire this winter to go snowballing. >> i'll be back. >> i want to thank jim foley and the derry g.o.p. for inviting me down. i appreciate that. and john stevens for his kind words. i'd also like to just take a second, just a show of hands of how many veterans we have in this audience today. let's give them a big hand, folks. thank you to all our veterans for all you do. i'm here tonight to ask, and i have asked rick perry, and he's agreed to sign the thompson presidential pledge, which you see here. i'd like to give a little background about the pledge. new hampshire is a state that has no sales or income tax, and i believe in big part it's because of my father. some 40 years ago, he galvanized the pledge in new hampshire that he promised the people he would veto a sales or income tax, and today new hampshire is one of two states that does not have a sales or income tax. this pledge is a promise to the people of the state of new hampshire that before you vote for the individual, they have signed a pledge making a promise to you, the people. a number of weeks ago, i was holding a brand-new granddaughter, and i looked in her eyes, and i thought to myself, this granddaughter already has a $48,000 to $50,000 debt with the national debt for every man, woman, and child, and it is this next election, 2012, which is the most critical in our lifetime to be sure that we have a conservative republican in the white house. it is absolutely important. and this pledge, which the governor will sign in a minute, lays out cutting taxes, cutting spending, cutting the size of government, protecting our borders, becoming energy independent, and upholding the constitution, and i believe everyone in this audience wants that. i believe every person running for president should sign that. they have all been asked. you see that individuals up here that have signed, mitt romney, senator santorum, and the governor is about to sign it, and i thank you, governor, for coming to new hampshire and signing the pledge. >> i forgot to tell the governor that the act that he's striving right now was my father's, he campaigned from 40 years ago. and i know things are big in texas. [applause] but in new hampshire, we have the big but in new hampshire, we have the biggest ax. >> tom, thank you, and i know how to use it, sir. i want to say how great it is to be back in new hampshire. thank you. i'm proud to sign the thompson presidential pledge. it provides the kind of conservative reform that we need in this country. it's that reduction in taxes, it's that spending and the size of government that we're seeing growing on an almost exponential basis. it's the commitment to secure our border. it is the commitment to make america energy independent in eight years, and my solemn commitment to uphold and protect this constitution of the united states. tom, i want to thank you. i want to thank you as the author of this pledge, and on behalf of all the conservatives across this country, and for people who believe in those conservative principles, and i want to say it's a great honor to you with you, jim, and a marine of some renown, and thank you for your service to this country, and you and other men and women who are defending our freedoms today. the greatest privilege in my life was to wear the uniform of our country. our country's in trouble. when one in six-work eligible americans can't find a job, our country is in trouble. we're not just talking about numbers here. we're talking about our fellow americans. we're talking about neighbors, friends, our relatives. but the fact is, there's nothing ailing america that the rebirth of freedom cannot cure. i'm going to bring that prosperity back by enlisting america's greatest economic advantage, and that is freedom. freedom from too much government, freedom from too much spending, from too much borrowing. freedom from too much regulation. imagine for a minute, if you will, an america, america, where we can set our people free. employers who are free from overregulation, once again be able to invest in the and he create jobs. americans will be able to get back to work, stop worrying about whether they can meet the mortgage payment, put food on their table or put fuel in their gas tank. families will be able to get ahead again, plan for the future. the key to prosperity is liberty that the larger government grows, the smaller our circle of freedoms. it's time to set the american free again from the burden of big government. your father understood that, tom. freedom works. it's been working that way in my state for some time. as john shared with you, my home state, since june of 2009, 40% of all the jobs created in america created there. our credit rating went up at the same time, i might add. and i've governed based on a few guiding prince pems. number one, and your dad would love this one best of all, don't spend all the money. and number two, have a tax burden that has as light a touch on the job creators as you can have. three is a regulator climate that is fair and predictable. and number four, a legal system that doesn't allow for oversuing so that you can create jobs. we cut our property taxes by a third. we cut our taxes on small businesses. we cut state spending for the first time since world war ii. i was proud to sign that budget that said no, we can't -- we can operate within our needs. we don't have to raise taxes just so that some people can say, you know, you can't live without government spending at this level. we're doing it in my home state. since i became governor, we've created more than a million jobs in texas. the simple truth is freedom works. freedom has always worked. but sadly, washington has forgotten that fact. and it's time to get america working again. we got to cut the taxes for families and employers. we got to freeze these regulations. we got to stop the generational theft that's going on with this monstrous debt. if you elect me president, i will promise you two things. number one, on my first day in office, i will probably take out a sharpie like this one and sign an executive order to do away with this obamacare. thank you. and while you're up, let me just share with you the second thing that i'm going to do. i will go in that office every day and try to make washington, d.c. as inconsequential in your life as i can. i believe in this country. i believe in this country. i believe in a purpose. i believe in her promise. i believe our best days are yet lived. there are young people whose best days are going to be ahead of them. their future is going to be better than ours. we're going to write history in the days ahead that are some of the greatest exploits in america's history. and with your help, we're going to get america working again, get this country moving forward, and i will say one more thing. thank you for loving your country enough to be here, to be engaged, and to get our country back and working again. god bless you, and thank you all for coming out. >> thank you, governor. >> i think we're going to do a few questions. let me kind of get rid of that, because i may start sweating here in a minute. that's a good thing. john, i'm going to let you kind of moderate. >> governor, you ready? >> roger. let's go. turn them loose. >> first question, front row, right here. >> what about the taxes on small businesses? if elected president, would you alleviate that burden so we can grow? >> one of the things we did in my home state, just so you got a record to back it up, not just hear somebody talking, but we reduced our franchise tax from 4.5% down to 1%, and that's the type of message that you send across the board. every small businessman and woman knows something. if you have a regulatory climate that is unpredictable and burdensome on them, you have a tax structure where they cannot keep more of what they work for. they're not going to risk their capital. government's job is this. government never creates a job. the fact is the government takes money from the private sector and then spreads it around. we need to get back to understanding truly that the engine of this country is in small business, men and women who are willing to risk their capital. and the way you build the confidence for those individuals is to create an environment -- as i said earlier, government doesn't create jobs. government can either create an environment that is positive for job creation or they can put up barriers, which are higher taxes, higher regulation, allowing a legal system that causes frive russ lawsuits to flourish. those are the things that we will do in washington, d.c., lower the corporate tax rate, lower the personal tax rate. the idea that we've got $1.7 trillion offshore that has been generated by american companies, but they will not bring it back into this country to invest or to create jobs, because they tax it at 35%. that money will never come back. lower the taxes. there is a model for this working. in the last decade in texas, we've lowered our taxes, we've lowered our regulatory climate, we've put protections in our legal systems. as a matter of fact, we just passed looser pay in the state of texas in this last june. that's a powerful message. you're not going to spend your time at the courthouse. you're going to be out there doing what small businessmen and women do, and that is, when you're confident that you're not going to be overtaxed, overregulated, or overlitigated, you will hire people, expand your business, and that is the way that this country can get back on track and get back on track in a hurry. you need to pull those regulations back that are going forward that are killing jobs today. you need to get rid of obamacare and lower the tax burden on americans. it truly is that simple, but you got to have a president that is committed and courageous to do it, and i will do that. if i am is, how are you, ma'am? >> thank you for coming to derry. right now, the senior population is the highest population in the country. seniors, there's more seniors on food stamps, welfare, anything that helps reduce their burden, they're doing it. but, you know, they haven't had -- from social security, they haven't even had a raise in three years. so what are we going to do to help the senior population? >> you know, one of the big costs that seniors have is the cost of energy. you think about whether it's buying gasoline for the automobile, whether it's putting either electricity or the oil or however you heat and/or cool, you all don't have a real problem with that cooling thing down there. we got that in texas. but the fact is the energy cost is one of those things, and freeing up our domestic energy production, i will suggest to you will do two things. number one, it will get this country working, and more people put to work than anything that we can probably do, and to do that, i'm talking about removing those onerous regulations we're seeing come out of the e.p.a. and other agencies of government that are job-killers. and really free up this country. we've got centuries of energy in this country, either oil and gas or coal and wind, and allow those energy sectors to compete against each other, and that will drive down the cost of the seniors' expenses, because they're on fixed income. everything that we can do to drive down those fixed costs for our senior citizens. and frankly, there may be a lot of those individuals if they so choose that are going to go back into the workforce again, if there are jobs that are available, either part-time or full-time. so i will suggest to you again, this goes back -- the woes of this country, the problems that america have are associated with overtaxation and overregulation, particularly out of washington, d.c. our states need to compete against each other. that's what we do. we should compete. i shared with john one of the ways that new hampshire could become one of the most competitive states from the standpoint of being able to create jobs, in my opinion. you already don't have a sales tax. you already are relieved of that personal income tax, and you make this state a right-to-work state, and i'll guarantee you, you will bring people into this state by the thousands. let me just wrap up and say one more thing. right to work is not an anti-union bill. it's a pro-jobs bill. our friends have chosen to be in unions, they'll have more access to more jobs, making this a right to work state. >> governor, welcome to new hampshire. >> thank you, sir. you have said you disagree with the conclusion that burning fossil fuels is the primary cause of global warming. this position is supported by an overwhelming consensus of data. in the california presidential debate, you said find out what the science truly is before you start putting americans' jobs in jeopardy. when the moderators asked you twice for sources, you ducked the question. i'd like to ask you a third time. what sources of information -- >> i'm ready for you this time. >> what sources do you rely on to -- for your views on climate change? >> thank you, mike. just within the last couple of weeks, a renowned nobel laureate who also joined that chorus that has time after time, after information becomes available or they look at all the data, and they basically say, those that want to take the position that global warming is man's fault, and it is inexrow verdictible, that's not correct. there are scientists standing up all across this country that are saying that. i just have to say, here's my issue. hold on. i got the mic here. got your question, i'm going to answer it. and i'll let you have a rebuttal. but here, a nobel laureate, a nobel laureate of some acclaim, who stood and said, i want to be removed from the role -- i believe it was the physical side, and he said that there is not incontrovertible evidence, and here's my point. the climate has been changing for a millennium. we go back, and it's been changing for thousands of years. for us to say a snap shot and say, what is going on today, and the climate change that is going on is man's fault, and we need to jeopardize america's economy, i'm a skeptic about that. and i don't think -- i'm not afraid to say that i'm a skeptic about that. why would i put our children's future in jeopardy on science that, frankly, is not proven, and just because there is a large number of scientists that stand up and say, oh, it's man's fault, and that is that. we're also seeing scientists stand up and saying, we're finding problems with the models, we're seeing evidence that there may be some small part that man is playing in this, and we in texas have addressed this. you realize we cleaned up our air in texas more than any other state, mike, during the decade of the 2000's. no, it wasn't the e.p.a.'s regulations. as a matter of fact, they tried to come into texas after we cleaned up our air and take it over. what they'll do is kill a bunch of jobs and won't clean up the air at all. we lowered our ozone levels by 27% during the decade of the 2000's, and we lowered our nitrogen oxide levels. that's what we need to be working on. so, allow the states to be flexible, and i will assure you, those of us that actually breathe that air and our children that breathe that air, we'll make the right decisions. we don't need a centralized, all-knowing, one side fits all federal government telling us how to run our states, even when it comes to issues as important as air quality, because we're doing a good job in texas. you may rebutt. >> thank you, governor. you're very kind to let me rebutt. >> yes, sir. >> it's been said that climate change is not subtle science. you agree with that? >> i agree that we should be skeptics about those who say that there is incontrovertible evidence that global, manmade warming is happening and it is man's fault. >> even though, the link between cancer and smoking, obviously that's not subtle science either, is it? >> i would suggest to you, that's pretty settled. i would suggest to you that's pretty settled. >> got a lot of folks to ask questions, go ahead. >> thank you, governor. four years ago, we have a president that was elected as a blank slate. he was able to do that because he had no track record to point to, none for his opponents, but my question is, if i give you my vote and you are made the nominee of the republican party, i want to know that you have the stones to take it to him and hang that record right around his neck. i want to know, i want to know -- thank you. i want to know that you are going to ask him about the $7 trillion in debt we'll have by election time. i want to know that you will hammer him over 2.7 million lost jobs, over the quadrupling of the last bush deficit to $1.6 trillion, and forecasting deficits like that for the next 10 years. and lastly, i want to know if you're going to actual skl him or debate with him about the fact that -- excuse me -- about the fact that his budget and his regulatory aspects are not only killing jobs, but we've returned to the days of the carter malaise. >> yes, sir. i am not confused about what you've just asked me. and let melee this out. 2 1/2 years ago, gasoline was about $1.60 a gallon. unemployment rate in this country was somewhere around 5.7%, 5.%. we had a a.a.a. credit rating. we also had a national debt that had taken from 1776 until the end of 2008 to reach approximately $8 trillion. today, driving in, it was $3.40 a gallon. the unemployment rate is somewhere between 9% and 10%. we got a a.a. credit rating. and our national debt, stacked upon the back of those young men and women in that middle row, is approaching $15 trillion. you ask yourself, you better off today than you were 2 1/2 years ago? no, sir. we will take it to this president day in and day out. let me just add one other thing. we need a nominee for the republican party. that is a clear contrast with barack obama. we need someone who clearly will draw the line between his policies and republican conservative policies. ronald reagan said it pretty good when he said now is the time for bright colors, not pale pastels. and let me tell you, i'm that bright color. >> governor, welcome to derry, the fourth largest community in this great state of ours. i'm glad to see that you signed the pledge for the state of new hampshire on no taxes. before i go into that, i just want to -- one comment on the debt for mr. thompson here. at the institute of politics, it's no longer 40,000, it's 138,000, that's where it's at per child, per person. now, my question is, sir, recently, which i'm glad on the pledge, you initiated, approved taxes in the state of taxes, especial on the internet. you just signed in just recently the sales tax f. that came forward to you as a national, where everybody's looking for revenue, which i call taxes and fees, if it comes to you as you become the president, what are you going to do with it and what will be your position on those type of taxes? >> john, that piece of legislation passed in texas. our house and our senate passed it. allowing for the taxation of internet transactions. i vetoed that bill. i vetoed that bill. and that's what i will do in washington, d.c. again, it gets back to tom, low taxes are created by low spending. you don't raise the taxes if they don't have it to spend. i think it's very important for us across the board. it made it into law in the state of texas t. made it into law, because they added a special session to a finance bill that i couldn't veto. but when that bill came to me, initially during the regular session of the legislature, i took my veto pen out, and i vetoed it, to clearly send the message that i want people in the country to know that texas is going to be a job-friendly state, and we're also a job-friendly state because we keep the taxes low. oh, here you go. >> do i need a mic? i don't think so. governor, before -- >> marines don't need mics. >> governor, before i get started, i was the chairman of the veterans affairs committee to endorse you, because i only wish for the veterans here in new hampshire, we can do half the things that you've done for veterans in texas here in new hampshire, so i compliment you there. thank you. my question is, you're the only candidate that has stood up and said social security is a ponzi scam, which, in effect, i agree, because on the committee, many of our seniors have been promised that all these years you're going to have money to live off of, paying for social security, i got seniors getting some 900,000, 1,000, how do we expect these seniors to live off of that money? my question is, how are you going to protect the seniors? i know what you want to do for the ones coming up the line. how are we protecting seniors right now that are living off our thousands? >> and again, we're going to revisit phyllis' question a little bit here that al has asked here. but the key for this issue of social security, and americans need to really understand the commitment that this country has made to men and women who are on social security today and those that are approaching social security, that have planned their retirement on those social security payments. those payments will be there. do not buy into any individual scare tactic that will try to scare our seniors or those that are approaching social security age that somehow or another, because we are courageous enough to stand up and say, listen, we got a broken system, and we do have a broken system. those two young ladies that are sitting right there, i'll guarantee you, they know, they know instinctively that when they get into the workforce, and if we have not addressed this issue of social security, it will not be there for them. and that is, in essence, the example and the characterization of a ponzi scheme, for them to pay into it, and those that are in first get the money, then those that are last don't get it. we need to, as a country, have the confidence to say we need to fix this for our children. we can't kick the can down the road and say let the next president fix it. we're republicans. we fix things. and lay out the idea, whether it is a stattered end, moving up the age of which people are going to be eligible for it, we're living quite a bit longer by a long shot than when it was initially put into place. . is it to allow people to have private options? you might want to say, you know what, i want a private option to decide how this is going to be invested, rather than having the government. somebody else might say i want the government to run that program. i also think we need to open it up so the states are able to take the employees as a state or the retirees as a state and opt out of social security and create their own programs. all of those would help, i think, create a foundation of change for social security so that those mid-career americans will know it's going to be their farm and young people will know it's going to be there for them. and our seniors, again, allowing this country to get back to work in and creating the wealth and running down the energy costs by allowing a domestic energy industry to flourish are ways that we can help our seniors. so, again, i feel comfortable we're going to get this country working again, because everything goes back to that. we're going to get asked a hundred different questions a thousand different ways. i know they're all going to be important questions. but if we don't get america working, if we don't get focused on creating jobs in this country, all those other questions really don't matter. we're not going to be able to have a foreign policy that matters. we're not going to be able to have a military that is funded appropriately. we're not going to have the research and military side to be able to keep up with aggressive nations like china. you have to have your economy working or people working and your economy growing first. there's only one way to do that, and that's to take the tax burden off the job creators. get the regulatory burden off of them. they will go out and create the jobs and, in turn, create the wealth. hey, cindy, howdy. >> are you saying that someone like myself in my mid 50's that i will be entitled to social security or maybe a portion of what i might be entitled to? is that what i'm understanding? >> no, what i'm saying, for someone -- and if you've said you're 55, i'm going to -- ok. all right, you're holding up well. >> thank you. but i'm 616789 i'm on my way. obviously people your age, you're planning your retirement, you're thinking about it, that social security payment in total is going to be there for you. and any american who is either your age -- and i don't know what the right age, the cutoff is, and we can have this conversation with congress and the u.s. and come up with what that age is. before that, we're going to have a transitional period. and for the 25 to 36-year-olds, we're going to have a new program created for them so that they know that they're going to have a retirement program. for those of us that are approaching social security marksening on it, it will be there for us. it's want going to be a percentage of it. it will be there in total. it's guaranteed it will be there. and don't let anybody, anybody, cindy, try to scare and you tell you, oh, you know, this guy is talking about taking your social security away. that is an outright and irresponsible statement by anyone who makes it. >> i work in healthcare, and as of monday, nursing homes are going to be getting 11% reimbursement to their budget. and i'm very concerned, because, you know, these nursing homes, they can't cut their lights off. they can't, you know, cut their electric bill or whatever. what is the long-term range for these people? they have to cut their food, what they're eating, cut their liquids? are they going to get orange juice or kool-aid? you know, are they going to get water instead of milk? i mean, i don't know. but, you know, they need to be able to fund these nursing homes and hospitals so that they can take care of the elderly. and then, they're not getting -- if they get a urinary tract infection, they're not going to be reimbursed with that. but, unfortunately, the elderly, when they get dementia, don't know enough to drink. you can try all you want. they don't want it. they don't know what it is. and then it's a vicious circle. and we're going to get cut. and it's 20% they're telling us they're going to cut. >> here is -- the kool-aid was drank by the members of congress that passed obamacare. they didn't read that bill. and now we're starting to see the costs of obamacare. and let me tell you what the real tragedy of this bill is. the tragedy is going to be in the lack of access. that is what's going -- it's going to be our mothers, our fathers, ourselves that don't have access to healthcare because of the costs associated with this. i don't know, tom, what it's going to cost the state of new hampshire. i do know what the bill additionally is going to be for my home state. $2.7 billion more every year, over and above what we're already paying. in california, i will suggest to you, it will bankrupt that state because of that maintenance of effort clause and that piece of legislation. if there is one piece of legislation that has to be repealed and done away with, it is obamacare, because we will not be able to deliver healthcare. there are a multitude of ways to deal with this issue of healthcare. here is one. as a governor of a state for the last decade, identify had to deal with this issue. i've had to balance those budget. we've gone to washington, d.c. i think since 2005, and asked for waivers on our medicaid so that we could deliver healthcare in a more efficient, more effective, give options to the different populations out there, and we were turned down time after time after time. washington, d.c., has to get a lesson, and the lesson is all wisdom does not emanate out of washington, d.c. they need to let the states be greatly more involved in how our medicaid populations are taken care of. the idea that washington ought to be taking your money up to washington, d.c. and deciding scommow when it goes back to your state for education purposes is counter to what our constitution -- one of the last things, number six, is to faithfully and forthfulful protect the united states constitution. there is nothing in that constitution that says washington, d.c., is supposed to be telling us thousand deliver healthcare. there's nothing in there that says washington, d.c., is supposed to be telling us how to educate our children. that needs to stop. and i'm going stand up and say no longer is washington, d.c. going to mandate how to take care of healthcare, their children, and their education. >> governor, shed started off by saying you have a bit of a reputation, and that reputation is this -- some of us blog for you, and one of the most interesting things is i had some whiny democrats who are all upset because you'd go around to states and you were actually pulling in businesses, and you'd lobby businesses, and you were bringing them into the state. we're about to get a new governor. what advice would you have for any future governor of new hampshire on how to go get that business into the state, and then the second part of my question is, while some candidates have built a reputation of exporting our jobs, how would you use what did you in texas to pluck the businesses back here? thank you. states compete against states, and that is how it is supposed to work. if a state and their legislators decide they want to have a higher tax burden, a more onerous regulatory climate or how far they want to describe it, if they want to allow for the personal injury trial to have easier access to sue doctors or to sue businesses, that should be their right. i'm a huge believer in the 10th amendment, states need to be able to decide those issues state by state. the united states of america, we compete with other countries. so why do we have one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world? you know what that does. it makes us be not as competitive with a country that does not have that high of tax burden on those businesses. i was talking to terry branstad the other day. canada is actually coming into iowa and talking to their businesses about coming up to canada because we have a lower corporate tax rate. this is really pretty simple. i do believe that states should make the decision on their own. if you don't to want compete for jobs, if you don't want a tax low burden, if you don't want a regulatory climate that is a certain level, if you don't want to have a legal system that protects from frivolous lawsuits, that ought to be your call. but when the neighboring governor comes over and knocks on the door to your business and says, come on over here to whatever that state might be, because you're going to be able to keep more of your money, that's how it's supposed to work. and here's the reason why. because when my neighbor, bobby jindal, who is a great competitor, or my neighbor, susan amartinez in mexico, who is a great competitor, when they lower their tax burden, or bobby puts together a film that's better and more hukeraverb for the film industry to come to louisiana, i've got to sit back down with our legislature and say, listen, we're getting outworked, so how are we going to make our state more competitive? that is the reason that i vetoed that internet tax bill. it is the reason we passed the bill in texas, to make texas more competitive. i think that's how this country will get stronger, is to allow the states to compete against each other, but you cannot do it when washington, d.c. forces to you deliver healthcare a particular way, when they force you to educate your children a particular way, when they force you to meet all of these washington, d.c.-centric regulations or tax burden. the way to free this country up and get it working again is to lower the tax burden, both on the personal and the corporate level, have a -- i called for president obama to put a six -month stay, if you will, on -- because it's job killing -- put a six-month stay on all these regulations. pull them back in. test them for whatever they actually create jobs or they kill jobs. that's how you get america working again. i'm excited about the opportunity of making america competitive again. i think we can bring companies -- i assure you, i don't think companies like to be in china or they like to be in other places. they would rather be in the united states of america, but we have run them off with overregulation and overtaxation, and you elect me president, and those days are over. [applause] we ready to wrap it up? thank you for allowing me to come and be a part of this day. and god bless you, and through you, may god continue to bless this great country we live in. thank you. 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