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"don'tetwood mac's stop" playing] ♪ ♪ [applause] ♪ >> thank you very much. thank you for being here. i want to thank my friend of summiteers for introducing me 20 years ago and being here again. thank you, rodney slater, who, the first of the year, we will have been together 30 years. for his service in arkansas and in washington. thank you, james carville, forgetting our heads straight for the day. [laughter] and for keeping your eye on the ball and never quitting when people told you it was a lost cause. i want to thank chicago for playing for us and playing for us again tonight. [applause] i want to thank fleetwood mac for "don't stop thinking about tomorrow." nick fleet would actually sent us a contribution to support us this reunion weekend. i want to thank al gore for calling in and being the best vice-president this country ever had. [applause] he was great. i would like to thank my daughter who was here last night and you had to leave this morning for that great film and for a wonderful life time of reminding me what politics is really all about. i want to commend president obama for appointing the best secretary of state i can imagine. [applause] you know, i have had a great time these past 10 years being a has been and watch hillary be a center -- be a senator and run for president of the united states. when we met many years ago, 40 plus, to be exact, as soon as i got to know her, i thought she was the most gifted person in my generation. i still feel that way and i am very proud of her. [applause] i was doing really well until i watched those films. in spite of what james carville said, it feels all little nostalgic as i look at all of you here. george washington said once that he had gone blind in the service of his country and had the spectacle. so have i.. i want this anniversary weekend more than anything else as those of you who have been your from the beginning, to be a day of thanks from me to you of gratitude on all of our parts for the chance we had to serve and do something for our country that has done so much for us. for the young people of america, of reassurance and rededication to the idea that we absolutely can get out of the fix we are in and be better than ever. [applause] i am very well aware that the videos you saw, especially the last days of achievements at the end, would never have been possible without my family, my friends, my staff, my fellow arkansans, and people across america who helped me, including people i have known for many years. someone said to me once that i may have been the only person in the history of the republic ever to have been elected president because of his personal friends. and i took that as a great compliment. i thank you all from the bottom of my heart. [applause] 20 years ago, we set out on this great journey in a remarkable time, knowing after the next presidential alexian, whoever was elected week -- would be the first to serve a full term in the aftermath of the cold war. it cast a pall over the victory of world war two and shaped so much of what people in america and the former soviet union and all over the world did in organizing their lives for decades. it was obvious, as you saw a in the films, that we had to rekindle the american dream, we had to build our economy in a way that would give as a bridge to the new century. we had to do it in a way that would keep the world's leaders -- the world's leading force for peace, prosperity, freedom and security. we decided to go forward with some very simple ideas. the most important of which was that we should put people first. that the idea of opportunity for all, responsibility for all, a community for all americans was more than a slogan. it was in direct opposition to the idea that government would mess up and you would be better off on your own with a winner- take-all strategy. it did not work very well then and it has not worked very well since. [applause] we believe that investing in global economics was better than trickle-down economics. [applause] we believed even if those had to pay more in taxes, that was better them burdening our children for generations to come. [applause] those beliefs gave us a whole new direction in policy. a budget that actually reduced the debt while cutting taxes on lower-income working families so no one would ever have to work and raise children and still be in poverty. that one budget listed more than 2 million children out of poverty the very first one. [applause] we believed that we had to dramatically increase our investments in education and information technology, in science and biomedical research. we believed trade could be a positive, not a negative for america. we only have 4% of the world's people, we've got to sell something to somebody. [laughter] but we believe in trade and in force. when we forgot the enforce, we got an awful lot of trouble. we believe america could be a great manufacturing company again and after years of decline, in six east of the eight years i served, we had a gain in manufacturing jobs, something i remain proud of them look forward to happening again. [applause] we believe the most important job in any society is raising children. that is what the family and medical leave act was about, enabling people to succeed at home and at work. if you fail in the one, you're going to fall behind. it's been a very important principle we need to work for again. we believe in children's health insurance policy and in slowing the inflation in medical costs. those eight years for the only times in 30 years when health- care costs had not gone up at three times the rate of inflation and we increased the number of people had medical insurance before left. [applause] we believe you could improve the environment and the economy at the same time if you did it in the right way. i still believe that. [applause] i think it is not a burden on the economy -- on the economy that 43 million more people agreed to clean air. that struck me as a pretty good thing. [applause] we believe we live in a world where we needed more friends and your enemies. we built all of these networks of cooperation with the asia- pacific region, our neighbors in latin america, expanding nato all kinds of networks of cooperation. all we basically did was what we were supposed to do. for 235 years, things have been changing and americans have confronted new challenges and they just did what they were supposed to do. with barely any precedents, anywhere in the world, our founding fathers created a democracy that was strong enough to meet the challenges of each new era and limit the enough to avoid the kind of abuse of power our founders were -- our founders were running away from. we survived the civil war, a great depression, two world wars, relentless waves of social and economic change and social conflicts. to emerge as the people who started us intended, a more perfect union. where we widen the circle of opportunity, deepen the meaning of freedom, strengthen the bonds are community. every year, it seems more and more people we used to think of as too different to except become part of us and are no longer part of them. [applause] so now, the big challenge to our more perfect tuning it is a terrible economic crisis, more different and deeper and difficult than the one i faced. it is about way more than money. i am looking at your s some people i have seen that i have known all my life. most of us didn't have much when we were kids. but most of us never doubted that no matter what happened, we could support ourselves. no matter what happened, even if we did not have a big trust fund, we could make a living and put food on the table, feed our kids, send them to school, have clean clothes on their back. this is about more than economics. this is about human dignity. [applause] i think that is really important. when we have one of these so- called recoveries or gdp grows and 90% of the game goes to 10% of the people and 40% goes to 1% and every year there are more and more people who are robbed of that dignity, that is not the american dream. [applause] i was thinking the other day, i tried to make a list of everything i had ever done and it never earned money. my memory is not what it was used to be. i went to work a grocery store when i was 13. the guy i was working for let me set up a small business on the side. i sold all of my used comet books. how stupid. it would be worth $200,000 today. i made about $30 and thought i was the richest fellow i knew. by the time i got out of law school, i thought of other things to earn money. i never made much money, but i learned something from everyone. i learned something about the work and the people i was doing business with and i learned to give people their money's worth, both my employers and customers. it was all part of dignity. when i lost an election, i thought i could make a living. too many people have been true -- have been deprived of that dignity. not just our fellow americans. it's estimated almost 300 million people around the world today are aggressively and desperately looking for full- time work. so they can support their children. i say that because i think we face a momentous choice today. if we want national prosperity and personal dignity, we have to decide whether it can best be strengthened by yet one more assault on government as the source of all our ills or by building a partnership between our private economy and a smart government to build shared prosperity. you know where i come down on that debate. there is not a single example on our planet today, not one, not one, or an anti-government strategy has produced a vibrant economy with stromboli that broadbased growing prosperity. -- with strong and broad based growing prosperity. but we had a years in the united states where the smart government and private economy produced a lot of shared prosperity and it can again. [applause] that is how we had 22 + million jobs and a 40-year low in unemployment and a real increase in income for middle-class americans and, most important to me, when the labor market's got tight, we had for years in a row or the bottom 20% of working families in comes in percentage terms rose as much as the top 20% and a hundred times as many people moved out of poverty in those eight years in 12 years before or eight years after because we had a partnership. [applause] it is tougher now. the financial collapse occurred in september of 2008 was the tail end of a bad economy, not the beginning. the day before that collapse, this economy had only produced in seven years and eight months, 2.5 million new jobs. the day before that collapse, median family income was $2,000 lower than it was the day i left office after health-care premiums had tripled and college costs have gone up 75%. then, it turned out, the economy which bottomed out in the middle of 2009 went lower than we do. the president was in office for more than a year and the stimulus package had passed before it turned out that instead of an almost 4% contraction in the economy, it went down 7.5%. so, what does all that mean? it means to get out of this fix, we have to do three things. we need a short-term growth strategy, even if we have to borrow the money to do it. the federal government can borrow money at less than 2%. you know i hate debt, but you cannot get blood out of a turn up. you cannot balance the budget in a stagnant economy. [applause] we need a short-term growth strategy. we need long-term plan to deal with the debt when growth returns. and, in the middle, we have to clean up the housing mess or we are never going to get the show on the road again and return to a full growth economy. whether you are a republican, democrat, liberal or conservative, one thing is indisputable. the president has offered a plan for short-term economic stimulus. he has offered proposals to make the housing crisis less severe, and he has offered his first down payment, and it is a big one, to reduce long-term debt by $3 billion. it is up to congress to act on those plans and if they don't like them, come up with a better idea. [applause] one thing i would like to ask all of your ideas on is this -- it became clear to me, first when i was governor -- keep in mind you all cat reelecting me what our economy was lousy. until the year i ran for president, we only had one month when our unemployment rate was below the national average, but you knew we had a plan to change it. we were bringing back manufacturing. we let the region in job growth and in 1992, coincidentally, and i did not know this is going to happen on october 3rd when i was standing here, we ranked first or second in the country in new job growth all year long. but it took a long time. we had a strategy to do it. you have to have a strategy for new jobs every five years. my personal favorite is changing the way we produce and consume energy. you can create jobs in every town and every small community and every big city in the united states doing that. the opportunity is not limited by party philosophy or geography. i like that. i think a commitment to rebuild the manufacturing base will. i think a commitment to increase exports will. we can do better. but we have to do that. there is no example of a country in the fix we are and that can balance the budget without a combination of spending cuts, the people who can afford paying more, and growing economy. if you do not have economic growth, there is no combination that can get blood out of a turn up. -- out of a turnip. why am i saying all of this? we made a decision here 20 years ago, all of you who three or lot in. let's face it, on that day, my mother was the only person who thought i was going to be elected president. [laughter] hillary and chelsea were undecided. though leaning positive. we just made a decision the country needed a new kind of politics, a new kind of economics, a new commitment to get into the next century with the american dream alive and well. a commitment that would restore the middle-class and give people who were poor a chance to work their way into it. we decided to stop the politics of pitting one american against another by race, by ethnicity, gender, by income, by anything else. while we just work together and see how that works out? [applause] so glad we started here. in 1977, in january on a very cold night, i heard my first reception as a public official when i became attorney general. as governor, with the help of rose crane, who is still out there, we began the effort to restore the old statehouse to its original condition. many people have worked on that and then a brilliant job of giving us what we now treasure. it symbolizes our past, present, and future. not 30 years after this building was built -- a little more than 30 years. right after the civil war. when most white males, or the only people voting back then, were disenfranchised as a result of having fought for the south, we had a governor's race here. between a man named brooks and a man named baxter. it was not clear who won. it was close enough that they were shooting at a share. one group was over there by the capital hotel and the other was trying to lodge here at the capital and they were shooting at each other. the president of the united states was ulysses grant. having been the commanding general of the civil war, his authority was so great he finally just said baxter is the governor, get over it and stop this mess. president grant then came to capitol hotel, stood on that balcony you can see today. the arkansas river came in very close to our streets and they had a grand parade going by because they figured we had to stop fighting and get the show on the road. i will tell you folks, in memory of one of the most important moments, we had to stop fighting and get the show on the road. [applause] when we walked out of here, we started this seven-day week, 24- hour campaign. our first headquarters was an old paint store on seventh street. i drove by today just so i could see it one more time. then we moved to the "arkansas gazette" building. the "gazette" has recently closed. in its glorious -- in its glory days, it was one of the most progressive papers for civil- rights in the country. i kept hoping the ghost of its progressive past would somehow sprinkle angel dust on our campaign and give us a good break. this journey begun here worked out pretty well for americans. i am grateful for all you have done. i want to just do two more things. first of all, those of us here, we are not alone in this effort. those who could not be here, we are not alone. i have signed some 600 letters of condolences since i left the white house on the passing of people who helped me become president or who worked in one were both of my administrations. it began in the campaign when we lost my mid-atlantic fund- raising chair and the incomparable paul tully. in my first term, we lost ron brown who i love like a brother and he may be the best commerce secretary we've ever had. [applause] it has continued to the last two months when we lost maria he lay and va rudolph. i knew i was going to be a good governor in 1979 when i took my first trade mission abroad when we went to hong kong and stayed in some high-rise hotel. i thought i was somebody. i had never been anywhere before. . >> in the executive suite at the library. and i opened the drawers. and v.a. rudolph left a note a couple of weeks before she died. and all she said was, good digs, i am glad i was along for the ride. and in honor of all of those people, i would like to ask for a moment of silence and gratitude. >> thank you. now i want to say something to the young people who are here. i have been, you know i have a lot of time to study what is going on in america. i am home alone a lot. my wife has a traveling job. so i keep reading all of these surveys that say young people in the united states are getting discouraged. they are afraid they won't have a better future. at one level i understand that. cause things were pretty good for a long time, and now they are not. but to all the young people i would say, it's all right to be realistic. but to be discouraged about your future is a decision in advance to be disappointed. no one has a right to permanent prosperi prosperity. it has to be earned. no one has a right to a life free of challenges. it would be boring anyway. at some time and another every people are called upon to re-examine the premises of their nation's life. how people treat each other. what rights are extended to what people. and what they do to make a living. and create a brighter future. to be young today and to live in a time of uncertainty and difficulty but also a time of enormous opportunity. a time when you have the responsibility to reimagine the future. the uncertainties of the current moment do not have to exist a decade from now. it will be determined by the decisions we make when we answer that big question, whether government is the problem or a necessary part of the solution. but first you must make the decision not to give up. [applause] and -- and not to give up in politics. nots to -- not to give up in economics, and not to give up in life. harry and linda thomson who couldn't be here today, made a lot of good movies but a lot is when people said i was deader than a door nail in the '92 campaign. i was buried so times i swear they would say i was the first buried in grant's tomb. if you doubt what i say, go home tonight and watch a replay of the razorbacks game. you are cheering and i watched it and i was ecstatic we are playing one of the best teams in america. and down 18 points at halftime. we are toast; right? not a shot. someone forgot to tell the players to give up. so they kept playing the game. and every young person here should remember that. pessimism and cynicism save you a lot of time. you don't have to go through the effort of changing things and you get to be disappointed right away. but if you really want to restore the american dream. if you want to rebuild the middle class and give more people their shot again. if you want to live in a country where immigrants can be a part of our humanity again. [applause] you got to play the game. at the core of this country there has always been an idea, if you work hard and play by the rules. you get a chance to live the dream and give your children a chance to chase theirs. no guarantee but a chance for all. in order to do that, we have to believe, we have to think, and we have to act. that's what we try do for eight good years. and for all of you who took me through those two campaigns. our earlier days in arkansas and those eight years in washington, i am profoundly grateful. now another young president is facing similar challenges. i will say this, i suppose i will pulling harder for him because he showed such good judgment in picking his secretary of state. but i would be pulling for him regardless. because underlying those challenges is the same old debate. about whether government is the problem, or we need smart government in a changie ining economy, working together to create the opportunities for tomorrow. for all of you who have helped me, i would like to end this ceremony by giving everyone a gold watch. some of us are old enough to earn it. but america, america has never been a retirement party. and it isn't now. america is a constant invitation to suit up and play again. [applause] >> and so -- [applause] if you really are proud of what we did, help a kid stay in school. hire someone if you can. start a business if you can. make your voice heard. and remind people that conflict is necessary in life. and can somehow be great for a political campaign. but america got to this point through cooperation. through striving relentlessly, repeated repeatedly, through all the disappoints and setbacks and difficulties for the more perfect union of our founders' dreams. maybe i am crazy as i age. but i am not pessimistic. i still believe in the promise of this country. i still believe in every place -- every place in america can be a place called home. [applause] and if you really believe in what we did here all those years ago, if you are still proud of it. and most importantly if you want it to happen again and give your kids and grandkids and for some of you your great-grandkids, what you know in your bones they deserve. play again. god bless you. [applause] ♪ don't stop thinking about tomorrow ♪ you it will soon be here ♪ yesterday is gone, yesterday is gone. ♪ why not think about times to come ♪ and about the things you have done ♪ if your life was great, think about what tomorrow can do. ♪ don't stop thinking about tomorrow, don't stop, it will be soon be here ♪ it's better than before, yesterday is gone, yesterday is gone ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the house meets on monday at 2 p.m. with the first roll call votes expected after 6:30. this week they will expect a spending plan through november. watch live to live coverage on c-span. next week the senate will consider a debate and six nominations including henry floyd from south carolina to be a u.s. circuit judge. see this live on c-span 2. the head of the university curriculum say that tenure need to be spoken freely. >> if you don't like what the policy that president makes and that shared government speech is what academic freedom protects. without that you don't have the expertise of the faculty. >> cary nelson, tonight on c-span's "q & a." >> now get regular updates on c-span network, and get tweets what links are live. it's easy to sign up, go to twitter.com/c-span and see what to watch on c-span 1, 2 and 3 now. >> republican presidential candidate and texas governor rick perry. held a townhall session in new hampshire. new hampshire is scheduled to hold their first primary though the date has not been set. >> i know or i think know now how it must feel down in texas, it's hot. and i am going to invite the governor back to new hampshire this winter to go snowmobiling. >> i will be back. >> i want to thank bill poley to invite me down, and john stevens for his kind words. and i want to take a second and a show of hands of how many veterans we have in this audience tonight. let's give them a big hand, folks. [applause] thank you to all of our veterans for all you do. i am her >> thank you to all the veterans for what you do. perry, and he has agreed to sign the thompson presidential pledge, which you see here. i would like to give a little background. new hampshire is a state which has no sales or income tax. this is because of my father, in big part. [applause] 40 years ago, he galvanized the pledge in new hampshire. he promised the people before they voted for him that he would veto a sales or income tax. today, new hampshire is one of two states that does not have a sales or income tax. excuse me. the 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. i looked in her eyes and thought to myself, "this granddaughter is already -- she has a $48,000 debt with the national debt, for every man, woman, and child." it is this next election 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. 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. 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 the individuals appear that have signed -- mitt romney, rick santorum, buddy roemer, and christopher hill. i thank you for coming to new hampshire and signing the pledge. [applause] i forgot to tell the governor that the act was my father's when he campaigned for years ago. i know things are busy in texas. [applause] but in new hampshire, we have the biggest axe. >> 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. thank you, sir. i am proud to sign the thompson presidential pledge. it provides the kind of conservative reform we need in this country. it is the reduction in taxes, the spending and the size of government we are seeing grow on an almost exponential basis. it is the commitment to secure our border. it is the commitment to make american energy independent in eight years. and my solemn commitment to uphold and protect this constitution of the united states. [applause] i want to thank you. i want to thank you as the author of this pledge. on behalf of all the conservatives across this country, and for people who believe in those principles, i want to say it is a great honor to be with you. jim is a marine of some renown. thank you for your service to this country. you and other men and women are defending our freedoms today. the greatest privilege in my life. -- in my life was to wear the uniform of our country. [applause] our country is in trouble. when one in six work-eligible americans cannot find a job, our country is in trouble. i am not just talking numbers. we are talking about fellow americans, neighbors. friends. our relatives. the fact is there is nothing ailing america that the rebirth of freedom cannot cure. [applause] i am going to bring that prosperity back by enlisting america's greatest american -- greatest economic advantage, and that is freedom. freedom from too much government, too much spending, too much borrowing, too much regulation. imagine for a minute and america -- an america where we can set our people free. employers who are free from over regulation would once again be able to invest in the economy and create jobs. americans would get back to work, stop worrying about whether they could meet the mortgage payment, put food on their table, put fuel in their gas tank. families would be able to get a head again and plan for the future. the key to prosperity is liberty. the larger government grows, the smaller our circle of freedoms. it is time to set the american free again from the burden of big government. your father understood that, tom. freedom works. it has been working that way in my state for some time. as john shared with you, my home state, this june of 2009 -- 40% of all the jobs created in america were created there. our credit rating went up at the same time, i might add. [applause] i have a government based on a few guiding principles. your dad would love this best of all. do not spend all the money. second, have a tax burden that has as light a touch on job critters as you can. three is a regulatory climate that is fair and predictable. fourth, a legal system that does not allow for over-suing, so you can create jobs. [applause] 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 the budget that said we can operate within our needs. we do not have to raise taxes just so some people can say you cannot live without government spending at this level. we are doing it in my home state. since i became governor, we have created more than a million jobs in texas. the simple truth is freedom works. freedom has always worked. sadly, washington has forgotten that fact. it is time to get america working again. we have to cut the taxes for the families and employers. we have to freeze phaedra regulations. we have to stop the generational flecked with this monster is and record debt. if you elect me president, i promise to things. on my first day in office, i will walk into the oval office, take out a sharpie, and sign an executive order to do away with this bunch of obamacare. [applause] thank you. while you are up, let me share with you the second thing i am going to do. i will go in that office every day and try to make washington, d.c. as into -- as inconsequential in your life as i can. [applause] i believe in this country. i believe in our purpose. i believe in her promise. i believe that our best days are yet lived. there are young people in this audience his 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. with your help, we will get america working again, get this country moving forward. 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. [applause] >> your water is over here. thank you, governor. >> i think we are going to do a few questions. let me get rid of that, because they may start -- i may start sweating in a minute. that is a good thing. john, i will let you moderate. let's go. >> first question, front row. right here. >> about the tax on small business -- as president, what would you do to alleviate that so we can grow? >> in my state, you have a record to back it up, not just hear somebody talking. we reduced our franchise tax from 1% to 0.5%. 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 are not going to risk their capital. the government's job is this. the government never creates the jobs. the government takes money from the private sector and spread 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. the way you build the confidence for those individuals is to create an environment -- as i said earlier, the government does not create jobs. government can 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 flowerless -- frivolous lawsuits to flourish. those are the things we will do. lower the corporate tax rate. lower the personal tax rate. the idea that we have $1.70 trillion offshore that has been generated by american companies that they will not bring back into this country to invest or create jobs because the 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 have lowered our taxes. we have lowered our regulatory climate. we have put protections in our legal system. we just passed "blues or pay -- lose or pay." you are not going to spend time at the courthouse. you will be out there doing what small businessmen and women do. when you are confidence you will not be over regulated or over litigated, you will hire people, expand your business. that is the way this country can get back on track, and get back on track in a hurry. pull those regulations that are killing jobs. either get rid of obamacare, and lower the tax burden on americans. it is that simple, but you have to have a president that is committed and courageous to do that. i will do that. [applause] phyllis, how are you? >> thank you for coming. >> absolutely. >> thank you for coming to derry. right now, the senior population is the highest population in the country. seniors -- there are the most seniors on food stamps, welfare. anything that helps reduce their burden, they are doing it. but they have not had -- from social security, they have not had a raise in three years. what are we going to do to help the senior population? >> one of the big costs seniors have is the cost of energy. whether it is buying gasoline for the automobile, putting its electricity or oil or however you heat the and/or cool -- you do not have a real problem with the cooling appear. we have that down in texas. energy cost is one of those things. freeing up our domestic energy production will do two things. it will get this country working and more people put to work than anything we can probably do. to do that, i am talking about removing onerous regulations we are seeing out of the epa and other agencies of government that our job-killers. -- are job-killers, and free up this country. we have centuries of energy in this country -- oil, gas, coal, and wind. allow those sectors to compete against each other. that will drive down the cost to seniors. they are on fixed income. everything we can do to drive down those fixed costs for senior citizens -- and frankly, there may be a lot of individuals, if they so choose, that will go back into the work force again if there are jobs available, either part-time or full-time. i will suggest again this goes back -- the woes of this country, the problems america has, are associated with over taxation and overregulation, particularly out of washington, d.c. our state's need to compete against each other. that is what we do. we should compete. i shared with john one of the ways new hampshire can become one of the most competitive states from a standpoint of being able to create jobs, in my opinion. you already do not have a sales tax and are relieved of personal income tax. make this a right to work state, and i guarantee you will bring people into this state by the thousands. [applause] let me wrap up and say one more thing. right to work is not an anti- union bill. it is a pro-jobs bill. our friends who have chosen to be in unions will have access to more jobs, making it a right to work state. >> governor, welcome to new hampshire. >> thank you, sir. >> you have said that you disagree with the national academy of science's conclusion that burning fossil fuels is the primary cause of global warming. this position is supported by an overwhelming consensus of data. in california, you said we should find out what the science is before putting american jobs in jeopardy. but you were asked twice for sources on climate change, and you ducked the question. what sources of information do you rely on -- >> i am ready for you this time. >> for your views on climate change. >> just within the last couple of weeks, a renowned nobel laureate, who also joined the chorus that has time after time , after information becomes available, they look at all the data. those that want to take the position that global warming is man's fault and it is incontrovertible -- that is not correct. there are scientists standing up all across that are saying that. [applause] i just have to say here is my issue. hold on. i have the microphone. you have your question. i am going to insert. i will let you have a rebuttal. 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 society. he said there is not incontrovertible evidence. here is my point. the climate has been changing for millennia. we go back. it has been changing for thousands of years. for us to take a snapshot in time and say what is going on in this country today. the climate change that is going on is man's fault. we need to jeopardize america's economy. i am a skeptic. i am not afraid to say i am a skeptic. why would i put our children's future in jeopardy for signs that is not proven? just because a large number of scientists say it is man's fault and that is that -- but we are also seeing scientists standing up and saying, "we are finding problems with the model. we are seeing evidence that there may be some small part that man is playing in this." we in texas have addressed this. do you realize we clean up our air in texas more than any other state during the decade of the 2000's? it was not epa regulations. they tried to come into texas after we cleaned up our air and take it over. they will take a bunch of jobs and not clean the air. we lowered our ozone levels by 27% during the 2000's. we lowered our nitrogen oxide levels by 58%. that is what we need to be working on. allow the states to be flexible in how they do this. i will assure you those of us who believe that air, and our children who brief that there, -- breathe that air will make the right decision. we do not need the federal government telling us how to run our state, even with air quality, because we are doing a good job in texas. you may rabat. >> you are very kind to let me rebut. it has been said that climate change is not federal science. do you agree? >> i think we should be skeptics of those who say there is incontrovertible evidence that global man-made it warming is happening and it is man's fault. >> even though there are other things that are not necessarily -- such as the link between cancer and smoking. >> i would suggest that is pretty subtle. i would suggest that is pretty settled. >> thank you, governor. four years ago, we had a president elected on a blank slate. he was able to do that because he had no track record 2.2, none for his opponents to demonize. -- to point to, none for his opponents to demonize. if i give you my vote and you are nominated, i want to know you have the stones to take it to him and hang his record around his neck. [applause] thank you. i want to know that you were going to ask him about the $7 trillion in debt we will have by election time. i want to know you will hamper him -- hammer him over the quadrupling of the last butch deficit -- bush deficit, and for testing deficits for the next 10 years. lastly, i want to know if you will ask him or debate with him about the fact that -- excuse me. about the fact that his budgets and regulatory aspects are not only killing jobs, but we have returned to the days of the carter malaise. [applause] >> i am not confused about what you have just asked me. let me lay this out. 2.5 years ago, gasoline was about $1.60 a gallon. the unemployment rate in this country was around 5.7%. we had a aaa credit rating. we also had a national debt it 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 have a aa credit rating. and our national debt, stacked upon the back of those young men and women in that middle row, it is approaching $15 trillion. you ask yourself -- are you better off today than you were at 2.5 years ago? no, sir. we will take it to this president, day in and day out. let me add one other thing. we need a nominee for the republican party that is a clear contrast with barack obama. [applause] we need someone who will clearly draw the line between his policy and republican conservative policy. ronald reagan said it pretty good when he said, "now is the time for bright colors, not pale pastels." let me tell you -- i am that bright color. [applause] >> governor, welcome to derry. representative john o'connor, for derry, the fourth largest government in the state of hours. i was pleased to see you sign the pledge on the taxes. one comment for mr. thompson. it is no longer 40,000. it is 138,000 per child. per person. my question. recently, you initiated and approved taxes in the state of texas, especially on the internet. you recently signed in a sales tax. if that came forward to you as a national, where everybody is looking for revenue -- my apology -- in taxes and fees, if it came toward you as president, what would you -- what would be your position on those taxes? >> that piece of legislation passed in texas. our house and our senate passed it. it allows for the taxation of internet transactions. i vetoed that bill. that is what i will do in washington, d.c. again, it gets back to low taxes created by low spending. you do not raise the taxes, so they do not have it to spend. i think it is very important for us, across the board. it made it into they added a special session to a finance bill that i could not 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 the 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. [applause] oh, here you go. >> do i need a mic? i don't think so. >> marines don't need mics. >> governor, before i get started i was the chairman of the veteran's affairs committee to endorse you because we can only wish that you've done half the things that you've done for them in texas here in new hampshire. my question is -- and it's not texan related. you're the only candidate that said that social security is a ponzi scam, which i agree with. many of our seniors have been promised that all these years you're going to have money to live off of. seniors get $900, $1,100. how are you going to protect the seniors? i know what you want to do for the ones coming up the line. how do we protect the seniors that are living off $1,000? >> we're going to revisit phillip's question. but the key is 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's stair -- scare tactic that somehow or another because we are courageous enough to stand up and say, listen, we have a broning system. and we do have a broken system. those two ladies, i guarantee you 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 description and the characterization of a ponzi scheme for them to pay into it. and those that are in first than those that were last, don't get it. and we as a country have the courageous conversation and say we've got fix this for our children. we cannot allow it to continue on and say, oh, let's kick the can down the road. let the next president or the next congress deal with it. no longer. we're republicans. we fix things and lay out the idea whether it is a staggered in moving up the age. we're living quite a bit longer bay long shot that when it was initially put into place. is it to allow young people to have private options of -- mike, you might want to sit there and 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 wan the government to run that program. i also think we need to open it up so that the states can again, like they had historically been able to take the employees of the state or the retirees of the state opt of social 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 there for them and young people will know it's going o be there for them. and our seniors, again, allowing this country to get back to working and creating the wealth and running down the energy cost by allowing a domestic energy industry to flourish in this country are ways that we can help our seniors. again, i feel comfortable that we're going to be able to get this country working again because everything goes back to that. i can't impress enough. we're going to get asked 100 different questions, 1,000 different ways. and i know they're 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 will matter, a military one that's funded appropriately,a the research on the 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. and there's only one way to do that is get the tax burden off, get the regulatory burden off of them. and they will go out and create the jobs and the wealth. yes, ma'am. hi, cindy. howdy. >> you were saying that someone like myself in my mid 50's that i would 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 -- if you said you're 55 i'm going to -- >> ok. you're holding up well. >> thank you. >> but you're -- i'm 61. i'm on my way. obviously people your age, your planning your retirement you're thinking at it. that social security payment in total is going to be there for you. any american that's either your age -- i don't know what the right cut-off date is. we can have this conversation with the congress. before that, we're going have a transitional period and for the 25 to 36-year-old 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, planning on it, it will be there for us. it's not going to be a percentage of it. it's guaranteed it's going to be there. don't let anybody, anybody, cindy, tell you this guy is talking about taking your social security out of the way. that's an outright false statement. >> i work in the health care. and as of monday, nursing homes are going to be getting 11% reimbursement to their budgets. 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 -- what is the long-term range for these sneem they have to cut their food and what they're eating. are they going to get orange juice or kool-aid? are they going to get water instead of milk? you know, i don't know. but 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 like -- if they get a urinary tract infection, knew gnome yeah, they're not -- new moan yeah, they're not going to get treatment. they don't want it. they don't know what it is. and we're going to get cut. 20% they're telling us they'll cut. >> here is the kool-aid was drank by the members of congress that passed obama care. and they didn't read that bill. and now we are starting to see the cost of obama care. 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 -- it's going to be our mother's, our fathers, ourselves that don't have access to health care because of the cost 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 dollars 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 in that piece of legislation. fp there is one piece of legislation -- if there is one piece of legislation that has to be repealed with and done away with it is obama care but we will not be able to deliver health care. [applause] there are a multitude of way to deal with these issues of health care. here is one. as a governor of a state in the last decade, i've had to deal with this issue. i've had to balance those budgets. we've gone to washington, d.c. i think since 2005 and asked for waivers on her medicaid so that we can deliver health care 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. block grant those dollars back. the idea that washington ought to be taking your money up to washington, d.c. and deciding how and when it goes back to your state for education purposes is counter to our constitution -- one of the last things number six is the faithfully up hold and protect the united states constitution. there is nothing in that constitution that says washington, d.c. is supposed to be telling us how to deliver health care. 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 the president that's going to stand up and say no longer is washington, d.c. going to mandate back to the states how to take care of health care or their children and their education. [applause] >> is that the last one? hey, bob? >> governor, i should start pointing out that 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 as i had some whiney democrats who were all upset because you go around to states an you were actually pulling in businesses for them and you were bringing them into the state. we're about to get a new governor in this state. i have a two-part question. the first part is what advice would you have for any future governor of new hampshire on how to get that business into the state? and the second part of my question is while some candidates have built a -- a -- a reputation also of actually succeeding, exporting our jobs to china and other places, how would you use what you did in texas to actually go out and 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 that they want to have a higher tax burden, a more ownerous regulatory climate or however they want to describe that regulatory climate. if they want to allow for the personal injury trial, to have easier access, to sue doctors or businesses, that should be their right. i'm a huge believer in the 10th amendment that sates need 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? do 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. canada comes into iowa. i was talking to terry brandted. they were talking about come 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 want to compete for jobs if you don't want to have a low tax burden if you don't want to have a regulatory climate that's at a certain lelvet, that ought to be your call. but when the neighboring governor comes over and knocks on the door of 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 susana martinez who is a great competitor, when they lower their taxes, or when bobby puts a film together and they come to louisiana, i've got to sit back down with our luggetor 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 that we passed the loser-pay bill in texas. it's to make texas more competitive. i think that's how this country will get stronger. it's no allow the states to compete against each other. but you cannot do it when washington, d.c. forces you to deliver health care a particular way, when they force you to education 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 on the corporate level, have a -- i call for president obama to put a six-month stay, if you will, on -- because it's job-killing, regulations. put a six-month stay on all these regulations. pull them back in. test them for whether or not they actually create jobs or they kill jobs that's how you get america working again. i'm excite about the opportunity to make america competitive again. i think question 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 brap it up? >> yep. -- wrap it up? >> thank you for letting me be a part of this. god bless you. an through you may god continue to bless this country we live in. thank you. ♪ ♪ ♪