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A company moved in and created 70 new jobs readily. In of the wind installations america have been in republicancontrolled districts, in states like iowa, south dakota, texas and oklahoma. My question for you is, as governor and president , as governor what did you do to Bring Clean Energy to ohio and what will you do as president . Gov. Kasich first of all, there is another place we ought to locate wind turbines. I want to know we can get a vote. We should locate them outside of everything single state house in america. [laughter] what do you think . With that make sense . [applause] again, we have acted issue of the environment, which we are all concerned about. In my state, i have had a battle with a few members of the legislature. Of solar,s set a goal wind, alternative energy sources, at a goal that we could not hit. We would have to buy power from outofstate. Our manufacturers told us we would have to lay people off. Thats not acceptable, so i told us we would have to reset. Some wanted to basically stop the development of solar, wind and even efficiency standards. They said, its good enough. I thought it was not acceptable. We need to drive efficiency. We should have been doing it literally 40 years ago. Secondly, of course we like solar and wind. Have come down dramatically. The only problem with solar, i have been thinking about it deeply. When the sun does not shine, solar does not work that well. When the wind is not blow, it doesnt work. So what do we look forward to . Battery technology. Nobody has figured it out yet. You would think elon musk would do it. He is a creating something. He risks everything. But battery technologies, when the wind doesnt blow, its ok because we have stored in power. When the sun doesnt shine, its ok because we have stored solar powered. It would be a different way we will think about utility companies, because we will be able to control our own power sources. Think of the future and how cool it could be. Personalized medicine, development of entergy energy. Self driving cars, now that my daughters are 16. [laughter] think about where things are going. It is really exciting. Manufacturing, people worry if we can get that back. But we get it back with low energy prices, computerization, technology, and workers who can be trained to engage in technology. With lowenergy races and a great workforce, the things are all possible. I look forward to the battery technology. In the meantime in ohio, we are going to have development of solar and wind. If the legislature wants to gut it, i will go back to the goal we had which was unpalatable. As president , i will tell you what is cool, we are becoming energy independent. We do have some mistakes that happen. We learn from them. Our Nuclear Programs are better. Everything can be improved. We clean coal before we learned. We are pulling out natural gas. Theres a lot of exciting things happening. This low price plus independence can tell the saudis, if you want to keep funding radical clerics, knock it off. Stop it, we are not putting up with any more. It gives us more freedom in terms of foreign policy. As a veteran, sure you appreciate the fact that we dont have to go to war over energy. We shouldnt need to. Thank you. Yes, sir. I see the Social Security tax 118,500. After that, no tax on the money returned. I would like to hear your position on Social Security and how to fix it. ,ov. Kasich four people on it currently on it, we cannot pull the rug out from under them. We dont have to do that. But we are going to have to set some limits. If you are upper income, with significant retirement, then you are going to get some, but not the benefit you might have thought you were going to get, do notose who are have that kind of income can get all benefit. In terms of the cap, it is interesting. The system, but as you go through a process of dealing with Social Security, i think people will say it will have to begin on it. We will have to see. I would prefer not to do that because i think we can fix it another way. But this is an american tradition. Do, we have to get together and get it fixed. When reagan and oneill did it, there was not any demagoguery. When we improved medicare in the 90s, there wasnt any demagoguery because we did it together. If one party leads on it, the other party just demagogues and scares everybody and nothing gets done. It is essential we save Social Security. Yes. Right here. Family living in ohio. Gov. Kasich i hope they like me. Sure they do. As you know, it is on the border of appalachia. A lot of people have lost their jobs because of the closing of the coal mines. I think these people feel discouraged, because they feel the balance of the budget, a lot of cuts were made to services to a lot of towns in southern ohio. What would be your answer to those people . Gov. Kasich we are of over 400,000 jobs. The single biggest thing we can do is to have a job growing economy. We spent a lot of time in southern ohio, which has always been problems. We even have people down there working on it all the time. Portsmouth bypass, we think is going to bring more opportunity there. I think the arguments in southern ohio, we see progress down there. If you look at unemployment, some counties are tougher than others. River,d to market the the railroads, highways, the cost of labor. We have had wins in southern ohio. Very significant. T is always a vexing problem people dont want to move their business is down there. We are seeing good things happen. Im not giving you a sugarcoated business here. We are seeing a lot of progress with Bigger Companies coming into the areas. People from down there come to see us all the time. We think about what else we can do to bring more jobs. We are very hopeful within a short time, we are going to have highspeed Internet Access for the entire state here it you know what a difference that can make. Highfiber it operates on the same speed as the department of energy. I hope the school in southern ohio, is onto this. Businesses can use it, and research can be done. Will tell you another thing about portsmouth. It is when i first learned about the series drug crisis. Serious drug crisis. Mothers came in with pictures of the kids who had died from overdoses. That is how we went into southern ohio and shut down the pill mills, and got the doctors out were violating their oath. We made progress. But its always tough. The more job growth we have, the better we are. Here. Ppreciate you being what is your take on income inequality in america . Gov. Kasich two things. It is all about skills, isnt it . If you dont have skills, you cannot command income. That is why when i talk to young people, and they say im going to go to school and im thinking about going to school, i want to think about what skills you need based on what your passions are. I believe everybody was created for a purpose, and everybody has certain skills. That is why we brought Vocational Education down to the seventh grade. My plumber, think god, makes more than any lawyers i know. We need a flexible Education System. This is what we should do. , what areour skills your passions, what kind of a job would you like to have . We will tell you what is available, and how you get one. We are starting in k12. We are taking on Higher Education, and we want to have a flexible Education System so people can have realworld experience to get skills. Let me tell you another thing that has happened. Because of the Federal Reserve am i dont want to get into a big economics lesson. God created economists to make astrologers look accurate. Heres the thing. Wendy Federal Reserve right Interest Rates down to zero, you got no money in your savings accounts. But the assets for companies rose. Many Companies Went and took on debt, which they can write off to buy back stock and shrink the number of shares so stop presses went up. People who have money could go in and invest in the stock market. They got growth that everybody else didnt get. That is part of what happened. Now the fed is beginning to change and the Federal Reserve aussies policies. The last thing i would do is turn the Federal Reserve over to the congress. That would be putting the chickens in the henhouse. With higher Interest Rates, things are going to change. Companies at some point are going to realize they have to invest. Some companies are not investing in their own businesses. When they dont invest, we dont get the tools we need. We cannot get productivity. When things like that happen, we get better reaches wages. It starts to narrow the gap. The suggestion that bernie might make, which is we should take from the rich and give to the poor, only in a storybook. My father, who was a mailman, said, we dont hate the rich. We want to be the rich. How do you want get to be the rich . By learning. Skills. Ever heard of a guy named stefan steph curry . What do you think hes going to get paid . A lot. Gov. Kasich and what does that mean he has . Skills. The same is true with a computer programmer. The same is true with a physician. Same with anything. The more skills, the better you do. But i would say to young people, is you are getting ready to go education dont make in a vacuum. Figure out what you think you might want to do. That might change, but think about what you might want want to do and start driving towards it until you have the skills, so an employer will say, i need you. That it . Got it . Thank you. Way in the back. I was probably on Social Security longer than most people in this room, because my father died when i was six months old. I was on it for 22 years because the federal government used to help you through college. They took that away for kids now. I dont know how they will get their education, walking out with 100,000 in debt. I dont have children and it concerns me. Gov. Kasich Higher Education, let me talk about k12 first. I would take 100 for federal programs, bundled them into send them to state so you can run your own program. [applause] that, but yous better run for a school board and change the school. In the old days, you could graduate from high school and not have a great education, and get a job in a skill no or textile plant. And then make decent money. Today, those jobs dont exist here and have to get on the stick so we demand out of our , we wanthere we left where we live we want standards. We want to be able to succeed. Not low standards. Back to college, Higher Education. When you are in high school, students ought to be taking college credit. I think they do in New Hampshire. You can take courses that transferred to college. It is great. One of the kids in our state completed recorders of his first year. Three quarters of his first year by taking classes in high school. When the biggest things students take is remedial education. They have to learn how to do becauseand arithmetic, they did not learn it in high school. They have to spend money in college. Every state should have an Online Program that kids can get remediated online, before they graduate from high school. Im not sure this is working out that great when i explain it. Let me try another way. If you go to a Community College for two years, you are going to cut the cost of Higher Education probably in half. We want to push for you being able to go for three years and transfer credits to a fouryear school. That would cut College Costs by three quarters. You dont have to go to a fouryear school off the bat if you want to get education at a lower price, and still have the degree. In addition to that, the administrators, the school has to control administrative expenses. They are going through the ceiling. The problem with being a College President , if you are one today, what do you want to be tomorrow . Same job. You want to be a College President. It is easy not to stir things up. At ohio state, our former president , he released the parking garages and the surface lot, and everybody was against it. He did it anyway. He got half 1 billion payment. Why is a University Running parking garages . Why our universities running dining facilities . At bowling green, a privatized it. There are more kids getting food, and the prices are lower ran. When the university let the university focus on educating kids and stay out of the rest of it. Things not connected to education, get rid of it. Finally for the big bills, there are a couple things to worry about. Ability, as a and recruiting tool, to help kids loans. Dent in addition to that, maybe we have to come up with a Community Service program, where you can work off some of that. Im seriously thinking about that, because to me, that has appealed. There are a lot of things involved. Now . U have kids in school i dont have kids. Gov. Kasich [laughter] while you can start any Community College. Right here. [indiscernible]. I have a question about Early College childhood education. I have seen families struggle with the cost of quality education to read as president , what would you do to ease the burden . Gov. Kasich you dont make a lot of money doing it. Absolutely not. I love the kids and inequality. What would you do to help families . Gov. Kasich in our state, there is assistance for that. People who have low income. People problems we have on welfare, when a working mom that does not make much, whose husband walked out on her, she cannot take a pay raise because she would lose childcare. We will raise the limit of what a person can earn, and we have to ask washington. Why am i asking questions what i can do to improve a working mom in ohio . But we can also combine the Welfare Program with education to raise standards for early childhood. We spend money on early childhood. It is really expensive. It is really expensive. But it has been a priority. Early childhood allows the development of the brain to for these young kids. You dont want them to fall behind. I dont say its for everybody, because some people cant afford it. Who are lowerople income, we want their brains to develop also, so they can have a great career and move up the economic ladder. When you get the Education Programs back, i want to see how many resources have come back to be devoted to this. People like you have to get up to the legislature and talk to them about early childhood. We will not fix it overnight. We are making progress in each state should make progress. It should be a priority. If we get to the point where theres still not enough resources, within the context of balancing the budget, this probably got a be a priority with a little bit of help to the states to be a will to have it as a priority. I dont want to go there until i see if freedom of resources we can give states if we send the Education Programs. Noommend you, she makes money doing this. It is a labor of love. Give her a round of applause. [applause] all of these are that thing problems. That thing problems. The one thing i think we have to perfections, and the next life for those who believe that. A lot of these things are going to be with us. We have to address them and put together to address them. Could i could tell you, i fix everything and every problem, but i would not be telling you the truth. But i will give you a chicken in every pot. Yes, sir. What is your vision for the exploration of space . Gov. Kasich well, it is about what david bowie sang about. [laughter] Ground Control to major tom [laughter] how about that. [applause] only at a town hall in New Hampshire. [laughter] gave him a round of applause. [applause] guy,t really know this but i keep running into him. Heres the funny thing about him. This is the charming thing about him. He knows when enough is enough. He livens it up, but he also knows when its time to not do it. Now is the time to hold your peace. That was great, i enjoyed it. Thank you. We saw that the other day. I was just reading about it. The astronaut gets out there could you imagine . Hes out there walking. We have not sold the Space Program as part of a new frontier. I think we have a new frontier into medicine. We have a new frontier in transportation. Think about how fast the world is going. Some of us are so overwhelmed, that its not that hot, but we have to embrace the change. They said the astronaut had to go back into the spaceship because we had a little bit of liquid in his helmet. And im thinking about these people its about dreams . We need a dream, dont we . Led anybody take your dreams away. Whenever i write a note to a little kid, i always write three words. Live your dreams. With space, we have problems down here, but we do not want to destroy that. Cooperation with other countries, it is good . I wouldnt want to destroy the Space Program. But we also have to remember that what we got down here on earth i hope you agree with that. With the Political Parties and the media constantly denies it, how will you improve provide leadership . Gov. Kasich i have always done this. Deal with bill clinton. We did welfare reform. Backenny, he had killed it to minnesota. We led a group of people to cut dollar. Out of every in ohio, when we fixed transportation, we had unanimous support. The Transportation Program we came up with, everyone took credit for, and i got none. Its ok. Fighting drug addiction. What you have to do is you have to convince people that their legacy is about more than being about party. What i say, is the Republican Party is my vehicle, but not my master. Why would i want it to be my master . I had two daughters living in ohio with my wife. We built a wife, and i got a report that there are people still living unit. Thats my family. [laughter] get people just get them to rise to a higher level. With on the phone today old richardson, the former secretary of energy, a democrat. I dont like him, because he played aaa baseball, and during , hit a line game drive through my legs to the fence. I called him today because we had in ohioan being held in north korea. Bill has been there. With some success. Why wouldnt i call him . Dick, the former senator, i called him and i said we have worked together. We are not going to poison each others wells, we are not going to fix Social Security or anything else. [applause] reporter ask me, when you say that, do people just think it is sweet and do they really believe it . Let me ask you. Talking about people getting along and holding problems, is that a fantasy . Is that just a sweet comment . Good, we are going to let her know you dont think it is sweet, because it does not have to be that way. But we have to stop all this, its all about me, and yelling at the other person. We can disagree. I fight with people all the time. But at the and, i can find something i can agree with. Do another thing you have to do as president , you have to have the phone numbers of their moms. [laughter] you know how many moms i call . It is personal. What is part of it is, theseonal affairs are people. People are influenced by other people. What i would say to you is this. Im kind of uncomfortable saying this, but one guy said, your greatest skill is getting people to do what they need to do, but they dont want to. , maybe apretty good good gift. We will see. If i get there, a lot of this is going to be gone. I will have you come down and see me and we can have a cup of coffee and talk about it. Will you be available . [laughter] have a few more questions. We will extend it a little longer. You know how i got started in politics . I went to see the president of ohio state university. With 15in a dorm students and i wasnt getting anywhere. I asked her a meeting, they would not let me in, and i badgered them and they let me in. He had a date office. He was very impressive. I said, i have been at ohio state with 48,000 students were about a month and i am undecided. When i look at your office and your assistant, maybe this is the job for me. What did you do . He told me about his responsibilities fundraising, responsibility for academia, and he said tomorrow i will visit with president nixon. I said, theres a number of things i would like to talk to him about also. Could i go with you . He said no. [laughter] i said if i write a letter, could you give it to him . He said, i guess i could. I went back to my dorm and i wrote a letter to the resident inviting myself to the white house. A couple of weeks later, i went down and there is a letter from the white house. I opened it up and i go upstairs and i called home. I said mom, i will need an Airline Ticket because the president would like to have a meeting with me in the oval office. My mother a setting, pick up the phone, something is wrong with our kids. Make a long story short, i went in the white house, and oval office. They told me i would get five minutes alone with the president , as an 18yearold. I was thinking you sure, new jacket. I met the president , i sat at his desk for 20 minutes. If you add up the time i spent n progress congress, i peaked at the age of 18. [laughter] [indiscernible] i have a very difficult question in regards to education. You made me think of it with your great introductory talk. And a up many days, little older than you, but you related a lot of history i relate to. I wake up, and im so concerned about the uneducated electorate that we have in this country. I see that linked directly to the painful, poisonous environment that you are having to deal with right now. We had some great people running for president , we have great people helping our children. We are lucky here to have so many youngsters. But im obviously preaching to the choir here. What can you think of to help us a solution to this truly uneducated electorate we because without a solution we have a problem that we may not be able to defeat in the future. First, i would say you can do enough to make sure i do great in New Hampshire in the primaries. [laughter] thats the first thing. Wait aond thing minute, what about in 15 days . Suggest, io mentioned a Movement Toward negativity. 70 of the people arent there. Let me say another thing. New hampshire is incredible, because you screen everybody. Look at this turn out. We have a patriots game, another game no one here cares about, and you are all out here and are mostly serious. It is good. I have been doing these all over. This state will recommend, whether they take me are not, you are going to make a big recommendation. It is going to be a series of recommendations that are going to pop up. Let me tell you another thing i believe. People are pretty smart. At the end of the day, people are pretty smart. My father was not college educated. s father, terris father. But they always figured it out. Figured it out in america. What i worry about in our country, a couple of things. I worry about the strength of the family. I worry about that. I worry about drifting values, that we are removed from subjective values of right and wrong, more towards do your own thing. I worry about that longterm. In oura serious issue country. Those are the things we have to think about. The president cannot fix families, but we certainly can use the pulpit to say, if you have a Strong Family where did that young lady go . She left. But you should be drug free, Strong Family, get in education. That takes you out of poverty. These things kind of trouble me, but at the end, as long as we keep those American Values in place, love your neighbor, respect for all institutions, including the office of the president , respect your teachers, respect your elders. When we have those values together, we are always going to figure it out. Maybe in some ways, thats why am running. I tried to do this many years ago, as a kid. 46 or something. George will wrote a thesis about me. Think casey wants to be william wilberforce. Hes the man that abolished the slave trade in great britain. Shut my thoughts down anybodys. But i think we as americans know those things that knit us together. It is also strong neighborhood. Hereer thing, everybody better start sticking your nose in somebody elses business. We need that again. I like to say there was a lady when i go into the street on the sidewalk, she would call my mother and my mother would get out the wooden spoon. I did not like that lady. But today, things got she was there. That is what we need to think about. We will better right. I promise you, we will get it right before its over. I think you are going to get the last question right here. Wait a minute, is that a michigan shirt . [laughter] come on. There are some things about getting things together, but this is too far. Bobby, how old are you . What do you need . I even get extra credit . No, youre just here. What the states of the nation will be like for my generation, and the workforce especially, because of the National Debt that we are in. What are your thoughts about that . Gov. Kasich bobby, what do you want to be when you grow up . Probably be a National Sports player. Gov. Kasich i accept that. When you retire from being a sports figure, what do you think you will do after that . Media doctor or im not sure. Think . Sich what do i you know you have to do reading, writing and arithmetic. You know another thing . Do you say your prayers . I think its important. When things get confusing in your head, tell your mom. If you have to. School ande in somebody is ignoring somebody else in your class, you put your arm around them. Ok. Gov. Kasich you are on your way, you are a handsome young man and smart and confident. His your sister is that your sister . How do you get along . Pretty well. Gov. Kasich thats a good answer. Where is your mother . Can i have you and your mom, here . I will need help with something. We think sometimes it is important to celebrate a significant occurrence. I wondered if we were about to do something special. Can we wield that around . Wheel that around . Townhomeur 75th meeting townhall meeting. We have a cake. Can we get it right here . Mom, you are out here to help me cut the cake. Everybody is going to get some. The other thing i want to tell you is we are cutting the cake and celebrating 75 of these events. If any of you would like to have pictures, you are obviously invited. Come on up, you can take a picture. Maybe i will even give you a quarter and you can take one with me. Whatever you want. This . What do you think of that, bobby . [applause] bobby, you get the first piece. And your sister gets the second. We need one for your mom. What is your sisters name . Savannah. Would you like a piece of cake . Yes, please. Lets give her a piece. I want to thank you all for coming out. [applause] remember, we are going to give some to everybody in here. You have to cut them smaller. Ok, everybody if you want teachers, lets have some music. Lets enjoy ourselves. Im not pandering, but im rooting for the pats today. Lets see what happens. [applause] [chatter] [chatter] [chatter] [chatter] former Maryland Governor Martin Omalley holds a Campaign Event at Simpson College in iowa. Life would go the white house coverage begins tomorrow at the 00 3 30 p. M. Eastern on cspan. On. Ell, the countdown is as we approach the iowa caucuses, we are really the only place where you can watch these events unfold as they happen. Whether it is a campaign rally, house party, town hall, if we speech,ring a policy nobody else will give you an unfiltered look as the candidates work a crowd and make their best sales pitch. They will be crisscrossing iowa for the next couple of days, and we will be covering all the candidates, democrat and republican. And keep an eye on what happens on caucus night here and we will be the only network that will actually take you to a republican and democratic caucus. Allou ever wondered how it happens, watch cspan. A with Carlos Lozada, the Washington Post Nonfiction Book critic. Then british Prime Minister David Cameron takes questions from members of the house of commons. Then republican president ial candidate donald trump at a Campaign Event in iowa. Announcer this way, books lozada talks about written by the 2016 president ial candidates. Brian Carlos Lozada of the Washington Post. A while back, you are through a whole bunch of books written by president ial candidates. Why . Carlos it started with donald trump