[inaudible] there was an interesting saying in afghanistan, you may have the watches, but we have the time. Yes, sir . Hi. She wanted me to shake hands for you. Let me come over. Let me untether myself from this device. Did someone check him . That paranoid paratrooper. Get a selfy. All right. There we go. [applause] my question is, and this data speaking of freedom in the bible and what not, David Rockefeller wrote a book called memoirs and said something that was very shaky and i am going to read the excerpts if you dont mind. Some even believe we are part of a secret, ball working against the best interests of the United States characterizing my family as internationalist and conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated political and economic structure, one world if you will. If that is the charge i stand guilty and i am proud of it. In the investigation i have done and others have gone like the great comedian all rich, reveals that this is an organization, a movement which is much larger than rockefeller called the new world order and pretty much word by word is a fulfillment of the anti one world empire, is to be healed in the book of revelations and daniel and so forth. So i am wondering what you know about it . I cant say that i know specifically about mr. Rockefeller, i am concerned about the United States of america, in the United Nations or global government. When we look at things that are in the United Nations, cumin Rights Commission and the they things, we understand recently the parents of Michael Brown from ferguson, missouri travel overseas to europe to go make a complaint before the United Nations commission on terrorism. I got a big problem with the United Nations trying to come in and supplant our rule of law and the status by which we established the United States of america. Think about the Un Resolution 1618 and how that is classifying certain speech against certain religions to be seditious and you could be open to criminal punishment. Those are the types of things we have to be concerned about. The United States is a sovereign state and when you have people dont believe we have a border that should be protected, that should cause you a lot of concern. That does not say that we as americans are not benevolent. We are the most benevolent people in the world but the Founding Fathers wrote in three different parts of the constitution where they call it repeling invitations, article 1 section 8 stating clearly we have borders the have to be protected so it is not just the physical border but economic borders, borders where all of a sudden the United Nations are talking about how we deal with our children so that is a big concern so you have to start looking for that. The agenda xxi and skull and bones. I dont know about secret harvard stuff. I went to a Simple School the bottom line is this. If you guys are aware of these things, make sure you protect what . The champion for christ and country. Dont surrender your country, all right . Do you plan to run for president in 2016 . [applause] what was the price this year . In proverbs chapter 3 verseds 526 it says trust the lord with all your heart in lean not upon your understanding. And always acknowledge him and he will direct your path. I never would have thought that ten years ago when i retire from the United States military that i would be standing here today. God will make sure you are going to be wary ones you to be. A couple frauds ago accepted a position as ceo of the National Center for policy analysis, s a position as ceo of the National Center for policy analysis, a conservative think tank. If each of you talk to 5 or 10 people about what i said tonight. Cspan is here, what happens if that gets out on cspan and more people see it, the thing is to always plant yourself where god would want you to be planted, not where you think you would want to be planted. We need to make sure we have leadership, servants first, that is the problem we have in our country. I am a a junior at the birdie and i want to thank you transfer from Wheaton College. How many people know what is going on with wheat and college that they are a pc program . Everyone of you live the universe should know about this. Wheat and college is a christian, all male, christian college, a Historic College that has an incredible rotc program that has been around since 1959 or so. The faculty at Wheaton College are christian faculty because they want to make sure those values are taught to their students. They send out the request to the armies that the incoming senior military science professor be a christian. Mark weinstein of the military religious Freedom Foundation which is an oxymoron a foundation in itself has brought a case against the United States army for them wanting to send its select person, a christian to be an instructor and a Christian University for the rotc program. That is what happens when you dont hit tension to what is going on in your country because i can tell you what was an rotc instructor in the United States military. Because i was a black combat arms instructed the wanted me to go to historically black Colleges University because they wanted someone that could identify with the students in that university and even going to Kansas State University ahead to make sure another member of the faculty, the standards demanded of that faculty. So you see again this is how the separation of church and state gets mucked up because you have a guy that believes you should not have any faith and it should not have an impact. That was my an announcement for wheat and college. My question for you, your answer would be good for all of us to hear. As the nation has a Strong National defense, what should we do with isis . It is an easy one. Let me tell you why you dont i isil it is it that you and not respecting a recognizing the modern day state of israel because the lamont is a region. I dont know why the Administration Calls it that but it is dangerous thing to do. What do you do with these guys . You killed them. [applause] isis is winning a psychological operations battle, when you can pull up on your social media and see be headings of americans and other people, that is how you getting to someones psychology, that is how you show yourself to be strong as we talked about and next thing you know all of these disaffected youth, male and females, all across the globe of a sudden went to beyond that team. It was an incredible recruiting tool to say look at us. We are not afraid of the United States, will be heading their people and what are they doing . They are talking. They dont want to talk facetoface. We make from which they were never born, we know that whatever corner of the world they go into, someone carrying stars and stripes in deer shoulder will be there to put a bullet between their eyes. That is the only thing they understand, the only way we can keep the countrys eighth and protected from the next generation. If it is isis, how many years, it was al qaeda, now is a racist, what will become next, youll just get another metamorphosis, nonstick 9 uniform belligerents that believe their vision for the world is the right vision and think about what it was like to be a Christian Living in mosul, one of the oldest christian civilizations in the world and for the first time in millennia theres not a christian in mosul. This is unconscionable. We are watching this happen. How do you follow that up, you got to kill them. The senior university, what you think is the most effective way to combat ideological islam in the long run, as in after isis and dow, and these other groups . How many people here have ever read the art of war . More of you should read that. He says to know your enemy, to know yourself, and countless amounts of battles you will always be successful. We dont admit that there is an enemy. We dont have wars, we have overseas combat operations. We dont have terrorist attacks, we have disasters. When we have terrorist attacks in the United States we call it work place violence. When someone stands in front of the United States of america let me be clear, isis is not islamic, a a Southern Baptist . Are they mennonites . If you continue to not understand and identify the ideology of your enemy. The enemy will be successful against you. Those are tactics. That is the most horrible misnomer ever because terror is a tactic. If you dont understand, what feels them, or this has been going on for 1400 years. When Thomas Jefferson met the day of algiers in france when the barbary pirates were going out and taking our people and attacking our ships and taking them hostage and enslaving them, he asked let me put it in southern vernacular. Why are we doing this stuff, you can read it. You are infidels and we are commanded to do so by and our profits in our book. Thomas jefferson, the astute man that he is, he went and got one of those books and said today we wonder why did Thomas Jefferson have the koran . Thomas jefferson wanted to understand what he was saying we are commanded to do this . How did Thomas Jefferson respond to the barbary pirates, he sent the United States marines and he killed them. And if it does not make you very comfortable, the nation will be at the point fed is right now. Canadian soldier who is standing on guard who gets shot in the back of his head, the two nypd officers who are standing there in queens and some guy runs up and puts an ax in their head, a 54yearold woman who goes to work in a chicken processing factory in oklahoma and gets be headed. The autism, terrorism, what just happened in jerusalem in the last 24 hours . Two palestinian guys go into a synagogue shooting, hacking, three american rabbis lost their life, how was it phrase from the white house . Extremism. That is the same thing they call tea party people. They dont want to admit the ideology. In your opinion i would like to know what is the most pressing issue facing our country today . The deficit . Immigration . The threat of isis . What should congress be focusing on . You asked me two different questions. I will look at it in two ways. U. S. The most important issue facing the country, then u. S. What is the most important issue facing the new congress. Let me start with the latter first. The 114 Congress Must restore the rule of law in order they must once again restore you have a legislative branch and a legal branches of government, you have checks and balances. Too much power is being usurped from the legislative branch to the executive branch in even the judicial branch, too much legislating going on from the bench in the court system of the United States so that is the most important thing. When you want to talk about the tactics, tax reform, economic reforms, and getting america back to work so the we can once again have growth, opportunity, promise and prosperity. End end in a married person and legislative branch, an executive order for amnesty, and the constitution says only the Congress Next rule of law in Matters Regarding naturalization. The president says he wants to release people from guantanamo bay. Article 1 section a clause 11 only the congress is about to make rules of law regarding captures on land and sea. They have to reestablish themselves. When you talk about the greatest problem confronting us as a country, we dont know who we are. We dont teach civics. You have seen those man on the street interviews. We laugh but it is appalling. Go up to a person and ask a question. You can do this test yourself. As the person what is america and at the prison says america is a democracy, they dont get it. They dont understand. America is a Constitutional Republic. You must go back and study to understand what it is. The greatest problem that confronts us as a people is low to no information voters that is being manipulated by Political Consultants to come up with these very truly political models and fores and they are just sound bites and we have got to have a better, more informed electorate. We really have to. That is where i see the two biggest issues. I teach in the center for global engagement. Dont ask me a hard question please. Since we were talking about isis i understand for an islamic, for a muslim to die at the hands of a woman means he doesnt get the seven virgins and everything so why dont we send women combat soldiers in to fight isis . You already have women in combat. You have women in combat in the United States since Molly Pitcher took the place of her husband on the artillery line but when you talk about women being in combat units, being rangers and special forces and things like that, even infantry you are talking about a huge cultural change. What you are bringing up is the issue in kobani the aphelion its been against isis and one was very celebrated, the celebration she was captured and be headed but you are right. Those are the types of things that these jihad warriors fear. You all know about the exploits of former general black Jack Pershing in the philippines when he fought against the indians, he understood they had a fear of having any contact with pigs or what have you. When he kept a bunch of indian insurgent fighters he slew a bunch of pigs, through their entrails into a pit, he threw them in the pit, he kept one alive and said go back and tell them that is what is going to happen to them. Quilt of the insurrection because for them the afterlife, going onto their happy land is very important but i dont think we need to look at that as a means by which we try to get inside the enemy at psyche because america is not really ready i dont think, remember Jessica Lynch when she got captured, america freaked out. I dont think we are ready to have an american female combat troops being captured by the enemy. We have them flying combat aircraft, attack helicopters, Something Different about being on the ground in a combat unit. Not a support unit that got attacked in a combat role so culturally we have got to get to that next step. Second question. I knew you were going to ask another one. Looking for good news in congress if it can be found. To are the consensus builders . To get some work done you got to get both sides talking and agreeing on some things. I you seeing any hopeful signs as far as people that are bringing i will tell you, you have someone in west region yen next door, joe mention is that type of person but if you look at what has happened over a series of the last Midterm Election cycle especially, most of the blue dog conservative democrat is gone so what you now have in washington d. C. Are hard Left Progressive socialist that they believe what they believe. They dont believe in the individual, they believe in the collective. The fact bury lander senator Mary Landrieu is fighting hard but the Keystone Pipeline those in the senate and they are already saying we are going to veto it anyway and so here is an opportunity for the United States to produce, consume and export energy resources, to undermine someone like Vladimir Putin and venezuela and other opec countries and yet you have a bunch of radical environmentalists that refuse to see the objective truth. It is creating look at cushing, oklahoma. Is creating jobs, wealth, what is the Unemployment Rate in north dakota . Zero. The Unemployment Rate in north dakota is zero because of the oilfields. How come you cant take that truth to people and they say you are right . That is the problem. We have an incredible ideological separation in the United States of america. We going to continue to be Constitutional Republic . Or are we going to become a welfare in any state . That is the separation we are on right now and if we end up having more people on the side of welfare in any state as toqueville road a democracy cannot exist as a form of government only into a time when the electorate realizes they can vote their own largess from the public treasury and at that moment on voters will always vote for the person that promises them the most benefits. The result being the collapse of democracy over this fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. 1830, democracy in america. That is where we are. This is a great nation, we always found a way. You got a little bit ahead of me. I was going to ask about Keystone Pipeline, it got the night in the senate by one vote. 59. 31. What would be your stance on the tax code, to be simplified in this way . First of all we have a progressive tax code system. When people Start Talking about raising taxes, most dont understand smallbusiness owners operate from a personal income tax rate. As you raise higher taxes you are hurting Small Business owners. We travel across the country and see closed store front. Americans used the word 75 to 80 . You can easily move to a flat tax system. When you see flat tax is in the world, you see economic growth. You have a two tear flat tax, 20 , 15 , 250,000 is a cut line. Remember the lower the rate the less deductions you have to have. I say you keep two deductions, mortgage interest and charitable contributions but Everything Else goes away. When we look at corporate business tax rates, the highest in the world 39. 6 that is why trillion dollars of capital are not in the United States of america. You are defeating the whole sense of a freemarket Free Enterprise economy which is a fundamental basis of who we are in america. Someone said in a town not far from here, roanoke, you have a successful business. That is the antithesis of the United States of america. And take it down somewhere to 20 to 23 may be, definitely under 25 and get rid of all those deductions. Just a flat tax rate for corporations. That is what we need to do. Hopefully eases new congress will institute that. Last question. My name is ryan chancellor. I am in the second year of my Masters Program and a senior in the rotc program. A smart ranger. My question for you is since you started your career in the rotc program do you have some Leadership Development led vice you can share with the cadets present here tonight that can help the longer have . Absolutely. I started wearing the uniform in 1976. My father served in world war ii and both of them were wounded in combat and they said one simple thing, my older brother was a Lance Corporal they wanted the first officer in the family and that is what got me on my step. This is what i would say to you. All the cadets that will be commissioned one day as officers, go and listen to your noncommissioned officer. Listen to the person who is your platoon sergeant and your squad leaders. They are going to respect you as i told you guys, you have a little gold bar on your shoulder. You want them to regard you as a leader. I think you will agree with that because that is the most important thing. The lieutenants that i saw fail as young officers were the ones who came in and thought i am going to be a general tomorrow. They were not successful. As a a matter of fact when they kept those things over a their troops there troops found a way to screw you over. They set you up. What you want to do is come in and say i am here to serve this unit. As i told my unit, my battalion in iraq, the most expendable person in our entire battalion was me. You can go and get another Battalion Commander but i cant get another soldier. When that is your mentality and when they see that as your mentality and when you understand that that is the model jesus christ gave us, he came to serve. Not to be served. That is why i say the bible is the greatest leadership manual that the world has ever known. You stick close to that word, in joshua 59, meditate on a day and night, turn not from it to the left or the right you will be the greatest leaders the world has ever known. And i think as you go out and you are those champions for christ and for country then when i am sitting in the bermuda shorts with my funky shoes eating tapioca i am going to know that the country is in good hands so god bless you all, thank you. [applause] booktv is on twitter and facebook. We want to hear from you. Tweet us twitter. Com booktv will post a comment on our face book page facebook. Com booktv. Next booktv steve cliff David Goldstein about the teacher worse a history of americas most embattled profession. Hypophysis 1st annual miami book fair. Dana gold steen, this is her book, the teacher wars a history of americas most embattled profession, a teacher Dana Goldstein 11, when did the concept of Public Education coming to being in the states . About 1830 we did not have Public Schools in the United States as we know them today. It was up to individuals, neighbors, perhaps churches to come together and start schools with funding if they wanted to. That ended in the eighteenth ins with the Common School system that went state to state and made the argument to raise taxes at the state level. We need to tell parents it is not your choice, you have to send your kids to school and from 1830 to years after the civil war each stage embrace the idea of universal Public Education which was new at the time. Reporter was the resistance to the idea . Yes there was. Not surprisingly a lot of the resistance was because it was expensive. One of the early compromises that was made to make some affordable which is one of the stories i tell in the book bringing female teachers into the classroom, in 1800, 90 of School Teachers were male. And 76 were female by 1900. Today of the three quarters remain female. One of the big reasons this was done was because Public Education we dont want to pay that much for. Discrimination was not against the lie and you could the female teachers at as much as that male teacher. Host how many Public School the jitters are there today in the United States . Guest 3. 4 million. Host what is the average salary . Guest the salary is 54,000 per year. Host where do they start . Guest in new york city where i live, years of experience can make a 6 digit salary which sounds really great. The secret is how long it takes to get there. Teachers dont get to have a big bump in salary like many other whitecollar professionals. Most of them have to wait a very long time. North carolina for example paying 30,000 to advance to 30,000 one has to work for 15 years. We are talking about being in your 30s before you make 40,000 and a great payback. A big variation across the country, urban areas, suburban areas, but overall it is not commensurate with other jobs that require a masters degree. Host are private schools on a different scale . Guest they pay less in many regions. In many cases it might be easier, so not as many social challenges. Host when you look at figures how much are we spending on Public Education . Guest i dont have that ball park figure, more people on average, we often hear a lot about the panels, and about average or below average in math. We have generous pensions and health plans that come to our future is. One of the reasons is we dont have a social safety net for guys coming out of retirement provided by government in the country. Teachers have fought for that to offset relatively low pay as we were talking about and Teachers Unions have achieved something end Extracurricular Activities for it, transportation. Might not be focused for achievement or student. Host how much goes to the teachers pension . In the Public Schools . I was going to say eight and 12. The city a small amount of that overall goes to a teacher pensions in particular but humanresources, the main cause of the School System and so a lot of times that is one reason. In a time of austerity budgeting in many states, you see a little bit unfairly, teachers as being expensive. That is a rhetorical argument made from the Nineteenth Century to today, resentment about the teaching profession. Overall when you see what teachers bring home at the end of the year is not all that much. Host in your view has the nba Teachers Federation taken positive steps . Guest historically there reporter s. Back to the 1960s before teachers have collective bargaining rights, teachers were making 66 a week, the same as a car wash. We see at Teachers Unions they come to the table to fight the teachers, we see teachers, the middleclass standards, when it had been in the Nineteenth Century, as long as they are working class type of jobs, young women for a few years, there wasnt a career, we did not pay that much because they were going to do it before it was a bit of a family to support and the Teachers Union to move away from that and we see that, collective bargaining for teachers, teachers make 10 more. There were positive changes that needed to do with the country such as Teachers Unions and respectfully. As Teachers Unions gain more power they became less popular and one of the reasons why was they seemed more powerful, studying with mayors and governors, and often times students at the table, as strong a voice for student names and that critique in the late 1960s with the black Power Community movement. A group of africanamerican parents started to raise this issue alongside a radical critique in the 1960s becoming more mainstream to the point where it as the bipartisan consensus over the years the Teachers Unions a too powerful, something a lot of democrats and republicans seem to agree about. And we need to hold accountable so we have standards and accountability. Host do you agree with that . Guest there is a lot of accountability. Before no child left behind the law that president bush pushed, we did not have student achievement number is in every single state by englishlanguage lerner status, by with this students a living in poverty, by disability status and now because of accountability and testing measures we can see how our children are doing in a detailed way and we know so we are not closing that. Host it was purported by the democrats. Kennedy was a big supporter. Host common core. We had raced to the top, either subtle differences . Wikipedia no a child left behind, george w. Bush overall, the most important in education. And charged with is the school was failing or succeeding. That change president obama in 2009. They looked at a lot of research and decided that was not what was to support but the individual teacher and his or her individual classroom and things like race to the top, to change no child left behind requires states they want federal money to evaluate every single teacher no matter what grade they teach. To a lot of changes, everything from kindergarten or standardized testing in art class or jim class or based on a kids test scores. A lot are not tested. Host what is your day job and where does your teacher work come from . Guest i worked for a magazine for ten years covering the democratic president ial primary in 20072008 between barack obama and hillary clinton, and education policy was one of their big dividing lines, president obama went in front of the national Teachers Union and supported merit pay, the idea of paying teachers based on how well theyre doing with kids and he did not get the Teachers Union endorsement. Hillary clinton got those endorsements so this was fascinating, the Democratic Party with the Teachers Union, came into office and a lot of policies are not happy about. Host how much control at the federal level as opposed to state and federal level . Guest only 12 comes from the federal government so these mechanisms are largely at the state level and since the recession hit, 12 comes from the National Center, important to begin with. When the federal government says we will give you more money if you evaluate teachers a said you want to do that and pass laws to change testing policies. Host you talk about the teacher wars a history of americas most embattled profession, one eye you talking about . People criticize Public Education . Guest i was interested in 2008, what job or roll in inequality and the safety nets which children living in poverty, to compare ourselves. And i was curious where that idea comes from that teachers are responsible for closing poverty down and it does go back to the Nineteenth Century, the gap about immigrants, between black and white and in terms of income inequality, fighting about what it teaches at doing a good enough job closing the gap which has often been disappointed in a teacher, with all that. Host different from where we are in miami, if it was the other way, can you measure the socioeconomic standards . Guest they correlated closely. They have found 7 , 7 of the achievement gap is driven by teachers. That means 93 , neighborhood poverty, the achievement is closely linked. That doesnt mean the supply in closing the gap. If we get a better job as a nation to our immediate students we could have all of that and we are not doing that as a country. We have not made that a priority. Host at the same time you are managing in friday when you are going into a rough neighborhood. Guest that is often the idea. We know now because we had a great group of Successful Schools teaching children but doesnt have to be that way. And the management that they can do a lot more than manage, they can focus on what we need to be holding. Host our Charter Schools a new concept . Guest Charter Schools concept dates back to the 1980s, the idea of teachers starting their own school at laboratories and innovation and something the president of the National American innovation of teachers and unions loves the idea, he thought was going to empower teachers but they didnt take long for conservative lawmakers to realize Charter Schools could be exempting Charter Schools from being tools and there we have the war we have been having. And the Charter School as a whole on the same quality kerf, and the same number are average but what i will say is among the most successful Charter Schools, the Power Program schools, the most Successful Schools we have. Host your teacher wars a history of americas most embattled profession . Guest a lot of recommendations. I asked to boil it down. We have always the concession in american politics, education problems i teacher problems so we need to get rid of the teachers and start with a new group. As i explained in the book, we hire 100,000 new teachers in this school year, there is no proven method of making sure the new people would be any better so we must improve the skills such of the teachers we have wind in our schools, their air a lot of collaborative tools we