shareholders as the constituency, certain decisions will be made. if you think of your constituencies as the government and local communities, other decisions will be made. the world has actually moved quite a bit. 70 to 80% of young people say that they make some of their purchase decisions based on social impact or social activism. 17,000 professional investment firms representing over $70 trillion in assets have signed up to principals for responsible investing. the people who own those assets, be they pension funds or individual investors, they actually care about what companies are doing. we re seeing more and more alignment between the long term interests of the world and of society and what companies want to do. as you ve seen for many kind of household name companies today, if you have a strategy that
knnumerical dimensions of the disaster, just a situation about 70 trillion gallons of rain, or 136,000 homes and buildings flooded, it s a situation unfolding person to person. some of them now just returning home. susan peterson has to use a canoe to get to her house. it s probably a quarter of a mile from here. she s waited all week for the water to recede, but she can t wait any longer. she needs to see what s happened to her home. she invited us to go with her. the water too deep and dangerous in some spots to walk through. that s quite a current. so this is your house if in her front yard, one of her cars is completely submerged.
is simplification, simplifying the tax rate and making it easier for families to simplify. i think it s important to get the economy going. i mentioned the budget growth. $70 trillion over the next 30 years. the cause is entitlement spending but the reality is, if lawmakers aren t going to spend it, you have to pay for it at a price tag of 3 to $7 trillion is not realistic. all right. i want to talk about the middle class voters. simplicity would be nice but they want to pay less taxes as well. is there any guarantee that the middle class will be hit with higher taxes? the devil is in the details
lost his or her job. what do you tell that voter you would do? vote for lindsey graham so their kids will get a job. the american dream used to be owning your own home. now it s getting your kids out of your house. the only thing we are going to grow the economy is for businesses to hire more people. and you can t do that in the obama economy. it costs too much to hire more people. so vote for me and he we will create jobs in america like we did in south carolina. that s what we will do. would you be able to do it any differently than any of the other candidates on the republican side? you know, at the end of the day, we have got to work with democrats to do the big stuff. i think i have got a really good record. john kasich was talking about the debt. we have got a 70 trillion-dollar unfunded liability of medicare and social security. for every retiree we had 16 in 1950. we have to work longer. me and you take a little
if you had 48 employees, he wouldn t hire more because they get covered by obamacare, go to 30 hours versus 40. i would replace the epa regulation with carbon with something more business friendly and change dodd frank so you can borrow money. but nobody talks about what makes us chris christie to his credit talks about adjusting the age of retirement and what he won t do is revenue. here s what i m trying to telling anybody listening. i understand the revenue part of a simpson boel deal has to be done by republicans. i would close many tax loopholes and take the money to pay down debt and increase rates on hedge funds if you took the revenue to pay down debt and ask democrats to adjust the age of requirement and needs test. $70 trillion short of the money we need to pay medicare and medicaid bills. the challenge, can baby boomers lead us out of the wilderness? there is a baby boomer that will