from high school need something else. so what i call for is free community college. i want to lower the rates on student loans. right? right now the federal government makes money on student loans. i don t think we should make any money on student loans. [ applause ] right? so i want to charge i want to charge a rate on student loans equal to the government s cost of funds. so that s the second thing i want to do. i want to have more repayment programs tied to your income. right? president obama actually started that. and it was successful. i want to do more of that. so those are some of the things i think we need to do. because if someone is going to a four-year college now, that s the path they want to go, and that s not right for everyone. but if that s the way they want to go, if they can get two years of community college for free, and then do two additional years, and have the rates on their loans be lower, and have creative loan repayment programs, that s going to make four-ye
focusing on the future. i m an optimist by nature. i m a builder, as an entrepreneur. i ve lived the american dream. i grew up in a blue collar family miechlt parents didn t go to college. because people help immediate along the way, i ve become a successful entrepreneur. i ve had the privilege of serving in the u.s. congress, i ve been blessed to be married and have children. this is the first generation of americans that are not going to do better than their parents. think about that. young people today therk want to grow up in a world and live in a world where they get a good job, breathe clean air, where their environment is sustainable, where they re left with debts they can pay. right now, we re not doing that. but i know we can. i know it can be much better. we have to be honest with the
bringing in a lot. it was a struggle. mark: i m asking this because you came from very little, you didn t go to college, you didn t get a high school diploma, and according to many people in our country, that s it, you re never going to succeed, and you re an example of somebody who says, wait a minute, i ve got my oin own brain, i ve got my two hands, relatively good health. i am going to succeed. and in america i can succeed. is that right? it s true. you know i think it would be a lot harder to do the same thing today because there is so much government bs you have to go through. there s constantly a new law, some new rule regulation, more and more difficult to fire a bad employee. i mean, in the 80s, i could go
you can t take risks unless you open your eyes and expose things to other people. i think that s why we felt confident to even consider buying the store because she had allowed us to run things the way we saw fit. kara approached celine to see if she was on board with the bold idea. i called see lean and asked her if she wanted to buy la la ling with me, and she said no. and i said, think about it. i thought she was insane because i was 23 and had never considered owning a business. i didn t feel qualified. i didn t go to college and thought i was going to be a singer, and so the idea of owning a business at first did not ring true to my vision. after two days of fear and doubt swirling in her mind, celine was in. so when ling finally sat her team down for the dreaded tough talk, she had no idea the surprise kara and celine had in store for her. we literally stopped her in her tracks and said, well, how
risks and open your eyes and expose things to other people. i think that s a big reason why we felt confident to even consider buying the store. because she had allowed us to run things the way we saw fit. cara approached celine to see if she was on board with the bold idea. i called celine and asked her if she wanted to buy it with me. she said no. and i said think about it. i thought she was insane. because i was 23. i had never considered owning a business. i didn t feel qualified. i didn t go to college and thought i was going to be a singer. so the idea of owning a business at first did not ring true to my vision. after two days of fear and doubt swirling in her mind, celine was in. so when ling finally sat her team down for the dreaded tough talk, she had no idea the surprise cara and celine had in store for her. we literally stopped her in