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seen him since he became speaker. congratulations. our country is better off. [applause] governor bush: we share a common bond. inspired by jack kemp in the political realm and meeting bob woodson, not as governor, but as a person seeking knowledge and truth in the 1990 s, i became sensitized to the fact that poverty is a lot more complex than what the smart people in washington describe it as. it is not just economic. there are all sorts of limits to people s aspirations. how you deal with it is important. compassion is not measured by how much money you spend through washington through a big and administrative bureaucracy and send it back down to other bureaucrats filling out forms to eventually get back into the community. compassion is, in the greek sense, acting on your sense of consciousness. the only way we can become a more just society is from the bottom up, where people act on their sense of consciousness together. in also the ways i ve learned that. one of ....
parts in the country. this gap grows even wider in a state like mine. one of the things that we did not talk about that is a barrier that we have to address and the federal government is doing the wrong way dealing with drug addiction. drug addiction is the huge part of the debilitating cycle. when folks lose hope, a lot of them turn, out of desperation, to drugs. then we have a situation where incarceration goes higher because of the policies of the federal government. that is why, in new jersey, one of the things we did, we said, if you are a first time nonviolent drug offender, you do not go to prison anymore. you go to mandatory inpatient drug treatment. this is the disease. if we continue to treat it where you are not a violent prison and making a profit off of it, you are an addict. if we put them in jail, and don t give them treatment, and release him from jail, and wonder why they don t get a job, they don t play a role in raising their children of course th ....
say in the inner cities why are 50% of the kids dropping out of high school? those kids are observant and they look around and say i m not getting educated anyway. wese are situations that have to avoid. we only have 330 million people. we have to compete with china, india. we have to develop all of our people and for everyone of those kids we can keep them going on that path of self-destruction, that s one less person we have to be afraid of, one less person we have to pay for in the welfare system, one more productive number of society who may discover a new in energy source or a cure for cancer. we cannot afford to throw any of our people away. [applause] the single most instructive force for public education in this country is the teacher s union. [applause] we got a lot of reforms done. we reformed teacher tenure in new jersey. we set up a public school choice program. we increased our charters to the largest number we had bad in history we have had in history. ....
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