1 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:12,280 Speaker 1: Hello, I'm Gayheart Gains, chairman of GOPAK. Welcome to a 2 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:16,080 Speaker 1: Campaign about America, the latest in our series of GOPAC 3 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:20,520 Speaker 1: audio training tapes. In this important speech, Speaker of the 4 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:24,480 Speaker 1: House Nut Gingrich lays out the themes and core values 5 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:28,880 Speaker 1: of the nineteen ninety six campaign. This campaign is, as 6 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:32,760 Speaker 1: he says, the campaign of each American about the kind 7 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:36,880 Speaker 1: of country they want for their children and grandchildren. Nut 8 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:40,400 Speaker 1: is acutely aware that we stand at a critical moment 9 00:00:40,479 --> 00:00:44,560 Speaker 1: in history. The election of nineteen ninety six could propel 10 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:48,919 Speaker 1: us toward Nut's Monday Morning in America or away from it. 11 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:53,960 Speaker 1: This is the people's campaign, beautifully articulated by our Speaker 12 00:00:54,040 --> 00:00:57,720 Speaker 1: of the House. We urge you to incorporate these themes 13 00:00:57,760 --> 00:01:09,880 Speaker 1: into your campaign this fall. Let me remind all of 14 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:16,320 Speaker 1: you why we ran in nineteen ninety four, and why 15 00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:20,240 Speaker 1: the American people elected us, and what this is really 16 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:23,480 Speaker 1: all about. After you get by all the eight second 17 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:27,520 Speaker 1: sound bites and the thirty second commercials, what is this 18 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:33,200 Speaker 1: really all about. We said in nineteen ninety four that 19 00:01:33,319 --> 00:01:39,800 Speaker 1: it was vital that we renew American civilization. We said 20 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:45,120 Speaker 1: that American civilization is a unique and precious thing that 21 00:01:45,319 --> 00:01:47,720 Speaker 1: more than any country in the history of the human race, 22 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:52,880 Speaker 1: we attract people from all across the world, of every background, 23 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:57,440 Speaker 1: of every ethnic group, and we guarantee them the right 24 00:01:57,520 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 1: to pursue happiness, to self government, and to justice under 25 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 1: the law, and that that system has a learned civilization. 26 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:12,160 Speaker 1: You are born Chinese, you are born German. You learn 27 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:14,920 Speaker 1: to be an American, and you can learn it as 28 00:02:14,919 --> 00:02:18,119 Speaker 1: an immigrant, or you can learn it as a temporal 29 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:22,600 Speaker 1: immigrant called a child. But it has to be learned 30 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:25,679 Speaker 1: because it's a set of habits, a set of attitudes, 31 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:30,440 Speaker 1: and an approach which liberates human beings and allows them 32 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:35,760 Speaker 1: to compete peacefully in the grandest expression of pursuing happiness 33 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:39,440 Speaker 1: ever achieved by the human race. And we said it 34 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:44,400 Speaker 1: was under threat. We said that no civilization could survive 35 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:49,120 Speaker 1: with twelve year olds having babies, with fourteen year olds 36 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:53,080 Speaker 1: doing drugs, with fifteen year olds killing each other, with 37 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:56,560 Speaker 1: seventeen year olds dying of aids, and with eighteen year 38 00:02:56,600 --> 00:03:00,160 Speaker 1: olds getting diplomas they couldn't even read, and that all 39 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:03,519 Speaker 1: of those things were happening in America, and that something 40 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:07,600 Speaker 1: had to be done to renew our civilization. If our 41 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:10,840 Speaker 1: children were to inherit the America that we had inherited. 42 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:23,480 Speaker 1: We said that would require We said, that would require 43 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:30,320 Speaker 1: having an opportunity society that replaced the welfare state. And 44 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:34,880 Speaker 1: we won the election. And the first hint we had 45 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:38,720 Speaker 1: that the elite media didn't quite understand what we were 46 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:42,440 Speaker 1: talking about. It was about three weeks after the election. 47 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:45,160 Speaker 1: I had not even been sworn in yet, and Time magazine, 48 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:48,520 Speaker 1: just before Christmas came out with a cover and it 49 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:56,080 Speaker 1: showed me as Scrooge holding Tiny Tim's broken crutch, and 50 00:03:56,200 --> 00:04:00,800 Speaker 1: the title of the cover story was how mean will 51 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:05,240 Speaker 1: Gingrich's America be to the poor? Now, a week later, 52 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:11,400 Speaker 1: to prove they were not politically incorrect, Newsweek had me 53 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:18,040 Speaker 1: on the cover as a doctor Zeus figure and the 54 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:24,359 Speaker 1: title of the cover was the Grinch that Stole Christmas. Now, 55 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:32,800 Speaker 1: this was not an expression of bias. This was the calm, 56 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:37,200 Speaker 1: collective judgment of the New York liberal establishment, having looked 57 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:40,080 Speaker 1: itself in the face and said, oh my god, what 58 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:43,479 Speaker 1: if they actually replaced the welfare state? What if everybody 59 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:46,200 Speaker 1: went to work, What if there were no drugs? What 60 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:49,200 Speaker 1: if the country was safe? Wouldn't it be a weird place? 61 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:54,040 Speaker 1: And I must tell all of you. I spent over 62 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:57,760 Speaker 1: a year confused by trying to deal with the national 63 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:01,840 Speaker 1: media and finally had to back all the way out 64 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 1: and think about it and realize that there is such 65 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:10,359 Speaker 1: a profound core difference of understanding about the nature of 66 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:13,479 Speaker 1: life that it has to be directed at right that level. 67 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:19,200 Speaker 1: And here's the difference. Virtually every middle class family I 68 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:26,480 Speaker 1: know requires their children to do work. They require them 69 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:30,000 Speaker 1: to do their homework. They require them to make their bed. 70 00:05:30,839 --> 00:05:32,760 Speaker 1: They asked them to clean up their room. They want 71 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:34,560 Speaker 1: them to do the dishes, They ask them to wash 72 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:37,520 Speaker 1: the car. They suggest that they cut the grass. They 73 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:42,440 Speaker 1: connect getting an allowance with doing something, and they suggest 74 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:44,839 Speaker 1: to them the money doesn't grow on trees. And you 75 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:47,359 Speaker 1: have to have a sense of responsibility, and you have 76 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:49,040 Speaker 1: to be willing to do your job, and you ought 77 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:52,800 Speaker 1: to do your duties. And almost every middle class family 78 00:05:52,839 --> 00:05:55,880 Speaker 1: I know doesn't think that's being mean to the kids. 79 00:05:57,480 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 1: They think it is the essence of raising your child 80 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:03,560 Speaker 1: out to be independent and self reliant and discipline and 81 00:06:03,839 --> 00:06:08,320 Speaker 1: capable of pursuing happiness. And when we suggested that the 82 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:12,480 Speaker 1: poorest children of America deserved the same habits of productivity, 83 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:15,440 Speaker 1: They deserve the same habits of doing their homework. They 84 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:18,640 Speaker 1: deserve the same habits of acquiring private property. They deserve 85 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:21,760 Speaker 1: the same habits of dreaming big dreams and learning the 86 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:25,760 Speaker 1: habits and discipline of living them. We never thought that 87 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:28,400 Speaker 1: meant being mean to the poor. We thought that meant 88 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:32,400 Speaker 1: liberating the poor. It is our liberal friends who, starting 89 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:35,400 Speaker 1: with the Great Society, came to the conclusion that you 90 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:38,159 Speaker 1: could lock the poor up in public housing projects where 91 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:40,760 Speaker 1: nobody goes to work. You could deny them the right 92 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:43,200 Speaker 1: to own property. You could trap them from the right 93 00:06:43,279 --> 00:06:45,520 Speaker 1: to go to work. You could give them food stamps, 94 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:47,240 Speaker 1: tell them to shut up, ask them to wait for 95 00:06:47,279 --> 00:06:49,359 Speaker 1: the check to come. You could send their kids to 96 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:52,200 Speaker 1: inner city schools where no one learns. You could surround 97 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:54,880 Speaker 1: them with pimps and drug dealers and prostitutes. You could 98 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:57,440 Speaker 1: have their children killed and drive by shootings, and that 99 00:06:57,720 --> 00:07:03,279 Speaker 1: was somehow moral and good, virtuous. It is the liberals 100 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:06,400 Speaker 1: who have been mean and cruel to the poor because 101 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:28,960 Speaker 1: they have trapped them from the American dream. Now we 102 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:33,520 Speaker 1: have a dream, and the dream, frankly, is remarkably close 103 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:36,920 Speaker 1: to the dream of Martin Luther King Jr. The dream 104 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:40,160 Speaker 1: is of a Monday morning when you wake up and 105 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:43,760 Speaker 1: not a child has been hurt anywhere in America. A 106 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:47,520 Speaker 1: Monday morning when every American citizen is an adult either 107 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:51,160 Speaker 1: has a job, is creating a job, or is looking 108 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:55,040 Speaker 1: for a job, or is studying to acquire the skills 109 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:58,560 Speaker 1: to do the first three. An America where every child 110 00:07:58,640 --> 00:08:01,760 Speaker 1: goes to a school, the works, where every child is safe, 111 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:06,120 Speaker 1: where the drug dealers are gone, and violence basically is minimal. 112 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:08,440 Speaker 1: It's in America many of you grew up in where 113 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:11,520 Speaker 1: you left your door open, you walked out freely at night, 114 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:14,240 Speaker 1: you sat on your porch without fear, and had never 115 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:16,560 Speaker 1: occurred to you that recess time men go see the 116 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:21,440 Speaker 1: drug dealer. And our dream is of re establishing that 117 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:26,480 Speaker 1: America and doing whatever it takes so that every child 118 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:30,920 Speaker 1: of every ethnic background, in every community has the right 119 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:44,800 Speaker 1: to pursue happiness. And that is our mission in life. 120 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:48,719 Speaker 1: One of the keys to replacing the welfare staid with 121 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:51,800 Speaker 1: an opportunity society was a very hard one to get 122 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:54,520 Speaker 1: across to the elite media, and that's the importance of 123 00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:59,520 Speaker 1: voluntary organizations. Now, you first detected in eighteen forty and 124 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:02,880 Speaker 1: took Bill's democracy in America, where the French aristocrat says, 125 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:05,680 Speaker 1: the genius of America is not to be found in 126 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:08,480 Speaker 1: its government and its laws. The genius of America is 127 00:09:08,520 --> 00:09:11,079 Speaker 1: to be found in its churches, in its synagogues, and 128 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:14,680 Speaker 1: its voluntary organizations, in its spirit that if you see 129 00:09:14,679 --> 00:09:17,080 Speaker 1: a problem, solve it. If you see an opportunity, go 130 00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:19,679 Speaker 1: do it. But you don't sit around and write your 131 00:09:19,679 --> 00:09:23,600 Speaker 1: congressman to set up a new bureaucracy. One hundred and 132 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:27,760 Speaker 1: fifty five years later, Marvin Olaski wrote a brilliant book 133 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:30,960 Speaker 1: called The Tragedy of American Compassion, where he pointed out 134 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:33,880 Speaker 1: that as late as the eighteen nineties, there was one 135 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:38,040 Speaker 1: volunteer for every two poor people. And the volunteers knew 136 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:40,240 Speaker 1: who the drug addicts were, and they knew who the 137 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:43,319 Speaker 1: alcoholics were, and they knew who were harmful to their children, 138 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:46,640 Speaker 1: and they reached out a helping hand. Olaski points out 139 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:50,040 Speaker 1: that compassion comes from a word which means to suffer. 140 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:53,800 Speaker 1: With that it means to go out and be with 141 00:09:53,880 --> 00:09:57,160 Speaker 1: those you're trying to help. The Liberals substituted for that 142 00:09:57,880 --> 00:10:02,200 Speaker 1: the following gal let me raise your taxes so I 143 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:05,400 Speaker 1: can have a bureaucrat, so the bureaucrat can anonymously send 144 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:07,840 Speaker 1: a check and you are now relieved of the burden 145 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:13,040 Speaker 1: of your fellow citizen. And it does not work because 146 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:17,480 Speaker 1: you cannot anonymously help people. You must help one person 147 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:21,400 Speaker 1: at a time. You cure one addict, one alcoholic, you 148 00:10:21,520 --> 00:10:26,640 Speaker 1: educate one illiterate. Progress with humans come slowly and steadily, 149 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:31,040 Speaker 1: one by one. And so part of the reason that 150 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:34,080 Speaker 1: we're for lower taxes, frankly, is so you'll have the 151 00:10:34,160 --> 00:10:37,960 Speaker 1: time and you'll have the money to be a good citizen. 152 00:10:38,880 --> 00:10:41,880 Speaker 1: We believe that if America has been good to you, 153 00:10:41,880 --> 00:10:45,040 Speaker 1: you have an obligation to be good to your fellow Americans. 154 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:48,000 Speaker 1: And our goal in cutting taxes is not just to 155 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:51,040 Speaker 1: help greed. It's not just to help private indulgence, is 156 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:53,920 Speaker 1: not just to help luxury. Our goal is to liberate 157 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:56,720 Speaker 1: every citizen. So you have the resources to be a 158 00:10:56,720 --> 00:10:59,080 Speaker 1: good parent, to be a good neighbor, to be a 159 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:02,040 Speaker 1: good volunteer. And you can't do that if you have 160 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:04,280 Speaker 1: to work all the time to pay off the government 161 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:08,080 Speaker 1: to hire a bureaucracy. That fails. Now I wear two 162 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:10,920 Speaker 1: pins as examples. I don't suggest you should necessarily join 163 00:11:10,960 --> 00:11:13,480 Speaker 1: these two groups. I suggest you find the ones you like, 164 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:15,679 Speaker 1: but let me tell you about them, because they illustrate 165 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:18,800 Speaker 1: what is so different from our approach to America from 166 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:22,480 Speaker 1: our liberal friends. The first one is Habitat for Humanity, 167 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:26,200 Speaker 1: a great program first popularized by Jimmy Carter. I saw 168 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:28,120 Speaker 1: him the other day at the Olympic opening. I said, 169 00:11:28,559 --> 00:11:30,560 Speaker 1: come San Diego. I'm going to be helping build a 170 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:33,600 Speaker 1: house in San Diego as part of our convention, and 171 00:11:33,640 --> 00:11:36,120 Speaker 1: that I hope he feels proud that we now have 172 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:39,600 Speaker 1: a bipartisan effort to communicate a great program, and we 173 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:43,280 Speaker 1: chatted about it. Habitat for Humanity is tough. It says 174 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:45,319 Speaker 1: to you, you applied us for help, We're going to 175 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:48,200 Speaker 1: judge your character. Do you pay your bills? Do you 176 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:49,880 Speaker 1: go to work? Do you take care of your family? 177 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:52,280 Speaker 1: If you don't, try to get us to help you, 178 00:11:53,160 --> 00:11:56,120 Speaker 1: so you've got to have self discipline. Then they say 179 00:11:56,520 --> 00:11:59,280 Speaker 1: you got to spend one hundred hours helping somebody else 180 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:02,640 Speaker 1: build their house the old fashioned Amish barn raising tradition. 181 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:05,320 Speaker 1: The neighbors get to be better by helping each other. 182 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:08,920 Speaker 1: Then you've got to spend three hundred hours building your 183 00:12:08,920 --> 00:12:11,840 Speaker 1: own house. Then you've got to take a twenty hour 184 00:12:11,960 --> 00:12:14,679 Speaker 1: course on how to be a homeowner, because the truth is, 185 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:17,679 Speaker 1: if you've never owned property and you're living in public housing, 186 00:12:17,880 --> 00:12:21,840 Speaker 1: you probably don't know how to maintain your house. And 187 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:24,280 Speaker 1: then you get to buy the house. It isn't given 188 00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:26,280 Speaker 1: to you. You buy it at no interest in a 189 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:28,680 Speaker 1: reduced price because other people have helped build it and 190 00:12:28,760 --> 00:12:31,600 Speaker 1: other people have helped raise resources. But you still pay 191 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:35,720 Speaker 1: for it every month with a regular mortgage payment. The result, 192 00:12:36,040 --> 00:12:40,000 Speaker 1: as Habitat says, is that they grow the family as 193 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:43,000 Speaker 1: well as build the house, because if you only build 194 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:46,200 Speaker 1: the house, what will happen is without the family, the 195 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:50,600 Speaker 1: house will eventually collapse. It's a very different model from 196 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:54,199 Speaker 1: the housing and urban development public bureaucracy model, which has 197 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:59,520 Speaker 1: failed so totally. But there's a second example, Earning by Learning, 198 00:12:59,679 --> 00:13:02,960 Speaker 1: which we developed, which is handled by doctor mel steeleo 199 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:07,000 Speaker 1: West Georgia College part time and over twenty states they're 200 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:09,800 Speaker 1: now voluntary groups. Earning by Learning says the following, We'll 201 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:14,360 Speaker 1: take adult volunteers, public library books, no overhead, We'll go 202 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:17,079 Speaker 1: into communities that are poor, and in the summertime we'll 203 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:20,120 Speaker 1: pay second third and fourth graders two dollars a book 204 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:23,600 Speaker 1: for every book they read. I can report to you 205 00:13:23,640 --> 00:13:26,120 Speaker 1: from over twenty states, no matter how poor the neighborhood, 206 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:29,520 Speaker 1: no matter how much they lack anybody locally you as books, 207 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:32,560 Speaker 1: anybody who cares about literacy, no matter how much they're 208 00:13:32,559 --> 00:13:34,800 Speaker 1: relying on food stamps and have not seen a job. 209 00:13:35,679 --> 00:13:41,120 Speaker 1: These kids know about incentives. They know about Shock O'Neil. 210 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:46,720 Speaker 1: They know about every basketball player, every football player, every 211 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:49,760 Speaker 1: rock star. They know that in America, if you do well, 212 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:52,640 Speaker 1: you get money. And when we say to them, we'll 213 00:13:52,679 --> 00:13:54,720 Speaker 1: pay you two dollars a book for every book you read, 214 00:13:54,760 --> 00:13:57,719 Speaker 1: they get it instantly. Notice we don't pay them for 215 00:13:57,840 --> 00:14:01,360 Speaker 1: being sincere. We don't pay them for trying. We don't 216 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:04,800 Speaker 1: pay them by the hour. We pay them for the achievement. 217 00:14:05,280 --> 00:14:07,760 Speaker 1: And the adults have a moral obligation to really make 218 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:10,320 Speaker 1: sure they ask the right questions, because you cheat the 219 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:13,440 Speaker 1: child if you don't make them read the book. Now, 220 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:16,840 Speaker 1: I became so passionate about replacing the welfare state when 221 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:19,640 Speaker 1: we were doing this project in Douglas County, Georgia, and 222 00:14:19,720 --> 00:14:21,520 Speaker 1: an eight year old child said to us, after we 223 00:14:21,520 --> 00:14:26,680 Speaker 1: explained the program, you're going to cheat us. We said, 224 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:29,560 Speaker 1: what they said, you're going to get us to read 225 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:35,840 Speaker 1: all summer and then you won't pay us. Now, I 226 00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:39,000 Speaker 1: want you all to think about the level of alienation 227 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:42,440 Speaker 1: the leads an eight year old to assume that authority 228 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:46,440 Speaker 1: can't keep its word, and think about what that tells 229 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:48,600 Speaker 1: you about how much trouble we're in as a society. 230 00:14:49,640 --> 00:14:51,600 Speaker 1: So we said to him, because this is a volunteer 231 00:14:51,880 --> 00:14:55,520 Speaker 1: entrepreneurial project with no red tape, no rules and regulations. 232 00:14:55,520 --> 00:14:59,120 Speaker 1: It's local adults doing good things for local kids. We said, 233 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:02,240 Speaker 1: we'll make a deal. Read for one week you come in, 234 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:07,160 Speaker 1: we'll pay you that day cash. They tried it every 235 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:10,080 Speaker 1: week for four weeks. They doubled the number of kids participating. 236 00:15:10,120 --> 00:15:12,520 Speaker 1: The last week there were kids coming in saying, look, 237 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:14,960 Speaker 1: I understand that I have a right to read. You've 238 00:15:14,960 --> 00:15:17,280 Speaker 1: got to keep this program going. I just heard about it. 239 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:47,080 Speaker 1: You know, I insist on my right to be the reader. 240 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:49,240 Speaker 1: So we called the kids back in because we got 241 00:15:49,280 --> 00:15:51,600 Speaker 1: we were sort of fascinate, what's going on here? This 242 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:53,560 Speaker 1: is not the problem you seem to have with Title 243 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:58,160 Speaker 1: one bureaucratic programs. One of the kids explained it perfectly, 244 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:01,360 Speaker 1: said well, what happens is the ice cream truck comes. 245 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:05,360 Speaker 1: I go out and buy ice cream. My friend runs 246 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:08,400 Speaker 1: over and says, how come you got money? I say 247 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:17,320 Speaker 1: to him, I read you know. Now, as the program 248 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:20,920 Speaker 1: has gradually started to spread, there's this is a classic example. 249 00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:24,920 Speaker 1: There's an elementary school principle in Washington, DC, in one 250 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:26,720 Speaker 1: of the most in poorest neighborhoods. And by the way, 251 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:28,720 Speaker 1: I notice, all of you could do this program because 252 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:31,160 Speaker 1: there's no overhead. So if you can afford one hundred dollars, 253 00:16:31,160 --> 00:16:33,040 Speaker 1: you can pay for fifty books. If you can afford 254 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:36,200 Speaker 1: a thousand dollars, you pay for five hundred books. It's 255 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:39,440 Speaker 1: a fabulous direct and send a program at almost no cost. 256 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:42,480 Speaker 1: So a principal in one of the Washington elementary schools 257 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:45,920 Speaker 1: in a very poor neighborhood decided that she would have 258 00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:50,520 Speaker 1: her kids, the entire fourth grade in school for five 259 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:57,680 Speaker 1: weeks participate. Every child started carrying books. She said, not 260 00:16:57,720 --> 00:16:59,440 Speaker 1: only will I pay you two dollars a book through 261 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:02,440 Speaker 1: relearning learning, but I will personally put up one hundred 262 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:05,719 Speaker 1: dollars each for the top five readers. So she had 263 00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:07,720 Speaker 1: the entire fourth grade. I mean, they were all carrying 264 00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:10,440 Speaker 1: books on. They were walking through the public housing project reading. 265 00:17:10,600 --> 00:17:13,679 Speaker 1: They were bothering their grandmother, their mother, their dad, their uncles, 266 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:16,680 Speaker 1: visiting strangers. Let me read to you for a while. 267 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:20,480 Speaker 1: I got a practice. They brought in after five weeks 268 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:22,479 Speaker 1: their top five people who came out, and we got 269 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:24,080 Speaker 1: a nice picture out on the back porch of the 270 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:28,320 Speaker 1: Capitol looking down the mall. The top reader was a 271 00:17:28,359 --> 00:17:32,520 Speaker 1: young girl who in five weeks read eighty three books. 272 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:36,800 Speaker 1: She earned one hundred and sixty six dollars from Earning 273 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:41,720 Speaker 1: by Learning and one hundred dollars from the principal. And 274 00:17:41,840 --> 00:17:46,119 Speaker 1: I want to be candid, I am a conservative. We 275 00:17:46,240 --> 00:17:59,280 Speaker 1: did not report her name to the irs. But notice 276 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:02,640 Speaker 1: with I'm a tat for humanity. With earning by learning, 277 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:06,920 Speaker 1: it's positive, it's incenti based. It's a partnership. You participate 278 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:10,480 Speaker 1: and we participate. We do it together. It's non bureaucratic. 279 00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:14,760 Speaker 1: It's local friends helping local friends build a better local community. 280 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:19,159 Speaker 1: Now let's compare that progress with the failure of the 281 00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:24,520 Speaker 1: Clinton administration and liberalism. Let's start with drugs, because it's 282 00:18:24,520 --> 00:18:28,560 Speaker 1: a threat to the very survival of this country. Since 283 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:32,920 Speaker 1: Bill Clinton was sworn in drug use among fourteen year 284 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:39,160 Speaker 1: olds has gone up three hundred percent. It has doubled 285 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:44,040 Speaker 1: among eighth graders. It began at the end of a 286 00:18:44,119 --> 00:18:47,440 Speaker 1: long success under Ronald Reagan and George Bush. Drug use 287 00:18:47,520 --> 00:18:50,560 Speaker 1: went down, and there were less than half as many 288 00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:53,120 Speaker 1: drug users at the end of the Bush administration than 289 00:18:53,119 --> 00:18:56,720 Speaker 1: when Ronald Reagan went in, largely because frankly, Nancy Reagan's 290 00:18:56,760 --> 00:18:59,199 Speaker 1: just Say No program, which all the Liberals laughed at, 291 00:18:59,560 --> 00:19:03,600 Speaker 1: actually worked. If you say no often enough to fourth, fifth, 292 00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:06,040 Speaker 1: and sixth graders for the time their ninth, tenth, and 293 00:19:06,080 --> 00:19:09,480 Speaker 1: eleventh graders, they don't do it. And so we had 294 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:12,520 Speaker 1: cut drug use by over half. And then a tragedy happen. 295 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:17,040 Speaker 1: Governor Clinton went on MTV and when young people ask 296 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:19,920 Speaker 1: him about inhaling, instead of using it as an occasion 297 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:21,720 Speaker 1: to tell him not to do it, he turned it 298 00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:23,679 Speaker 1: into a joke and said, yep, if he could do 299 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:29,240 Speaker 1: it over again, he would inhale, And within two months 300 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:33,080 Speaker 1: drug use started up. Then they appointed an Attorney general 301 00:19:33,119 --> 00:19:35,440 Speaker 1: who said she did not believe in mandatory sentences for 302 00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:38,359 Speaker 1: drug dealers. Then they appointed our surgeon general, who, as 303 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:42,320 Speaker 1: the leading public health official nined States, said, let's legalize drugs. Now, 304 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:45,159 Speaker 1: can you imagine anything worse for a thirteen year old 305 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:47,560 Speaker 1: or a fourteen year old than to be wavering and 306 00:19:47,640 --> 00:19:49,879 Speaker 1: trying to decide whether or not to try drugs and 307 00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:53,719 Speaker 1: have the leading public health official in America on television saying, well, 308 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:56,879 Speaker 1: maybe we should legalize him. Then they cut the Office 309 00:19:56,920 --> 00:19:59,720 Speaker 1: of Drug Enforcement in the White House by eighty percent 310 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:04,359 Speaker 1: first year. They cut interdiction funding. They stopped interdiction in Peru. 311 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:08,360 Speaker 1: They appointed liberal judges who released drug dealers and put 312 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:10,639 Speaker 1: them back on the street, including a famous case in 313 00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:13,040 Speaker 1: New York City where they picked up five drug dealers 314 00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:15,680 Speaker 1: with eighty pounds of cocaine and heroine and put them 315 00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:19,560 Speaker 1: back on the street for a phony excuse. And as 316 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:22,120 Speaker 1: recently as last week, if you saw the press conference 317 00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:25,960 Speaker 1: the White House, as press secretary was asked a very 318 00:20:26,119 --> 00:20:32,120 Speaker 1: serious question. There had been sworn testimony that day by 319 00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:35,960 Speaker 1: the Secret Service that the Clinton administration had hired for 320 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:40,560 Speaker 1: the White House people who had recently used crack cocaine 321 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:46,120 Speaker 1: and hallucinogenny drugs, and the White House Press Secretary, trying 322 00:20:46,119 --> 00:20:48,879 Speaker 1: to deflect it, said, well, back in the seventies he 323 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:52,280 Speaker 1: had smoked a few joints of course when he was 324 00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:55,560 Speaker 1: in college, and that, of course I thought was devastating. 325 00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:58,160 Speaker 1: Does that mean every college student in Americas should expect 326 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:01,120 Speaker 1: of the same standard as the Clinton White House Press secretary. 327 00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:04,879 Speaker 1: He didn't say it was wrong. He didn't say nobody 328 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:07,200 Speaker 1: should do it. He just joked about it, as though, 329 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:10,280 Speaker 1: of course we all do it, and we don't all 330 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:13,640 Speaker 1: do it, and we shouldn't all do it. But then 331 00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:15,880 Speaker 1: he went on to say, well, when they pinned him down, 332 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:18,440 Speaker 1: he said, well, yes, they had hired a few people 333 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:21,440 Speaker 1: who'd done hosnogenic drugs, and they'd hired a few people 334 00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:25,280 Speaker 1: who'd done crack cocaine. But they're very proud of the 335 00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:27,960 Speaker 1: new program. If they don't trust you, they test you regularly. 336 00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:34,919 Speaker 1: What don't we suggest to you do a few drugs 337 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:36,879 Speaker 1: and be hired by the Clinton White House is not 338 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:43,200 Speaker 1: a good campaign. It's not right for America. It ought 339 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:45,199 Speaker 1: to be just the opposite. If we don't trust you 340 00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:47,680 Speaker 1: enough to not need to test you, you shouldn't be here. 341 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:50,880 Speaker 1: The White House out to be a place we can reserve. 342 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:53,440 Speaker 1: You only need a few people out of the whole country. 343 00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:57,560 Speaker 1: I think we have to do three things. If we're 344 00:21:57,560 --> 00:22:00,280 Speaker 1: going to save this country from drugs. First, we have 345 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:03,639 Speaker 1: to re establish Nancy Reagan's just Say No campaign and 346 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:06,320 Speaker 1: work with the Partnership for a Drug Free America to 347 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:20,880 Speaker 1: communicate clearly and decisively to every young person don't do it. Second, second, 348 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:24,520 Speaker 1: we should reach out and establish with every church and 349 00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:28,480 Speaker 1: every synagogue and every mosque in America a nationwide hotline 350 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:32,239 Speaker 1: so that any drug addict who's prepared to get off 351 00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:34,720 Speaker 1: drugs would have a human being willing to volunteer to 352 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:37,200 Speaker 1: go talk to them within an hour of their phone call, 353 00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:39,680 Speaker 1: so that we could reach out to every drug addict 354 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:42,040 Speaker 1: in this country and try to get them off of drugs. 355 00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:52,560 Speaker 1: The fact is today the bureaucracy says there's a three 356 00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:55,320 Speaker 1: month waiting list, call back in three months. Can you 357 00:22:55,359 --> 00:22:58,119 Speaker 1: imagine a less productive policy than to say to a 358 00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:00,840 Speaker 1: drug addict, why don't you mark your calendar to call 359 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:04,679 Speaker 1: me in three months? So we need to recognize we'll 360 00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:07,760 Speaker 1: never get it done inside the bureaucracy. We have got 361 00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:11,920 Speaker 1: to build a volunteer network nationwide. Then the third thing 362 00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:14,439 Speaker 1: we want to do, and I will be introducing a 363 00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:17,120 Speaker 1: bill to do this in the near future. I think 364 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:20,679 Speaker 1: it's time we say we are fed up with people 365 00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:23,680 Speaker 1: who are willing to get rich by destroying our children. 366 00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:34,400 Speaker 1: And this is my proposal. This is my proposal. If 367 00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:37,520 Speaker 1: you cross the boundary of the United States carrying a 368 00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:43,000 Speaker 1: commercial quantity of illegal drugs at a minimum, you should 369 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:46,399 Speaker 1: get life in prison without parole, and if you are 370 00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:49,000 Speaker 1: a professional drug dealer, the judge should give you the 371 00:23:49,000 --> 00:24:06,600 Speaker 1: death penalty. And as a former history teacher, I think 372 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:08,840 Speaker 1: I'm tia that virtually every country that is willing to 373 00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:12,280 Speaker 1: be that tough to protect its kids succeeds in protecting 374 00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:16,080 Speaker 1: its kids. Now, the second great challenge to us, frankly, 375 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:18,520 Speaker 1: is a legal immigration in the decay of English. And 376 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:21,639 Speaker 1: I want to make a very important point here. I 377 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:28,720 Speaker 1: deeply support legal immigration to the United States. Immigrants have 378 00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:31,560 Speaker 1: made this a great and a wonderful country. Much of 379 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:34,000 Speaker 1: our best talent, and our best ideas, and our greatest 380 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:37,280 Speaker 1: entrepreneurial energy has come from people who came to America 381 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:40,760 Speaker 1: and became American citizens. And we want to continue to 382 00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:43,880 Speaker 1: make America a land of opportunity for everyone who wants 383 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:48,679 Speaker 1: to come here legally. But to become an American, you 384 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:52,320 Speaker 1: need to become an American. That means studying American history, 385 00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:56,879 Speaker 1: learning English, understanding our common civilization, becoming part of the 386 00:24:56,960 --> 00:25:00,359 Speaker 1: system which has for some three hundred years now evolving 387 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:11,359 Speaker 1: towards greater opportunity. And the fact is they're over a million, 388 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:15,600 Speaker 1: two hundred thousand more illegal immigrants under Bill Clinton than 389 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:18,520 Speaker 1: when he was sworn in, and the system is simply 390 00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:23,320 Speaker 1: breaking down. In California today, we don't have bilingual education. 391 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:26,960 Speaker 1: I don't know what the Latin cognated. Some of you may. 392 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:32,920 Speaker 1: We have eighty two languages taught in California schools as 393 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:37,840 Speaker 1: substitutes for English. Now, I'm a European history teacher. I 394 00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:39,679 Speaker 1: think that you ought to learn English, and then you 395 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:42,439 Speaker 1: need a second or third language. You need to be 396 00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:45,040 Speaker 1: part of the world, You need to understand, you need 397 00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:47,679 Speaker 1: to be part of the world market. But first you 398 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:51,080 Speaker 1: need to understand a common language. And I don't see 399 00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:54,159 Speaker 1: how this civilization survives if we become a Tower of 400 00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:57,879 Speaker 1: Babel with eighty or ninety or one hundred languages. And 401 00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:00,639 Speaker 1: so I think we need to say, first, learn English, 402 00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:04,560 Speaker 1: and I think that requires a real commitment on our 403 00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:16,800 Speaker 1: part to re establishing that tradition. But when you talk 404 00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:19,560 Speaker 1: about illegal drugs, and illegal immigration. You also have to 405 00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:22,520 Speaker 1: understand that where you set your resources tells you a 406 00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:26,719 Speaker 1: lot about your true priorities. Here's the numbers. The Border 407 00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:29,560 Speaker 1: Patrol dealing with the illegal immigrants has five thousand and 408 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:34,119 Speaker 1: seven hundred members. The Drug Enforcement Administration dealing with illegal 409 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:39,480 Speaker 1: drugs has seven thousand, four hundred members. The Internal Revenue 410 00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:45,919 Speaker 1: Service has one hundred and ten thousand. So there are 411 00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:49,520 Speaker 1: about ten IRS people for every person dealing with drugs 412 00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:54,240 Speaker 1: and illegal immigrants. The liberal model is we can't stop 413 00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:58,560 Speaker 1: illegal drugs and we can't stop illegal immigrants, but we 414 00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:03,240 Speaker 1: can audit every one of you. And I am offering 415 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:06,719 Speaker 1: a platform plank in San Diego at the Republican National 416 00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:12,919 Speaker 1: Convention that says, one of the tests of tax simplification 417 00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:17,959 Speaker 1: is that we should be able to transfer one third 418 00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:22,000 Speaker 1: of the IRS personnel to the Drug Enforcement Administration and 419 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:36,560 Speaker 1: the Border Patrol. But you are talking about the IRS 420 00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:39,119 Speaker 1: and taxation. Let me suggest to you a couple of principles. 421 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:43,040 Speaker 1: I think we've been misusing a term that no longer exists, 422 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:47,800 Speaker 1: that's take home pay. Let me tell you why you know. 423 00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:49,520 Speaker 1: I go to high schools. Every high school I go to, 424 00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:52,760 Speaker 1: I say, particularly seniors. I say to him, how many 425 00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:55,560 Speaker 1: of you were shocked at the difference between what you 426 00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:57,800 Speaker 1: thought you would make and what you actually got in 427 00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:07,080 Speaker 1: your check? Every hand up. It's the beginning of conservatism. 428 00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:10,159 Speaker 1: But I think most Americans think that that's your after 429 00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:14,919 Speaker 1: tax pay. It's not. It's the temporary money you're allowed 430 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:38,480 Speaker 1: to hold before they get a second bite at all 431 00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:41,600 Speaker 1: of your tables. There's a piece of paper that has 432 00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:44,160 Speaker 1: a gasoline pump on it. It's really worth you're looking at. 433 00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:48,520 Speaker 1: We asked the American Petroleum Institute how many taxes are 434 00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:51,200 Speaker 1: there in a gallon of gasoline and what does it cost? 435 00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:53,440 Speaker 1: They were shocked. They went out and actually got a 436 00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:56,840 Speaker 1: couple of economists to run the numbers. They're over forty 437 00:28:56,960 --> 00:28:59,720 Speaker 1: taxes in a gallon of gasoline. And if you paid 438 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:03,160 Speaker 1: all our twenty last year in the average state for gasoline, 439 00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:10,480 Speaker 1: you paid fifty six cents for taxes and sixty four 440 00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:14,479 Speaker 1: cents for the actual gasoline. I just asked somebody at 441 00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:17,920 Speaker 1: a major health company what they thought the tax burden 442 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,800 Speaker 1: on their hospital system was. They said they thought it 443 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:22,880 Speaker 1: was forty eight or forty nine cents on the dollar. 444 00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:26,320 Speaker 1: That is, when they charge you to be in their 445 00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:28,560 Speaker 1: hospital at the time. You take all the different taxes 446 00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:32,320 Speaker 1: they pay. Is the for profit firm They think that 447 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:36,880 Speaker 1: they literally between property tax, fight attacks, income tax, sales tax, etc. 448 00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:39,800 Speaker 1: They may be paying forty eight or forty nine cents 449 00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:43,720 Speaker 1: of the health dollar in taxes, almost doubling the cost 450 00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:48,360 Speaker 1: of healthcare to you. Now, we ask anneiser Busch. They 451 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:53,520 Speaker 1: said that every dollar and beer forty three cents is taxes. 452 00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:56,480 Speaker 1: We asked the American bakers. They said they believe they're 453 00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:59,360 Speaker 1: checking this out. They've had an economist. They believe thirty 454 00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:03,600 Speaker 1: two cents every dollar paid for bread is in taxes. Now, 455 00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:06,880 Speaker 1: what's the net effect of all this. It means that 456 00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:09,640 Speaker 1: people don't have time and they don't have the money 457 00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:12,520 Speaker 1: to do the things they would do in their local 458 00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:16,240 Speaker 1: community because they're so busy working to earn the money 459 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:17,960 Speaker 1: to pay the government. So they have to hire a 460 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:21,920 Speaker 1: bureaucrat to do the things they would do. Consider it. 461 00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:25,480 Speaker 1: If you are a two income family, the odds are 462 00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:28,360 Speaker 1: very good that the member who has the lower income 463 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:32,720 Speaker 1: works full time to pay taxes. If you're lucky, they 464 00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:36,360 Speaker 1: get december to work for themselves. Just think about that 465 00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:40,280 Speaker 1: rate of taxation back in Harry Truman's era, you had 466 00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:42,840 Speaker 1: a seventy in current dollars, you had a seventy five 467 00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:45,920 Speaker 1: hundred per person deductibility. So if you had four people 468 00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:48,200 Speaker 1: in your family, earned thirty thousand dollars before you paid 469 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:51,160 Speaker 1: a penny in income tax. And the fight attacks back 470 00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:55,320 Speaker 1: then was fifty two dollars a year. Compare that to 471 00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:58,600 Speaker 1: what we do now. Government has grown too big. It 472 00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:01,040 Speaker 1: wastes too much money, It takes too much out of 473 00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:03,160 Speaker 1: your income, it takes up too much of your time. 474 00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:05,840 Speaker 1: And so when we work to balance the budget, to 475 00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:09,120 Speaker 1: strength the bureaucracy, to cut out waste for a Washington spending, 476 00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:12,520 Speaker 1: we are trying to return power back home. The best 477 00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:15,280 Speaker 1: example of this is the five hundred dollars per child 478 00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:20,480 Speaker 1: tax credit. Our position is that a working mother in 479 00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:24,680 Speaker 1: Augusta who has three children ought to get one thousand, 480 00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:28,320 Speaker 1: five hundred dollars more in her take home pay so 481 00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:31,240 Speaker 1: she can spend it as a parent on her children. 482 00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:35,720 Speaker 1: Our liberal friends have a very different model. Their model 483 00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:40,160 Speaker 1: is that the government ought to keep taxes high so 484 00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:43,160 Speaker 1: they can hire a bureaucrat to do for your children. Well, 485 00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:45,560 Speaker 1: you can't do for your children because the taxes are 486 00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:48,200 Speaker 1: so high you don't have the money, and the taxes 487 00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:50,040 Speaker 1: are that high in order to hire the bureaucrat to 488 00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:55,000 Speaker 1: do what you would have done if we'd had lower taxes. Now, 489 00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:59,880 Speaker 1: the choice is very simple. Do you want more bureaucracy 490 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:02,320 Speaker 1: and more power in the bureaucracy, or do you want 491 00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:05,160 Speaker 1: more power with parents. We pick, let's have a five 492 00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:08,040 Speaker 1: hundred dollars per child tax credit, so the parents have 493 00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:10,800 Speaker 1: the money, so the parents are doing something for their kids, 494 00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:14,560 Speaker 1: because we believe as a general principle that parents care 495 00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:18,000 Speaker 1: more about their own children than bureaucrats care about children 496 00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:30,120 Speaker 1: they've never even met. It's that simple. Now, you notice 497 00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:32,080 Speaker 1: I talked about going to work and about having money, 498 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:35,520 Speaker 1: because again the liberals don't quite get it. We advocate 499 00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:38,240 Speaker 1: the work ethic and parts you have money so your independence, 500 00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:40,440 Speaker 1: you can do things. And let me go back and 501 00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:46,560 Speaker 1: talk about welfare at its most profound morally, because what 502 00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:49,320 Speaker 1: Lyndon Johnson did with the best of intentions, and it 503 00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:55,160 Speaker 1: was a decisive break from Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Roosevelt warned 504 00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:58,240 Speaker 1: in his nineteen thirty five State of the Union that 505 00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:02,200 Speaker 1: putting people on the doll would destroy them, you couldn't 506 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:05,560 Speaker 1: have people in welfare. Primarily he closed down the Works 507 00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:09,240 Speaker 1: Project's administration to block people from being on there. Aid 508 00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:12,520 Speaker 1: to Family Independent Children under FDR was a program for 509 00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:18,520 Speaker 1: widows and children. He was very deeply against permanent welfare 510 00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:21,360 Speaker 1: because he thought it ruined human beings. Well, let's look 511 00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:25,000 Speaker 1: at the core document from which we Americans should come 512 00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:29,080 Speaker 1: to understand our civilization, and that is the Declaration of Independence. 513 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:32,960 Speaker 1: One of my projects, I'm trying to convince state legislators 514 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:37,680 Speaker 1: that we ought to require one full day every year 515 00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:42,200 Speaker 1: from kindergarten through twelfth grade to study the Declaration Independence 516 00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:53,600 Speaker 1: and the Constitution, and literally a full day. Now. The 517 00:33:53,600 --> 00:34:00,240 Speaker 1: Declaration starts with a very powerful phrase, we hold these 518 00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:06,400 Speaker 1: truths to be self evident. Notice said so obvious, they're 519 00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:10,080 Speaker 1: not even debatable, self evident. I've always thought that a 520 00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:18,000 Speaker 1: modern college faculty would write that being randomly gathered protoplasm, 521 00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:22,000 Speaker 1: we have rationally concluded that for the moment, in this situation, 522 00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:25,680 Speaker 1: it might be considered, if it's not offensive to anyone else, 523 00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:31,719 Speaker 1: that it is possible that we could believe people who 524 00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:34,200 Speaker 1: created this country and courage they laid on the line 525 00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:37,479 Speaker 1: they said we hold these truths, which by the blay 526 00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:40,719 Speaker 1: implies non truth. It's a discussion I was having with 527 00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:43,120 Speaker 1: Sam Donaldson the other day on The Brinkley Show that 528 00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:46,319 Speaker 1: you know there's fact and not fact. But again go 529 00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:48,360 Speaker 1: back to the concept of truth. Is it truth or 530 00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:52,440 Speaker 1: not truth? The founding father said there are truths that 531 00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:57,359 Speaker 1: are self evident. They said, we're all created equal. Then 532 00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:02,640 Speaker 1: they said the key part of founding America. We are 533 00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:08,759 Speaker 1: endowed by our creator with certain onalienable rights. Now this 534 00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:13,200 Speaker 1: is vital to understanding America. First of all, your rights 535 00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:20,000 Speaker 1: are unalienable. No bureaucrat, no government, no politician, no lawyer, 536 00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:23,520 Speaker 1: no one can come between you and your rights because 537 00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:36,920 Speaker 1: your rights come from God. That's the essence of the declaration. Remember, 538 00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:40,839 Speaker 1: in the European model, power goes from God to the 539 00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:44,880 Speaker 1: king and is loaned to the citizen. That's why in 540 00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:48,840 Speaker 1: Europe even today, governments are relatively more powerful and citizens 541 00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:51,799 Speaker 1: are weaker. But in the American model we reversed it. 542 00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:56,960 Speaker 1: We said you are endowed by your creator with unalienable rights, 543 00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:00,680 Speaker 1: which is why, by the way the Declaration the Constitution begins, 544 00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:04,239 Speaker 1: we the people of the United States, in order to 545 00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:07,120 Speaker 1: form a more perfect union. We are leaning power to 546 00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:10,800 Speaker 1: the government, and that's why the Tenth Amendment says all 547 00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:14,280 Speaker 1: powers not expressly granted to the federal government are reserved 548 00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:18,279 Speaker 1: to the states and the people thereof It's a very 549 00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:27,520 Speaker 1: different model. But there's a key word in all this. 550 00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:33,680 Speaker 1: It's the word creator. You know, modern liberals get together, 551 00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:36,200 Speaker 1: I think, gee, what did the founding fathers mean by creator? 552 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:43,640 Speaker 1: And they particularly focus on Jefferson. They say, oh, Jefferson 553 00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:47,560 Speaker 1: didn't really believe. They'll tell you this. I'll say Jefferson 554 00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:50,880 Speaker 1: was a Deist. They're not sure what a daist is, 555 00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:55,040 Speaker 1: but they know it's not a Southern Baptist. So this 556 00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:59,040 Speaker 1: makes them feel more secure. But I would say to 557 00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:00,960 Speaker 1: all of you, if one of your liberal friends gives 558 00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:05,359 Speaker 1: you this malarkey, ask him to go to Washington, go 559 00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:10,360 Speaker 1: to the Jefferson memorial and look around the top of it. 560 00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:14,920 Speaker 1: It says around the top, I have sworn upon the 561 00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:21,400 Speaker 1: altar of God Almighty, eternal hostility against all forms of 562 00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:25,600 Speaker 1: tyranny over the minds of man. And ask your liberal friend, 563 00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:30,799 Speaker 1: why do you think Jefferson wrote, I have sworn upon 564 00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:35,719 Speaker 1: the altar of God Almighty. And if he was really 565 00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:38,359 Speaker 1: as modern, as modern intellectuals think. He could have said 566 00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:42,960 Speaker 1: having communed with the Great Cumquat in the sky, or 567 00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:46,759 Speaker 1: having done dope for a week, or having meditated for 568 00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:50,800 Speaker 1: five days. He doesn't say that. And now I'm old fashioned. 569 00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:56,600 Speaker 1: I believe as a historian, Jefferson said I have sworn 570 00:37:56,719 --> 00:38:00,360 Speaker 1: upon the altar of God Almighty, because he meant I 571 00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:04,880 Speaker 1: have sworn upon the order of God Almighty. There's another 572 00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:06,800 Speaker 1: part to this. By the way, I was very surprised. 573 00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:08,719 Speaker 1: It was a sign of even how little I understood it. 574 00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:11,920 Speaker 1: I went to Philadelphia two years ago I saw the 575 00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:15,160 Speaker 1: Liberty Bell. I'd always thought the Liberty bell was called 576 00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:20,360 Speaker 1: the liberty bell because it rang out liberty on July fourth, 577 00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:24,520 Speaker 1: seventeen seventy six at Independence Hall. It's not true. When 578 00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:29,480 Speaker 1: it was cast thirty two years earlier. They put in 579 00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:34,640 Speaker 1: the cast around the top of the bell proclaim liberty 580 00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:38,360 Speaker 1: to all the inhabitants of the land, which is a 581 00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:41,879 Speaker 1: quote from Leviticus. And one of the reasons I think 582 00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:45,680 Speaker 1: would be good to have us teach the principles of 583 00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:49,160 Speaker 1: our founding is because then every school teacher would have 584 00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:52,160 Speaker 1: to wrestle with the question, how do you explain what 585 00:38:52,280 --> 00:39:01,560 Speaker 1: Leviticus is. So here we are. We have unalienable rights, 586 00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:07,200 Speaker 1: we have truths that are not even debatable. But what 587 00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:13,120 Speaker 1: are those rights? Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. 588 00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:15,120 Speaker 1: And those of you who are old enough understand fully 589 00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:21,319 Speaker 1: why they didn't promise the achievement the pursuit. Notice it 590 00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:25,080 Speaker 1: doesn't say an entitlement to happiness. It doesn't say a 591 00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:28,960 Speaker 1: quota for happiness. It doesn't say a set aside for happiness. 592 00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:35,840 Speaker 1: They don't propose happiness stamps. There is no writing anywhere 593 00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:38,880 Speaker 1: in the founding Father's papers about setting up a federal 594 00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:46,000 Speaker 1: Department of Happiness. Although I must say I've been thinking 595 00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:56,840 Speaker 1: about Robert Reich Secretary of Happiness. Doesn't it kind of 596 00:39:56,880 --> 00:40:04,080 Speaker 1: have a ring to it? The Annual Happiness Report, the 597 00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:10,279 Speaker 1: Federal Regulations for Happiness. My guess is if I say 598 00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:25,440 Speaker 1: this for about three weeks, Clinton will endorse it. So 599 00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:29,680 Speaker 1: our goal here is simple. We want to extend the 600 00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:33,640 Speaker 1: right to pursue happiness, pursuit being an active concept, which 601 00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:36,760 Speaker 1: means the work ethic. And we want every child in America, 602 00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:41,080 Speaker 1: in every neighborhood, from every ethnic background, to grow up 603 00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:44,359 Speaker 1: in the expectation that they will pursue happiness, that they 604 00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:47,560 Speaker 1: have the right to pursue happiness. The dreaming big dreams 605 00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:49,920 Speaker 1: as American and then work in your tail off to 606 00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:52,240 Speaker 1: make your dream come true is what America is all about. 607 00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:55,040 Speaker 1: And it's not just obvious this week in the Olympics, 608 00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:58,879 Speaker 1: which is wonderful and you see terrific athletes, but you 609 00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:01,360 Speaker 1: tune in a couple of weeks later to the Paralympics. 610 00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:06,759 Speaker 1: The fastest runner in the world in the Paralympics is 611 00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:11,120 Speaker 1: a young man who was born without pete and without hands, 612 00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:17,800 Speaker 1: and he overcame that challenge and he today runs the 613 00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:23,240 Speaker 1: hundred meters within two seconds of the Olympic world record. 614 00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:27,439 Speaker 1: And you talk to that young man, or you talk 615 00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:30,680 Speaker 1: to a blind marathon runner, or you talk to somebody 616 00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:33,800 Speaker 1: in a wheelchair, and then you come back and explain 617 00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:36,920 Speaker 1: to me why people who are totally able bodied in 618 00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:41,000 Speaker 1: public housing can't pursue happiness. And what we stand for 619 00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:45,319 Speaker 1: is the spiritual liberation of every poor person in America 620 00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:48,080 Speaker 1: and the re establishment of their God given right to 621 00:41:48,239 --> 00:41:50,680 Speaker 1: dream big dreams and work their tail off and have 622 00:41:50,719 --> 00:41:54,279 Speaker 1: a chance to go someday and be more than the 623 00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:57,200 Speaker 1: kept war to the state and the kept servant of 624 00:41:57,239 --> 00:42:00,399 Speaker 1: some bureaucracy in public housing. That's the different Steen House 625 00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:30,080 Speaker 1: in a little balk. I just want to say one 626 00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:33,960 Speaker 1: sentence about all the so called scandals. I think it's 627 00:42:33,960 --> 00:42:36,440 Speaker 1: the only sentence Republicans need to say from now the election. 628 00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:41,919 Speaker 1: Whether it is corruption or incompetence, there is too much 629 00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:44,760 Speaker 1: of it, and we need someone who is both honest 630 00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:50,480 Speaker 1: and competent to run the White House. Period. Scandal I 631 00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:53,319 Speaker 1: want to talk about. It's not Whitewater, it's not Rose 632 00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:57,200 Speaker 1: Law Firm, it's not FBI files. It is what I 633 00:42:57,239 --> 00:43:01,360 Speaker 1: think is historically one of the largest scandals number in history, 634 00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:05,759 Speaker 1: and that was the deliberate decision of the President of 635 00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:10,360 Speaker 1: the United States and his allies, beginning in September of 636 00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:16,400 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety five, to deliberately deceive the senior citizens of 637 00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:20,680 Speaker 1: the United States, to spread falsehood, and to base their 638 00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:25,520 Speaker 1: reelection on frightening eighty five and ninety five year old 639 00:43:25,560 --> 00:43:30,040 Speaker 1: citizens falsely. Let me put it to you direct, if 640 00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:32,840 Speaker 1: you had somebody going around door to door lying to 641 00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:36,560 Speaker 1: senior citizens to get their money, you would call it despicable, 642 00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:41,200 Speaker 1: You'd charge them with fraud, and you'd lock them up. Well, 643 00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:44,080 Speaker 1: I think a public figure, particularly the President Nited States, 644 00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:48,799 Speaker 1: who would deliberately deceive senior citizens for the purpose of 645 00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:53,120 Speaker 1: winning re election is more shameful than somebody just taken 646 00:43:53,160 --> 00:44:06,839 Speaker 1: their money. And I have every confidence that we will 647 00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:11,840 Speaker 1: win this debate because in a free society, truth beats 648 00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:16,160 Speaker 1: dishonesty in the end every time, because free people have 649 00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:18,879 Speaker 1: the sense to talk to each other and sort it out. 650 00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:28,840 Speaker 1: But each of you can play a key role in 651 00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:32,200 Speaker 1: talking to your relatives, to your friends, and to your neighbors. 652 00:44:32,239 --> 00:44:34,279 Speaker 1: And there are four things I want you to tell 653 00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:40,560 Speaker 1: them about Medicare. First, the Medicare Plus program the Republicans 654 00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:47,040 Speaker 1: developed increases Medicare spending from four thousand, eight hundred dollars 655 00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:50,520 Speaker 1: per senior citizen to seven thousand, one hundred dollars per 656 00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:53,880 Speaker 1: senior citizen over the seven year period from nineteen ninety 657 00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:56,480 Speaker 1: five to two thousand and two. Think about that. All 658 00:44:56,560 --> 00:45:00,319 Speaker 1: the ads you've seen about cutting and slashing meta care, 659 00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:03,719 Speaker 1: all the times you've seen the incumbent President States in 660 00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:06,040 Speaker 1: the White House with the Seal of the President in 661 00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:09,160 Speaker 1: front of him, say cutting and slashing it's a twenty 662 00:45:09,239 --> 00:45:15,600 Speaker 1: three hundred dollars increase per senior citizen and senior citizens 663 00:45:15,680 --> 00:45:20,440 Speaker 1: learn that, guess what happens? Almost instantly, they relax, They go, 664 00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:25,320 Speaker 1: what's the big fuss about. There's a second point. Medicare 665 00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:31,799 Speaker 1: plus increases the choice of senior citizens. It says, if 666 00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:34,120 Speaker 1: you want to stick with a traditional system, fine, it's 667 00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:36,319 Speaker 1: right there. If you want to go to a health 668 00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:39,239 Speaker 1: maintenance organization, fine, it's right there. If you want a 669 00:45:39,239 --> 00:45:43,440 Speaker 1: brand new concept called a provider sponsored network, especially important 670 00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:47,080 Speaker 1: in rural areas where doctors and hospitals get together without 671 00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:49,759 Speaker 1: the insurance company, it's right there. If you want a 672 00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:53,200 Speaker 1: medical savings account where you have a high deductible, and 673 00:45:53,239 --> 00:45:56,160 Speaker 1: then if you practice frugality and you practice wellness, you 674 00:45:56,239 --> 00:45:58,279 Speaker 1: get to keep what you save and you get a 675 00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:01,239 Speaker 1: tax free interest build up in your saying, it's right there. 676 00:46:01,640 --> 00:46:03,719 Speaker 1: And you get to choose your doctor, and you get 677 00:46:03,719 --> 00:46:07,360 Speaker 1: to choose your hospital, and we give senior citizens every 678 00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:11,000 Speaker 1: right to choose, just like their children and grandchildren. It 679 00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:15,319 Speaker 1: is better than and bigger than the traditional system, but 680 00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:18,880 Speaker 1: it includes the traditional system, which is why their ads 681 00:46:18,880 --> 00:46:22,520 Speaker 1: about us getting rid of Medicare are so outrageously dishonest, 682 00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:26,239 Speaker 1: because we specifically keep the original system for anybody who 683 00:46:26,239 --> 00:46:28,160 Speaker 1: wants to stay in it, because we don't think you 684 00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:30,360 Speaker 1: ought to force seventy five and eighty five and ninety 685 00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:34,160 Speaker 1: five year old people to change against their will. Then 686 00:46:35,200 --> 00:46:38,560 Speaker 1: the third thing we do is we fight fraud. Let 687 00:46:38,560 --> 00:46:42,960 Speaker 1: me make it very clear, no centralized Washington bureaucracy can 688 00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:46,080 Speaker 1: ever fight fraud because the bureaucrat goes home at five 689 00:46:46,400 --> 00:46:48,600 Speaker 1: and the person who's going to commit frauds stays late. 690 00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:56,680 Speaker 1: That's the essence of why centralized bureaucracies fail. They go 691 00:46:56,719 --> 00:47:02,120 Speaker 1: against human nature. Now, you may have seen the lady 692 00:47:02,120 --> 00:47:05,719 Speaker 1: on NBC one night who said she'd called her hospital 693 00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:09,920 Speaker 1: and she said, you know, I think when you build 694 00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:18,400 Speaker 1: me for my autopsy, you made a mistake. And the 695 00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:20,520 Speaker 1: clark said, oh, that must have been an EKG, And 696 00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:22,279 Speaker 1: she said, honey, I didn't have one of those either. 697 00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:27,520 Speaker 1: I was talking about fraud and Medicare and medicaid, which 698 00:47:27,520 --> 00:47:30,960 Speaker 1: the General Accounting Office estimates is ten percent fraud and 699 00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:33,640 Speaker 1: waste her ten percent of the cost of Medicare and medicaid, 700 00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:36,799 Speaker 1: according to the General Accounting Office. And the next day 701 00:47:36,800 --> 00:47:38,840 Speaker 1: it was on c SPAN. The next day, one of 702 00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:40,920 Speaker 1: our freshmen from California came up to me with the 703 00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:42,879 Speaker 1: big grin in his face. And he said his mother 704 00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:45,680 Speaker 1: had seen me and she called him and she said 705 00:47:45,719 --> 00:47:49,880 Speaker 1: she had called her doctor's office the day before and 706 00:47:50,040 --> 00:47:54,520 Speaker 1: she said, you know, when you build me for two 707 00:47:54,560 --> 00:47:58,200 Speaker 1: mammograms last week, that was a mistake. And they said, oh, no, 708 00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:00,920 Speaker 1: of course we did two mammograms. She said, no, no, 709 00:48:01,239 --> 00:48:04,160 Speaker 1: I had a mastectomy seven years ago. I am certain 710 00:48:04,520 --> 00:48:09,759 Speaker 1: you did one. But here's what they said. That was fascinating, 711 00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:11,839 Speaker 1: And this is what all of you need to think 712 00:48:11,880 --> 00:48:16,280 Speaker 1: about in terms of young people, you know. The clerk 713 00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:20,080 Speaker 1: then said, oh, what do you care? After all, the 714 00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:23,919 Speaker 1: government pays for it. The government doesn't pay for it. 715 00:48:24,640 --> 00:48:27,680 Speaker 1: The taxpayers pay for it. And the burden of running 716 00:48:27,719 --> 00:48:30,200 Speaker 1: the deficit and the burden of taxes is going to 717 00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:34,440 Speaker 1: crush our children and grandchildren unless we get the system 718 00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:37,719 Speaker 1: under control. So what we did in Medicare plus as 719 00:48:37,760 --> 00:48:41,080 Speaker 1: we create a cash benefit for senior citizens. If you 720 00:48:41,200 --> 00:48:43,839 Speaker 1: turn in over a thousand dollars of fraud, you get 721 00:48:43,880 --> 00:48:46,200 Speaker 1: a reward. And if we have the senior citizens, this 722 00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:49,080 Speaker 1: country has watch dogs. They're going to do a dramatically 723 00:48:49,120 --> 00:48:52,360 Speaker 1: better job of fighting fraud than the bureaucrats in Washington. 724 00:49:01,120 --> 00:49:05,040 Speaker 1: We do one last thing that's really important. We shift 725 00:49:05,320 --> 00:49:10,280 Speaker 1: and create an emphasis on early detection and early treatment 726 00:49:10,600 --> 00:49:12,560 Speaker 1: and on wellness. Let me give you the example that 727 00:49:12,600 --> 00:49:16,040 Speaker 1: I thought was stunning. The Center for Disease Control in 728 00:49:16,080 --> 00:49:20,640 Speaker 1: Atlanta came to brief me and they said that diabetes 729 00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:28,799 Speaker 1: is twenty seven percent of the cost of medicare. The 730 00:49:28,920 --> 00:49:32,120 Speaker 1: twenty seven cents that eary dollar spent by medicare is 731 00:49:32,160 --> 00:49:36,000 Speaker 1: directly related to the consequences of diabetes. You can go blind, 732 00:49:37,320 --> 00:49:39,040 Speaker 1: you can literally lose your feet and have to have 733 00:49:39,040 --> 00:49:44,279 Speaker 1: them amputated. You can have kidney failure need dialysis. You 734 00:49:44,320 --> 00:49:48,960 Speaker 1: can have heart problems and need intensive care. But this 735 00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:52,719 Speaker 1: is what was more shocking. They said, of the sixteen 736 00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:56,000 Speaker 1: million people who have diabetes, eight million don't know it. 737 00:49:57,080 --> 00:49:59,799 Speaker 1: The average person has diabetes seven or eight years before 738 00:49:59,800 --> 00:50:03,919 Speaker 1: it's detected, and it's only detected because you start having 739 00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:09,640 Speaker 1: physical symptoms of having diabetes. They then said they believe 740 00:50:09,719 --> 00:50:13,080 Speaker 1: if we had an early detection and early training program, 741 00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:15,879 Speaker 1: so people learned what to do. My mother in law's 742 00:50:15,920 --> 00:50:18,680 Speaker 1: eighty one and she's been well trained, and she has diabetes, 743 00:50:18,680 --> 00:50:20,640 Speaker 1: and she knows how to take her blood sugar, and 744 00:50:20,719 --> 00:50:22,600 Speaker 1: she knows how to measure what she's doing, and she 745 00:50:22,680 --> 00:50:26,040 Speaker 1: monitors what she's doing physically. They said, if we did 746 00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:30,440 Speaker 1: that on an intensity basis, we could save eighty percent 747 00:50:30,600 --> 00:50:34,279 Speaker 1: of the people who would go blind, four out of five. 748 00:50:35,200 --> 00:50:37,680 Speaker 1: We could save sixty five percent of the people who 749 00:50:37,719 --> 00:50:40,680 Speaker 1: get kidney failure, sixty five percent of the people who 750 00:50:40,680 --> 00:50:43,200 Speaker 1: have their feet amputated, and sixty five percent of the 751 00:50:43,200 --> 00:50:47,640 Speaker 1: people who have heart problems. Now, today, the government position 752 00:50:47,719 --> 00:50:50,960 Speaker 1: is this, we will pay as much as it cost 753 00:50:51,040 --> 00:50:53,560 Speaker 1: if you go blind. We will pay as much as 754 00:50:53,560 --> 00:50:56,040 Speaker 1: it cost if you get your feet amputated. We will 755 00:50:56,080 --> 00:50:58,360 Speaker 1: pay as much as it costs to give you kidney dialysis, 756 00:50:58,640 --> 00:51:00,680 Speaker 1: and we'll pay as much as it cast if you 757 00:51:00,680 --> 00:51:04,720 Speaker 1: have severe heart problems. We'll pay thirty five dollars once 758 00:51:05,440 --> 00:51:07,319 Speaker 1: to teach you not to have any of those things happen. 759 00:51:08,400 --> 00:51:12,520 Speaker 1: It's exactly the opposite of good preventive care. And so 760 00:51:12,560 --> 00:51:15,640 Speaker 1: we're working with the American Diabetes Association to reach out 761 00:51:15,680 --> 00:51:19,160 Speaker 1: on a nonpartisan basis across the whole country because we 762 00:51:19,239 --> 00:51:24,320 Speaker 1: believe that better and smarter systems is what America needs, 763 00:51:24,400 --> 00:51:27,279 Speaker 1: not bigger and more bureaucratic government. And so we want 764 00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:32,719 Speaker 1: to combine private incentives, private activities, private outreach, with intelligent 765 00:51:32,800 --> 00:51:36,919 Speaker 1: government programs to minimize the cost by doing the right thing. 766 00:51:37,440 --> 00:51:40,000 Speaker 1: And our liberal friends, if we succeed, will point out 767 00:51:40,040 --> 00:51:44,720 Speaker 1: that the cost will go down. You gain rich plans 768 00:51:44,719 --> 00:51:46,960 Speaker 1: to cut dialysis. It's true. I'd like to have about 769 00:51:46,960 --> 00:51:51,560 Speaker 1: three million fewer people who need it, and then you 770 00:51:51,600 --> 00:51:53,279 Speaker 1: want to pay for it. That's what happened, by the way, 771 00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:56,319 Speaker 1: with polio. As those you hold enough, remember once upon 772 00:51:56,360 --> 00:51:59,120 Speaker 1: a time polio was a scourge. Today there is no 773 00:51:59,160 --> 00:52:03,000 Speaker 1: polio left in the States. There's been a dramatic collapse 774 00:52:03,360 --> 00:52:06,160 Speaker 1: in measles. The same way, we have it within our 775 00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:09,120 Speaker 1: power to do dramatic things to improve the quality of life. 776 00:52:09,400 --> 00:52:12,040 Speaker 1: And it's the best way in the long run to 777 00:52:12,080 --> 00:52:15,879 Speaker 1: improve medicare and medical care because wellness and prevention care 778 00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:20,960 Speaker 1: and early detection saves lives and saves money. Let me 779 00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:23,080 Speaker 1: go back and just for one minute talk about what 780 00:52:23,120 --> 00:52:24,480 Speaker 1: this is all about. Let me put it to you 781 00:52:24,520 --> 00:52:27,200 Speaker 1: in a very straightway. Remember I talked about Monday morning. 782 00:52:28,120 --> 00:52:30,160 Speaker 1: What I would like to try to do is get 783 00:52:30,239 --> 00:52:34,680 Speaker 1: each of you to think about your child or your grandchild, 784 00:52:35,400 --> 00:52:41,120 Speaker 1: your niece or your nephew and ask yourself, which Monday 785 00:52:41,160 --> 00:52:44,480 Speaker 1: morning do you want to leave them as your legacy? 786 00:52:44,640 --> 00:52:46,600 Speaker 1: Do you want a Monday morning where they get awake 787 00:52:47,440 --> 00:52:49,640 Speaker 1: and there's still twelve year olds having babies, and there's 788 00:52:49,640 --> 00:52:52,880 Speaker 1: still fourteen year olds doing drugs. They turn on the 789 00:52:52,880 --> 00:52:55,000 Speaker 1: TV and there are fifteen year olds killing each other, 790 00:52:55,480 --> 00:52:58,560 Speaker 1: and there's a seventeen year old dying of AIDS. And 791 00:52:58,600 --> 00:53:00,400 Speaker 1: they go down and they see eighteen year olds who 792 00:53:00,440 --> 00:53:02,400 Speaker 1: have diplomas, they can't even read, and they have no 793 00:53:02,480 --> 00:53:06,560 Speaker 1: hope of getting a decent job. Or would you rather 794 00:53:06,680 --> 00:53:10,719 Speaker 1: have a Monday morning where no child in America had 795 00:53:10,719 --> 00:53:15,279 Speaker 1: been harmed, where illegal drugs had disappeared, where violence had collapsed, 796 00:53:15,640 --> 00:53:18,319 Speaker 1: where people once again could leave their door unlocked and 797 00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:21,359 Speaker 1: sit out in the evening without fear. In America, where 798 00:53:21,440 --> 00:53:25,360 Speaker 1: everybody on Monday morning either head a job, was creating 799 00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:28,319 Speaker 1: a job, was looking for a job, or decided to 800 00:53:28,320 --> 00:53:30,320 Speaker 1: go and study so they could build up their skills, 801 00:53:30,560 --> 00:53:36,359 Speaker 1: because everybody knew in America you could pursue happiness. I 802 00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:39,279 Speaker 1: think the future is very clear and very simple. If 803 00:53:39,320 --> 00:53:42,320 Speaker 1: we stay with the welfare state and our liberal friends, 804 00:53:43,760 --> 00:53:47,799 Speaker 1: we will be incapable of leading the world. On the 805 00:53:47,840 --> 00:53:51,120 Speaker 1: other hand, if we replace the welfare state with an 806 00:53:51,120 --> 00:53:57,040 Speaker 1: opportunity society, I believe, by our grandchildren's time that virtually 807 00:53:57,080 --> 00:54:00,879 Speaker 1: the entire human race will live in safety, in prosperity, 808 00:54:01,320 --> 00:54:05,600 Speaker 1: and in freedom. That's how big I believe the difference 809 00:54:05,719 --> 00:54:08,160 Speaker 1: is this fall. And what I ask each of you 810 00:54:08,239 --> 00:54:14,600 Speaker 1: to do is look in your heart, decide how much 811 00:54:14,719 --> 00:54:18,120 Speaker 1: is it worth to you to give your grandchildren the 812 00:54:18,239 --> 00:54:22,200 Speaker 1: right Monday morning? How much is it worth financially? How 813 00:54:22,239 --> 00:54:25,279 Speaker 1: many hours is it worth to argue and talk? How 814 00:54:25,280 --> 00:54:28,000 Speaker 1: many people can you reach out to, how many yards 815 00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:30,719 Speaker 1: science can you put up? How many arguments you can win? 816 00:54:32,040 --> 00:54:36,799 Speaker 1: This is the campaign of each American about the kind 817 00:54:36,840 --> 00:54:40,839 Speaker 1: of country they want for their children and grandchildren. With 818 00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:46,200 Speaker 1: your help, with your work, with your courage, we are 819 00:54:46,239 --> 00:54:51,400 Speaker 1: going to give the future to freedom, because that is 820 00:54:51,400 --> 00:54:54,160 Speaker 1: what America is all about. Thank you, good luck, and 821 00:54:54,239 --> 00:55:04,759 Speaker 1: God bless you. 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