1 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:14,760 Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Bocallaway, Chairman of Gopak. The mission of Gopack 2 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:18,360 Speaker 1: is simple. It's to create and disseminate the doctrine, which 3 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:23,599 Speaker 1: we'll define a caring, reform, humanitarian Republican Party in such 4 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:26,400 Speaker 1: a way as to elect Republicans at all levels and 5 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:29,800 Speaker 1: to control the US House of Representatives for the Republican Party. 6 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:33,800 Speaker 1: Gopak started his training program in nineteen eighty seven with 7 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:37,279 Speaker 1: Congressman Nut Gingridge. That was before Nute was elected as 8 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:40,040 Speaker 1: Whip of the Republican Party in the US House, but 9 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:42,360 Speaker 1: even at that time he was recognized as one of 10 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:45,960 Speaker 1: the brightest thinkers in the Republican Party, and the training 11 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:48,480 Speaker 1: tapes which he gave and were developed at that time 12 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:52,240 Speaker 1: have had a great influence on the Republican Party throughout America. 13 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:57,160 Speaker 1: Gopak has sponsored seminars in virtually every state and thousands 14 00:00:57,160 --> 00:00:59,680 Speaker 1: and thousands of candidates and activists have used them to 15 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:02,800 Speaker 1: be better candidates and to get elected and to help 16 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:07,880 Speaker 1: the Republican calls throughout the country. These tapes are the 17 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:11,080 Speaker 1: first of a third generation of go Pack training tapes. 18 00:01:11,319 --> 00:01:15,600 Speaker 1: It's called Making America Work. The purpose is to lay 19 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:19,399 Speaker 1: the foundation for a new movement one that will elect 20 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:22,880 Speaker 1: Republicans at all levels throughout the country. And now to 21 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:27,440 Speaker 1: present these tapes, Congressman Nuke Gangridge, the General chairman of 22 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:32,880 Speaker 1: GOPACK and the Republican Whip of the US House Making 23 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:39,039 Speaker 1: America Work. I'm Congressman nud Gangridge, representative of the Sixtistant 24 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:42,920 Speaker 1: of Georgia House Republican Whip and the general chairman of GOPAK. 25 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:46,800 Speaker 1: Go Pack's an organization which recruits and trains and encourages 26 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:51,200 Speaker 1: candidates and volunteers in state and local government. I want 27 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:54,280 Speaker 1: to spend this next hour convincing all of you and 28 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:57,520 Speaker 1: recruiting you. I want to convince you, first of all, 29 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:00,640 Speaker 1: that we can keep America number one, that we can 30 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:03,880 Speaker 1: secure our future, our future both for our children and 31 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:07,480 Speaker 1: for our country, and that there's a huge gap, a 32 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:11,160 Speaker 1: gap between the America that can be, the America that 33 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:13,440 Speaker 1: you want to leave to your children and your grandchildren, 34 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:17,480 Speaker 1: and the bureaucratic welfare state that is slowly and steadily 35 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:21,560 Speaker 1: undermining and weakening America. If I can convince you that 36 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:24,160 Speaker 1: that gap does exist and that there could be a 37 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:28,760 Speaker 1: tremendously dynamic future, or we could decay with drug addiction 38 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:32,360 Speaker 1: violent crime, schools that don't work, healthcare that is too 39 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:35,640 Speaker 1: expensive and too chaotic. I then want to recruit you 40 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:40,160 Speaker 1: to help make a difference, to help create an opportunity society, 41 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:44,240 Speaker 1: because you can make that difference not just for yourself, 42 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:47,360 Speaker 1: for your neighborhood, but for your children and for your grandchildren. 43 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:50,960 Speaker 1: And because I think morally you have an obligation you 44 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:55,560 Speaker 1: must get involved to make that difference. You know, Desert Storm, 45 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:59,560 Speaker 1: the whole process of the Persian Gulf reminded Americans. I 46 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:02,560 Speaker 1: think of that basic patriotism. It's been a long time. 47 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:05,200 Speaker 1: You have to go back before Vietnam to the kind 48 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:09,639 Speaker 1: of patriotism that we see re emerging, the kind of 49 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:13,480 Speaker 1: feeling that people have wearing the flag, saluting the flag, 50 00:03:13,639 --> 00:03:18,720 Speaker 1: singing patriotic songs. And I think in that setting, we 51 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:21,600 Speaker 1: have to ask ourselves what does that patriotism mean to us? 52 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 1: So it was driven home to me recently when I 53 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:27,760 Speaker 1: went to a funeral for a young man, Scott Walker 54 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:31,720 Speaker 1: of Jonesborough, Georgia. Scott served in the American military in 55 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:35,760 Speaker 1: the Persian Gulf was killed in a non combat related incident. 56 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:40,160 Speaker 1: Has a brother who's twenty two years old serving in 57 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:43,040 Speaker 1: the eighty second Airborne has a younger brother, fifteen years 58 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:47,520 Speaker 1: old at Lovejoy High School. It was a very sobering 59 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:51,280 Speaker 1: funeral because so many of Scott's friends and his brother's 60 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:54,320 Speaker 1: friends were so young, and there were so many young 61 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 1: people there, many of them I think it was their 62 00:03:56,760 --> 00:04:01,520 Speaker 1: very first time ever to go to a funeral. His 63 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:06,200 Speaker 1: parents decided to begin that funeral with Lee Greenwoods, God 64 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:10,320 Speaker 1: Bless the USA. And I found myself sitting there with 65 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:14,920 Speaker 1: tears in my eyes thinking about the kind of patriotism 66 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:19,719 Speaker 1: that had sacrificed one son, that had another son in uniform, 67 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:22,840 Speaker 1: that had an even younger son who might someday volunteer, 68 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:28,960 Speaker 1: And yet they wanted to reaffirm their commitment. They wanted 69 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:32,479 Speaker 1: to reaffirm that they believed in America, and that they 70 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:36,280 Speaker 1: believed that their son died serving a country that they loved. 71 00:04:37,279 --> 00:04:41,120 Speaker 1: Now I had to then say to myself, looking at 72 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:45,000 Speaker 1: all these other young people, what are we going to 73 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:49,479 Speaker 1: do here at home that is worthy of the sacrifice 74 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:52,800 Speaker 1: and the risk that we're asking five hundred thousand men 75 00:04:52,839 --> 00:04:55,840 Speaker 1: and women to take on behalf of our country. How 76 00:04:55,839 --> 00:04:58,880 Speaker 1: are we going to live out our share of patriotism? 77 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:01,280 Speaker 1: How are we going to meet our obligation to citizens. 78 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:04,840 Speaker 1: And I think it really raises a historic question, a 79 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:06,880 Speaker 1: question which each of you is going to help answer, 80 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:10,960 Speaker 1: which everyone who sees this presentation is going to help answer, 81 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:14,160 Speaker 1: and which ultimately, I think, one by one, every American 82 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 1: has to help answer. And that's this was Desert Storm 83 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:22,400 Speaker 1: the high water mark of American power, American capability, of 84 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:28,320 Speaker 1: American technology? Or is it a building block towards the future? 85 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:31,280 Speaker 1: Is Desert Storm the last stand of the Reagan military 86 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:33,320 Speaker 1: build up, the last stand of the post World War 87 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:37,120 Speaker 1: Two technological breakthroughs, And twenty twenty five years from now, 88 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:40,680 Speaker 1: will it be German and Japanese and other technologies, or 89 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:44,160 Speaker 1: are we prepared to do what it takes here at 90 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:47,960 Speaker 1: home to ensure that America continues to have the capability, 91 00:05:48,279 --> 00:05:51,719 Speaker 1: not just the capability and equipment. Remember, it isn't just 92 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:56,600 Speaker 1: that new laser, that new airplane, that new computer. It's 93 00:05:56,640 --> 00:06:00,600 Speaker 1: also that very fine young man and woman who has volunteered, 94 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:04,480 Speaker 1: who spent months years learning the trade, who is prepared 95 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:08,280 Speaker 1: to do what is necessary. And it's the combination of 96 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:11,839 Speaker 1: well trained young Americans with the right technology, with the 97 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:15,840 Speaker 1: right training, with the right doctrine which came together and 98 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:17,680 Speaker 1: gave us that sense of pride that we all had 99 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:20,839 Speaker 1: at saying, hey, America is capable of projecting power and 100 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:24,880 Speaker 1: doing the right thing and doing it well. My worry 101 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:27,200 Speaker 1: and the reason I want to do talk with you 102 00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:30,880 Speaker 1: is that the bureaucratic welfare state has been gradually and 103 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:36,560 Speaker 1: steadily eroding that America. Schools that produce kids who can't read, 104 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:41,159 Speaker 1: who can't write, who can't analyze, a healthcare system that 105 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:44,040 Speaker 1: doesn't provide enough prenatal care, so we have cracked babies 106 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:46,920 Speaker 1: being born and underweight babies being born who will never 107 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:49,880 Speaker 1: fully be able to learn in school. We want them 108 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:52,480 Speaker 1: to lead the kind of life we want every young 109 00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:56,560 Speaker 1: American to a system where if you send your child 110 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:58,760 Speaker 1: off in the morning, they may end up encountering a 111 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:01,760 Speaker 1: drug addict, our murderer, or rapist. They may be killed 112 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:05,360 Speaker 1: standing on a street corner. A setting where we don't 113 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:07,440 Speaker 1: have the right incentives for our young people to save 114 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:10,640 Speaker 1: so they can buy a house, So they're discouraged and 115 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:12,480 Speaker 1: they don't see the kind of future they could have. Well, 116 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:14,600 Speaker 1: we don't have the kind of incentives for saving so 117 00:07:14,640 --> 00:07:16,760 Speaker 1: we can build the next factory to create the next 118 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:20,880 Speaker 1: job to develop the economic opportunity for every American. That 119 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:24,400 Speaker 1: bureaucratic welfare state, if it continues as it has in 120 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:29,320 Speaker 1: the last twenty five years, will eventually erode our capacity, 121 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:32,800 Speaker 1: and in the next generation we won't be able to 122 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:35,200 Speaker 1: project the kind of power to do the kind of 123 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:40,080 Speaker 1: things to represent the kind of technology that today people 124 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:43,680 Speaker 1: see as America. In that setting, I believe, and I 125 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:47,960 Speaker 1: want to convince you that we can create an opportunity 126 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:52,240 Speaker 1: society which secures our future, which provides the kind of 127 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:56,200 Speaker 1: future for every American, a future where we use technology, 128 00:07:56,640 --> 00:08:00,320 Speaker 1: where we put ourselves in a position to use the 129 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:05,440 Speaker 1: right values, the right economic consentives the right technology to 130 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 1: create all sorts of new opportunities for every American. Now, 131 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:12,920 Speaker 1: just to try to illustrate how huge the change is, 132 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:20,520 Speaker 1: I believe we're living through four different revolutions, all simultaneous. First, 133 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:25,960 Speaker 1: we're living through a technological revolution. Second, we're living through 134 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:30,800 Speaker 1: a revolution of humanness. Third, we're living through an economic revolution, 135 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:35,080 Speaker 1: and fourth we're living through a cultural values revolution. Now, 136 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:36,719 Speaker 1: let me walk you for just a minute through each 137 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:39,400 Speaker 1: of those four because they're they're big ideas, and they're 138 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:41,760 Speaker 1: worthy of a minute or two to really talk about them. 139 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:44,640 Speaker 1: First of all, technological and all of you've seen it. 140 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:50,559 Speaker 1: You're sitting at home, you're watching CNN Live, and nine 141 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:53,439 Speaker 1: thousand miles away, you see a Patriot launched and kill 142 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:58,560 Speaker 1: scud in real time as you watch it. Now, that's magic. 143 00:08:59,840 --> 00:09:02,480 Speaker 1: Nobody in the history of the world has ever been 144 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:05,880 Speaker 1: able to sit at home and participate. Vietnam in that 145 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:08,079 Speaker 1: sense was a film war, not a television war. Was 146 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:11,400 Speaker 1: film shown on TV. But this is the first truly 147 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:14,240 Speaker 1: electronic war where you can sit at home and watch 148 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:17,160 Speaker 1: the reporter and Tel Aviv tell you whether or not 149 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:21,200 Speaker 1: it's a chemical warfare attack as he or she learns it. Now, 150 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:25,840 Speaker 1: that's technology. Imagine that you're able to sit and watch 151 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:30,439 Speaker 1: General Schwartzkoff's briefings at exactly the same time as President Bush, 152 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:34,320 Speaker 1: and you're watching satellite photography taken from three to six 153 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:39,720 Speaker 1: hundred miles out, and it's all just normal. Imagine that 154 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:43,200 Speaker 1: you're seeing a computer that works so rapidly that it 155 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:47,920 Speaker 1: picks up an incoming scud, launches a Patriot missile, brings 156 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:50,520 Speaker 1: the Patriot missile together in time and space at exactly 157 00:09:50,559 --> 00:09:54,559 Speaker 1: the right point, and on almost every occasion, now we're 158 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:58,680 Speaker 1: hitting the scud and that's simply we'll be magic, except 159 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:00,560 Speaker 1: that we all say, well, that's just techno oology. We're 160 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:03,720 Speaker 1: used to that. Now we have microwave ovens, we have 161 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:07,199 Speaker 1: instant on television sets, we have cable TV, we have VCRs. 162 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:13,880 Speaker 1: Modern electronic manufacturers now expect that when they introduce a 163 00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:18,400 Speaker 1: brand new piece of technology, it'll last eighteen months and 164 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:20,440 Speaker 1: then there'll be a new piece to replace it. That 165 00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:24,040 Speaker 1: the half life of computers, of television sets, of any 166 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:26,240 Speaker 1: kind of new electronic gadget that you're going to buy 167 00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:30,920 Speaker 1: is eighteen months. Now imagine that cycle of change, and 168 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:34,080 Speaker 1: then apply it to education, to the post office, to 169 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:38,559 Speaker 1: New York City government, to healthcare. But that revolution is 170 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:42,760 Speaker 1: only one. The second revolution is a revolution and humanness. 171 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:46,400 Speaker 1: For the first time in the history of the human race, 172 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:52,400 Speaker 1: we have declared, we Americans that everyone is born with 173 00:10:52,440 --> 00:11:00,240 Speaker 1: an equal opportunity to pursue happiness. Black, white, brown, yellow, red, male, female, older, young, 174 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:07,080 Speaker 1: or whatever your genetic pattern, crack baby down syndrome, whatever 175 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:09,920 Speaker 1: your background, We want to reach out and give you 176 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:14,840 Speaker 1: the maximum chance to live a full life, to pursue happiness, 177 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:18,840 Speaker 1: to be the best person you can be. No society 178 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:21,360 Speaker 1: in history has undertaken a challenge of that scale, and 179 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:24,520 Speaker 1: it should say to every one of us that we 180 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:27,400 Speaker 1: are not only going to care about that nineteen year 181 00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:31,720 Speaker 1: old boy or girl who's in uniform in Saudi Arabia, 182 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:34,800 Speaker 1: but when they come out of that uniform and put 183 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:37,640 Speaker 1: on blue jeans on Friday night, we're going to care 184 00:11:37,640 --> 00:11:41,120 Speaker 1: about them in downtown Atlanta, or downtown Washington, or downtown Denver. 185 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:45,199 Speaker 1: And just think about that. If you're a nineteen year 186 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:49,000 Speaker 1: old young man serving in the army and you happen 187 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:52,839 Speaker 1: to get behind enemy lines in Iraq, We'll send helicopters, 188 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:56,920 Speaker 1: jet fighter aircraft, We'll have a hospital ship offshore. We'll 189 00:11:56,920 --> 00:11:59,960 Speaker 1: literally spend millions of dollars as a nation to try 190 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:03,120 Speaker 1: to help you. If you're that very same person three 191 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:06,480 Speaker 1: months later and you walk through downtown New York City 192 00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:10,520 Speaker 1: and you get killed, it will just be another statistic 193 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:13,640 Speaker 1: in a violent war here at home against our own young. 194 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:18,319 Speaker 1: And one of the challenges to conservatives is to recognize 195 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:22,640 Speaker 1: that as proud as we are of Colin Powell, of 196 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:25,560 Speaker 1: Norm Schwartz call of every single man and woman in 197 00:12:25,559 --> 00:12:29,959 Speaker 1: the service, we have to be equally committed to them 198 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:33,120 Speaker 1: when they get out of the service, and we have 199 00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:35,160 Speaker 1: to care just as much about their life at home 200 00:12:35,679 --> 00:12:38,280 Speaker 1: as we're going to care about their life in Saudi Arabia. 201 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:41,719 Speaker 1: The Third Revolution is economic. You know, we're preaching it 202 00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:45,600 Speaker 1: now in Russia and Lithuania, in Poland and Hungary. It's 203 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:48,840 Speaker 1: a very straightforward revolution, and it is proof that the 204 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:53,880 Speaker 1: intellectual debate between centralized bureaucracy and private property and free 205 00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:56,800 Speaker 1: markets is over that frall practical purposes. Everyone in the 206 00:12:56,800 --> 00:13:01,280 Speaker 1: world knows that centralized bureaucracies aren't working, they succeeding. So 207 00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:09,680 Speaker 1: what are we preaching decentralization, private property, incentives, entrepreneurship, small business, 208 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:14,320 Speaker 1: And just ask yourself. If it's good for Hungary, would 209 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:16,760 Speaker 1: it also be good for New York City. If it's 210 00:13:16,760 --> 00:13:19,840 Speaker 1: good for Poland, would it be good for the post office? 211 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:22,160 Speaker 1: If we tell the people in Moscow you don't want 212 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:25,760 Speaker 1: a large centralized bureaucracy, should we re examine the healthcare 213 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:30,720 Speaker 1: financing administration? If we think incentives will work, if you're Lithuanian, 214 00:13:31,040 --> 00:13:35,320 Speaker 1: will they also work in schools? And how do we 215 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:40,640 Speaker 1: apply that revolution in economics here at home and not 216 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:45,760 Speaker 1: just preach it overseas. The Fourth Revolution is in cultural values, 217 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:48,600 Speaker 1: and really I think is related directly to the aging 218 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:50,920 Speaker 1: of the baby boomers. You know, the baby boomers when 219 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:53,400 Speaker 1: they were younger, both because young people are inclined to 220 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:56,160 Speaker 1: take risks and because young people inclined not to know 221 00:13:56,240 --> 00:13:58,800 Speaker 1: much about history because they haven't lived a yet. I 222 00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:01,559 Speaker 1: believe that there were risks it could take. Almost every 223 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:05,040 Speaker 1: parent I talk to does not want their child to 224 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:09,480 Speaker 1: do things they did. This is partly human nature. I 225 00:14:09,520 --> 00:14:12,560 Speaker 1: think every generation goes through this, but it's partly because 226 00:14:13,760 --> 00:14:16,520 Speaker 1: the left and the permissive cultures of the late sixties 227 00:14:16,559 --> 00:14:18,360 Speaker 1: said some things it turned out not to be true. 228 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:21,720 Speaker 1: A couple examples. Turns out that multi partner sex doesn't 229 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:24,880 Speaker 1: lead to penicilla, it leads to aids. It turns out 230 00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:27,360 Speaker 1: the recreational drugs don't end with marijuana, it ends with 231 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:30,960 Speaker 1: crack addiction. Turns out that the affluent society where nobody's 232 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:32,240 Speaker 1: going to have to work because we're all going to 233 00:14:32,320 --> 00:14:35,760 Speaker 1: visit Yellowstone in Yosemite, has Yellowstone in Yosemite overcrowded, and 234 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:38,680 Speaker 1: we're all working harder than ever Because if you're going 235 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:41,040 Speaker 1: to survive in the competitive world market, you have to 236 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:43,640 Speaker 1: have a work ethic, and so all of a sudden, 237 00:14:43,920 --> 00:14:47,840 Speaker 1: a lot of things that the baby boomers thought in 238 00:14:47,960 --> 00:14:51,120 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty five to nineteen seventy five might be true 239 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:54,600 Speaker 1: they've concluded aren't true. And in a sense, that's what 240 00:14:54,640 --> 00:14:56,600 Speaker 1: the whole issue of crime is about. That the notion 241 00:14:56,920 --> 00:14:59,040 Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy that the no bad people are just 242 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:02,200 Speaker 1: some folks who had bad up bringings. Gradually we've come 243 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:05,760 Speaker 1: to conclude help by Noriega and Saddam Hussein helped buy 244 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:08,760 Speaker 1: some really truly vicious thugs in the big cities. Yeah, 245 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:11,000 Speaker 1: maybe there are some bad people. Maybe there are folks 246 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:13,760 Speaker 1: that are only safely locked up. That began, I think 247 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:17,040 Speaker 1: with Charlie Manson and those murders, and gradually people came 248 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:20,720 Speaker 1: the conclusion that serial killers probably didn't just have bad childhoods. 249 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:24,520 Speaker 1: They may genuinely be bad people, and that there may 250 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:27,040 Speaker 1: only be one solution, and that is either to lock 251 00:15:27,120 --> 00:15:29,320 Speaker 1: them up for life or, as I would believe, to 252 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:32,240 Speaker 1: have a death penalty. Frankly, when you consider that Ted 253 00:15:32,320 --> 00:15:35,280 Speaker 1: Bundy killed at least thirty six people and may have 254 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:38,000 Speaker 1: killed up to a hundred, I think that's more than 255 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:40,760 Speaker 1: enough justification for the death penalty as far as I'm concerned. 256 00:15:41,920 --> 00:15:46,520 Speaker 1: But in that setting, you're living through a cultural values revolution, 257 00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:50,200 Speaker 1: and I think it comes down to nine values. First, 258 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:55,040 Speaker 1: national safety, the notion that keeping America safe matters. I 259 00:15:55,080 --> 00:15:58,000 Speaker 1: mean the great victory that Ronald Reagan won over Jimmy 260 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:01,840 Speaker 1: Carter and the Liberal Democrats. That being strong enough in 261 00:16:01,880 --> 00:16:04,320 Speaker 1: the world is vital because there are in the world 262 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:07,960 Speaker 1: people who are dangerous to America, whether it was the 263 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:13,680 Speaker 1: Soviet Empire or Momar Kadafi or Saddam Hussein. That there 264 00:16:13,680 --> 00:16:17,400 Speaker 1: are times and places when in a contest between those 265 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:19,720 Speaker 1: of us who believe in freedom and those who are 266 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:22,240 Speaker 1: genuinely bad, we want to make sure that the cause 267 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:26,240 Speaker 1: of freedom has enough force to win. Second is personal safety. 268 00:16:26,280 --> 00:16:29,800 Speaker 1: People are increasingly aware of the fact that in a decent, 269 00:16:29,920 --> 00:16:33,840 Speaker 1: healthy society, you should be able to go to sleep 270 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:36,080 Speaker 1: at night without fear. You should be able to go 271 00:16:36,120 --> 00:16:38,240 Speaker 1: to the store without fear. You should be able to 272 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:40,680 Speaker 1: send your child to school without fear. That part of 273 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:44,640 Speaker 1: the contract in the Constitution is a contract that says 274 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:47,120 Speaker 1: we're getting together as a country so we can have 275 00:16:47,160 --> 00:16:52,640 Speaker 1: neighborhoods and communities that are safe, and so personal safety, 276 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:55,720 Speaker 1: I believe has become more important as the Baby boom 277 00:16:55,760 --> 00:16:59,360 Speaker 1: generation has both gotten tired of being frightened and as 278 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:02,120 Speaker 1: its thought more and more about its own children, and 279 00:17:02,160 --> 00:17:05,880 Speaker 1: it's desired to be able to protect its own young Third, 280 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:10,000 Speaker 1: the basic ethic of working. This is a country built 281 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:12,359 Speaker 1: on hard work, built by people who are willing to 282 00:17:12,359 --> 00:17:14,480 Speaker 1: cross the ocean, built by people who are willing to 283 00:17:14,480 --> 00:17:17,040 Speaker 1: get in wagon trains and cross the continent. Built by 284 00:17:17,080 --> 00:17:20,359 Speaker 1: people willing to go out and try. Whether it's Colonel 285 00:17:20,359 --> 00:17:23,640 Speaker 1: Sanders after going bankrupt three times at sixty seven years 286 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:27,040 Speaker 1: of age, found in Kentucky fried Chicken, or it's Grandma 287 00:17:27,160 --> 00:17:32,199 Speaker 1: Moses picking up painting in her seventies. The ethic of 288 00:17:32,240 --> 00:17:35,240 Speaker 1: Americans that skins, that says, I think I'll do something. 289 00:17:35,560 --> 00:17:38,480 Speaker 1: I think I'll be busy, I think I'll get involved, 290 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:41,840 Speaker 1: is a very key part of the Baby boomers value system. 291 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:46,360 Speaker 1: Fourth is saving. This is a country. It's been fascinating 292 00:17:46,359 --> 00:17:49,439 Speaker 1: to me as a political leader to study the polling 293 00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:54,680 Speaker 1: data on individual retirement accounts. Seventy five percent American people 294 00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:58,280 Speaker 1: want an individual retirement account because deep in our being, 295 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:00,840 Speaker 1: going back I think all the way the Biblical story 296 00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:02,879 Speaker 1: of the seven lean years and the seven five years 297 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:07,080 Speaker 1: as an instinct that says you ought to save, you 298 00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:08,560 Speaker 1: ought to put a little aside, you ought to be 299 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:11,919 Speaker 1: aware of a rainy day, and that whole concept of 300 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:16,200 Speaker 1: saving and then saving leads to investing. You know, Americans 301 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:20,120 Speaker 1: have this instinct that they want better jobs, they want 302 00:18:20,160 --> 00:18:22,399 Speaker 1: better take home pay, they want a better neighborhood, a 303 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:25,760 Speaker 1: better house, better status, they want their children to have 304 00:18:25,760 --> 00:18:28,320 Speaker 1: a better future. And they know that you have to invest. 305 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:30,359 Speaker 1: You have to invest money, but you have to you 306 00:18:30,359 --> 00:18:32,800 Speaker 1: have to invest time. You have to be willing to 307 00:18:32,880 --> 00:18:36,040 Speaker 1: go out and do something with yourself, so you work 308 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:39,000 Speaker 1: and save in order to invest so your future and 309 00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:44,159 Speaker 1: your family's future is better. In addition, Americans know that 310 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:45,960 Speaker 1: you have to be willing to learn all the time. 311 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:49,520 Speaker 1: It's been a very interesting thing to try to explain 312 00:18:49,560 --> 00:18:51,879 Speaker 1: to Europeans because Europeans think that we're not a country 313 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:54,719 Speaker 1: that's into education, because we don't all go off and 314 00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:59,760 Speaker 1: read Shakespeare or Moliere or spend our time with Dante's Inferno. 315 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:04,640 Speaker 1: But the fact is that Americans at a practical level 316 00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:07,399 Speaker 1: are among the most learning oriented people on the planet. 317 00:19:08,119 --> 00:19:10,600 Speaker 1: Americans want to learn about what medicine should I take? 318 00:19:10,760 --> 00:19:13,200 Speaker 1: What vacation should I go on? What insurance should I buy? 319 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:15,200 Speaker 1: What car did you get? Did you like your car? 320 00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:17,120 Speaker 1: What do you think about? You know? What job did 321 00:19:17,119 --> 00:19:20,800 Speaker 1: your cousin just get? Americans are interested in learning on 322 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:24,640 Speaker 1: a continuing basis, and they know that relates right back 323 00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:29,719 Speaker 1: to working and to saving. In addition, increasingly Americans are 324 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:32,199 Speaker 1: concerned about health again. I think this is part of 325 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:34,400 Speaker 1: the baby boomers. As you get a little bit older, 326 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:37,320 Speaker 1: you suddenly realize that all those things that were automatic 327 00:19:37,359 --> 00:19:39,399 Speaker 1: when you were twenty aren't automatic when you're forty, and 328 00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:42,679 Speaker 1: there are even less automatic when you're sixty. Parliat's I 329 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:45,879 Speaker 1: think because we really have come to realize that you 330 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:48,120 Speaker 1: can have the good life. You can be eighty years old, 331 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:50,720 Speaker 1: as Ronald Reagan is, and if you have your health, 332 00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:53,840 Speaker 1: you can travel, you can speak, you can earn, you 333 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:57,760 Speaker 1: can be involved. I'll never forget none Claude Pepper into 334 00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:01,400 Speaker 1: his eighties, and how dynamic Claude Pepper was. Even though 335 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:04,120 Speaker 1: we disagreed about ideology and he was much more liberal 336 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:07,080 Speaker 1: than I was, you had to admire his investment in 337 00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:09,639 Speaker 1: life and the notion that he got up every day 338 00:20:09,760 --> 00:20:13,840 Speaker 1: excited to be alive, and so I think Americans have 339 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:15,960 Speaker 1: a much greater interest in health and a much greater 340 00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:19,159 Speaker 1: awareness that by applying the right habits and applying the 341 00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:23,200 Speaker 1: right technology, we can be healthy for a remarkably long time, 342 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:25,560 Speaker 1: longer than ever in the history of man. And as 343 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:28,240 Speaker 1: a part of health, I believe the eighth value is 344 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:34,320 Speaker 1: the environment. The people instinctively understand that if you have 345 00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:36,879 Speaker 1: a toxic waste dump next door, your health may not 346 00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:40,120 Speaker 1: be as good, But if you're downstream from enough pollution, 347 00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:42,440 Speaker 1: your health may not be as good. So part of 348 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:44,800 Speaker 1: the environment isn't just esthetics. It isn't just I want 349 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:46,280 Speaker 1: to get up and see the mountains of the morning, 350 00:20:46,359 --> 00:20:48,119 Speaker 1: or I want to get up and see the trees 351 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:51,480 Speaker 1: of the birds. But it's an instinctive belief that if 352 00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:54,159 Speaker 1: my environment's not healthy, sooner or later, I'm not going 353 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:57,200 Speaker 1: to be healthy either. And that's why I think there's 354 00:20:57,240 --> 00:21:00,280 Speaker 1: been a dramatic increase and a permanent increase in the 355 00:21:00,359 --> 00:21:03,800 Speaker 1: interest in the environment as a part of our health. 356 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:09,119 Speaker 1: And then, lastly, the core value of honesty. Now, the 357 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:13,520 Speaker 1: fact is you cannot keep a free society functioning if 358 00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:17,560 Speaker 1: it's essentially cynical and dishonest. That you have to have, 359 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:19,399 Speaker 1: first of all, basic belief that if I give you 360 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:23,000 Speaker 1: a check, the check's not going to bounce, if you 361 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:24,560 Speaker 1: give me your word, that if I go to work 362 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:26,920 Speaker 1: for you on Friday, you're going to pay me, that 363 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:28,480 Speaker 1: what you pay me in is actually going to be 364 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:31,320 Speaker 1: money I can spend. And you just start with those 365 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:35,360 Speaker 1: kind of very basic understandings. You can't have the contracts 366 00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:40,080 Speaker 1: of a free society. If people are inherently dishonest, then 367 00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:41,720 Speaker 1: I don't trust you, and you better pay me every 368 00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:43,239 Speaker 1: evening or I won't show back up the next day, 369 00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:45,480 Speaker 1: and you better pay me in cash, and I better 370 00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:47,800 Speaker 1: be cash I know is in counterfeit, and all of 371 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:50,400 Speaker 1: a sudden, the whole system begins to grind down. By contrast, 372 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:55,879 Speaker 1: because we have been inherently and unbelievably honest society. People 373 00:21:55,960 --> 00:21:57,920 Speaker 1: walk around every day with plastic. Maybe ever think I 374 00:21:58,160 --> 00:21:59,840 Speaker 1: happen to carry a lot of it my own wallet, 375 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:03,800 Speaker 1: And have you ever thought about what you carry every day? 376 00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:07,560 Speaker 1: I'm going to try to just pull out an example here, 377 00:22:08,040 --> 00:22:11,400 Speaker 1: an American Express card piece of plastic. I can give 378 00:22:11,440 --> 00:22:16,680 Speaker 1: it all over the world. People take it. You're considered. 379 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:20,840 Speaker 1: What an absolute act of magic. It is that everywhere 380 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:23,600 Speaker 1: on the planet people are willing to look at an 381 00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:26,960 Speaker 1: American Express card, not ask you to give them your 382 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:30,960 Speaker 1: birth certificate, your passport, visual identification, and twenty three other things, 383 00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:37,119 Speaker 1: and they give you good est fort Have you ever 384 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:39,600 Speaker 1: thought about them? You are actually able to wander off 385 00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:43,000 Speaker 1: and you've got something of real value, and they have 386 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:45,040 Speaker 1: a piece of paper with your signature and they actually 387 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:49,040 Speaker 1: believe it's you. Now, that's the kind of honesty which 388 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:53,320 Speaker 1: is at the heart of an open, driving, entrepreneurial society, 389 00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:56,399 Speaker 1: and it's at the heart of a free society. Because 390 00:22:56,440 --> 00:23:00,320 Speaker 1: if you can't believe your political leaders, if they don't 391 00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:04,399 Speaker 1: keep your word, then you say, well, why should I vote? 392 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:07,840 Speaker 1: They all lie anyway? Why should I get active? None 393 00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:10,240 Speaker 1: of them tell you the truth. Now, if you take 394 00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:18,719 Speaker 1: the four revolutions, technology, humanness, economics, and values, let's apply them. 395 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:21,520 Speaker 1: Just a couple examples. I recently visited a veterans hospital, 396 00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:25,359 Speaker 1: took a number of veterans from my district. First thing 397 00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:27,240 Speaker 1: I learned, I'm going to focus in one tiny part 398 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:30,560 Speaker 1: of the hospital, the area where with prosthetics they enable 399 00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:33,240 Speaker 1: people who've had their legs of their arms amputated to 400 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:36,560 Speaker 1: regain dramatically more of life than they would have a 401 00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:41,119 Speaker 1: hundred years ago. I had a very emotional moment. Walked 402 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:44,120 Speaker 1: into the area where they do the prosthetics, and there 403 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:47,240 Speaker 1: was a man who was standing for the first time 404 00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:51,520 Speaker 1: in eighteen months, twenty nine years old, had lost both 405 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:54,760 Speaker 1: legs at the knee in a car wreck, served in 406 00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:57,640 Speaker 1: the army in huntschilll Alabama. And he gave me permission 407 00:23:57,640 --> 00:23:59,000 Speaker 1: to come back and chat with me. He's standing here, 408 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:02,120 Speaker 1: he's very strong, his form college football player holding himself 409 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:06,160 Speaker 1: up on his two new legs, has not been standing 410 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:09,199 Speaker 1: for eighteen months. Sweat broke out on his face, and 411 00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:12,120 Speaker 1: we chatted briefly, and I learned a couple of things. 412 00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:30,080 Speaker 1: Go back to those revolutions technology. The legs he was 413 00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:32,600 Speaker 1: standing on were a new kind of plastic compound that 414 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:39,119 Speaker 1: were more flexible, lighter, more effective. Second humanness. We have 415 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:41,639 Speaker 1: declared that we're going to invest the resources to reach 416 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:43,960 Speaker 1: out to this man to give him a much more 417 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:46,840 Speaker 1: dramatically full life, to enable him as some of you've 418 00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:49,600 Speaker 1: seen the TV commercial, but the man playing basketball on 419 00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:53,560 Speaker 1: two legs, Yes, all right, Because we've decided that we 420 00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:56,480 Speaker 1: want to help. We want everybody to be able to 421 00:24:56,560 --> 00:24:59,119 Speaker 1: play in the game of life, to pursue happiness, to 422 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:07,960 Speaker 1: have opportunities. Third economics new corporations, developing new approaches, developing 423 00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:12,240 Speaker 1: new technologies, developing new plastics, creating in a competitive environment, 424 00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:16,800 Speaker 1: breakthroughs you don't get in a bureaucratic society. Fourth, those 425 00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:20,000 Speaker 1: basic values. The man who was his trainer had been 426 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:24,919 Speaker 1: a Special Forces in Vietnam, very tough man, and he 427 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:26,199 Speaker 1: said to me, he said, you know, you've got to 428 00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:29,720 Speaker 1: use tough love. It's very easy when you've lost two 429 00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:32,360 Speaker 1: legs or when you've lost an arm, when you're you're 430 00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:35,280 Speaker 1: you're suddenly disoriented, it's very easy to suddenly sit there 431 00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:38,119 Speaker 1: and say I'll never be able to do anything again. 432 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:40,920 Speaker 1: He said, my job is to walk in the room 433 00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:45,439 Speaker 1: and say, you are getting up. You know, you can 434 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:47,760 Speaker 1: wind all you onto, you can gripe all you want, 435 00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:51,359 Speaker 1: but you're getting up. And he said, my Special Forces 436 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:55,000 Speaker 1: training taught me that if you're tough enough, you can 437 00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:59,280 Speaker 1: lead them where you can't talk them. And so I 438 00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:01,600 Speaker 1: try to take them. And he said, frankly, it's sometimes 439 00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:03,840 Speaker 1: difficult because the family says, how can you be so 440 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:07,040 Speaker 1: tough on him. And the answer is, if you don't 441 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:11,000 Speaker 1: get him to work, to invest in the future, to 442 00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:13,000 Speaker 1: pay the price, to have the courage, if you're not 443 00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:16,440 Speaker 1: honest with him about what it's going to take, he's 444 00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:20,200 Speaker 1: never going to walk again, because in any given minute, 445 00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:24,440 Speaker 1: it's easier to not and that cripples his entire future. 446 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:26,760 Speaker 1: And I couldn't help but thinking, if that's true for 447 00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:30,000 Speaker 1: somebody who's lost both legs, what about the person who's 448 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:33,880 Speaker 1: able bodied but they've lost all hope living on welfare. 449 00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:36,520 Speaker 1: They're able bodied, but they've lost all hope because they've 450 00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:39,399 Speaker 1: flunked three courses in a row. They're able body, but 451 00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:42,360 Speaker 1: they've lost all hope because they're in a neighborhood where 452 00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:45,720 Speaker 1: drug addiction and prostitution are more common than achievement and 453 00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:49,560 Speaker 1: take home pay. And the very same concepts, the same 454 00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:54,520 Speaker 1: cultural values matter. Give me another example. I was on 455 00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:59,600 Speaker 1: a leadership trip to Saudi Arabia at Labor Day and 456 00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:02,439 Speaker 1: we saw our troops one hundred and first Airborne had 457 00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:05,480 Speaker 1: Air Mobile Division had just gotten there. And I was 458 00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:09,359 Speaker 1: a Duran Air Force base looking at one hundred and first, 459 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:12,560 Speaker 1: which is a very advanced sophisticated division, lots of helicopters, 460 00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:15,000 Speaker 1: and there was a civilian sitting there in an office. 461 00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:20,239 Speaker 1: He had been assigned by Hughes Aviation to serve with 462 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:24,880 Speaker 1: the division. He was filling out reports on an Apple computer, 463 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:29,480 Speaker 1: sending them back by telephone to California. He was ordering 464 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:32,040 Speaker 1: parts which they were packaging in boxes and shipping by 465 00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:36,000 Speaker 1: Federal Express. I think about how different though they were 466 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:40,159 Speaker 1: beating the army procurement system by about six months. It 467 00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:42,920 Speaker 1: was forty eight hours from initial order to the package 468 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:45,439 Speaker 1: being hand delivered by Federal Express. Federal Express had an 469 00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:48,439 Speaker 1: L ten eleven huge cargo plane sitting outside, and they 470 00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:50,320 Speaker 1: were shipping. Every every night a new plane came in. 471 00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:54,399 Speaker 1: Now that is a speed of turnaround. That's a just 472 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:58,840 Speaker 1: in time inventory. That again shows you technology, Apple computer, 473 00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:03,679 Speaker 1: worldwide telephone, link up, jet aircraft, the social invention of 474 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:06,440 Speaker 1: Federal Express, the concept of having a company, which is 475 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:08,440 Speaker 1: really an invention of a Harvard business student who did 476 00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:10,119 Speaker 1: a study and said this would make money and decided 477 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:12,040 Speaker 1: with so Truy went out and raised the money, founded 478 00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:19,800 Speaker 1: the company and became its chairman. Entrepreneurship values of hard 479 00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:24,720 Speaker 1: work very different than the old bureaucracy, the old army, 480 00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:27,360 Speaker 1: the old system of twenty or thirty years ago. As 481 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:30,240 Speaker 1: anybody who served in that hero will tell you, they 482 00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:32,880 Speaker 1: can't imagine the idea that within forty eight hours, nine 483 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:36,439 Speaker 1: thousand miles away, you could have the exact part you 484 00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:40,600 Speaker 1: need show up direct from the factory by private airplane. 485 00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:47,239 Speaker 1: Third example, Stephanie Win. Stephanie Winn is an eight year 486 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:52,440 Speaker 1: old girl, not particularly wealthy, lives in Villarica, Georgia. We 487 00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:54,320 Speaker 1: had a program once you'll hear me talk about several 488 00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:58,080 Speaker 1: times called Earning by Learning, based on the idea that 489 00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:00,840 Speaker 1: we could encourage young people to read if we paid 490 00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:04,080 Speaker 1: them two dollars a book. It's a very radical concept. 491 00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:08,560 Speaker 1: It's child labor and its piecework. We didn't encourage him 492 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:12,640 Speaker 1: for effort, we paid him for achievement. You had to 493 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:14,840 Speaker 1: finish the book, you had to come in, you had 494 00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:17,480 Speaker 1: to show an adult volunteery you'd read the book. And 495 00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:20,520 Speaker 1: I'll talk more about it later. But in Stephanie's case, 496 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:24,200 Speaker 1: I was there just a few days ago in Villa 497 00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:27,560 Speaker 1: Rica at the elementary school. Because of all the students 498 00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:30,400 Speaker 1: last summer in the whole sixth district of Georgia, she 499 00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:33,240 Speaker 1: read the most book. She read eighty three books, earned 500 00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:39,120 Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty six dollars. Very emotional, very exciting moment. 501 00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:43,920 Speaker 1: And I went over because the Wall Street Journal had 502 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:47,360 Speaker 1: asked her to write an article about what she did 503 00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:49,440 Speaker 1: during the summer, and so she wrote it in her 504 00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:51,520 Speaker 1: own words. She spoke it, and the assistant principal typed 505 00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:54,440 Speaker 1: it up. They sent it in and they printed up 506 00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:56,520 Speaker 1: and I brought her a plaque that was her article 507 00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:59,560 Speaker 1: with her name. Imagine eight years old in a national newspaper. 508 00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:03,640 Speaker 1: And we were chatting afterwards, and they said, well, you 509 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:05,400 Speaker 1: said you wanted to buy clothing. You wanted to buy 510 00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:10,920 Speaker 1: Barbie doll goodies, clothing and Barbie's house, staw and stuff. 511 00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:13,120 Speaker 1: I said, how to go, and she said, I got 512 00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:15,239 Speaker 1: everything I wanted. Then she looked up me and got 513 00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:17,040 Speaker 1: a big grin on her face and she said, I 514 00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:21,960 Speaker 1: still have over a hundred dollars in savings. Now, imagine 515 00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:25,680 Speaker 1: a poor child who's read any three books, earned the money, 516 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:28,520 Speaker 1: learned how to save, learn how to purchase, learn how 517 00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:32,600 Speaker 1: to budget for one hundred and sixty six dollars. And 518 00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:34,280 Speaker 1: by the way, her dad took a day off from 519 00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:37,160 Speaker 1: work to help her escort the money home, because that 520 00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:39,640 Speaker 1: was enough money. He was truly afraid she'd be robbed. 521 00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:47,479 Speaker 1: Lessons certainly, economic, certainly part of the process of the 522 00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:51,880 Speaker 1: right values. There was a system where we had volunteerism, 523 00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:55,280 Speaker 1: we had working, we had learning. She says, she is investing, 524 00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:59,280 Speaker 1: she is saving, all wrapped up in one particular little package, 525 00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:03,600 Speaker 1: all coming together. And one of the points I'd make 526 00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:07,400 Speaker 1: here is that our vision of an opportunity society is 527 00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:09,800 Speaker 1: more than just a difference in government. It's more than 528 00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:12,680 Speaker 1: just a difference from the bureaucratic welfare state and being 529 00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:16,560 Speaker 1: a slightly different program, a slightly different approach. I think 530 00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:20,640 Speaker 1: you have to think differently, that we want to make 531 00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:24,280 Speaker 1: America work again at every level by focusing first of 532 00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:26,600 Speaker 1: all on what works. Why did we use money for kids, 533 00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:29,880 Speaker 1: because it's pretty obvious kids will change your behavior dramatically 534 00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:32,400 Speaker 1: for money. And yet you'd be astonished the number of 535 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:35,320 Speaker 1: folks who said, well, you can't do that. And one 536 00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:37,520 Speaker 1: of the things which helped us when the argument was 537 00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:40,320 Speaker 1: I began asking middle class parents, how many of you 538 00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:43,400 Speaker 1: ever rewarded your children if they did something? You would 539 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:46,360 Speaker 1: have got the right grades, did the right program, well 540 00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:48,200 Speaker 1: over half the parents I knew said, well, of course 541 00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:50,680 Speaker 1: I did something. Sally got five a's. We took it 542 00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:53,000 Speaker 1: a Disney World, or I told Tommy he could get 543 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:55,760 Speaker 1: a new bike if he'd get something done. And all 544 00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:57,880 Speaker 1: we were doing was giving poor children a chance to 545 00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:02,000 Speaker 1: participate in the same kind of system learning by learning works. 546 00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:05,600 Speaker 1: We had two hundred and eighty two students who were 547 00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:09,800 Speaker 1: involved last summer and learned by learning. They read over 548 00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:16,880 Speaker 1: three thousand books trenus average number of books per student. 549 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,320 Speaker 1: It cost us only two dollars a book. We had 550 00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:25,400 Speaker 1: forty seven volunteers who were directly involved as volunteers. When 551 00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:26,880 Speaker 1: we had one person, they were paid a total of 552 00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:29,120 Speaker 1: five hundred dollars to hold At the other we used 553 00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:31,520 Speaker 1: public library books because the libraries are there and that's 554 00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:33,240 Speaker 1: what they're for, so we didn't have to have a 555 00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:36,000 Speaker 1: big investment in books. We had rooms given to us. 556 00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:37,440 Speaker 1: There were rooms that were going to be there anyway. 557 00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:39,640 Speaker 1: It turned out apartment managers loved the idea of learning 558 00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:44,160 Speaker 1: by learning because I kept the children busy. In Villareca School, 559 00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:49,160 Speaker 1: we had eighteen students involved. Every one of those students 560 00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:51,080 Speaker 1: registered again. We did a pretest, then we did a 561 00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:54,080 Speaker 1: test again this January. Every student registered again, one hundred 562 00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:57,880 Speaker 1: percent learned how to read somewhat better. Two students gained 563 00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:03,440 Speaker 1: one year and seven months in their reading ability, one 564 00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:06,320 Speaker 1: year and seven months out of a summertime program. But 565 00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:09,960 Speaker 1: it is a very different kind of program. Those students 566 00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:16,760 Speaker 1: read five hundred and fifty two books, cost eleven hundred dollars, 567 00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:21,920 Speaker 1: and it changed their lives at the margin. Now, if 568 00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:24,440 Speaker 1: you think about that whole design, it isn't just a 569 00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:27,440 Speaker 1: slightly better program. It isn't just a slightly different bureaucracy. 570 00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:32,840 Speaker 1: It is an entirely different approach. It uses entrepreneurship, volunteerism, 571 00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:37,640 Speaker 1: economic consenting, decentralization, It uses all the existing components of 572 00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:42,080 Speaker 1: the society, the public libraries, the apartment complex that's already there, 573 00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:45,600 Speaker 1: and brings them together in an opportunity society which is 574 00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:48,520 Speaker 1: different than the bureaucratic well first state, not just a 575 00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:51,800 Speaker 1: variation of it. And I think frankly that this may 576 00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:54,960 Speaker 1: be the area domestically in which President Bush most helps 577 00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:57,480 Speaker 1: change America. If you go back and read as I have, 578 00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:00,240 Speaker 1: the nineteen ninety one State of the Union, it's a 579 00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:03,680 Speaker 1: very powerful speech, not only about foreign policy, where of 580 00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:05,800 Speaker 1: course he got many standing ovations and we were very, 581 00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:09,040 Speaker 1: very deeply committed to what he's doing. But also, if 582 00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:12,920 Speaker 1: you read carefully, his part's talking about his vision of America, 583 00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:15,000 Speaker 1: of an America that works, because it's not a vision 584 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:18,440 Speaker 1: of a bureaucracy that works. Now, President Bush makes the 585 00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:20,759 Speaker 1: point that he wants a thousand points of light, his 586 00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:23,680 Speaker 1: way of saying everywhere there ought to be people doing 587 00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:25,919 Speaker 1: things on their own, being involved. I would argue they're 588 00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:28,360 Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty million points of light they called Americans, 589 00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:30,880 Speaker 1: and that every person has the potential to be that 590 00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:35,239 Speaker 1: kind of an activist. Talked about joining of a community 591 00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:39,320 Speaker 1: of conscience. I think a very powerful term, a community 592 00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:41,839 Speaker 1: of conscience. How can you live in a town knowing 593 00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:45,359 Speaker 1: that thirteen year olds become prostitutes, knowing that fifteen year 594 00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:48,040 Speaker 1: olds kill people, knowing that drug dealing is going on 595 00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:51,320 Speaker 1: every night and not as an act of conscience? He 596 00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:54,080 Speaker 1: more involved, and then he talked about a phrase that 597 00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:56,480 Speaker 1: I thought it was very old fashioned and also represents 598 00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:59,239 Speaker 1: the twenty first century. He said, we have to do 599 00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:02,080 Speaker 1: the hard work of freedom. Now, when's the last time 600 00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:05,680 Speaker 1: you heard somebody tell you it's gonna be hard. That 601 00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:08,880 Speaker 1: isn't easy. It's not pop top cans and microwave popcin 602 00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:11,600 Speaker 1: It isn't sitting down and watching your VCR and having 603 00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:13,600 Speaker 1: James Bond do all the hard work, or having Rambo 604 00:35:13,719 --> 00:35:16,680 Speaker 1: do all the hard work. You have to do the 605 00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:19,480 Speaker 1: hard work of freedom, he said. I want to quote 606 00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:23,359 Speaker 1: because I thought it was such a powerful statement. He said, 607 00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:26,680 Speaker 1: the strength of democracy is not in bureaucracy. It is 608 00:35:26,719 --> 00:35:30,920 Speaker 1: in the people and their communities. I'll think about how 609 00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:33,120 Speaker 1: different it is. We are good friends on the left 610 00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:36,239 Speaker 1: say boy, we have a problem. Let's set up another bureaucracy. 611 00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:39,600 Speaker 1: President Bush is saying, wait a second, we have a problem. 612 00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:42,480 Speaker 1: Let's tell the people together, Let's call the community together. 613 00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:46,040 Speaker 1: Let's find ways to get the job done. And that's 614 00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:48,080 Speaker 1: the spirit that I want to recruit you in. I 615 00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:51,520 Speaker 1: want to suggest you that if you look at your community, 616 00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:54,760 Speaker 1: if you look at your local government, or your state government, 617 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:58,640 Speaker 1: or your federal government, if you take those four revolutions 618 00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:02,520 Speaker 1: we talked about, and then you measure what could be 619 00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:05,040 Speaker 1: the Atlanta, that could be the Georgia, that could be 620 00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:07,160 Speaker 1: the Denver, that could be the Colorado, that could be 621 00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:09,680 Speaker 1: if you go to your local school system, and look 622 00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:13,560 Speaker 1: at how the rules block creativity. If you go to 623 00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:16,480 Speaker 1: your local hospital, look at how the rules block volunteerism. 624 00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:20,600 Speaker 1: Then you can see the gap between the America that 625 00:36:20,719 --> 00:36:23,719 Speaker 1: can be in an opportunity society and the America that 626 00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:28,239 Speaker 1: we're trapped into in the bureaucratic welfare state. And imagine 627 00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:31,920 Speaker 1: the kind of future we could have a home healthcare system. 628 00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:34,480 Speaker 1: They used high technology so people in their eighties and 629 00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:36,160 Speaker 1: nineties could live at home, not have to be in 630 00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:41,160 Speaker 1: a nursing home, but have a customer oriented, user friendly 631 00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:44,279 Speaker 1: system that took care of you in a way that 632 00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:48,080 Speaker 1: you had control over your destiny. That we maintained positive, 633 00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:52,080 Speaker 1: independent lifestyles for ten or fifteen years longer than we're 634 00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:54,200 Speaker 1: currently used to, which should also mean, by the way, 635 00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:58,239 Speaker 1: abolishing the stupid bureaucratic welfare state rule that penalizes you 636 00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:00,440 Speaker 1: if you want to work after sixty five should just 637 00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:18,000 Speaker 1: plain dumb, exactly the wrong value. This is not ideology. 638 00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:20,600 Speaker 1: This is what works and what doesn't work, what's practical 639 00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:25,840 Speaker 1: and what isn't. Shifting the bias towards working. I'm frankly, 640 00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:31,600 Speaker 1: absolutely convinced that every American who's able bodied under the 641 00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:34,120 Speaker 1: age of sixty five should be required to work if 642 00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:36,880 Speaker 1: they get government money. I think nothing would change the 643 00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:40,920 Speaker 1: welfare state more dramatically or help poor people more dramatically 644 00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:44,120 Speaker 1: than to require work if you get money from the government. 645 00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:46,239 Speaker 1: And that means you've also then got to change the 646 00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:49,520 Speaker 1: healthcare rules so that if you do work, you don't 647 00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:51,680 Speaker 1: get kicked off of Medicaid. It means you've got to 648 00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:53,680 Speaker 1: change the tax laws so we don't punish you as 649 00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:56,520 Speaker 1: you start to do better. It means that you'd eliminate 650 00:37:56,600 --> 00:37:58,960 Speaker 1: all the current food stamp rules because frankly, much like 651 00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:01,440 Speaker 1: those kids who are getting two dollars a book, you know, 652 00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:03,480 Speaker 1: people said to us, well, what will they spend the 653 00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:08,040 Speaker 1: money on. We said, well, that's their decision. They've earned it. 654 00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:14,239 Speaker 1: They're free citizens, they're allowed to decide. Similarly, if a 655 00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:17,279 Speaker 1: person is on workfare earning the money, we don't have 656 00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:19,319 Speaker 1: to have Mickey mouse rules about what you can and 657 00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:22,800 Speaker 1: can't buy, and have inspectors and have have grocery stores 658 00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:26,480 Speaker 1: to cheat. And it is astonishing when you talk about 659 00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:29,880 Speaker 1: basic honesty, it is astonishing by setting up rules we 660 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:33,239 Speaker 1: know people will cheat on. How much we teach people 661 00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:35,919 Speaker 1: to cheat I talk to all sorts of landlords who 662 00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:39,920 Speaker 1: have people on welfare, who offer them food stamps for cash. Why, 663 00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:42,600 Speaker 1: because it is human nature to want to have choice, 664 00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:44,000 Speaker 1: to want to better yourself, to want to have a 665 00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:47,200 Speaker 1: greater range of opportunities. And so we first set up 666 00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:49,640 Speaker 1: a welfare state that encourages cheating. Then we discover people 667 00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:51,799 Speaker 1: are cheating, Then we set up a bureaucracy to find 668 00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:54,080 Speaker 1: the cheaters. Then, because cheaters have a hire and sending 669 00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:55,920 Speaker 1: the bureaucrats to get away that so we make a 670 00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:59,560 Speaker 1: new set of rules to hire more bureaucrats to It's nonsense, 671 00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:05,480 Speaker 1: it's silly learning. Think of the kind of opportunities society 672 00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:12,320 Speaker 1: we could create using audiotape, videotape, television computers to allow 673 00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:14,759 Speaker 1: people to learn on their own. Back home, and in 674 00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:17,520 Speaker 1: my particular part of the country, kids like to go 675 00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:21,320 Speaker 1: down to Panama City, Florida, five hour trip one way. Now, 676 00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:23,839 Speaker 1: every one of those kids has an audiotape in their car. 677 00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:30,080 Speaker 1: None of them has chemistry class on audiotape. Yet if 678 00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:32,239 Speaker 1: they had a final one Monday and they had it 679 00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:36,200 Speaker 1: on audiotape, you'd be astonished how often they'd end up 680 00:39:36,239 --> 00:39:40,080 Speaker 1: listening and cramming for the course, rather than listening to 681 00:39:40,239 --> 00:39:42,600 Speaker 1: rock music or whatever they happen like our country Western 682 00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:46,719 Speaker 1: or whatever. The point being, we have the technologies and 683 00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:51,359 Speaker 1: the opportunities to create a learning oriented environment in which 684 00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:53,800 Speaker 1: the learner gets to learn as fast as they want, 685 00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:57,759 Speaker 1: with the best technology, with the best opportunities, with the 686 00:39:57,760 --> 00:40:01,160 Speaker 1: best incentives. To do that, leave you have to start 687 00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:08,759 Speaker 1: by learning four principles. Principles which I would call vision, strategies, projects, 688 00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:13,760 Speaker 1: and tactics. Now the sounds academic. I'm a former college teacher. 689 00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:15,640 Speaker 1: It is in a way academic, but it is the 690 00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:18,480 Speaker 1: most powerful way of learning to think about the future 691 00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:23,960 Speaker 1: that I know of. Start off with a notion of vision. 692 00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:28,560 Speaker 1: Think about your own community, your own neighborhood, your own family. 693 00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:32,000 Speaker 1: What is your vision in a positive way of the 694 00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:34,960 Speaker 1: future you would like I keep encouraging folks back home. 695 00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:37,360 Speaker 1: Don't tell me about what's wrong with Georgia. Tell me 696 00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:39,960 Speaker 1: about the Georgia you want to have in ten or 697 00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:42,560 Speaker 1: fifteen years. Don't tell me about what's wrong with Atlanta. 698 00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:44,840 Speaker 1: Tell me about the Atlanta we could have in a 699 00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:48,000 Speaker 1: positive way. Don't tell me what's wrong with healthcare. Begin 700 00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:51,200 Speaker 1: to show me a positive vision of the kind of 701 00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:54,840 Speaker 1: future we could have now. I believe that when you 702 00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:59,200 Speaker 1: start thinking that way, you start thinking about our majority. 703 00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:02,120 Speaker 1: How do we organize our majority in a positive way, 704 00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:05,600 Speaker 1: how do we work our way through the key revolutions 705 00:41:05,640 --> 00:41:10,000 Speaker 1: that bring people together to create a community. And we 706 00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:14,880 Speaker 1: begin to outline in a positive way, very powerful reasons 707 00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:18,000 Speaker 1: people should work together. And then you start looking at 708 00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:22,799 Speaker 1: strategies to implement that vision. Let me suggest here there 709 00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:25,480 Speaker 1: are a lot of different ways of approaching a given strategy. 710 00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:29,360 Speaker 1: I'll give you the notion that I want to develop 711 00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:33,840 Speaker 1: a way of encouraging young people to read. Important strategy 712 00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:36,480 Speaker 1: not the only strategy that we could do many other 713 00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:38,640 Speaker 1: ways to do it. And one of the things you're 714 00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:40,360 Speaker 1: going to discover and building a community is you're going 715 00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:43,960 Speaker 1: to have a lot more conflict that as you you know, 716 00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:46,120 Speaker 1: it's like having a giant family. Imagine the family of 717 00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:49,080 Speaker 1: about this, say, is my guests about one hundred and 718 00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:51,720 Speaker 1: sixty million, one hundred and seventy million Americans on our side, 719 00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:56,640 Speaker 1: about eighty ninety million Americans on their say, one hundred 720 00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:58,680 Speaker 1: and seventy million Americans is a giant family. I mean, 721 00:41:58,719 --> 00:42:00,440 Speaker 1: any of you've ever been to a big family reunion, 722 00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:03,600 Speaker 1: you get into some big arguments and one of the 723 00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:05,720 Speaker 1: things we've got to do, and this is very different 724 00:42:05,719 --> 00:42:07,520 Speaker 1: than being a minority, is we've got to learn to 725 00:42:07,560 --> 00:42:10,240 Speaker 1: relax and accept the fact there's going to be tension. 726 00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:13,160 Speaker 1: They're going to be arguments, there's going to be conflict, 727 00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:16,520 Speaker 1: and that's life. You want to be big enough to govern, 728 00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:19,239 Speaker 1: you're going to be big enough to fight, and you're 729 00:42:19,239 --> 00:42:21,000 Speaker 1: going to have people who disagree, and you've got to 730 00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:26,160 Speaker 1: sort out exactly how do you develop a particular approach. Now, 731 00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:30,319 Speaker 1: as we go through this, we have a positive vision 732 00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:32,919 Speaker 1: that's broad in general, that tells us in general terms 733 00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:35,080 Speaker 1: about the country we want to be, the community we 734 00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:37,480 Speaker 1: want to be, how we want to implement the revolutions. 735 00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:41,520 Speaker 1: We develop specific strategies to implement them, and then we've 736 00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:44,680 Speaker 1: got to have projects. And projects are very simple. They 737 00:42:44,719 --> 00:42:51,400 Speaker 1: are definable, delegatable achievements, something that can be done. And 738 00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:53,799 Speaker 1: then we have to have tactics every day. We have 739 00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:55,280 Speaker 1: to have what do we do on a daily basis? 740 00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:58,239 Speaker 1: Implement question I have for you, if I've convinced you 741 00:42:58,280 --> 00:43:01,759 Speaker 1: at all that we could create a more dynamic, a 742 00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:05,919 Speaker 1: more exciting, a more effective America with a wider range 743 00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:09,400 Speaker 1: of choices, an opportunity society where every American can I 744 00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:11,560 Speaker 1: have a better future. Then I want to ask you, 745 00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:16,799 Speaker 1: really the question what's America worth to you? What is 746 00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:19,920 Speaker 1: this future worth to you? Now I talk to you 747 00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:24,920 Speaker 1: about Scott Walker, a young man who died for his country, 748 00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:27,960 Speaker 1: And the question I would ask in a sense is 749 00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:31,720 Speaker 1: how much you want to live for your country? President 750 00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:35,279 Speaker 1: Bush talked about the hard work of freedom, and yet 751 00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:38,160 Speaker 1: I think we've had a generation of freedom on the cheap. 752 00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:42,000 Speaker 1: Half the country won't even vote. They say, I won't 753 00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:45,440 Speaker 1: register and I won't vote. Others say, well, maybe i'll vote, 754 00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:48,480 Speaker 1: but I won't learn enough to vote intelligently. Others say 755 00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:52,000 Speaker 1: maybe i'll actually vote and learn, but I won't contribute 756 00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:55,360 Speaker 1: to campaigns. Now they say, all right, I'll contribute to campaigns, 757 00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:57,000 Speaker 1: but I don't have the time to work in politics. 758 00:43:58,120 --> 00:44:00,640 Speaker 1: Others say, well, maybe i'll work somebody. I can't run, 759 00:44:01,680 --> 00:44:03,520 Speaker 1: though it ask me to be a candidate. Yeah, our 760 00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:05,040 Speaker 1: current and coming sort of a bum, but I don't 761 00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:08,480 Speaker 1: want to replace him. After all, you get out there 762 00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:12,239 Speaker 1: in public life, and when you're in public people might 763 00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:16,919 Speaker 1: say bad things about you. It might hurt your feelings. Now, 764 00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:19,080 Speaker 1: these are people will tell you with a totally straight face, 765 00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:23,359 Speaker 1: with great sincerity, that they love their country, that they're 766 00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:26,439 Speaker 1: very proud of the flag, that they get a tear 767 00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:28,560 Speaker 1: in their eye when they hear the Star Spangled banner. 768 00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:32,200 Speaker 1: And what I want to try to do is somehow 769 00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:36,840 Speaker 1: get you to translate that pride for you personally about yourself. 770 00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:41,920 Speaker 1: How many Americans would be willing, how many of you 771 00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:44,880 Speaker 1: would be willing to spend one day a week or 772 00:44:45,040 --> 00:44:48,080 Speaker 1: one week end a month to take your vacation time 773 00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:50,880 Speaker 1: in an election year and spend that entire vacation period 774 00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:55,239 Speaker 1: doing the hard work of freedom. Have a good friend 775 00:44:55,239 --> 00:44:57,839 Speaker 1: who's retired who now meets every week for an hour 776 00:44:58,640 --> 00:45:01,200 Speaker 1: with a thirteen year old boy who he's mentoring. Doesn't 777 00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:03,239 Speaker 1: know the boy at all except he happened to be 778 00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:06,279 Speaker 1: somebody who needed help. It spends another hour a week 779 00:45:06,480 --> 00:45:08,600 Speaker 1: with a young lady in another town who needs help, 780 00:45:09,640 --> 00:45:12,200 Speaker 1: and he's just He's a retired man who believes he 781 00:45:12,239 --> 00:45:16,480 Speaker 1: has to recommit to America, he has to reinvest himself 782 00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:19,480 Speaker 1: so that he can go to sleep at night feeling 783 00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:23,040 Speaker 1: that as an American he's done his job. I would 784 00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:25,399 Speaker 1: say to in a sense that the challenge to us 785 00:45:26,440 --> 00:45:30,279 Speaker 1: is to create a community of conscience within an opportunity 786 00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:35,400 Speaker 1: society that can make the next century truly an American century. 787 00:45:36,360 --> 00:45:39,560 Speaker 1: And I want you to remember what is at stake. 788 00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:43,879 Speaker 1: This is not just some abstract talk. There are two 789 00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:48,120 Speaker 1: futures hanging in the balance. Let me get an example. 790 00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:53,280 Speaker 1: Imagine that Jimmy Carter had won in nineteen eighty Imagine 791 00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:56,239 Speaker 1: the Walter Mondale had one nineteen eighty four, and then 792 00:45:56,239 --> 00:46:01,280 Speaker 1: we're now serving either with President Mondale or President Ducacus. 793 00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:05,359 Speaker 1: How different would the Persian golf be? Have you ever 794 00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:10,120 Speaker 1: thought about them? Do you ever ask yourself the last 795 00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:12,759 Speaker 1: time we had a liberal Democratic domination of the House, 796 00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:15,000 Speaker 1: the Senate, in the White House, we couldn't get eight 797 00:46:15,040 --> 00:46:20,160 Speaker 1: helicopters across the Uranian desert. Ten years later, we have 798 00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:23,799 Speaker 1: five hundred thousand people in the Persian golf. They're using 799 00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:27,960 Speaker 1: the most advanced technology, the most advanced doctrine, the best training. 800 00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:30,799 Speaker 1: They're doing things that any other time in history would 801 00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:33,160 Speaker 1: have been magic. And they're doing them just like that routine, 802 00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:37,000 Speaker 1: hour after hour, and we take it for granted. Well, 803 00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:38,360 Speaker 1: of course it was going to happen that way After all, 804 00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:43,719 Speaker 1: we're Americans. But what if the left had won? Where 805 00:46:43,719 --> 00:46:46,880 Speaker 1: would you be today? Do any of you seriously believe 806 00:46:47,719 --> 00:46:50,640 Speaker 1: with Carter's reelection and the second Mondale term or the 807 00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:53,120 Speaker 1: first du Caccus term, we'd have a half million minute 808 00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:55,399 Speaker 1: women in the Persian goal. Do any of you believe 809 00:46:55,440 --> 00:47:00,279 Speaker 1: we'd have enough equipment? And so I come back to 810 00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:04,399 Speaker 1: the same notion. Here at home. We can do here 811 00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:09,600 Speaker 1: at home everything that we're seeing done in the Middle East. 812 00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:13,360 Speaker 1: We can use the same technologies, the same values, the 813 00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:16,759 Speaker 1: same kind of driving entrepreneurship. We can create the opportunities 814 00:47:16,760 --> 00:47:19,799 Speaker 1: at home. We can win the war against drugs. We 815 00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:22,560 Speaker 1: can have a generation of people who actually learn. We 816 00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:25,799 Speaker 1: can rethink our healthcare system so every American has the 817 00:47:25,880 --> 00:47:30,840 Speaker 1: highest technology healthcare at a reasonable cost. But that requires 818 00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:34,319 Speaker 1: a willingness in our part to do as much here 819 00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:36,879 Speaker 1: at home as we're asking the young men and women 820 00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:41,080 Speaker 1: to do in desert storm. And so I want to 821 00:47:41,120 --> 00:47:44,080 Speaker 1: encourage you to take advantage of an enormous opportunity in 822 00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:48,200 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety two, because we should run people at every level, 823 00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:53,040 Speaker 1: for every office, committed to replacing the bureaucratic welfare st 824 00:47:53,040 --> 00:47:55,640 Speaker 1: aid with an opportunity society, and we should reach out 825 00:47:55,680 --> 00:47:59,439 Speaker 1: and convince every citizen. We're not going to ask any 826 00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:04,440 Speaker 1: of you to join the military, to put on a uniform, 827 00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:07,200 Speaker 1: to take a year out of your life, to go 828 00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:10,800 Speaker 1: nine thousand miles from home. All we are going to 829 00:48:10,880 --> 00:48:15,520 Speaker 1: ask you to do is to reach out every day 830 00:48:15,600 --> 00:48:19,360 Speaker 1: in your community, to talk to the people you see anyway, 831 00:48:19,520 --> 00:48:22,720 Speaker 1: to do the hard work of freedom, to be willing 832 00:48:22,760 --> 00:48:27,360 Speaker 1: to create a culture of conscience, which together will allow 833 00:48:27,520 --> 00:48:31,480 Speaker 1: all of us to create an opportunity society so that 834 00:48:31,560 --> 00:48:34,320 Speaker 1: every American has a real chance at the kind of 835 00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:39,239 Speaker 1: future we can create. Thank you to the University of 836 00:48:39,239 --> 00:48:43,840 Speaker 1: West Georgia Ingram Library Special Collections and specifically the Catherine 837 00:48:43,880 --> 00:48:47,600 Speaker 1: and Jeff Breedlove Political Collection. 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