brown for your great leadership in this organization in virginia and thank you to the longtime friend of my wife and i. ralph is amazing. he never seems to age. he looks the same way he looked as when he graduated from high school. whatever he drinks is the fountain of youth and a modern-day ponce de leon. you're key leaders for our cause and some of you from virginia and some of you from elsewhere around the country and it's really important that everyone's involved in and engaged in this pivotal time in our country's history. i'm from virginia. virginia is the cradle of liberty, on this day, june 16, 1607, they completed the fort in jamestown. that's where all of the

principals of our country began and through the years, as well. virginia was started as a commercial venture and free-enterprise started in virginia. the concept of representative democracy started in virginia with the first legislative body and through the years, the religious freedom was authored by thomas jefferson who was so proud of it that on his gravestone he had his three proudest accomplishments and the staff uft religious freedom and the declaration of independence and the founding of the university of virginia and so these foundational values are at stake today. the theme of this conference is that america's at a crossroads and indeed we are. the choices that are going to be made in this year's elections are going to determine the course of american history, whether we continue to decline or i think we believe we autopsy to begin ascending once again and how we got into the fight from the pivotal senate seat in

virginia. i have faith. i have faith in america. america is blessed with fertile land so we can flourish and feed ourselves and indeed the rest of the world. america is blessed with the most resources of any country in the world that can power our economy and fuel ourselves, but i'm most optimistic about america's future because of freedom. freedom is not only the god-given birthright of every one of us. freedom is the most powerful and successful idea in human history. our nation was founded on freedom, but these days american freedom and opportunity are at risk. why are they at risk? because of an overreaching and high tax, big government policies of president obama, harry reid and their washington allies including our opponent and the hand-picked senator for virginia. we in virginia think we ought to

have a senator who represents their values and their voices rather than that of president obama. >> earlier this week we had a nominating primary in virginia and hundreds of thousands of virginians voted. the week before wisconsin voters sent a message to washington. this week virginians sent a message to washington, virginians are fired up and we're ready for the comeback, we in virginia want to take control of our own destiny and we want to invigorate the entrepreneurial victory, and the reasonable regulations and utilizing and producing our energy resources and itempoweri education and all of this to send a message that america is open for business again. the message from virginians is that we know that the private

sector is not doing fine, not with underemployment which is the most discouraging at around 19%, where young people graduate from college and move back home because they can't find a job or middle-aged people or young folks who earned a job and not necessarily fully utilizing their talent, skills and education. the message from virginia as we envision a better future than what we're having to endure these days. we want to rein in the regulators and free small businesses to invest and grow. there's a businessman from patriotic bedford county who said to me, i want the government to get off my back and out of my pocket. that's the message we're sending to washington. it is a message from virginia's coal fields from the coast that we from virginia are ready, willing and able to power our economy. it is a message that we don't consider the government takeover of health care to be a, quote, great achievement as tim cain may call it.

we want obama care repealed and we want -- [ applause ] >> and once repealed we want more affordable, portable, market based health savings accounts where people can own their own policies and take it from job to job and not worry about pre-existing conditions about not being covered with their own job. we said a lot of other things with obama care. families are concerned and seniors are worried about whether they'll have access to doctors. health care providers and hospitals are worried about what that's going to do with their service of patience. there's limits with the flex savings accounts. they're imposing new taxes on medical device manufacturers and growth receipts' tax that will harm those manufacturers and it's such a major impediment for small businesses hiring anyone. as a previous panel discussed,

this healthcare law that obama's administration's regulations as they're implementing them are trampling on religious freedom on top of it all. the overreach of this has catholic organizations and other religious individuals saying wait a second, this is contrary to the deeply-held religious beliefs, so that's just another reason. i mentioned thomas jefferson and i had his seat. i always believed in religious freedom and it meant more to me that in the summer of 2006 my mother said to me something that she hid from me and kept concealed for over 50 years and that was that my grandfather, felix, my middle name is felix after my grandfather. my mother was in tunisia during world war ii. and he was captured by the nazis and incarcerated. i found out in 2006 that my

grandfather was jewish and my mother had hid this for years and it was a fear of religious persecution that she was trying to protect her babies by hiding this religious heritage, and i asked her why did you do that? she said i was worried that you all would be treated differently and daddy wouldn't get a job and this, that and the other and it's brought our family much closer together and more important for me personally is the concept of religious freedom is no longer just enlightened jeffersonian philosophy, it's very personal that the person who raised you had these same scars and fear and that's why it's important for us and the previous panel said this, regardless of someone else's faith if someone's else's religion is being persecuted and it's important for us to stand up together, for religious liberty, because if you don't, it will be condoned by what

they're doing. so, ladies and gentlemen, this election is about protecting religious freedom and all of the individual freedoms and god-given rights that are enshrined in our constitution, from freedom of expression and the natural right of self-defense in the second amendment, property rights and another part of the bill of rights that's sometimes forgotten is the tenth amendment where the rights and prerogatives of the people of the states and they're the laboratories of innovation and we ought to trust government closest to the people rather than having folks in washington dictate every aspect of our lives and so this election is about people, free people making decisions for ourselves and our families and our businesses and it's about unleashing the free enterprise system with simpler, fairer and more competitive tax laws and reasonable regulations and without having businesses stifled by the heavy hand of government. it is about the freedom to use

our plentiful american energy resources for jobs and national security and keeping our money here in the united states of america. it is about the freedom to choose our doctors and get the best quality health care rather than having government bureaucracies ration it. it's also about protecting worker freedom, the right to bork without being compelled to pay union dues as a condition of having a job. so folks, and my friends and fellow patriots, 2012 is our generation's rendezvous with destiny. it is our time for choosing and freedom and opportunity for all hangs in the balance so thank you for caring about your family, our country and indeed when america's strong in that beacon of liberty, the world is better off, so thank you for blessing our country with people of your character, your integrity with you, standing strong and positively for freedom, we will win in virginia and america will begin to ascend once again.

thank you all so very much. thank you. ♪ ♪ ♪ ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage miss jenny beth martin. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> you know when a country is in trouble. you could see it in the headlines in italy and spain and greece today. they're in trouble and they're facing bankruptcy. there are two economists who have studied -- who have studied governments and economies over the last 800 years and they found that when a country's debt

hits 90% or higher of the gross domestic product that country begins to have serial defaults and severe economic consequences. 800 years. let me just make sure you understand, 800 years of history. last week the congressional budget office released numbers saying that our debt was around 75%. what they failed to mention is they were not including the intradepartment government debts. when you include that, in december of last year we hit 100%. 100%, 800 years of history, 90% is where you begin to have trouble, but you don't need to see the headlines or listen to economists to understand this, because you see it when a friend loses their job or a neighbor

has a foreclosure sign that goes up or a family member files bankruptcy. you're seeing it and experiencing it every day and personally and it's happening in big cities like detroit and give me just a second while i look at these numbers to make sure i get them right, but in detroit, the unemployment rate 16.9%. in, atlanta, georgia, 10.8%. las vegas, 12.4%. but it's not just in big cities. it's also in smaller cities like in fresno, california, where 16.4% and anderson, indiana where it's 10.8%, but right near in washington, d.c., the unemployment rate is 5.5%.

the people in washington, d.c., are completely out of touch with the suffering that we see with our family and friends and neighbors and neighbors every single day. they're either out of touch or worse, they're incompetent or unable to provide solutions to the problems our country is facing. but there's good news. the core values of tea party patriots and the core values of so many of you who are in here who have actually been to or supported the tea party movement in one way or another. they are fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limiting government and free markets and our core values can solve the problems that america is facing. we need to make sure between now and november that we are

creating a mandate with our fellow voters that when they go to vote they're not just voting for people, but they're voting for principle, and we need to create a mandate for what we expect the politicians to do when they get into office. the first thing we need to do is balance or pass a budget. it's been over three years since the budget was passed in the senate. we need to start with passing a budget, but not just any budget, we need to pass a budget that balances in five years or less without raising taxes. we have to repeal -- we have to get back to constitutionally limited government and roll back

this overreach of government that we have all over the country, and we're going to do that by repealing obama care in full. [ applause ] >> the supreme court will be making a decision in the coming week about the constitutionality of parts or all of the legislation regardless of what they did do, we still must repeal that law because if parts of it stay in place in 20 years from now we'll be fighting these same battles again, and we cannot do that. it's strangling our country. we have to get rid of the regulations that are preventing businesses from competing. free markets breed competition and competition makes you so much stronger and we've got to begin rolling back the regulations that are preventing businesses from reinvesting and

preventing them from growing and we're going to do these things, and i know we're going to do them because of people just like you. there are people like him all over this country. i just met linda, or i just saw linda from pittsburgh who is a coordinator in pittsburgh. we have a coordinator, our state coordinator from washington state here today. in wisconsin, just last week, we had 150 volunteers from around the country go into wisconsin. volunteers, not paid people, volunteers who went door to door, knocking on doors to get out the vote in wisconsin. it wasn't even their state, but they took their time out of their life to do this and thousands more made phone calls. it's that kind of commitment and the kind of commitment that brings you here to a weekend like this to learn so much about how you can go back and implement these things in your community that gives me faith, not hope, but faith in the

american people. we have a tough decision to make. we have to decide if we are going to go the way of 800 years of history and let our country go bankrupt and give up and say we -- there's nothing to do and it's hopeless or against all odds we can fight and we can win. and our country has a proven history of taking on battles that seem insurmountable. from the very formation of our country, we took on the largest empire of the world, many said it couldn't be done and we did and we created a government. most governments limit the governed, and ours limited the government. we area i government of the people, by the people and for the people. we went from a small country to

one that can defeat communism in the cold war. we defeated naziism in world war ii. and our free markets have created the modern world that we live in from light bulbs to telephon telephones, iphones to ipad, the personal computer, google, products that we use every single day our free markets created those in the competition and our core values can solve these problems, and i'm here to say that if you'll stand with me and with others just like you around this country, we have the determination and the boldness. we can, not only can we, but we will return america to a more productive, prolific and prosperous country once again.

god bless america. thank you so much. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, welcome the chairman of the faith and freedom coalition, mr. tom scott. ♪ ♪ >> hi, how are you? i'll bet you're hungry and nobody's hungry here. ralph doesn't count lunch. he doesn't put lunch in there, you notice that? we're going to have to do something about that. >> i have to tell you, this is a great honor for me to stand before you, and i mean you, because i want to take just a moment of privilege and let me tell you something, i know what it takes to get this many people

to come this far from all across america to spend time on a weekend to do something like this and i thank you for that. i thank you because it sends a message to our fellow citizens and to our leaders leaders in wn that the people of faith are not leaving the political process. amen. [ applause ] i am here today to introduce you to someone that i have tremendous respect for. he's from my home state of georgia. he represented the sixth district in georgia. his name is newt gingrich. i'm sure he doesn't need much of an introduction. a little bit about newt, he holds a ph.d in european history. he is without a doubt the leading authority on the civil war if you've read his books. how many of you have read his books? you can get them on amazon.com,

by the way. i've read 19 of his books. i'm not sure if there's more, but i've read 19 of them. that's how much i appreciate his books. newt also is a former college professor. he is an international expert on world history. he is an international expert on military issues and international affairs. and something most people don't know about him is that newt is the longest serving teacher on the joint war fighting force for major generals. that's a pretty big deal. sounds like somebody we need helping run the country, isn't it? but more important than any of that is that he co-authored the contract with america. remember that? that led -- [ applause ] that led the republican party in 1994 to a victory when it captured the majority in the u.s. house for the first time in

40 years. speaker gingrich the thing i like about him the most, and i tell my employees this in my companies all the time, you've got to know how to make a plan. and then most important is you have to know how to execute a plan. newt gingrich can execute a plan. aka, contract with america. i am personally hoping that when mitt romney is sworn in as president of the united states, that and newt may not want the job, i haven't asked him, but i hope that he's going to be offered secretary of state. [ applause ] i cannot imagine a better american traveling the world that knows the world -- can you imagine what knowing europe yoon history would do for us now

having someone that really understood it? well, i can't imagine a better person to do that. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome a true american patriot, speaker newt gingrich. ♪ [ applause ] >> well, thank you all very, very much. i am delighted to be with you and to have a chance to talk about where we are and where we need to go. i do worry a little bit when folks like tom introduce you because halfway through the introduction i start getting excited about hearing from the person he's describing. and then i realize it's me and a little more dangerous.

but calista and i are both glad to be here. we wanted to come in part because i want to communicate that my involvement and our involvement was a lot more than just personal ambition. it was about being a citizen. it's about the whole purpose of talking about faith and freedom. i would to commend you for the work you did in wisconsin y you played a major role. [ applause ] imagine if scott walker was defeated how the elite media would explain how it's the beginning of the end of the romney campaign, the beginning of the end of the republicans, et cetera. you haven't quite seen the same level of exploration of what it

means that all that money and all that union energy went in and they got beaten. in fact, it was a fascinating day. i do a news letter at gingrich productions that you can get for free at gingrichproductions.com every week. the week that occurred i pointed out that you really had to wonder how out of touch the president was with reality. remember the president came out and he talked about how the private sector was doing just fine. and what we really had to do was focus on getting more money to state and local governments. now the reason i thought it was fascinating is is not only had the people of wisconsin normally considered a moderate frankly prounion state historically, not only had they just deceasively said no, we don't want more money to prop up unions who are getting more than they can afford because it's taking money

away from our children and our future and our economy, but in addition the very same day, this was not given the size coverage it should have around the country. the very same day, the eighth and tenth largest cities in the united states in referendum voted decisively to change their government union contracts. the eighth largest city is san diego. the tenth largers is san jose. these are in california. you can't beat -- san jose in particular where the democratic mayor led the effort. now in san diego the margin was only 66%. but for people who knew the way to san jose the margin there was 70%. so you have the president of the united states literally within three days of 2/3 of san

diegoians seven out of every ten people in san jose which gave him a huge margin in 2008, a decisive majority many wisconsin, all of them saying we want less government at lower cost, and barack obama gave us the obama world view. which is we americans are stupid and lucky for us he's available. what made it doubly fascinating for me, he went on to say, that the state and local governments don't have the quote, flexibility that the federal government has when faced with a decline in revenue. that means they actually have constitutions that require a balanced budget. and therefore they're not

flexible. well, we all know what flexible means to barack obama. it means borrowing more money. so his policy as articulated in two paragraphs, the friday after the vote, very straight forward. nobody should be confused if he gets re-elected. he is for a smaller private sector, a bigger government sector paying off the government unions whatever it takes and borrowing the money from our children and grandchildren to do it. now that is obama's vision of a successful economy. and he doesn't -- just as with obama care, he didn't care that they lost teddy kennedy's seat in massachusetts, in a special election, in which health care was the issue. have you ever thought of getting september a signal, there's an old story about the man who was down along the bayou and an

enormous hurricane came in and began to flood. and the local police came by in four wheel drive and said this is going to be a bad flood, you really should come with us, no. i trust in god. and the flood kept building and he was driven up to the second floor. and the coast guard came by in a boat. and he said, no, no, i trust in god. and he was standing on the roof. and a helicopter came by. and he yelled we're here to take you. he said, no, i trust in god. finally, he was standing on the chimney. the water was up to his neck. he looked up to the sky he said, god, i trusted in you. and this voice said, i sent you a car,