office after almost one decade decadeomic policy i-- a of economic policy that gave us sluggish job growth, falling incomes, a record deficit -- i want everyone to remember this. a decade of economic policy in that culminated in the worst crisis since the great depression. [applause] 3 billion -- 3 million americans have lost their jobs in the last six months of 2008. another 750,000 americans lost their jobs the month that i was sworn in. the next month, it was 600,000. these were not just numbers. most of you have somebody in

your family who has been touched by this crisis, if you were not yourself. .

they might call it different things. the owner should society, or laissez-faire, but this is their philosophy. i want somebody to argue that somehow this was working well for the people in nevada. it was bad for workers. it was bad for business. it was bad for this country. i took a different path as president. i have a different philosophy, based on how we help ordinary families. this is their drive to rebuild an america that was stronger than before. that was our task.

we have a different philosophy. we said that we would cut taxes for the 95% of working families and small business owners that need help in this recession. we believe in the free market. we think that everyone should be calling basic -- following basic rules of the road. we made sure that wall street banks and other corporations have to play by the same rules that small banks and small business owners have to play with. that just makes sense. there should 98 two sets of rules and loopholes and tax breaks. and, we decided that we were going to invest in our people, and in our future and the skills and education of our work force.

we make sure america is competitive in the 20th -- and the 21st century. that is our view for america. now, since we had a crisis on our hands, the financial system was melting down, people could not get all loans and people were not troubling. you remember. you remember last year. we had to make a bunch of decisions and we have to make them fast. they were tough decisions and difficult decisions. i know it is all right, because, let me tell you something. as we were making these decisions, sometimes the pundits would say -- would ask why harry

reid is doing that. it would not be popular. we've got pulled -- we have pollsters in the lettuce know when things will not be popular. it is not what we were surprised. my job is not to put my finger up in the wind to see which way the wind is blowing did that is not leadership. our job is to focus not on the next election, but on the next generation and that is why we made those decisions -- and that's why we made those decisions. [applause] we knew it would take us months, years, to dig ourselves out of the holes that we found ourselves in. that's longer than anybody

would like, but here's what i also know. an economy that last year was shrinking by 6 percent is now growing. [applause] an economy that was shredding jobs at an unbelievable pace -- we've now had six months in a row of private sector job growth. that's because of policies that harry reid helped bring about. we have turned things around, and we are moving in the right direction. [applause] that's not enough. it hasn't moved as fast as i want. i'm not going to be satisfied, and harry won't be satisfied, until everybody in nevada who wants a job can find a job. [applause] we don't want to just survive; we want to thrive. we want nevada to be on the move. we want the las vegas dream to be a reality for everybody.

[applause] and so we understand we've got a lot of work to do. basically, the other party, their whole argument is based on the notion, well, it hasn't moved fast enough. well, i agree. i'd like to see us get out of this hole sooner, but you have to understand we are heading in the right direction. and what the other side is offering is basically to go back to the same ideas that got us into this mess in the first place. [applause] that's all they're doing. [applause]

this is a choice between the policies that led us into the mess, or the policies that are leading out of the mess. this is the choice between falling backwards, or moving forward. now, i don't know about you, but harry reid wants to move forward. [applause] i want to move forward. i think most people in nevada want to move forward. they don't want to go backwards. [applause] america doesn't go backwards, we go forwards. that's who we are as americans. [applause] what the other party is counting on is that all of you don't have very good memories. [laughter] i mean, think about it. they're not making new arguments. it's not like they're coming back and saying, you know what,

we know we screwed up and we learned from our mistakes, and we're going to do things differently this time. that's not what -- that's not what you're hearing. they are peddling the same stuff they've been peddling for years and years and years. [applause] they basically -- they spent a decade driving the economy into a ditch. and now they're asking for the keys back. [laughter] and my answer is, no, you cant

have the keys. [applause] you can't drive. you don't know how to drive. you drive in the wrong direction. you can't have them back. [applause] we're just getting the car out of the ditch. we can't have you drive it back in the ditch. [laughter] harry reid and i, we got mud on

our shoes. we're -- we've been pushing and shoving -- car is just kind of getting out, almost -- almost on some pavement. [laughter] some, they're all, "no, no, we want to pull into reverse." [laughter] run right over harry and me. [laughter] get you back in the mud. that doesn't make sense. i mean, look, harry reid's opponent doesn't just believe in these old, worn-out theories. on a lot of these issues, she favors an approach that's even more extreme than the republicans we got in washington. [laughter] that's saying something. [laughter] that is saying something. i mean, she wants to phase out and privatize social security and medicare. >> boo! >> phase out and privatize them. >> phase her out. [laughter] >> wants to eliminate our investment in clean energy. wants to eliminate the federal investment in our children's educations. >> boo! >> said the answer to the bp oil spill is to deregulate the oil industry. i'm not making this up. harry, am i making this up? [laughter] i know some of you are saying,

no, she didn't really say that. [laughter] she said it. she said that if only there were fewer rules and safeguards, then bp would have been more careful -- [laughter] -- about their drilling. some of you might have heard about the republican congressman who apologized to bp -- i think you heard harry mention him. this, by the way, is the guy who heads up the energy committee for the republicans. we decided let's get $20 billion to make sure the fishermen and small business people and [applause] -- hotels are compensated for their loss. that makes sense. i mean, most people around the country, it doesn't matter whether you're a democrat,

republican, independent -- you say, well, yeah, of course, that makes sense. they shouldn't be punished for somebody else's carelessness. well, this congressman, he, in a hearing, apologized to bp executives -- said -- said that the fund we'd set up was a tragedy, a shakedown -- [laughter] a tragedy? you think about all those people down there who -- a lot of folks down there, just like vega, rely on tourism. and it's much more seasonal than vegas, so they've got basically three, four months where they make money for the entire year. you talk to some fishermen -- they had already -- or guys who own boats who take fishermen out -- they'd already bought all their supplies, bought all their gasoline, and suddenly that's it, wiped out. that's the tragedy. it's not asking bp to do what's right

and what's fair. but harry's opponent, she agreed with this guy. she called the compensation we're providing a slush fund. >> boo! >> to compensate fishermen and compensate shrimpers and compensate small restaurant owners. now, a few hours later, her campaign puts out a memo saying, well, she didn't mean that. [laughter] they said there was some "confusion." [laughter] and i'm sure she meant "slush fund" in the nicest possible way. [laughter and applause] let me tell you, most nevadans i meet -- and i've spent a lot of time here -- you know that. [laughter and applause]

i've been seeing you. most of the people i meet here in this state, they don't think like that. they don't subscribe to that kind of thinking. so why would you want somebody who has that philosophy representing the people of nevada? >> no! >> you need somebody like harry reid representing you in nevada. [applause] my simple point is this. you have a choice in this election -- and, look, obviously you're here -- you guys are some diehards, you guys are supporters, and you need to be energized in this election. but when you're talking to your

friends and your neighbors, they're not following politics as closely, they're not sure how things should go; they're frustrated about what's happening and they say, ah, it doesn't make any difference. you have to remind them, it makes a difference. there is a real choice here. we know how the movie ends if the other party is in charge. [laughter] you don't have to guess how they'll govern because we're still living with the damage from the last time they were governing. [applause] and they're singing from the same hymnal. they haven't changed. they want to do the same stuff. right after we took office, working with harry, we passed tax cuts for over one million families here in nevada, made over 400 loans to nevada's small businesses, extended

unemployment benefits to 300,000 nevadans who'd lost their jobs. [applause] twenty-seven thousand men and women in this state are working today because of what harry reid did. [applause] they're in clean energy companies, producing solar power and geothermal power and new jobs. [applause] that's what harry reid fought for, but, you know what, his opponent -- she's got a different way of seeing things. and if we had had her way, there would be a lot of nevada families and small businesses right now paying higher taxes. there would be a lot of small business owners who wouldn't have received those loans to keep their doors open and make payroll. those 27,000 jobs, they wouldn't be there today. all that clean energy work that those companies are doing wouldn't be here today. they want to take us backwards. we want to move forwards. that's the choice in this

election. you would have thought -- you would have thought that after this financial crisis -- bear with me here because you might be scratching your head -- you would think that everybody would agree that proper oversight over the financial sector would be the smart thing to do -- just to prevent this from happening again. we want businesses to thrive. we want banks to thrive. but we want to make sure that they're doing sensible things. we don't want them selling crazy derivatives that nobody understands. we don't want them selling

subprime mortgages with fine print that result in people losing their homes and entire communities collapsing. we don't want them overcharging people on their credit cards for hidden fees. so harry and i and a bunch of people just tried to put together a sensible bit of reform. now, the republican leader in the house says, no, we can't do that, we're against that. he says, having this big financial regulatory reform, that's like killing an ant with a nuclear weapon. that's what he said. [laughter] so he thinks the worst crisis since the worst -- since the great depression, he analogized to an ant. it's like it should be a movie. "the ant that ate the economy." [laughter and applause] so all the republicans -- a whole bunch of the republican leadership fought against wall street reform. there are a handful of republicans who are supporting

it, and we appreciate that. and they're pretty much the same handful that have been supporting us on just about everything and they're good people. but harry's opponent said she'd leave everything exactly the way it is. the status quo. now, i don't believe in the status quo. harry reid doesn't believe in the status quo. you don't believe in the status quo. >> no! >> so, thanks to harry's leadership, we are about to pass this landmark legislation that will end this era of irresponsibility. [applause] that's the kind of leadership that you'll have in place. that's what he's fighting for. that's why you've got to send him back for one more term. [applause]

you go through the list. health care, now, this is an interesting example. people in washington, they were all surprised when i said -- well, i said in the campaign i was going to do health care, so, yes, we're going to do health care reform. [applause] they said, well, no, this is hard. this is hard. you're going to use up a lot of political capital. they said the same thing to harry. harry, you're going to have a tough race. you don't want to do this. this is hard.

but we said we were going to do it because we had met too many families out there who, because of a preexisting condition, couldn't get insurance. we had met folks working two, three jobs, still couldn't get insurance. we'd met too many people who had hit lifetime limits, couldn't get insurance. so we said, we're going to do the right thing. [applause] and we did it, even though it was hard, because it was the right thing to do. [applause] now, not only do the folks in the other party say no to reform, now they say they want to repeal it -- go back to the days when insurance companies could jack up your rates any time they felt like it, or drop your coverage when you get sick. that's going backwards. what do you want to do? >> forward! >> i want to go forward. but in order to go forward, you got to send harry for another term as the senior senator from nevada. [applause] look, the bottom line is this. this is going to be a tough race. harry reminds me, he's never been in an easy race. that's because he talks softly

and says, "well, you know" -- [laughter] "i don't like to brag about myself." [laughter] "i'm from searchlight." [laughter and applause] so harry is always in a tough race. he's just not a flashy guy. i mean, considering we're in vegas, you'd think somebody could give him some tips. [laughter] you know, spruce up the wardrobe a little bit, take some voice lessons. [laughter] so he's always in a tough race. but ultimately, what you want

out of your elected officials is somebody who knows your life, who remembers what it's like to struggle, so that when we're making a whole bunch of decisions that continue to face us over the next several months and next several years, that person is going to advocate for you. he's going to have you in mind when he's deciding are we going to have an energy future that is clean and bright, and creating jobs and allowing us to compete? [applause] are we going to make sure that young people continue to get the student loans and scholarships they need so we've got the best trained workforce in the world? [applause]

are we finally going to get our budget and our debt under control in a way that doesn't do it on the backs of working families? let me just talk about -- let me talk about this whole debt and deficit thing. this keeps me up -- this keeps me up at night. we've got serious issues with debt and -- deficits and debt. now, keep in mind that we had a surplus -- remember that? -- with the last democratic president. do you remember that? [applause] but when i walked in, this is right in the middle of this huge crisis, what had been a record surplus was suddenly a

$1.3 trillion deficit. that was when we walked in. all right? so we said even though we're doing all these other things -- even though we're giving tax cuts, even though we have to make sure that small businesses get loans, even though we are making sure that the economy stays afloat -- despite all that, let's start taking some steps that over the long term can help control the budget. so i proposed a three-year freeze on all government spending outside of national security, something that was never enacted by the previous administration. and then we identified 120 government programs that weren't working that well, so we said, let's eliminate those and consolidate and streamline and make them work. and then i -- then we said, well, let's form a bipartisan fiscal commission -- an idea of a republican senator and a democratic senator, the two leading experts on the budget in the senate -- let's go ahead and adopt this proposal to come up with a long-term solution on how we're going to deal with

entitlements and all this stuff. now, here's what happens. harry knows this, harry remember this. we had seven republicans who were sponsors of this fiscal commission. they said we've got to deal with the deficit; we've got to deal with debt. so i say, okay, let's do it. i make an announcement. and in front of the entire country i said, i embrace this bipartisan fiscal commission idea. let's get this legislation passed. i'll sign it into law. next thing you know the seven folks on the republican side who had been co-sponsors of it voted against it. their legislation. now, this is typical. so, look, i don't want you guys to get bamboozled. i don't want -- when these folks start running the okeedoke on you, i want you to be clear.

[laughter] when they start intoning about how "we care so much about the deficit and debt," and "we're tired of this out-of-control government spending" -- look, these are the folks who delivered to you a structural debt -- deficits that broke the record; turned record surpluses into record deficits. so this is like a lecture on sobriety from folks who had been spending money like drunken sailors. [laughter] you don't want to put them in charge. [applause] you definitely don't want to put them behind the wheel! [applause] given their track record, they've been weaving on the road when it comes to fiscal responsibility! that's part of the reason they drove us into

the ditch! don't give them the keys back! [applause] you got to make sure that harry reid is in a position to look after you when we make these difficult debates. so here's my hope. this is going to be close election. everybody here i expect will vote for harry. [applause] that's good. everybody here will vote for harry. a couple of you who won'the -- you know because you're scouting out what we're saying -- [laughter] -- that's okay. that's part of politics. and then the other two of you who thought this was how you got to the slots. [laughter] but all the rest of you, you're going to all vote for harry reid. but it's not enough for you just to vote for him. i need you to work for him.

[applause] i need you to knock on doors for him. i need you to make phone calls for him. [applause] don't do it for me. do it for you. more importantly, do it for your children, and do it for your grandchildren. [applause] and do it because -- do it because despite the storm clouds we've been going through, you see out in the horizon a future that's bright. you see a future where we're no longer relying just on dirty energy and expensive energy, but clean energy. and it's creating jobs all across nevada. we're harnessing the sun and the

wind. you see a future where every child in nevada has a world- class education, and they're getting the jobs of the future. you see a future where health care is available for every american, and we're driving the costs of health care down for every american. [applause] and you see a future where we're respected around the world. and you see a future where you can retire with dignity and respect. [applause] and you see a future where our air and water is clean. [applause] and you see a future where the 21st century is just like the 20th century -- it is the american century. [applause] and you know in your heart of hearts, the only way that's going to happen is if we make

sure that leaders with the integrity and honesty and the willingness to take tough decisions like harry reid are sent back to washington to fight for you. i need you to work for harry reid. [applause] and if you do, then our future is, indeed, bright, and nevada's future is bright. and las vegas' future is bright. thank you very much, everybody. god bless you. god bless the united states of america. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] [captioning performed by national captioning institute]

[captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] most polls show sharon angle with a slight lead over harry reid. now look at some political ads. >> i am harry reid, and i approve this message. when wall street crashed the economy, everything stopped. sharon angles as it is not a centers job to fight for jobs, that we are on your own. " people ask me what i am going to do to create jobs. that is not my job as a u.s. senator. >> , not her job? it seems to me that the only job she wants to fight for is hers. >> i am sharing -- i in sharon angle in i approved this message.

♪ ♪ >> next, a discussion on the future vegetation in post conflict sudan, followed by a speech by spain's prime minister

on the european economy. and then a look at the nevada senate race with committee chairman michael steele and republican candidate sharon angle. >> this week, on "the communicators."on-line safety and discussions with the maryland attorney general and cable your president. >> the u.s. institute of peace hosted a discussion friday in washington examining the state of education in southern sudan in africa. experts from the state department and world bank discussed, the lessons learned on developing education systems in country's devastated by war and the future of education in the region. this is 1.5 hours.

>> good morning, everybody. let me thank you all for coming. i am a senior program officer here at u.s. ip. i am going to ask everyone to please turn off your cell phones which can interfere with the communications equipment that we have here today. we appreciate the good audience, here. let me welcome a few people. i will notice that we are being recorded by c-span today so you might see yourself on tv. today is a somewhat significant day for sudan. we are six months away from the deadline on the referendum on whether southern sudan reminds part of part of the country or

secedes. the issue we're talking about today is relating but does not get nearly as much attention but is probably just as important as it -- or more. the topic is education and in particular, education in southern sudan. education in the south was decimated during the war and sudan has some of the lowest levels of vegetation that you can find anywhere. -- of levels of education should can find anywhere. we have three excellent panelists positioned for this today. we promised you three analysts. you seem to dam of them today. our third guest had to make a trip to zimbabwe, but through the magic of skype, will be

hearing his voice. -- you will be hearing his voice. there are biographies of front if you need to give them. -- up front if you need to get them. mark has done a lot of research and education, particularly in the western states. we have been focusing a lot on issues on the ground since 2006. we will hear from peter who has been doing a lot of work focusing on this with the world bank and others did we aren't -- and others we will start with mark.

thank you, john. i will apologize run away for my laryngitis, but what can you do. what i am going to do is draw from this book that i wrote. the book is broken down into chapters. the first chapters are the beginning of the second civil war. then, it is divided into three chapters which are actually chapters that could be books of all to themselves. one is education in southern sudan, a second is an education for refugees in the region, in

the third is education for internally displaced. these are very different kinds of stories and it is quite a big challenge to compile them. not much is written at all about education for southern sudan. a lot of this had to be done in many different places in southern sudan. in you gotta, kenya, and in part to -- and elsewhere. i wanted to tell you what the sudanese have a face and what this is about. -- have had to face and what this is about. you can download this as a pds. -- pdf.

i am doing another piece of work in africa. i am getting on a plane and somebody offered me a "newsweek". i thought that we should touch upon what is going on. it right at the front, -- right at the front, there was an article about southern sudan. an economic advisor for the southern sudanese government said that there was this pressure for reconstruction and here is what he said. people keep talking about reconstruction, but there is nothing to reconstruct. i then arranged to have that full put in the book. the reason is, it underscores the reason southern sudan was starting from scratch in a material way. they were having to reconstruct words -- roads when there were almost none.

i added that southern sudan is almost totally devoid of education facilities of any regional -- reasonable quality. i was asked to write about an education system that barely existed in any substantial way. what i want to do is, liz and peter will tell us about the end of the civil war. i want to give you a sense of what brought us to where we are right now. i would like to do this. their experience with education was really unusual. it was not really a column in -- a colony. during the condominium. , it was not very high at all.

-- during the condominium era, it was not very high at all. at the very end, i will talk about a couple of the implications that are quite profound for what goes on today. so, three contextual points to get started. through no fault of their own, and i really want to emphasize that, the southern sudanese are one of the most under educated population in the world. that is a fact. that is a situation we have to face. second, they have to do one of the most resilient people in the world as well. it is extraordinary to go to some of these situations during the war, which is when i was visiting, and wondering how anybody is here. how has anybody here survive?

-- survive? the level of devastation was extraordinary. the level of resilience was incredible. in that context, the value that most southern sudanese have placed on education is extraordinarily high. the expectations for education were very high. this is in a population more people did not have much experience of what quality education was at the same time. i will quickly address two questions. how did southern sudan in up so bereft of educational opportunities? what are some implications of this legacy for southern sudan today. to the first question, the british started some sort of education in this condominium air, which is not really a

colony as such. what matters here is that the trend and went up to 2004, if not beyond. i will mention five key trends. there was exceptionally poor educational quality. there was a broad ts interest in educating the sudanese at all. it was mainly done as an afterthought by christian missionaries during the british. -- during the british era. there were no mission schools in most places. education was an add-on to evangelization. there were dramatically lower levels of education. in southern sudan education was lightly governed.

there was really no need to educate people at all. this is quite unlike the experience of the british colonies in uganda and kenya where there was an interest for education for some people. there was extraordinarily poor coordination of the education system. i must say that the situation during the war of coronation for education was the worst that i have ever seen. in some of the cases, it was absolutely appalling. in the level of no coordination or limited coordination was extraordinarily bad. we can get into this in the conversation time.

but they would not educate a population that occupied more than one country. it was not seen as their responsibility. that is just one example. if you have agencies working in the north with idps. the coordination in the same organization was virtually nil. there were separate populations. it was quite striking. the fourth issue is the selective act of education. most sudanese were not supposed to be educated. they were forming communities and then there were past laurels. many past laurels were discouraged from going to school. in some farming communities, that is where most of the agitation was available. there were some education exceptions but i but i go into those. -- exceptions, but i will not go

into those. education was thought to destroy the past laurels -- the bus durrell's -- the past laurorals. quite frequently, in talking to foreignes, during the era of the civil war, this issue would become an aside. my sense was that people should get a chance to decide for themselves. when you talk to the southern sudanese, a completely different perspective comes into light. they want education. the level of sacrifice that was made for education during the civil war was absolutely extraordinary. over and over again. the fifth trend is a pronounced

tendency for four more boys than girls to attend school. this started during the british condominium era. this continued through both civil war. some -- both civil war eras. there was education in these three locations in the refugee camps, and signs of the sudan and mentally in the north -- and mainly in the north. there are two answers to this second question, which what are the education goals? of the first one, it seems to me, is that the absorptive capacity of the education system was very limited.

not very many southern sudanese have received in the education of any kind. many of those that receive the education, the education was an exceptionally low quality. in many situations, you attained a certain level of education and it might not mean that much when you have a school under a tree with a mathematics book from you gonna and a geography book -- from uganda and de joba to book from elsewhere. they were studying geography for countries that do not belong to for 21 years as refugees. in the canyon system, learned about farming on the coast of kenya. it these young people have never seen an ocean before and they are studying this for the national exams of kenya. this has been a big challenge. what has been going on inside

the southern sudan is that whatever tax but you have, you have to use. -- what ever textbook you have, you have to use. the results were not particularly impressive. so, another reason -- i think it is important to mention that the connection between war and education is that teachers and secondary school students were key sources of recruitment by the sudan people's liberation army as officers. that was the case in many places. teachers will really in demand and a lot of places. so were a lot of the secondary school graduates. they were clear about that. that was an expectation. another reason was that most

major donors receive little or no funds -- received little or no funds for southern sudan during the civil war. for the most part, their policy did not allow it. they could not use money to put towards education during a civil war on the non government side. win a war goes on for 21 years, there is going to be a downside to this lack of support. you can see what was coming when i was doing the research. as soon as the war ended, there was going to be a flood of money for education after two decades of no support. but they were suppressed to turn on a dime to deliver education and pressure to absorb and use more funds for education than

southern sudan has ever seen. the second point is that there is a significant disparity in education. one of the findings that came out of the research is very clear in terms of quality education. the best education for southern sudanese during the civil war era was run by the jesuit refugee services in northern uganda. most of these refugees were western and koreans -- were westerners. it seemed to be a groundbreaking education program from usaid. it took place during the war. this is what made it so groundbreaking. it was the sudan basic education program. the concentration for the refugees and teacher training at

the same time accelerated learning programs. that was an area that was relatively stable. you could do that during the war era. you could not do that in other places. there was a quality education going on for western ecuadorean s. the quality of education, where there was a lot of investment, was not high. in uganda, the repeat you can support much better. -- the refugee camps were much better.

looking ahead, i think that what we have is a highly unusual situation. it is a profound need for educational capacity right away. an educational level that has been very low, not for the fall of the southern sudanese. it is just the way it has been. the brazilian population that values education very highly. the fact that it takes awhile to allow people to learn. there is this press for its to be needed right away. we have never had that before. i suppose that the challenge is the way back to the dawn of the post-war era and is that right

now we are developing a quality education system for the first time in southern sudan. that is what is going on now. we can learn about the progress from liz and peter. the second and final point is figuring out the -- figuring out how to effectively draw on this limited education capacity inside southern sudan to meet their challenges, including what happens after the elections six months from today. thank you very much. [applause] >> good morning.

fortunately, i have some better news than mark did. fortunately, i have a lot of positive things to say about education in southern sudan. what i am going to talk about is what has happened in the education system in the last year since the agreement was signed. i was in southern sudan from 2006 until the end of 2008 as chief of the u.s.a. i defunded southern sudan technical assistance program -- the usaid funded southern sudan technical assistance program. the technical assistance program started in 2005 and will continue through the 2011 -- through 2011.

it provides assistance and education. they are also involved in the ministry of education to support the education management system on a program funded by unicef. i am going to talk about three different areas. first, i am wrong to get a snapshot of the education system -- i am going to get a snapshot of the education system. there in the process of planning and budgeting for that period of time. then i will talk about capacity issues within the system. first, the snapshot of the present education system and progress since 2005. from the point of view of

increasing enrollment at all levels, the system has been phenomenally successful. that is since 2005. as mark said, the demand for education is very high and parents are sending their school -- their kids to school in record numbers. enrollment in primary education has more than doubled since 2000 fine. -- since 2005. this includes those students that are in the alternative education system program. there are now around 3200 primary schools in southern sudan and over 1000 alternative education centers. secondary school enrollment has also increased anomaly --

phenomenally. from 25,000 to about 45,000 students in secondary schools. there are now about 158 secondary schools in southern sudan. this is a very proud achievement of southern sudan. along with its success comes their role -- come several serious problems. the main problem is the dropout rate within the education system. for example, in 2009, there were almost half a million students in primary schools. that was just in great one. in grade eight, there were only 80,000 students. you can see what happened between great one and great 8, there was a tremendous attraction of students during that time. students are going to school,

but they are not staying very long. they could not establish even the most basic literacy skills. the greatest drop out rate is in great one. -- is in grade one. there is a riddle access to secondary schools. . .

- - - - - - republican liberty lovers. thank you very much. >> senator harry reid appeared with obama at a campaign event

in las vegas. here is looking that the event, beginning with harry reid. >> i believe how we choose to reject is going to be the differce between renewing our future and repeating the past, but it is really a simple choice. i will not stand for anything less than turning the economy around for the good people of the state of my birth. that is right. that is why i am running for reelection, and that is why i appreciate your support. the list we have done together, he, you, and i -- is long, but it is a list we should be proud of. we are creating thousands of jobs, clean energy if projects

and tax cuts. o[applause] all of which both nevadans back to work. we are fighting to keep the greedy wall street bankers in check. we think in the next week they are going to be checked really good because we finished when the report. we passed health insurance. for all the naysayers, looked at a public opinion poll today, and the majority of americans are glad we did what we did.

with wall street reform, we are making the promise you will never be asked to bail out of big banks. they have a pretty big deal -- good deal. we made sure we did everything we could to make sure the games were fair. when people came, if they lost the money, it was their money. if they won, they got to keep it. that was our money. we were supposed to pay them back. of what health reform, we are fulfilling the promise that affording good health is the right of every 95 and -- every nevadan, not just a few. we're making dp pay. we want to make sure they pay for every cent of fat.

-- we are making bp pay. we wt to make sure they pay for every cent of that. we are not billing of the richest country of the world, -- co. of the world, and we are not saying, we are sorry. that is not all we are doing to move nevada forward. we are making the state the leer in clean energy. with our economic recovery package, we reduced taxes for 95% of all americans. owe are helping nevadans keep their homes. we have so much further to go, but we are trying really hard. we're helping veterans go to

college with the gi bill of rights. it is comparable to the one in world war ii. [applause] we have cracked down on abuse of credit card companies, and we are rooting out of mortgage fraud.

[applause] especially of the year they are causing. -- failure they are causing. it is remarkable, but they think one another for closure sign- foreclosure sign goes

up, their numbers go up, but i do not think that is true. we have to demand success in this fight for the senate and in the senate. i am grateful you agree we have the fight ahead ous. we are fortunate barack obama on r side. [applause] he campaigned in nevada's 22 different times.

why did he campaigned 22 different times? he knew howmportant it was, and he knew the road to the white house ran right through nevada. he knows how much more we have to do. he is here tonight, because he knows i am not going to give of, and he knows you are not going to give up. [applause] he knows we are a staple of fighters, and we are going to fight with everything we have got to help our economy not only recover but prosper again. always remember the economic hole we find ourselves in was not done by week or obama -- dug by we for obama.

-- or obama. [applause] he knows we're not going to stop until this economy turns around, until every nevadan who wants to go to work and get a john can make nevada whole again and -- get a job can make nevada whole again. it is my honor to welcome him. it is my honor to introduce to you the president of the united states. [applause]

>> hello, nevada. hello, vegas. [applause] it is due to be back in vegas. -- good to be back in vegas. this is a pretty good ground. i know you are disappointed, but i am not singing tonight.

listen, i'll love being here. i love this town raging maybe not as much as my fans -- i love this town, maybe not as much as my fans. every time we come here, air force one is a little more crowded. we're seeing people in e couches. i love you back. a couple other people i want to make mention. congresswoman dina is in the house.

miller is in the house. give a big round of applause. one of my earliest supporters, not just here in nevada, but anywhere in the country -- steven is in the house. he is somewhere here. you're wonderful speaker of the state assembly, barbara buckley, is here. given up for brandon, david, and mark, the killers. these guys for the fourth of july performance for military families -- for forms for

military families. they did n ready. . bbc world news bbc world news bbc world news and met her backstage. just delightful, and a couple of beautiful daughters, and i am always partial two daughters. despite the entertainment, despite seeing all these old friends, the main reason i am here is because there is a guy

from searchlight nevada -- [applause] >> who has been fighting on behalf of nevada for most of his life and is now fighting for working families all acrs america, and that is your senate majority leader, harry reid peering ahead -- harry reid. [applause] i have known harry since i arrived in the senate five years ago, and we have become dear friends. he is a man of principle. he is a straight shooter. he is a man of his word. he comes across as soft-spoken.

even when he is in front of a crowd, he is like, well -- we are trying here. we are trying hard. that is just how harry is, but anybody who knows harry knows he is made of tough stuff. harry is tough. a lot of people in washington forget where they came from. harry remembers every single day.

a lot of people instead of showing leadership, making difficult decisions -- they do what is politically expedient. the end of making the choices that give them the best chance of staying in washington. that is not harry reid. he does not always do what is easy. he does not always do what is popular, but he always does what is right for the people of nevada. [applause] as senate majority leader, he has always done what is right. you have got to send him back. he likes to brag about this, in

his harry way. i used to box. i was not the most talented guy. i was not very fast. i was not a big, obviously, but i could take a punch. i could take a punch. he would outlast the other guy. that is how harry reid has bee ableo orchestrate one of the most productive legislative sessions in the history of america, and that how he is going to win this week so he can serve the people of nevada one more time. [applause]

he has taken his lumps. we all have common -- we all have, but i have no doubt the people of nevada will realize the quality ofervice they have in harry reid, partly because no matter what type of lump he has taken, they are nothing like the ones people at home have taken. harry come from humble beginnings. he knows what it is like not to have a lot. he knows what it is like to see your folks scraping by and have to tell you, we cannot afford this. we cannot afford that. he has been there, so when he hears the story of nevadans losing their homes or their

jobs, when he hears stories about people feeling desperate, who after doing the rightain and, -- doing the right thing, somehow have gotten the short end of this it -- that is who he identifies with. that is who we are fighting for. i just came from the birthplace of another harry -- harry truman. harry truman was a lot like harry rei in 1948, harryruman campaigned across this country, making the case against the do-nothing republicans in congress. they have been dealing with the

do nothing republican leadership in the senate. despite all their tactics, despite all their political maneuvers, we keep making progress. he does not give in. he keeps fighting, and he of left them, and he changes the landscape of america as a consequence. we have taken quite a few punches as a nation. i took off after almost a decade of economic policy i that gave e sluggish job growth, falling income, aecord deficit- i

want everybody to remember this. a decade of economic policy that culminated in the worst crisis since the great depression. 3 million americans have lost their job in the last six months of 2008. another 750,000 americans lost their jobs the month i was sworn in. the next month, it was 600,000, and these were not just numbers. most of you had somebody in your family who was touched by the crisis, if you were not yourself, and the economic policies that led to this economic disaster were pretty straightforward.

you cut taxes for millionaires and billionaires, even if they were not even asking for them. we cut rules and regulations for the mostowerful industries. then you cut working families lose. you tell people you are on your own. you do not have health care, too bad. you are on your own. a young person born into poverty cannot affordollege -- you are on your own. that was the reigning philosophy. by calling them the owners of society in -- ownership society, whatev. this was their philosophiey.

i want them to argue this was done for the people of nevada. this was biden for the country. -- this is bad for the country. i want a philosophy based on how we help ordinary families seize opportunities and use innovation and drive to rebuild america that is stronger than before. that was our task. [applause] we have goa different philosophy. we said we would cut taxes for the 95% of working families and small business owners who really needed help in this recession. we believe in the free market,

but we also think everybody should be following basic rules of growth. we make sure wall street banks and other big corporations have to pay by the same rules other banks and business owners have to play with. that makes sense. there should not be special tax breaks and lack of oversight. we decided we were going to invest in our people and o future, in the skills and education of our workforce, in the technology that will create new jobs and make sure america is competitive in the 21st century. that is our business for american. [applause] since we had a crisis on our hand, since the financial system was melting down, since people

could not get loans, people were not traveling -- you remember last year. we had to make a bunch of decisions, and we had to make them fast, and they were tough decisions. some of them were impossible. i know it is all right, because let me tell you something. as we were making these decisions, sometimes people would say, why is he doing that? that is not going to be popular. we have posters. they let us know when things are not going to be popular. it is not like we were surprised.

my job does not to put myinger up to the wind and see which direction the wind is blowing. that is not leadership. our job is to focus not on the next election but on the next generation. that is why we made those decisions. [applause] we knew it would take us months, years, to dig us out of the hole we found ourselves in. that is longer than anyone would like, but here is what i also know. an economy last year that was shrinking is now growing. an economy that was shedding jobs at an unbelievable pace, we have now had six months in a row of private-sector job growth. that is because of policies harry reid helped bring about. we have turned things around,

and we are moving in the right direction. [applause] that is not enough. it has not moved as fast a i want. i am not going to be satisfied until every but they who wants a job can find a job -- everyone who wants a job and find a job. we do not want to just survive. we want nevada to be on the move. we wanthe las vegas dream to be a reality for everyone. we understand we have got a lot of work to do. basically the other party -- their whole party is based on the notion that it has not moved

fast enough. i agree i would like to see us get out of this whole sooner, -- hole sooner, buyou have to understand we're headed in the right direction, and what the other side is offering is basically to go back to the same ideas that got us in this mess in the first place. that is all they are doing. [applause] this is a choice between the policies that led us into the mess or the policies that are leading us out of the masess. this is a choice between falling backwards or moving forwards. harry reid wants to move forward. i want to move forward. i think most people in nevada

want to move forward. they did not want to go backwards. america does not go backwards. we go forward. that is who we are as americans. [applae] what the other party is counting on is that all of you do not have a very good memories. think about it. they are not making new arguments. it is not like they are coming back and saying, we know we screwed up. we learned from our mistakes. we are going to do things differently this time. that is not what you are hearing. they are peddlg e same stuff they have been battling for years and years and years.

they have spent a decade driving the economy into a ditch, and now they are asking for the keys back. [laughter] my answer is, you cannot have the keys. you cannot drive. you do not know have -- how to drive. you cannototototot -- here is ae german steel. this is 30 minutes.

>> i hope somebody is ready to win in nevada. you have some work cut out for you. you have some things to do. it is important that you pull yourselves together, pull yourselves up by your bootstraps, leaned over and help a neighbor poll themselves up and leaned over and help that crazy uncle pull himself up. family and friends, the moment to go out and communicate a powerful message. we are going to bring the change this country needs. we are going to bring the change that nevada needs and we're going to start by changing out harry reid. [applause] you have a great new chairman who i have had the pleasure to spend some time with. he is quite a guy. he is ready to rock and roll and

build and grow and strengthen this party. congratulations on your leadership. it's a pleasure to be with you. a real pleasure. he has a great team, a great partnership in the governor and that wonderful national committee woman. where is i.t. and the governor? -- where is heidi and the governor? this partnership is your anchor. it's the team that's going to help lay down the course in november. they are going to need your help. they're going to need your time. they're going to need your commitment. this hour is important. you have a wonderful, wonderful chance to send a signal to the rest of this country that the age of obama is about to end. [applause]

you have got a great candidate running out there. she is grass roots, 24/7, 365. she is the mom and dad, the grocer, the entrepreneur, the students, the everyday person that is just trying to get to the next stage or make it just a little bit better. she understands that she will be the next united state senator from this great state, sharron angle. [applause] i want to thank danny. i have seen a lot of these campaigns and it's a whole lot of mess that comes after the battle. you are one hell of a stand-up guy. [applause] i really appreciate your getting out there and doing the fight.

it says a lot about this moment for this state when people can come together despite the hard- fought battles, the camps over here and the camps over there, tonight, ladies and gentleman, the republican party of nevada is united. it is ready and it is going to win. [applause] is joe here? where he is. go knock them out, baby. go knock them out. are you having fun yet? keep that smile going. we need you. you have to get to d.c., baby. you have such a great team here. you have such a great opportunity. from governor, the u.s. senate, congress, local races, you have

a chance to pick a new course and take some new steps. what i want to talk to you tonight about is how we do that together. what that is going to mean. because it's important. it is very, very important. thomas jefferson once said when the people fear the government, there is tyranny. when the government fears the people, there is liberty. at this hour, my friends, our government does not fear us. harry reid does not fear the people of nevada. president of obama does not fear the people of this country. because if they did, they would not have been a health care bill passed down our throats. there would not have been a cap and trade bill out of the house. there would not have been the

takeover of auto industry, the insurance industry, the banking industry, financial institutions, because people have made it clear that is not what they want their government to do. they want their government to create a pathway to opportunity and get the hell out of the way and greet the american dream for ourselves. [applause] that is what the people want the government to do. as i travel this great country and i get to spend time with the grassroots of america, i have never seen such a palpable anger as i have over the past year. smart people who study this tell us that anger comes from a place of fear. we have to ask ourselves in this hour, why are the american people fearful? what is it that scares them so much? is it because we love our

country? yes. for some people in washington, that is a novel idea. that people love this country so much that they are afraid for her. they are afraid for her future. they are afraid for their children. that people would love this country so much that they would dare to stand up to its government. and say enough. that they would trudge off to a town hall meeting and say no more. that they would go to a congressman's office or state representative's office and say we cannot afford any more of your burden. people love their country so much.

they want the government to get out of their way so they can realize that little thing called the american dream. we won it for ourselves. we want to for our children. this is the place where potential meets opportunity. this is a place where an idea becomes reality. that is the greatness of our people. of you. fort let anyone tell you this country we are not exceptional. we are. we are. we are. [applause] what is it about america that

makes us exceptional? is it the water we drink? no. is it because we're nicer people? if you ever have been in rush- hour traffic, you know that is not the case. it is freedom. it is freedom. the freedom to wake up every morning and were not for someone else's dream, but for your own. america is supposed to be that place where the tentacles of big government cannot harass you. you are free to work hard, to stay smart, and pass on a lasting legacy of values and wealth to your kids. in america, success is not the enemy. let me repeat that. i understand the president got

on a plane today and won back to washington, as i hope my words catch up with him. success is not an enemy here in america. [applause] the reason is quite simple. we expect to succeed. we expect to succeed. we do not take the risk, you don't get up and say i want to start a business so it can fail. you don't wake up in the morning and look in the mirror and say all i wanted be today is poor. that's not america. you know it, i know it, but harry and barry del. -- harry and barry don't. [applause]

they don't. to have toing educate them. the way we do that is by talking about what we believe. sharing our stories, teaching them through our actions, running our businesses, raising our kids, saluting the flag, being proud american, recognizing the exception was and that has defined as for over 230 years. not that we are better than anybody else, it's just that we try harder. we tried to do better, not for ourselves, but for all. we need to help those folks in washington understand that. by sending some good congressman there.

sending a good senator there. [applause] electing a good governor for the state. success is getting harder and harder every day. the american dream is becoming more and more distant. for some of our friends and families, especially here in nevada. you have double digit unemployment. foreclosure rates through the roof. a dispirited people. they've lost confidence in themselves and that should never be allowed to happen. it happens because somewhere in that glorious, long career of harry reid, he stopped caring about people. he became more concerned about washington and the interests there >> and the interest there that covers every election cycle and

the deals he can cut. the deal that often land on the backs of hard-working taxpayers. i don't have to make this stuff up, you witnessed it all over the past year. i'm not telling you anything you don't already know. what i'm asking you is to share the reality with the people, the truth of nevada. what six more years of senator harry reid will mean for them. just the thought is scary, of itself. you have the facts and the candidates to deliver, not just the facts, but the heart. the heart. the people of this state. that beats in unison with the folks all across this country who want a better life for their

kids. we cannot afford to be the first generation unable to pass on a legacy of prosperity. it means too much to our kids. a small business owner, entrepreneurs or risk-takers that get up on monday morning. they'll be worried about their accounts receivable or the employee they'll have to lay-off at the end of the week. they'll be worried whether or not that contract that will put them at the top will come through. they're going to be wered when their a down tant calls and says come next january, your tax bill will come up because he'd he'd wants the bush tax to expire, so he figures you can afford to make more. by the way, harry reid thinks you can afford to pay more for health care because your premiums are going up also and you won't be able to afford

health care for your employees and you have to put them all in the government program. thank you, harry, but no thanks. it's time to retire harry reid. [applause] over the last two days, harry reid and president obama laura lee picture perfect do though, weren't they -- president obama and harry reid were the picture- perfect duo. talking smack. sharron angle is about to smack harry upside the head come november. [applause] let me ask all of the hear something -- how is that hopey changey thing working out for

you. barack obama talked about hope without an action plan and harry reid bought into it. he talked about change without telling us what he wanted to change. harry reid succored the people into a bad deal. when the two of them are teamed up, the people woke up and they stood up for liberty. when harry met barry and past the giant welfare package called the stimulus, what did we do? we did not wine, we organized and the sharron angle nominated to defeat -- and nominated sharron angle to defeat harry reid. got harry's pal, nacy together in the house a -- when together,l na,ncy got we did not shrug our shoulders.

we raised up a principled, conservative candidate. to good washington pushed back on them. when harry reid is saddled us with controlling shares in car companies that union bosses had driven into financial ruin, we did not complain. we drove ourselves to a tea party in harry's backyard. [applause] when harry reid started counting down to the end of the bush tax cuts, we started counting down to november 2nd and the end of harry reid and his democrat majority in the senate and the house. americans have had enough. they have had enough. the fog is lifted from their eyes, the kool-aid has been drained from their veins. they are asking one simple question -- how we take our country back? i'll tell you.

we take our country back when we retire harry reid. we take ourountry back when we fire nancy pelosi. we take our country back when we send good, conservative, principal leaders to washington. when we elect a governor who understands people. when we elect state officials from comptroller to attorney- general who are going to fight for the people, not against them. it's time to go on offense because the electoral march is already on from massachusetts to new jersey, virginia to hawaii, the freedom agenda is winning the day. [applause] some of the may be worrying that too much damage has been done to america. that we are so deep in the hole that we cannot dig our way out.

some comments i made recently might have gotten some people to thinking i feel that way about our efforts in afghanistan. but i want to take this moment among friends to clarify. because i know my remarks may have been a little bit confusing or misunderstood. afghanistan is a war we can win. it is perhaps the hardest place in the world to win a war, but this is america. with the right leadership, the right resources, and the right rules of the engagement on the ground, we not only can win, we must win. we will win, and we will not leave our soldiers alone in the battle. [applause] we will not leave our soldiers alone in the battle.

let me clarify further. for the sake of all those brave heroes who have lost their lives, and i met a goldstar mother this evening, it was an important moment for me. to stand with the mother of a soldier. it reminded me of the times i stood with moms and dads of soldiers -- as lieutenant governor, i would see them off to war. the moms and dads i stood with as their sons and daughters came home. we don't take this lightly, folks. a lot of our friends and

neighbors have lost their lives. their families have suffered. but we stand with them. we pray for them. because of slow we do. it's not a debatable point. it's not a political opportunity. it's what makes us americans. for all of those still fighting, please know that i am the republican national committee stand squarely behind your effort, willing to give whatever support is necessary to win decisively, completely, and secure america's future today and tomorrow.

that is what this fight is about. i hope no one misconstrues that. [applause] we have in this room men and women who write checks, keep writing them. we have in this room, men and women who knock on doors and sign and volunteer. we have in this room candidates for office. what all the candidates for office, what ever office, please stand for a moment so we can thank you. [applause] please stand so we can thank you. support them. [applause]

this is your front line. these are the folks who are going to put it on the line for you in november. what you can do between now and then is here. it's here. it's here in our own hands. whenever you can do, do it over and over and over until we win. ground to 1 inch of harry reid and those out there who want to tear apart. they tell us nevada is a blue state. really? i don't think so. there may be some blue people from what harry has done to them. but you represent the new light.

you represent a new beginning. the republican renaissance is in your hands. the reemergence from the dark days of 2006 and 2008 into a better opportunity, right now, your chairman, your national committee man, your national committeewoman, they need your continued commitment and support. they need you to do one extra day, one extra hour, one extra minute. to help us win. just as we cannot take any seat for grad, there's no law that says democrats own every seat. we have already seen that story, or rather that lie, defeated in

massachusetts. [applause] we have seen a defeated in hawaii. and we will see harry reid defeated here in nevada in november. [applause] before i windup, i want to do one more thing. because it's important. and the national chairman and i get to do this. if you are a college republican, a teenage republican or young republican, please stand up. please stand up. [applause] i'm the chairman, stay standing. i did not say sit. i see some young bloods over here. if you are a college republican,

a young republican a teenage republican, stand up. now was not the time to be shy. i want you to know you are already empowered to leading. you cannot have to ask for anybody's permission to do what you do to help the party grow, expand, and reach new voters and reach your generation. folks, you are not looking at the future of the party, this is the right here and right now. these young men and women right here are our voice and we need to make sure they are empowered to go well and deliver a new message about a new party and a new day. [applause] empower them further. encourage them, support them. anybodygoing to dog out here but we need to have more of them in this room the next time

we gather. let's think about the future right now. let's think about the opportunities you can do right now for them. for all of you who are . anding, don't stop you want to do it, do it. you want to run the campaign or run for office, you want to raise money, you want to strategize, you want to be in the room, take your butt and put it at table because no one is going to let you in otherwise. you have to show them you are ready to lead. [applause] if you do not, you will not be taken seriously. afford to let your generation slip through our fingers. and don't screw it up. [laughter]

thank you. [applause] we are >> so, we're going to pull taught stops to an elect sharon angle, right? i don't want to hear any excuses. i don't want to hear any nonsense. i don't want any stupidity out of this party about anything other than senator harry reid's stupidity. we don't need the fight inside our own house. i'm tired of it, end it tonight. [applause] if your ever going to rally for anything you rally for this woman and elect her at the united states senate, because if you don't, i'm coming back here and it won't be pretty.

brian sandy val. he will be the next governor of this state. [applause] this guy understands the constitution as a federal judge, form are,ag. fight together protect the liberties of this community for a long time. and as government governor. wow. think of the good things he'll do. elect him. ken wagner. a veteran as well as someone's who's run a successful business. he will be your next congressman from the first district, right? [applause] he's going to bring a business sense to washington. thank goodness. lord knows they need it. sense t. lord knows they need it. he knows how to make a payroll.

he knows how to make ends meet, and he knows when to stop spending, especially when there is no money to spend during their -- to spend. i like this guy a lot. veteran, small-business owner, he is going to take the people of nevada to washington, so you do not have to worry about the people getting stupid on kool- aid, because we're going to be there in partnership. go do it. he liked him -- elect him. some things we assume our a given, but we do not assume anything, so we are going to be

in the business of reelecting heller. send him back to congress. we need some help. make sure he gets back there, because the first vote i need him to cast is for the next republican of the speaker of the house. -- for the next republican speaker of the house. you see a lot of candidates are running for office, for attorney general, for comptroller, for local offices. these are serious individuals ready for serious times, and i am glad they are running. we need republicans and patriots who will not only live up to the badge of honor you give them with your vote.

they carry a little bit with them. wherever they are conducting the people's business. we need republicans and patriots who will not drink the political kool-aid any longer and forget the core values that have defined the leadership of this party for a generation. there is going to be a lot of blood, sweat, and equity put into your campaigns. honor the people who sent you to office for doing a good job, and remember how you got there. as my mom used to tell me, i've brought you into this world. i will take you out. we will take you out, let's make a pact to night.

that we leave this convention, that our fight is not with each other but with every democrat in washington for ruining our economy, weakening our national defense, and robbing the future from our kids and grandkids. ronald wyden -- ronald reagan had a wonderful quote. he said simply, we win, they lose. [applause] as republicans, i did not want us to lose faith and the power and ingenuity of the american people and the people of nevada. do not lose faith in them. do not lose faith in those who can rebuild an economy and

restore community is. as our republican renaissance unfolds, we must once again unfiled are frigid once again display our core beliefs said government should -- we should once again display our core belief that government should be limited, people get to keep more of their own money -- what a concept. by the way, how you become a millionaire on a senator's salary? with your help, we can restore the birthright of liberty and prosperity generations of americans have always has gone to their children. -- always passed on to their

children. come november in nevada and all across america, we win, they lose. deal? is the deal? -- is it a deal? we win, they lose. are you of for that? are you ready to do that? we win, they lose. i cannot hear you. what is going to happen? tell me one more time. >> we win, they lose. >> now you have got the spirit. god bless america, god bless our troops, and god bless the good republican of nevada. [applause]

>> earlier that day, senate chairman sharron angle talk for 20 minutes. here are her remarks. >> i hope you can see me. good evening, republican levers of liberty. thank you so much for being here. that is a little better. i heard someone say, i did not expect you to be so little, and

i said, do not let it fool you. i have been fighting about this all my life. there are old adages about folks a little on the short side. i am so glad you are here, and i am so grateful for those wonderful warnords. thank you, danny. now we are cooking. i want to tell you people have been worried about five primary we had. -- about the primary we had. i wanted to make this night and night we could be proud of, where we are all united in one effort with one focus, and that

is to defeat harry reid. [applause] denny, su, bill, will you stand up? thank you very much, bill. robin? said, all of our wonderful candidates, we have a number of great candidates, and are only focus during the primary was to defeat harry reid, and now we are going to take out all the way to november 2, and that is why i need your help. thank you so much. i want to talk to you a little

bit tonight about how we are going to do that. we have an opportunity to take back a seat that belongs to we, the people. we, the people of nevada have a senate seat that has been too long occupied by a career politician, a good old boy, who makes a deal on every bill, and i hold him personally responsible for what is happening in our nation, and the reason i hold him personally responsible is because he did not just vote for these bills -- obama proposed these things, but harry reid dispose of them. he is the one that brought every one of those policies into

fruition, and he did it in the most good old boy, corruption as usual, washington, d.c., establishment way, and that is by making deals, and he told us if your legislature is not making a deal, you do not have a good legislator. we are tired of that kind of politics, and that is why we are going to make a change on november 2. [applause] it is interesting though. desperate men do deaths -- desperate men do desperate things, and harry reid is a desperate man, and you have been listening to his desperate commercials on television. i want to ask you a simple question. if harry reid had such a difficult time in the past, why

would you believe anything? this man has been waterboarding our economy for the next year and a half with the stimulus and obama care, and he has got washington, d.c., and the rest of the nation in such a fog that businesses cannot see the way out, and that is the problem with our economy. as long as they are looking at that fog and they know there are a couple of rocks to hit before they even see what is next, they know harry reid has some plans, and we know that is cap and trade. we know he is going to let the tax cuts run out, and that means a tax increase. we know he said his agenda is

amnesty. that is why our businessmen are saying, i am not sure i can take our risk, because they cannot see through the fog, and i thought it was interesting that obama said we have got a bright new day. he has not even ridden around las vegas if he has not seen the lights are out in nevada. this is not a bright new day. all i can say is he must have his bright lights shining on that fog, and that is what is hitting him in the face. this is an economy that is a disaster, not only for our state, but for our country. we have an opportunity to get

out of the fog, to give some certainty to our businessmen, and to offer them an opportunity as well to take those risks. harry reid answers are to extend unemployment and give temporary jobs. the real answers are to pay back the debt, cut by the spending, and pay for our economy so that our businesses >> so that our businesses with provide full-time jobs with a future. that's what we want in nevada and we want something to diversify the economy. we know the problem here is that there is no discretionary money across the nation and that's why people have stopped coming. well, that and obama telling them if they're come together las vegas they're coming on a junket. i would say to you, harry reid

agreed with obama and that's hurt our state. we saw hundreds of conventions leave because of those rash words and what we need to do is make sure that we don't depend so much on any industry that when we do see this kind of natural ebb and flow of the economy, that we have the fall back position. we have folks here from elko county and they know their economy thrives on the mining industry and they also know they're in jeopardy because of senator harry reid. he's looking at the 1872 mining law. we need to make sure that law stays in tact that it's just the way it was proposed. that it isy it is proposed.

we also have to make sure our government is not using things to shut off areas of our state to prospecting. we need mineral exploration, so we need to allow that to happen in our state. we have an opportunity here to do some really positive things, and the first one is to defeat harry reid. when we defeat harry reid, the eyes of the nation are still going to be upon us, and they are going to be wondering, what does nv want to do next, and we are going to tell them, the first thing we would like to do is repeal obama care. [applause]

we have got some other ideas we would like to do. we would like to take that $500 million -- $500 billion in the stimulus, the $500 billion coming in from the tarp, from one trillion dollars, and pay back the deficit right now. we can do that, and we need to, because we want to get out of the fog. we need to give our country the confidence we are going in the right direction, but also our neighbors throughout the world. we want to let them know we are no longer using our credit card for paying off the debt. we are paying off a credit card. we need to cut back on the spending, and you have heard me

say before we need to do this in a 5 times 5 way for the next five years on a prioritized list of expenditures, and the prioritized list needs to be in an a, b, and c priority. a being what our federal government should spend money on. b and c seeing the things we have been spending money on, but we are not getting the best bang for the buck. those conservatives say, where would you cut? we have departments we could cut that would be better served at the state level, and we have to attend the amendment that our founders gave us but says, you should get things done at the

state level. ronald reagan knew this. remember, ronald reagan had it right, and if he thought a one size fits all policy making bureaucracies that fits no one -- we have seen that with no child left behind -- is sends money to states, and we cannot do what we do best, which is to put that money in the classroom, where the parent and teacher and child are the stakeholders. we want to do that ourselves and keep our money here. ronald reagan knew we can do that and it would be better served. there are other departments where we are spending federal dollars, and we need to start

cutting back there. we then take back our economy, and we know how to do that by simple things like auditing the fed, liquidating fraudy mac and phony mae, and we can secure the borders, and forceful laos. -- forceful laws. -- enforce the laws. if we know what is going to take to get our economy where we needed. we know as americans that our constitution has worked and will work again. we know ronald reagan was right when he said the government is not the solution, the government is the problem, and that is all

harry reid is giving us raising big government takeover, so it is time to take back our government by making it a less regulatory government and a lower taxation government. that will invite our businesses back to america, and that is the climate your u.s. senator needs to help create in this stage so we can take back our economy in in nevada. we also have some potential we need to explore, and those include a secure a test site that we have been doing nuclear research and development on for years, and that we have been transporting since 1974 this nuclear material. we need not be afraid, and the

governor knows this. he is our person who has been promoting this. people need to understand we need to bolster our economy, and one of those ways is to take something harry reid has demonized for years and explore the potential. let's take a look at what we have got. finally, i would like to say this again. remember, we have the right contract with america, and that is our constitution. [applause] we have the right message for america. it is reagan's message, lower taxes, more individual freedom and cuts to spending we have the

right angle to defeat harry reid. [applause] i know all of you in this room can vote for me, but i want you to do me a favor. i want you to send out to all of your relatives and friends -- i want you to tell them that may not -- they may not be allowed to vote for me, but they can help us by sending money to sharronangle.com. we need their help, and i need your help, and i need a unified party that understands like reagan did that if you're 85% in agreement with me, you are my friend. we are ready to go. we are ready to defeat harry reid. we are ready to take on the

challenge, and we are ready to tell him, keep yr eye of the ball, because the ball is not out here with social security, although it is a big part of its. social security has been rated and pillage by harry reid for years. -- raded and pillaged by harry reid for years. we need to talk about that, because that is part of the debt harry reid has created, so let's remind him it is about the economy. the ball has been over here with the department of education. the ball has a part to do with the department of education, because they are spending dollars that would be better spent in the state, but remind them, it is about the economy. the ball is not about sharron angle. the ball is about harry reid,

and it is about the economy harry reid has been systematically destroying through these policies of bailout, cap and trade -- we can go on and on and on. remember, it is all about 14% unemployment. it is all about the largest foreclosure rate in the nation. it is all about the largest bankruptcy rate in the nation, because our citizens in nevada are suffering. rember the ronald reagan misery index famines -- misery index? we are living it, and the ball is about our citizens and their jobs and their homes.

that is what it is all about, and harry reid can blame everyone, everything. try to get your eye off the ball, but the ball remains at home with our jobs and are home and our children and our grandchildren. are we going to pass down debt and deficit, or are we going to pass down liberty and freedom? we have the opportunity to pass down liberty and freedom, so let's go, and let's take back our senate seat, republican of liberty and lovers. thank you

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