there is total gridlock. host: and that's the last call we'll take. the freedom summit that takes place in manchester, new hampshire, which you heard our guest previously reference, is urrently going on. >> it is what will be change when had we fire harry reid. in order to win elections >> but to do what needs to be done. we need to be united. democrats smile when republicans are divided. they help they can be divided. it is too much for us to be mired in division.

it is the kind of america that my children and your children will grow up in. instead of continuing to run a massive debt. it is about if we are finally able to unleash our economy, helping job creators incident harming them. it is about whether we will finally be able to pass a reveal of obamacare. we have so much going for us as we look ahead to this election in november. as people who care deeply and as people who believe in freedom and that free markets are the path to prosperity. we must seize this opportunity and ensure we have the

opportunity to get our country back on the right track. we need to make sure we have leadership in washington that believes fundamentally and will adhere to the nine states constitution. i know how hard you work. your boots on the ground, the phone calls you may, the door-to-door work you do to your features, giving out getting out the word will make a difference in these elections coming up.

this'll will make the difference for the country. i'm very honored to be here today. i look forward to working with you and that together we will protect the freedom that has made this country great. god bless you and god bless the united states of america. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, welcome the return of dave bossi

to the stage. >> thank you. i appreciate that. our next speaker is one of the strongest constitutional conservatives that we have today. it seeks to empower all americans by rolling back the government policies that are distracted. i am excited to have an opportunity to hear him speak myself. this great leader the center mike lee of utah. [applause] lee attended brigham

young for its underground and ball degrees. he clerked for judge samuel alito back when he served in the u.s. court of appeals. sinister believed then returned home to utah where he served as an assistant u.s. attorney where governor of the utah. then he went back to washington alitok for justice samuel for the united states supreme court. theice alito is one of leading inserted intellects. he is a constitutional scholar and an outstanding conservative legislator. and a great friend of the conservative movement. he is a perfect example of somebody who is in washington but not of washington. when it was time to have the courage to stand up to defund obamacare, mike lee stood

shoulder to shoulder with ted cruz fighting until the very end. he understands how destructive a force of obamacare is to the american way of life. senator lee said the conventional wisdom in washington as usual is dead wrong. i could not agree with him more. "the important task before conservatives is now, to redefine our movement, rebuild our party, and rescue our nation." that is exactly why we are here today. we care passionately about our core principles. andconservative movement how we can save this great nation. of a newis part generation of conservative leaders that are dacian capital desperately needs.

that our nations capital desperately needs. i am all for standing up for limited government and the bill of rights. he has alreadyme made a big impression. as someone who will cast the tap votes necessary to stand up for the values and principles of our founding fathers. when the leadership tries to stand up with the status quo and mikeof the same, senator stands for the constitution. [applause] it is because of the work of leaders like mike leavitt we have more conservative change agents serving today. he find conservatives to help elect across the country. people who were willing to take on establishment incumbent and give the voters a chance to elect true conservatives who want to come to washington to

reform it. not join it. it is my honor to introduce them here today. i would like you to join me in welcoming senator mike lead to begin him sure freedom summit. [applause] e new hampshire freedom summit. thank you very much. washington yesterday. i have to say it is good to be back in america. [laughter] >> great job. >> it is a pleasure for me to honor my friends. if you but after we got there, was in town. we are the only two senators in the room when bono who came by

u2u actually listened to yo in junior high. i was the youngest senator. i was 39 at the time i was elected into office. i was reading at the level of a 40 year old which i told was very impressive. 42 now but read at the level of a 43-year-old. i try to stay ahead of the curve. my wife sharon is here somewhere. when i got there, it was interesting. apparently to some people in washington i did not look like a senator. to some of them i looked like a staff member by comparison. from time to time when i got to the door of the senate in order to vote, there were these very heavily armed gentleman who would stop me. oh just tying to get into vote and do my job.

utah,ondrinking kid from i was not used to getting carded. they do not want to see my drivers license. i will show you what they wanted to see. each time i got carded i had to produce this. it says united states senator expiration january 3, 2017. i do not know that is what i personally expire or my term of office. this would happen every single time. i would have to produce the id. they would check it to make sure the security resistant strip was intact. they would look at each other and shrugged her shoulders and say i guess we had to let him in. rug their shoulders and say i guess we have to let him in. a shortcut.

there was a lapel pin they gave me when i was inducted. so much only if you wear that will recognize you as a senator. it is designed to enable the capitol hill police to recognize a center as such. it worked like a charm. i came to calling it my "sorry senator" pin. i wouldot carded point to it and they would say " sorry, senator, you can come on in." every once in a while it does that work. when time after i had been there almost a year i was on the senate floor in between votes. i was standing there in between our two roll call votes. i had one arm gently leaning on the desk. one of the non-uniformed security personnel came up and said that i did not

expect "would you please not mean on the senator's desk?" i am easily stood up and said i'm terribly sorry. i didn't realize i was putting weight on the desk her. some of them are very old and their protective of them. some of them are almost 200 years old. some of them are almost as old as some of my colleagues. he said are you with the minority? i do not know if you need on this vote or the next time. he said are you with the minority leader? leader.e is the of course i am with him. they said are you on his staff. i pointed to the pin. blank stare. it was not used to using my

title so i mumbled the next word "i am senator lee." he said "what?" said i represent utah, it's a square, beautiful mountains. only then did he figure it out. all the coverage range from his face. terribly sorry. my name is steve if you want to report me." and then he ran for the door. i felt bad for steve. i did not want him to think there's any problem. i chased after him but he was too fast. every time i see steve in the halls of the u.s. capitol i say ve" and i wade and shake hands. only recently did occur to me that his name is probably not steve. it only occurred to me that his name is probably not steve.

difficult to use my title that day. i do not want to have to do it. the story has become something of a walking metaphor to me. sometimes we have to assert that which is widely -- rightfully ours even when it is inconvenient. if we do not, we will lose it. right to asserted by be there, i probably would have been hauled off in handcuffs much to the amusement of some of my colleagues. i would have lost something that day, the 3 million people i represent in my home state. not just topplies all of us.rs but to there are some things that are rightfully ours by virtue of our u.s. citizenship. we have a right to live in a land with limited government.

we have a right to live in a land where laws are made by elected centers and representatives and not by the stroke of the executive pen. [applause] it is one of the things i love about your state. one of the things i love about being here. it is almost tangible. you can feel it. you can see it on your license plate "live free or die." how beautiful is that? is, you and new hampshire have a long history standing up for what is right even when it is ethical -- difficult and threatening to your way of life. not far from here that the american revolution got underway. in december 1773 when not too far from here a group of american patriot ordered a ship

in boston harbor and seized crates of english tea and into fine approach of our large, distant government that taxes too much, that was far too intrusive and do not respect our privacy, that regulated us oppressively and was so far from the people it was slow to respond to our needs, that national government waste in london had gone too far. we have had it. thatis significant here is they do not stop there. they had stopped at throwing these crates anof tea in the harbor. it would have been at most a footnote in american history. they do not stop there. they moved forward. from there they went on to declare and later fight for and ultimately win our independence.

14 years later, they got from boston all the way to in 1787 theywhere went from merely protesting against the kind of government they did not want to embracing the kind of government they did 227-year-oldnow document. [applause] we have had those moments as a nation will we go from protesting against what we don't want. we have those as a party where we have gone from railing against the kind of policies that are bad to embracing the policies that are good. we as a party, a republican party, have always faced the kind of tensions that any political party will face from time to time. that exists between the parties base and the senior elected leadership on the other hand.

andion is natural inevitable. it has existed from time to time in one degree of severity or another. the party found itself in great disarray in 1976 following the 1976 election cycle. it was in that year that conservatives across america discovered a leader for the ages and ronald reagan. [applause] they ran that leader for the a less conservative incumbent republican president. for the that leader ages and they lost the primary election and republicans lost the general election. conservatives were blamed not just for losing the white house but also losing house and senate elections across the country. there is a lot of discouragement within the party that matched the tension i just described.

conservatives did not give up. no. they doubled down and came back. in four years later, they won. they want because they came back with the same conservative leader for the ages. they were armed it's one thing they did not have before, and armed withhey were one thing they do not have before, and agenda. we learned that as a party we win when we do this. we win when we have an agenda that is at once told and focused on upward mobility for all americans. [applause] sometimes we lose sight of this. sometimes in our own party we are told to sit back and let things take care of themselves. there are those that are saying

all we need to do to win elections is nothing. we know based on our experience that is not true. we know as a nation to many of us have settled for less. andnow that as americans republicans we have to expect more. how is it that we get there? how is it that we do what we need to do? how do we get to this point where congress has an approval rating at nine -- 9%? that makes us slightly less popular than fidel and rival castro in america. it makes a slightly more popular than the influenza virus and the virus is gaining on this. -- gaining no us. we have to expect more.

demand more.t and how do we do that? conservatives we have to stop talking about ronald reagan and we have to start acting like him. we have to come together and rally around an agenda. a man described a late-night -- each of across a bridge. it was a high bridge. it was a bridge across either a harbor where he lived. it was so high if you jumped off of that you would not survive. he was enjoying this late at

night when there was no traffic the it it was just him, moon, stars and bridge. he got halfway across and discovered that he was not alone. he saw a man standing on the edge of the bridge outside the guardrail holding on. he could barely detect from the light of the moon. this man was in a bad place. he was contemplating taking his own life by jumping up the bridge. better talk to humanity if i can help. what elsefigure out to say. you believe in god? the man said yes. are you a christian? yes. me too. what denomination? he said me too. northern or southern? northern. me too.

northern reformed or fundamentalist? fundamentalist. mme too. [indiscernible] said dad you heretic and pushed him off the bridge. [laughter] us that ass conservatives we have that to be far more engaged in the act of thenng converts identifying heretics. we need to sharpen more pencils the ninth. dayt asked every single what is it that we can do to make a difference? how do we win? in this very critical election year, it really comes down to expectations.

starters, i, -- for neared to tell you it is time to expect more. i am here tors, tell you it is time to expect more. do not settle for high unemployment. expect opportunity. do not settle for liberal domination of the media. expect an honest debate and a deeper national dialogue. do not settle for trillion dollar deficits. budgets.lanced do not settle for washington centered solutions brought to you on a silver platter by smooth talking washington bureaucrats. expect communities and neighborhoods and families in the institutions that have made our society great come together to solve america's greatest problems. do not settle for a president to .evise on a phone and a pen

expect congress to do its job. [applause] .o not settle for style expect substance. do not settle for some day. expect today. do not settle for empty promises. expect excellence. we never settle for mediocrity. not ever. join me and expect more. join me and expect freedom. thank you very much. may god bless new hampshire and may god bless the united states of america. [applause] i would like to introduce you to

steve kenneth. a great american story. he is a serial entrepreneur anse early ventures was both inc. 500 company. the fastest-growing 100 companies. he now lives on the seacoast with his wife sarah and his two-year-old son. steve kenda. [applause] never know how to start these things. i asked my wife for the inspiration. she thought about it for them "steve, do not try to be witty or charming, just yourself." [laughter] i thought i would turn to the

divine for inspiration. i've been here for 30 years now. deer,ad coyote i, turkey and a moose running through my yard. you're going to think i made this up but last week a chicken showed up in my yard. around tryinging to get it inside the backyard fence so we can keep it from the wild things and get it rescue. it occurred to me that we have a lot of euphemisms around chickens. which came first, the chicken or the egg? why did the chicken cross the road? athad a campaign slogan one point, the chicken in every pot. don't have a pot to put it in. got into the act for a while. lyndon johnson father of

medicare and the great society back in 1966 turned to his team and said "boys, i may not know much but i know the difference between chicken poop and chicken salad." not his exact words. it is a family event. all be out there trying to feather our nest and scratch out a living by building a little nest egg. we cannot put all of our eggs in one basket or count all of our chickens before they hatch. unless we wind up with chicken feed. goestheir president, if he around spreading it around, we may all wind up with twchicken feet. i have a personal favorite, understanding the difference between being involved as you are today and being committed. you know the difference, right? it is like a bacon and eggs

purpose. pig is involved. chicken is committed. i would like to talk to you andt two things, vision will. these are two guests to be stowed on by god. to be able to see a vision and the will to make it a reality. the exercise in the development of those two gets through your lifetime that separate the people that make in cap and from those that watch things happen. thethose that wonder what heck happens. i know i have a room full of people that make things happen. we have an audience that want to make things happen. and means an awful lot of personal sacrifice.

we all struggled to get to where we were in life. it is never been easy for any of us. we all have our personal stories of hard times. we persevere. that is the nature of spirit building. even fdr knew it was the implementation. long-term would rock people of their spirit and their character. their ability to grow as human beings. let's face it. life here on earth is short. our time is precious. we have matured and accomplish what we have accomplished in a lifetime. what have we left for our children and our children's children? i was going to come here. to regard you with a lot of the data we had on commerce and agriculture and every other department in washington and the hundreds of thousands of federal employees and in the dollars they spent every year. that to the military

spending and it is only 30% of what we spent every year as a country. the other 70% which doesn't include the interest we pay is mostly made of entitlements. the bulk of which are social security and medicare. roomful of mature, responsible adults. somehow we wound appeared. somehow between special interests and lobbyists, we find ourselves in a situation where .ompanies are not hiring people companies are made up of people just like you. they sit there and say i do not so comfortable about the future. i do not feel confident. i see 70% of what we spend every year going on out latest in the independent projections are that they will grow 77% as the baby

boomers retire. how do we get here? class rightlitical now. the politicians themselves invent their own vernacular. entitlements is the third rail of politics. i grew up in brooklyn. i know what the third rail is. not something you want to touch. accepted.de that are process. who is going to stick their neck out? how are they ever going to solve that problem? think about this. you take this telephone and find eight to 10 of the best and brightest. say you want for five people left and right of center. jfk.to

he talked about putting a man on the moon in 10 years. you go out and give them a vision. say we need you folks to sit in a room and here is all the actuarial data and all the statistical data that we need. give me a plan. give me a program. this will take some time. 2025, give me a program that is going to get entitlement spending down to no more than 50% of what we spend on an annual basis. we need a vision. we talk about vision. vision requires leadership. here.ot know how we got if the president cannot do it, we need a president that can. jimmy stewart, where are you when we need you? i need someone to trust. someone with integrity. world of we are in a

hurt. our kids will be in a world of hurt. talk about will and vision. story give you one more that always hits home for me. has a film tie-in. i borrow heavily from peter mcwilliams book. it should be required reading. he talks about an author sitting had the visionho man was receiving a vision and exercising his will to go out. is it possible for him to be reunited with his father she died many years earlier and play a little baseball -- who died many years earlier him played a little baseball? "shoeless little book

joe." it was read several thousand miles away in los angeles by a film producer/or are, phil robinson. -- director, phil robinson. about a fieldmind in iowa. he talked to kevin costner. the vision starts to roll. costner starts talking to many people. in a film gets produced. "field of dreams." it is still a great movie. put it on your list. by all accounts, a successful movie. the story does not stop there. the field which was at that time owned by a real farmer is not , if you recall the movie

"go the distance" is the name of the movie. they bought the farm to be able to preserve it as a baseball field. it was owned by don lansing. after the movie was made, it stayed open. thousands of visitors. people would come and run the bases. fathers and son playing baseball in the middle of the corn fields. some people even getting married at home plate. all of a vision of someone sitting up in canada. the story does not end it there. in the fall of 18 any nine, the farmer received a letter that in the fall of 1989 the farmer -- -- it does

not in there. in the fall of 199, he received a letter. we saw the movie. i know i did the field was still there. been the filming it have replanted. to my surprise and delight to read an article. so and have been maintaining the field. how long do you maintain it as a baseball field? will you see receive visitors next summer? we are planning to sel visit for the anniversary of the crash. always coached matt team. for the past six years we have a great time enjoying each other and playing baseball. the plane crashed in an iowa cornfield. i found the whole idea very ironic. in iowa corn farmer who posit to make a baseball field where dreams come true and my son who loves baseball dying in an iowa

cornfield in my jeans came to an end. when i was in sioux city i stayed at briarcliffe college. i could not stop thinking about the movie. a crash in the cornfield in iowa. there was a message there. i read the article. i knew i would have to visit the field. please let me know of your plans for the field. i hope i will have the chance to walk with my son one more time. ladies and gentlemen, our time here is short. we never know when our time is going to be called up. we have an obligation to take back this country and make a great once again. for our kids. for their kids. for all the brave men and women that sheds blood or make the ultimate sacrifice to give us this freedom and live in this land of milk and honey. we have vision. we have a collective will. what we need is committed leadership.

pig committed. any businessman who has gotten the job done. let me introduce our next speaker. early in my business career i came across this first book. it remains the top of the bestseller list for many weeks. it inspired a very successful merger career. one section you may not have is my father used to take my sister of two central part back and near the 70's. passed away at the age of 49. by 1980 it had fallen in such disrepair that the mayor shut it down for 2.5 years for repairs. six years later it is still not reopened. our next speaker approached the give me three

months. it'll be open by the end of the year. eventually out to public rusher. our net -- pressure. our next speaker got it built on time and under budget. he made his bones and construction in new york city and casinos in new jersey. where both the succeeding in keeping your reputation is no small accomplishment. succeeding and keeping your reputation is no small accomplishment. he has led a very vocal criticism of the obama administration. in this day and age of political correctness, i find his voice refreshing. playerso the only major on the stage who will share my love for the beauty of the

country from where my grandparents immigrated from, slovenia. a small country with a cart. -- a small country with a big heart. how sad is it today that we face the prospect of seeing a shadow of the wall reemerge? please do me a welcoming a man not afraid to express his opinion, a man willing to risk being excoriated by the mainstream amendment and willing to exercise his first amendment right it does include the right to offend -- [laughter] [applause] ladies and gentlemen, maybe the only man capable of saying "mr. president, you are fired."

a great american. please welcome me in joining donald trump. >> thank you very nice. i want to thank david fosse. the whole group has been amazing. is a great honor to be here. i love new hampshire. i have been here many times before. special people. people that love to work. they are workers. i love that. countries need that. to be honest, we have something that we have to do and we have to do it fast. we have to make america great

again. we have to do it. it will not be able to continue onward. we're not going to be able to do it if we do not take this country and bring it back. it has to be brought back fast. our country is in very serious trouble. jobs, unemployment or the roof. you look at indexes. some of them are the worst we have had in 36 years. despite that you have a number that is below 7%. we know it does not matter the number. they do not report the way they used to when they were unemployed. now you stop looking for a job because you cannot find one. they consider you to be employed essentially. as a country, we are in such serious trouble we owe $17 trillion, much of it to china,

who does numbers on us like nobody has ever really done numbers on us. we have deficits that are massive on a yearly basis. we do not have the right people negotiating or us. obamacare is an absolute catastrophe. it is a disaster. it is a disaster. they say they had 7 million startups. does anybody really believe that? ok. just an impossibility. it is impossible. how many people have paid? they do not mention the 7-10,000,000 people that lost their plan or. us. obamacare -- doctors. obamacare has been the single greatest lie i have witnessed and i have been in politics for a long time. think of this. we all have websites. i have a lot of websites. it costs me about three dollars

per d set it up. you get this guy. you get this woman. you get this young kid and you put them in. i get everybody. it cost me so little. they spent well over $1 billion to do a website. nobody even talks about it. they sort of skipped over it. it is going to be one of the great classical lines in the history of politics and incompetence. that was when secretary sibelius on the podium with the president here, he must have been going wild on my she said "unfortunately, a page is missing."

of obamacare.atic a page is missing. the whole thing is missing. a very conservative person and somebody that is a republican and proud to be, we do not get treated the same way. if that were done by some republican they would make that person into the dumbest, most incompetent human being that anybody has ever seen. with her they said isn't that cute? she st a page. it wasn't that cute? i watched. i could not believe it. they are trying to make it like it was a wonderful thing. when president obama was interviewed a couple of weeks ago eisenach whatever his name -- to get the youth - interviewed a couple weeks ago by whatever his name was to get the youth, they said some nasty things.

he was so furious. you could see he wanted to get out. he is looking for the aid that set the interview. s people.fire you could see how angry he was pure iwatch the commentary. everybody was saying wasn't that fun? the only one not having fun was in. it was very disrespectful to the president. they made it like wasn't that wonderful? wasn't that great? we have a lot of problems going on in this country. i am a big believer in free trade. with free-trade unique competence people. i do not like free trade with incompetent people. everybody's is kicking our ass. every country. i like to say fair trade as opposed to free trade.

trade."o say "smart i know people on wall street that are so smart, that are so brilliant businesswise that if i put them to negotiate against china and japan, mexico, you it, we would take one person put them in charge of china. i know them all. china does not have a chance. take these people that are diplomats, that our political appointees. you get a nice position and you negotiate with china. as luck. laughing why china is at us. why they are outsmarting us. i do not know if you saw the other day but it was shocking to people. they just devalued their currency again.

went to the wharton school of finance. i'm good at this stuff. it is common sense. it makes it really tough for us to compete for project and jobs and all the things they're taking out of our system. nobody would have thought they would have had encouraged to devalued the currency again. they have no respect for our country. none. i am a big believer in military. i do not want to use it. when you have it, you do not have to use it. when you don't have it, you have to use it. when you have it, you don't have to use it. we are cutting way back. many decades it has not been this weak.

many decades we have not spent this little as a percentage. we are cutting way back great putin who is absolutely having a great time. russia is really hot stuff. now you have people in the ukraine, set up or not but it cannot all be set up, are marching in favor of joining russia. ist he has done for russia really amazing. he has done it by outsmarting our country at every single step. you look at syria. you look at iran. they are taking oil from a rack. we spent $2 trillion on iraq. that worked in not exist two years ago. now you can hear billion. now you hear trillion. we spent $2 trillion fighting in iraq for years and years. we lost great people.

i come from new york. i help wounded warriors. i have met so many of them with arms and thehe ar and the trauma they are going through. for what? iraq.u look at now we have nothing to do. you know who has taken it? iran. for decades they were the same strength. they would go to feed this way, to feed that way and then they would say "let's have a truce." now we have decapitated. i believe strongly in military. i am very strong in doing wars if it is a right war. i was always against this.

iran has taken over. if we're going to be, maybe these people in washington, and i'm not talking about obama purely. he stay there a long time. maybe they know something. maybe they're going to take the oil. i said, they must have that in mind. you know who is taking the oil right now? china and iran. we get nothing. they do not let us in the country. now you look at afghanistan. afghanistan is another catastrophe. we are in there for a trillion. we are fighting on this side of the mountain. money to get satchels of money.gets satchels of

who is the person delivering the cash? how does it feel to carry $50 million over your back. this is cash. who is authorized to give this? they are paid millions and millions of dollars in cash. after that, karzai is throwing us out like we are dogs. we are fighting on one side of the mountain. getting tremendous hurt for our great troops. on the other side of the mountain and nobody realize this until two years ago, afghanistan ,as tremendous mineral rights tremendous. unbelievable. side of the mountain, china has these massive machines taking all of these minerals out of the ground. we get nothing. are we stupid. i look at this. i look at what is happening with our country. i look at what is happening with

leadership. we found out that we could and should be the energy capital of the world. i am all for the keystone pipeline. i think it is great. it should've happened a long time ago. we do not even need it. we do not need canada's energy. i love canada. we do not need the energy. going to hurt anybody. we know that. we have it right here. we should be the energy capital of the world. we are not. off $17you going to pay trillion going to 21 trillion dollars in debt? everyone is beating us. everyone is taking our jobs. mexico, you do not hear it too much. mexico is just beating as so badly. they are taking a tremendous

number of jobs out of this country. this will be a big problem. the next four or five years you will see mexico just draining us. a lot of problems with immigration. either you have a country or you don't. it is very simple. either have a country or you don't have a country. you have to come up with a humane solution for people who have been here for many years. we have a lot of unprotecte -- unproductive people only have to get them the hell out. day.rd jeb bush the other he was talking about people that come into this country illegally. they do it for love. say it again. i have heard a lot.

rd money and sex. the one thing i have not heard was love. i understand what he was saying. it is out there. i would say. borders, have to have and i mean strong borders. i am a builder. i build great buildings. border, how can we possibly build a fence known to climb over? i would build a border like you've never seen before. nobody is climbing over. nobody. thank you. the problem that i have with politicians, not just our president. our president is obviously the leading example.

politicians, and i know them all . i've known the liberals, democrats, conservatives. i happen to love the tea party. they kill me for loving the tea party. i take heat because i love them. i went to wharton school of finance. the best school in the country. i have to get my credentials. the tea party does not get fairly treated. you know what it is? a their people that love this entry and love to work and they love to pay taxes and they want to pay more and more and they want to get this country going. these are incredible people. they do not get the right press. get the tea party. we've got to get them a good press agent. we've got to do it. they are great people. they do like me. every time i make a speech i get far more people. they are all the tea party. they love me.

politicians are all talk and no action. it is true. it is all bullshit. it is no action. they talk and talk and you go crazy. in the meantime, everybody else is eating lunch. and you know who's lunch it is? our lunch. it is tough. it is not their thing. i have known so many. i respect them. they are incredible survivors. i call a great politician a survivor. , ande had politicians they're very nice to me, they really are, they treat me very nicely. they want campaign contributions. they also what my endorsement badly.

they are trying to survive at their job. i have gone to politicians over the years. one in particular. a congressman from many years. i've always supported him. i asked for support of something that was really good for the country. a little controversial. not much. tagged me along. you leave the office and you got tapped. and two weeks later you say they are long. they're really good. i have respect for them. then i called him. he said we are really looking at it. we are really looking at it. all right. good. that is great. i'll call you in a few weeks. let me call you in about two months. he calls me in two months. it is a tough situation. two years go by. then he announces retirement. guys are these

unbelievable survivors. he did not like it because it was a little bit tough. he might lose two votes. it might not be perfect for him. it was not his comfort zone. in the meantime you did something very bad for that particular area. i have learned they are incredible survivors and respect them for that. the surviving is for themselves and not the country and the community. it is selfish. [applause] kidding, butort of i go and i will do these on occasion, and david asked me to do this one -- i agreed to do it and i said, it's interesting. things,me i go to these there are always teleprompters.

i always say, take down the teleprompters. not beoliticians should allowed to use teleprompters. [applause] said that to somebody backstage to has been in politics for years and they said, i've never heard of that idea before. write a speech -- usually it is written by someone else, get a great speech writer, then they stand up and start reading the speech. you don't really find the essence of a man or a person. you don't really know that person when they are doing the teleprompters saying. i think it's a cool idea. you could learn a lot about people. our president is the number one example. what we know about him? lines of up and reads a teleprompter most of the time and then everybody says, that was nice. you don't learn about the person. happen, maybedn't

he wouldn't have been elected. election, the republicans should have one. how they blew that one is hard to believe. how they blew that one is so discouraging and so hard to believe. do is we have to straighten out the country. just recently i was thinking a lot, and steve mentioned [indiscernible] it took eight years and the city spent $22 million. i went to ed kotz, the mayor of new york city and said, i would like to build it. if i don't build it quickly and for under $2 million, i will pay for it myself. it's the most successful rink anywhere in the world. run's the way we wanted to -- want it to run. eight years, 22 million dollars.

of the $22 million, i had to rip it all down. the advantage was i had to spend demolition money to rip it down. i built it in three months. i have a daughter. do we all know my daughter? she's great. i wanted her to go ice skating before she got too old. said, i'mt years, i going to build a rink. [laughter] i would walk through central park and look at that rink and i would see -- it's a massive .urface, over an acre i would say 200 or 300 men sitting there all day long. why aren't they working? they didn't do anything. i got it. i did a great job, like the book, you know? "kick ass." the workers loved it. at the

same everything. when the city first started the rink, they went to miami to get an engineer who builds refrigerators, for putting food in. they used freon. that's ok for a refrigerator. if there's a tiny little hole the size of a pin, you will never cool the ice. they put this beautiful copper comebacks next day and it was -- come back the next day and it was robbed. i said, let me see the engineer. this said, he's in miami. i said, who's the head of the montreal canadiens hockey team?

a great guy. he sent down his engineer. he said, mr. trump, they will never be able to make ice. they did finish in a couple of times but they were not able to make ice. they cannot even make ice when it was 20 degrees out. [laughter] i call him up and he comes down. realizes --es, he today we use brian. -- brine. it is water with salt in it, and you put it in rubber tubes under the concrete. the ice never freezes because it has salt in it. it's a rubber tube, salt, and water. they make the water very cold. we had ice so fast, nobody could believe it. they poured the concrete, they ported at an angle. one side of the rink had two and a half feet of water and the

other had nothing. this is true. even i could not cool to in a half feet. -- two and a half feet. we had to rip it all apart. today, in the wharton school of finance, they study that. it's free enterprise versus government. we need more. [applause] i fixed things. that's what i do. i got rich by fixing things. usually i will buy it out of bankruptcy. they say, trump went bankrupt. i never went bankrupt. the story said, trump, 800 acres in the middle of miami, it's going to be the greatest resort in the country. it's already there. they are very dishonest people.

they said, trump files for bankruptcy. i bought a house in palm beach for $40 million out of bankruptcy. i sold it for $100 million. i don't want to brag. this is what we need in the country. we have to make deals like this much bigger. [applause] it -- i amought worth now a lot. because i bought it out of bankruptcy they said, donald trump is bankrupt. when icahn plays a bankruptcy, nobody says that. every time you see that crap, just ram or it is a dishonest remember it is a

dishonest reporter, ok? we need somebody who will make the great deals for this country. we need to make our country rich again. i'm starting construction on the old post office building on pennsylvania avenue, amazingly next to the white house. if i don't make the one thing, i can always have the other as a fallback position. [laughter] [applause] it's much bigger than the white house. i'm going to try and make it just as nice. i'm building a tremendous hotel there. it will be amazing. we start in four weeks. what it means is lots of jobs. you want to put money into this system. but the country has to be doing that to. are very small. if the country is going dead and you are doing well, you will not do well long. you cannot really counteract all that negativity. giving it away to china and

other countries -- opec is an example. why is oil, with all the energy we have, how come oil is always setting all-time highs? .pec has hired every lobbyist you try to get a lobbyist to go against opec. you cannot do it. you say to yourself, where are our competent leaders? we don't need competent leaders. genius,unbelievable smart as hell leaders. we are no longer at the stage where we can have somebody competent. [laughter] we need something far more than that right -- that. i will say something that a lot of republicans disagree with me on. --friends at the tea party they did a poll, and 78% of them

my medicare,ouch medicaid, or social security. am i right? >> you are right. >> this guy is a good american right here. leave my medicare alone! ryan, whou have paul was chosen as the vice -- i think he's a very nice person. stance is to knock the hell out of medicare and medicaid. i feel very differently. i would leave it alone. i don't want to hurt people. you have to get rid of the fraud and abuse. that we agree with. there's tremendous fraud. some of these doctors and people are ripping off this country.

they have become rich. to my doctor drives up place and they buy an apartment in trump tower and they are driving a for ari -- what you do -- ferrari -- what do you do? i'm a doctor. oh, great. you have to run it properly. in all fairness, you have to be able to go through -- you have to make this country strong. you have to make this country wealthy. when this country becomes wealthy, your social security and medicare and medicaid will be taken care of. it will work. it will work well. republicans are out there, always saying cutting back entitlements -- fine. do what you have to do in terms of abuse and theft and

crookedness and all the things that are going on, because it's a mess. but you have to protect the people. a lot of these people work all their lives and then find other social security will be harmed and taken away. it's not fair. how do you solve that? and how do you solve jobs? how do you solve military? we have to build up the military, not take it down. if we build it up, you're going is doing what- he he is doing because he does not respect us. he sees what is happening. china is taking over areas we always had. i don't know if we even want those areas. let's build our schools and bridges. china is building more bridges than we have ever built in this country. you know how many bridges we are building? none.

we don't have any money. we are building nothing. i always end by saying we have to make this country great again. when we make this country great -- when we make this country wealthy, then we can afford all of the things that you are really entitled to. it has been an honor to be here. i love new hampshire. perhaps i will see you again. thank you very much. [applause] ♪ >> to introduce our next speaker is an established liberty activist. she is school choice in education champion and a true new hampshire patriot.

please give a nice, big round of applause to michelle leven. >> good morning. it is my pleasure to introduce our next speaker today, louie gohmert is a five term representative to the u.s. house from texas. today, heof us here is concerned about our declining economy and the tax and spend addiction of our federal and state governments. he challenges their spend now, pay later legislation and looks out for the taxpayer. legislators in concord cannot control their tax and spend habits trade new hampshire is in danger of losing the freedom that comes with fiscal responsibility. indifferent tom

the burdens these spending sprees lace on our hard-working citizens and business communities. small businesses and households cannot buy all of their wants on credit. neither should our government. [applause] in recent weeks, the new hampshire senate asked -- passed two onerous bills that will do lasting harm to our state and way of life. obamacare medicaid expansion in an increase in the gas taz. -- tax. enacting medicaid expansion has strings attached that will change new hampshire and are likely to lead to a general sales tax or income tax. historically, new hampshire has proudly declined federal cheese, recognizing it for the trap that it presents. no more.

don't seeofficials the strings attached to these empty financial promises, or they don't care. either way, the people of new hampshire deserve better. this is not the only flip towards increased dependency and loss of financial freedom. the new hampshire senate passed a bill that will raise the gas tax by 23%. this will impact every family and every business. now getting to work will be that much more expensive, and the cost of food and consumer goods will also rise. not even raise state revenues, because it provides a disincentive for residents of neighboring states to make the trip into new hampshire. instead of looking to responsibly manage the money that is already in this fund, certain legislators want to further burden

taxpayers without ensuring that the money is spent on the roads and bridges it is intended to maintain. cannot continue to use nde gas tax as a/ -- slush fu for other departments and projects. [applause] beforeas intended first, raising the tax. do not add more burdens on our businesses and families before being financially responsible. enough is enough. , there are representatives at the federal level who join us in defending taxpayers and small businesses. we agree with our next speaker, taxpayers know better, not bureaucrats. [applause] representative louie gohmert

does not shy away from the good fight for it -- fight. he championed the baseline reform act recently passed in the u.s. house, which ends automatic federal budget increases. [applause] unlike many legislators, representative go mart is not afraid to put his money where his mouth is. his healthhe dropped insurance coverage because of the spike in the deductible. hee many other americans, lost health insurance coverage due to obamacare. elected officials are willing to face the same fate as their constituents. this speaks to his character, authenticity, and values. is notntative gohmert afraid of challenging political bullies such as attorney general eric holder.

[applause] and liberty legislators well know, when you are getting people like that mad, you are doing something right. [applause] gohmert isive louie definitely doing something right. lee's join me in welcoming eric holder's latest buddy, representative louie gohmert. [applause] ♪ >> thank you. wow. you all are too much. wow. golly. y'all are fantastic. most of the places you speak, people are not as up on that week's news. what a week for me.

i found out the highest-ranking law enforcement official in america considers me his buddy. that's very exciting. wow. this has been going on for a wild. it doesn't seem like i'm asking for so much. i have been pushing for three years and asked in formally before that. counts of guilty of funding terrorism, and around 200 or so named co-conspirators that were not indicted -- and as i understood, under the bush administration, the plan was if they get the first conviction they go after the rest of them. maybe you have heard of care? they have open doors at the white house.

the chief of staff has thanked the head for his wonderful prayers in the white house here it -- house. it does not seem like i'm asking that much to say, how about seeing members of congress the documents you gave the terrorists during discovery of the trial? [applause] we would like to see why it was the district court in dallas and the u.s. fifth circuit court of appeals both said, when they tried to get their names stricken from the pleadings, the court said, there's plenty of evidence to show where you are complicit with the holy land foundation folks that were convicted. i did not think he was that much to ask. -- i haveed his buddy to let you in on something. a year ago, i was brutalized because of something i said at

the end of my exchange with him. justice,was a chief before i was a judge before that, when i was trying civil litigation in federal and state courts, i had heard about something. if somebody was really excoriating jesse foreman, just to throw things off balance, he would jump up and say, he's casting [indiscernible] on my asparagus. [laughter] the rancor would come down. people would say, did he say asparagus? my time had expired last year, and the attorney general was not calling me buddy. he was calling the other things. i said, he's casting aspersions on my asberry does -- asparagus. the last thing he said was, good luck with your asparagus. [laughter]

thinking, you had a year and that's the best you can do? holy cow. we are in more trouble than i thought. good grief. some people say our president, this administration did not keep their promises. he did promise that our prices would skyrocket. he made a promise that he would fundamentally transform america. look at the changes. i jotted a few down. there are more people unemployed sincenow than at any time jimmy carter was president. do you remember jimmy carter? there are fewer rights to practice your religious believes , especially if you are a christian. if you are muslim, we are going to change the dress code in the

military, you will be good. for christians and other denominations or other religions, not so much red -- much. claiming health care is broken and using that as an excuse to come in and destroy health care fix the pay system. let's not destroy the good thing about our system that makes canada and other wealthy english come get fixed. i don't try to push my religious beliefs on anybody, but i do ofnk the lord as a way preparing us for things we don't even know are coming. my first big hearing as a judge was a docket call.

i'm calling one case after another. do isneed them to acknowledge on the record that they are the defendant and you understand when your trial date is. i see his lawyer, but i say, are you the defendant? his lawyer said, my client is death. we are going to need an interpreter for the trial. i said, that's fine. today, all i have got to do is make sure that he understands when his trial is set for. i look him in the eye and said, can you read my lips. he looked me in the eye and went -- [laughter] would ever be i in congress, but that was preparation for talking to the attorney general of the united states. [applause] i did not know back at the time.

let's look at the attorney general and what it changes -- what changes he has brought to our incredible justice system. for the first time in history, the most powerful law enforcement officer is whining about people picking on him. that's a change, though. not whinemitchell did like this. he completely dropped the ball on investigating the treasury, still had not even really talk to the victims. after the russians gave us isds-up, tsarnaev radicalized, they still would not follow up. they did interview him and his mom and seem to think he was ok. he seemed to convince them he was ok. when i was grilling the fbi -- [indiscernible]

oh yes, we did. he said, we did go out to those mosques in our outreach effort. the outreach effort, that's where we sit down and visit and we love each other. at a prior hearing, i said, there's nothing different about the muslim community and every other religious community, and then you talk about this wonderful outreach program specifically with muslim communities. your outreach program going with the buddhists and baptists and jewish folks? they don't have one for all of those. maybe it's not exactly the same thing. who knows. then the dallas federal district court and u.s. fifth circuit has said theres

was evidence of complicity with the holy foundation and these guys have said for five years, we see nothing. this department of justice has apparently given our president a heads up that there really isn't a smidgen of evidence that the irs did anything wrong. don't look behind the curtain. just trust us. after this administration's justice department for the first time in history not only didn't go after stopping illegal arms -- i should not be selling these -- one of them recorded the conversations. or, i have a feeling this justice department would have turned on him after the fact.

good for him. that is called self-help. it has gotten people killed. that is what this justice department has broadened in the way of change. our state department refused to provide the requested protection to our state department people in libya, and four people are dead now. that's a change. they have jeopardized our democratic safeguards, our checks and balances, by usurping legislative functions with a stroke of the pen. they have inspired the other side of the aisle so much so that they will stand and applaud when the president tells us, if you don't do the legislative job, i'm going to do it for you. i don't know of anybody who would have gotten away with that.

you have a federal district judge in texas found that not only is this administration not enforcing our immigration laws, they are actually helping in the human trafficking of children that come in the country illegally. that's a change, folks. it's time to stop helping the muslim brotherhood. egypt has declared them a terrorist organization. [applause] steve, michele bachmann, and i went around the middle east the end of december. i was over there back in september. you would be surprised how many of our moderate muslim friends have said, why are you no longer helping in the war on terror? you're helping the bad guys now. how do you not understand that

the people you were at war with the people you're helping. why are you not helping us? in afghanistan, there has been material change. the northern alliance that originally defeated the taliban for us, we had less than 500 people embedded in the northern alliance and they defeated the taliban and within about four months. people have forgotten. then we became occupiers, and now this administration behind the scenes is saying, a bunch of war criminals -- they are the people that defeated the taliban and. those moderate muslims are the enemy of our enemy. we thought they would want to get out of the nationbuilding business. i was hoping that would be a change. they doubled down. it is disastrous what they are doing.

for the first time in our nations history, i think this is the most incredible statistic ave seen since i have been judge, chief justice, and now in congress. for the first time in our nation's history, since 2009, 95% of all the income in the has gone to the one percent most wealthy. that has never happened before. on dirty little secret -- wall street, 80% of the wall street executives and their spouses' donations go to democrats. it's like they have a sweet deal. you will get richer than your wildest dreams. it's time for that to stop. that's a change we cannot afford.

let me talk about the hope i have. i know some people think congress is glorious, but if i did not have hope, it would not be worth it. it's time to scrap the tax code. i would like a flat tax. let's debate it and do it. [applause] the irs. get rid of sound i don't look or that smart. when people hear a southern accent, they usually deduct 50 iq points. we are saying, let's do away

with the irs, but someone has to collect the taxes. ,eagan's economic advisor said you can do it. is the worst idea ever to have the same people pick who them, then audit collect the taxes. you get rid of the irs, and then you have a small auditing agency , and they never get to choose who they audit. it's always a random. and they don't get to collect. they just audit. interfere with the random audits. that's how you do it, folks. we can still do that. we need an amendment to the noted states constitution, to go back pre-17th amendment and say the state legislatures will pick the senators, but the

states need the power to veto anything that congress and the president make into law. [applause] we have got to return that power to the states. we can do that with a constitutional amendment. if the majority two thirds say, we don't like that law, they can veto it. make such a difference and return the power where the founders wanted it terry do we need to get to the bottom of benghazi. we just do. [applause] we need to force removal of at least two thirds of the regulations in america. [applause] reagan did it. he eliminated two thirds of our regulations. special prosecutor to go after all the lawbreakers at the irs. [applause]

restructure the house and the senate, including our committees, decentralize the power there. let's have power spread more evenly across the representatives and senators of the u.s. introduction -- michelle mentioned, i have been pushing for nine years two and the automatic increase in every federal budget so that an increase is an increase. we passed it this week. now we just have to demand the senate do that, help us demand the senate do that. no more nationbuilding. government comes after us, let's wipe out that government and tell those people in that country, you choose whatever government you want but if they come after us, we will whack them too.

you don't have to destroy a whole country. [applause] yes, that's what this administration has done in giving us change. do we still have hope? you bet we do. you are good symbols of the hope we have. thank you. , kilowe still have hope obamapelosi, reid, and can keep the change. thank you. [applause] ♪

speaker is no stranger to us in new hampshire. we're proud to introduce him to the rest of the world. tom thompson is the honorary newrman of the afp hampshire. he purchased 125 acres of land with his brother at the age of 11, and now manages and operates the thompson family tree farm. the thompsons have been managing that forest land with an emphasis on demonstrating to other farmers the true meaning of a working, sustainable forest. his treers working on farm, but he understands the importance of serving the forest community, and he has served as the past vice-chairman of the tree farm national operating committee, and the chair of the tree farm national policy committee.

years on the six national sustainable forest board resource committee, and represents the family forest landowners throughout united states. important time today is meant to teach his grandson all about forests as they work together to collect and stack firewood. a proud new hampshire native, tom thompson. [applause] >> thank you, ladies and

gentlemen. it's a privilege to be here today. i have to make one correction. syrup is made on the form which i grew up at, and my father, the former governor that used to tell folks he was the only governor with a southern accent they could make maple syrup -- and that was true -- it has been taken over and it is run today by my brother, peter. i know he will be watching. it was made by you. [laughter] in new it liquid gold hampshire and i just cut a deal with donald trump in the back room to sell that liquid gold at trump tower. [applause] as honorary chairman of the americans for prosperity, i want to thank and welcome everyone for coming today. in which wevent

will exercise today our constitutional rights under the first amendment, for those of you visiting in our state and including the press, i want to remind you that new hampshire is a state that has neither sale or income tax. when you get done today, we want you to spend some extra time and do some shopping before you leave our state. i want to thank cory and greg and all of the others for putting on this great event. i was asked to say a few words about taxes, because april 15 is just around the corner. i did not know where to begin or where to and. -- end. i decided to share with you a few words from a speech that was written by my father 42 years ago. governor served this great state from 1973 to 1979.

he first ran for governor on 1968 on a platform of, axe the tax. really interesting to see this gentleman, my father, who grew up most of his life in the south, with a southern accent, camping in new hampshire. title of his speech was, "the power to destroy." given some 42 years ago. a clear warning to us of the rising public debt across this country. we all know today it is unsustainable. to quote a few paragraphs of his article, taxation without a firebrandon was the touched off the american revolution.

we have taxation without responsible representation and often with misrepresentation. sound familiar? the power to tax is the power to destroy. relentlesslyt a increasing rate, we are destroying the american republic by confiscating through taxation and ever-increasing amount of every citizen's property. we are faced with the problem of paying off a constantly rising public debt, one that averages almost $4000 for every man, woman, and child in america, unquote. that was 42 years ago. fast forward to today. we are seeing out-of-control spending. as of yesterday, the u.s. owes debt for5 trillion in

each one of us. $230.0, with obamacare we are facing higher and higher taxes. health care costs, less hospitals to choose from, with the fear of fewer doctors. senator max baucus was a democrat from montana and was right when he said obama care is a train wreck. 2600 pages of obamacare were passed before they were read. nearly 16,000 pages of rules and regulations have been written thus far by bureaucrats. i fear the direction this country is headed. -- i know there are a lot of you out there -- somehow will get through it. but i worry for our children and our grandchildren and this great nation.

, you willobama said go around congress because he has a phone and a pen. i want to remind the american people that on november 4, 2014, we the people will have both a pen and ballot, and i encourage you to use it. [applause] i had this made up. different been some polls that have been done. i like to take a real scientific poll here today, if you bear with me. i'm going to go over the three items which our president spoke of. if you believe those are correct, i want you to say true. if you believe they are false, i want you to say false. so let's go. if you like your health care

plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan, period. >> false! two, if you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. >> false! three, obama care will lower your health care plan by $2500 per family per year. >> false! now, the press is here and they heard this scientific poll, and i believe that 700 people , 100% of the people said that this is false. am i correct? >> yeah! >> thank you. [applause] i have another little task i need to do.

it is an award for a very special person that i want to make a presentation for. please bear with me. my father, the late governor thompson, had a favorite saying. low taxes are the result of low spending. those right then and words still resonate today in concorde and washington, d.c. too fwe of our elected officials understand this basic concept. why an organization like americans for prosperity exists. that is why i like to display the axe. is ather's campaign friendly reminder. i received a call from a young man named cory, wanting to know if i would consider serving as honorary chairman of the americans for prosperity of new hampshire. i knew nothing about cory nor

the americans for prosperity, but i agreed to meet with him because of his enthusiasm and commitment he expressed over the phone. i met with cory and had no idea that he had spent several years working on capitol hill running political campaigns all across the country and earned a masters in political science from the american university of washington, d.c. cory is not the kind of person who spends time talking about all those things that he has done. he is the kind of person who talks about the things that remain to be done, and how we can all work together to get them done. he is a great motivator, and his eagerness to make this state better for his family in new hampshire families was apparent in those initial conversations. i knew after meeting with cory that i wanted to serve as honorary chairman of this new group. i went home first and asked my

wife, like any intelligent person. [laughter] that is why i will be celebrating this september, 48 years with my wife, sheila. just a lesson for you guys. [applause] ith her blessings, corey and have been working together ever since. this enthusiasm and commitment has never waned. anyone who has met cory knows that he has boundless energy and great ideas. ands willing to go anywhere work long hours in the fight of economic freedom. stronger today not only in new hampshire, but across this great nation because of cory's efforts. i am proud to have worked with cory, who has laid the foundation for americans for prosperity in new hampshire. it is my honor to bestow upon him today the founders award. i would ask that cori please

join me on the stage. [applause] it says, the founders award presented to cory for founding ,ew hampshire chapter in 2008 building a grass-roots army to advance liberty and being a tireless advocate for freedom. summitpshire freedom april 12, 2014. him,e i present this to there was one person who worked behind the scenes and does not her, butsaid about it's his wife, allison. she's a real trooper. [applause]

>> thank you. tom. you very much, it is very humbling, because i have done every minute of this program, to be surprised when this was not on the original agenda. [laughter] sheila andh tom and understanding the history that the thompson family has brought to this state has been so designing andus executing our strategy for americans for prosperity. when tom would call me -- tom and i talk a lot. he would say, cory, we have this thing in new hampshire called and llc tax.

we have got to do something about it. i said, what you want to do? he said, let's get some people to the capital. editorial pagehe in the union leader wrote about tom thompson and his brigade of warriors to the capital to lead the fight against the llc tax. a lot of people are going to be out there and tell you that they stop the llc tax. thompson, not for tom calling and talking through the benefits of making sure small business owners don't get taxed out of this state, i certainly would have an llc tax in the state. tom's leadership, bestowed upon me, has been such a positive experience. i'm so proud to receive this award, and to call tom my frien d. thank you very much. [applause]

>> thank you, cory. i have one more thing. speaker,uce your next -- dr.ust met today arthur brooks, president of american enterprise institute, a conservative think tank in washington, d.c. brooks is an author of 10 books, hundreds of articles, topics including the role of government, economic opportunities, happiness, and free enterprise. his latest book, the road to freedom, how to win the fight for free enterprise 2012, was a "new york times" bestseller. dr. brooks is a frequent guest on national television and radio talk shows and has been published widely in the "new york times," "wall street

journal," and "washington post." he recently wrote an article called, who owns the term, social justice? this article appeared in the "union leader." one sentence captures it all. [no audio] i am pleased to welcome dr. brooks to the live free or die state, and of new hampshire. [applause] >> what a delight to be with these patriots.

i always look forward to coming here. when you can get a nice reception for saying nice things about america, its extraordinary. ll and hedid a live po challenged the press to report on his unanimous decision that obama's statements about obamacare were false. i know it will show up in the press. the press will say it was not a random sample. sample.not a random 100% of you love our country. [applause] you heard the tom started a business when he was 11. that's a hard act to follow. it's a little hard on my self-esteem. when i was 19, i dropped out of college. he dropped out, kicked out, splitting hairs.

i went on the road as a musician, which is what i always wanted to do. i traveled all over the country. i came to new hampshire when i was 19 in a van with other guys. maybe some of you were in the audience. i can tell you that you don't remember it. [laughter] i wound up about 10 years later in barcelona. it was great. i was playing all the music i liked. wife and werried my made a decision to come back to america when i was in my late 20's. i did not have a college degree. i did not have a job. she did not have a high school diploma. what were we going to do? we said we will do it anyway. we were a little nervous. we got to the u.s. and moved to florida. in the first four weeks, she had five job offers. i had not grown up in a family

that had very much regard for , and is or economics didn't really have any friends or extended family that had very much regard for the free enterprise system. yetmy wife, not an american , she said something that blew my mind after she received these job offers. these were five minimum-wage job offers. the greatests is country in the world for people who want to work. imagine. [applause] she took one of those jobs and worked at a minimum-wage job for three years. we needed that money. we needed that money to get us on our feet, to get our education started red -- started . i went to college and then got my phd and now i run a think tank in washington.

it's an american story. it's the way things work in this country for people who want to work hard. it's a story that we used to hear a lot. america is changing. it is changing fast. somebody has got to do something about these changes. the country that we love and fight for and our warriors for and that your parents and grandparents or great grandparents came here seeking is going away. you are the children of immigrants. there's nobody who came to this 1635 or whether it was three weeks ago, that was steaming into new york harbor saying, sure is great to be in america, where i can get a fairer system of forced income redistribution. [laughter] , starting at the bottom and making your way to the top is getting harder.

i am an economist today, not a musician. i go on tv a lot and people always ask me, what is the economy going to do in 2014? economists like me always tell lies. the most typical lie. the american economy is going to grow at a slow but steady rate, 2.5%. why is that a lie? in 2014, the top half of the american economy will grow at five percent and the bottom will grow at zero percent tiered -- percent. that is obamanomics. consider the following. market is up 105%, since the day barack obama took over in january 2009. 81% of those gains have gone to the top percent. here's what i resent.

the bottom half is being left behind. what was the promise from the president? if you elect me, i will pull the poor up. i will close income inequality. wrong. food stamp recipient c is up by 25%. in six americans, our fellow citizens, are so poor that they have to ask the government for help in supporting their children to have enough to eat. that is unpatriotic. that is un-american. we are not making progress. it is the administration's fault. ame thenot bl republicans. you cannot blame bush. it is just astonishing. disability