renewed their call for the abolition of the death penalty. not only -- [applause] pope francis: not only do i support them, but i also offer encouragement to all those who are convinced that a just and necessary punishment must never exclude the dimension of hope and the goal of rehabilitation. [applause] [laughter] pope francis: in these times, when social concerns are so

important, i cannot fail to mention the servant of god dorothy day, who founded the catholic worker movement. her social activism, her passion for justice and for the cause of the oppressed, were inspired by the gospel, her faith, and the example of the saints. how much progress has been made in this area in so many parts of the world. how much has been done in these first years of the third millennium to raise people out of extreme poverty. i know that you share my conviction that much more still

needs to be done, and in times of crisis and economic hardship , a spirit of global solidarity must not be lost. at the same time, i would encourage you to keep in mind all those people around us who are trapped in a cycle of poverty. they too need to be given hope. the fight against poverty and hunger must be fought constantly and on many fronts, especially in its causes. i know that many americans today, as in the past, are working to deal with this

problem. it goes without saying that part of this great effort is the creation and distribution of wealth. the right use of natural resources, the proper application of technology, and the harnessing of the spirit of enterprise are essential elements of an economy which seeks to be modern, inclusive, and sustainable. [applause] pope francis: business is a noble vocation, directed to

producing wealth and improving the world. it can be a fruitful source of prosperity for the area in which it operates, especially if it sees the creation of jobs as an essential part of its service to the common good. [applause] pope francis: this common good also includes the earth, a central theme of the encyclical , which i recently wrote in order to enter into dialogue with all people about our common home.

we need a conversation which includes everyone, since the environmental challenge we are undergoing, and its human roots, concern and affect us all. [applause] pope francis: in laudato si', i call for a courageous and responsible effort to redirect our steps, and to avert the most serious effects of the environmental deterioration caused by human activity. i am convinced that we can make

a difference, i'm sure -- [applause] pope francis: and i have no doubt that the united states, and this congress, have an important role to play. now is the time for courageous actions and strategies, aimed at implementing a culture of care and an integrated approach to combating poverty, restoring dignity to the excluded, and at

the same time protecting nature. [applause] pope francis: we have the freedom needed to limit and direct technology, to devise intelligent ways of developing and limiting our power, and to put technology at the service of another type of progress, one which is healthier, more human, more social, more integral. in this regard, i am confident that america's outstanding academic and research institutions can make a vital contribution in the years ahead.

[applause] pope francis: a century ago, at the beginning of the great war, which pope benedict xv termed a "pointless slaughter," another notable american was born, the cistercian monk thomas merton. he remains a source of spiritual inspiration and a guide for many people. in his autobiography, merton wrote, i came into the world.

free by nature, in the image of god. i was nevertheless the prisoner of my own violence and my own selfishness, in the image of the world into which i was born. that world was the picture of hell, full of men like myself, loving god, and yet hating him. born to love him, living instead in fear of hopeless self-contradictory hungers. merton was above all a man of

prayer, a thinker who challenged the certitudes of his time and opened new horizons for souls and for the church. he was also a man of dialogue, a promoter of peace between peoples and religions. from this perspective of dialogue, i would like to recognize the efforts made in recent months to help overcome historic differences linked to painful episodes of the past. it is my duty to build bridges

and to help all men and women, in any way possible, to do the same. when countries which have been at odds resume the path of dialogue which may have been interrupted for the most legitimate of reasons, new opportunities open up for all. [applause] pope francis: this has required, and requires, courage and daring, which is not the same as irresponsibility. a good political leader is one who, with the interests of all

in mind, seizes the moment in a spirit of openness and pragmatism. a good political leader always opts to initiate processes rather than possessing space. [applause] being at the service of dialogue and peace also means being truly determined to minimize and, in the long term, to end the many armed conflicts throughout our world. [applause]

pope francis: here, we have to ask ourselves, why are deadly weapons being sold to those who plan to inflict untold suffering on individuals and society? sadly, the answer, as we all know, is simply for money, money that is drenched in blood, often innocent blood. in the face of this shameful and culpable silence, it is our duty to confront the problem and to stop the arms trade. [applause]

pope francis: three sons and one daughter of this land, four individuals and four dreams -- lincoln, liberty. martin luther king, liberty in plurality and non-exclusion. dorothy day, social justice and the rights of persons. and thomas merton, the capacity for dialogue and openness to god.

four representatives of the american people. i will end my visit to your country in philadelphia, where i will take part in the world meeting of families. it is my wish that throughout my visit the family should be a recurrent theme. how essential the family has been to the building of this country. [applause] pope francis: and how worthy it for our support and

encouragement. yet i cannot hide my concern for the family, which is threatened, perhaps as never before, from within and without. fundamental relations have been called into question, as is the very basis of marriage and the family. i can only reiterate the importance and, above all, the richness and the beauty of family life. [applause] pope francis: in particular, i

would like to call attention to those family members who are the most vulnerable, the young. for many of them, a future filled with countless possibilities beckons, yet so many others seem disoriented and aimless, trapped in a hopeless maze of violence, abuse, and despair. their problems are our problems. [applause] pope francis: we cannot avoid them. we need to face them together, to talk about them and to seek effective solutions rather than

getting bogged down in discussions. at the risk of oversimplifying, we might say that we live in a culture which pressures young people not to start a family, because they lack possibilities for the future. yet this same culture presents others with so many options that they too are dissuaded from starting a family. a nation can be considered great when it defends liberty as

lincoln did, when it fosters a culture which enables people to "dream" of full rights for all their brothers and sisters, as martin luther king sought to do. when it strives for justice and the cause of the oppressed, as dorothy day did by her tireless work, the fruit of her faith, which becomes dialogue and sows peace in the contell playive style of thomas merton. in these remarks, i have sought to present some of the richness of your cultural heritage, of the spirit of the american people.

it is my desire that this spirit continue to develop and grow, so that as many young people as possible can inherit and dwell in a land which has inspired so many people to dream. god bless america! [applause]

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[cheering] [applause]

>> [indiscernible chanting] [translator] hello, everyone. [applause]

i'm so grateful for your presence here. [applause] pope francis: the most important ones here, children. [cheering and applause] i will ask god to bless them. .all, bless these bless each of them. bless the families.

i ask you all, please, to pray .or me and if there are among you any who do not believe or cannot , i ask you please to send good wishes my way. [cheering and applause] pope francis: thank you.

thank you very much and god bless america. [cheering and applause] [cheering and applause] [cheering and applause] after leaving the

capital, pope francis spoke at st. patrick's church to more than 200 charities in downtown washington, d.c. he talked about the plight of the homeless at this 20 minute event. [cheering]

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[cheering and applause] translator: it is a pleasure to see you here. good morning. you're going to hear two statements. one in spanish and one in english. [cheering and applause]

translator: the first word i wish to say to you is thank you. and for your efforts to make this meeting possible. here i think of a person whom i love, someone who is and has been very important throughout my life. he has been a support and an inspiration.

he is the one i go to whenever i'm in a bind. you make me think of st. joseph. your faces remind me of his. joseph had to face some difficult situations in his life. one of them was the time when mary was about to give birth to have jesus. the bible tells us that while they were in bethlehem, the time came for her to deliver her child, and she gave birth to her first-born son and wrapped him

in bands of cloth and laid him in a manger because there was no place for them in the inn. translator: the bible is very clear about this. there was no room for them. i can imagine joseph with his wife about to have a child with no shelter, no home, no place to stay. translator: the son of god came

into this world as a homeless person. the son of god knew what it was to be a homeless person. what it was to start life without a roof over his head. we can't imagine what joseph must have been thinking. how is it that the son of god has no home? why are we homeless? why don't we have housing? these are questions which many

of you may ask daily. pope francis: like st. joseph, you may ask, why are we homeless without a place to live? these are questions which all of us might well ask. why do these, our brothers and sisters, have no place to live? why are these brothers and sisters of ours homeless?

translator: joseph's questions are timely even today. they accompany all those who, throughout history, have been and are homeless. pope francis: joseph was someone who asked questions. but first and foremost, he was a man of faith. faith gave joseph the power to find light just at the moment when everything seemed dark. faith sustained him amid the troubles of life.

thanks to faith, joseph was able to press forward when everything seemed to be holding him back. in the face of unjust and baleful situations, faith brings us the light that scatters the darkness. translator: as it did for joseph, faith makes us open to the quiet presence of god at every moment of our lives in every person and in every situation.

translator: god is present in every one of you, in each one of us. i want to be very clear. we can find no social or moral justification, no justification whatsoever for lack of housing. translator: there are many unjust situations, but we know that god is suffering with us, experiencing them at our side. he does not abandon us.

translator: we know that jesus wanted to show solidarity with every person. translator: he wanted everyone to experience his companionship, his help, and his love. he identified with all those who suffer, who weep, who suffer any kind of injustice.

he tells us this clearly, i was hungry and you gave me food. i was thirsty and you gave me something to drink. i was a stranger and you welcomed me. translator: faith makes us know that god is at our side, that god is in our midst, and his presence spurs us to charity. translator: charity is born of the call of a god who continues to knock on our door, the door

of all people, to invite us to love, to compassion, to service of one another. translator: jesus keeps knocking on our doors, the doors of our lives. he doesn't do this by magic, with special effects, with flashing lights and fireworks. jesus keeps knocking on our door. in the faces of our brothers and sisters, in the faces of our

neighbors, in the faces of those at our side. translator: dear friends, one of the most effective ways we have to help us is that of prayer. prayer unites us. it makes us brothers and sisters. it opens our hearts and reminds us of a beautiful truth which we sometimes forget. translator: in prayer we all learn to say, father, dad.

and when we say father or dad, we learn to see one another as brothers and sisters. in prayer, there are no rich and poor people. there are sons and daughters. in prayer, there is no first or second class. there is brotherhood. it is in prayer that our hearts find the strength not to be called an insensitive in the face of injustice.

in prayer, god keeps calling us, opening our hearts to charity. how good it is for us to pray together. how good it is to encounter one another in this place where we see one another as brothers and sisters, where we realize that we need one another. today, i want to be one with you.

i need your support, your closeness. i would like to invite you to pray together for one another. with one another. the way we can keep helping one another to experience the joy of knowing that jesus is in our midst. and may jesus help us to solve the many injustices that he knew

first, that of not having a home. are you ready to pray with me? i say it in spanish and you continue in english. our farther who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.

translator: before leaving you, i would like to give you god's blessing. the lord bless you and keep you. the lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you. lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace. and please, don't forget to pray for m thank you. [cheering and applause]

[cheering and applause] after speaking at st.

patrick's church at washington, d.c., pope francis went next door to a catholic charities facility and met with the homeless and the poor. [cheering]

[cheering and applause] >> the pope will now give his blessing to you all.

[speaking italian] enjoy your meal! [cheering and applause]

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[applause] >> pope francis is left washington and the traveling to new york city. he will then attend a multi with the just service at the 9/11 memorial and museum. begins atoverage 10:00 a.m. on c-span3.

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and the challenges he faced following an assassination attempt. then author and investor doug casey sits down at freedom fest in las vegas to discuss his latest book on politics and economics. american history tv, saturday evening, starting at 7:00 eastern we're live to mark the 121st anniversary of president dwight d eisenhower's birth. they discuss his career with his grandchildren. then, on railamerica, and archival film documenting the 1963 visit of the king and queen of afghanistan to the united states which included a meeting with president kennedy and a parade to washington dc. >> the white house give a preview of the state dinner in honor of the visiting chinese president which will be held

friday evening. this briefing was given by the first lady's press office. >> i want to thank everybody for coming. i'm joanna. i know most of you by now. i want to thank lauren, our deputy press secretary today. if you need anything throughout, let us know. we can find an answer. as we have done in the past, we will have several officials come out and speak. everything is on the record. once we have everyone speak a little bit about the dinner we'll -- please be patient and don't rush. wait for us to get the whole rope down before you walk this way. then you can get close-up shots of everything and some of the officials will stay behind to help answer questions afterward if you want to talk to them. after that i will pass it on to deesha dyer. deesha: how are you doing today? my name is deesha dyer. i'm the white house press secretary here.

this marks the 10th state visit for the obama administration following the -- in a few minutes you'll be able to view the decor up close. it combines chinese and american aesthetics. in addition the menu has themes of autumn. as you can imagine this is a huge undertaking i cannot do by myself. i would like to thank the executive residence team and the national security council. i would like to stay with you all but i have to head out and i have a lot of work to do. i'll turn you over to suzanne. have a great day. dan: good morning, everybody. hi, i'm dan. i'm a new senior director for asian affairs. i wanted to say a little bit about the context in which the

state visit and state dinner will take place. the u.s./china relationship is one of the world's most consequential bilateral relationships. from climate change to nuclear proliferation to counter the spread of pandemic disease. it requires methodical engagement at the leader level. that's what we will do at this state visit. we do so to advance the cooperation between us and also so we can hang in very real differences between us. the state dinner is a key part of the visit to the united states and it is -- the state dinner i think represents good, smart diplomacy. first it allows the president and mrs. obama to reciprocate for the tremendous hospitality they extended to the president and first family in china last year. second, it enables us to continue the important

discussions that will have taken place earlier in the day including with several officials and advisors of the president to whom we rarely have access. finally i think there are many stakeholders in the united states. the state dinner really provides an opportunity to include them in the event and make sure that the chinese leadership is aware of their views. i wanted to share those initial comments with you and i would will happy to answer your questions later. >> hello. good morning, ladies and gentlemen. for the china state dinner, we are inspired by the autumn and all of the late summer harvest that we harvested from the garden and sourced from all of the local farmers around the neighborhood. for the first course for the china state dinner we are doing a wild mushroom consume that we

have sourced from pennsylvania all the way through washington state. acorn squashes that are nicely roasted and finished with a wonderful consume. we are highlighting maine lobster that will be complemented with a noodle roll that resource from a local noodle maker in washington, d.c. it will be spinach, leeks and mushrooms. here on my plate right now we are feature grilled lamb sourced from colorado. it is accented as well with wonderful garlic fried milk, it is drizzled and crisped to a wonderful perfection.

it has wonderful goji berry and peppers that we took from the garden this summer. pretty much most of our products are sourced from some area farms in area neighborhoods but also we use i would say about 40% of our produce from our white house garden this year. thank you. >> the white house executive pastry chef, susan morrison. susan: good morning, everyone. i'm here to show you today the dessert course which is a poppy seed bread pudding which will have a lemon curd and then for the dessert display, i have a stroll through the garden which is a glimmering display of a chocolate pavilion and a chocolate bridge and then along

with it is also petit fours, a peanut sesame bar and a white chocolate cup and pumpkin moon cakes and apple cider tart. so thank you very much. have a great day. >> right around the back. you're welcome to -- tell me what you need as a set-up. the chef will be over here. [inaudible]

>> you just don't add any dish. >> so here we have the petit four display called a stroll through the garden. it is a display of a chocolate pavilion and a chocolate bridge. included with it is a petit four selection.

apple cider tarts. on top, pineapple sage. peanut sesame bars. pumpkin moon cakes. mango kiwi white chocolate cup. also the grass is made of gum paste. it is edible. the rocks are edible as well. then also pulled sugar roses. >> how do you come up with -- >> well, looking at the platter overall, we try to plan and create a display that will complement the visiting head of state and then the china state

dinner tomorrow and then also to complement president and mrs. obama with the white house kitchen garden and so the apple cider for the tarts are from maryland. the maple is from new hampshire. and then also, as i said, i have mint and lemon -- on top of the mango kiwi white chocolate cup. >> how will you be preparing -- >> several days. as you can see this takes, you know, a lot of components to make it all come together. the pulled sugar roses, you know, there is about 2,000, 2,200 petals that are all hand pulled along with the leaves and then chocolate bridges are all made by hand so that all

components of chocolate that is poured and cut and then has to all be put together. the roof of the pavilion is made of chocolate. it looks frosted. it takes quite a few days. yes. >> thank you. >> certainly. >> so here, as the chef has explained, we collaborated with a chef and along with the chef we have poppy seed bread pudding which is a delicate egg custard with layers of artisanal bread and poppy seed. we also have a sorbet with it. and then sugar -- was made by hand as well.

>> chinese president xi is in washington for an official state visit. he will be meeting with the president and mrs. obama tomorrow and hold a news conference with president obama. we'll have live coverage of the white house state dinner for chinese president starting at 6:00 p.m. eastern. look at the role the supreme court plays in our society now, our history has to have relevance. when we talk about what can we do to get relevance, the court made all of the sense in the world. >> the court is an equal branch

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candidate ben carson in sharonville ohio. at the event, he dismissed the idea that he is prejudiced against muslims. [applause] dr we are absolutely delighted to be here in the buckeye state. [applause] even though i did grow up in machine. [laughter] -- michigan. but my campaign manager went to ohio state. [laughter] but you know, it is interesting.

i -- first of all, wasn't that great music? these guys are, you know, fantastic. and i also want to thank all of the police officers who are providing good security here. you know, i love the police. [applause] and you know, it's been very disturbing that so many people have tried to demonize the police. what would our lives be without them? can you imagine 24 hours with no police? i mean, people would come in your house and they would say i like your tv. i think i'm going to take that. and then they would say better yet, you get out. i'm taking your house! there is a reason that we have police, that we have law enforcement and it is part of our responsibility to protect society. are there bad, rotten police? of course there are.

are there bad, rotten teachers? yes. bad, rotten doctors? yes. bad, rotten politicians? [laughter] [applause] but it doesn't mean we should kill them. so we clearly are going to have to grow up as a society and be a little more mature, but you know, i am so -- [applause] i am so thankful all the time that i grew up in this great land. you know, i have visited 57 different countries. but i will tell you, i am always delighted to get back home. because there is no place like home. and it is one of the reasons that i feel so strongly that we need to maintain america as

america. we don't want to turn it to somebody else. [applause] have you noticed that there is something called the american way? there is no french way. no english way. no brazilian way. there is just an american way. and there is an american dream. and there is something unique about our nation. and also, have you noticed that you can be un-american but you can't be unportuguese or uncanadian. we should be proud of who we are and there is no way we should be giving away all of our values and principles to try to be politically correct and to be like somebody else. [applause]

you know, it is true that we are not a theocracy and i don't want us to be. but it is also true that our constitution and our traditions have a judeo-christian base. [applause] and the secular progressives want us to denounce that and they want us to denounce our faith. but you have got to remember something. , the nding document declaration of independence, talking about certain inalienable rights given to us by our creator and our pledge of allegiance says we are one nation under god and most courtrooms on the wall says in god we trust. all of our moneys says in god we

trust. fabric.roughout our there is no way that we should be ashamed of it. i'm going to tell you one thing. if i become president of the united states, -- [applause] respect all other religions, but believe me, that first christmas, we're going to have a bang-up celebration at the white house. [applause] but, you know, as a youngster growing up in this great land of ours, i can remember some pretty dismal times. after my parents got divorced, you know, we were thrust into

dire poverty. and you know, we moved from detroit to boston. i remember as a 9-year-old sitting on the ghetto stairs looking through the building across the street out of which all the buildings had been broken and the sun was shining through and a sun beam was there and it made me think about my future. i remember thinking that i would probably never live to be more than 25 years of age because that is what i saw around me all the time. lots of people getting killed. i remember we used to love this guy named benny. he drove a blue cadillac. he was a drug dealer. but he always brought us candy and we loved benny. and my two older cousins were good friends with benny and they both ended up getting killed on the streets. and that's what i was used to. and that's why i didn't think i would ever live to be more than

25 years of age. and my mother was so dedicated. she work sod hard. she only had a third grade education. she was able to cobble that together through great effort, through her first 13 years of life. moved toy father detroit. i will tell you the kind of person she was. y a third grade education, she scrimped and saved, she saved every extra dime, every extra dollar, and in a relatively short period of time, they had managed to acquire a fair amount of property in detroit. and i probably would have been born under very different

circumstances if my father had had the good sense to listen to her. but instead, he got involved in drugs and alcohol and women and nothing wrong with women, you just -- [laughter] it is just that you should only have one. [laughter] you know? [applause] but he blew all of the money and then she subsequently found out that he was a bigamist and had another family and that's what resulted in the divorce. but she was very thrifty. she saved every dime. she would go to goodwill and she would buy pair of trousers with a big hole in the knee. back before that was fashionable. [laughter] and then she would buy patches and put them on them and people would say where did you get that from? they were just so enthusiastic

about it. and she would take us out to farms on sunday morning and knock on a farmer's door and say can we pick four bushels of your corn or your beans or your apples or your grapes? three for you and one for us. they always liked that deal. she would bring the stuff home and can it and just stretch every dollar so far because she give ustried so hard to at least a sem reasonable life. but there was never really any extra money for anything. i remember if we could get into the state fair with one of those free cubeons. there was never enough money to ride any of the rides. i never road a single ride. i would just have to watch other people and live vicariously through them. never bought any caramel corn. never tasted cotton candy until i was an adult.

and it wasn't that good. [laughter] but everything looks good when you can't have it. you know? but it is interesting because you know, a lot of left wing people, they like to say well, carson grew up very poor and he must have benefited from social programs and now he wants to withdraw all of the social programs from everybody else. at a pack of unadulterated lies. [applause] just total lies! applause i have no desire whatsoever to withdraw safety nets from people who need them and have never advocated such a silly thing, but i do have a very strong desire to provide opportunity so people can climb out of a state of dependency and become part of america. [applause]

those wishing to keep people in a state of dependency where they can be controlled do not like that kind of talk. therefore they try to demonize anybody who says it, but the fact of the matter is i am finding that people across this country are starting to wake up. and i think a lot of down troden in our society over the course next year will get the real message of what is going on. you hear hillary and bernie sanders talk about the income gap and how it's a growing, how it's so unfair. i agree that it is so unfair. they say because it's happening is the rich people and how ugly they are -- how evil they are, how they have to be controlled.

i wonder how they would like it if maybe we just packed up the 1% and sent them to venezuela and everyone else could just sit around the campfire and sing "kumbaya." be anyould not television, basketball, or anything else going on. let me tell you what's really driving the income gap. excessive regulation. you are never going to hear this -- [applause] you won't hear this from the traditionalists, but the fact of the matter is every single the consumer in terms of goods and services. you know, i remember when dodd frank came out.

i sat on corporate boards for a long time. i was on the board of kellogg for eight in years, costco 16. i was the chairman of the board of a biotech company. so, for those people who do not think doctors don't know anything about business -- guess what? not true, ok? frank camewhen dodd out in we were talking about all the things that they were going to have to put in place in order to comply with that and all of the people who would have to be hired, the structures that would have to be put in place. from the additional regulations, we had to have those same conversations. guess what? that costs a lot of money. guess who gets to pay that? the consumer, because prices go up. pay that,umer has to but who is most affected by it? in the middle class.

upper-class people are not affected by that. it's one of the things that drives the disparity. let's talk about something else that does it. affectede is severely when you cannot grow it. do people traditionally grow their income in the middle class and lower? they put money in their savings account and it grows. 4%, 5%, 6%. i sent traditionally. [laughter] by the time he retired you had a very nice nest act and you could go about your retirement and comfort. you cannot do that anymore.

the fed has artificially suppressed the interest rate for nearly a decade now. people are not saving. they are not seeing any growth in the money. the traditional mechanism or the middle and lower classes to gain money was through the bank, through bonds, things of that nature. now the only way to grow your money substantially is in the stock market. a certainve to have risk tolerance to put your money in the stock market. the only people if that kind of risk tolerance are rich people. what's happening? the income gap is growing even

more. dot we are going to need to is address the reason that the fed has to keep that interest rate so long. the reason they have to keep it so low is because of our national debt. over $18nal debt is trillion. 4%, 5%, 6%rates of of the debt service on that would be approaching $1 trillion per year. right now it's about $250 billion per year, which is still a lot. we cannot afford it so they have to keep it suppressed. what do we need to do? we need to get the debt down. the debt to gdp ratio. [applause]

the debt to gdp ratio is about one hundred 3%. have a significant negative impact on growth -- the debt to gdp ratio is 103%. our economy grew at a rate of thatximately 3.3% per year kept us moving in a very nice trajectory. from 2001-2014, we grew at a rate of 1.8%. that's a big difference. project that out over 20 years from now, you would be looking at 26 trillion dollar economy and 3.3%, a $35 trillion economy. versus 35, a huge difference

when you're talking trillions of .ollars that's an interesting thing. if you try to pay that back it would take you over 5000 years, ok? that is what we are putting on the backs of our children. the real problem is the fiscal gap. it's much worse than that. not hear any traditional politicians talking about the fiscal gap. democrats because they want to be reelected. i'm not a politician so i will talk about it, ok? [applause]

what it is is the amount of sounded liabilities governmental programs, social security, medicare, medicaid. all the money that we are going to the future versus what we expect the collector taxes and other revenue sources. if we were fiscally responsible, those two numbers should be almost identical. when you are not fiscally responsible, a gap forms and you bring that to today's dollars and it's known as the fiscal gap . please look it up when you get home, the fiscal gap. read about it. you have to know about this. that fiscal gap for us right now trillionbout $200 plus. it's a staggering amount. you thought $18 trillion was

bad. if someone gave us a check to pay out the national debt we would still be in huge trouble. people don't know that. gapi mentioned the fiscal at my announcement speech in detroit in the next day bill liberal media came out and they he doesn'tld you know anything about economics. fiscal gap? what's he talking about? use trying to frighten people. then forbes came out with an article that said 17 nobel laureates and 1200 professors of economics agree with karsh and -- professors of economics agree with carson. [applause]

we can print money and we are the reserve currency of the world area that position goes with the number one economy in the world. 1870'se were from the until last year. a tussle with china for who the number one .conomy is what if we could not print money? greece could print money, they would not be in trouble either -- or at least they wouldn't think they are. they would be but they would not know they are. this like we are in trouble but we don't know we are in trouble or the majority of evil don't know how much trouble we are in. bunch of theou a people in our government know we are in trouble, but they are not doing the right thing and that's life it's incumbent upon we, the people, to throw them out and

bring in people who actually care about what's going on. [applause] as far as i'm concerned, it's not a republican or democratic thing. you know, we spend way too much up. dividing ourselves we don't talk about what is pro-american. that what is pro-american will save this country. if we do not get our fiscal house in order, we are going to have a gigantic collapse and it will collapse for everybody, not just one party. if we don't get our house in order in terms of eating able to deal with global jihadists and being serious about fighting them -- [applause]

i don't just like bring up something without providing a solution. are solutions for virtually all our problems and they are commonsense solutions which is why they are not ian done because there's no common sense. [applause] we have the most dynamic and powerful economic engine that the world has ever known in this country. it is one of the things that from a nobody on to the pinnacle of the world and a higher pinnacle than anyone

else that ever reached in record time. it was the key to a new attitude. that economic engine cannot operate because of the regulatory environment that it exists in. getting rid of the regulations is the first thing. the nonessential regulations -- not a central. [applause] sential. our founders said if men were angels , no government or regulations would be needed, but we know that and are not angels, nor are women -- [laughter] in case there are any hillary supporters out there. you know, we can do so much better than this because the government was not supposed to be insinuated into every part of our lives.

[applause] to give you a good example of an economy killing regulation is the employer mandate with obamacare. [applause] what happens here, traditionally in america, you would start a business and you would be so proud. you would call your mom up and say, i have 10 employees. you would be so proud. next year you have 20, then 30, -- about her stop. don't want to hit 50 because then the employer mandate kicks in and/or profits goes south. why would anybody put something like that? small business is the backbone of the american economic engine. [applause]

i want congress to get rid of the employer mandates of people can start building their businesses again at that time you get jobs going. lookther thing is if you in our taxation system, we have the highest corporate tax rate in the developed world. they do their best to escape the high taxes here and they are unpatriotic. is he crazy? go intonot know people business not to support the government but to make money? [applause] would createnment an environment that's conducive

for them making money, not one that drives them away. when we start drawing money in here it will actually create a much larger tax base and they will actually get more money. they do not seem to understand these basic economic pencils. over $2 trillion in american money overseas that they cannot bring back because of the high court at tax rates. they're always looking for things to do with it over there. i sat around a corporate board table talking many an afternoon about what we can do with the money overseas. i would advocate for a six-month tax hiatus to let that money be repatriated into this country. [applause]

i would only put one requirement and that is that 10% of the money that is repatriated has to forsed to create jobs unemployed people and people on welfare. [applause] you want to talk about a stimulus? that would be the biggest economic stimulus that this country has seen since the new deal and it would not cost the taxpayers one penny. that's the kind of thing that we have to start doing. [applause] importantly, once again it starts to reestablish the relationship between corporate america, business and industry .nd the community

in the past, and has been "we the people" who have taken care n trodden and our society. it is our job, not the government's job, to take care of people in society. [applause] other thing we need to do is we need to have a tax system that is fair for everybody in our society. we should not pick and choose who we pick on. that's the reason that we like the idea of proportionality. he does not save your crops fail you own me a ties. there must be something inherently fair about proportionality. pay $10 billion, you billion.

you get the same rights and privileges. how is that unfair? [applause] you have to get rid of all of the loopholes and deductions so everyone is treated the same. that is absolutely imperative. now, some people say that's not who put ine the guy one billion dollars still has $9 billion left. we need to take more of his money. you know if that's called, don't you? socialism. ok, i don't like it. it doesn't work. it hasn't created wealth. it creates wealth for only the small group of the lease at the top area that's not what we want.

then there are those on the other band who say the guy who pay $10 cannot afford to one dollar. why? why can't he afford to pay one? can he afford to drive on the public streets? and his kids go to public high school? of course they can. matter is having grown-up in the very lower rungs of society, i can tell you that people in the lower rungs of society also have pride and they do not want you to pat them on the head and say, there are, there. [applause] prefer that we fix the economy so that they have lots of opportunities to climb the ladder based upon their own hard work and productivity. that's what america is about. [applause]

there are those who say we are not an exceptional nation. i take exception to that. [laughter] is yout of the matter look at what this country did and where it came from. for thousands of years before america came on the scene people did the same thing. within 200 years of the adventist america, people were walking on the moon. it's the most exceptional nation of people have ever known. and if people think differently -- [applause] people say we are evil and responsible for all the bad things going on in the world. have you noticed that there are all kinds of people trying to get in here and no one trying to escape? [laughter]

that simply does not compute. if we are going to fix these things that are going on, and i , we have to we can understand who we are. we have to understand and be proud of who we are. we have to understand that we, the people, of america are not each other's enemy is. we have to stop listening to the who will of the vision tell you that there is a war on women, race wars, age wars, religious wars. there is not. [applause] know, those wars can only exist if we, the people, a lower ourselves to be

manipulated. we have to stop allowing ourselves to be manipulated. [applause] just like in the last debate on cnn. it was all about manipulating the candidates into attacking each other, you know? that's the reason that why i refuse to participate in that silliness. i will not do that, you know? [applause] at some point, we have to be wise enough to recognize that just because somebody disagrees with you it does not make them your enemy. what we have to do -- [applause]

in civil discourse. sit down and talk out their differences. you will generally find you are not nearly as far apart and i'll we say of two people agree about everything one of them is not necessary. bear in mind that the secular is tossive agenda fundamentally change america. i happen to like america. i think it is a great nation. i don't want to change it. [applause] but the secular progressives have imposed on us political correctness because they do not want you to talk about stuff. they don't you to even entertain certain thoughts. they don't care whether you disagree with them as long as

you keep your mouth shut, put your head down, sit down. this is what we cannot do. [applause] it was thomas jefferson who said because of the kind of system we put in place the people would eventually stop being vigilant and they would become less informed. they would become easy to and the government would grow and grow and insinuated elf into every aspect would begin and it to control our lives rather than we controlling the government. he said just before we turned into something else that the people would wake up and realize what was going on and they would retake control. i say now is the time to do that

aret. [applause] to introduce myself. i'm candy carson and i approve this message. [applause] mr. carson: we have a little time for some q&a and we have someone with a microphone down here. who would like to ask the first question? >> what is your plan to stop the funding for planned parenthood? mr. carson: my