lot of good q&a and discussion in with the senator. i am now going to turn it over to senator birdsell from our district, who will introduce senator rubio. [applause] senator birdsell: thank you. welcome, everyone. thanks for coming. how's everybody doing today? awesome. listen, for those of who you don't know me, my name is regina birdsell, state senator for derry, hampstead, and windham. i'm also proudly a co-chair, one of the co-chairs of senator rubio's committee for new hampshire. and you all prove why new hampshire is such a important part of the primary, because we ask the questions, and we vet our candidates like no one else can. i'd like to thank senator rubio for coming to derry. marco is a u.s. senator from florida.

he's also a former speaker of the house from florida. he's an all-around great guy. he comes from very humble beginnings, and i proudly -- and i will proudly endorse senator marco rubio. thank you, senator, for coming, and please give senator marco rubio a very warm welcome. [applause] senator rubio: thank you, thank you. thank you. thank you very much. let's get started. let's get started. thank you so much.

you know, i've been watching on tv for years on c-span, and now i'm actually on it. so that's pretty good. you walk in, it almost feels like you're going to give a speech or acoustic performance, because it has that feel to it. i'm really honored to be here today. thank you for all of that introduction and all of you for coming. this is important. this is actually, as you walk in, no matter how many times you've done this now, it really strikes you that the presidency in the united states is the most important political office on the planet, and yet the process to get there begins here in places just like this, where our fellow citizens get to engage us and ask us questions and hear from us, and so it's really rewarding part of this campaign, and one of the most enjoyable things that i do. it's like doing an editorial meeting five times a day, but the editorial board are the people that you're going serve if they give you the opportunity to serve, so i'm grateful to all of you for being a part of this. so i think i'll begin by telling why you i'm running for president, which is the most important question that anybody running for president should have to answer. the reason i'm running for president is because i want this to continue to be a country where people can do for their children what my parents did for me and what your parents did for you. for over two centuries, unique in the history of the world, this country has been a place

where no matter where you started out, no matter how poor your parents were, how disconnected from power they might have been, this was the place where, if you worked hard and you persevered, you would be able to go as far as your talent and your work would take you. the place where people, through hard work and perseverance, could achieve not just a better life for themselves, but an even better life for their children. and the result is the american miracle, exemplified by the american dream.

and that's why, for over two centuries, we have been a nation where each generation has left the next better off than themselves. that american dream is what makes it special. every country in the world has rich people. even the poorest country on the planet has the rich. what makes america special is people who don't come from wealth and privilege and who may never be rich still achieve happiness because their hard work and perseverance, they achieve the life they wanted. if we lose that we stop being special. we will still be rich and powerful and important but we won't be special. if we ever become a country like the other places, where what you can do with your life is determined by what your parents were or did, we stop being unique and exceptional. it should concern us that for the first time in a long time, a majority of americans that dream and attribute is no longer within reach. it should concern us that a majority of americans don't believe it is heading in the wrong direction but they are convinced that their children will live a life as it is around. why is this happening? two reasons. we are looking for a time of extraordinary economic and geopolitical transformation. this economy looks nothing like economy i grew up in. not to mention the one in 50 years ago. yet we have government policies that do not reflect the economy. which leads to the second reason. under the modern history of the country, there has never been a

time when the political class is so out of touch than it is today. i wish i could say it is one political party but it is both. leaders and both are out of touch and outdated. who do not remember what it was like to live paycheck to paycheck or never did. who don't know what it is like to our thousands in student loans or have forgotten. who don't know how difficult it is for small businesses to survive and thrive with all regulations and burdens of government. the result is an extraordinary sense of frustration. that is why this election matters more than most. this is not just a choice between political parties. this is not just a choice between ideologies. the election of 2016 is a generational choice. about what kind of country we will be in the 21st century. each generation of americans has choice in keeping america a special country. now the time has come for us to make the same choice.

there are only two. we will either be the first americans to leave our children worse off than ourselves, or our children and grandchildren will be the freest and most prosperous that have ever lived. i am confident i know which road you want to choose. i am confident i know the road the majority of americans want to choose. i believe we will choose a future better than our past. a life for our children and grandchildren better than our own. there are things we will have to do and have to do them right now. the first is become globally competitive economically because we live in a global economy. it is an economy dramatically different from the one we had not so long ago. this will report or to turn page on leaders and ideas that no longer work.

and embrace ideas and leaders relevant to the 21st century. what is globally competitive? having leaders that understand the government doesn't grow the economy, the private sector does. you would know that by watching last night's debate. i caught enough to know the democratic party is more liberal than it has been its michael dukakis, maybe before. leaders that were arguing he will grow the economy because we will build more roads and bridges. i like those and it may help, but only the private sector creates more jobs and better paying jobs. jobs that pay more and provide upward mobility. the job of government is to make it easier for the private sector to succeed, to make america the

cheapest, fastest, easiest place in the world to create millions of jobs that pay more. that is why we need to work on our economic policies. we need a tax code that makes us globally competitive. have a tax code that makes us among the most competitive and in some places in the world to start a business or expand an existing one. we need a regulatory code that is flattened out and some for fight and less burdensome. we have billions upon billions of regulatory costs. this is crippling on small businesses that cannot afford the army of lawyers and lobbyists necessary. we cannot for our economy. we have a debt crisis and we will have one at some point. we now owe close to $19 trillion which is more than the size of our economy. there are no plans to address it. that's why we must deal with the drivers. the drivers is not foreign aid, less than 1% of the budget. it is not defense which is the most important obligation. the driver of our long-term debt is the way important programs are currently structured. medicare, medicaid, and social security. i am from florida. there are a lot of people there

on medicare and social security. one of them happens to be my mother. i can say this unequivocably, i am against changes that for my mother. i'm against changes bad for people like her. we can save social security and medicare without changing anything for her, people like her that are retired, or people about to retire. here's the truth people can startt people need to acknowledging. my medicare and social security and for those younger than me will be different than it works for our parents and people on it now. it has to either not exist or be different. what army by different? i may have to retire sooner than my parents. my benefits if i made money will not grow as fast as they did for the people that are on it now. my medicare benefits could be the option of taking that and using it to buy a private plan i

like better. that is not too much to ask to me at 44, after everything my 85-year-old mother did for us. i set her age, she will get mad. my older mother says, that is probably not good either. she is on social security and medicare. that is all you need to know. it will work differently than it did for people like us or people that are retired or about two. we can bring stability to this program and the long-term and we can say that and balance our budget and we don't have to change anything for the people on it now or about to retire. be globally competitive, we can utilize our energy resources. we have an abundance of oil. we should explore more and export it. the impact that would have on the world's dramatic. the world wouldn't have to buy it from a gangster in moscow. they wouldn't have to buy it from a radical shia cleric. they can borrow it from the most

stable and freest country on the planet. this won't just lower the cost of living by making it cheaper to power utilities, it will be easier to manufacture energy costs. overhead is one of the most significant costs of manufacturing. if energy becomes more affordable, he will have a manufacturing renaissance which means we can be a country that makes things again. not simply a country that does things only. last but not least, if we want to become globally competitive, we must repeal and replace of obamacare. [applause] mustst repeal it and we replace it. [laughter] -- [applause]

american to be in charge of their health care insurance and ideas that will allow you to take your own tax money, whether it is your own that came from your employer or comes from a tax edit and you can use it to buy insurance you decided you want from any company across state lines that will sell it to you. this will drive choices and competition and lower prices ending good and improve coverage. it is better than putting the government in charge. and better than the program we have now. [applause] i am confident if we can do these things, the american private sector will take care of the rest. these are the most innovative, creative, and productive people on the planet. the american private sector represented by many not all of you here today will not only create millions of new jobs if we allow this country to be globally competitive, they will create millions of better paying jobs, that pay substantially more than what we have today. those new jobs will require more skills than ever. the second thing we have to do is modernize. what we mean is some of the best jobs of the 21st century, less than four years of traditional college. that's why we must reinvigorate vocational training. we need to stop telling young

americans. that those are the jobs that pay more. nothing can be further from the truth. we need to produce more welders, machinists, airplane mechanics. we should open federal financial aid so the students can do that. when they graduate, they don't just get a diploma, their industry certified and ready to work. some of the fastest-growing jobs of the 21st century. [applause] we need more competition and choices. that is why i think we need to open it up for more competition, innovation, and for technology to enter the education space. programs that allow someone who is 30 years old who has to work full-time and raise a family to get ready for what they already know.

we are not going to make you sit in the classroom and take verses on what you mastered on your own through life experience. through military experience. you get credit for what you can prove you already learned. and whatever you are missing for your degree, you will be able to learn it from a variety of sources. creating an alternative of crediting processes that allows people to package learning from a variety of sources emma open higher education who have to work full-time who afford to drop everything and sit in the classroom for 2-4 years to become a paralegal or a dental hygienist or any of these other professions that pay more than the job some are trapped in.

we will have for your colleges but we cannot continue to have people borrowing thousands of dollars to pay for degrees that don't lead to jobs. when i am president, we will pass a law called right to know before you go and i will sign it. here's what the law says. before any student takes out the student loan, the school has to tell you how much people make when they graduate from that school with that degree so you can decide if you will borrow 15 thousand dollars to take on a degree. he deserved to know before you borrow thousands of dollars whether you can find a job. we are not going to ban these degrees or say no one can study political science or greek philosophy. study whatever you want but you deserve to know the market for philosophers has tightened over the last 2000 years. [laughter] if we can do these two things, make america globally competitive and create policies that make it easier and cheaper for people to be globally competitive, we will not have an economical recovery. we will have a renaissance. the growth of prosperity unlike

anything we have seen. that will not matter if we don't to the third thing, keep our people safe. it is the most important obligation. [applause] that is the reason we have a federal government, they are involved in all sorts of things that have no business. they have no business in k-12, we don't need a common core, a national school board. there's something the federal government has to do that only they can do and that is keep a safe. it is failing at every level. it is failing to protect our sovereignty as you have seen with illegal immigration. it has not improved. it has also failed to protect us abroad. look at the world around us. you have a lunatic in north korea with nuclear weapons. iran about to receive $150 billion in sanctions relief which they will use to build

one dayge weapons and buy a aither build or weapon of their own. you have a gangster in moscow threatening nato and to divide europe and sowing instability in the middle east. you have radical jihadist groups across multiple continents that are not just threatening neighbors, they are recruiting americans. last but not least, you have the chinese rapidly expanding their military capabilities, taking over the south china sea, and hacking our computers, stealing our secrets. the private information of americans. in the face of these threats, what are we doing under barack obama? demoralizing and destroying our military with a shortsighted defense cut that doesn't do anything to balance our budget. the sequester doesn't do a

thing, because defense spending is not -- is the reason why one day we will not be able to live up to the commitment we make to our men and women in uniform which is this, we will never put them in a fair fight, they will have better weapons, better training, and better information than their adversary. this is a promise we have made to our men and women in uniform and we will not be able to keep that promise if we keep destroying defense spending. [applause] when i'm president, it will be my highest priority to restore our military and ensure it has sufficient funding to confront the challenges of the 21st century.

when they come home after taking care of us, we will have a be a -- a va system that takes care of veterans. a system where it someone isn't doing their job they will be able to get fired. i'm proud i passed a law that allows the v.a. secretary to fire executives that are not doing their job. they have only fired one person. when i am president, people will get fired if they don't do their jobs. the other thing is, we need to ensure that the benefits follows that veterans, not the other way around. [applause] if you are a veteran and if someone there cannot see you in a timely fashion, you will be able to take benefits to any hospital or provider that can see you and will take upon the payment we need a foreign policy of clarity. it means this. our allies know they can trust us and our adversaries know not to test us. which is the opposite of what we have right now. there is no better example than what's happening in the middle east. there's only one pro-american free enterprise democracy there, israel. today we have a president that treats the prime minister of israel with less respect than he treats the ayatollah and iran.

if i'm president, our allies will know they can rely on us and our adversaries will know not to test us. if we can do all of this, protect our country from threats, if we can rebuild our economy by making a globally competitive, and if we can make it easier, faster, and cheaper for people to acquire the skills

they need to benefit from the new economy, the 21st century will be the greatest era in our history. if we fail, do nothing, you and i will be part of the first generation in history of this country that leaves our children worse off than ourselves. i appointed at all these challenges primarily to let you know we can fix them all. here is the truth, this is not news. this nation has always faced great challenges. ours is not the story of a country that had it easy. ours is a story of a nation that for over two centuries has always confront a great challenges and has faced them, overcome them, and embrace these opportunities. a nation founded out of a great challenge. declare your independence from the most harmful empire and the world, that was a great challenge -- most powerful empire at the time, great challenge. then this was a nation that had to confront a great world war. and a great depression. and the second world war. and the cold war. and the 1960's, where the civil rights era, the vietnam war,

political assassinations that happened all seemed to rip the nation at the seams. and time and again the nation had to do what it had to do. we raise our challenges and embrace opportunities. everyone in this room today inherited from the american second before us not a perfect country, but the best one. and the nation better than what they grew up in. our time has come. now the time has come for this generation to do its part. that is why this election is important. we can't do that if we just keep electing the same people with the same ideas. we can't do that if we keep promoting the next person in line or the most familiar name what a person the experts tell us we have to vote for. we have to turn the page and elevate new leaders with new ideas relevant to the times in which we live. this is what we are being asked to do. this is why support term limits and why i'm running for president. why after four years in the senate i chose not to run for reelection and aspire to the highest office in the land. if we keep electing the same people, nothing will change. when i first ran for the senate for and half years ago, the

entire republican establishment in washington, d.c. aligned against me on behalf of my opponent who was the sitting governor of florida. we were successful, obviously. when i chose to run, some of the same people came out again to tell me it wasn't my turn. that i had to wait in line. i didn't know there was a line. i don't know what we are waiting for. we cannot afford another four years like the last eight. if we have another, the speech i just gave you, i may not be able to give it. it may not be true that we can solve these problems. we may not be able to avoid avoid leaving our children worse than ourselves. every single one of us in and out of government and politics are called to do our part. some of you have. i can see from your hats and shirts that you are veterans that served in uniform and we are grateful for your service. [applause] i have been blessed with the

opportunity to try to do it in public office. i have always approached it with acknowledgment that america doesn't only a thing -- owe me a thing.

i have a debt to america i will never fully repay. for me, it is not just the country i was born in. this is the nation that has changed the history of my family. neither of my parents were born in america. they were born on the island of cuba. the families that weren't rich, powerful, disconnected from privilege. they came to america in 1956 because it was the one place on earth where people like them, through hard work, had a chance at a better life. my father had a difficult. when he was four days shy of his ninth birthday, his mother passed away. my father had to stop going to school. he would work to the next 70 years of his life. in america, my parents had all sorts of jobs. my mother built aluminum chairs in a factory. and she was a cashier at a coffee shop. then a hotel in miami beach. then she was a made in las vegas and a stock clerk in miami. my father was primarily a bartender. he worked on nights and weekends and holidays. on days i'm sure he didn't feel like working. that wasn't the dream he wanted for himself, he was grateful for his work, but when he was young,

he had big dreams because young people do. his dreams became impossible. when they came to america, they found a new dream and purpose. to give us the chance to do the things they never could. they didn't want what happened to them to happen to us. they wanted to make sure all the doors that have closed for them would be open for their children that's why my parents worked so hard, my father in particular. he stayed behind a small portable bar for decades so i could have a chance to be whatever my talent and work with allow me to be. the journey from behind that portable bar to where i am today, for me, that is the essence of the american dream. it is what makes us a special country and different. it is not just my story, as americans, it is our story. who among us is not just a generation removed? we are all just a generation or two removed from someone who made our future the purpose of their lives. it reminds us that whether or not we remain a special country will be determined by whether or not that journey is still possible for the people trying to make it. that is the great calling of our time. we must want to save the american dream, but we want to expand its what it reaches more people and changes more lives. that future is within our reach. i am here to answer your questions and do what it takes to earn your support and keep it. and encourage you to go out and find more people. i believe if we can do this together, we won't just change our party, we will change the direction of this country.

in so doing, we will be held to say that our children were left with a country better than our own. and the 21st century wasn't as good as the 20th, it was better. it was a new american century. thank you for the chance to speak to you. i look for to your questions. [applause] thank you very much. let's get started. is there one or two microphones? we have two. please find the young man and young lady with a flag. let them flag you down, i guess. yes sir. >> my question is how did your faith affect what you do? [applause]

sen. rubio: thank you very much. let's get started. is there one or two microphones? we have two. please find the young man and young lady with a flag. let them flag you down, i guess. yes sir. >> my question is how did your faith affect what you do? mr. rubio: in terms of my life for politics? my faith has a huge influence on me. it teaches me to care for the less fortunate. the first thing i learned from my faith is the most important job i have is as husband and father. the most influential job i will ever have is the 15-17 years i have to influence my children. not just by what i say to them but by what they see me do. public service influences me and a lot of different ways. our nation was founded on spiritual principles. the notion we are created eve

will -- equal with certain rights, life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness. the only reason we have a government is to protect those rights. i believe every human being has god-given rights and the job of the government is to protect. beyond that i would argue that is one of the reasons i've come to be a strong supporter of free enterprise. it is the only economic and the history of the world where people can achieve the potential even if they aren't born into great wealth and privilege. travel around the world here is what you will find. the more government dominates the economy, the more people influence government at the expense of everyone else. you will find societies with the same rich families and same big companies that dominated those countries decade after decade. only in free enterprise can an employee become an employer. only in free enterprise can someone that is born into a family that isn't poor or connected, through hard work, discipline, self-control, and talent achieve a better life for themselves and maybe put their former boss of the business because you are better. that is why i love free enterprise.

the only way to eradicate poverty is to allow people to find better paying jobs. free enterprise does that better than any other model in the world. my faith has influenced me to care about the less fortunate. i support a safety net. i don't think it works without one. i also know the safety net cannot be a way of life. it cannot become a lifestyle. it has become that for many. my faith teaches me that is not good for the soul or for people or their aspirations. for all those reasons i am glad my faith influences my role in government and how i govern myself. [applause] >> what i would like to do is ask you a question.

i feel uncomfortable saying it. i have watched your speech a couple of times, i haven't heard anything new so i want you to say something new. my question is about military spending. you said before and i agree the government's role is military. you also said you wouldn't cut your mother's social security. two things i really like. i have a hard time balancing the two and that military spending has been cut recently but we are investing in super jets, we have multiple hundreds of bases throughout the world. there's a lot of waste in our pentagon spending. i don't want taxes to be raised to pay for government spending at the expense of the younger people that are not in this audience that are going to suffer with a cut in social security. mr. rubio: let me begin by saying defense spending is not the reason we have the debt. i agree with you about waste. i don't like it in any program even if it is a small portion of

our budget. i do support reforms and we need more competition and defense contracting. many of you in business know this, there's only one bidder on the project and you won't get a good price. in many instances, that is what spending, sofense we need to do a better job. we have to understand the threats this nation faces are significant. economic implications of global instability are greater than they have ever been. this is the most powerful nation on earth, the most important, the largest economy in the world, we are economically impacted by global instability. one thing that helps ensure stability is a strong u.s. military. it prevents war. every time we have cut defense spending significantly we had to come back later and make up for it and it cost more money. the misunderstanding about the debt, the issue isn't just the sheer amount of dollars we go,

it is what it represented as a percentage of our economy. it is too large. think of the economy as a pie and the debt is a slice. today, the debt is as big as the pie. the only way to deal with it is a combination of dynamic and sustained economic growth that makes the economy bigger but also reforms hold the line. the majority you of spending in the future as going to come from when they retire. the programs will not be able to afford us. the good news is, if we make the reforms now, we can bring the art of the spending under control. that you have to do both, which is why i started talking about how we are going to grow the economy. for example, if our debt was to be in dollars and instead of $19 trillion, we would be happy. if italy had a two to

billion-dollar debt, they would be concerned because they only have a $2 trillion in economy. that brings the spending on and sustainable.re cutting has never worked. cutting waste, absolutely. but cutting defense spending, never. be-52.still using a submarines need to be modernize. stealthmore jets, technology has never mattered more than in this century. there on track to have oldest, smallest navy in the modern history of this country at a time when any potential adversary is expanding their capabilities. the russian economy is in collapse, but they have held on

military expensive. the chinese are undergoing the most of aggressive -- the most aggressive military. getiranians are about to $150 billion of sanctions, which they are not going to use to build bridges and hospitals. they will use it to build a long-range missile that can hit the united states and eventually they will use it to buy or build a nuclear weapon. nothing we talk about matters if we are not safe. a military component is critical. [applause] i would like -- would like to ask a question. you missed more votes than any almostcan or democrat, 8%. one last week that had to do with military spending, you are not there.

what is the reason? i am here talking to you, that is why. i have been in the senate for eight years, i am proud to serve. one thing we do is constituent service. i was at a drive-through at mcdonald's and the lady came with a story about her family. it was incredibly rewarding to help her. i have helped people with the v.a.. my brother is one of them. i am frustrated. i am in washington dc watching all of these problems and nothing is happening. the won the majority and nothing happens. nothing will happen unless we put the right person in the white house and that is why i for president. if you run for president, you are going to miss votes. why? i hear talking to you about the future of america. i hope we can be successful in

this so next year, there will not be show votes. there will be votes we can pass and the president will sign it. sign thinks i think eastern pipeline. sign things like rebuilding at the military. >> i have four children in middle school and high school. my question is, as president will you do to put education back in the hands of parents and local governments, give us more choice, and free parents, teachers, and children from common core. senator rubio: on my first and office, i will sign an order to cease and desist common core. [applause] i support curriculum reform. we didn't in florida when i was because of the house, we

improved our curriculum at the state level. let me tell you why that is important. if you have a problem with the school curriculum, you can go see a school board member, the principal, the legislature. try going to the board of education at the federal level. you will not find someone to talk to. we do not need anyone at the federal level. [applause] i feel strongly as a parent about that myself. where is the flag? >> senator, i served in iraq. i had the pleasure of having 12.5 iraqi war and nationals working for me and going out on missions. these are people who had the back object and were fully vetted and they had no promise of any consideration of getting out of the country of things went south, which they did. now we see about refugees in

syria trying to figure out which countries will take which percentage. i am wondering, as president, will you support policies for people who put themselves and their families at personal risk? senator rubio: that hurts our credibility. lord gets around. it is not like these people go quietly into the night. they tell people, the americans pay trade me. that reputation becomes embedded. that is one thing that attend this taking -- that is one thing putin is using to his advantage. is saying, we're reliable and america is not. he's making that argument to the iraqis. he will make it to the

injections, and even syria. we have always accepted refugees. we accepted them after vietnam. ofive in a community refugees, people in cuba who were feeling -- fleeing communism. you cannot just pick up the phone and call someone is a, do you know so-and-so? the phones are not working well in syria, among other things. it may not be possible to vet people. we may not be able to accept refugees because of that. but because of the instance you pointed out, people who risk the lives of their families by being identified with us, it is wrong that people like that have been pushed to the back of the line. [applause] senator, i have to say i heard you speak several times into notmate control

fighting it because the united states cannot win the battle alone. china has recently introduced a groundbreaking program to limit carbon emissions with a cap and trade program. i'm wondering, when you are president, what will you do to match their commitment to climate change. senator rubio: first book, the chinese said in the year 2030 they will begin to do some stuff. we will see. they continue to emit more carbon into the atmosphere than any other nation on a. the climate is always changing. there is never been a time of the climate was not changing. the debate is, what can we do about it. to passay, we want you a law. i ask, how many inches of sea

rise of this event? they say, it will not, not for 150 years and not unless other countries do the same thing. i'm the other hand, i asked the economist what it will do and they say it will make it more difficult for businesses to succeed in america. things that have deep economic costs, no economic benefit, how does a good for the country? i am not going to do anything that does nothing to help the ourronment and hurts economy. i think american innovators can help solve a lot this by making us more energy. i feel no problem leading the energy, but we're also going to lead in oil and gas. we are not going to hold back when millions of americans are struggling, living paycheck to

check and working and being on public assistance. i am not supporting any policies that are bad for our economy and do nothing for our environment. [applause] >> i actually do not do this kind of thing. pretty cool.y i have been following you. i notice you are talking about, you have children. young children. a lead of here are veterans. .hat about our generation the ones that count now. the once that securities are taken away for. talking about and a change in education, but what about those of us working paycheck to paycheck, working two jobs. we cannot get ahead. we do not fall in the tax break. we fall in the >>.

those of us in our 30's and 40's are suffering the most. it is something you can do as president to help us? of all, abio: first tax credit for working families. it is more expensive than average to raise children. we need to create government policies that make it easier for the private sector to create jobs that pay more. jobs that pay more are not being created. when they say the unemployment rate is down to 5%, they are not telling you about the millions of people not counting anymore and that the jobs being created do not pay enough. you cannot live on them. we need to make america the best place in the world. what is holding it back? government policies that make it harder to hire people. morecare makes it expensive to hire people and

more expensive to pay them more. so they don't hire or pay them more. it makes it more expensive that is not good for job creation. if i invest money in a small business to grow it, i have to take the money back in my taxes over a larger number of years as opposed to getting it back. in texas,ou will go not only would it say hire more people but pay more people. that's why we need to reform the tax code. we cannot be competitive with the most expensive business tax in the developed world. we have to make america the best place to succeed and turn the private sector will create jobs that pay more. it goes to the point, my father was not a business owner. he owned a small grocery store for probably a second and a half. it did not go well.

he worked as an employee at that hotel. the reason my father had a job that paid enough for him to support his family was someone who had access to money risked that money to build that hotel. and americans made enough money after they pay their taxes and bills to take mike -- vacations to miami beach. we need to get back where people are incentivized to great more sources so people can make more money and we also have to sure our government is not doing thing to make your life more expensive. by passing ridiculous executive orders that make your energy bill go up while you're income -- your income is flat. some of those better paying jobs will require skills that more people have. if you are working full-time, both of you, you cannot drop everything and sit in a classroom for four years. if we can make it easier and cheaper for you to acquire an additional skill through 2

online to receive a certificate, you qualify for the new jobs that pay more, we have to make it easier for you to do that. my policies are designed around that. make america the best place in the world to crate a better paying jobs and make it easier for you to acquire additional skills. [applause] >> this will be the last question for today. >> thank you for coming. my question is on the constitution. article five, there is a movement throughout this nation right now to have an article five convention. that, disapprove it? if so, why? 7 if that's what citizens want, we should do it. make sure we know how it will turn out because if you open up

the constitution, you are also opening up to people who want to re-examine the first amendment. people want to re-examine the second amendment and other fundamental protections built within the constitution. ultimately, provision for citizens. that, citizens want to do i will be supportive. just be aware the same groups are trying to pass legislation to violate the constitution are the same people trying to change the constitution. we will have to fight them at that convention. [applause] >> the next president is going to be able to appoint one, maybe two more supreme court justices. what is going to be your criteria for appointing them? sen. rubio: my criteria for appointing justices, not just supreme court jurist but the appellate level are those that

adhere to the constitution. they view the role of an appellate two adhere to the cousin to share and not to spin it. 12 reach a point in the country where we have justice -- judges who believe him at least five who believe their job is to find creative ways to manipulate the constitution to reach a policy outcome they favor. that's not the job. the job front justices is to apply that constitution by the founders and amendment that followed it. the job and appellate courts is to apply the constitution, not to expand or manipulate it. my number one criteria is this -- are you street construction -- strict constructionist? you understand only way to change that constitution is through a convention or amendment process and not a judicial decision. and every is never intended to reach. as a end of the day, that document is a document of

limitation. the constitution is a document that limits the power of government and said a very straightforward these are the only powers the federal government has and if they are not outlined, the federal government do not have it area they belong to the states and primarily to people. we need justice to understand. we need that more than any time. [applause] sen. rubio: i want to thank you. and i would say d'este longer bring i do -- i would stay longer. i do have to catch a plane for it is not a private one. we will be back. we have enjoyed this. i will stay around for a few more minutes to say hello and i look forward to seeing all of you again. thank you. god bless. [applause]

>> where from north carolina, we came along way. sen. rubio: who do i make it out to? >> judy. you spoke to the delegation. thank you very much. sen. rubio: thank you very much. >> thank you. sen. rubio: thank you so much. i love that show. to so much. i appreciate.

thank you for coming.

we are all try to make a difference. that is why we have a republic. thank you so much. thank you. thank you very much. we have been there a few times and will be back. me to the east coast. we're already. sen. rubio: we need to get everybody fired up. absolutely. let's do it again. it will not work without a photo. thank you. thank you so much. thank you.

>> thank you so much. sen. rubio: i'll take a picture. it may not make it on the plane. thank you.

it was a much. thanks for being a part of this. thanks a lot. i appreciate. give me a call we get a chance. is this your cell phone number? >> republican presidential

candidate rand paul recently made a campaign stop in des moines, iowa -- speaking at the university. the kentucky senator spoke about foreign policy, national debt, and the rights of lgbt employees. [applause] senator rand paul: thank you. thank you. [applause] thank you. [applause] thank you. [applause] drake, you guys got out of class today. how many of you are registered for the draft? women already registered, i did not know that. the secretary of the army said they would register women come as well. he thinks they may have to. but my question is, why do you think the government registers