words ever strung together in the english language, and, folks from north carolina, it's not start your engines. [laughter] it is we the people. ...

>> for this is your organization, you own it. it is yours. because we can defeat the radical left that wants to control çour prosperity, contr our lives and mortgage t(our children's future. with you, we can stop them. because we are right and they are wrong. [applause]ç ladies and gentlemen, my name is xddallas woodhouse, and i wo with americans for prosperity.ç but if you çbelieve in the tim honored principles of limited government and free market çan american exceptionalism, ladies and gentlemen, it is my honor to work for you. >> ladies and gentlemen, pleaseç

welcome radio host, hugh hewittç [applause] 7[ >> i really would like xdto beg by thanking my friend, tim for putting [3o=7óme on afterón h and dallas woodhouse, that's nice of tim. and i am pleased to be here, i am representing that group of people that attract the iron and bricks on a daily business, and i am so okproud to be the communicator t(of freedom, rush limbaugh.ç remember this, çwhen they atta rush, when they attack sean, when they attack lynn and me,

when they attack my friend, the great one, with whom have i ç worked 20 years.t( and when they #gattack my frie t(matt, laura, they are attacking you, your families and freedom. particularly the first amendment. don't let them do that. now, newt said he had gone wrong, i am the ernie banks of talk radio, i won't do that today, i will give you three specifics and after telling one story that is directed to you 25 and younger, and there are a lot of you0çhere, thank you for coming.tçlç in 1996, i sat in a dorm room, and i have to apologize for the

baptists there was a lot of scotch involved. and i sat with allen keys, and we sat in a room, and we drank a lot, because jimmy carter was winning. we had çhad so much dores, we hoped that matt would come in and carry jerry over the top, and it didn't happen. and i am in the elba of ç america, and the ghost writer for richard nixon, and things were very bad in this country, and i would spend hours with t,ç the president, to write the real war, and it was bleak. iran had fallen to the fanatics that xdwere to this day devilin the world.ç and afghanistan was on

unemployment and prime mortgage of 18%, that was my college initiation of my environment, and welcome to the real world. i didn't go to san diego, and come with me, and go to a hotel, i didn't want to go. but we went into a hotel, much smaller than this, and the room was hot and the air conditioning had broken. and in that room with 200 people came ronald reagan, and no one thought he had a çpraye wrszyña9olost ã% ç

>> wait until 2009, every single person in this room, can make a difference and they are ç going to be close races. i think new jersey will be a franklin çand coleman race, we need chris christie to drain

that swamp and cleanup up that state. if you know anyone in the 3 make them get to the polls when they vote for the governor. if you live here, and you know anyone in virginia, you call them and maie@sure they don't elect like çbob mcdonalds, nex governor of virginia. number two, we have to minimize the damage that democrats are going do from health care, and zxt active and adamant, and especially with our oiçsenior friends, there is an army of walkers and artificial hips and i don't want to be on the other side of that. and they know that a half million of cuts is aimed at ç them, and we need to encourage

them in that game and support the men and women in the united states congress who are fighting every day to stop that. number mm?o]dthree, you heard mentioned early, we çneed to educate people on our broken legal system. in addition to talking on the radio, i am a practicing lawyer, and my partners and i defend some of x@çthe largest corporations in america, people that make cars and vans and when i sit down with them, in the morning before the show.t( i hear xdabout another nonsense lawsuit fired oçby people thatd entertain and feed, and sparked by a dumb jury. this is killing our economy. killing it dead.xd not just the medical system, and we see that each in this room pays the cost of an out of

control medical system, but if ç you drive a car, and you pay the cost ;k1sof a system that banks are payrolling and getting richer on the bam of the american men and women, and that's why we have unproductive system. number four, we have to t( relentless expose and mock the left wing in the way that we have learned about the left wing about us. when we have i]the opportunity hold up to the world acorn, as andrew çand his young film makers did. [pplause]i] then m have got to tell everyone t(xdabout big

government.com, and send everyone to cçthe right youtub channel.ç and yes, i have my broad cast means, and send them to biggovernment.com, and tell them about americans of prosperity. do not be r>silent, because people are beginning to move in a huge way. when michele writes about a ç book on corruption, çbuy five copies and give it to liberals, it will annoy the hell out of them. and number five, i mentioned richard nixon gave me a job and i spent days talking ab)uá the way that the ñlgworld worked, a whether you loved him or hated him, and i didn't want to get in the t( xikz(classroom with a

teacher so far left, no our young people need to learn from you, and bring them into your organizations and give them t(t responsibility they can handle, and use çthe tools they can us efficiently.xd use the new media and embrace them so that 30 years from now, they are not talking about çth third great xdwave of liberali carter one tñ'd two, and two times is enough, thank you. finally, and this is the most important thing to say, most important thing, a moment is coming soon when our most reliable ally, the only democratic state, and when israel strikes iran, we must stand with israel.

[applause] there is ç#ggoing to be -- -- applause] there is çc'going to be -- wh that i]happens, when they do th job that we ought to do, and unfortunately and sadly and tragically i do not believe we will do, when that happens there will be ça chorus of hat released in this country by the media against our most reliable ally and all of us are called on and marched on behalf of a state that has done the world  great favor./o? one that happened in the 30's would not have lead to the war that claimed lives. israel is our ally, and not be ashamed for that, and thank you for being here, spread the word about americans for prosperity.

thank you.ç >> ladies and çgentlemen pleas welcome mr. ed warranty. >> once again i would like to thank the americans t(for prosperity çfoundation for allowing me to speak, who t(wan peace, prosperity and freedom for this country.lpñ and i would like to ççthank t for having me following hugh hewitt, yesterday was t(çmy si anniversary of blogging, and i have been following hugh hewitt for the last six years, and besides my boss, there is no one i am more +ohonored to follow, he's a great american and doing great things for this country. w >> now last time i was here,

the last american's prosperity conference and it was a month-and-a-half ago, and talked about how america is built for prosperity, it's in the declaration of independence and constitution, and it's based on property rights. now ironically, what prompted our founding fathers to write both documents was a crushing tax system, that we the colonists felt disconnected from. my how things have changed.ç our tax code as it exists today undermines our prosperity and our individual liberty.çi] everyone hereons that.t(ç -- everyone knows that.t(;k1s and that we have a health care system to bolster this nation, but i have news for them, what we need is a tax çcode overhau

that is decades overdue.çt( [applause] ç >> so y'all have heard this before; right? this is not news to anyone in this room. in fact it's not news to anyone] in this country, because if people pay attention to political campaigns, everyone is talking about a tax overhaul. republicans and democratics and independents, t(we need tax cod reform. if you -- flat tax and all tax. if you listen to the politicians talk, you would think çthat wi]tax overhaul is around the corner. when was the last time you heard a politician say, we have a great tax code, and we ought to keep it. never. and for good reason, last year

americans spent more than $250 billion in tax preparation. 2 $2 -- $250 çbillion. and 50% of taxes had to be prepared and i am no exception. and the g.a.o. reports that the compliance of xdthe tax code $200 billion to $600 billion. at the far end it costs as much to comply with the tax code as it costs in taxes in total. it's a ridiculous system, why is the tax code so burdensome? let me give you some examples, ç newsweek in april came up tçdwi some examples,çç those in al

can take off 10% for their boats, noncitizens from the u.s., on horse q%races or dog races does not have to tmzdtvcl their income. who benefits from that? not us, if we live here, we have to claim that income. earlier this year, çcongress introduced a new bill that once created a deduction for pet expenses. yeah, i am not joking. it gives an entirely new and difficult term to the phrase, pet project. love this, the humanity and pet partner through the years act.ç that's called the happy act, people. are you happy yet? no, no. the bill wants to reduce taxes to taxpayers who çhave pets an

it's designed to encourage pet adoptions. now think about the implications and enforcement ç and verification, the i.r.s. will have to create a new set of forms and will have to çbe reviewed by i.r.s. auditors, will we have to get social security number for them, and it's the philosophical argument] of the deduction, it's the fact of subsidies of the behavior, and this is why it's designed. congress likes the tax code, and all three of these were introduced by republicans. the tax code a-laws congress to conduct social engineering, to

try to push us into behaviors they like and limit our choices of life. and this is the reason why the tax code as it presently exists is one of the worst aspects of american life, it's sapping ourç freedom and liberty. and the problem is that the we put there, the more people$-g(zw@%é ç

>> it gives them the power of ownership, from pets to fishing tackle. there çis a fishing tackle in ç the existing tax code. and it allows congress the power through the existing tax code, it gives congress far too much power for a çlegislator i a i]free society.t( [applause]t( we need to make ourselves loud and clear on the subject t(of t reform.xd when our political opponents talk about making the tax code more far by subsidies for certain behaviors, bwe need to tell t(them we don't need congress to tell çus how to li and to make our choices. and even when our friends and allies are offering happy acts,

we need to tell them to be serious about tax reform. thank you very much.ç >> ladies and gentlemen from the wall street journal, woman johnç>> -- welcome john fund. >> i have good news, i am one of the few speaks standing ç between you and lunch. thank you, for being here. i am thrilled to be here, i think you are the new american patriots. and i want to thank you, how many of you are readers or subscribers to the wall çstree journal. thank you, thank you for paying my salary and that of steve who

preceded me. you know the component of freedom in health care don't want to debate the issue, whether in a crowded theater or changing the çsubject or using old stock lines from the past.ç they don't want to debate the issue. bill clinton, for example, just a week ago revised a line from hillary clinton, that there was a vast l,x?6!?wconspiracy oppos health reform. i upon -- i am here to tell you that this conspiracy çis s vast that it includes 65% of the american people that say this plan costs way too much. [applause]xd it is so vast it includes 78% of the american people r,6who aa saying that it's adding far too

much to our debt. at the rate they are going, it will be so vast that it will unite democrats and republicans and a lot in opposition to us. who says that couldn't unite xd this country. now, they recognize the opposition to this is so great, they will have to çtake extraordinary measures, to steam roll this bill through congress. let me tell you what );:éççha just last week, the senate finance committee had a-amendment that the finance committee would not pass the bill until there was a posting on the internet and members of the congress could read the bill. and said, maybe we should wait for the congressional office to

tell us how much it would cost.ç that amendment was defeated 13-10, they are moving this so quickly because they don't want anyone to read the bill. as a matter of fact, senator balkus said, we don't have a moment to waste. think çabout this, this health care bill, most provisions don't take effect for the next four years, so why pass in the next four weeks? maybe they know something is in that bill they don't want us to know about. moving to the house of representatives, this week the agriculture appropriation bill hit the house floor. this is a very important bill, for çcongress, all of their farmers were in this bill, and they t(needed to take their tim.

and had a vote that ça 72-hour waiting period and for thp% members to read it, and it passed 369-42.ç at w3the same time an amendment proposed by congressman brian feld, and a republican, with a 72-hour waiting period for the health care bill, and çthat's bottled up since june, and speaker pelosi is staking aides around the desk so that it's not signed. there are only five brave enough to r>sign the discharge petition. we need to contact all members, and say, we want you to read the bill. [applause]

never again. never again should we have bills the size of telephone books that reorder our economy, presented to members with only a few hours to read and consider. it's happened three times, the stimulus bill, the cap and tax and the trade bill, and the nwt. no more, we want w3them to read the bill. now here is where you come in. in addition to rw?demanding a 72-hour waiting period, which by the way, 95% of the men people support that. it has çhigher çsupport than motherhood and apple pie. this is where you come in, ronald reagan taught us what would happen in the next weeks, and the people watching on c-span gather together and fight this health care bill n

1977, ronald reagan had just lost the republicanú=,çnominat for governor, and he gathered ? those in the meeting, and they were discussing the bleak future. house and jimmy carter was in ç and it looked like liberalism was triumphant.xd reagan said, reuse when people d we elect and don't follow our principles and make mistakes and lead to the left and not to the right. and at the same time when ç liberal are smart enough to campaign as liberals. and çhe said that's what jimmy carter has done.q and jimmy carter even if he ç wanted to govern as a moderate, he wasn't be able to, because the people qof his party and th

labor unions won't let him. he must govern from çthe left, and he did. and reagan said if he governs from the left, he will fail. because liberal policies fail. and no matter how good intention, their policies will fail.t( t(ç if they fail, çpeople get angr and people will rouse to çacti and a political storm. carter's policies brought 12% inflation and ç20% interest r and gas lines, çq%and foreign policy disasters, çand 1980 ç ronald reagan campaigned on the best lines, recession is when your neighbor loses your job and recovery is when wfxjimmy

carter loses his job. well, flash forward 16 years, xd it's 1993, president george oy, w. bush, broke his no new taxes pledge. remember, he said, read my lips, no new taxes and even though he won the war2çin iraq, and he was pushed out and many ç vote said for ross perot, and even though they learned that his tray table was not locked in position.ç but bush violated his no new tax pledge, and bill clinton, the best of snake oil ever, he campaigned çby the motto, the people that live by the rules are better than those who don't.

$ó1jm3çone last reminding of the speech in 1977, and quoted from the scottish poet, for i am beaten and not slain, i shall d8lay do and çbleed w3a while and then shall rise. reagan said in 1967, çi told y that jimmy 1u÷>carter would campaign as a moderate but governor as a liberal. and even same for bill clinton, and reagan said f he governors from the left, he will fail. if he fails xlpeople will notic they will rise up and there will be activism çxdand count reaction. he was right, the tax that resembles the tax bill, in

november, 1993, there was reaction, and democrat liberals lost both races and after that date, the democratic congress never again passed a qsingle ç piece of legislation.tgmçw!kñ because in 1994, there was a contract of america, and you know what happened in that election. [applause] so here we are again. every 16 years it seems that the american people forget what happens when a liberal çwhite house and liberal congress get together.t( 1997 add 16 years and we are here, and right now.#g i think you should look at it this way, your father and mother and you yourselves perhaps, beat back jimmy carter in liberalism in 1967. you and your çpredecessors bea back liberalism in 1993, i say

you have t(won the first two rounds of this, let's win round three.ç which is now, this year. and in conclusion, there is a reason you should also do this, you know every 75 years a generation of americans is called upon to make a major sacrifice to wnaâaã·ã§dkã§f. the first generation that did that was the revolutionary war generation, and 75 years after that, çwe had the civil war generation, that had to bound the wound and unite the country and end the slavery. and 75 years after that, we had the generation that survived the world war i, i have talked to many people in the greatest generation, çand they say we weren't so much great, as we

had to do great things because we were called upon çto defend america's freedom.ç and they told us this, there will be another great generation that will be called upon to defend america's freedom.tmáx and that brings us today, 2009. i am çnot here to tell you tha the challenges are as great as those, but if we lose the cap and trade, we will be. i say to you, if you rise up xd and defend america's freedom asç the greatest generation did, your children and grandchildren will be able to say, i what you know did in w3the fall of 2009, you became the next great generation, because you beat back the government and kept t5 america free. [applause] you!t( you!

you! you the new american patriots. you the new american patriots you won in 1977, and you won in 1993, and you can #gwin in 2009, and you are winning. let's finish the job. thank you. ç >> ladies and gentlemen, we have çyour jitter bug cell phone, and carla lorensa, please stop by the registration desk to claim lost property. and ladies and gentlemen, the following video is brought by our co-sponsor, the independent women's forum. >>ç like many american women, survived breast cancer, and today i am a survivor, and i am

worried about what washington will do now. many çbelieve that we should reform health care, and many t( feel that the plan should be saved by huge costs. independents say that americans could loose -lose their health care, if you find dg;xça lump, could wait months for treatment and life saving drugs can be restricted. government control health care could mean that 200,000 women with breast cancer would not survive.ç my odds are good, çbut what ar your odds if the government öb ç

>> thank you. i am tracy walsh, and i am from north augustus, south carolina. i am here today with my husband richard, and our five children, they are right down here in the front, would you please stand up? thank you. [applause]ç i would like to thank america for prosperity for pulling me out of obscurity.

home school our five children. i sent my story into their patient's r>united çnow websi and they said your story is compelling, and do you think you can do a commercial for us, and i said, i can do that. and i did, and richard and i arried 24 years and we have five children. before making the commercial, we were not politically active. we just voted and i think we both got tired at yelling at our tv. and we were able to come up to the rally on 9-12 and that was awesome. ç my mother died from melanoma in 2003. so last summer, june, 2008,

when i went in xdfor a routine mammogram and called back for a repeat, it concerned me. and the doctor called me in and showed me that i had several white spots on my right breast, and i needed a needle biopsy on a tuesday.>7 on wednesday evening, the xd surgeon called me and said, you have breast cancer, and because we caught it early, you will not die from breast cancer. and that's all i needed to hear after that. things got moving quickly after that , and he told me my options for my cancer. the w3area was small enough to a lumpectomy, if that's what you would like, but you would

have to çfollow up with radiation to kill every cancer sell -- çcell in the area.i] and because your cells are affected by estrojen, and çyou will have to take medication for five years. and i thought, i didn't sign up for that, and he said there is another option, and if you want to chose it, but we can give you a double mastectomy, and my cancer 40% of the cases çit

>>ie was diagnosed with breast cancer and had my double mastectomy and gave me the cure in seven q

>> i had çto speak up, we have to defeat this health care legislation, or çwe will lose our freedom t(and choices and o health and lives. thank you everyone for tx]bein here, and joining the fight. [applause]

i thank you for your time, have a good afternoon. >> ladies and ççgentlemen, pl welcome the president of the foundation,ç >> good morning again, it's now my great pleasure to begin my favorite part of the summit conference, and that's the report by representatives of each of the 25 chapters at afp on their activities over the last year. it's a 60-second presentation, so please -- please follow those instructions.

now we will begin with the first state. >> we begin with the great state of arizona. >> greetings mr. chairman, from the grand canyon state, çwhereñ our 14,000 a.f.p. t(arizona graç -- grassroots members are keeping çthose from turning ov the health care to the bureaucrats in washington, d.c. at the same time we have been successful from keeping our republican governor from raising our state çsales taxes by $1 million. and we >7have the grand canyo deficit of 30% of the state's budget in the red. and we must keep up the fight and keep our legislator from

raising our taxes.ç and at the local level we are keeping an eye on çcity counci and legislators around tmthe state, and a.f.p. arizona is fighting big government at the local, national and state levels, thank you mr. chairman. >> the great state xdof arkansa. >> thank you mr. chairman. and although our state capital has just begun, we are off to a running start. we are excited that our 21,000 members in arkansas are letting their common sense voice be heard from every corner of our state. we want our representatives to know that we won't çbe fooled an employee no choice act that will allow a government

bureaucrat to make our decisions for us, we are sending a çclear representatio to vote no on t(the tax and çt scheme w3that will kill jobs across the state. this boondoggle will shut down main street o+svand that's unacceptable.çç our members çhave said hands o our health care, because real ç reform is putting patients first. and little rock, we want you to "tmoexpect budget transparency, that means that the spending party is over. thank you mr. chairman.ç and thank çour members, becaus arkansas t(inform asked engaged and we only have just begun. ç >> we move now to the great state of california.

>> mr. chairman, greetings from california or should i t(s tax-california, and we have more than (ç3,000 taxes burdeni our citizens. this year we continue our tour of the state spreading the message, that taxpayers in california are not the government's atm.ç in a special çelection sacramento politicians tried to impose the largest tax increase in california history.ç but thanks to a.f.p. effort, california defeated those at the ballot box. and çwe helped organize huge t

parties throughout the state.ç ss-d/'ct?,ú+22v?á®-ç;tç than 10,000 californians met us with the steps of the state capital.ç and we have more work to do in california, but with a.f.p. leading the way, we are confident that we can take back the golden state. >> we move now to the state of colorado. >> mr. chairman, the great state of colorado is fighting the battle çfor our freedom wi altitude. the mile-high state of colorado, our 20,000 members are putting pressure on senator michael bennett and our congressional delegation çto uphold three market principles on çhealth care t(and cap and trade. we are fighting ç?;battles fr the rafennous spending

appetites of our colorado ç politicians and fighting to ensure that citigs@around colorado do not encroach on private businesses çby providi services that compete with the private sector. we had over 9,000 t(xi]colorado activists attend the nation's bus tour throughout the state.ç in colorado, mr. chairman, our grassroots efforts are engaged and energized and ready to fight for their freedom. [applause] >> we move now to the great state of georgia. ç >> hello mr. chairman, reporting from the great state of georgia, çhome of many members from [çcapita than any state, and we are proud to be home of the peaches and pine trees and the çtax tea party i

the nation on april 15, and the largest town t(hall in august, and where thousands óm]have ç conservative ambassadors of the movement. here in georgia over 20,000 grassroots members have joined forces to beat back state tax increases and enforced legislation for zero based budgeting. at federal level, we have held our legislators feet to the fire, and at town halls across the state, we have hounded our so-called blue dogs in congressional offices and tea parties. and honored that three heroes, mr. herman cain and çmr. newt gingrich are proud sponsors.tm

and joining us here on the program and always in the battle for less government regulation, and georgia is happy to stand with our friends, fighting to defend the american dream. >> now from the great state of illinois. >> mr. chairman, over the last three years the illinois chapter has tripled their madame --- their membership, and we have over 20,000 nd w3çin 2007, we were victitorious in çtopping the t cap, and çwe sued our governor for violating the freedom of information act.t( and that çlawsuits was used against rod blagojevich in the

trial, and after two çyears xd battling special interest groups and working in a state that is called the corruption capital of the nation, and çwe have been çpassed the most comprehensive transparency bill in the state. and we have had lawmakers that have fiimed to live by their principles and our third president and his relationship with acorn, and we will not rest until illinois is once again the pride of the midwest. and thank you for fighting on behalf of an open and honest government. >> now from the great state of kansas. >> mr. chairman, on behalf of our more than 35,000 members in the sun flower state, i am here to represent the great state

kansas, where once it was á&ñse top of cherry pie. and we stopped a $1 billion tax increase by then governor kathleen t(siebulus and whose charge is now to lead the obama charge on tort reform. we xdare not too optimistic, an in 2007 we passed the first transparency law and we call on of the government to less than 5%, and we are successful, and in 2009, çwe fought off tax increases to eliminate the state franchise taxes.ç

the state of wheat and the home of çcow chip capital of the >> mr. chairman, our ç9,000

members are taking action çand to stop a government take-over of our health care, and make state government more transparent, çand educate and train grassroots activities. in just six short months, we have doubled çour membership a started 10 local and county chapters most of are here today( we have organized dozens of tea c@iáies, t(built oka local gymnasium for a town hall meeting and participated in four first events. we are writing, e-mailing and calling our elected officials daily to let them know our opinion. we are becoming a political force in the deep blue state of maryland. we are fighting to keep çthe state free and ready to make

change in 2010. [applause] >> and now our next state. >> chairman, michigan is the home xdof great innovators, fro pharmaceuticals and cereals, and the birth place of unions and the home of striker families, and we have not had a quarter of job growth since the year of 2000. but here in michigan, a.f.p. is âcwthe way for citizens of economic prosperity and free market. we have done many things, and our citizens are sick of the economic delay, and we have grown our membership and tripled and have the largest

peace party in the country -- sorry, state.t( we defeated tax cuts this year and ran a state-wide television campaign against a governor that promised not to raise taxes and broke those promises because she didn't understand what this country is about. we are going xdto fight and we are ready to launch an effort for spending alert, and thanks d to the members çin michigan, a.f.p. is here at the right time for our nation's history and for michigan's history. thank you. t(t( >> our next state. >> from the great state of missouri, where everyday, mr. chairman our thousandsfñof mob members are showing where the markets are free.xd

our members are showing çthey to the elected 1eofficials, from tax money, because it's their tax money and saw rules into law, and thousands were across the state and demanded that our federal officials listened to them, and said, keep your hands off my health care. mr. chairman, members in our state say çshow me"çprosperity creating an environment that allows businesses and markets to operate free, and then you will see prosperity. mr. chairman, we had a president from the state of missouri who was harry truman, his name name was give them hell, harry. and he #gsaid he told people tç truth and they thought it was hell. h,4sj>p2iq't6x,)

of missouri are giving them hell, because we are telling them the truth çand we are goi to get the job done.l5 >> from the great state of nebraska.ç >> mr. chairman, greetings from nebraska, we have held 23 grassroots events across the state. in three months we have over 20,000 çfree market activists nebraska. our activists have spread a message of limited government t$>3p ç

>> to the great state of new hampshire. xd ç >> the state is a solid place to live, we don't have a tax or capital gain tax. recently new hampshire fought and won the battle against the gasoline and diesel tax. and new hampshire is not the first in xdnation for primary elections but the first for the drive to stop