host host: serena from wisconsin, welcome.aller: there are only 535 people in the dc area and make all the decisions. for us to say there are people in hard times, there are. how many people actually would have been considered welfare from years ago? we have big screen tvs and we drive big cars and we eat steak and lobster. we go out and we party. we go out to dinner a lot. are we really a welfare nation? or is it what mr. obama wants us to believe? guest: these calls are showing how important the economy is and how important prosperity is to the presidential debate. the questions surrounding austerity and the austerity measures that we need to take as a nation. we will see it over the next 90 days or so. host: there is a story about the senate race that is happening tomorrow. they are talking about tommy thompson, the former governor. guest: it is remarkable that tommy thompson would be in for a tough fight in wisconsin. it tells you about the dilution of the republican party. back in the 1990's, thompson was one of the intel

host: g.o.n twitter says obama unsalted the british -- in salted the british -- in salted the british when he trashed the church held statue they gave us. virginia. you are on with michael warren. caller: my question is first, be less lengthy in his replies. the point he raised about ron paul and paul ryan, he saw him as being a running mate, and looking at the big picture, which i think most candidates should do to get into places they should be attacking or directing their attention to -- it could be that if he is picked as a running mate it could confuse a lot of people that were actually for ron paul rather than paul ryan. with let's end there harvey. what do you think the influence of ron paul, congressman of texas, will be at the convention. he will have a lot of supporters that want to see him involved. guest: i think it is interesting that four years ago in saint paul, the ron paul grass roots movement was having a shadow convention, and now they will be participating in the republican n

host: thanks so much. take you to president obama in new hampshire going after paul ryan and mitt romney for their medicare proposals. [video clip] >> you would think they would avoid talking about medicare given the fact that both of them have proposed to voucherize the medicare system. i guess they figure the best defense is a good offense. new hampshire, this is what you need to know -- since i have been in office, i have strengthen the medicare. [applause] i have made reforms that have extended the life of the program and have saved millions of seniors with medicare, hundreds of dollars on their prescription drugs, [applause] the only changes to your benefits that i have met on medicare is that medicare now covers new preventive services like cancer screening and wellness visits for free. host: a few comments already coming in on twitter this morning -- we will continue this conversation with an over 55 from buffalo of this morning. caller: good morning, i trust the obama administration. you had a guy

host: thank you. the study was done by th-- some money came from charles koch. the fund for climate and energy research, created by bill gates. here is a report that came out at the end of july. host: here is a quote from the leader of the study. host: that is the study the caller just talked about from berkeley earth temperature analysis. next is a call from texas. good morning, fred. caller: good morning. thank you for c-span. with regard to climate change, i like to mention that water vapor is the biggest greenhouse gas. there was a book in which the sayies were compiled to that 33 degrees celsius and of natural greenhouse gases, 32 degrees driven by water vapor. co2 is minuscule and compared to the water vapor, the water moves in and out in symbiosis with the oceans of the world. nasa put out a study that said all the planets in the solar system seem to be heating up. as the oceans absorb sun energy, it drives more water vapor into the atmosphere and keeps the globe. there you go. host: thank you.

host: you want to tell us? caller: it was a robbery. host: okay. you have been out of work for six months. what are your job prospects? caller: i was offered four jobs recently after i was hospitalized for a heart attack, which really surprised me. host: most heart attacks do. caller: i was very impressed when i went to the hospital and i had minor surgery. you have to sort of regroup when that happens. host: what was your health insurance situation? did it cover your costs? caller: yes. i had very good health insurance. being disabled, i have medicare and i have medicaid, which means i only have to pay 20% outpatient. host: do you believe you will be employed within the next six months? caller: where i live, i do not believe i will be employed. i am hoping i can be employed within the next year. i know that being disabled for the rest of my life is not something i need to be -- i hope i am not disabled for the rest of my life. host: all right. that is helen in florida. more from our facebook page -- facebook.com/cspan. host: our next call regardin

host: do they matter? matter.no, they don't i agree with the one guy that said conventions do matter. some americans are starting to wake up and see what politicians are really doing instead of what they say. without millions of dollars being put into these conventions and advertisements on the tv, from the taxpayers, that money should go back into the neighborhoods. people are still getting shot and there are still drug dealers. education and stuff like that, it does not make sense. they are focusing on the wrong things. all the money they're putting into all these conventions, they should put it back towards the people supporting them. host: what would you like to spend it on, bill? caller: i just want to see the money go towards a good cause. my word does not stand a chance against these politicians. they will do whatever they want to do with that money. they can say they are going to give it to something good, but their actions speak louder than words. host: this is the l.a. times -- the major tv netwo

host: did you watch the whole speech? caller: yes. host: thank you for the call. we say good morning to joe on the republican line. caller: suspended a good job covering the convention. i thought it was the greatest beach i have ever heard in my life. i think it will be a landslide win. i got so fired up i could not go to sleep. i know mitt personally. i am convinced he will govern like ronald reagan. i think he will be the greatest president in history. i cannot wait to cast my vote for the man who will be by far the greatest president in history. i think mitt romney will be even better than reagan. host: how did you get to know him? caller: six years ago i met him in georgia. i have been with him four or five times. i am so excited. we tried to get him to come to barbecue to celebrate. i just want to say, c-span is great. i have never been this excited in my life. i want to say to the american people. vote for mitt romney. he will be the greatest president in history. host: if you missed the speech, you can always go to our convention hub. next up, herman is on

host: what economic benefits do conventions bring to the host cities? guest: they can bring a nice economic uptick. if you are in a battleground state and want to make some inroads were bought for donations to supporters, having the convention in a key battleground state is the way to do it is legal. it offers high visibility. it allows you to put boots on the ground in a state you might need desperately in november. caller: a want to ask the professor if he thought the third party, like ross perot's platform, how would that be involved today in this election? guest: you look back as early as 1992. candidacy changed the dynamics in the sense of what was being talked about. going in, it was the same common blather. ross perot made it a referendum on the budget deficit. third parties can do that. despite what the other parties might think, they can steer them to issues they think are important for the nation as a whole. we saw this with the populist movement and with the progressives in the early 20th century. we saw that with ross perot in the 1990's. yo

host: mr.igginbotham, you talk a little bit about congress oppose the efforts to step in with the tiling problem -- you talk about congress'efforts to set in with the tunneling problem. tell us about those legislative efforts. guest: the 2012 title prevention act, this is a second piece of legislation that follows a 2006 measure that was very similar. it turns out that until 2006, i was not actually illegal to build a tunnel under the border. the things that you did with a tunnel, like emerging illegally in the u.s. or mexico, were illegal. but the construction of the tunnel itself were not illegal. -- was not illegal. in 2006, that made that illegal. the use of wiretapping and specifically for tunnel investigations, it doubles the sentence for smugglers the use titles -- that use titles for the movement of their contraband. but these are technical points to cleanup technicalities. the agents to investigate these things, they still have to do the same kinds of investigations they would have don

host: thank you. charlotte, north carolina will host the democratic convention in the next week following. john, your comments about coverage, while the commercial networks up announced extensive on-line tools. channels like ours, pbs and all the cable networks will be there and there will be a lot of other options as well as cable television. on the fairness question, democrats rearranged their schedules because the networks did not want to interrupt the opening football game of the season. that is one of the reasons why the democrats have a three-day convention this week. networks are cutting back cycle after cycle because of the commercial interests. this year, with the rise of social media and on line, there are many more options to you to watch the convention. but we're talking about afghanistan. i do not want to get off track. whether or not it is the nation's forgotten war. this is rick, an independent. guest: listen, we want to forget the war. for anyone who knows history and philosophy and ps

host: ok. caller: what gets me is that they have to have id even in mexico, and that is a court ruled country. -- and that is a third world country. the blacks are being brainwashed by the obama administration and eric holder, and it is really ridiculous. instead of trying to enforce a voter laws, they art looking like they are trying to encourage fraud. i will be glad to vote and get barack obama out of the white house, because he is taking this country down the drain. host: let's look at this question of a voter i.d. laws. "pennsylvania border id law survives legal challenge." "the wall street journal"-"a pennsylvania judge declined to take down the voter id law, saying obama's would likely fail to show the law violates the state's constitution. opponents of the republican- backed measure to said they plans to file an appeal on thursday to the state supreme court. legal experts say a it is unclear if an appeal would be ruled on before the november election. democrats in this state say they be

host: good, thanks. caller: to give to your question about what i thought it was worth it, i do think it is worth it. to answer the ages-old question of whether we are alone in the universe, how can you put a price tag on of the like that? to go further -- i am further what -- 41 and never thought it would be possible to know that answer to that question in my lifetime. and it is quite possible i will now. to me, i think it is worth it. host: and using this mission may get closer to that answer? caller: absolutely. absolutely. i am 100% -- and i think a lot of my friends are as well. host: charleston, west virginia. chuck, democrats' line. caller: how are you? i am extremely excited about it. i woke up in the middle of the night to watch the landing. to be honest, i was really worried about it, because it is a very complicated procedure and i was thinking more that it was going to crash, but when it came off successfully i was extremely excited. i am 53 years old. i have been following the space program

. >> host: were you even thinking about running for office at that point? >> guest: no. and, in fact, i went to maybe the very first tea party in 2007, december 16, 2007, in boston. they called it a reenactment of the boston tea party. it was also at the time my dad's campaign was just starting to hit national waves x. then it kind of grew, and i went to some other tea parties. the first i went to in kentucky was in 2009, and senator bunning was talking about not running, or other people were talking about him not running. so i showed up, i was at my son's little league baseball game, and i said, i'll take 20 minutes after, -- off, and there were nearly a thousand people there, and that's where i knew something big was going on. >> host: and at that point did you start thinking about elected office? >> guest: no. i was sort of toying with the fact that they were talking about senator bunning not running, and we started talking to reporters say, well, if he doesn't run, i might. showing up and seeing that big rally to me showed there were enough people like myself, i'd wa

host: thank you. implingts i thought i would take this moment to talk about the equal pay issue. first it's very important to point out that the notion of the wage gap is a mess. the idea that women continue to make 77 cents on the dollar is not true. if you control for any number of variables from college major to time taken out of the workplace, the gap entirely disappairs at this point. so discrimination is not the prevailing reason for any type of discrepancy in salaries. it has to do with choices and those choices aren't all bad. there was a study that women are choosing majors that will sort of give them professions that will provide greater pleasure. this isn't necessarily bad. it means men and women are different. so i think it's important that we don't try to perpetuate this myth that women are somehow -- that the work place is somehow hostile towards women because i think that's very discouraging. women are outperforming men educationly. one of the other things is not only are women making u

. >> host: why did he send an e-mail to you? >> guest: well, i've become kind of the go-to guy for every college kid who does something ridiculous or crazy because of my books. i guess they have a big college audience, and these kids want to tell their story. and so i've kind of become that guy that when someone, you know, knocks over a lottery, you know, scam or whatever it is, they'll call me. so i get 30 or 40 of these a week. this was just one of them. and usually they're lame, they're not something i would want to do, but this was one that really caught my eye. >> host: so you went out, had drinks with eduardo. >> guest: and his buddy will, will was the one who sent me the e-mail. and eduardo started to tell me this story. and i knew nothing about how facebook had been founded. he started to tell me that he and his best friend had met in an underground fraternity. it was mark zuckerberg, and they were all kind of geek can key guys -- geeky guys. eduardo wanted to be one of the finals clubs, all-male institutions like the sk

host: thank you, frank. guest: if you look at the budget process, it is easy, when you have 50% and you spend at 25%, -- 15%, and to spend 25%, you will have problems as far as the eye can see. the fastest growing part of the budget is entitlements, so you need a comprehensive reform package. that is what simpson-bowles try to do. in addition, you have $1 trillion in expenditures that people did write offs for. there is an agenda for our budget. i am very confident that it to put the right people in the room, people like senator mark warner and others, you will come up with a plan that can pass the congress and get the country headed in the right direction. yes, it will cut some programs, the size of government, we will need sacrifices, but i think there is a solution there. the first thing we have to do is get tom gores working better, and that is really at the core -- get congress working better, and that is really at the core of what no labels is trying to do. host: we have 10 minutes left with thomas mcm

host: i can. caller: a few years ago, i watched the rules committee hearing where paul ryan discussed the vouchers. he admitted that they would increase in cost. if you are on medicare and you go to his program, the cost is going to be about $6,000 more per person. when it comes to social security, they want people to choose to put that in the stock market. they did that in chile and everybody lost their money. i just wanted to point that out. i'm sure people can go on c-span and see paul ryan in that rules committee meeting. host: we want to let our viewers listen in to an advertisement that is already out, obama for america regarding paul ryan as the republican choice to be the vice- presidential nominee. [video clip] >> we're putting in a comprehensive plan rewriting the system. medicare, social security, our entire tax system. >> i think it would be marvelous if the senate would pick up paul ryan's budget to adopt it. >> the paul ryan's medicare plan turns medicare into a voucher system. >> th

host: baron, chesterfield.olde sudden news will in your state. -- it looks like the news will unfold in your state. we expect to see mitt romney and congressman ryan in norfolk, virginia. caller: i actually do my homework on these comments when they run, and mr. paul ryan looks very adamant about changing medicare, and i am concerned because my mom is on medicare that this time. she can barely afford to pay her rent. she is single. my brothers and i held her pay her -- help her pay her rent. i do not understand how one would expect a senior to pay for medicare when most of her medicine is $100, two hundred dollars, $300 at a time. for me, that is not very realistic. president obama has been in office, and i think politicians have to start doing a better job working with each other and working together with democrats, republicans in the independents. it seems like he is a tea party guy, and they show very little interest in working with each other. until we have more of a general consensus, in washington, d.c.,

host: why? guest: ben bradley and kay graham both retired at 70 at "the post." both of my parents lived to 95. my father ran a company, and he retired at 62 and lived for 33 more years. and so i figured i had after 70 a lot of years left. i had cover the law a lot. i liked the law. i have a lot of friends who are lawyers. i have an oldest son. so i thought i would get a law degree in practice law. -- and practice law. host: did you? guest: i graduated in 2001. i flunked the bar. which came right after kay graham's funeral. we were ushers. that was my excuse. the war had kind of started. and don graham said i could stay as long as i wanted. host: what did it feel like getting a law degree and flunking the borrower? that happens to a lot of people. -- flunking the bar? guest: it was strange. i had not taken almost 10 courses on the bar review, the d.c. review. i went to bar review in the morning and went back to work in the afternoon. all of the kids were busy studying. i don't know. i was disappo

you can see that interview now on booktv. >> host: joining us is donald less than. "i am john galt". first of all, who is john galt? >> the slogan from atlas shrugged. and amazing book written 55 years ago that could have been written yesterday. it perfectly describes our world of declining economy and declining wealth and declining moral standards and the reason it is so perfectly prophetic

host: any comments? guest: that is -- i have frequently heard that, that somehow women who say they have been raped are lying because they're being vengeful against the men they have accused. two problems. first, the studies are very clear that rape is a seriously underreported crime in this country, that it has begun to be treated seriously only toward the end of the 20th century in this country. the violence against women act has brought us a long way toward preventing raped and stopping it from happening, but we have a long way to go. rape is a surge in this country. women do not claim they have been raped lightly because very often they feel the system then betrays them. many women report they feel raped a second time when they make the accusation and try to bring the perpetrators to justice. so that's a problem. but i do want to say something on what the caller said about individuals being wrongly convicted. the good news is that we do have dna testing that and much more accurately identify a rapist

host: why austin? guest: it's a great town and as we look to expand our coverage around the world and country, it's great to have a central time zone. guest: now that there's a presumptive republican nominee, how do you work with the romney campaign, how has your job changed? guest: i have a colleague that helps out a lot and she really works with him on a day-to-day basis. a lot of the advertising strategy, they've been having a lot of success around the new ability to have ads appear to people and they see it on their mobile devices, and so there's a very close partnership there, as well as they have an application late last week that we work with them on and we go to boston regularly to talk with their developers, hear what they're working on, and be able to help them with best practices that we've seen. not only in politics, but in other verticals, naming -- gaming or retail that they might be able to apply. host: you both mentioned mobile. is that just where everything is? guest: it's not where ev

host: thanks. you have probably heard that the war words continues to escalate between the senate majority leader and the romney campaign over the release of mr. romney's tax records. ronnie tells harry reid it's time to put up or shut up. romney on thursday directly addressed harry reid's insinuation that the former massachusetts governor did not pay taxes 10 years -- clearwater, florida, kicking the can down the road is our topic. gasoline is an independent. caller: i would like to comment on the woman that said nothing can get done because of the gridlock. it is. it's about giving the other side kudos. it's like they don't want to abolish anybody can do anything right on the other side. they just cannot cooperate with one another on each other's issues. it's like it's all or nothing. they are like children in high school. it is pathetic. it is sad that they cannot come to terms and give a little on both sides. i am curious why we even have a democrat and republican anyway. we should all be indep

which is what we have right now. >> host: what are those principles? >> find out what it is what to and made sure everybody knows what you are doing. communique. there is time to fix things. and acknowledge mistakes immediate a. there are more but to more common sense. and the status of the state principal here is how we need to conduct ourselves very common-sense a call. >> host: your philosophy so libertarian philosophy with the broad a brush stroke and notion we're fiscally responsible. it is wearing a lapel pin saying i am pro-choice regarding everything. that means if your choice involves putting other people in harm's way or hurting and other than that is where the government has a role to protect us from those who would do us harm. >> host: you vetoed a lot. >> i could cut the rate of growth in half.

>> host: i'm not saying outrage. >> guest: he did say outrage. >> host: i said our rates at the parts and should then this function. >> guest: 75% of them support them. >> host: if they don't have the documentation, having interviewed so many of them they are not that thrilled about voting this fall. >> guest: do you know anyone who does not have identification? do you know anyone? >> host: i don't know that i would be characteristic, what i? guess the seriously it is less than 1/2 of 1% when it comes to court when judges rule on these issues. >> host: why are your numbers and the brennan centers numbers different? >> guest: the brennan center simply did a telephone pole in 2006 of less than 1000 people. not a registered voter, not eligible voters. it was a telephone call in and and then they use that. >> guest: here's a question he asked. do you right now it immediately have a form of identification and you can get right now? that was the question they posted. they said you have ready access immediately to a form of identification that would be required to vote? that is what the ques

you have the hosts and that system. it's a crazy world, and when i met the kids making a living in vegas, i knew that world, those suites and how high rollers were treated. i was able to write the story. i like to look at it as life lessons learned. i knew about wall street and understood the stock market and things like that because i would gamble on them. i mean, i was, you know, i understood most of the world i wrote about before i wrote about it, and now i'm smarter and calmer, and i don't have to necessarily live like that, by the other thing is it allowed me to -- i befriend the people i write about because i'm one of them. when i went to tokyo for a month hanging out with ex-pat banker, and this is a world, i don't know if you know about that world, but it's crazy. american kids and british kids in their early 20s getting paid lavish amounts of money to go to hong kong or tokyo, and they land there, and it's a free-for-all. they are treated like rock stars because they are white and american. not now like it was

host: outset of the beltway. guest: exactly. host: michigan. judy.ler: in michigan here, in the primary in august, i voted to give debbie stabenow prada there. she is a democrat. -- out of there. she is a democrat. i do not like her very liberal ways. how does that go in the fall and november since that was just a primary? i would like to see more social conservatives in november and take this country back to kristin -- christian nation we were once upon a time. >> the rates currently looks like debbie stress among -- guest: that raced through the sec in the distaff, will win. that could be a kind of race republicans look to and say that is within striking distance. a free throw more money, perhaps we could not senator debbie stabenow off. she is also chairman of the senate agricultural committee, which is trying to get a farm bill passed at the end of september. if she is able to pull off a deal, that would help her in michigan because she could say we have been able to strike a deal with republicans and come to a bipartisan consensus. it is not kno

host: why is that? caller: i think because he survived the recall and therefore he would be the most energetic and also that would bring wisconsin's 10 or 11 electric torl votes on to the republican side. and on top of that governor walker would start a debate about whether there should be any government unions. host: thanks for the call. over the last couple of weeks we have been tracking some of the potential vp running mates as they've campaigned for mitt romney including in wisconsin congressman paul ryan who has been mentioned. weekly standard has him as one of their top two picks along with mario rubio. looking at mitt romney's trip to israel,. >> we see if we clear a pathway on in nation in debt despair and decline a future where our children have a lower living standard severing that legacy of leaving the next generation better off. it doesn't have to be that way. all we have to do is take those great principles that built this country apply it to the problems of today and save america. that's w

it was a tragedy. >> host: what surprised you the most? >> one thing that continues to surprise me every day how much the regulators could get away with. and is astounding with these institutions and even smaller ones like we just saw an iowa. so little regulation. the regulators were so focused on the turf battle is it you doing the exam or paying attention to what was going on. >> host: their paychecks depend on regulating lightly although the president is a muslin islamofacism goldwater republican. [laughter] and continues to this day. >> before this we talked about the libor scandal. you can open the paper and read the latest. >> host: now it is spelled lie-bor. [laughter] we will take questions now. people average 10 questions so we don't have them on scene. i have been told to ask to more questions. how come you grab the "wall street journal" and dow was and? [laughter] 1/2 fined two kerry? >> i hear he is. he has a house in palm desert. and his midlife crisis stage he bought a house is there. >> host: did he have the no doc loan? [l

. >> host: you are speaking here at freedom fest. what's the topic of her talk in the message you want to get out? >> guest: i'm talking about the book. i'm the one hand your health care is priceless. on the other hand were dealing with the health care system that has no real priceless. no doctor, no patient. that's the problem. you don't see real prices and everybody faces reverse incentives. quality higher, if we want to solve our health care problems, we've got to restore power to the patient and a doctor unless prices more. >> host: have you requested ever going to the doctor for a price list? >> guest: you can't find one. the only place you see real prices in those markets where the insurance companies are. if you are a clinic, cvs pharmacy. if you walk into a normal doctor's office, they don't know what the cost of anything as. >> host: how do you get to a priceless and how does that benefit the consumer? >> guest: first we have to empower the patient, let them control of our dollars and you get an immediate response from the s

>> host: i like that. [laughter] >> guest: what you see is younger women today are in a really interesting position, women in their 20s, because they are better educated by and large than men in their 20s. there are not enough college-educated men for every college-educated young woman to marry, so women are having to ask themselves would i marry a man who doesn't have the level of education i do -- >> host: you say a lot of women marry down. >> guest: right. quote-unquote marry down. and men increasingly have gotten the message that earnings and education are desirable in a life partner and that earnings are a good thing. and when men respond to surveys and sort of rank traits that they consider desirable in a partner, domestic skills have plummeted. men don't care about domestic skills anymore. but they do care about financial prospects. and you see more and more studies showing that marriage rates for women are rising for the highest women earners. and i do think it's a good thing if men are willing to

host: thanks for the call. many people in in on our facebook page -- nick and also join us on our twitter page. dan is on the phone from georgetown, massachusetts, and independents. caller: good morning. i would like to give a shout out to the guy from las vegas. that's it right there. my question would specifically being for the candidates, are you familiar with the rothschilds and there and balance on western civilization -- and their influence on western civilization's central banking? the american people have been warned from the beginning, w whoever controls the money controls the military and the media. i wonder if they are familiar with the rothschild family. i pretty much recently figured out the entire western civilization economic policies are based on a pyramid scheme. if you look at the back of a dollar, on the top of the pyramid is the eye that represents a group called the luminosity. -- the iluminatti. host: its primary day in wisconsin. a lot of attention on the senate race. there's a photograph

host: why is that? guest: because it seems like they're just not getting the sort of money that -- and they're not nearly as big a player they used to be and so that role has been taken over a lot by these outside spending groups. you don't hear much talk about what the republican party itself is spending on campaigns, you're hearing a lot more about groups like crossroads gps and american crossroads. ho host bob biersack, the superpacs, what kind of a game changer is this? we've been talking about this of course for a couple of years now but as we march into the final months what are you seeing? guest: as kim says, one of the things it does is spreads the money out in different directions away from the parties. she remembers maybe a time in the 1990s when parties could accept unlimited contributions from corporations or people. it's the sail kind of money that we're talking about today. but they're not allowed to receive those contributions anymore based on mccain-feingold, so that money is filtered of

host: austin, texas. caller: i don't know when telling the truth became negative, but i know john carey made a big mistake not fighting back against the swift boats ad ads. so i think the obama campaign has learned to be aggressive and put out the facts. it is a fact that romney will not release his tax returns. that is just a fact. when he said i'm going to put out all i'm going to put out, you wonder what else he is holding back. what would be surprise us with if he were elected? it is the swift boating that was the most negative i can remember. if john carey had fought back against that, i'd think he would have won. but he did not seem to spring into action when he was attacked like that. i think president obama has done a lot of positive things and that is appreciated. host: barbara, do you think that ads the obama campaign is running are more about accomplishments or attacking the challenger? caller: it is a mix of both. if democrats lie back and let republicans do all the attacks, it will be another

. >> host: wanted to come to the states? >> guest: it's one of those fun little stories of the 19th century. a british novelist who was second only to charles dickens in popularity, wonderfully beloved by americans was on a six month speaking tour. his father was a good friend, and so he invited his best friends years on to come along and services traveling companion and secretary. he was also at that point already a very highly trained artist. he was only in his early 20's. so as he went around traveling up and down the eastern seaboard he made reservations and traveled in it sure all the lodgings for taking care of, but he also sketched the whole way that he was traveling, and he differed "significantly on their impression of slavery in america . he decided that he was not calling to speak publicly of the topic because ten years earlier charles dickens had come to america and famously this korean-americans about slavery. and in his book he had a whole chapter against slavery. it hurt its sales in america after that. and so

. >> host: did you think about all says? >> no. i was toying with the fact senator bending not to running. if he doesn't die might but seeing that reilly said there were enough people out there like myself. watch the news gets unhappy and curse and go about my daily business. everybody was doing that and the debt was exploding. so why started to think about it. >> host: this is about the 2010 campaign and the misrepresentations of who you are. what are those? >> 41 they say it is not a movement but rich people funding the tea party. i never met anybody rich from new york. it was so decentralized it was city by city. sometimes there are two in one town. it really was up bottom-up movement chastising both parties. and president bush said to save the free-market i had to give up on capitalism, that disturb us we needed something different. >> host: in addition to quote being called a constitutional conservative i have been called a goldwater conservative. it is accurate and an honor. >> i reread the conscience of the conservative that

host: good morning. caller: one of the things i would like to hear tonight is someone speaking about energy independence, and i know that is one of the things romney has expressed a view about. being a texas girl, i know mr. obama has lied when he said we cannot drill ourself out of this problem. we are sending so much wealth to the middle east that could be kept here in the united states and mexico and in canada. i think it is important we take a look at that and realize we are paying a dollar -- $1.89 per long a year ago, and now we are paying nearly $4 a gallon. guest: i noticed you said you are from texas, and there are a lot of people concerned about energy and drilling in america. especially in texas. also have the people who live in coal country, back in ohio and pennsylvania, virginia, west virginia. they are concerned as well. they are losing their jobs. businesses are shutting down because of the war on coal, what is happening with strict regulations coming in. we have to be energy independent.

host: why do you say that? caller: as soon as the older people in the country and minorities and stuff study what mr. ryan's cuts will be for social security, medicare, i think they will be less than enthusiastic to support him. host: let's move on to david in iowa, on our line for republicans. caller: i would like to comment. i'm very excited about paul ryan pick for vice president. him and mitt romney will do a great job. host: why do you think ryan is a good pick? caller: he is a very honest, level-headed person and extremely intelligent with the numbers and business wise, i think he will do a good job. host: this is the way the story is playing this morning in "the baltimore sun." v.p. pick rallies g.o.p. leaders. they write -- a move that reframed the presidential race as an ideological size over government and fate of medicare, the popular health care programs for seniors. host: if you are in janesville, we would like to hear you and tell us about the paul ryan you know. our next call from louisville, ken

those are the risks that drive the economy. >> host: so -- >> guest: forward. >> host: so getting, you know, this sort of connects back in terms of middle class risk to the notion of redeployment of labor. >> guest: i know what i was going to say. >> host: okay. >> guest: so the whole economy has grown riskier and riskier in its foundation. an innovation-based economy is riskier than one that's exploiting the mass market. and that risk has been pushed not only to investors, which it has in part, it's also been pushed to employees. you know, we have -- we don't have -yard lined benefit -- defined benefit contributions anymore. people have iras and things like that. so, you know, they're much more prone to being laid off in a recession than they were in the past. there's much more risk that's upside lying the entire economy -- underlying the entire economy. and we all say, jeez, wouldn't it be nice to go back to the 1950s and have an economy that was less risky, or we could push it all off on equity investors and not have it have any impact, and all the employees could enjoy a more stabl

host: mrs. off of twitter -- you just made the statement that when people work, welfare payments drop drastically. guest: that is not true. when you attack the program from 1945 to the present, we have many good -- when you look at the program from 1945 to the present, with many good economic times, and the caseload did not fall, but the only time it fell was from 1996 to the present time because of the change in the system. you need good economic times, but you need a work requirement. it is the two of those things put together the cause of the behavioral change that we want. it is not that welfare recipients sit back and do nothing whatsoever. you have a set of incentives were under the traditional welfare system we sent a check, and you sat at home and collected a check. if you do something else and say this is not for your best interest or anyone's best interest, and we will teach you how to do a job interview, where did the job training, the response is positive and you get -- or give you a

>> host: you did mention gmail. back in february you wrote a letter to gary page of google requesting a meeting because of their changes in privacy. were you able to effect any change? did you have that meeting? >> guest: we've had a number of meetings with google, and they're ongoing, and we're working through this process. i mean, i've got to say it's been interesting because most of our interaction with the internet companies, the big ones in particular, have resulted in agreements. i don't need to say settlements because they don't get to where we have to sue them, sometimes that does happen, craig's list and others. but mostly we come to an agreement as to what is appropriate. they've got 26-year-old kids in cubicles in san francisco with ponytails saying, how cool is this, look what i can do? not with concern about how does that effect children and the laws? so we've been able to meet with google and talk to them about their particular privacy policy. we haven't come to a final resolution that's ongoing, but w

host: what economic benefits do conventions bring to the host cities?uest: they can bring a nice economic uptick. if you are in a battleground state and want to make some inroads were bought for donations to supporters, having the convention in a key battleground state is a way to do it that is legal. it offers high visibility. it allows you to put boots on the ground in a state you might need desperately in november. caller: i want to ask the professor if he thought the third party, like ross perot's platform, how would that be involved today in this election? guest: you look back as early as 1992. ross perot's candidacy changed the dynamics in the sense of what was being talked about. going in, it was the same common blather. ross perot made it a referendum on the budget deficit. third parties can do that. despite what the other parties might think, they can steer them to issues they think are important for the nation as a whole. we saw this with the populist movement and with the progressives in the early 20th century. we saw that with ross perot in

of >> host: and can you eliminate withholding? >> theoretically. that is why you go to the simplified attacks system. generous rate on a single sheet of paper. since 1986 when retry aid to louis simplified there have been 14,000 changes. it brings out the worst in us as a people doing get 10% or 20%? it is corrosive throw the whole thing out bring in thend flat tax. it is a single rate.e the you have the withholding 25done countries has done it.e rateompa get more growth with lessless political corruption. >> host: as a business owner what resources totexes devote to your corporate taxes with the regulation part? >> on the personal side is huge with tax preparation and dealing with the state filings it is mind-boggling. for what purpose? thirty-five years ago i could do my own tax return. i cannot now. etax retu. i would not even attempt it now with the crazy calculations. we tried to make the casemakets morality comes from the free-marketnt spark out government is not the moral equivalence but in becauses imml it goes against the very thing ths mo

host: thanks for all your calls and tweets. we'll have more coming up in our pre election coverage, getting ready for the tampa bay times forum. you can watch all of that on our convention hub and you can watch what you missed at c-span.org. you can comment or watch the comments at our twittered stream, all that at this c-span convention hub. one of the speech you will find is from last night, former senator and former presidential candidate rick santorum. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome rick santorum. [applause] >> thank you. thank you very much. thank you. bless you. thank you, pennsylvania. it is great honor for me to be here tonight, with the love of my life, karen, over here. and my 93-year-old mother from florida. and some of my children. my oldest son, john, wanted to be here tonight, but he is a first-year cadet at the citadel. [applause] so i just want to say to you, i am proud of you, son. thank you. i am a first-generation american. at the age of seven, my dad came to johnstown, pa., from the mountains of nor

[laughter] >> host: no. i'm just thinking about some things that you're saying. >> guest: i would argue that for young women it's good to be in a position where you can wait around, where you can have maybe a number of sexual partners and find the right person for you or a man who's willing to chip in with housework which young women are very interested in. but in an existing relationship when a woman starts to pull ahead in a way that they had not anticipated, it can create problems, and it can even, it can even have to do with something like communication in the sense that if she is achieving and doing well but she comes home and she doesn't people like she can talk about it, she doesn't feel like she can talk about her success at work or the raise that she's gotten, and communication breaks down between the couple, then, obviously, intimacy is going to break down, and that's going to have a sexual consequence in a relationship because they're not talking to each other. if she doesn't feel she can talk hon

host: thanks so much.e have done programs already on the voter identification statutes and we will again before election day. jim on twitter -- next is winston-salem, north carolina. this is from jimmy, a republican. caller: hello. go ahead.ld you tu sir? jimmy, are you there? i apologize, we have to move on. albany, new york, charles, democrat. caller: i think this is a question for the individual. as a disabled veteran, i'm a lot better off now that we have a democratic president and he helped implement the correct changes to the va system to help veterans like myself. as a country, i am split down the middle, because we have people that the benefits that are not getting them. and you also have people taking advantage of benefits that don't need them. i think this whole race thing that the media keeps talking puts us at a different axes as a country. last, i probably will vote for president obama again because i don't have a short memory. i remember the project romney was involved in, all the lawsuits th

unfortunately -- >> host: you put your hand and eye off from work. >> guest: i was thrilled. >> host: what is the importance of the story? >> guest: biracial. in britain before president obama was elected, but most african american people are not pure african. many have indian blood, white blood. we know about, for example, thomas jefferson and sally hemming, which is an interesting story because some people choose to say they were in love. i don't can. it is kind of an unequal relationship. what do you say when you're having a meeting? not tonight. i don't think so. it is an unequal situation. oftentimes, race or properly. you don't have the right to decline. the bottom line is, however it happened you end up with people who have an array of skin color. for people, of one drop rule, in louisiana if you have one drop of one you are of african descent. multiracial. been that way since we have been year, 1619. toby davis of multiracial, by racial is something that just happened the other day. when you look at many, many african-american people you will find the product african descent,

. >> host: as governor, did you shrink the size of the state government? you use your veto would've it, but we were able to shrink the size? >> guest: wunderkinder dollars, i was able to cut the rate of growth in half and that was the historical rate of growth. i was pointed at state government employees over an eight-year period. there were 1200 fewer state employees starting with 12,000, ending with 12,800. a 10% reduction in state government employees, which i always pointed out unquestionably said we were doing things more efficiently because we were doing things with fewer state employees and they were doing more things. i would like to point out that really the driver of state budgets state to state is on medicaid and that of course is a federal entitlement and its open-ended. and that is what has this in the predicament we have are the entitlements, medicaid, medicare, social security to a lesser degree, but we have to address entitlements. >> host: what is the libertarian position on not? >> guest: i am promising to submit a balanced budget to cong

. >> host: argue a shareholder personally? >> guest: i am, yes. >> host: is it important? >> guest: it depends on your economic situation. you're dealing with risk. mutual funds for people who are lower income make more sense because you can afford less risk my portfolio, i agonize all the time about which stocks are going where, and you take a moderate position. people have to pay a lot more attention to their personal finances, financial the trustee, and the people, low and moderate income people really need to pay a lot more. people pay attention to their day-to-day budget, but the question would be how much attention be paid to your child college education. start saving as soon as the child is born. how many people pay attention to their retirement. social security is a solid program. they make up the benefits as we move ahead just based on aging, the aging baby boom, but retirement is part of a three legged stool, social security, personal savings, and pension. just about half of us as americans have pensions. you know, we have to look at all three of those legs on th