. >> i'm nicholas mueller, the libertarian candidate for congress in the 6th direct. the reason i'm running is to provide voters a real choice rather than the republicans and democrats who only disagree on where they want the government to interfere in your life. >> we're speaking with a $16 trillion debt. housing market that's shaky. where do you start to finding solutions. >> i think the right solution is to get the government out of the economy as much as possible. it's gotten too big. it spends too much money. what we really need to do is let the free markets solve a lot of these problems. as for the housing market, that's a harder issue. a lot of bad debt still needs to be clear before any real recovery is possible there. >> former secretary of state condoleezza rice recently called education the civil rights struggle of our day. do you agree with that assessment and how do you address it. >> i believe that education is a big problem, but the problem is in the that there's too little government in education but much too much. we need to allow the free market to p

thank you. >> nicholas mueller. mueller: i think the health care market is just market like anything else. the more choice consumers have the better and one of the biggest issues with health care right now it is done in a way that just doesn't make any sense. that is by giving your employers a tax break to offer you health insurance, rather than a higher salary. i think we need to get rid of that tax break, and let individuals pick their own health insurance that makes sense for them rather than one uniform plan. you know, people can make their own choices. when i lived in singapore for a year, i got to choose. did i want to spend $300 a month for a some hens sieve policy or want to spend 300 a year for just a catastrophic policy? as a young guy i chose the 300 dal for the year policy. so i think we can use reforms like that. to lower costs. >> moderator: question number two we bring up the "d" word, the deficit. certainly a major topic of conversation throughout the campaign. we will begin with question number two.