good the businessman from piedmont, okla. very good -- the businessman from piedmont, okla., and a retired businessman from oklahoma city area. [applause] thank you, candidates. candidates will start the first question, and we will move down the table in alphabetical order. on the second question we will continue down the table and conclude with jerry, and we will continue that rotation throughout the evening. question no. one, and you have two minutes to complete your answer -- oklahoma ranks poorly and many categories, including general health, mental health, child and spousal abuse, teen pregnancy, prescription drug abuse, as well as illegal drug abuse. each of these areas place significantly in our economic statistics. what do you thing must be done to improve our overall state of health? >> first i would like to thank northeastern state univ. for hosting us and the opportunity for all of you to be able to come and join us and certainly the oklahoma academy for this forum. we know every report guard continues to rate okla

norman, okla., on the republican line. caller: think you for being there. have been listening to the callers this morning. -- thank you for being there. the one lady that said all the republicans care about are rich people. i am almost 60 years old. i worked two jobs. i wish i made a $300 a week like that one person who gets to sit at home and do nothing. i worked. that is what america is supposed to be about. everyone pull your money together. that is what republicans believe in. taking care of yourself, do not depend on the government. the name of the game is driving can offer the tax payers. it is killing our schools. these people have kids in school, rigid, sometimes three or four kids in school and they are not putting any tax money back in and they wonder why the schools are going down? when i was younger and had the mental and physical capacity to be a manager, they look for a job, but the jobs they wanted were to be a manager. if they could not be a manager, they did not want the job. host: michigan, beverly on the independent line. caller: i have b

another article in looking at the senate race, -- next up, okla., dawn, republicans line.caller: i'm calling because nowadays, i do not know if i am a republican, a democrat, or independent. the tea party, i want to tell you what it means to me. the tea party, you know, people say they are racist and maybe some people are. i am in the tea party and i am not a racist individual. president obama, he is not a true black individual anyway. he is half white and half black. the whole thing in america as we are all a melting pot. we learn that in grade school. that is what america is, in melting pot. we have a bunch of people from all over. that is what makes it work is freedom. host: let's look at the open court financial times" profiling senator scott brown. -- the "financial times" profiling senator scott brown. it reports that, thanks to mr. brown, we will be able to invest up to 3% of tir one capital in hedge funds in private equity firms. evanston, ill., randy on the democrats line. what do you think the two-party means? caller: it is what i call the most ignorant, masius,