yes orono? it is b.s. john: and putting it is not on the table.hey have triple spending. >> george w. bush massively increased federal involvement with no job of behind. >> said decentralization of power to the individuals are most invested with the outcome. obama's as we pile more stuff on the top. incidence a week tried to give more money and let's give it to the parents. john: then the schools would compete. >> it should be a choice and get rid of the department of education. [applause] john: just cut the bureaucracy. >> it is a local responsibility. >> >> the longest war will be over but yet to the have taken out the soldiers but 60,000 people in an embassy still? 68,000 troops. >> he said we would be out 2014. just like iraq levying on a plan for adduced under george to be booed at -- under bush and leon panetta was asking to stay there passed the 2011 deadline. this president has not earned his nobel peace prize [applause] john: my audience watched much of the convention. what do they think? next. [applause] john: audience participation in.

and we cannot afford gridlock, orono action. gridlock means going over the fiscal cliff and risking another recession. it means not addressing the challenge of mounting future debt until events overtake us and we lose control of our economic destiny. we need to act now to preserve a more prosperous future and to show that our democracy actually works. thank you. [applause] >> thank you very much, alice. thank you, pete. thank you alan. thank you, erskine. we will have a few questions. mike lux is when exactly 21 minutes when the time i think for everybody to ask a question. have more information on the table. i'm going to start with john, john kennedy did not get to ask a question, and i would rotate, built. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman, and thank all for you for your excellent work. it's been constructive to the process in an inn measurable way, in my judgment. i think we've had a structural deficit situation for at least six, maybe seven or eight years. and one of the frustration -- frustrations i've had is trying to e