GOVERNOR SCOTT WALKER- SPEECH AT THE FLORIDA ECONOMIC GROWTH SUMMIT

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morning could hear bodies out here

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first off thanks to Governor Scott recon and a good friend to turn at nine

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we appreciate the chance to come back and share with you all

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actually about to I look around this audience I think I saw few view in this

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room a couple years ago I had a chance to speak unfunded the Florida

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chamber commerce right here back to remind me that this morning I got up

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early I came in

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late last night stayed over got to run a couple laps around a

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the boardwalk expropriate I'm running since I I feel like I've been running

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for office quite a bit to last for years

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three times in four years we want in the state of Wisconsin

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a state that had gone republican presidents since 1984

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but we appreciate the chance to come back just as we did a few years ago here

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practices are

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fourth trip to Florida this year a four-time we've been in the florida this

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year alone I i think back in last year's wasn't just to be here

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literally in this facility for that to Florida Chamber commerce many but over

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the last few years as governor we've been everywhere from Orlando to Sarasota

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to Tampa the saint petersburg certainly down in Naples where there's a lotta

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midwesterners Bonita Springs where

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we have my wife and I have an aunt that lives down there in Fort Myers

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over Miami certainly West Palm Beach Fort Lauderdale

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a we've been at the villages we got a lot of good friends who live at The

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Villages

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all the way up to Jackson know all over this great stay and so we appreciate the

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chance to come back and share a little bit with you today

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appreciate wreck inviting me in a number of other folks really are

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like me you're thinking about maybe the possibility of have taken the next step

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to help this country go forward

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and so I appreciate the chance to be here it's not

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though just trips to Florida as a governor even years before

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my kids are 19 and 20 obviously coming to a place like this

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when they were younger where there is a Disney or some the other attractions

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but some my earliest memories of order actually go back to an

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my fob my grandfather my grampa Walker

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L Walker was a machinist for 42 years

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at a place called barber Colman rockford oh no I was machines for 42 years in

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he loved fishing so much you saved up almost all his life savings

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and not long after his retirement him my gramma re

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bought a place a smaller home in Fort Myers not Fort Myers Beach but in Fort

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Myers in Middletown

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so that he could use fishing just about every day at I can remember in the early

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seventies coming down to visit

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and then that long I think it was about was about seventy one if I remember

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right that

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that disney world opened up here and so i think in the early seventies we made

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one of the first visit here

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a lot more grown since then I'm gonna get I was a little spot for me was a big

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spot as a kid but

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a lot has changed since they're not just in Orlando but across this great stay

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across the country and so I thought I spend just a couple minutes Tony a lot

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built a little bit of somewhat richer said in the introduction and then

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tell you not just about what we've done in Wisconsin but about how we can help

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grow the economy across this country and how we can do so in a way that puts

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power more power

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out a Washington back into the hands the state more importantly back in the hands

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the American people and

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American job creators weir's Rick mention we came in we face a pretty big

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challenges for years ago just like richter here in Florida

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by the way he's been introducing all of us state that had 11 percent

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unemployment now down to 5.6 percent a stated

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that was losing jobs you think that the hundreds and thousands jobs are created

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here

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he's provided tremendous leadership so that all %uh view and others that you

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represent as job creators in the state could be a part in the florida contactor

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I'm excited to be here because what gives me hope and optimism for america's

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happening in Florida

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chapin wisconsin's having a michigan is happier states all across this great

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country

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when you put in place good common sense reform-minded

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leadership we've been able to turn our states around I think we do the same

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thing in our country couple good examples in our stay we came in and

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in here to state with the beginning of 2010 when I was a candidate for governor

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January 2010 the unemployment rose 9.2 percent Rick mention it's now down to

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4.4 percent the month before I took office I was 8.1 percent so slack quite

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can happen is close I'm particularly proud not just on employment down but

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our labor participation rate the number people

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adults who are actually out working sixty-eight percent some more than

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two-thirds are actually out there working which is

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incredibly important wanna biggest frustrations national is even as on

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appointments going down

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the labor participation rate still hasn't gone up it's still way

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way too low and that means frustrating as it is a lot of folks who were on a

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plane was going down

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lot of folks in you to drop tupper given up on job market week

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we can happen we need to make sure we left everyone up in america have

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everyone find their way to live the American Dream in a big part in that

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is being able to be gainfully employed to support themselves and their families

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so I'm proud that unemployment's down labor to position rates are high in our

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state I'm proud of the fact that we took a

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3.6 billion dollar budget deficit region last four years turned it into a surplus

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in fact our our latest state budget won the toss

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lawmakers are working on a hopefully will finish up by this month so I

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can sign into law in not too long after that make an announcement as to what our

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intentions are but

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but as I think about that say budget we have a budget that four years in a row

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we balanced

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we now have a budget that if approved the way we presented with and with

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nearly a half a billion dollars structural surplus going for so

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quite contrary to what we see in our nation's capital for doing it

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in our state you're doing it here others are doing across the country now we not

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only

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belzer budget that we we put our finances back in shape in no way that

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many have you have have done when you've inherited or taken over

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maybe challenge businesses along the way we

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turned things around so much so that our rainy day funds a hundred sixty five

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times bigger than we took office

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our pensions the only one fully fund in the country our pension and debt ratio

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/url all

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why cuz we know we got our finances under control and we started taking

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aggressive actions to get government

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out of the way the job creators the people of our state we start putting

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people back to work again

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it would turn things around and on top of that you ever

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for a few years ago we made a couple protesters in our stay

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well more than a couple we had about a hundred thousand

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but I was really because what we did was we took power

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out at the hands of the biggest special-interest we put it firmly in

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hand to the taxpayers

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that's what we did and in doing so we not only empowered job creators to

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create more jobs to put more people to work to see unemployment go down

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as as labor cessation rates remain high when I only put our fiscal house back in

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order

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we're gonna run better lot of protesters the time claimed the public education

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was gonna say I'm proud to tell you that today

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we no longer have seen your in your tenure that means we can hire and fire

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based on merit we can pay based on performance that means we can put the

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bash

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and the brightest in our classes a week campaigning to be there

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should the proof is in the pudding the facts don't lie four years later

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graduation rates are up

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third-grade reading scores are up ACT scores are now second best

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in the country for states for more than half the kids take the exam

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why because we empower not just the taxpayers but the people we duly lacked

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to run our schools attack should be in charge of our schools again

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and set a tremendous impact out there it's not just up their public schools do

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better

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we lifted the camps in school choice the original

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public school or shouldn't private school parental school choice was a

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Morkie some twenty-five years ago

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when I came in there was a cap on the number schools

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on the income level and the number students we left at all does

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we left to them so more schools could participate so

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so the income was just limited to low-income but middle-class families as

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well

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because we knew that if you have a strong middle class to help build strong

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urban communities

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that's cute a strengthen know whether it's more key roles were out there

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and then eventually two years ago we actually lifted the cap on on having a

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just in Milwaukee and Racine WI did it across the state

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good my belief is whether to traditional public school

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a charter school choice school virtual school or home school environment every

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child in my state and for that matter every child across this country

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deserves access to world-class education

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i would tell you that's not just a moral imperative and I believe that I've got

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two sides were now in college but

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when I came in as governor both were in public schools I get two nieces or in

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public schools

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I got plenty of friends who got kids in public schools I want every kid in my

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state to do while that is a moral imperative no matter what

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school it is an but it also as you know

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in the world job-creating economic compare

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because as the baby boom generation ages and gets closer into retirement age

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we're gonna have even greater needs to fill positions not just open today but

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tomorrow

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and we gonna make sure that not just as a moral pair that economic paradigms

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we make sure that all of our sons and daughters have the education they're

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gonna need to succeed

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not just through high school but whether it's an A for your or graduate level

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program

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or to to your social program or a pressure program

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there's a place for everyone sexy senate debating about how low wages are going

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to be like some do

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we should be talking about how do we help people get the skills and the

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education and the qualifications they need to succeed in this economy going

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forward

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that is both a moral and economic compared and so we've done a certain

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things and was cast

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as rick mentioned some those things you might not know about a show that's a

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credit to conduct the big government union bosses

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we did all that we made Wisconsin the twenty first state in the nation to have

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the right to work who would have thought that the industrial midwest the

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we did in terms of a lawsuit reform and regulatory reform in

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and other things like that I tell you that if a state

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that has gone republican for president since 1984 can only see those reforms

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enacted

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but elect me not once not twice but three times actually gained majorities

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in both houses the legislature why because our reforms are working

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there's no doubt we showed it here in Florida showed it was cancer showed

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plenty of other states across this country

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that with the right approach we can do the same thing when it comes

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to this great country that we live in a let me give you couple examples

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that for so I think in this dialogue going for national we'd have more talk

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about growth

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you know there's some in Washington like the president and hillary clinton why I

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think measure growth

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in America by how big the government s how big washington gross

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I don't think that's a a big reach out there think about last year

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six in the top 10 wealthiest counties in america you know where they were

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in a row Washington DC in a row Washington DC

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I think for the rest of us run this country we understand that growth

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comes in cities and towns and villages all across this great country

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that people create jobs not the government the best thing we could do

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which is get to govern our way

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wedge lower taxes I'm proud in our state even a tough

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economic fiscal times we lower the burden on a hardworking taxpayers

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by some to billion dollars we lowered it up individually cut individual rates

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across the board

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reduced the number brackets reduced it on employers particularly

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key industries like manufacturing and agriculture

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we did it for our job creators me we lower property taxes on businesses and

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also an individual so that today

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property taxes are lower today an actual property than they were four years ago

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not lower growth direction lower dollar wise and they were four years ago

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why because I think you put more money back in the hands and

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at the consumer and employer that money is better spent than it is

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an anti-government overwhelming that sometimes people

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jokin my state the capital asked why am I so focused on reducing the tax burden

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I toss up a story my wife and I in February were

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we're celebrating our 22nd wedding anniversary night I often joke that

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thank you for clapping

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for tonette for 22 eight years at it for purporting up with me that's pretty good

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but

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but I tell a story about a store you may be somewhere with its

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store actually based in Wisconsin but a to store near our hall the wallet also

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outside Milwaukee where

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where in 1993 as a newlywed I made a critical mistake

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I went out to a place called Kohl's department store

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and I bought something for the price it was marked a now if anybody's ever been

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there so I plenty of other great retailers across america

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you know that just about any things on sale so I learned over the years that if

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I'm gonna go by

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a new shirt I go to that rack 2 says it was $29.99

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and now it's 1999 and I get the insert up from the Sunday newspaper Die

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take the scratch off and I reduce might cost a little bit more

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maybe I remember the ensure that we get at her home in the Kansas 15

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or 20 if I'm really lucky 30 percent off and then we got to the cash register

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either pull out my pocket are usually to oppose out her purse

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some calls cash and put it up there's a ring it up and next thing you know

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they're paying me to buy their church right so how does a company like that

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make money

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the naked body of a volume right they make money off it I and the kids of your

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shirts at a higher price or they can reduce the price

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broaden the number people can buy those shirts

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and make more money off and I am that's what I think about your money the

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taxpayers money

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we could charge her work hard rates in a few years individuals or employers

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could could pay those rates are we can reduce the cost broaden the base

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have more people participate in the economy you my friend when

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when Ronald Reagan was elected my friend art laffer they used to call that the

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laffer curve I called the cost curve now

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cuz it's the same principle that we see in re to alter and so

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I think in america we the lower the tax burden to to reform the tax code

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not just to help consumers but top lawyers particularly when you think

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about

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American job creators on an international basis we need to have a

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competitive rate again

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so that more american companies can bring american jobs back from overseas

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and put more Americans back to work

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we need to rein in the regulatory environment whether zepa or any number

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of others out there that are

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like a wet blanket a job creators

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innovators and entrepreneurs and others out there we need a poll and

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those federal regulations and do more but to put it back in the hands up folks

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at the state and local level works more effective and more efficient and more

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accountable

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those are things that will make this nation growing see the economy flourish

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in Seagrove happen for all of our citizens

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we need to repeal Obamacare and put patients and families

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and the hell the market place back in charge of things again

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we need to use the abundance so what God has given us here in this country

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and on this continent to unleash the power to literally fuel the economy by

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actually having an energy policy that uses all the above resources that we

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have here

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in american on this cock net and open up doors around the world to do that as

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well

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and we need to have traded as fair and open

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a trade it says that if we compete on a level playing field american workers can

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compete with anyone

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in the world those are the sorts of things we need a champion in our

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nation's capital to put to people this country back in charge

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and along with growth to make it happen we need reform

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I say this as someone who's been involved at the local level and at the

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state level

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thankfully never at the federal level but I believe firmly that if we're going

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to reform our nation

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we've got to take major portion to the power in Washington and send it back to

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the states

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and back to local government and most importantly to the people in this

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country I believe we do that we can turn things around but think about the

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contrast there

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oftentimes when I think about the the president people like hillary clinton i

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i hear people who I think measure success

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in government by how many people are dependent the government how many people

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are on food stamps and Medicaid and unemployment

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an overall view but my belief in america is that we should measure success

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but just the opposite how many people are no longer

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dependent on the government because we understand it to freedom and prosperity

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they don't come from the fighting and the government they come for empowering

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people to live their own lives and control their own destinies

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to the dictator is born at work that is born at work

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I think back as a kid I remember growing up in a small town south central

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Wisconsin my first job was

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washing dishes the countryside rest I moved up in

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to the big time after after that the high school I serve flipping hamburgers

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at mcdonald's

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that funny story I was flipping hamburgers a smaller town a Delevigne

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just down the way about 50 miles down the way was my friend congressman Paul

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Ryan

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he was flipping hamburgers and James want to McDonalds there

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the only difference is his manager literally told the nurse

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Tony at the flip hamburgers in the back because he didn't have the interpersonal

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skills to work the front cash register

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had about that but I think about growing up there that small town in

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and that washing dishes and flipping burgers in I think about growing up

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there my dad was a preacher

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First Baptist Church they're down my mom was a part-time secretary did the books

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at a

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part time at a local clothing store raise my brother and I

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thing about my grandparents on once I performers

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where they didn't have indoor plumbing into my mother went off to junior high

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school my

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my other grandparents are you heard me talk about my grampa Walker who retired

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down in Fort Myers but

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he left and work for 42 years as a machinist

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for my brother I'll have to look back and realize

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for our parents and grandparents we didn't inherit fame or fortune

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we got was a belief that if you were card

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and you play by the rules you can't do and be

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anything you want that's the American dream that something we don't need only

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sure again

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in this great country

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anything about that for a moment

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i remember i I would imagine no matter where you drop

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you probably had a similar experience to me but but I think we need to remember

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this

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in america more often not and that is I don't remember any my classmate saying

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to me he scratched Sunday when I grow up

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I wanna become dependent the governor nobody signed my yearbook

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your Scotch Gundlach becoming dependent mcgovern right

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that's not the American dream yet somehow we act like that's okay that's

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acceptable

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and not only for those who are like like me

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many view here made a blast to be born this country right even more so for the

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amazing people I've met over the years just remarkable people I've met who

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who come to this country from somewhere else and I got a particular for all the

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small business owners I met my state across this country

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have come here from somewhere else not a wonderful not a wonderful told me the

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reason they came to America

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was to become dependent the government not quite the contrary

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effect what I've heard to a person's people tell me that the reason they came

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here

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was because Americans one of the few places left in the world

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where demand what class you were born into did matter what your parents did

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for a living

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in america you can't do and be

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anything you want the opportunities it was possible for all

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but the outcome is stopped in each every one of us

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that is the American dream remember nothing else you this morning tell you

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this

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there's a reason there is a reason why we take a day off to celebrate the 4th

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July

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and not the 15th of April because in america we celebrate our independence

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from the government

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not our dependence on it that the American dream that the american spear

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we need leaders were going to embrace an uplift that not just now not just in

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florida not just in Wisconsin but

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all across this great country that's the kind of approach we need going for

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I just for moblie the time to bring this country together is not to pit one group

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of americans verses another

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a rather say we're in this together we're

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one nation under God we are united country we need to start acting like it

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we're a country where with the right leadership that says were gonna help

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every

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one everyone left their pieces American dream we're gonna give you the help you

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need to get the skills

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and a qualification to lift yourself up to control your own destiny

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to live your own life that's the kind of America I was raised and that's the kind

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of America I know people have your own a condo

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I hope that's a kind of american you want going for and with your help that's

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the America we're gonna make not just for ourselves

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more important that's a kind america we're gonna pass on to our children

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and our grandchildren and generations to come what that looks like I got about 10

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minutes left I'll take a few questions if you got

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I gotta go to other them ago pointy a bit of a pocket summoner

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over here in a second ago with this point here that I have some economy

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there

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I'll try and move around as quickly as possible thank you again

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problem sir sir Florida a

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first ball purge books read books

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and graduation I'll

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straw poll %uh anyway

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there's two to two quick questions one how to get more people

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Republican 10 I mean we really you're having trouble diversifying

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may be lost last election because we didn't have enough

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people in urgent what's your thoughts on that

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secondly I'm in manufacturing Anna

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it just right not just because the taxes more so because regulations

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and seem to be very hard our governors help me a lot

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but it's very difficult to overcome all the regulations

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so I like your comments net thank you Chur

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a tutor parts are gonna reverse order manufacturing so I know

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up very well Wisconsin but it's important all across this country two

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key elements to like here are the biggest bears

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manufactures I talk to every week sometimes every day

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its regulations and workforce I don't that's true with you you said regulation

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board

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regulation they won the key things one thing I'd love to see

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I'll that the next congress in the next president hone in on

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is polling major portions a Washington and sending it back to the states

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this be one of those for example you think about the EPA is a good example

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every stay has an equipment the EPA

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every state that has it not that they're all perfect but they're much more

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effective

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much more efficient and certainly much more common about the state and local

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level in their washing

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why not take major portions are the funding and responsibilities that the

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federal government that regard natural resource protection and send it back to

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the states

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and leave limited role of any for the EPA to be

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media

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getting between interstate disputes over compaq's we've got bodies when water

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that go over

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multiple state lines but leave the rest at the state level

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were all the folks here who live and work here in play here and raise

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children here

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you all want clean air clean lawn clean water just like I do in my state

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knowledge do across this country why not leave it in the hands of the people you

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can actually work with that actually talk to you

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at the state level as opposed to wash in so I think it's a big part not just when

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it comes

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d-pa but a whole series about the regulation I i think thats

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quicker you get it back to the shins from the federal government to the

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states and the antelope members the better I i think all Washington

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68 square miles surrounded by reality so I did you get it back to reality we're

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better off

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I and on on the a workforce I the other part is that a good example there

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federal government has all these workforce investment programs out there

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again nights in the mall a block grant back to the station say let the states

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work with the regions and the local communities were you all know

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as job creators the people you work with much better insight as to where plug

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things and we try to last year's we made major investments

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in our pressure programs in our to your technical colleges

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at the state level but we did just give a blackjack

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we said we want will give you more resources but you show us

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how you're feeling the need for job creators and join the needs of students

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with your community so

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summer colleges are more highly skilled welders and machinists and fabricators

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others might have diesel technicians and truck drivers

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others may have certified nursing assistants it all really goes to where

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the demand is both in the students

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and from the employer nine on manufacturing I i think that's more than

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just work force Obama creative our

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of its economic development with the manufactures I hearsay

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I got five welding positions open right now I can add 10 more if I had the

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confidence I could feel the ones I have today

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national when you get that money I Washington send it back to the states

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where could it be deployed to meet those very needs

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and terms the party I we need to go to places where Republicans don't typically

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go

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we need to talk in ways that we don't typically talk about we need to be true

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to our principles truth or concepts I get to one good example

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out last year when I was up for election again

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for the third time

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we want again we carried in 10 the polls exit polls showed

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we went 49-48 amongst 18 to 24-year-olds

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that's largely unheard of for republican we actually went to college campuses we

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organize we went out to where young professionals were

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we laid out the difference which i think is not unlike the difference we might

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very likely see in this presidential election for example I think Hillary

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Clinton

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believes in washington knows best top-down approach it says will tell you

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what to do when to do and how to do it

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I think that is tired I think that has failed I think that something should be

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left in the past I think the contrast to that

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young voters as an example to say we believe in a comment should be built

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from the ground up

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its new and fresh and organic and dynamic to says

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so long as you don't violate the health and safety of your neighbor go do your

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own thing

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live your own life start your career build your own business we're not going

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to be in the way the other side wants to keep you on the farm

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we want to lift you up in every other american out there Chur

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go over here and come on this one

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governor I read your book I thought it's a great read and I just thought you

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might share

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unlike some other people at a local elected official

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what it was like to have to deal with the American Federation of State County

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and Municipal Employees

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in the burden that had and local government and you let the county

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Administrator

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a great point and thank you for your service is a a local official

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we operate years I was what was called a account executives elected position as

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the first and only Republican elected

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in Milwaukee County do that and people ass four years ago on the media said

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where this idea to take on these big reforms come from must've been this

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group for that donor this

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I said not came as you can relate to eight years as I talk about the book

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eight years a being of a county official we tried to balance our budget in

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creative ways we

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one year when the state government and say camera did this even under Democrat

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leadership say cover

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cut aid to schools and counties and so we had a we had to do something to

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adjust to that

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and so we looked at instead a lay people off we looked at doing for four months

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one week a month

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doing a 35-hour workweek but that's on a pretty reasonable we even did it

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we've been trying to be nice we say will do that one week the 35-hour workweek

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war and for for nonessential services will do that on a Friday

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so people can take Friday afternoon off with a stellar abuser explain to the

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public to the offices are closed on Friday

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with I was a nice advantage even though we were getting paid for those last five

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hours to at least give employs a chance to have a longer weekend

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asked me said no way

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they said go lay people off they were much more concerned

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they were much more concerned in keeping

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for there's more senior employees keeping

27:37

their ability to ratchet up their pension contribution levels for the

27:41

retirement they were protecting

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so for the newer earlier workers because remember

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under most government contracts under clock departing

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last hired first fired last chance for step so the people get next when there

27:54

are layoffs

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sometimes can be something very best boys but because their summer the newest

27:59

they're the first ones out the door because a senior in 10 years so I knew

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are the reason

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I we need to do these reforms was not just to give our local and state

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officials the power to balance our budgets but to protect

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some these very great workers or summer know sometimes summer younger son in the

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least

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able to handle a way of and that was just such a vivid image in my mind

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we took on those reforms with timer so my toughest days

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when we had to go through with those layoffs because asked me the public

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employees union would give us a viable alternative

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Chur over there on

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just a quick question on your thoughts regarding Obamacare

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an appeal I'm what do we do

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to protect the folks who have seen some

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the benefits of Obamacare the newly insured several million people

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find themselves now with insurance what's the transitional step in so that

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the interim place to go

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from an outright a peep from where we are right now to an outright appeal

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why do you have to you gotta and enact a repeal you can have a transition as a

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partner you gotta take steps to repeal it right away

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think the American people overwhelming a demanding at for a variety of reasons

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not to waste which is a lot of years employers

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found here's we found across our state across the country

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as affordable care act. is anything but affordable

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that we've seen tremendous premium increases a for job creators it had an

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impact not just on employers but on our employees and

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how much people pay whether to the government level the private sector

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level or

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or other organizations out there as well and that but I think there's you're

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right there has to be a transition

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part that is there's an ability for there to be to

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it to market if you will for exchanges that outside a cup

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there were changes before Obamacare they'll be changes afterwards and I

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think its ways that we've got to level the playing field in terms of

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not just providing tax incentives for employer purchased health care plans

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but for individual plans making it just as competitive for health savings

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accounts

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doing it for flex accounts and other things that nature

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and where I think there's a proper of the government is in transparent

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now we can do things like allowed purchase over state lines we can do

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other things that nature

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really transparencies the name the guy

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because meeting with ya take your phone's out you look at a

30:12

I would wager a guess at all you hear know more about your cell phone plan

30:17

then you know about your health care plan grammy I got two kids 1929 when

30:21

they first got the phone I knew I had to get

30:23

unlimited texting because if not I was gonna be in the poor house right I'll

30:28

and so you know about roaming mean overall the 60 why do you know more

30:31

about her Falcons week

30:33

cell phone provider you look at it they can tell you what your options are what

30:37

you do

30:37

when it comes to health care most about Snow White we pay 10 bucks we go to the

30:41

doctors a copay we pay ten or fifteen or twenty bucks prescription drug co pay

30:46

we're really now a health care cost I think we need to get to a system where

30:50

we have some skin in the game all this as patients have some skin in the game

30:53

so that we measure not just their health care costs

30:56

but our help so we do have had more of an incentive to manage

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are high blood pressure or diabetes are eating habits other things like that

31:04

because we know the impact it has

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not just on our health better health care costs as well

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right now we don't do that but the only example health care that's like that is

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corrective eye surgery where

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over the years it was largely on affordable for the average american

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it went down in price because the surgeons who did that realized

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much like my calls for example a

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they could do better if they lowered it down so was affordable for an average

31:29

american had more people

31:30

participate getting corrective eye surgery and therefore

31:34

the market draw things out still not fifty bucks and I

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the because you want a high-level quality if you have some 16

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by your eyes out there but it's in a formal area where most americans

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can reasonably save up for that I think we've got to get patients much more

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engaged in their process and we're gonna have a way to make that transition to

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get to a place

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were all the show more skin again with that I

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hey I can see the blinking red light so I apologize for not being squeezed more

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questions but again thank you thank you all will be back

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many more times we love the connection Florida we love reckon an SCA

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