SCOTT WALKER NEW HAMPSHIRE SPEECH - RADICAL ISLAM IS OUR BIGGEST THREAT

SCOTT WALKER NEW HAMPSHIRE SPEECH -

RADICAL ISLAM IS OUR BIGGEST THREAT

ABOUT GOVERNOR WALKER

Born on November 2, 1967 to Llew and Pat Walker in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Scott spent his early years in Plainfield, Iowa, where Llew served as pastor of a local church.

The family moved to Delavan, Wisconsin, in 1977 when Scott’s father was called to pastor a church there. Scott was involved in sports, band, church, and achieved the rank of Eagle Scout, remaining active in the Boy Scouts of America to this day.

While in high school, Scott was selected to attend the American Legion’s Badger Boys State Program in Ripon. He was subsequently selected as one of two representatives to Boys Nation in Washington, D.C., and the experience opened Scott’s eyes to public service.

In 1986, Scott moved to Milwaukee to attend Marquette University. While still in school, he worked for IBM before leaving to work full-time in financial development for the American Red Cross.

Scott was elected to the State Assembly in 1993. While there, he chaired several committees and authored important pieces of legislation. He was re-elected four times.

In 2002, Scott was elected as Milwaukee County Executive and went to work reforming the scandal-ridden county government. For the next eight years, Scott faithfully kept his promise to spend taxpayer money as if it were his own. He cut the county’s debt by 30 percent, reduced the county workforce by more than 25 percent, and authored nine consecutive budgets without increasing the property tax levy from the previous year.

Walker was first inaugurated as Governor on January 3, 2011, and immediately set our state on a path toward government reform and fiscal order. When he took office, Wisconsin faced a projected $3.6 billion deficit, more than $800 million in unpaid bills, and the loss of nearly 134,000 jobs over the previous four years. Governor Walker made tough, but prudent, decisions to ensure our children and grandchildren were not buried under a mountain of economically crippling debt; he paid the bills, balanced the budget, cut taxes, and put in place reforms that are growing jobs in Wisconsin.

Governor Walker was sworn in to his second term on January 5, 2015. He is focused on continuing to move Wisconsin forward with his vision of freedom and prosperity for all who live in this great state. He will continue to reform education to ensure accountability for all schools receiving public funds, as well as make sure no school district in the state is required to adopt the Common Core standards. He will also continue cutting bureaucratic red tape so government is more effective, more efficient, and more accountable.

Scott is married to Tonette, and they have two sons in college. They are active in the community and their church.

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we have been around the state the last two days but before that I get a chance

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to really sit down with Jennifer horn and and get to know her

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and know her love for this party and more importantly for the state this

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country

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we're out at the Republican National Committee meeting earlier in the year

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and

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rights previous the RNC shares actually grew up

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about 15 miles down the road for me to the the one direction

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ironically Paul Ryan drop about 50 miles down the road from the other direction

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but some in the water in the eighties actually funny story about call you to

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kick a this

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on I North flip hamburgers is kidnapped as kids at mcdonnell's my first I was

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washing dishes and I

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I moved up to flip hamburgers at mcdonald's the only difference was I

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wasn't alone in a small town he was in Janesville

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honest to god truth calls manager told him he had to flip hamburgers in the

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back

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because he didn't have the interpersonal skills to work for cash register cell

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2cm about that true true story but I I think about being here in the States

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and being joined today my my wife tonette the first lady wisconsin is with

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us as well today

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week to sign this man and Alex 20 and 19

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Boston College the Bulls acted actually amazingly in college republicans in fact

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Matthew

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which is the statewide sure he knows your state lectures well

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in so we're thrilled as we are on the country we see

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is kinda fun to see people who know your kids not just yourself

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so we're proud man Alex and they're probably gonna make a point

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they twisted arms to figure out a way to maybe take part in this master of next

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year

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next following come to new hampshire income around the country and and talk

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to young people like themselves

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that is a real proud of the fact that in our state in the last election

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when I was the number one target in the country at least one other network

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exit polls show that amongst 18 the 24-year-old's

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we went 49 48 percent so how about that we will get the message out

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much I appreciate olive you not just being here today that many ideas I look

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around this room helped us out

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over the last couple years people forget this setback in 2010

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the my eye was target number one at that point in the recall election

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and so many people across this country reached out

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here in New Hampshire and elsewhere and made at twenty or twenty five dollar

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donation or

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what people actually literate home reached out and and went online and made

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phone calls for us

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most importantly for tonight a lot of people said they prayed for us

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I got it and the item all those protests in the recall for us our family even

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with a hundred thousand protesters even with the death threats and all the other

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nonsense

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the folks who reached out with their support like that meant the world to us

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so

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thank you to love you here who did that all on the way that for years ago we had

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all the protests over time magazine

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had a headline that said dead man walking there in the guy was

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basin sink him and I didn't think I was gonna get past the recall it'll all be

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reelected

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and we know our reforms are work

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just enough time to prove it that time mr. polls were so bad about this point

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the spring with

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2011 that at a time you know there is no way we could when

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enya two things after by that fall

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when our kids in all the other kids with the public schools are back to school

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the school's used our reforms found that their schools were the same

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or better and then in December when property tax bills came out after a

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dozen years a property tax is going well

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property taxes are state actually went down but I'm proud to say today

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in my state property taxes are lower today than they were four years ago when

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I started how about that for turner

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we knew that would make a difference and sure enough when people saw

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they didn't have to see the TV ads that are attacking a starting in March 8 2011

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they didn't step to believe all the protesters

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came in from around the country when they could see for themselves

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but the reforms were working the tide started to change

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in my junior 2012 we won that election

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in juneau that here with a higher percentages was more actual votes cast

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we had in November 2010 2 years earlier that shows

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results tell you that is not just for background the reason I tell you this

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because I look at america today

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I have a lot of the same Oris the turn and I had when we first thought about

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running for governor

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many years ago 2009 we sat down and talked about we thought about what we

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prayed about getting in the race for governor

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that we knew it be tough because in our state leaving care the state for

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republicans

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since 1984 as when I was in high school I still have four here so it's a long

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time ago

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the 1i think back to that I went back to those days early in 2009

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we knew it would be tough in our state to run when but we knew we had to

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because we were worried for our sons were then in high school that they were

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going to drop in the state's

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well that wasn't as great as the state we grew up in and I got a superior

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that's just unacceptable its we got now election we won that battle

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the attack was all the better because when we faced all the groups that we did

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four years ago at this time it was worth it because it is just about it

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title or position we might have backed down

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but because we knew it was about are signs man Alex

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and all the other sons and daughters like them in those yet to be born

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we knew it was we're standing up and fighting for we knew

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that even though those troops since like that the book that was hella Pierre a

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moment ago the title that books called on intimidated because we knew

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the tactics they were using in our state are like the tactics they use around the

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country

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AC to intimidate instead intimidating as he reminded us exactly

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who elected this in the job they elected to do from that point for we never lost

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focus on what we were intended to do

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and that's what we need more than america today

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today as much as I'm proud is Jennifer talked about the change the

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transformational changes we made in our state

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I'm proud of the fact that for my sons and their generation I can say today

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now is the state better than it was four years before it's as good or better than

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it was when I was growing up

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and that was my goal because I want my kids to grow up in a better place than

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we did

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try again as a parent today I'm or I'm worried for our country

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I'm worried about my signs in your sons and daughters my nieces and

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your nieces and nephews and grandsons and granddaughters I maury

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that we're headed down that same path toward me years ago my own state but I'm

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an optimist

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so I'm not just for a dive optimism that if we can put the kind of leadership

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that place in this country that we have done in my state

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and many of my neighboring states were common sense leaders stood up four years

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ago and said we're gonna change things were to make them better

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we're gonna lead in a way that's common sense republican conservative principles

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were actors in a way that make our state's better and we have

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I believe we can do the same thing in america let me give you three examples

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when I look at this country i think is a clear contrast out their particular when

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it comes to growth

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he listen the president I'd states particularly when he gave his State of

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the Union address in

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and he talked a lot I i tried to listen to on the C you know as an american

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first I I hope for the best

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but I hear president and then I hear many his allies like hillary Clinton

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others out there who I think

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believe that you grow the economy in washington

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something about last year's report that show that

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that 6 the top 10 wealthiest counties in america

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born in New York or California or Florida texting or their

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in and around Washington get around washington says to me they think you

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grow the economy Washington

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I believe in America we believe the vast majority the rest of us

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from outside washing which by the way I call 68 square miles surrounded by

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reality

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that's what washington does the rest of us who live in reality understand we

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grow the economy and cities

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in towns and villages all across the street country that people create jobs

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not the government it's about time we have leaders that won't help the people

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the structure

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its that's why I'm proud of the fact that we lower the burden our state most

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the states that have been successful in lowering unemployment

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in raising employment had done so by lowering the burden hardworking

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taxpayers

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that sometimes people in my state to don't always agree with me question why

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my obsession with your taxes Lord and two billion dollars

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on individuals on employers in a property in our state

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they see why so obsessed with Lauren the tax burden price ever since the way to

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explain this tone it knows this and

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every six last month nice elevator 22nd wedding anniversary his issue

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with me that long but vertically up to last for years

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but I made a critical mistake not long

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after we were married I want holes department stores

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and I bought something at the price it was marked so now I've been trained well

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I know

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I know after many years a practice that if I'm gonna go buy a shirt

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I go to that racked this as it was $29.99

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and now it's 1999 and then I get the sunday insert with the little scratch

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off and I take it up to the cash register along with my clothes credit

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card

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and then I take the mailer that week cuz we shopped there a lot and

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and sometimes it's 15 or 20 percent for really early really lucky

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its 30 percent right on we're really like to get to 30 percent off

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and then we pull out the Kohl's cash we lay it on the counter

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neck siano pay me to buy that shirt

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Ryan side of this action was wearing a sweater yesterday one where the same

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color for two days

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Sykes stop by calls about this later in the Iraq war seventy percent of we paid

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one dollar for it with our with our clothes casual on the rise

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but but I see so how does a company like calls make my

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the making of value right they get over it like a church

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$29.99 for that shirt in a few people admire that could lower the price

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broaden the valium the next thing you know all of us are buying things at a

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place like that

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I call that the calls served as you know what that's like your money to taxpayers

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money

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I could charge a higher rate of you could afford

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or I could lower the rates more on the day's more people participating economy

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and that's the way you feel the comic right

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soviet just rolls which we need to do more than that means doing things like

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repealing Obamacare and actually having an energy policy and doing all the

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things that fuel this economy going forward

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but in addition the growth there's reform thing about the country's here

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you know this president and his allies to the measure success in government by

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how many people are dependent on the government

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family Dr Medicaid and food stamps unemployment

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we we should measure success

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but just the opposite by how many people are no longer

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dependent on the government right

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stand the true freedom prosperity doesn't come from the money into the

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government the conference people to live their own lives

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and control their own destinies dignity distorted work

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work think about if you remember anything else I I'll a point this out

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when I was a kid growing up in a small town Adele I don't ever remember one of

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my classmates same to me he skied Sunday when we drop I want to become dependent

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the government right

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nobody signed my yearbook just good luck becoming dependent government

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yet somehow that's acceptable Washington and I it over the years I met some

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amazing people who've come here from other places around the world

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it's really amazing people or not I wish my kids would hear their stories were

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awesome because

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to a person the ones that I am who've been successful small business

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loners today are people who tell me the reason they came here was not to become

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dependent on the government

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the reason they came to America was because it was one of the last places

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left in the world

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but doesn't matter what class you were born into doesn't matter what your

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parents it for a living

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in america you can be and do anything you want the opportunity is equal to all

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this

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but the outcome should be up to each and every one of us

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some I learned a long time ago my

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my father was a preacher my my mom was a a secretary part-timers my brother and I

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might my grandparents and once I performers were my mom didn't have

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indoor plumbing in tissue one of the junior high

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my grandfather my grampa Walker my dad's side was a machinist for forty years

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from all my parents and grandparents I didn't inherit Sameer fortune when I got

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was something more important I got the belief that America

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if you close you work or the play by the rules

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you should be able to do or the anything you want that has slipped away and we

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need to restore that back to get in america

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and so I think what are the best ways reform this federal government by taking

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power out of washington

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and sending it back to the states this in the back in the hearings

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that's the way we

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government is more efficient and more effective and ultimately more

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accountable to the hardworking taxpayers

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the last night a beyond just beyond just growth

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and reform something that's heavy on my heart these days is safety

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safety you know i i don't call national security acolytes safety

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because when you see those images the jordanian was burned alive in a cage

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when you see the headings the Christians from Egypt or others from around the

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world

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I gotta tell you that makes me worried not just for myself my country makes me

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worry for my children and your children anyone else who would ever

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dare to travel around this world and that's not right

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finesse rights the what frustrates me is we've got a president who draws a line

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in the sand

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and somehow of people across the president the calls

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my sister GB squad because %um in a success story

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because I ran a place we could do business with whose former Secretary of

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State

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Russia reset button a reset button thing about that we

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commander in chief in this country who stands up the once and for all says

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our biggest threat is radical Islamic terrorism

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weird

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text

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takes

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point

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we should start think the

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understands radical Islamic terrorism is like a virus

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and if you don't take it out entirely it's like a virus in your computer

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it will keep coming back and I don't know about you but I'd rather take the

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fight to them that way to a comes to Aus on American soil

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so I'm worried about where this country said

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and I'm worried about our position in the world but I am an optimist

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and I believe just as we have in the past we will rise up to this occasion

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again

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you see years ago I I mention I grew up in a small town my family didn't have a

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lot of money and sell

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even though I loved history I loved our founders i thought id like superheroes

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bigger-than-life

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I never had a chance to go to Washington or Philadelphia or New York or anywhere

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else

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and sell not long after I was elected governor in the fall of 2011 to net I

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got a chance to go to philadelphia and we're there for governors conference in

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we get up early in the morning and I wanted over to independence of

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we won by the Liberty Bell

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we win independence all ever been there you know it's not very big

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and I got in there as as of: someone who thought of our founders is

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a super is a bigger than life I thought to myself man I married on our way

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and I got there early in the morning and

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looks as we looked at the tables the desk in the chairs

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particular the cheer up in the front or watched and sat with the half Rising Sun

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and I thought to myself

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these are just like the chairs and desk we sit in today there's a little older

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then it dawned on me these are ordinary people

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this ordinary people do something quite extraordinary

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these people didn't just wrist their political careers

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these people didn't just wrister business ventures

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these were patriots who risked their lives

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for the freedoms we ordered today moments like that are amazing to me

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because what they do is restore it to me

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believes in the American spirit because it reminds me not just in those moments

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alter our history in moments of crisis

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economic or fiscal be military or spiritual

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what has made america exceptional what is made as

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arguably the greatest country in the history of the world it's been in

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moments of crisis like that

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there have been many

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and women up courage for being willing to stand up and think more about the

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future of their children

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and their grandchildren than they thought about their own political

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futures I tell you here today

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let this the one of those moments in history latest the a time in history

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where we can look back

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and tell future generations what we did to make America great again. thank you

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Jessica

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that many more times in new hampshire

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