Patience I’ll tell you what draws us into this race and I say us because we’re doing it as a family my parents came to this country 40 years ago with no money in search of opportunity in a single generation I’ve gone on to found multiple successful companies did it while
Marrying my wife apurva who is a successful throat surgeon at Ohio State where she’s saving lives every day for cancer survivors raising our two sons one’s three and a half he’s carthic he’s actually going to be four soon and one of them is a year and a half following our faith in
God I’m worried that American Dream isn’t going to exist for our kids in their generation unless we step up and actually do something about it right now I think we’re in the middle of a war for the future of this country and I don’t use that term
Lightly it’s not a war between black and white or even between Democrat and Republican not really it’s deeper than that it is a war between those of us who love the United States of America and are founding ideals and a fringe minority who hates this country and what we stand for a war
Between the permanent State the Deep state in Washington and the everyday Citizen and in the face of that I see a Republican party that has grown lazy actually that red wave that never came you all remember that that was shortly after that that I decided this was our
Duty to step up and do our part because I think the Republican party has grown lazy not just in its get out the vote tactics some of that too but lazy in a deeper sense of defining who we are and what we actually stand stand for the
Left is very good at this they’ll give you a vision it’s not the right Vision but they’ll give you something race gender sexuality climate and we’re sitting here pointing to that other side’s vision and complaining without offering an alternative vision of our own what do we
Actually stand for what does it mean to be a republican in the year 2024 what does it mean to be an American in the year 2024 to me it means we believe in the ideals of 1776 and if there’s two things I’m going to bring to back to this country that we
Started with in 1776 that George Washington started us off with as the first president that we’ve lost it are they’re basic ideas that go beyond black and white or red and blue the first idea is that the people who we elect to run the government ought to be the ones who
Actually run the the government that we the people create a government that is accountable to us not the other way around that’s not the case today the people pulling the strings today they’re the people in the Deep State the three-letter agencies they’re the ones really setting policy for this country
That’s made a charade of our constitutional republic there’s only one way to fix that we’re not going to do it through incremental reform we’re going to do it by actually shutting it down that’s what this is going to take and so as your next president you really want
To drain the swamp here’s how I’m going to do it 75% Mass firings that we get started on my first day in office half of that will be done in the first year the remainder through my first term this is how you drain the swamp government agencies that should no
Longer exist from the FBI to the ATF to the CDC to the US Department of Education we’re not just reforming them anymore we’re getting in there and shutting them down that’s how you revive the Integrity of a constitutional republic in this country I will not start with last year’s budget as the
Baseline which is based on the prior Year’s budget which is based on the year’s budget before that all of which are broken because they’re based on corruption I’m going to start with zero as the Baseline and ask what’s actually necessary zerob based budgeting that’s how I’ve run my businesses that’s how
CEOs across this country run their businesses that’s how I’m going to run the federal government of the United States and you see even the thing that Steve King was talking to about about the carbon capture pipeline comes from excess Federal subsidies when you got a
Bunch of people showing up to work at a bureaucracy who shouldn’t have had that job in the first place what happens they find things to do that’s what happens which is it’s not even just their headcount cost it’s far worse than that that’s what happens in this country so
We have to stand for what’s right now the reality is we’re not going to get any of this done in the long run I’ll get it done as your next president in the executive branch but in the long run to drive lasting change we’re not going to do it without
Elections we can trust and believe in one of my top legislative priorities in my first four years my top one in my first year will be to restore elections that we can trust and believe in in the United States I’ll restore minimal standards for federal elections single day voting
On Election Day as a national holiday with paper balance government issued voter ID to match the voter file and yes English as the sole language that appears on a ballot that’s not too much to ask that’s not controversial that is common sense that’s what it’s going to take in this
Country and you know what when it comes to domestic policy I’ve told you the people we elect to run the government should be the ones who run the government well the duty that they owe is to the citizens of this country not any other one America first to make
Does not come with an asterisk America First means it is my moral duty just as a father my moral duty is to my family as your next president my sole moral duty is to you the citizens of this nation so that’s why I’m not going to use our military forking over $200
Billion doar more of our taxpayer money to places like Ukraine so some kleptocrat can buy a bigger house that’s what’s going on today no I’m going to use our own military to secure our own Southern border and our own northern border too that’s what it means to stand for the
Rule of law in this country that’s what it means to secure our borders and Birthright citizenship for the kids of illegals who should not be in this country and Birthright citizenship does not apply to them apply the Constitution that I swear and oath to keep and federal funding for Sanctuary cities and
The incentives to be here illegally in the first place not only using our military on the southern border but south of our own border we won’t be giv away our own money as foreign aid willy-nilly to Central American countries Each of which should be building a border wall on their own
Country’s borders all the way from Venezuela to the northern border of Mexico this is how you address the Border crisis in my first two months in office and by the end of my first year in office yes we will have mass deportations underway anybody who’s in this country illegally will be returned
To their country of origin because that’s what it means to stand for the rule of law in this country and I say this as the kid of legal immigrants to this country it’s not RAC is not xenophobic it’s what it means to stand for the rule of law in the United
States so no I don’t think that’s too much to ask that the people who we elect to run the government should run the government and that the moral duty they owe is to the citizens of this country not another one that’s what it means to be an
American those were the 1776 ideals that this country was founded on I believe in my heart those ideals still exist I’m running for president to revive them it’s our Creed it says ebus Unum it means from many one that’s what we’ve lost in this country we’ve been taught to celebrate
Our diversity and our differences so much that we forgot all of the ways that we are the same as Americans Bound by that common set of ideals and here’s how we’re going to get it back it’s going to be by all of us not just me all of us starting to
Speak the truth in the open again saying public what you’ll say in private at the dinner table say it with a spine say it with conviction say it with respect but part of respect is that you respect your neighbor enough to tell him what you actually think and you see that’s what this
Campaign is about speaking the truth not just when it’s easy but when it is hard not just to the Democrats on the other side but to our own side when necessary too there’s a reason I’m the only candidate in this race who can even tell you certain things that the carbon capture pipeline
Is absolutely unconstitutional in its use of emminent domain building its way across half the state that it’s based on a climate change agenda that absolutely is a hoax because it has nothing to do with the climate That vaccine manufacturers need to be stripped of their special liability exemptions that
Are the product of crony capitalism where there’s been injury there needs to be Justice to tell you that Rona McDaniel needs to step down after five failed years of leadership of our failed Republican National Committee to tell you that I will pardon every peaceful j6 protester on my first day in office
Because that’s the right thing to do for this country there is a reason why I am the only candidate in this race who can even tell you these things it’s because our politics is corrupt anymore every politician is dancing to the tune of their biggest donor and in my case that
Biggest donor is me I do not report report to them I report to you the citizens of this country not another one I’d rather speak the truth and lose this election than to win by playing some fake game of political Snakes and Ladders but my bet is that’s the winning
Strategy it’s not up to me it’s up to you that’s what the Iowa caucus is about you know some saw snowstorm canceled events in Northwest Iowa we got four events we’re keeping them intact if you can’t handle the snow you’re not ready for sh ping that’s my
View there’s we had we had about 300 people at the last event I did last night we got home to De Mo around midnight I said I don’t care if there’s two people or there’s 30 people or there’s a 100 people we’re showing up this morning you make a commitment you
Keep it in this country that’s what it means to have a president who actually has a spine and so if you all do your part I promise you my family and I we will do ours we will stop at nothing to make sure not in some fake
Poli politician way but in a true way to make sure that our country’s best days are actually still ahead of us thank you for coming this morning guys God bless you and your famili this afternoon it’s already by the time we got here I want to open this up and
Practice what we preach a little bit give me the hard ones I said I’m going to sit across the table from shiin ping I better be able to handle the hard ones thank you for bringing your young ones and family members as well I want to open this up and and don’t hold
Back right there sir um you say you want to shut down the department of bed um once you like shut it down where where do the education go from there will it be the state or it’s a great question yeah I I just kind of hitting the high points but let’s get
Into some details so and you you can press me on other agencies too like the FBI these aren’t slogans to me these are clear plans we’ve offered and we will Implement so the reason I want to shut down the Department of Education is not because I’m against education in this
Country but because I’m for it take that 80 billion dollar which right now is used to foist radical racial and gender ideologies on schools that’s where it comes from that’s the head of the snake they say you don’t get that money unless you adopt these agendas now the
Department of Education if you actually study the history it was formed as part of the civil rights movement in the country you could debate the merits but at least it was formed to stop certain states in the South that reportedly were using funds for predominantly black school districts to siphon them to
Predominantly white school districts that was the basis say what you will about it but today has nothing to do with the purpose they’re literally foisting the poison onto our kids and saying you don’t get the money unless you do it so I’m going to put an end to
That and that 80 billion do will mostly go to the pockets of parents in this country who deserve to choose where they send their kids to school private Charter Public homeschooling parents determine the education of their children it’s one of the hard truths in the I don’t know if we yeah we handed
Out our Thomas PL pay pamphlets today that’s a hard truth so we have to stand for that and then against that backdrop I’d love the public schools to compete against the private schools get rid of the top obstacle teachers unions that stop public schools from being able to compete against private schools let’s
Bring transparency so parents can make informed choices if you’re going to teach it in the classroom put it on the internet if you don’t want to put it on the internet you shouldn’t be teaching in the classroom and then I believe in a Revival of civic education in this
Country that’s how you ultimately defeat the woke poison is not just by playing whack-a-mole but by diluting it to irrelevance I think every High School senior who graduates from high school should have to pass the same Civics test that every immigrant has to pass in order to become a voting citizen of this
Country it just makes sense that we want people who grow up in this country to know the same things that we require of an immigrant before they vote so it just gives you some sense for how I think about educational reform in this country I could go on into a lot more technical
Detail actually think there going to put more money in the pockets of even those kids 90% of the time if you switch a kid from a bad school to a good one you’re switching them to a school that spends less money per student so if parents are
Able to make that choice there means there extra money on the table I think half that money should go into the kids account when those kids graduate from high school many of those kids will have a sixf figure graduation gift waiting for him including even in the inner city
Think about the Head Start that provides on the American dream and so this is part of a vision an implementable one but it starts with the head of the snake shut that Department of Education down put the money back to parents and one piece of this for a small sliver of that
We can put three armed security guards in every school across this country it’s not even close which is a better use of money something like what happened in Perry here just days ago should never happen in this country protecting our children’s a vital priority and that’s a
Much better way to protect our children than too radical racial and gender ideology Oles on to them that’s how I would do it y so that would be decided by the states so every state would do it differently yes exactly because I don’t think the education should be run by the federal
Government but that budget goes back to the States they only get it functionally to be able to actually if they’re putting it in the pockets of parents so that means every school effectively it’s a lever to nationalize school choice which is what I think we need in this
Country and then each state determines how it makes those decisions as the educational system should be run and I’m a 10th Amendment absolutist that which is not reserved to the federal government is reserved respectively to the states and to the people so we’ll of course follow those principles but it
Starts with right now we’re not following the principles by collecting and concentrating that money in the federal government give it back to the States and to the people good question thank you I appreciate it sir um Mr ramaswami um I’m a Libertarian um very impressed by your campaign I’m I’m so
Impressed that I I flew here from Montana just to see you oh wow I’m the you’re used to the snow yeah this is bommy for me I’m the uh the founder and editor of Liberty portal.com at Liberty portal on Twitter and we don’t need a
Red wave we need a a ramas Swami tsunami and I have a a couple of uh I like that I have a couple of questions here from some other folks on Twitter um jackv lyd uh wants to know um how you about military conscription and then a second
Question from purple pirate at puror pirate he wants to know um your stance on the Federal Reserve and I would add to that I’ve heard you talk about wanting to back the dollar with a like a basket of of Commodities I’d like to to hear you say more about that thank you
Thank you I’ll address both the answer to your first question the most direct answer is no I’m against conscription but I believe in the Revival of civic duty which we’re missing and so those for those who do advocate for it I understand where they’re coming from I just don’t think
It’s the American way to do it I prefer other forms of civic duty and so what I’ve laid out is I think every High School senior graduates from high school should be able to pass that same Civics test if they can then I do favor either six months of military or first
Responder Service as a condition to acquire the right to vote at the age of 18 I think you got to have skin in the game our founding fathers believed land owners had skin in the game I don’t think that’s the right way to do it but civic duty is we already demanded of
Immigrants apply the same standard to our own citizens and so I get about as close to that concept as anybody has in the modern history of our party but I don’t think that mandated at behest of going to jail is the right way to go I
Think you have to come to that civic duty through your own valtion through your own choice to actually value the heart of what that civic duty actually is rather than doing it at behest of a government that puts a gun to your head so that’s where I land on that question
Which is a good one and as it relates to the Federal Reserve I mean this is the head of a different snake that we need to shut down in a different way it’s been money raining from on high like Mana from heaven for 25 years artificial with the
Printer machine running it’s fake it’s it’s artificial snow that we’ve been skiing on it’s not the real thing now the snow machine turns off and you see what happens you you rece the tide Reed you see the detrus that’s left so I could go on all day about this one but
I’ll get to the punch line which is that I’m going to have a 90% headcount reduction at the US Federal Reserve Again part of the problem is you got a bunch of people showing up to work who shouldn’t have had that job in the first place they find things to do that’s
Where the poison comes from that’s where the Central Bank digital currency comes from for those of you just by a show of hands does anyone know what I’m referring to there the cbdc a couple of you they want to digitize the dollar why to be able to violate your
Liberties it’s why China’s doing it to say if you say something or do something the government disagrees with you could just wipe out your bank account they effectively did version of this to the can Canadian truckers in the freedom Envoy you guys might remember that one well it’s not how we’re doing
It here in the United States of America put an end to that and then that 90% headcount reduction why I don’t need that many employees to do what the FED needs to do stabilize the dollar as a unit of measurement it ties back to this it’s got to mean something it’s got to
Be grounded in something of actual real true value so there’s one of the objections to the gold standard is what happens if gold ever becomes volatile so I’ll just say the same Spirit about basket of Commodities gold silver nickel agricultural Farm Commodities that’s a blended basket Peg the Dollar by rule to
That basket period it’s grounded of something that has real value that takes the legs out from the so-called bricks program Brazil Russia India China South Africa that are planning to create a goldback currency to replace the dollar as the reserve currency of the world that’s wrong that’s not in our interest
And that’s how I’m going to end it so thank you for the thoughtful questions thank you for flying here to be here all the way here how long you st okay well if you want to talk to some iow caucus scorers for us while you’re here we’ll take it I think winning Iowa
Is going to be the most important step to my getting there and that’s why we’re here to ask you for your help and I’m grateful for you that sir oh hey BC uh I flew from Florida yeah I like the weather down there a lot more and I like it up
Here I’m a retired Marine Corps infantry officer and I’m seriously concerned about the uh wokeism that’s infected all the other branches of the service uh but now the Marine Corps as well I mean it makes me sick and I would uh just like your thoughts on that
Sure so first is we need to clean house at the Pentagon it’s been Infested by people who have used this what I call woke smoke to deflect accountability for their own failures and the trick here is a lot of these criticisms of the military used to come from the left in
The area of the Iraq war that was a leftwing criticism so what they do they actually flip the script and said oh we’ll just talk about systemic racism and white rage if you’re General Mark Millie or whatever it’s woke smoke to deflect accountability from the criticism that used to come from the
Left that’s cynically I think where a lot of this came from I’ll end lynen Johnson’s executive order you know I have no reason to know what this was but it’s called 11246 was the executive order that mandated anybody who does business with the federal government adopt racial and gender quota systems
First of all it’s unconstitutional as an executive order it should have never been passed but B it’s the voed the wrong ideology under the private sector and at that same time we had the beginnings the early seeds that were planted for a lot of that infesting our
Own military as well clean house at the top at the Pentagon get the woke indoctrination out of the military one of the ways to do it is even stop measuring the nonsense are you Hispanic American Asian-American gay American no just American one box thank you if you’re serving this country or American
Not hyphenated if you stop measuring the nonsense that kind of is the first step in eradicating the mind virus and this is why we have a 25% recruitment deficit in the US military it’s really young people don’t want to serve a country they’re taught to hate young people aren’t inspired to
Serve in a military that is abandoned or at least diluted its core mission in favor of these orthogonal social agendas when the best person for the job gets the job because of when the person who gets the job doesn’t get it because they’re the best person but because of
Their skin color in terms of who gets promoted we’re going to put an end to that these racial group quota systems have been toxic for merit in America and that’s comes from the commander and chief and the beauty of these questions is and everything I told you except for
The election standards that we’re going to set for the country everything else I’ve told you so far I will deliver for you as your next president without having to ask Congress for permission or for forgiveness because it comes through running the executive branch of government it’s going to take a CEO to
Get that job job done I know that if somebody works for you and you can’t fire them that means they don’t work for you right it means you work for them because you’re responsible for what they do without any authority to change it I’m not going to be a hollowed out husk
Of a puppet sitting in that white house that’s what it’s going to take to actually revive that executive branch and then revive who we are as Americans so thank you for that I appreciate it we’ll go right there thank you very much then we’ll come up to you
Sir my name is Priya jwall and I come from California and my I’m so grateful all of you traveled far from here I no I was not coming here at all I was going for Washington DC and God is real which I had to you know people are like FBI is so corrupted
Right now I’m standing here for the National Security you know my husband was a terrorist he was uh arrested for a terrorist ISM case which I uh revealed everything every possible thing which I had information to FBI and I he was arrested last year and FBI like FBI and
The you know his name is uh the FBI agent name is sa uh George Claudius and uh he and my daughter like my daughter is a US citizen she was like you know she was forcefully made Muslim like you know from his father his name is nikel jval who who was
Arrested and you know each and every detail my daughter and my son has given to the FBI that he’s a terrorist he’s a very dangerous Al-Qaeda member an Informer of uh you know Al-Qaeda you know they stood for their lives like risked their life and gave information
To FBI and to the government and the deputy district attorney his her name is Shanti gopalan she comes to my daughter School in in Kino high school that is in California Bay Area and she takes a wrong statements of you know forceful statements at the school premises and my
Husband gets released on that on on you know false statements which she has you know expressed everything to FBI and and and all the evidences like uh taking the statements and everything was uh watched by um you know uh two friends of hers that are the evidences you know I’m
Sorry for what your family has gone through it sounds like a complicated complicated really and the principal of the the principal of mon Vista one of my my son my son’s like you know my son he my my my my husband comes to after releasing he comes to my son’s
School and he’s taking him to you know showing him guns showing him everything and that he reported to the principal that this is happening to me in the lunchtime and the principal calls the deputy uh Deputy Patel his name is Deputy Patel and that that Patel comes
To the uh school and he and he like he he along with Deputy district attorney Shanti gopalan makes if I just if I just make because it’s because I I want to be respectful of you and also everyone else here to take the spirit of your question
To address it no way we can actually address the spirit of my question is I’m standing here we all are standing here me and my family like whole are standing here for national security security risking our life you know corruption is so much last year Laura Smith was uh uh
Arrested for the corruption charges in catino where I lived so you know how are we going to address it is the point so the the point is only one thing I’m trying to say you uh as a president as a commander you are going to be next as a
As a normal citizen what my children you know standing for the you know for the nation risking their life and telling everything to you know to the government and these people have taken bribe and all the EV evidences are there you know I have gone to Seattle I have complained
I’m going to take the opportunity to address how I feel about some of the issues you have raised ma’am and this gentleman here has a this gentleman has a question right here and I want to be respectful of him to give him a chance yeah so if we we pass the microphone to
This gentleman but I want to address what you what you said thank you for sharing it ma’am I would like to say the principle of the school has apologized for the framing of he on the video he has apologized for the framing of taking bribe and everything what my son has uh
Reported to the principal thank you I I I I have to tell you I’m going to always be guided by the facts and I obviously uh do not have the facts of the specific situation your family has endured you’re clearly somebody who came here to to speak and properly be heard
And I respect that what I will say is about our national security establishment I want to say two things you brought up the word corruption I think it’s an accurate word to use to describe the weaponization of our national security establishment I think that’s accurate and one thing I can tell you
Not about the facts of your specific case but about the facts of the reality of our national security establishment is this cannot be reformed incrementally this has to be reformed from the ground up and so there are other presidential candidates who will say things like with the best of intentions we’ll
Fire Christopher Ray who’s the director of the FBI I don’t think that does a thing you get James Comey 2.0 afterwards I think people who are saying this to you they’re lying but they don’t know they’re lying to you they think they’re lying to themselves if you want to fix
This you have to gut the bureaucracy at its core I answered your question about the Department of Education let me answer that about the FBI what is shutting down the FBI look like what I called the failed Bureau of Investigation there’s 35 ,000 employees at the FBI 20,000 of them are back office
Bureaucrats at the Jr G Hoover building in Washington DC they soall the J G Hoover building tells you a lot they’re going to go home and find honest work in the private sector 15,000 of them are cops investigative agents on the front lines we will move them to the US
Marshals which has been far more effective at fighting child sex trafficking rings and even the fentanyl epidemic in this country move them to the financial crimes enforcement Network at the US Treasury to go after the future sbfs and the ftxs financial frauders so that’s at once how we will
Actually improve the effectiveness of what our law enforcement is supposed to be doing while ending the corruption and then and then and then and this is the part I was going to get to if what happened on October 7th can happen in Israel that can happen right here at
Home in the United States of America and I think we’re now more vulnerable to it than we have ever been with a porous Southern border people are flowing in I mean I if this was happened at the the Western border with 3 million Chinese coming to the west coast of the United
States or 3 million Iranians coming to the east coast of the United States on the Western or Eastern Border we’d call that what it is it’s an invasion it’s not that different when you have millions Crossing arrow and Southern border including from those Islamic watch countries the night before I
Visited the southern border two men from Lebanon were apprehended of that southern border why are they traveling all over the United States to Mexico to cross illegally over that southern border and so we’re now more vulnerable to attacks on our own soil than we’ve ever been and I think part of the
Problem is we’ve had a National Defense establishment that has been so focused on fighting other Wars abroad that haven’t Advanced our interest from places from Iraq to Afghanistan now in Ukraine if I may say it as well that they’ve forgotten to protect our own Homeland right here at home and
So we’re going to do that the right way while standing for the Constitution while actually dismantling a lot of that well I have a lot of issues with the FBI ma’ and this maybe if I learn more about this perhaps this will be one more yet on a very long list but my
Answer is we’re going to shut it down and actually reorganize this to parts of the government that haven’t been corrupted like the US Marshals in the same way I thank you for being here and I want to go to this gentleman to be able to ask his
Question um I believe that uh the best economies are built on cheap and abundant energy that’s why share that belief United States did so well in the last century uh with fossil fuels being cheap and abundant but now they’re getting more and more expensive to get
To and the lack of investment with the green new failure and all that um what’s your thoughts on on nuclear and reducing some of the red tape to go with what I think is our best option for cheap and abundant energy so you want to address the core economic malaise in this
Country prices are going up wages have stayed flat while interest rates and mortgage rates have gone up I mean bomic mumbo jumbo aside that’s what’s going on in the country you want to fight the national debt we got a$ 34 trillion national debt crisis young people in
This room have about $200,000 of just national debt not even including unfunded liabilities for entitlements on their shoulders that they didn’t sign up for the answer to addressing both of these things growing the economy and fighting our national debt starts at the same place get the oil and natural gas
Out from underneath our ground sell it that instantly buys down8 trillion of our national debt and begins to grow this economy now my energy policy is as much energy abundance as we can have in the United States of America America drill Frack burn coal Embrace nuclear energy and the irony is this climate
Cult and it is a cult I don’t call it a religion because a religion has withstood the test of time a cult has not the climate cult is hostile to fossil fuels but it’s the same people who are hostile to fossil fuels who are also hostile to
Nuclear energy in the United States that wouldn’t make sense if you’re applying principles of logic but there’s something else going on here the CL agenda has nothing to do with the climate it’s actually about letting China catch up to the United States nuclear energy might be too good
At solving their madeup crisis and that’s why they’re against nuclear energy for the same reason they’re against fossil fuels and you want to know which country burned more coal than it ever has in all of its history it’s China last year you want to know which country burned less coal than it ever
Has last year is the United States you want to know which country has a Gen 4 that’s the most advanced form of nuclear reactor that’s China well we’re still stuck at gen two in the United States because of three-letter agencies including the department of energy the nuclear Regulatory Commission that has
Been hostile to the construction of a new nuclear power plant in the United States of America so I’ve said on that agency list of agencies to shut down and I’m not giving this to you on the Fly we’ve laid this plan out six months ago and it’s on our list shutting down the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission it has failed and abandon its purpose and any institution that abandons its purpose can’t be reformed at a certain point in time it has to be shut down unlock energy of every form in this country that’s how we revive our national identity it’s how we revive
This economy and it’s how going to lead this country thank you sir I appreciate that question we have time for for probably one or two final questions before we wrap up we’ll go to the back right there um I my name is Angie and I support um I sell technology into our
Government contractors supporting government missions we also have a construction company what is your plan for inflation slash unemployment because we can’t find people that are skilled to work for us there people that work for us they’ll show up every day but they’re not skilled and that also goes along with
Inflation you know they keep saying the rates go up because they don’t have money so thank you there’s a few things going on in the country right now I’m G to give you the biggest answer right off the bat we’re paying people more money to
Stay at home instead of go to work so if you’re a small business owner or a large business owner the top obstacle to Growing your business right now is actually filling those open positions and so I think that’s a shame I think that we need to stop using our taxpayer
Money to pay people to do the exact opposite of what’s even best for them actually so once we pull that back you at least unlock the supply of labor as opposed to the artificial blanket on the labor Supply now other ways we got to do this is also support forms of Education
Or at least don’t get in the way forms of Education that might actually provide people with skills through two-year or one-year vocational programs to be a welder Carpenter mechanic Builder even basic forms of coding and Technology do not require for your college degrees yet the Department of Education the one that
I said I would shut down is again one of the root causes here using our taxpayer money to artificially tilt the scales towards being what a gender Studies major in California you can get that subsidized but without actually generating useful skills to help promote our own economy So my answer there also
Relates to a broader theme of how I’m going to lead this country we will stop using our taxpayer money to pay people to do the exact opposite of what’s best for them in a wide range of ways we’re paying single mothers more money not to
Have a man in the house than to have a married man in the house there no accident that we now have a 25% fatherlessness epidemic in the United States of America which means you’re 10 times more likely not to graduate from high school eight times more likely to
End up in prison multiple times more likely to end up in poverty we’re paying for it using our taxpayer money to do it I’ve visited places like the south side of Chicago black mothers today are the ones actually targeted by this policy since lynon Johnson’s Great Society the
Biggest misnomer in our history since the 1960s black family formation was actually much higher in the 1950s and 60s than it is today it’s not just among black Americans it goes across all racial groups right now I’m going to stop using Federal Aid programs in places like the inner city of Kensington
And Philadelphia that I’ve visited they’re giving away crack pipes and needles in the name of helping drug addicts paying people more money not to repay their student loans than to repay their student loans more money not to go to work than to go to work and the
Ultimate tragedy here is not only does that hurt our economy and business owners like yourself it’s not even good for the very people you’re supposedly helping people my age and younger I’m the youngest person ever to run for US president as a republican I’m 38 now I think these revolutions these
Revivals they tend to be led by the Next Generation for a reason Thomas Jefferson was 33 years old when he wrote the Declaration of Independence actually that’s part of the reason why I think it takes somebody whose best days in life are still ahead to see a country whose best days
Are still ahead of itself I think it takes that but I could speak for my generation today it’s not good when you have most people my age are younger now for the first time in our history depending on incomes that provide just aid from their parents outside of
Actually working for it sitting in your parents basement playing video games smoking pot is that helping you if you collect an extra check from the government along the way no it’s driving a mental health epidemic in this country and I think that’s part of something deeper going on we’ve heard questions
About our economy heard questions about my domestic policy we foreign policy it’s Downstream of a deeper cancer in our country we have a hole in our heart a black hole when you have a vacuum that runs that deep we’re hungry for purpose and meaning and identity at a moment when Faith patriotism hard
Work family these things have disappeared and that leaves that moral vacuum in our hearts and when you have that vacuum that runs that deep that is when the poison fills the void pick your favorite one we talked about one of them the case of the military wokeism transgenderism climatism cism depression anxiety fentanyl
Suicide it’s not an accident that we see the rise of these same poisons at the same time these are symptoms of a deeper void of purpose and meaning in our country and I think one of the things we failed to do as a Republican party for a long
Time we’ve been running from something now is Our Moment to actually start running to something back to our vision of what it means to be an American today individual family Nation God that beats race gender sexuality and climate if we have the courage to actually stand for something and I think
The challenge for our conservative movement right now is what happens when the things that you’re looking to conserve hard work on that list work ethic what happens when those basic values you seek to conserve when they’ve disappeared we have to recreate them actually and that’s why I do think now
More than ever it is going to take somebody from the Next Generation somebody coming in from the outside with fresh legs to reach and Lead that new generation of Americans and just just by way of show of hands how many of you have participated in Iowa caucus in the past
Good number of you and how many of you are considering being firsttime caucus goers here in Iowa good number of you as well you have a decision to make in about eight days seven days the Iowa caucus on January 15th I’m going to ask you to open your
Eyes to where we are many of you many of our supporters are considering whether to go with Donald Trump whether to go with me I think there’s two America First candidates in this race I think it’s going to take somebody from the Next Generation with fresh legs
To lead our America first movement to the next level I think it’s going to take somebody who stands for our national character that’s half the job of the next US president not just passing the policies but as a very pragmatic matter for those of you who may be considering exactly that
Choice if you think they’re going to let this man get anywhere near the White House again I’d ask you to open your eyes I don’t think that the system this is going to stop at nothing to keep this man away from the White House and our America first movement it didn’t begin in
2016 it began in 1776 and we owe it to our founding fathers and to this country to make sure we have another 250 years and then some left in our life as a nation our movement cannot end with Donald Trump this movement does not belong to Donald Trump just as it
Doesn’t belong to me it belongs to you to us to We the People in this country and I’m in this race to take that America First agenda to the next level and I believe I can do that in a way that nobody else in this race can Reagan when he left office in
January of 1989 of all the things he could have said he was proud of bringing us to the near end of the Cold War growing the economy getting us out of stagflation he could go through the whole list of accomplishments he didn’t pick any of those things the thing he
Said he was most proud of when he left that office in January of ‘ 89 was to have revived our national character to answer who we are as Americans a national character that we lacked when he took office in 81 when I leave office in January of
2033 after two terms if you all put us there there’s a lot I want to tell you that we shut down the Deep State I think I’m going to get that job done better than anybody else in this race we know how to do it it’s going to take an
Outsider and somebody who knows the Constitution we’re going to get that done to grow this economy to declare independence from communist China having actually secured our national borders and our own Homeland to tell you that we grew this economy as a result of that as
Well stayed out of World War I in the process I’m going to tell you all of that but the thing I most want to tell you is that our two sons and their generation that they are once again proud to be citizens of this nation that we’ve
Addressed that vacuum in our heart that I’m going to do my part it’s going to take parents and pastors and teachers and coaches across this country to do theirs but I’m going to do mine as the next president to revive our national identity that’s how we win that’s how we
Dilute the other side’s poison to irrelevance and if we do then we don’t anymore have to be this nation in Decline that we’ve become we don’t have to be at the end of the ancient Roman Empire I think what George Washington would say if he were in this room with
Us right now what I believe what he would say is that we still see a a nation that’s really just a little young actually going through our own version of our adolescence figuring out who we’re going to be when when we grow up and when you view it that way it
Makes sense again you go through your adolescence you go through that identity crisis you lose your way a little bit but we are stronger for it when we get to our adulthood on the other side so no I don’t think we have to be this nation in Decline anymore I think we
Still can be a nation in our Ascent I’m not going to be the guy who walks in here and tells you that it’s it’s mourning in America right now because it’s not but it can be I’m not going to tell you the American dream is alive and well
It is not it is alive and hanging on for life support right now but it can be if you all do your part that’s what I’m asking you to do on January 15th you pick the next president you certainly have a disproportionate role in picking the next president you also
Set the platform for this party both of those things are important on January 15th I’m asking you to take 30 minutes of your time to save this country and if you all do your part I promise you apurva and I and our family we’re going to do ours to make sure we
Look our kids in the eye and tell them that this is still the country where no matter who you are or where your parents came from or what your skin color is that you do get ahead in this country with your own hard work your own commitment your own dedication
And that you know what you are free to speak your minds at every step of the way that is the American drein that is what we are running to and with your help and I’m asking you for your vote on January 15th with your help that is what we are going to
Revive to save this great country thank you for coming today guys God bless you and your families and may God bless our United States of America thank you lady
