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Thank you, thank you everybody. Im going to speak for just a few moments and then throw it to questions. Most of the time will be yours. Former gov. Bill weld one of the things i sometimes here is ovalet to the over office, how will you reach across the aisle . These are so poisonous in washington. It does not cost anything to reach across the i a. After i got in office for the first term, i want walked across the aisle to the speaker of the house and said why dont we get together, you, me and the president of the senate . They were a democra they were democrats and i was a republican. I said we will have cookies every week and we will learn about each other. He said fine. I said the same thing at the president s office. He said fine. We start doing this at my theory was if you know youre going to be having a meeting like that with someone within the next seven days, it makes a cover for you to stab them in the back on some legislative agreement or go to the press and state this guy is a real jerk. The result is that never happens in my two terms of governor. As governor. It was such a good idea that i think anyone who was there or lived in massachusetts since then would tell you it ushered good ood an era of andtions in the statehouse in massachusetts that endures to this day. The reason it endures to this day is because everyone of the five governors that succeeded me has adopted the exact same practice. Of the house and every senate president. Always across the aisle. That practice is continuing into this very week. It does not cost anything and it can produce great results. It also occurs to me that some of the naughtiest problems facing our country today that would be in anybodys first 100 lendas president themselves to this kind of approach and resolution. Certainly among the first couple would be the trillion dollar deficits. We did not have that problem in massachusetts because we got together and agreed on what revenues we expected for the year. If you look at the washington history, alan simpson of wyoming and the republican the republican and democrat worked out a blueprint. It was a very good blueprint. It did not get adopted by congress but it shows that type of issue is susceptible to that kind of analysis. Climate change, in my first couple of issues i would address may seem like a complex issue. It,ou think about preserving the shorelines of our country and every other country and making sure we dont get lambasted by severe flooding and atmospheric conditions that make all the storms we have seen in the last five or 10 years seem like a minor that is not really part of an issue. You should be able to get an agreement that we want to do that. The way to do that is to make less carbon go into the atmosphere. People think the solution to Climate Change is to say im going to spend 16 trillion on this or 12 or 20 trillion. People are trying to outbuy spend in Climate Change. The question is, how are you going to do it . The way to do it is to put a price on carbon, which will be an incentive [applause] incentive to is an people who put carbon into the atmosphere, coal companies, oil companies, mining companies, to put less of it in because it will be expensive for them. You put a price on it and it could float up and down, and ultimately the market is going to respond to the pricing signal, and there will be an equilibrium less carbon than there is now. That is the only way you are going to prevent as the temperature of the earths atmosphere from rising more than 1. 4 degrees centigrade from now until 2050. That is the only benchmark we have to hit. There is nothing in there about spending 30 trillion. We dont have to shoot betsy the cow. We dont have to stop making airplanes. We dont have to commit economic suicide. All we have got to do is put that price on carbon. If ever there was a national emergency, indeed a planetary emergency, even though 2050 is a long way away, that is an emergency today. Metal, say, a huge wall, walls with alligators and a moat between them at the southern border. Not so much a national emergency. [applause] but this one would be, and i think it is entirely possible that the Supreme Court would agree that the president of the United States could handle this one by themselves. Far preferable, if you can imagine the votes in congress to get an agreement on this process, but it is a very simple thing. You put a price per ton on carbon, 20 or 30 or 50 per ton, you let it float up and down until the market determines the equilibrium. Problem solved. That would be susceptible to bipartisan approach. [applause] gov. Weld a third area internationally arthur vandenberg, senator from michigan, famously said and he was in office that partisan politics stops at the waters edge. And it always used to do so. And we should be able to get back there in an era that is less turbulent than the current one in washington. Restoring good relations with our military allies is another area that should not be controversial. [applause] virtually all these problems, which are major issues on top of the table right now, seem to me to lend themselves to the kind of approach that the Problem Solvers Caucus and no labels are enacting. They are a huge force in politics today, and they are emblematic of everything i have stood for as the admiral implied over my career. I look forward to working with you and no labels and giving them a high position in the councils of my administration, if i am fortunate enough to get there. [applause] i am just dumb enough to be smart enough to know that i learn more when i listen to you than when i am pacific kidding to you when i am pontificating to you. I hope you all have been primed and have some questions you would like to ask me. Yes, sir . How am i going to beat trump . Secret that the republican state committees in each of the 50 states are pretty much appointed by mr. Trump. They are the trump organization, so you dont start there. Speaking broadly, i think my task is to enlarge the electorate of people who vote in the republican primaries beyond just the Party Leaders and their close associates, to bring in, many more women voters, for example. Not just moderate suburban women. I think all women should be alarmed at the assault on reproductive rights that has been enacted in state legislatures. [applause] gov. Weld also, particularly if you think about the issues, Younger Voters, millennials are now our largest voting bloc, and gen xers right after them. They are the most they are the ones with the most at stake. They are never going to see Social Security if someone doesnt stop those trillion dollar annual deficits. And in Climate Change, because they are the ones who are going to inhabit the world that is going to be changed the on recognition if the polarized cap is permitted to melt. And Younger Voters understand this. I am so enthusiastic about them voting that i propose they be able to vote mobile voting, with their cell phone. And i dont get up 10 times in the night to check it, i assure you. [laughter] gov. Weld but this now recognizes my fingerprint. It recognizes eye identification. You can vote, take a selfie while you are doing it, date stamp it, email it to your voting place. That is more secure than someone walking in saying, my name is john smith, i live on leisurely lane. I am not going to show you any id. I gave you my name, that is enough. I think the mobile voting would be more secure. And if we have mobile voting [applause] gov. Weld this would unlock that millennial vote. In the last cycle, 49 of millennials voted. You change that figure to 65 of millennials floating, the largest voting block, donald j. Trump would not win a single primary in this country. [applause] gov. Weld yes, maam . [indiscernible] gov. Weld i am going to wait for the mic here. Governor, what will you do to fix the inadequacy of social year . Ty at 17,529 a many of us are under that and paying for the high cost of health care, while keeping unearned benefit . We have lost one third of that. Basically, the pensions are all gone and people are criticized for not saving for retirement, but you are trying to survive in the system. Forprofithat, the give as much as we can, whether it is a house or apartment, are very inadequate. Gov. Weld the question, as i understood, was principally about Social Security. Obviously, the Social Security trust fund has to be restructured, and that is a complex undertaking. But there are some things that can be done to start to jumpstart that process. If 60 is not the new 40, it is at least the new 50. I think raising the retirement age should not shock the conscience of the populace. People really are living longer and working longer. Myself, i think, a means test is not offensive either. I understand that everybody had to pay in and some people want to hold onto every last nickel they can. But people who really dont need that check, i think they really dont need it. There are a lot of people who dont need that check. It was set up originally to replace the income that you did not have any more. But from the checks i see, it dont go nearly halfway there. So i think the checks for everyone else that could be change in thead means test as well,. The last thing you could make, the Social Security tax be based on or reply to a larger amount of income than it is now so people would pay in more from the beginning on as they went along. Those are three ideas. In the back. Of all, i want to thank you and the other president ial candidates for coming today. Because obviously, a lot of them didnt show. [applause] gov. Weld this is New Hampshire and this is a very good looking crowd, so thank you. [applause] i am from New Hampshire, no label problem solvers. In the handbook everyone got, there are eight issues that are talked about. The one that has gotten me excited right from the beginning in terms of no labels is the National Debt. How big of a National Debt to we have to get before people will say it is too big . And obviously the followup question is what could you do to help stop it from getting that big . Gov. Weld the question is about the National Debt. It was 20 trillion when mr. Trump came into office. It is now with a multi year budget that he filed a while ago stretching up against 30 trillion. I believe this year we got to a one trillion. A 1 trillion deficit faster than any previous year. There are no fiscal conservatives in washington, d. C. The president is not an economic conservative. People accuse me of being a rino because i am prochoice on the case of reproductive rights. I would think anyone who is not an economic conservative is a republican in name only because the party has stood for that for a long time. [applause] mentioned the admiral i was ranked the most fiscally conservative governor in the United States during my terms in office, and that was in massachusetts coming right after three terms of my cluster caucus. It was a case of man bites dog at the time. Notway you do that is respecting socalled sacred cows in the budget, and not starting out every year saying, what was the appropriation last year . Lets see how we can jigger that up a little bit. Washington, d. C. Is the only down i am aware of where last year plus 10 equals a cut. Anything less than that and people scream that that is a cut. I had a slight advantage when i came into office. It was my first elected office, so i did not know there were sacred cows in the budget. I didnt even know there were cows, much less that they were sacred. So we started out every budget cycle doing what is called zerobased budgeting. Glad to seei am familiarity with that concept. I wish it was more broadly familiar in washington. You start out every year every item in the budget, starting presumptively at zero, depending on how it performed last year. Lets say there was a Preventive Health measure in the budget that created a lot of Good Health Outcomes and saved a lot of money and did not do anything wrong. You might want to take that appropriation and multiply it by five, because you want to promote those good outcomes. At lets say, and this is not counterfactual example, lets say there is a bureaucracy in there that no one can quite tell you what it does, except that it is very popular because it was associated with some highly popular senator two generations ago who set up the whole program, yadda, yadda. Guess what . That goes to zero. That is why it is called zerobased budgeting, so you make the cuts where they are not being productive. [applause] gov. Weld it is the same mistake that people make throughout government a lot. They measure inputs instead of outcomes, and we should always keep our eye on the ball. What is the budget supposed to do . What population is it supposed to reach, with what services . Yardsticks like this that can be measured. If you do zerobased budgeting, it is very easy to balance that budget and not have a deficit. I came into office on january 3 my first year. My budget was due february 28. I had to close a 16 gap in the budget in less than two months, and it was childs play. It was not difficult. You just have to have the political will to make the cuts where the budget was not getting the job done. Anddo that for a few years, that accumulated deficit is going to start to go like that. And i agree with those who say that deficit and the trillion dollar annual deficit is a National Security issue. We have to rely on other countries to buy our treasuries or we are going to go bankrupt as a country. When i came into office, the head of administration of finance for the prior regime declared in january of the election year. Massachusetts is bankrupt we are not able to meet our debts as they mature. Thing to say. I was heard to repeat that a time or two in my campaign. But it can happen, and we dont want to press this one the way we have been doing. Yes, maam . Right there, in red. Thank you so much. I am a young voter. See still in school, and i consistently with my peers, what we see are individuals being drawn to the extremes, particularly on the far left because they have been able to capitalize on the messaging of justice and equity in a way that people at the center have not been able to do. My question for you is how can we take this centerline empirical approach to policy and make it more attractive to young voters who are motivated by this passionate approach . [applause] gov. Weld when i think of the center, i think of someone who is economically responsible, a fiscal conservative, but socially totally open and supportive of everybody. And that is the duty of the president of the United States. [applause] mr. Nixon, president nixon, was removed from office because he did not take care that the laws be faithfully executed. Very specific part of the oath the president takes. I have come to the view that the president has a more general duty of caring, and that is the care for everybody in our society. And i did that when i was governor. I appointed commissions of hispanic americans, africanamericans, asian, you name it. Even muslim. I met with them. Give me ideas for people who would be numbers of the cabinet, give me ideas of who should be a judge, and everybody felt like they were included. Ofis kind of the opposite what we got in washington, d. C. Now, where we have an administration who seems to divide the United States and set everybodys teeth on edge. I worry about social cohesion in this country. It is why i have been increasingly worried about income inequality, because in a country where the leadership is trying to stoke resentment of all kinds and that was the campaign of 2016 i worried that income inequality can breed real resentment according to income level, not just immigration and race and all that poppycock. That would be bad for the United States of america. I think you can make the case for some Income Redistribution on prudential grounds, as well as moral grounds. That is the kind of center that i believe. Englandyself a new republican, meaning fiscally conservative and socially open and tolerant and welcoming and supportive. And in new england, people know what i mean. I hope to see many more of you on the trail, and it is a great honor and a privilege to be with you today. Thanks a lot, thank you. Thank you. [applause] thank you. Son it is an honor to be here. The constitution does not mention Political Parties, and George Washington warned us against them in his farewell address. He said that Political Parties would form factions of men, and he said that the men in those factions would end up caring more about their faction than about their country. Georgebviously washington was correct. We ended up in a

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