Action to restore the line. Will he confirm his ongoing commitment to the south west rail link and the future funding for it . First, let me join my honorable friend in paying tribute to the orange army that did such a fantastic job at dawlish in getting that line back on track in such a short period of time. As she knows, we have also committed a further £30 million towards resilience and protection this year, but, more importantly, we are working with the South West Peninsula rail task force to bring together all the strategic and local transport schemes. I am absolutely determined that the southwest will have strong connections road, rail and air with the rest of the country, and those connections are absolutely vital to our longterm plan. You have been watching prime ministers questions. Question time airs life on cspan2 everyone day at 7 00 a. M. Eastern. Watch any time at www. Cspan. Org , where you can button find video of past prime ministers questions and other British Affairs programs. February is black history month. The cspan bus is on the road, visiting the top historically black colleges and universities to discuss Public Policy issues and highlight the role in the education system. This tuesday on washington journal, we will be at Fisk University in nashville followed by spell House College in atlanta. , jeb bush talks about the economy and other issues. Then dr. Joel stein announces the formation of an Exploratory Committee for the 20 16th election. Later, the Senate Finance committee on the budget request for the irs. Former Florida Governor jeb bush detailed his economic plan on wednesday with a speech to the Detroit Economic Club but did not formally announce whether he was running for president in 2016. After his remarks, he took questions on immigration Foreign Policy and the vaccination debate. This is about 45 minutes. Thank you, beth. Leadership makes a difference. Right here in michigan, we are witnessing the power of bold, new, creative leadership. In our companies, in our city, in our state. The alignment of these Leadership Qualities over multiple sectors has resulted in a paradigm shift of what we as michiganders leave is possible. Our nation has seen these paradigm shifts before. In 1980, our nation ushered in a new era with the election of Ronald Reagan and george h w bush. The power of clear, strong principle leadership infused with goodwill and a sense of humor changed our clear, nation. Across the country, other states have experienced the type of rebirth we are now seeing in michigan. One of those states that chartered a new course was florida. Our nations thirdlargest. Floridas economic powerhouse status was not a form loan conclusion. Building blocks were not set in place until our speaker, who we are fortunate to have here today, jeff bush, arrived as governor. Jeb bushs time as the 43rd governor of florida was a time of dramatic change. Education moved to the top of the states agenda with corresponding increases in student achievement. The Business Environment was reformed, along with the size and scope of agenda government, to unleash a torrent of investment, innovation, job creation. He was the first, perhaps, of a crop of new reform minded governors that have swept across the nation. And in many ways, has become the template for other governors to follow. Since leaving the Governors Office after two terms and returning to the private sector, jeb bush has maintained his commitment to the important public issues of our time. Notably, fixing our nations immigration system and reforming how we deliver quality education to the next generation of our nations leaders. His views have been called conservative. They have been called mainstream. They have been called bold. They have been called common sense. For those of us who have been watching jeb bush for over a decade now, you can call them his. What jeb bush says is what he means. He is not tailoring his audience. He is not tailoring his remarks for the audience of the day. As you likely know, governor bush has had some close family members who have also been elected to high public office. Without further delay, please welcome the father of george p bush, texas land commissioner. The honorable jeb bush. [applause] thank you, sandy. When i heard that he was bringing up family members, i was going to use that line. But he stole it. I am proud of my son who got the highest vote total percentagewise, of any candidate running for statewide office in texas. George is going to do a great job. Im pretty proud also of 41 and 43. I love them very much. [applause] i know that is hard for the political world to accept, but it is pretty easy for me to love them. I love them unconditionally. A therapist can opine about that. Im not here to talk about that. Sandy, i appreciate the chance to be here. I am delighted to be here, because you are part of a great story the revival of a city that mean so much to all americans. In the past three years, when can run it with great challenges, you see the opportunity to reform the city level. You have begun to repair the damage done by mismanagement and empty promises. I want to congratulate Governor Rick Snyder for his leadership. I want to a knowledge with johnson and general surety for being here. And mayor mike duggan for his determination to serve the city of his birth. I want to recognize the hard work of kevin moore, who i am proud to say is a son of water florida. I want to recognize all those involved in making difficult and painful decision. Your work is not complete, but your efforts have captioned capture the attention of the nation. We are asking ourselves the same questions. How do we recapture prosperity and opportunity that once defined cities like detroit . How do we restore americas faith in the promise of our great nation, that any child born today can reach further than their parents . This is an urgent issue. Fark too Many Americans live on the edge of economic ruin. Far too many you like they are working harder and longer while they are losing ground. Tens of millions of americans no longer see a clear path to rise above their challenges. Something is holding them back. Not a lack of ambition. Not a lack of hope. Not because they are lazy or the see themselves as victims. Something else. Something is an artificial weight on the shoulders. In coming weeks, i will address this critical issue and offer a new vision, a plan of action different from what we have been hearing in washington dc. It is a vision rooted in conservative principles and heather to our share believe in opportunity and a nation given the freedom to act, to create, to dream, and to rise. We see that belief everyday interaction. In the oil fields once given act, to up for dry, we are securing Americas Energy security. In hospitals, we are beating back once untreatable diseases. In charter schools, we are connecting to their potential. In labs and hacker spaces, invention comes from every corner of society. The world still comes to america to learn how to create and innovate. People know this country can be more than it is today. That each one of us can and must be part of it. They also know this. We have a lot of work to. Americans across the country are frustrated. They see only a small portion of the population riding the economys up escalator. We have seen recent gains, and it is welcome news, but it has come very late. Six years after the recession ended, median incomes are down. Households are poorer on average. Millions of people have given up looking for work altogether. Roughly two out of three american households live a check to pay check. Unexpected expenses can push them into financial ruin. We have a Record Number of americans on food stands and living in part poverty. The relief has been everywhere but the paychecks. The American Dream has become a barrage for far to go many. The challenge we face can we restore that dream . That promise that each generation can do better . If we cannot answer that the challenge wequestion, no tax, no Welfare Program will save our system or our way of life. Americas moral promise is not broken if someone is wealthy. It is broken when achieving success is far beyond our imagination. America is a place where any person may look forward and hope to be a hired laborer this year and the next year, worked for himself, and finally hire men to work for him. America has not given up on the dream of lincoln. The dream of lincoln is alive at 5 00 a. M. At a bus depot in a distance of her, or in the innercity. It is alive in a construction worker running cable under the streets. It is alive in a College Student driving a uber car to graduate debtfree. The dream is alive every day. At every moment, when People Choose to buy a home, start a business, enroll in school, or save for the future. They know thesethey know these commitments are not easy and do not pay off right away. But they are worth doing. If americans are working harder than ever, learning less earning less than they once did, our governments, our leaders should step up. Offer a plan. They should step aside. But ask how we got in this point and start in detroit. The troubles of detroit are an echo of the troubles facing washington, d. C. Decades of Big Government policies, petty politics, impossible to meet pension promises. Chronic mismanagement and broken services, combined with a massive loss of jobs in the auto industry, drove tens of thousands of people from the city and region. For example, detroit, under the previous administration, or under a previous it ministration, was so proud of shutting down businesses that had not paid licenses and fees. They bragged about it in press releases. The city threatened 900 businesses with closure and follow through with 400 businesses, literally shutting them down. Many were Small Businesses run out of homes and alleys. People that wanted to take that first step up the economic ladder. One of the Business Owners derek little, had a simple way to describe his frustration. I am running a legit business. They could be doing something better. While people were trying to build a business, the city could not do its job correctly. They were losing money writing parking tickets. I do not know how you can manage that. On amtrak, they lose money on the snack car. Government inefficiency is not just irritated. It is instructive. If the government cannot collect parking fines or sell snacks on a train, why would government know how to enable every citizen to bump in life . That is why have launched the right to rise path. Four people that do not want to wait for the government to deliver it prosperity. Government is not the only issue. But in a sense fixing Government Policies the easiest problem to solve. And it is most responsive to the demands of voters. So i am getting involved in politics because that is where the work has to begin. The opportunity gap is the defining issue of our time. More americans are stuck at their income level than ever before. It is argued for people to go from the bottom to the top even to the middle. You should alarm you. It has alarmed me. The one thing that can unlock the economic status quo tash the ability to work as a team. Competition is messy, but it is essential. Cap drivers fight web enabled car services. Restaurants fight against food trucks. Retailers fight against internet companies. I am not here to take sides, and i do not think government should either. But when government tilts the field of competition, there is a clear loser. Anyone who wants to create something as a teen ta te am. Anyone who wants to innovate. We know that in the end, standing against competition is a losing battle. In 1955, 6 years ago, the fortune 500 list first appeared. Of the companies on that list, only 80 have fallen away. Todays fortune 500 will be replaced by new Companies Just starting today. This is hard for some people to accept. It is entrenched interests do not like giving up what they have. That is why they fear Small Companies with nothing to lose. Today. This is hard for some people to you know the stories. The president of Michigan Savings Bank imparted wisdom to a young lawyer for a small startup company. The horse is here to stay. The automobile is only a fad. The small start up the lawyer represented was the ford motor company. We can laugh about it now because ford and other innovators of detroit had the region to compete. Our nation has always valued economic freedom. In economic freedom, each citizen has the power to propel themselves forward and upwards. This is not understood in washington dc. You can see why. It is a company town, and the companys government. It is all they know. For several years, they have been recklessly degrading the value of work, the incentive to work, and the reward work. The definition of fulltime job is been cut from 40 hours to 30 hours. We have seen them create Welfare Programs and tax rules that honest people with lost benefits and higher taxes for moving up. Those first rungs of the economic ladder. Instead of a safety net to cushion our occasional falls they have built a spider web that traps people in perpetual dependence. We have seen the rules that help so many people escape over. That instinct does not solve any problems. Other than the problem of how to keep washingtons regional economy well lubricated. And the cost is enormous. Lets say you are a hardworking middleclass family. You work hard, pay your mortgage on time. As president obama likes to say, you play by the rules. For president obama, one of the rules is this he reserves the right to change the rules. Last month, he thought it was a good idea to tax 529 savings plans. 529s were created to be taxfree ways to save for college. Hundreds of thousands of people have done so. Millions have started them for their kids and grandkids. It was no surprise people hated the president s idea, and thankfully, he dropped it. But it was instructed in the liberal and progressive mindset. Saving or college is the responsible thing to do. Instead of embracing 529s, the liberals moved to tax them. It is frustrating, but it shows you how they think. If you want to know how they act, talked to sharon delaney. Sharon founded a recruiting company in ohio. She said it is as if the politicians and regulators in washington wanted me to rail and spent all their times thinking up ways to make sure i do. Here is a message for sharon and millions like her there is a better way. Lets define this path by corn Core Principles of a right to rise society. The path becomes a lot clearer. Lets start with the first principle. When it comes to ensuring opportunity and a chance at success, the most important factor is not government. It is a committed family. Social sciences across the ideological spectrum agree. If you want to predict whether someone will graduate from school, go to college, and move forward, you just have to find out one thing where they raised in a loving household by two parents . You can overcome it, but it is hard. If you did, you have a builtin advantage. Every chance child has a better chance of they are raised by loving, supportive parents in a committed family. This is not the work of government. But it is critical that government leaders support it. A second principle, and this one is often overlooked, growth above all. A growing economy, whether in detroit or throughout the country, is the difference between poverty and posterity for millions. If you want to close the opportunity gap, great opportunity. As a rule does not contribute to growth, why do it . Opportunityif its of tracks from growth, why are we discussing it . I do not think the United States should settle for anything less than or percent growth, which is about twice the current rate estimated by most economists. At that rate, the middle class can thrive. In the coming months, i will lay into detail how we can get there with policies and reforms to tap our report resources whether it is in health care or technology. Third, the right to rise depends on a government that makes it easier to work than not to work. That makes fewer laws restricting the labor market and reducing penalties that come with moving up from the lowest rungs of the ladder. Or to address the income gap lets close the opportunity gap, and that starts with ladder. Doing everything we can to give every child a great education. This will not happen overnight trust me. I know. But it takes every tool we have. Accountability for teachers and school administrators. Assessment for student learning. Rigorous standards. And School Choice of acrosstheboard. These are the elements that make education work for more and more of our students. We had the results to prove it. Lets embrace reform everywhere, especially in government. Lets start with the simple principle of who holds the power. I say give washington less and local governments more. We make multibilliondollar infrastructure decisions based on a labor law a written in 1921. President obama poses proposes making rules on the internet using laws written in the 1930s. We regulate Airlines Using laws built for railroads. Our immigration laws were written half a century ago. Government policy seems frozen and incapable of change. It is in the way, to be honest with you, and we deserve better. If we do not transform ourselves , sees new opportunities, we know what happens next. Look around the city. Better. In its history, there is a warning to all of us. Detroit was americas Great Innovation hub. It was bigger than chicago. It was the nations wealthiest city in 1960. It put the world on wheels and created jobs that let millions of americans into the middle class. It was the arsenal of democracy and delivered the arms needed to defend freedom across oceans. They promised prosperity and it delivered. Sons of sharecroppers farmhands, immigrants who spoke polish yiddish greek, and arabic their children settled. They prospered. Some of their grandchildren are in this room today. You are rebuilding the city. I know you will be that great city again because americans, by nature strife to succeed. In the madison building, not far from here, new companies are rising. One of them is led by two young men, one born in russia, the other in israel. They let secure jobs as engineers to start their business in 2009 at the very bottom of the recession. We know detroit has its baggage but we believe we are part of a solution. Three years later, 21 employees, including the father, the cfo. Must be nice to hire your dad. I thought about it but hes kind of retired. This activity happening downtown in an area once ignored. Another detroit entrepreneur grew up in the suburbs. He rarely came downtown as a child but today he works here. He lives here. And heres what he said. We see this city for what it can be, not for what it was. Thats how we should see everything, not just detroit but in all of america. I know some anything conservatives dont care about the cities, but they are wrong. We believe that every american in every community has the right to pursue happiness. They have the right to rise. So i say lets go where ideas will matter the most, where the failures of liberal Government Policies are most obvious. Lets deliver real conservative success. And you know what will happen . We will create a whole lot of new conservatives. I know because ive lived it. I come from ina, another city that faced the same struggles as detroit has faced. In my city the schools were failing to opportunity with scarce were too many. Simply being born in the wrong neighborhood meant the American Dream was cruelly out of reach. I join with my friend, the longestserving head of an urban league in the United States, and a courageous leader in the civil rights movement. We decided the right to rise is also a civil right. So we went to work to change education in florida. And boy, did we. We grade School Support the true accountability so moms and dads know exactly where schools stand. We raised expectations and standards and we assessed faithfully to the standard. We made sure every child counted in the system, that they werent cast aside if theyre there struggling readers or had problems. We eliminated social promotion in third grade. This insidious policy that exist in most parts of our country where if youre functionally illiterate, youre passed along to fourth grade with the gaps begin to grow and grow and grow, and the social cost grow as well. We expanded School Choice programs in every capacity whether it was digital learned vouchers or for the expansion of charter schools. And the net result after 10 years of struggle, and believe me, that tire marks on my forehand are there for this reason, we moved the needle in student learning. Florida is the state that has consistently improved the gap between outcomes amongst africanamerican and white students. Floridas hispanic kids are the best of any Hispanic Group hispanic students in the United States. In fact, two grade levels ahead of the average in the United States. Our Graduation Rate was 50 of out of 50 states. We have moved it successfully each and every year to the point where if something without a 2526 gain in the Graduation Rate and that will continue to grow. So dont let anybody tell you that its not possible with reform and leadership to be able to move the needle. My guess is that hundreds of thousands of kids that now can read and write are going to be living Productive Lives in miami. And we will be blessed as a community because of that. All communities ought to be able to do that, and having a reform orientation is part of that strategy. While theres much to do, much more to do, because this is a continuous journey, we have seen lives change and hope restored. You can do it here in detroit. We can do it across america. Because this morning, 320 million americans got up and they are on 320 million different paths of life. Its our goal to see them succeed. Its our responsibility to do Everything Possible to help them. Because by their success they will not only build prosperity for themselves, they will renew the promise of this nation. Where everyone has the right to rise. Those are the stakes. Thats why we are here. Please join me in this cause. Thank you all very much, and may god bless detroit and may god bless america. [applause] governor, thank you so very much. We have some questions for you. Actually we have a lot of questions for you. Start with the first one. You talked a lot about education. Why is education such a big issue for you as your time as governor and now that youre potentially considering a president ial run . Gov. Bush well, it was important for a lot of reasons. One, you ask governors around the country whats the number one thing that they can do to create the best business climate. Increasingly its transforming the k12 system and making sure that the Community College system and Higher Education is oriented towards helping deal with this opportunity gap excellence in Economic Development issue for sure. But its also i think a great moral issue of our time. A third of our kids around of their, depending on how you measure, a third of our kids are Truly College or career ready. Thats just slowmotion tragedy. In the world we are moving towards where automation and acceleration of innovation is making it harder and harder for the first job to be created for people that are unskilled. Imagine what it would be like 10 years from now or 20 years from now if we continue to just blame it on poverty, balme it on this or on that, excuse the way why we have so few kids that can enter the military or so few kids that have to take, dont have to take remedial classes if you want to go to college. And so few kids that have the career skills to be up to get a job. So its an economic issue but its also a huge moral issue. Our country doesnt do this well. These huge gaps that exist that are not increasing because of education outcome, this is not the america that is lead the world. Other countries might be able to deal with this better. We do better when everybody has a chance to rise up. Unless im missing something, if you dont have a quality education, if you cant read and write and calculate math, have a sense of why this matters in your own life, no matter what drive, i think a lot of young people have huge drive and determination to succeed but they wont have the skills, the capacity to do so. I hope everybody i would like to see more people marching in the streets for rising student achievement. Less people marching in the streets that might important for them but rising student achievement should be the highest calling for all of us and we should be outraged that its not happy to the degree that it should. Your last name is bush. Gov. Bush thats what ive been told. Many people wanted to make sure you knew that. What impact is having a father and a brother who have served as president weight on your decision to potentially run . Gov. Bush well, on one level i got a frontrow seat to kind of watch history unfold, a unique seat, has given me some perspectives that are helpful. And on another level i know its an interesting challenge for me. One that i have to, if i had any degree of selfawareness, this would be the place where it might want to be applied. And so if i was to go beyond the consideration of running i would have to deal with this and turned this, this fact into an opportunity to show who i am, to connect on a human level with people so people began, and offer ideas that are important to people so that when they think of me, they think that im on their side, that i care about them and that the issues im passionate about will help them rise up. So thats a really compelling strategy but thats the gods honest truth. Ive done this as governor. I ran when my brother was governor and my dad was just out as president , and there i ended up losing the first time, which by the way for those who are thinking, its always better to run against a bad candidate been a good candidate. I proved that 1984. I lost against a guy who never lost. I had better luck the next time. And gain that experience i knew i had to share my heart. I had these deeply held views about education, for example but people didnt connect with me. So when the attack started they didnt shrug their shoulders. A problem in politics, youve got to care for people before you can get their vote. So 1998 i had the same views about education by which a visit 250 schools. Trust me, by the end of that journey people knew that it wasnt just the brother of george w. And the son of my beloved dad. I was my own person. I earned it by working hard to connect with people on a level that truly mattered. So that experience on a National Scale has got to be part of the strategy. I love my my dad. And i find that is the greatest man alive and if anybody disagrees, we will go outside, unless you are 65 and 250 and much younger than me, then we will negotiate. Im still not going to change my mind for sure. And i love my brother and i think hes been a great president. It doesnt bother me a bit to be proud of them and love them but i know for fact if im going to be successful going beyond the consideration that im going to have to do it on my own. A couple years ago you spoke at the mackinac policy conference and he spoke a lot about Immigration Reform. You touched on it in your remarks. Where does this nation need to go in terms of Immigration Reform and what are its prospects for actual success . Gov. Bush great frustration. This should be the lowest hanging fruit, to be honest with you, because this is a huge opportunity. Immigration is not a problem. The immigrant experience in our country makes us unique and special and different, and it is part of our extraordinary success over time. So while the political fights go on we are missing this opportunity. I view it as that. Fixing a broken system is a huge opportunity to get to that 4 growth. It were going to stick around to the 2 run great, a little higher this quarter, a little bit high the last but thats what economists say, the new normal. Have you heard that term . The new normal is europeanstyle growth. If youre going to do that than the demands are going to overwhelm all other people. If we grow at 4 , by all sorts of policies but immigration has to be part of that. We need young, dynamic people that can make an immediate contribution to our economy. We shouldnt be careful of this. We should say what an incredible opportunity. And so i would hope that that mentality of shifting just an economic issue rather than a political issue will be helpful. It starts with reading confidence that the federal government can enforce the border. They need to secure the border. First and foremost, theres no denying that. That ought to be the highest priority. I dont think the president should use his executive authority to go beyond his constitutional power. That creates a greater doubt as well. I dont think that people are totally confident that the everify system we have in place right down is working to the extent that it needs to so we need to fix that. I know for a fact that people are surprised that 40 of undocumented workers undocumented people in our country have come with a legal visa and they just overstayed their time. A great coach i figure out a way to deal with the issue. So once we got that done, then it seems to me we ought to be strategic about this. Shift away from family reunification being almost the sole driver of illegal immigration to narrowing that do what every other country has spouse and minor children, and dramatically expanding immigrants that are coming to work. A Guest Worker Program to do in the areas where there are shortages. The high skills agenda that is desperately important for us where h1b1 visa holders language and dont get, dont get their status improved. Investors, dreamers, people that come to our great universities all these people should be welcomed in a in the country and the unwritten contract ought to be embrace our values, and you can pursue your dreams in this great country. And by doing so youre creating opportunity for more people. Because if we dont do that, 10 years from now, im guessing and i hope this is the case that everybody in this room will be 10 years older. And family formation rates in this country are at an all time low. And birth rates are below breakeven. There are more single women than married women in this country for the first time in our history. Our demography could be huge strength or high sustained Economic Growth, or if we do nothing of it will end up becoming a significant problem. Maybe not as bad as japan or as europe, but a significant problem. Shifting just an economic driver i think is important to sandy, one other thing that is really important and that is we see the struggles of immigration in places like japan where race is the identifier basically of national identity. Or europe where there are many immigrants that come but they are not necessarily embraced as full europeans were full french or german or whatever. The American Experience works when people embrace a set of shared values. It doesnt work when we divide ourselves up in our disparate parts. So i would urge every state to focus on how do we expand Civic Education as well. We should love our country. We should have come we should embrace our heritage and we should encourage immigrants to do so as well. And that will reestablish this unique American Experience which is you come, you work hard to embrace these values and your as american as anyone who came on the mayflower. Thats the america that will yield great, great results. [applause] governor, any truth to the rumor that you approached about being nfl commissioner back in 2006 . That job might be open again. Gov. Bush yes, its kind of true, actually. I saw rogers pay package, wow. Hes got a tiger by the tail right now. Its not as easy a job as it appeared in 2007 but actually i was encouraged to consider it not as though its going to be granted me but there were owners that asked me about it. And it was nine months prior to my tenure, as ending my tenure as governor. To be honest with you that is the greatest job in the world, being governor of a state, and i could never have imagined abandoning that job because i thought when i put my hand on the bible it was to swear to uphold the law for all eight years, not seven years and three months. And so it took me about 10 minutes after the flattery of a couple of calls for owners to realize this is just, this is not possible. And so i finished strong as governor, and strong as i could. It was a blast. Thats another thing i encourage. If youre going to run, run against a bad candidate and run for governor because its the best job in the world. Vaccinations are in the news. A few potential presence of candidates have stumbled on the this week but what are your views . Gov. Bush parents need to make sure their children are vaccinated. [applause] do we need to get into any detail of that . Just seems, look, its easy ive done this. Ive said things that are misinterpreted or partially interpreted and then heads explode and all source of media, just create all this controversy. I think its better just to say parents have a responsibility to make sure their children are protected, over and out. Lots of political questions. So if i were to summarize them it would be this. The 2012 republican president ial primary system looked like the canteen scene in star wars. How do you anticipate the 2016 gov. Bush heck, i get in trouble im going to get in trouble just listening to that. So look, politics is chaotic. Its not the idea that theres some smokefilled room where big dogs, men and women that have all this power decide whos going to be what. That was gone a long time ago. And as the old order has been disrupted, its been replaced by a little more of the wild west kind of process. I think this time around theres a couple things that will help republicans. One, the desire to win. It slowly sticking your head through the white house gate and wondering whats going on. Eight years as an exile is a long time. I think it will be some discipline to be able to recognize how important this race is for the future of the country. Secondly, the rnc itself has narrowed the number of debates which i think is probably helpful. And shortened the primary process, which is as well probably helpful. So they have done what they can to take away some of the chaos. But look, its a big deal. Theres a lot riding on this. So my guess is to be a lot of people running, and people will hopefully focus on what therefore, why them. As i asked by a student, to answer the why question, why are you doing this . Why you and what are you doing it . Those are huge questions to answer. And not to tear down the other people all the time. I just dont see how thats productive. People are tired of it, and this unity that exists is because people are being preyed upon. The anxieties are being preyed upon by people that are constantly sticking their finger to the tv set saying this is bad, you are bad or better whatever. I dont think you can govern effectively and solve problems. My belief is four or five big obligated things if they are fixed in this is the greatest time to be alive as americans. I totally believe it and im not delusional. Its the gods honest truth the if anybody wants to disagree with me on that, we can go outside, too. This is the time of enormous possibility. Weve got to fix these things and just making points all the time and tearing down somebody is not going to work. If i go beyond the consideration of the possibility of running, i hope i have the discipline not to turn back and get into the food fights that seem to been prevalent on both parties by the way. This is not just uniquely republican. We shall see. We have had a slow recovery, but more than just the u. S. Economy recovery, how do we get the rest of the world to continue to grow . Gov. Bush well, our growth, which because of our unique scale and the fact that we are not as dependent upon, we are increasingly depend but not as dependent upon foreign economies given our scale and given the size of our Consumer Base and a lot of reasons, we have the chance if we can create an Energy Policy based on americas innovation and north american resources, canada, mexico and the United States, to create the Lowest Cost Energy source in the world over the longest period of time, to help consumers with their disposable income and to help reindustrialized the country. We have a chance to lead the world. If we fix our immigration system and turn it into an economic driver for high sustained Economic Growth over the long haul. We can lead the world. If we fix outdated rules and a tax system that is just convoluted beyond belief, that actually is now a sealing on the creation of the next generation of job creators, business start up. Right now are lower than they were i believe in the 1980s. We have seen dramatic declines. Workforce participation is back to that level as well. And so fixing a few of these things, we could grow at 4 . And trust me if we grow 4 incomes rising for the middle and people having a chance to leave poverty, we would help other countries that were prepared to follow suit. That countries that are not going to make it are the ones they cant deal with their endowment issues and believe that more stimulus to Monetary Policy and more fiscal stimulus is the answer. All youve got to do is just you know, look at greece, look at these countries that havent made the necessary structural changes and you end up with Serious Problems that they will never get out of. But the countries that embrace the kind of reform that we need to embrace, they are going to be fine. Final question. How would you handle the threats that we face with a new kind of terrorism . Gov. Bush so these new asymmetric threats arent going to go away. You cant, you cant think they are or claim they are. The many people back and the minute youre no longer nurturing the alliances and relationships that make this a global fight, boys are killed. So as we pulled back from the middle east voids National Look what happened to the would have with isis and see. Look at what happened with isis in iraq. The big victory in yemen at the present has talked about lasted about six months and now we are closed, the are no Embassy Personnel in yemenese capital. We have to be engaged. And it doesnt necessary mean boots on the ground in every occurrence. This is not a zerosum game. Our president always wants to frame in a way that makes it appear like hes engaged, and those that dont agree with them think, me, those who dont agree with them, he placed the are war mongers. Engaged diplomatically in terms of intelligence gathering come in terms of military that we are totally engaged, that we have relationships with our strongest allies where they never doubt us. Ask israel today about what does the United States have their back . Ask Eastern European countries or the baltic countries, does the United States have their back . Theres growing concern that we have pulled back to ask the middle Eastern Countries do we have her back . And the answer there is not with great certainty, that they believe that. So being engaged doesnt have to mean, you know, launching attacks but it does mean that engagement creates the possibility of dealing with this over the long haul. We have to be engaged in this because this is a significant threat t