Were really down. I said, are you kidding me . We got 2900 people to think we ought to run the country. Year after year, and then john sununu came, and we have really gathered momentum. In 1994 we elected a class of republicans who just did not give a whit about their election. They came to balance the budget. It was remarkable. And then after 10 long years in 1997, i was one of the chief architects of allen saying that federal budget. First time we have done it since man walked on the moon. We have not done it since. We paid down the largest amount of the publicly held debt in modern history, and the economy was doing great. Some of you might remember i was a giants Television Star on fox news. [laughter] you are right back, how great i was on fox news. I also worked at Lehman Brothers and learned an awful lot about this, which is so critical in terms of understanding what motivates ceos. So i left. 10 years i was out. Im a believer that if we are really not here to serve others, i dont know why we are here. We can work a little golf and from some from time to time but so i ran for governor and i won. We did face a bad situation. We were 20 of our operating budget in the hole. We lost 350,000 350,000 jobs. It was pretty bad. Four and a half years later, we went to 2 billion in the black. We cut taxes by the largest amount in america. Our credit is rock solid. And if you have mental illness, if you are drug addicted, if you are the working poor if you are autistic if you are developmentally disabled, if you are a member of the minority community, you are in our family. You are in our family. No one gets left behind. Then i was rewarded. My first year in office i had a 28 approval rating. You dont get up everyday and work that hard to be that bad. But i 188 86 out of 88 counties. I got 51 percent of union households. 60 of women. The second highest margin of victory in modern ohio political history. It happened for two reasons. One, i created jobs, opportunity. And secondly, people feel included. There are couple of important things we need to do, and i will shut up. One, job creation is our highest moral goal. Getting people work is what it is all about. This economy, has been terrible growth. We have got to get the economy growing and we have to bad balance our budget. I have done it before, we will do it again. Secondly, as people feel that things are Getting Better every american has to be invited in. No one can feel as though they are out, they dont matter, they dont count. I am a believer that this country is great, not because of the people at the top because of the people at the foundation. That is what i have tried to do all of my lifetime. Yesterday was an interesting day. I made a decision to announce that i was running for president. [laughter] it took a little bit away from the Birthday Party but thats my story and im sticking to it. Let me take some questions. Speaker, you get to pick the folks. Speaker scamman how about that . How about the lady in orange. The pumpkin lady . Im not sure i like being called a big pumpkin. Gov. Kasich i dont even know the speaker. Ok. My question is, one of my concerns is obviously with what is going on, what happened in our recruiting stations. How do you feel about our military being able to protect themselves in recruiting stations echo and on u. S. Soil . Gov. Kasich first of all, people who are in these recruiting stations should be armed. They should be able to do their job. [applause] in my state even today, we were closing for them down, assessing everything, assessing all the armories. I want our recruiters to be also be effective and to be able to protect themselves and other people. It gets to an even bigger question. There are couple things i would tell you. The military has really run down over the. Of the last decade. Its not just been recently. Its been happening over time. There are too many bureaucrats running things inside the pentagon almost one million. When you have all these people doing all this stuff, things dont get done in the government. You are bloated, whether you are a get business or a government, it just doesnt work. Its one of the reason why privatized economic why i privatized Economic Development in ohio, because it doing it in the government we could not move at the speed of business. The same is true inside the pentagon. It needs an entire makeover. Then lead to make sure that we are buying the weapon systems we need. We need to rebuild our navy. We need to strengthen our army. We need to be older battle this problem of cyber security. In order to do this, some of that we have to do should involve the private sector. I want to tell you a story. After 9 11, i got a phone call to go and meet with the former secretaries of defense of the pentagon with secretary rumsfeld. I have no idea why they invited me. But i went to the meeting. As i sat there i began to learn that we were actually not doing well on the technology front. So i suggested in this meeting that we bring some of the best minds of silicon valley, because i was working out there, i knew these people, to help us deal with this technology problem. I brought these two guys, ones name is larry page and the other guy is sergei brin. When i met them, they came to the meeting in a volkswagen with inline skates tied to the roof. You may have heard of their company. It is called google. We took some of the best and the brightest people inside of the pentagon, and rumsfeld from time to time would convene a meeting and think these people are the work that they are doing to solve some of the technology problems. We need to do more of that. We need to be less paranoid and use more common sense when it comes to solving these big problems, because bureaucrats, god bless them, they can trip over one another and not get the job done. Secondly, when it comes to people like isis, you are either going to pay me now or you are going to pay me a heck of a lot later. I have been saying for months that we should have a coalition of people that will go there and begin to destroy that Organization Called isis. We need to do it. [applause] so people say well, you know, the polls are not good for putting boots on the ground. When do leaders have to be doing this . When leaders do this, they dont have any followers. This is something that has to be dealt with. Lets just do it. Ok . We can rally the support of the public for this. We need good intelligence. We need human intelligence. We degraded our intelligence. Snowden ought to be locked up for a thousand years for what he did. [applause] what an awful thing. Even in my state i get intelligence briefings. We dont want to lose our civil liberties. I actually give credit to rand paul for saying that we should have a balance between security and liberty. Weve got to have the security, weve got to have the information, but we dont want the government having all this stuff. I dont want people looking at everything i do. I think we can start a good balance. Then we have to be prepared. I want to tell you, i know that this stuff is unnerving to people. Scary and away. But look, we have been through civil war, racial violence oppression, world wars 9 11 cant we just feel good little bit . Cant we start to enjoy being americans again . I think we can. We are never going to stop everything but we can stop a lot of it, and we do everything all day. When it comes to those recruiting stations, they are just one piece of this whole thing. We are going to rebuild our defense so that our allies respect us. We have to mean what we say. No more redline. No more im going to have a redline and im going to walk away from it. One other thing i want to say to you. I was telling john is on the way up here. There is no religion that i am familiar with, none on the face of this earth, in history of mankind, that says that for you to go to paradise you go slaughter and kill somebody that you have never even met. I tell you something, i think we have got to lead to the world and making it clear thats just complete apostasy. It is unacceptable to humankind. That is a part of the message in my opinion, that we need to have said it loudly across this world. We have to fight for decency. Man, im an optimist maam im an optimist. America is going to be fine. I will do my best, i can promise you that. But you have to do yours too because this whole thing is not built from appeared down. It is built from here to the top. We work for you, you dont work for us. [applause] speaker scamman lady with the flag. Hi. I have been a caregiver for my husband, he has autism. I am one in five medicare dollars is spent caring for people with autism. The projection is by 2050, [applause] the projections are by 2050, 28 million baby boys will have autism. I am understand the pain of seeing these people gov. Kasich dont you know it. My question is, what will you do to make sure this devastating disease gets the attention it deserves, and also the potential bankruptcy to medicare and medicaid . Gov. Kasich let me suggest couple things. First of all, when i was in congress and we were balancing budgets i dont think to balance a budget you just go and everything. You have to figure out how to make things work better. Some things have to go, because it is like a garage sale. You clean out your house, i dont know why this is here. But most of what you have just needs to be shined up. Newt gingrich has just written an oped piece. Im very happy with what he has to to say, and john and i were there when we doubled the funding for the national institute. There are some organizations i would not double. I would be doing it the other way, but we need to do this research, this basic research at the National Institutes of health. It is absolutely critical. I think it is bipartisan. I think support for this is growing, and we need to do that. Number one. Number two, i really think we need to have incentives so that people begin to buy longterm care. Right now it is really expensive. I have it, my wife and i have it, we bought years ago. That there is very little incentive for us to buy longterm care, and i think we need to think about a way in which people can afford this. In your case it would be a situation where you would have somebody that, well, you are a caregiver yourself. You know what difference it makes to have somebody in the house. But right now, you know what it costs. It costs too much. We need to think about a way to incentivize the purchase of that longterm care. It has the other thing that i would tell you, in my state at least, we said that if you need to go in a nursing home, thats fine. But if you want to stay in your own home, you should be able to do that as well. We have also treated the caregivers very very fairly. When i came in, they were almost a part of ohio, and people wanted me to dump them out. I didnt want them to be government employees, but i did not want to lose their health care. Recently, they can get on the exchange they now can get their health care and they are protected. You do not want to hurt caregivers. Its a gift. The lord gave you a gift, to care for people. I think it is research. I think it is longterm care. I think its these breakthroughs that we need to have it medicine to make sure that our caregivers are respected in our society. But i dont know how to cure alzheimers. But there is somebody, some kid right now, who may not be getting a good education. Could be ben carson. Yeah. Somebody can rise, because you know thomas aquinas, the old catholic theologian, said that science and faith are connected. We have got to explore. We have been given the brain to fix these things and that is what we have to do. I give you a little hug maam, because thats really hard. The quicker we can get to it, i will do what i can do. Thank you. [applause] let me just say one more thing. I get criticized because i took washington money to ohio to treat the mentally ill and the drug addicted, the working poor. Somebody says, it you know, stop moralizing. Well im not a guy, im not going to voice myself on my own petard. I am a fallen guy. I do the best i can. The reason why i brought that money back is called expanding medicaid. Let me just explain that to you. Because of that, we can treat the drug addicted to our in our prisons, and they can we traced them, we turn them over to the community, and the recidivism rate for this drug addicted is 10 . The national recidivism rates rates are almost 50 . Why would i not want to treat them . As i dont have this money i dont have the resources to do it. Bipolar and schizophrenics sit in our prisons. 20 of my resin population are bipolar schizophrenic of my prison ovulation. Population. If you treat them, they conviction normally. These programs do not have to be exploded in order to deliver good surface. It has made a difference in our state. If people are going to criticize for me before it, god bless them. Im glad i did this, you get there are peoples lives who are saved as a result of it. I sorry. I wanted to tell you that. [applause] high. My name is any annie. Im a volunteer with the league of conservation voters. My question is, what are your plans for dressing Climate Change in the state of New Hampshire . Gov. Kasich how about the worlds . [laughter] first of all, i believe that we are supposed to be good stewards for the environment. I appreciate the facts you are involved in something. But you know, we dont want to worship the environment. We work here we live here, we have to manage it. Just ask the speaker here, or stella. They have a beautiful farm. They care about that land as much as anybody does. Sometimes people come up with radical ideas about the environment, and it lends itself to worshiping the environment. I dont worship the environment. I respect and protect it. In my state, we spent a lot of money on lake erie because we dont want it to be destroyed. I also have fought with some people in my own party over the issue of renewal. I assume you like wind, you like solar, as long as that wind farm is and where you are . [laughter] i get it. The kennedys like wind, they like it on the ocean. So anyway, i think it is a mix of all that. When it comes to call, i think when we dig it we had to clean it and then burn it. It has to be a lot of different things. I think we have to be respectful of this young lady, because if we dont go the extra mile then we may be doing something that cant be approved. But i dont want to be crazy here. I dont want you not to get a job, as we have done things extremely. Its like many other things in life. It requires some balance. Respected, protect it, dont worship it. One of the most exciting things thats going to happen in your lifetime, and i dont know when it is going to happen, is going to be Battery Technology. What is that car calls . The tesla. I have it friend who has a tesla i have i have a friend who has a tesla. Your young woman. Get your friends and go for a ride in a tesla. Technology is moving where we wanted to move. My view is, not a denial, not all the scientists are crazy. Im not sure who is right but im going to be careful about it. [applause] speaker scamman im going to take that mail over there. That male. Actually a male democrat, believe it or not. John, welcome to New Hampshire. A question i have is something that affects a lot of parents of the baby boomer generation student loan forgiveness for our offspring. We have a son that is paying off his Student Loans on his first job. Back in the day when we were younger we had that National Defense loan, a lot of us took advantage of it. Do you have any proposals in your plan, if you become president im not asking for a free lunch, im asking for sensitive forgiveness or Community Service to help offset . Gov. Kasich i dont know yet what we would do about those. Lets get to the root of it. First of all, lets talk about what is to come, because my kids or 15. Here is what i we have done in the state and when i think we should be talking about nationally. Number one, we do not give any aid to a college or university unless the student completes the course for graduation. No more giving money out to people so kids walk around and never graduate and never complete a course. That creates an incentive for our universities to guide our students through in a shorter time. Secondly, we do have a Great CommunityCollege System now which allows you to be in a position of where you cut your costs for the first couple of years before you go to university. Thirdly, we have a program that ought to be aggressively expanded nationally. It started in New Hampshire. That is called College Credit last. Some students can take College Courses now, in high school, and get credit for High School Graduation and for higher education. Some kids are coming close to cutting off an entire year from going to college. They are going to shorten their ability to get a degree. Now what i have done it, is i have gotten a handful of business people. I did not select them for their affability. I selected them for their capability. They are part of a small group that is looking at all the cost drivers inside of our universities and community colleges. Ohio State University had a parking a bunch of parking lots and parking garages. Ohio state least those to a private company and they got a half 1 billion. This happened like two years ago. Why is ohio state running parking garages . We have to look at the nonacademic assets. The problem is, many of the leaders of these institutions my guys and women are saying go into it and we will implement what you come up with, but it is tough to be president and to get everyone together. This is vital. I will tell you why. I met a girl the other day with her dad, she is ringing up nearly 200,000 worth of death and she got to years worth of scholarships. The school cost her 60,000 a year. Thats 240,000 aftertax dollars. I think part of it is controlling those costs. Then on top of that, i have told the universities, if you dont get your act together online indicate education is going to take you down. I think thats part of it. You know if we had to loan forgiveness in their i think it ultimately got stripped out. I cannot make you a promise that all of a sudden were going to write it off but i think what we have to do Going Forward is to reduce these costs. But maybe you just said something that makes some sense. You do some Community Service, maybe thats a way to work it out. Its an interesting idea. I have to think about it. Because