And weve got to fight for decency. And im an optimist. On the glass halffull guy on most things, and we are going to be fine. America is going to be fine and ill do my best i can promise you that. But you have to do yours, too. Because again this whole thing is a bill from a peer down. It is build from there to the top. We work for you. You dont work for us. Thats kind of my [applause] we will call her up like a lady. Hi. My name is brenda. Ive been a caregiver for nearly 10 years. My husband has younger onset alzheimers disease. Might 89 yearold mother lives with me. She is alzheimers as well. Im one of 65000 alzheimers caregivers in the state of New Hampshire. One in five medicare dollars is spent on caring for someone with alzheimers disease. The projections are by 2050 thank you. [applause] by 2050, the projections are by 2050 28 million baby boomers will have alzheimers. I know firsthand the pain of seeing these people slip away. I know firsthand the financial burden this carries with it to families, to care for people as well as our country so my question to you is what will you do to make sure this devastating disease gets the attention it deserves . And also the potential to bankruptcy medicare and medicaid that they get the attention they deserve . First of all when i was in congress and we were balancing budgets, because i dont think about the budget you just go and slash everything. Youve got to figure out how to make things work better. Some things had to go because its like a garage sale. You clean out your house i dont know why this is here. Most of what you have just needs to be shined up. So Newt Gingrich has just written an oped piece, and i am close to him and im very happy with what he had to say. John and i were there when we doubled the funding for the National Institutes of health. There are some organizations i wouldnt 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 is absolutely critical. I think its bipartisan and i think support for this is growing and we need to do that, number one. Number two, i really think we need to some real incentives so that people begin to buy longterm care. Right now its really, really expensive. I have it. My wife and i have the. We bought it years ago but theres very little incentive for us to buy longterm care and i think we need to think about the way in which people can afford this. Because in your case it would be a situation where you would have somebody there. Youre a caregiver yourself and you know what difference it makes to have somebody in the house, but right now you know what it costs. It cost too much and i think we need to think about a way to incentivize the purchase of the longterm care. I guess 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 he should be able to do that as well. And was also treated they caregivers very, very fairly. When i came in they were almost a part of ohio and people wonder be to dump them the edited want them to be Government Employees but it did want them to lose their health care. The recently since they can get on the exchange they now can get their health care and their protected because you do not want to hurt they caregivers. Its a gift. Lord gave you a gift to be able to care for people. And so i think its research. I think its a longterm care. I think its these breakthroughs that we need to in madison, to make sure that our caregivers are respected in our society. But i dont know how to cure alzheimers. But you know what . Their somebody, some kid right now who may not be getting a good education, could be ben carson. Ben carson again. Somebody can rise because thomas aquinas, the old catholic theologian said signed and faith are connected. Weve got to explore. Weve given the brain to fix these things and thats what we have to do. I gave you a little hug because its really hard. It really really hard. So the quicker we can get to it the better, okay . Ill do what i can do. Thank you. [applause] doug, let me say one more thing. I want you all to get us. I did criticize because i took money, ohio money from washington to ohio to treat the mentally ill, the drug addicted and the working poor. Somebody says stop moralizing. Im not economic, im not going to hoist myself. Im a fallen guy. I just did the best i can. The reason why brought the money back its called expanding medicaid. Let me explain it to you. Because of this now, we can treat the drug addicted work in our prisons and we treat them and then we turned him over to the community and the recidivism rate for the drug addicted is 10 . The national recidivism rate is almost 50 . Now why would i not want to treat them . If i dont have the money i dont have the resources to do it. Bipolar and schizophrenics sit in our prisons. 20 of my prison population are bipolar or schizophrenic. We are supposed to lock them up . We treat them. You can be bipolar and function almost normally. The way we function, if thats normal right . Function as well as you possibly can. So i do believe, in these programs dont have to be exploded in order to deliver good services. Its made a difference in our state. And people going to criticize me for it. God bless them if you know what . Im really glad i did is because there are peoples lives who have been saved as a result of it. So im sorry. I wanted to tell you that. [applause] hi. Im a volunteer with league of conservation voters, question is what are your plans for addressing im a change in the state of New Hampshire . How about for like the world . [laughter] first of all i believe were supposed to be good stewards of the environment and i appreciate the fact that youre involved in something. But no, we dont want to worship the environment. We live here and maybe manage it. You just asked the speaker asked stella. They have a beautiful farm. They care about the land as much as anybody does, okay . Sometimes people come up with radical ideas about the environment and it lends itself to worshiping the embargo. I dont worship the environment but i respect them protected. In my state we spent a lot of money on lake erie. Because we dont want that to be destroyed. I also have fought with some people in my own party over the issue of renewables. I assume you like wind and you like solar, as long as that wind farm is a where you are you kind of like wind, i did it, okay . I understand. The kennedys like wind but they didnt like that thing out in the ocean, you know . [applause] so anyway i think its mixable. When it comes to call when we dig it we ought to clean it and then berger. That has to be a lot of Different Things and we have to be respectful of that young lady, because if we dont go the extra mile then we may be doing something they cant be improved. I dont want to the crazy. I do what you not to get a job because weve done things that are extreme. Its like many other things in life. Respected protected dont worship it come to some things to move forward. One of the most exciting things that will happen in your lifetime, i dont know when battery technology. What is a car called . A tesla. I have a friend who has a tesla. Have you ever been in one . Youre a young woman, and make sure it you get your friends and you go far right in a tesla. Its all battery operated. No images. Technology is moving where we wanted to move and so my view is im not, im not sure whos right im going to be careful about it. [applause] im a male democrat, believe it or not. Question i have is something that takes a lot of parents and baby boomer generation, student loan forgiveness for our offspring. We have a son that is paying off his Student Loans and on his first job. Back in the day when we were younger the National Defense alone that a lot of us took advantage of do you have any proposals in your plans if you become president to of us are not looking for free lunch. Im talking about some kind of forgiveness and maybe Community Service to help offset this. I dont know yet what we do about those first of all lets talk about my kids are 15. So heres what weve done in the state. And what i think we should be thinking about nationally. Number one we do not give any a need to a college or university and less a student completes a course or graduates. No more getting money out of peoples 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 the university. Thirdly, we have a program that ought to be aggressively expanded nationally and you should start it in New Hampshire right now and that is called College Credit plus. Some students can take College Courses now in high school and get credit for High School Graduation and for higher education, and some didnt come close to cutting off an entire year from going to college. Theyre going to shorten their ability to get a degree. Now what ive done is ive gotten a handful of business people. I did not select them for their affability. I selected them for their capability. And 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 of those to a private company and they got a half a billion dollars. This happened like two years ago. Why is ohio state running parking garages . We have to look at the nonacademic aspects and the problem is many of the leaders at these institutions my guys and women are saying go into it will ever but what you come up with. But its tough to be a president. And to get everybody together but this is vital. Out to you why. Nobody is going to pay this kind of money. I met a girl the other day with her dad. She is ringing up to 200,000 worth of debt and just two years worth of scholarship. It was 100,000 because the school cost 60,000 a year so thats 120 240,000 aftertax dollars. Part of it is controlling those costs. And on top of it i told the universities they dont get your act together Online Education is going to take you down. People are not going passionate i dont need to set would talk to people from harvard. Or mit. So i think thats part of it. In our budget we had some loan forgiveness in their Company Think it ultimately got stripped out. What we would do with this debt, i can make you you a promise that all of a sudden we are going to write it off i think what we have to do Going Forward is to reduce these costs. Maybe you just said something that makes some sense. Maybe he did. Community service. Thats an interesting idea. I have to think about it. I dont want to make a promise them will take care of it all, dont worry. And we will balance the budget and there will be a chicken in every pot. I think its a good suggestion. What do you think, john . An interesting idea. He said to be asking me when youre up here talking. I dont know if that works for you but look we are doing as much as we can to get up to be concerned about what we have right now. One of areare you related to marry to speak with my brother. [laughter] spent one of my biggest concerns is the direction of this country and wasteful spending and the free handouts. I think the people on food stamps has almost doubled since 2008 and i just heard a stat yesterday that the number of children will present on from 18 to 22 im 100 hoping people who need help at the issue i have is with people who can work and dont want to enter just stand there with their hands out. I would like to know what you plan to do about that. My mother used to say its a sin not to people who need to but its equally a sin to continue to people who need to learn how to help themselves. But let me also suggest to you we have like 1,125,000,000 in ohio. The last time i checked i think we had a total of about 11. 5 million. Thats a lot of people by 130,000 out of 11. 5 million creates the full perspective. Heres what they ought to be doing with welfare. This is an amazing thing. You how confusing it is when you go to get medical care . You go to doctor and then they take this and that he got to go to the next one and you dont know what that is going on. The best procedure for help in future, maybe i should talk about it, is that we can have a shepherd at the latest theres a we get quality care at lower prices. But if you go to the well for department, youre you on food stamps are generally or this or that, you can have as many as five cases workers. So i told the welfare departments across ohio and will be implemented within the next year she will have one caseworker. They wouldve a comprehensive work for someone who comes in who is on welfare. And if you as a county department will not do what i say, im just going to take a month away and i might privatize or give to someone else because we are going to do this. Then we want to do and were working on is to get the business is actually in the welfare office. So in this locality outside of columbus, we have businesses located in the welfare office. Is what they do is between the people on relief for a job that actually exist and they have like 90 retention. Theyve hired a lot of people. Theres a lot of things you have to do is have the skills education. Plus you have to have k12 that works. Do you hear what im saying . We all think we live in not like when the sake. We live in lake will be gone. Everybodys doing great. My kids are doing great come and they are not. In many cases, too many cases so we got to give them the skills of fun. Change education to get people excited. Heres what i want to tell you. The president can be a cheerleader. The president can hold people accountable but the fixing of this education in those welfare systems must be done where we live. Its got reflect our values, not somebody down there in washington what they dont even know what the time zone is here. One of the things things id like to do is i would like to move more of this authority and empower people like you here in New Hampshire to design your own program rather than it being decided there. Now, i also think doug frankly, speaker, every county is different, too. So it seems to me as though we should design our own Welfare Program to hold people accountable, to give them the skills they need. But you cant train them for underwater basket weaving. There is no jobs in that. So another thing weve done in ohio is we know what the in demand jobs are. We can determine what are the current job and future job need for people. So then you start moving them into it. We have so many programs. Let me give you one more. So youre imam, a poor mom. Your husband ran out on you and get a couple of kids and youre working at walmart. Line, thats okay but you want to do better. We are asking some of the businesses to come together and put online a curriculum that you can take at your own speed. And when you complete that curriculum you are guaranteed an interview in the state of iowa give you a credential which gives you value because you now have a skill. If you become a medical coder, i am told you can make 41,000 a year. We want hope and opportunity for these folks but i want to you whats amazing thing do you know that most of of the people who are unsure believe in ohio, its limited to you can only be on for three years i think was most of them dont stay on that long. I dont even know where they go. They go into the underground economy summer. Its complicated companies in a . Ive given you a big long number of things to think about but its not a simple answer. But in our state we want you to be trained and we want you to be trained for jobs that exist and will hold you accountable. Thats what we are going right now, okay . [applause] him governor, i am a newlywed millennial, so i care deeply about our nations fiscal issues so im glad to the budget is one of our top priorities. I know youre a huge advocate of a balanced budget and so i was curious how youre going to get us there. So youre president , whats your first budget look like him what kind of changes do you make . You know how you eat an elephant . One bite at a time okay . First of all we need a balanced budget amendment. We need it because congress will never live up to their responsibility we dont force them. I was in congress and ive been a governor. If we didnt have a balanced budget by the end of how you didnt have a balanced budget requirement in dementia, people would figure out a way to avoid responsibility or in congress beauties come home and blame somebody else. I was there for 18 years i know how you do it. The way that you do this is you plot it over time. And you figure out how thats all we need to do to get the economy moving. We dont need to have it done tomorrow but everything undergoes the scrutiny with no favoritism. You can start to play games, i like this guy or this person help me therefore they will be exempt. You have to go through it systematically. In which he did is he figure it personal do you need a program . Number two, should in washington or should be sent back to the states come upon the state . Number three if we need a program can we fix it so we can make it work . And number four for the big entitlement programs, how do you do in such a way that you bring the country together rather than everybody within each other apart and being demagogue . You put that together and to include people any other part because if you dont its not going to work. Youve heard of obamacare. Because they shoved it through people are bitter. Doesnt work that way so we have to build a team. Ive written 16 budget in my lifetime. I thought im done with writing all these budget but i think ill be writing budgets until they put me into ground. Thats kind of the road you go on. Then theres another litmus test and ill tell you what it is to if its in the yellow pages why is government doing to . Because you dont have to do these things. Thats kind of the way you do. Gradual, creative, send things back and tried to innovate. In always. Youre a millennial, you understand the 21st century. Does a thing called the kindle and it costs a lot of money. Now i think they pay you to take one. Okay . [laughter] one last thing i wanted to tell you. If we can reduce the overhang that sits out there on businesses, t