Hopefully it will turn on here. Each one of these is a module. It provides vibration or heat. Little microprocessors that actually tell these actuators to vibrate. We actually have a lot from suppliers. That canof suppliers find our platforms. One of our suppliers has an interesting story. Person out of new york. A journalist. He had an idea. He is selling on the alibaba. Com. It is a success story. You can get your idea created and then eventually become a supplier on the plat form. Others might be looking for Something Like that. I agree that is a long way to go. You hear about robots taking over the world and becoming more intelligent than humans and so on. From a scientific perspective, i say that is very optimistic. I wish were that far along. Were finally from that. What we are making headway. In recent years, there has been a confluence of technologies. We have robots who are smarter far and away from humans. Smart enough to perform tasks on their own. That is tomorrow night on cspan2. Prime Ministers Court is on recess. We are tonight going to show you president ial candidate ben carson. This is followed by a house party in bedford and later, author Michael Obrien on his book about the rise of isis in the middle east. Republican president ial was inte Benjamin Carson colorado for the steamboat conference. He talks about the National Debt, immigration, also terrorists. This is 50 minutes. Dr. Carson thank you. Thank you. We are delighted to be with you. Thanks for all the hard work. Jennifer and rick, all the Steamboat Institute supporters, the Leadership Program of the rockies. Everybody who has done such a fabulous job in putting this together. You know, america is still a place of dreams. Are a lot of people that will try to denigrate to our country because there may have been things that have happened in the past that were not particularly flattering. But that is not because theres anything wrong with our country, that is because there is something wrong with people from time to time and people inhabit the country. Our world that has people has problems. But, the United States of america is an absolutely wonderful place. The fact of the matter is you will notice there are a lot of people trying to get in here but not a lot of people trying to get out. That should tell you something about how great of a place and actually is. An exceptional nation. You know, before our nation came on the scene 100 years, 500 years, 1000 years, 5000 years, people did things exactly the same way. Within 200 years of america coming on the scene, men were walking on the moon. People try to say this is not an exceptional nation. This is the most exceptional nation the world is ever known. We declared our independence in 1776, less than 100 years later with the number one economic power on the earth. Inc. About that. Think about that. There is such a thing about the american way. Have you noticed that . Their summary people who have fled, but there is no british way, theres no canadian way, there is only the american way. Do the british way, you cant be on british, you cant be on nigerian. But there is something very unique about being an american. All of us our or united in one way or another. We are all in the same boat in this country. I remember when i was learning about Classical Music and classical art. People in detroit criticize me and they said, he is not culturally relevant. Have you ever heard that term before . Culturally relevant . What does that mean to a citizen of the United States of america . Well, take a trip down to Allison Island ellis island and go through the gallery. Look at all of the pictures from people who came from every part of the globe. In many cases carrying all of their earthly belongings in their hands. Look at their faces. Look at their eyes. The determination. People who worked not five days a week, but six or seven days a week. Not eight hours a day, but 16, 18 hours a day. No such thing as a minimum wage. Why did they do it . Because they were working for their sons and their daughters. Their grandsons and their granddaughters. Hundreds of years before that, other immigrants came here involuntarily on slave ships and worked even harder and for less. But they too had a dream, that one day theyre great grandsons and great granddaughters might be free to pursue prosperity and success in this country. And you know, of all of the nations of the world, this one the United States of america, the only one big enough and great enough to allow all of those people from all of those backgrounds to realize their dreams. That is why i say, every single one of us is culturally relevant. That is why were called the United States of america. That is why it is always important to keep it in mine, there are so many out there now that are trying to divide us. To create friction between all of the factions of our society. A war on woman. Race for. Income war. Age war. Religious war. You name it, there is a war on it. You get people fighting each other all of the time. We have gotten to a point where yes, we have a multiparty system. But, it was never intended that the republicans and democrats that hate each other, but rather they would be able to sit down and discuss differences and similarities. And to strengthen each other because they both loved america. They both wanted it to succeed. But unfortunately, the purveyors of division and those who want to fundamentally change of america have seized a lot of control. It is important for we the people of america to realize that we are not each others enemies. The enemies are those who are trying to divide us. It will make a big difference as we go forward if we cant prevent that. For me, one of the things i hated most growing up was poverty. You know, some people hate spiders. Some people hate snakes and things like that. But me, i hated poverty. There was never money for anything. You know, sometimes they would give these coupon so we could get into the state fair for free. We were so excited we can get into the fair for free. But never enough money to ride the rides. Never enough money for popcorn. Never tasted cotton candy and till i was an adult, and it was not that good. But it was a very difficult life , my mother worked so hard. Leaving at 5 00 in the morning, getting back after midnight. Going from job to job to job because she did not want to go on welfare. Interestingly enough, she recognized that most of the people she saw go on welfare never came off of it. Therefore, she never wanted to go on it to begin with. She never wanted to be a victim. For the most part, she was successful. She occasionally accepted some aid but for the most part you is able to stay off of it because she was very thrifty. She would go to the goodwill and by a pair of trousers with a big hole in the me in the knee, and then she would buy some patches and put them on both knees and people would say, well where did you get this . We would go to the country and ask a farmer, can we pick four bushels of your corner or your beans . Three for you and one for us . They always liked that deal. She would bring the one home and she would can stuff. She would just make everything stretch so far. I am certain of my mother were secretary of the treasury, we would not be in a deficit situation. [applause] you know, i find it interesting that the left enjoys saying, you know carson grew up very poor. He mustve had some aid. Now he wants to withdraw all all aid from everybody. Which of course is a total lie. But this is the way they exist. They take things, they distort, they exaggerate, they lie to people who perhaps do not think deeply for themselves. That is the way they can manipulate and control people. I have no desire, as i am sure no one here has any desired to remove the safety net for people who really need it. What i have a desire to do is create a mechanism for people to move up the economic ladder off of a state of dependency and become part of the fabric of america. That is what we have to start thinking about. [applause] so, nothing wrong with safety nets. But, when government handouts become a way of life for ablebodied people, we are not doing them any favors. True compassion is not keeping people in a dependent situation. True compassion is finding a way to liberate them. I was speaking at a program where they would go out on the street and get people who were down and out and they would help them. They would put them through a 13week program free of charge. I knew close for them. Purchase new clothing for them. Help them get a job. Talk to their employers. 70 of those people are off of the public dole within a year. One young lady i talked to who was homeless and a jug addict when they found her, was three months away from getting her phd. How much wasted talent is out there . You know, we really cannot afford to be wasting any of our talent. China has over one billion people. India has over one billion. We have to compete with them. If we are large large if we allow large segments of our population to go on educated and unprepared, it is drastically weakening us as a nation. To go uneducated and unprepared, it is drastically weakening us as a nation. One of the reasons candy and i started the college fund is because we noticed how many people were dropping out of school in addition to the part of the program where we take kids from all backgrounds who achieve at the highest academic levels and demonstrate a care about other people. We also have a part of the program where we put in reading rooms. We are especially target reading rooms, where kids come with notebooks or few books, and they have a Small Library or poorly funded library. They are not likely to become readers. 70 80 of High School Graduates are functionally illiterate. But these reading rooms we put in, and no little kid could possibly pass them up. They get points for the number of books they read. They can trade them in for prizes. In the beginning, they trade them in for prizes. It takes a while before it begins to show up in their academic performance and changes the project area of their lives. That is what we are really trying to do. That is what will compassion is all about. I believe that is something we can do in this country in a very meaningful and powerful way. The government, sometimes they think they are compassionate, but they have not been successful. The war on poverty that was declared by Lyndon Johnson in the mid1960s, how successful has that been . They spent more than 19 trillion on Government Programs to end poverty. What have we gotten . 10 times more people on food stamps. More welfare. More poverty. More and incarceration. Ofwedlock births. It is not only worse, it is much worse. If we are smart, and i believe is we, what we will do will say, that did not work. Lets look at some of things that did work. Some of the things that do work on programs where there are relationships as step was. Right here in this state, the save our youth program, people in this room mentor students from denver who perhaps were moving in the wrong direct should. Almost all of this kids end that graduating from high school and going on to college and making something of their lives. It is not because someone is throwing money at them. It is because of relationships that develop and opportunities to instill values and principles that lead to success. One of the date problems in our country is we are in the process of giving away our values and principles for political correctness. It is absolutely destroying our nation. [applause] we are also in the process of destroying the future for our young people. Thomas jefferson said it is immoral to pass debt onto the next generation. And what are we doing . Over 18 trillion in National Debt . That is absurd. If you want to think about how much money that is, if you tried to eradicate the debt at a rate of 10 million a day, 365 days a year, it would take you more the hand 5000 years. And we are putting that on the backs of our young people. But it is actually worse than that. The fiscal gap please read about that when you go home tonight. The American People have to understand what our real Financial Condition is so you can evaluate what these politicians are saying. No politicians will talk about fiscal gap. I talk about it because i am not a politician. [applause] dr. Carson it is the amount of unfunded liability that we owe as a government. Cabinet programs, all the stuff we owe. The revenue is was the coming from taxes and other revenue sources. Those numbers should be identical, but they are not. Not by any stretch of the imagination are the identical. It is a gap or fiscal gap. That number right now is over 200 trillion. The only reason we can sustain a number that large is because we are the reserve currency of the world and we can print money which we are doing in a very irresponsible way. If greece could print money, they would not be in trouble either or at least they would not think they are in trouble. They would be but would not think they were. Just as we are in huge trouble but we dont think we are in trouble. And we are in the process of destabilizing the Financial Foundation of our nation. I have mentioned the fiscal gap during my announcement speech in detroit. The liberal media said next day, what is he talking about . He does not know anything. The very next day, economics agree with carson. That kind of put a [applause] dr. Carson that put a pain in their balloon and they shut up. The fact of the matter is we owe it to those coming behind us to understand this and to deal with it. This is the reason we can no longer accumulate debt. No debt is acceptable at this point. If we were to declare a moratorium on raising the federal budget, do not raise it one penny for three years in a row, we would have a balanced budget. That is all it takes. Just a little bit of restraint. I i would suggest more than that. I think the government is way too big. We have to reduce the size of the government very significantly. [applause] dr. Carson im not one of those mad flashers. Thousands of Government Employees retire each year. Just do not replace them. We shift people around in critical positions, but do not replace them. Do that for about four years and all of a sudden you have a reasonably sized government. There are some departments that could be divided. I think our veterans are horribly taking care of by the veterans administration. [applause] dr. Carson and continuing to take care of our veterans to the department of defense makes a lot more sense because that way they dont fall between the gaps. I have been talking to veterans and they say when you go from one to the other, a whole lot of them fall between the cracks and you cannot get anything done in an efficient way. It makes a huge difference and if we begin to run the government like we run a business, i probably am a little more entombed to that the vast majority of the other candidates only because i spent 18 years and 16 years on the board of cosco and ran a National Scholarship program with my wife. I have an enormous amount of business experience. And know what efficiency looks like. The United States government is not it. They are most inefficient than you have ever seen in your life. In business, we have these turnaround programs like lean six sigma that you apply to the overall structure. Toyota did it. 3m a lot of Different Companies have used it to turnaround the efficiency of the program and in the process save usually at least 25 . If we apply that to programs in our government, the savings would be a lot more than 25 . It is important that the American People deserve an efficient government. Most people would not mind paying the money if it was used in an efficient way, but it is crazy what we are doing now. This would be very easy to fix. We also need to recognize that it we can get rid of all the regulations, we can help create that environment that stimulates business and stimulates innovation that stimulates entrepreneurial risktaking and capital investment. All these regulations are crazy. It was never intended the government should be involved in every aspect of our lives. What people do not realize is every single federal regulation costs us money in terms of goods and services. It costs us money. And, who gets hit the most with that . The middle class and the lower classes, because everybody has to pay the same. And the progressives sit there and say the reason why we have these income gaps is because the rich people have too much money. No, no. The reason is because these regulations are driving prices that they have to pay out of their meager salaries and it does not give them the opportunity to be able to save and accumulate. We will have to start making sure people actually understand what is going on in this country so that when people come along i will not mention anyone particularly but they will say we will give free Higher Education for everybody. All that is doing as driving the fiscal gap and accelerating the financial collapse of the nation. These are things, i was people understand, they can be easily fooled. If i were trying to destroy this country, and i were in a leadership position, what i would do is i would drive wedges between all the people. I would make them all hate each other and think they were each others enemies. Then, i would drive the debt to unsustainable levels. I would be trying to get everybody on the special welfare programs and food stamps, i would be giving out free telephones, inviting people in from other countries and putting them on benefits. I would be offering free education. I would just completely destabilize the financial structure and then i would weaken the military and create depression and get all the good generals to retire because they dont want to be a part of it. I would weaken the navy so would be added smallest level since 1970 and the air force since 1940 and our marine corps would not be combat ready. I i would push for the sequestration so our Lieutenant Colonels and majors were getting letters every month. Cutting out a heart of the personnel of our military and i would have the worst v. A. System anybody would imagine so nobody wo