Think about the fact that the average employee at the department of education makes 103,000 per year and the average teacher makes 50,000. People keep telling we have a money problem in education. I think we have a priority problem. We are supposed to spend 700 billion annually on education. We can do better. We should demand better. The second part of the choice act, kids with special needs deserve to maximize their individual potential. Everyone in america deserves to understand their own potential. What we say is that if you cannot get in the education your child needs in your zip code, you should make the idea portable just like we have School Choice for honor roll kids, we should allow the same thing for kids with special needs. A great story is a young lady, at the time she was five years old and going to kindergarten and she had down syndrome, rachel lewis. Doing pretty well in mainstream classes. The teachers got uncomfortable with her being with other students and tried to push her into special education. Here parents fought to keep her in the mainstream classes. After a year and a half, her parents were successful and they realized that ultimately these teachers who fought to get her out of the classroom are now going to be responsible for educating her. They took her to a private school. 20 years later or 18 years later, just now 20 years old and she graduated from Hidden Treasures with a high school diploma. She does not have one job, she has two jobs. If we give people the opportunity to maximize their potential, they will succeed beyond our wildest imagination. One guy is above to do above what we ask for and that is the picture i want for the kids. Thank you. [applause] a bottle of water, thank you very much. This is great. Coming from South Carolina where is 95 degrees, waking up to 58 or 60 degrees in Colorado Springs the other day and a little sniffle. I am going back tonight to South Carolina and my body is still at adjusting. I will be ok. Thank you for the water. I will tell you this though. The second part of the opportunity agenda is in fact how do we build a better economy . I would tell you a couple of things. I will finish in three minutes. It is simple. If you look at the economic recovery around this nation, if we did not see success in the energy sector, we would not have this terrible, anemic recovery we are having today. The balance of our success has been driven by our energy production. And today, our president is considering whether we should federalize the rules and regulations around fracking, drilling, and taking over. I think it is a bad idea. [applause] yall think it is a bad idea . That is good. One of my bills and my opportunity agenda, i believe there are resources in the atlantic ocs, we will discover i believe gas. If we do that, South Carolina can see 1. 8 billion in revenue. 9 million jobs in america are connected to oil and gas and we could double in the next 15 years. We can see unemployment across all of america. Once again, if it starts working right, the president thinks it is wrong. That is a problem we can solve. [laughter] [applause] we can solve that problem. Let me close with this. Over the next several months, you guys and gals will have an opportunity to send help to the United States senate via cory gardner. We have to have, corys cousins are clapping to him. We need cory gardner. If we are going to succeed in 2014, we have to hold onto the 45 we have. I have colorado on the map. We need 51. If we are going to have a real shot, will want to improve the likelihood of of success, we leave the house and senate on the same page using reconciliation and a budgetary opportunities to push the agenda to the president s desk and make them say yes or no to things like the Keystone Pipeline and taxes. We want to figure out how to tackle the issues coming our way. It takes a majority in the senate and the house and with your help, this is a key state. The west was won by the conservatives. We need your help. By doing so, we will return america to the brightest path forward with the best opportunities for success and we will see more kids like me rising up not to be senators but to be ceos and president s in their communities. God bless you. God bless the United States of america. [applause] former Bush Cheney Campaign manager ralph reed addressed the event. Quote moral and spiritual quickening in america. This is 30 minutes. Thank you. Thank you so much. Good morning, western conservative summit. Did you like hearing from senator scott . We need about 50 more like that in the u. S. Senate. Amen. Let me say to senator scott and to his colleague, help is on the way. I think there is going to be a wall of water 50 feet high that is going to hit the beaches of this political system on november 4, 2014 and we will see real change. 4, 2014 and we wile real change. Not the kind of change we were promised in 2008 by the way. Remember that . We are the change we have been waiting for . Remember when there was a candidate who promised that if we would just vote for him, if the waters would receive, partisanship in washington would come to an end. We would live in sweetness and light and the planet would heal itself and all would be wonderful. Remember that . One journalist and editor of a major news magazine that went on television who said that barack obama uttered those words hovered over the rest of us kind of like a god. Umm, you remember obamaeek magazine after was elected did a cover story and the headline of which was we are all socialists now. And wask went bankrupt sold for one dollar after that headline. Ie differences between eu and and millions who share our values and the folks who fail for that line and who fell for that false and misleading promise is we are not looking for a messiah, political or otherwise because we of are ready found our messiah. We do not look for that out of politicians anywhere. E want you to look at th outcome or product of the policies and leadership that were promised six years ago. The economicurn to landscape where we now have a 17 trillion National Debt. A National Debt that is equal to the entire u. S. Economy. A National Debt that is equal to the annual output of our entire economy top to bottom. Economists tell nemic a warning sign of a growth, sluggishness, joblessness because those who are creating jobs are having to overweight cost of a government that is too big and spends too much and out of control. Way, that 17 trillion National Debt will be 20 choy in dollars by the time 20 trillion i the time barack obama leaves office. That is just the National Debt and does not include 75 trillion according to the National Center for policy nfunded medicare and medicaid and social security, promises made to future generations and beneficiaries that cannot be paid and will never be able to be paid. Without either tripling the payroll tax, cutting benefits, or more. In addition to the National Debt and in addition to the fact we are spending more on interest education we spend on and the military combined, you also have this debt timebomb of unfunded entitlement operations. We are still in the slowest and most anemic recovery from the longest and deepest recession since world war ii. A recession in which the federal government borrowed 1 trillion from the chinese and other lenders in order to spend it on cash for clunkers and digging holes and filling the backup and promising unemployment would never rise above 8 . Well the lowest Labor Participation rate in 35 years. According to 40 economists, leading economists surveyed by the wall street journal, in an article, they estimate that Economic Growth in 2014 will be a eurozone 1. 6 . Folks unless we see change, this is what we are staring at 4 staring we are staring at for as far as we can see. Bloodiest east, the and most unstable region in the fkl flames from tripoli to the mediterranean. Syria, a bloodthirsty dictator that this president drew a redline and said if he cross it, he would pay. And then retreated at the behest did takeir putin, dead that a dictator has of his own 160,000 innocent civilians in order to keep our wall of this. Dministration sat and watched catholic priests is have been catholic priests have been beheaded trying to overthrow that administration. The Muslim Brotherhood took place and began to destabilize the peninsula and turning get into the wild west and it has been replaced by a military regime. In iraq, isis, and al qaeda a radical of over iate, over 160,000 christians in iraq, the last remaining christians in that country have literally had to flee for their lives. And these terrorists are mocking the entire free world and essentially spitting on the graves of americans who gave their lives to liberate that country and in this administration cannot do think other than send 300 military advisers. Behind, we lead from leading to the attack on the compound and benghazi. In russia and crimea, vladimir crimea ands threatens in ukraine and the other baltic republics and as you know, this week, 239 innocent people lost their lives when Malaysian Airline flight 17 was shot down. I believe by proputin separatist guerrillas. What does the United States do . Nothing. I do not expect any action about any of these things including the fact that in gaza, a terrorist haven occupied by firedfunded by iran has thousands of rockets into israel. Thank goodness there is a leader in a Benjamin Netanyahu who will stand up for his people and defend his country. [applause] i know i speak for not only you but millions of americans when i say that we have israels back in this struggle and they have every right to defend themselves. [applause] dont you wish we had a leader like that in the United States of america . What we get is what shakespeare called words, words, words. Talk, talk, talk. Every now and again, they can free time on the schedule for being in the Fitness Center and watching espn or yet another hoops,ser or shooting whatever else is going on and you can go to the microphone to utter an empty condemnation of another act of tyranny. Friends, weneed, my need a leader who will put down the putter and get off the golf course and give us moral current and deeds of action and not just words. [applause] that is the international theme. Who wouldve ever thought that do even a generation removed from the fall of the berlin wall , the disintegration of the ofiet union, and in the end one of the most dark and evil kind,s that governed man namely the soviet union. As Margaret Thatcher correctly the coldald reagan won war without firing a shot. We would be looking at a world today that is more dangerous and more unstable and more of a threat to our Vital National security interests. How does the culture affect this picture . My friends it affects us in profound ways. Regardless of who we send to washington, we live in a nation today where one out of every two marriages roughly in and in divorce and half of all children, a majority of all children in America Today will grow up in a home without either a mother or a father. Usually a father. 40 percent of all the children born in america this year will be born outside of the institution of marriage. We talked a lot about the direct to theinstant threat institution of marriage by samesex marriage and i believe very strongly that marriage should be defined as a man and a woman in a sacred union for their entire lives. [applause] that will tell you, straight folk have done more damage to the institution of marriage than just about anybody wouldve dreamed of doing. Way in the africanamerican community, that figure is 72 . In it he has sped community, in the hispanic amenity, is 52 . There is no way to build a society of future, productive, and engaged workers, citizens, and taxpayers without the family of an intact that gives a child tougher law. There is no teacher, no cop, and counselor,o juvenile no prison warden, no Government Program out of denver or washington or anywhere else that will be able to do for that child was only a loving mother and father can do for that child. [applause] and if you think that is just rhetoric, i want you to consider this. New yorkport in the times, a newspaper i do not make a daily habit of reading, but in this case, a fact was accidentally reported. [laughter] 80 ofreported that graduates of Public High School in new york city, wednesday sought entry into the city of New York University system were either functionally illiterate, could not read or write, or required remedial classes to even get ready for collegelevel work. Paper in south georgia a few years ago. The facility and they show me all the technology and product to be and amount of things and they were able to produce on a daily basis. And i was amazed after the sophistication, and the cuttingedge engineering and technology that they use. These were huge machines. At blinding speeds. Afterwards, we want them to the office of the plant manager and i said, tell me the biggest challenge you face as somebody who is managing a facility like this with over 1000 employees. And i thought he would say the Corporate Tax rate or the eta or osha, government regulators. You know what he said to me . He said the biggest problem i have is hiring employees. I said, you have got to be kidding me . People are unemployed and get and needed jobs. I have a 100 jobs i have to fill in this plant every single year. The 1000 i have to fill a year. If i get 1000 applications, the first thing i do is administer a drug test. Fuse er flunked or refuse to take it. You do not turn down taking down a drug test if you are going to pass it. He said in the second thing i do is give them an eighth grade reading test. Half of them flunk it. Hire a, i have to hundred people out of what is left. And the moral of the story is , so, as the family goes goes the nation. What really makes America Great in the end is not it streets of skyscrapers or checkbooks or 401 k plans, or wall street, or military power, or anything else. The thing that makes America Great and will restore america character ofis the our leaders and the moral fiber of our people and our alliance on almighty god and do nothing short of those things will turn america around. [applause] now, i have painted was some of you may think is a fairly bleak picture this morning. I ask you, do i paint it fairly or do i exaggerate . I think i paint it fairly. Here is the good news. We have been here before. In the dark here days of the American Revolution when frankly, a ragtag bunch of patriots, most of by that point it did not even have shoes and were walking into battle with cloth wrapped around bleeding feet. We faced a did during the Great Depression stop and when we took on fascism and defeated the nazis. Days of it in the dark before the civil war when a 600,000 americans lost their aves and brother faced brother and Family Member faced Family Member across 1000 bloody battlefields from one end of this country to another. We have been through valleys before. And we have always returned to things happen. Number one, we need a moral and awakening great spiritual great awakening that restores the foundation of this country. [applause] and we needed that great awakening to begin and our homes and our families, our marriages, our houses of worship, and community and we needed to rubble from there. If we want real change, we needed to begin with us. With a greater reliance on god and a renewed commitment to serving the lord, to glorify him , and to make America Great again. And the second thing we need which i truly believe will be a byproduct of the first, we need change. And our political and civic system. Changea real and honest not the counterfeit version we were offered six years ago. Have meet this morning, we of thes until the end Obama Administration. Not that anybody is counting. Folks, we do not have to wait that long because we have an election that will decide control of state houses governorships and the house of representatives and in my view, most importantly, the u. S. Days and was a lot of work to do to make sure that there is change that sweeps from one end of this country to the other and make it clear we will stand and will fight for our values. [applause] now, in order to do that, we have to build a strong grassroots organization. Andork handily outhustled 2008 and 2012. Barack obama had over 3 million volunteers and 4 million in 2008 and evil more in 2012. Raised over 1 billion. You give me the white house 1 billion and air force one and i will beat you nine times out of 10. We have to be knocking on doors and registering voters and turn that vote out. At mys what we are doing organization, faith and freedom coalition. We have organizations in 34 states and we will be deploying over 2000 staff into every key, n thisitive race i country. What a voter file of 27. 5 million conservative christian and faithful catholic voters and them,l mail them, phone knock on their doors. We have a cell phone numbers all 42 of those over voters. We will text them. If they have not voted by election day, we will drive to their house and will get them to be polls and change the direction of this country. [applause] i think people are ready for that. I think people are ready to quit waiting for somebody else to save us. And they are ready to be the answer themselves. Coalitionnd freedom right now, we are adding over 1000 new members every single day and we will cross the one million member mark sometime in the next 30 days. [applause] the second thing we need is a message. , a message o