Like every country, we have adult siblings and adult parents. We put quotas by country. That result is, we dont have an immigration system that is strategic as it relates to possibilities of economic growth. We have a noble immigration system that is legal, that is fine. But i think we should narrow it down to what other countries have. We should create the first 500,000 first round draft picks, if you will. The people that will create Economic Opportunity for less. We will not get there until we are confident that the borders are enforced and that the rule of law is applied consistently. Governor, i am a veteran and work at the va in a venture. Last year, we heard about veterans not getting proper care. What is your mission to ensure that veterans get better care . Jeb bush do you have the same issue in manchester . We have never had a secret waitlist or anything. Im not saying it is a perfect facility, but we get positive remarks. Jeb bush know, it has been a serious problem. You know you have bipartisan support when you have john mccain and Bernie Sanders agreeing on a bill. [laughter] one of the few laws and bills that turned to a lot in the last 45 years. It was an effort to begin the process of reforming, i dont think it is the full comprehensive reform that is necessary. One of the things that they did, and you may not agree with us since you are working at the va hospital, but i think it is essential given the uniqueness of people to customize the Health Care Service for veterans. You have Health Challenges longterm disability issues, you have issues of iraq and afghanistan where they are different from vietnam. All of that leads me to believe that we should empower veterans to make these decisions. Where they have the chance to pick the place and the Health Care Provider that they want. In this law that passed last year, it allows for i have to call it a voucher. I am all for the voucher thing. Say that you dont want to go to manchester, why would you have to travel to manchester to get medical care . You are getting someone at the choice to go themselves. They can go to the veterans hospital, no one is suggesting we shut down the va system. The number of people taking advantage of this is very low. I think there should be much more outreach to give people a chance to go to private hospitals if necessary if they want to see their own doctor. This has to be a longterm commitment, for sure. There is no argument in terms of budget. There have been a dramatic increases in the budget. It has probably flatlined now given the sequester. But i totally agree that this needs to be a high priority. For the record, whoever can get the most efficient and timely treatment, regardless of where they can go. Any ideas about how to reduce costs in obamacare . Jeb bush the obvious way to reduce utilization is to have people be healthy. The system we have preobamacare is not a health care system, it is a sick care system, in effect. Ultimately, i think we need to move to a plan that has hhas high deductible premium coverage, where coverage is on catastrophic coverage. Sometimes you have services that are preventitive, and sometimes you dont. If you added the economic incentive to this, which is keeping the money that rolls over taxfree so that you are building up an ethic to deal with harder, more costly health care needs, you are going to bend the cost curve of the system. I think we need to have tort reform. In florida, we fought hard for this. I dont know how it is here. It is obviously a driver, the uncertainty of lawsuits create a lot of defensive medicine that we dont need. There is a whole range of things. But the insurance part needs to be focused on moving back to a high deductible, lower premium hsa attached plan. I have this, this is prehistoric this is a pebble. [laughter] i can do my strides, my pulls, i can know how long i am sleeping, but these devices apple Just Announced their device this week these devices and many others, much more sophisticated than this thing, will allow us to monitor our own health care. We will be able to wirelessly send messages to your Health Care Provider because you didnt ingest a pill at the right time. 40 of all research and drugs are taken in the wrong way. Of all prescription drugs are taken into runway. We need to recognize that the best system is where everyone is engaged in their own health care decisions. That is the american way. As we have moved away from that, our Health Care Costs have gone up and Health Care Outcomes have been worse. Technology gives us a chance to move back where we are engaged in all this. Mayor . I am a Small Business owner with my two brothers. I pooled my employees to see what they wanted me to ask q. To ask you. One question with two parts. The first one will be on the Affordable Care act. We want to know where you stand are you on a full repeal, or do you want to take it with parts . The second question, where do you stand on minimum wage . Jeb bush is the question is minimum wage, i dont think we need to raise the minimum wage at the federal level. As it relates to the Affordable Care act, i would like to repeal and replace. It may end up in the same place where some of your employees would want, where you would have the preexisting conditions of any plan. Is a small number, but for young people to stay on their parents plans until they are 26, i dont have an argument against that. I am not passionate one way or the other. There are things you can have in a new plan. The idea that the federal government, through these massive subsidies, is going to be and exchanges where there are all sorts of employer mandated services that increase the cost of insurance, if it is going to work over the long haul, i find it flawed to the core. What i describe as a better plan is the replacement plan. Thank you. Governor, i find the most chilling parts of the United States is our indebtedness. Do you have a plan to control that indebtedness . Jeb bush the debt is not a problem in the here and now of washington dc. Dont take that out of context. [laughter] that is a comma. Because we have lowered Interest Rates to zero and we have shortened the maturity of the doubling of debt. Under the president , we have doubled the debt and shrunk the maturity so that Something Like 60 of all debt comes due in 3 years. As you shrink the maturities there is no interest. The debt Service Today is lower than it was 12 years ago. It is like passing the bottle of bourbon and giving the keys to the maserati to a 14yearold. [laughter] there is no real efforts to change this. What happens if Interest Rates go up after historic levels . You have to renew the debt if you can, Interest Rates will grow exponentially. It will crowd out all of the Things National security, Veterans Affairs infrastructure. Everything else will be squeezed out. We should restructure our debt to make it longterm rather than shortterm. Secondly, we ought to create a highgrowth strategy above all else. The idea that we will grow at 2 per year over the next decade will make it harder and harder for us to truly service the debt. If we grew at 4 , which is historically where america has grown, and there are discrete, important things to make that work. More importantly, our regulatory system needs to be brought into the 21st century. Our tax code is creating investment incentive for investment overseas. Embracing the energy revolution. All of those ends will help us grow at 4 . If you workout the 2 difference , i wasnt a big math guy, but take 1. 02 times 18, in the 10th year, we would create an additional germany of additional activity. An additional germany creates 1 trillion of revenue at the state, local, and federal level based on the current level of taxation. That is a far better idea than any exotic form of taxation barack obama would like to impose on us. High growth is the first step to dealing with this fiscal structural problem. And it is structural. Secondly, we have to go to sound budgeting practices. The Federal Reserve, because of the legislative environment, it provides the treasury something about 70 billion of profits. That is not revenue that will stick around. There will be losses, and when those losses take place, it becomes part of the deficit. Whether it is freddie and fannie, the load processes, all of these things related to the Federal Reserve and accounting problems we have, it all benefits the government. Let us be real about it. You will begin to see pressure for people to spend less, which is ultimately what we need to do. Spending less will be a huge problem if we dont fix our entitlement problems. You can talk about how Efficient Government is its not but the entitlement challenge will overwhelm everything else. The deficits we have today will pale by comparison at one we get to the baby boomers are being retired receiving Social Security and receiving medicare. The expansion of our medicaid population is explosive for our debt. We have to do with that issue while creating a highgrowth strategy. Thank you. Governor, our Foreign Policy well, i dont think we have a Foreign Policy. Jeb bush we do. Thats the problem our foreign policies one of retrenchment, disengagement, one that thinks americas presence and powers in the world is not a force for good. I love reading books about history particularly. If you take a pause at our own history, we have been a force for good consistently. The idea that we are not is quite dangerous. Two things that matter in Foreign Policy is that our friends know that we have their back. And that our enemies fear us a little bit not a lot, but just enough to know that the consequence, if they behave in a way that is dangerous for the region or the world, that will be consequences. Our consistent friends dont believe america is reliable. This is a test i am do this all the time. Youre going to go first. [laughter] name a country where the american relationship is better today than when barack obama came into office. Cant do it. Cuba. Jeb bush congratulations. I dont know about north korea. Myanmar perhaps. But not canada, absolutely not. Not latin america. Not israel. Not egypt. Not jordan, not turkey, not saudi arabia, not the entire middle east, not the african countries either. The simple thing is that disengagement creates so much uncertainty and doubt that people do not know where we stand. Restoring americas presence in the world would be a powerful first step to be creating more security in the world. We have to reengage in a way to deal with the threats that are amongst us, isis being one of those. Russia now moving with Great Authority into eastern europe, and perhaps the baltics. Challenging whether article five of nato is a viable treaty. People began to have doubts about that. The emergence of china aggressively pursuing their agenda in asia. All of these things are serious threats. Then instead of negotiating with iran to legitimize the regime, we should have kept the sanctions on them. They would have come to the table. 45 a barrel for oil over a year in iran would have changed the dynamic. Instead of negotiating downward to a deal that will create permanency for the regime, we could have created a policy that would have weakened iran in their support of surrogates in the region and prohibited them from gaining power. Yes, sir . I would like your opinion on whether the house and senate should have only funded Homeland Security without dealing with the president s, i believe illegal order dealing with immigration. Jeb bush i think you are correct, the president have doesnt have authority in either case. He used this concept of prosecutorial discretion. Which i read in tradition, by and large says that you take these casebycase. There are a lot of unique cases in immigration. He used it for 3 Million People. I dont think he has the authority, nor does the federal judge. My guess is that this will ultimately be ruled unconstitutional. My hope, to be honest and clear, i think Congress Needs to pass a budget. Put the priorities, conservative priorities on the table. Get consensus among republicans first, if you need to do that, get the 50 votes to pass the budget, use the power of the budget, pass a budget for crying out loud. This is the fifth year we havent had one. There are a lot of things in language and things that shouldnt be done that continue because of the resolution approach. In that budget, there are ways show the opposition the use of executive orders. I would fully fund the Homeland Security. How else are we going to secure the border . This is the only way we can do it. There is a time for making a principled opposition to the president. Then there is a time to govern and lead. Republicans need to start showing that we can govern and lead. Im totally convinced that we can. Democrats had control of the congress. And no budget passed, a stimulus passed, beyond that no budget. It happened through the sequester rather than a normal way of putting priorities on the table. We need to increase spending on defense and Homeland Security and reduce costs in other areas. Maybe other members have a different view. Let the process work again, that is was missing. Every State Government sometimes ugly, sometimes clean, has a balanced budget requirement. As crazy as it is, at the end of the day, those states pass a balanced budget. Washington needs to do the same thing. I think you will have plenty more opportunities to take questions. I certainly hope that will be the case. Think you for being here tonight. We did a great job. [applause] maybe well get you over to kenny but part kenny but inunkport. Are we all invited . We have been there, you know. Thank you. [indiscernible] [indiscernible] jeb bush where are we looking at . This guy . Jeb bush thank you for what you do. Keep teaching. Jeb bush you look just like someone i know in fort meyers. We should take this picture and ill send it to her. It is striking how you look just like her. That is a good thing, by the way, just for the record. Thank you, ill send that to her. You have him taking the picture. Hello governor. Did you get it . Thank you so much governor. Do you think people understand what you are saying now . Jeb bush yes, i think it just takes time. People understand where youre coming from, but they dont understand common core. Jeb bush i think it should be a combination of both. But with common core youre breaking it down and giving people a different way to look at. Jeb bush reauthorization of the k12 would take the federal governments role off the table which i think would be good. What did you think . We loved it. Jeb bush this is how you get your nourishment. I get a lot of Energy Learning from people. You talked about what is the downside . I dont know. I dont feel compelled to have a specific policy proposal. You can repeal obama care and take elements of it that have broad i partisan support. For those that are concerned that if you kill obamacare and take elements of it that are appropriate with bipartisan support for the new one. For those that are concerned if you kill obamacare, you can just put parts that you like and a new law. I think that is something that makes sense if you are trying to create a Robust Exchange for insurance market. The definition of preexisting condition needs to be looked at. These are obtuse conversations for a friday night. Where are you in your decisionmaking process . Jeb bush just wandering around, learning a lot and having fun doing it. How did your visit here help you . Jeb bush i got a sense, if i was to go forward, how would this be for the next year. People are skeptical of political dynasties how will you separate yourself from your brother . You said you do not support the minimum wage . Jeb bush it makes it harder for businesses to automate and harder for people to find jobs. We want more social economic mobility, not less. Something democrats are arguing that you decided jeb bush i didnt decide. The governors office, the general counsel was part of that. This was based on the law itself. We complied with the law. During this time, we have complied with the law, even in my post governorship. Do you think House Republicans should push forward with the reauthorization . Jeb bush i think so, yeah. Any chance on a policy initiative where the house can pass their version and the senate can get 60 votes and go to conference and present it to the president , as many items as possible to show that democracy works. Let the president decide if he wants to participate or veto it. But this has been delayed partly because of conservative members of the house. Jeb bush what i suggested is the proper thing to do. If you are concerned about the proverbial federal districts then put in a law on what the federal government can do. An Interest Group in washington this week says that they said this week they would Like Congress to take a look at it. Jeb bush how would they reform it . The president said that they would like a legislative thing. Jeb bush if the epa doesnt do what the law requires them to do, then congress should change it . I have no clue. Governor, on the Affordable Care how do we get things done . Jeb bush leadership. We had a pretty good run here. We have had more difficult time s in our countrys history than wars, the great depression. Consensus seems to be forged during difficult times. We can do it again. It does not to be a perpetual food fight. If im going beyond the possibility of running, this is a Campaign Issue