Really great that works. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much. It was great. Thank you. Thank you. [cheering] thank you. Thank you. Were not gonna take it no were not going to take it were not going to take it anymore there aint no way well lose it this is our life this is our song well fight were not gonna take it no we aint gonna take it were not gonna take it anymore attorney general Loretta Lynch will speak later today hosted by congressman john conyers with focus on Justice Reform and policing in the minority community. Now, another town hall from campaign 2016. This one held by g. O. P. President ial candidate and neuro surgeon ben carson in california. Its about 50 minutes. This is the epi center of the conservative movement in california. Because we believe and we govern by economic freedom, we were the first county to come out of recession. We were the county that stopped the super majority in the state legislature. And were the county that will start the renaissance in california. Thats why every republican candidate come to this county. Some come to fund raise and we contribute. But we appreciate those like president reagan who come to speak to the people. Samuel adams once said that if a time comes when vain and aspiring men hold the highest seats in the government the nation will depend on its patriots to prevent its ruin. Ladies and gentlemen, im here to tell you that the current occupant of the white house is one of those men. But our guest today is one of those patriots. [cheers and applause] from his speech two years ago to his call at the end of the last debate for those of us to pick up the baton of freedom dr. Ben carson is inspiring thousands. So, please, give a big Orange County welcome for a patriot of the first order and candidate for president of the united states, dr. Benjamin carson. [cheers and applause] cheers and applause] thank you. Thank you. Now, thats what i call a wonderful california welcome. I appreciate that. Thank you for thank you so much. I love you too. Thanks so much for coming out n this incredibly hot day. The air conditioner in here was broken. Just not many hours ago it was 94 degrees in here. I just want to thank the technical people who got it fixed. [cheers and applause] ill tell you, one of the wonderful things that ive discovered about our tremendous country is that we have a lot of talented people here who are capable of all kinds of things. I remember in the first set of conjoined twins that i operated on and ive done several sets. In order to get that done appropriately, it required way more than just me. We required some outstanding antheseologists and Critical Care people, plastic surgeons, card yo thoracic surgeons. Incredible nurses. Nurses are my favorite people. In fact, the nurses invented a new kind of drape that had sleeves that look like an accordian so that when you pull the beds apart assuming that we got that far, they would fall in place and preserve the steryilt of the fill. Then we had technical people who rewired the operating room in case there was a problem, in case all of the equipment caused a ploout. And the point being blowout. And the point being that together as a team it was possible to accomplish something that had not been accomplished before. [cheers and applause] now, people are saying to me constantly, you know, no one like yourself, a political novice, has ever been successful in running for president of the united states. Well, ill tell you something. If i listened to all the people throughout my life who said this has never been done before, this cannot bh done, i wouldnt be talking to you today. Cheers and applause] then there are those who say you dont have elected political experience. If you look at the collected political experience in congress it comes out to about 8700 years. Where it has it gotten us . And the fact of the matter is, our system was really designed for the citizen statesmen. It was not designed for the rofessional politicians. A lot of times people say to me, why in the world, after a wonderful career in medicine, would you dane to soil your reputation by getting into the political arena . And i ask myself that, too. But ill tell you why. On a very serious note. My entire professional career was spent trying to bring healing to children. To give them longevity and quality of life. And [cheers and applause] ive had a lot of experience doing other things. I spent 18 years on the board of directors of kellog, 16 years on the board of directors of cost co. Years on bio tech. And biomedical company. Advisory boards of many other organizations. My wife and i started a National Scholar recognition program. In all 50 states. [applause] which has won two Major National awards, which is only given to one organization in the country per year twice. Ok . Nd i say that for those people who say, but he as doctor. He cant possibly know anything else. He might know a little neuro surgery. Hes an i had yatser vanity. He doesnt know anything else. Can you imagine how stupid you have to be to think that . To think that somebody could become a neuro surgeon and come up with new methods of doing servant. Be an idiot you have to be completely in nonpossession of your faculties to believe that. But at any rate, the thing that of all the things that ive done, the thing that resonates most closely to my heart is and that family comes in eir 3yearold, who is the most precious thing in their been diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. And through the grace of god you have the ability to remove that tumor and give that family back hope. Cheers and applause] and there are those who think that a long pedigree of political experience or a long pedigree of business experience is the most wonderful thing in the world. But i personally think saving lives is the most wonderful thing in the world. Cheers and applause] with you i wasnt the person but i wasnt the person you would have picked when i was a youngster, who would grow up and have this fantastic career. You probably would have not even thought that i would have survived. As a youngster, after my parents were divorced, we lived in the most dilapitated ghetto imaginable. Sirens, gangs, murders. I saw people laying on the street with bullet holes waiting to die. Both of my older cousins who we adored were killed. And i didnt think that i was going to have long jeft in this nation. My mother and i really believe that she is the hero in my life. It was my mother [cheers and pplause] i find it kind of funny when people like hillary say im engaged in a war on women. My life would be nothing without women. Ive got to tell you. Cheers and applause] even though she had an incredibly difficult life, one of multitude nal children in tennessee getting married at age 13, moving with my fath tore detroit, later on discovering that he was a big mist having only a third grade education herself trying to raise us by herself. But she, regardless of that, never became a victim. And she never felt sorry for herself. And that was a good thing. Cheers and applause] the problem is she never felt sorry for us, either. She always came out with with this poem called yourself to blame. It didnt matter what anybody else was doing. She would say do you have a brain . And if you do then you could have thought your way out of it. And that was perhaps the most important thing she did for us. Because ill tell you something, if you can wallow in an excuse, you dont have to do anything. You can always point to somebody else. You can always blame somebody else. You can blame bush, you can blame anybody. But when you decide that it is you and the buck stops there, then you are incentivized to do something in your life. And thats what i found to be the case. Cheers and applause] as a youngster, i was not a very good student. My mother was out working two, three jobs at a time. I hated poverty. Some people hate snakes and rats, spieders. I hated poverty. Hat is, until my mother made us start reading books. Now, i didnt like the idea of reading books. Prayed to god and somehow came up with this idea that we were supposed to turn off the tv and read books. I was not happy about it. And her friends would say you cant make boys stay in the house read books. Theyll grow up and theyll hate you. And i would sometimes hear that , i would sometimes overhear her friends and i would say, mother, you know theyre right. But it didnt matter. We had to do it anyway. But as i started reading those books, as i started reading about people, of tremendous accomplishment, and all kinds of fields, it became clear to me that the person who has the most to do with what happens to you in life is you. Its not somebody else. Cheers and applause] once i understand that poverty didnt bother me any more because it was only temporary. I knew i had the ability to change my circumstances. [cheers and applause] and it is something that i want people in this country who are downtrodden, who perhaps were not born with a silver spoon in their mouth i want them to recognize that that is still true in america. You through your own efforts can do a lot. It doesnt mean that we shouldnt help them. Because we americans are very compassionate people. Perhaps the most compassionate people the world has ever known. Why is it why is it that we were so successful as a nation . We had communities that were separated from each other by hundreds of miles. And yet they thrivered and they grew until we were coast to coast. How did that happen . Because in those small communities people cared about each other. The compassion was there. If it was harvest time and a farmer fell out of a tree picking apples and proke his leg, everybody else pitched in and harvested his crops. If somebody was killed, took care of their families. We, the people, care about each other. And this is what we must begin to do once again in this country. It is our responsibility. Cheers and applause] it is not the governments responsibility to take care of everybody else. [cheers and applause] whole subject of compassion, let me talk a little bit about immigration in this country. Ts a problem. We have a problem with illegal immigration in this country and weve got all kinds of theories that people want to put forth about how we should do this. Let me tell you something, one with illegal success immigration in this country and weve got all big picture and figure out what the big problem is. The big problem is is being able to look at the we have a porous border and we need to seal the border. That is the problem. My wife and i a few weeks ago were down on the border in arizona. Yes, there were fences. But they were the kind of fences when i was a kid that would barely slow us down. It was ridiculous. Area where one the illegals had cut a big hole in the fence and they repaired it by putting some strips of barbed wire across it. There were a lot of camera men with us. They wanted to shoot us from the mexican side and they went right through this. They were not athletic people with all of their equipment, and they were able easily to shoot us from the other side. Is that ridiculous . And in terms of the Border Patrol i didnt see any Border Patrol out there. Now, if you go 70 miles inland youll see the Border Patrol. They need to be on the border. Thats why theyre called Border Patrol. Cheers and applause] but thats only part of the problem. Because then the sheriffs and ive got to tell you something. I was so g pressed with the deputy sheriffs down there. These people put their lives on the line. Cheers and applause] yesterday, i met one of them who was in a wheel chair because he had been shot and paralyzed doing his duty. These people are incredibly courageous. But they tell me they have to keep rearresting the same people because i. C. E. Comes along and says release these people. We dont have proper documentation in order to keep them in jail. If they had proper documents, they wouldnt be illegal aliens. [cheers and applause] its craziness. So its very frustrating to them. The worst thing is that its an open highway for drug traffic. And heroine is just pouring into our country. And its frying the brains of so many people, and its stimulating crime in our country. And these are the kinds of things that we need to be concerned about. We have the ability to shut those borders. Not just the southern border but all of our borders. We have the ability to do it. Because im just as concerned about the global jihaddists who want to destroy us as i am about the drug dealers who are coming in here. Cheers and applause] and at some point we have to exercise some logic and common sense if were going to save our nation. I could talk about this for a long time. But i want to transition to another area that is really i think going to kill us if we dont deal with it, and that is our fiscal irresponsibility. We are looking [applause] were looking at a National Debt of over 18 trillion. We can say that number but can you even comprehend what 18 is . If you tried to pay that back at a rate of 10 million a day, 365 days a year, it would take you more than 5,000 years. And that is what we are putting on the backs of these young people. That is unfair. Thomas jefferson said it is immoral to pass debt on to the next generation. If we could transport Thomas Jefferson if we could transport Thomas Jefferson into Todays Society he would immediately stroke out. He wouldnt even be able to believe what we were doing. We do have a responsibility to the young people. To the next generation. And it is actually much worse than this. The fiscal gap i want you to look that up when you go home tonight. Fiscal gap. That is the unfunded liabilities that we have as a nation, governmental programs, cabinet programs, social security, medicare, medicaid, all the programs Going Forward versus the revenues we expect to collect from taxes and other revenue sources. If youre fiscally responsible those numbers should be pretty close together. Bring it forward to todays dollars and the difference is the fiscal gap. It now sits at over 200 trillion. Its a staggering and unimaginable amount. You will notice that politicians do not talk about the fiscal gap. Because they want to be reelected. But im not a politician so im going to talk about it. Cheers and applause] because, you see, we have to in order to is assess whats being told to us. Our founders said that our system and our freedom is based upon a wellinformed and educated populous. Because thats the only way that they can make appropriate voting decisions. But if they dont know how can they . And if people dont know the desperate financial situation were in and somebody comes along and says i think we should have free college for everybody, and youll say, oh, what a wonderful lady. Without recognizing that thats accelerating the financial collapse of our nation. E only reason cause chaws [cheers and applause] the only reason that we can sustain that kind of debt is because we can print money. We are the reserve currency of the world. Thats the position that usually goes with the number one economy in the world, which we were until last year when china became the number one economy. How long we will be able to continue to print money. I think we have a grace period that god has given us to that we need to address this now. The longer we wait to address this, the more dracobeion the measures will be. And we are putting that on the backs of the next generation and we cannot do it. We can address it right now. There are a number of things that we can do. For one thing, we have the highest Corporate Tax rates in the world. In the developed need to address this now. The longer we wait to address this, the more dracobeion the w thats absurd. And its driving business out of this nation. What i would recommend as one of the first things in a Carson Administration would be cheers and applause] one of the very first things or d be a tax holiday hiatus on Corporate Taxes for that money that is overseas, over 2 trillion and we can repate rat that and it wouldnt cost the taxpayers here one ingle penny. I would require that 10 of the money being brought back be used to create jobs for people who are unemployed and on welfare. T would be an enormous stimulus. But it would also begin to eestablish business, industry, academia, wall street, churches, community groups. It would begin to reestablish the true relationship that helped make america great. And that is people investing in other people. Thats what will save us as a nation. Cheers and applause] the government has other jobs. And one of the things that we probably should do is to distribute copies of the constitution to them so they can see what theyre supposed to be doing. Cheers and applause] and one of the things that came up this week, of course, ms. Davis down in kentucky, who had i go to jail which was, think, inappropriate. There were other thing that is could have been done. That was probably not the right one, because the Supreme Court had not overstepped their boundaries and done what they did at the time that she took that job. So the circumstances changed. And all she was asking is that her name not be put on the documents. She was not trying to obstruct anybody from doing anything other than that. This is a country of, for, and by the people where we live and we allow others to live. We do not impose our will upon other people, but we do not allow other people to impose us. Will on [cheers and applause] when we talk about liberty and justice for all, that is what were talking about. We dont pick and choose certain groups who get extra rights. And extra rights includes redefining things for everybody else. We dont do that. Now, congress has a responsibility. They have a responsibility to stand up for the people because they represent the people. So when the Supreme Court oversteps its boundaries, the reason that we have separation of powers is so that the other parts of the government can correct the situation. They need to do it. [cheers and applause] dont step up to the plate and now create some legislation to protect the religious rights of people in this country, believe me, it will just escalate. And it will get beyond anything that were seeing now. You know thats going to happen. So congress, if youre listening, please if your leadership wont do it then you do it yourself. But get up and protect the peoples religious rights. Cheers and applause] w, finally, were going to have a little q a session. But before we do that, i just want to say if we are going to have the nation that we desire, every single one of us has to get involved. In the prerevolutionary days the people did not like the tyranny of king george iii and they beg