The rights and the forward that the story of his governorship. We will hear more from him at a Campaign Rally and his campaign is kicking off and going through several cities in florida. We will take you to the rally live it 10 30 a. M. Eastern this morning. On capitol hill, the housemates at noon eastern for speeches and 2 00 for legislative work. The first day on the job for the new speaker paul ryan. Working on nine bills including dealing with security clearances at the Homeland Security department and we will take you to them live at noon and the senate back in tomorrow. All presence having business before this United StatesSupreme Court will give their attention. This week on landmark cases, we will discuss the historic Supreme Court case of shank versus the United States. In 1917, the United States entered world war i. Patriotism was high and some forms of criticism of the government were a federal offense. Who was general secretary of the socialist party mailed out leaflets against the draft. This is the flyer produced by him in 1917. 15,000 copies of this were distributed. The point was to encourage men not to register for the draft. The language in the flyer is fiery. It equates constriction with slavery and calls in every citizen to resist the conscription laws. He was found guilty under the recent espionage act. He appealed and the case went directly to the Supreme Court. Find out how the court ruled come awaiting the issues of clear and present danger and freedom of speech. Our guests include attorney Thomas Goldstein and beverly gage, professor of history at yale university. Thats coming up on the next landmark cases live tonight at 9 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan, cspan3 and cspan radio. For background in each case, order your copy of the companion book. Its available for 8. 95 plus shipping at www. Cspan. Org landmark cases. Republican president ial candidate ben carson spoke thursday at a town hall gathering and colorado. In colorado at colorado christian university. He talked about the economy and his goals with the federal budget and his remarks are part of the Centennial Institute speaker or it we will show as much as we can before the jeb bush rally in tampa. Ben carson thank you. Thank you ray much. Very much. Kandi and i are absolutely delighted to be here at colorado christian university. A bastion of morality. In todays society. Sometimes it takes courage, quite frankly, today, to be someone who stands up for principle. Its very problematic in our societies right now, and one of the reasons that i decided to get into this, against my intense desire to retire and to relax after 15,000 operations and 36 years of 12 to 16 hour days with lots of stress, but it does prepare you well for this. Theres no question about that. [laughter] it was because i was afraid that we were starting to lose a part of who we were as americans. And part of that was our freedom, our freedom to live as we wish, to live by our faith, to live by our believes, to our believes, to speak about what we want to speak about. But what has happened, people have been beaten down. The vast majority of americans are logical people with common sense. But, they have come to discover that if you say certain things, that youre going to be pulverized. Youre going to be called names, youre going to get in irs audit, somebody is going to mess with your job, youre going to be ostracized. Well, heres the problem. Thats exactly what the secular progressives want you to do. They do not care what you think as long as you sit down and shut. And shut up. That is the key and it is time for people to stand up. For what they believe in. That is what will save america. [applause] we must also recognize that we are so fortunate to live in this country. I have visited the six other countries, and i enjoy seeing 57 countries and i enjoy going to other parts of the world and seeing sights, but im always delighted to be back here again to put my feet on the ground here. There is no other place like america. It is a land of dreams. [applause] dont you find it kind of comical that you have so many people who like to criticize us and say how horrible we are, and how we created all these problems, and yet all these people are trying to get in here and nobody is trying to get out. [laughter] how does that make any sense . The fact of the matter is it is , a land of dreams. For me that dream of course was to be a doctor. It was the only thing i ever wanted to do, even as a young child. Skip right over policemen, firemen, went straight to adopt her. To doctor. I loved doctors on television. Dr. Killed there, dr. Casey i , liked even going to the doctors office. [laughter] i would gladly sacrifice a shot selected smells alcohol swabs. [laughter] you probably would not have thought that i was going to be a doctor. I was not a particularly good student. In fact, i was a horrible student. My mother was so disappointed that i was doing so poorly in school. She recognized that education was the way out. She did not know what to do. We lived in poverty. She recognized that education was the way out. She worked two or three jobs at a time, as a domestic housecleaner, saving. She was saving every penny, every dime she would go to the area she would go to the goodwill and buy a pair of trousers with a hole in the knee, before that was fashionable. [applause] [laughter] she would buy patches and put them on there, and everybody say where did you get those, i want a pair like that. She would find these coupons. Sometimes we could get into the , state fair free of charge, because we never had enough money, but we would be excited that we were actually in there to see everybody. It was exciting. Never could ride any ride you had to live vicariously watching other people. Never could buy popcorn, never tasted cotton candy until i was an adult, and it was not that good. [laughter] she did everything she could to soften the blow. She was so disturbed that it was doing so poorly in school, my brother was doing poorly as well. So she prayed at she asked god to you for the wisdom to know what to do to get her young sons to understand the importance of intellectual Development Select control their own lives. That is the wonderful thing about god. You do not have to have a phd to talk to him. You just have to have faith. She had the faith that she would have the wisdom. And he did. In her opinion. My brother and i did not think it was that wise. Turning off the tv, what kind of wisdom did we think that was . Making us reading two books a week from the Detroit Public Library and giving her written book reports. Even though she could not read. But we did not know that. [laughter] here i am reading books, and everybody elses outside playing and having a good time. She would put checkmarks and highlights. We thought you was reading them but she wasnt. I was outraged. Im stuck in a House Reading books and everyone elses outside playing and having a good time. And my mothers friends would say you cannot make boys stay in the House Reading books. They will grow up and hate you. I would overhear them as a they are right. But it did not matter, we had to do it. [laughter] what a transformation. As i started reading particularly about people, of great accomplishment, i began to recognize any sensual fact an essential fact. And that is the person who has to do with what happened she would like is yourself. Its not somebody else. And once i realized that my mother do not have to make a decent because i knew despite all the negativity around me that i could accomplish anything i wanted to as long as i was focused. As long as i was willing to put the effort behind it. That is what i call the cando attitude. It is what propelled america to the pinnacle of the world so fast. One of the things that really impressed alexis would he came alexis did tocqueville when he came here in 1830 one to study america, because the europeans were fascinated, how could a fledgling nation like this, barely 15 years old, already be competing with the powers of the world on almost every level . He wanted to study it. One of the things that he looked was education. He discovered that anybody finishing the second grade was completely lecherous. Completely literate. He could find a mountain man, the guy could read the newspaper, tell him how the government works. It was truly amazing. And that was one of the things that propelled america so quickly. People knew how to do these things. They new how to build roads, bridges, containment facilities, dams, they knew how to invent things and solve problems. That is how they were up to move able to move from one ocean to the other ocean across a rugged and hostile terrain. It was that cando attitude. That is in the process of being replaced today by the what can you do for me attitude. It is so important that we change that again. It is so important that we once again began to emphasize education and make it available. I mean all kinds of education. We have incredible universities, like this one. But we also have a lot of professionals that do not require a university in i was talking to a welding entrepreneur. He was talking about how much trouble he was having finding people who could do welding. He told me the salary they started them off at, it beat my head spin. It made my head spin. A lot of people who come out of college do not make that kind of money. But there are a whole host of things that we can be looking at, rather than having people idle. Recognize that in this nation we only have 300 30 million people. China and india have over one billion people. And we have to compete with them on a global stage. That means that we need to develop every single one of our people. We cannot have a situation where 20 of people who go to high school do not finish. We cannot have a situation where we have five percent of the worlds population and 25 of the world prisoners. This is not helpful to us in the long run. We have to start thinking in a corporate manner. For every one of those gifts kids that keep from going down that path of selfdestruction, that is one less person that we have to be afraid of or protect our families from. One less person we have to pay for in the penal or the welfare system. One more taxing productive member of the society that may discover a new Energy Source or the cure for cancer. We cannot afford to throw any of our people away. We have to develop every single one of them. [applause] that is how we become strong again. Lets talk for a minute about something that Bernie Sanders likes to talk about a lot. Hillary clinton likes to talk about a lot. The income gap. Why do we have this growing income gap . They would have you believe it is because of rich people, and how they are doing bad things to poor people. In a sense, they are right, but they are the rich people who are doing it. [laughter] that is the problem. [applause] because you look at all these regulations. It was never intended that the government would be in every aspect of our lives. But they are. In everything. Every single federal regulation costs money. Guess who gets to pay for the . That . The consumer. Goods and services increases the price. Does not hurt a rich person whatever of so goes up . 10 in price, but it hurts a poor person. It hurts a middleclass person whom i come to the register and all other things has gone up . 10 or . 15 or that drastically . 20. Reduces the buying power, and most people have no idea what is going on. And then you look at the accumulated debt. 18 trillion, plus. Half of which has been accumulated in the last seven years. Think about what that does. It makes it very difficult to raise Interest Rates. The fed is caught between a rock and a hard place. You raise Interest Rates to a normal level with that kind of death, that service on that is going to be astronomical. We would not be able to afford it. You have to keep it suppressed, down near zero. Who does that hurt the most . Poor people and middle class who used to be able to increase their earnings by putting a portion of them into a savings account and watching them grow. That does not have more. Happen anymore. They do not have a place to grow their money. And it established hitting to that is devastating to the poor and the middle class in our country. And yet you go at half about it, you go ask them about it they , will say it is just a number, do not worry about it. Is it just a number . 18 trillion. It used that if you try to paint if you tried to pay that off at a rate of 10 million a day, it would take you over 5000 years and that is what were putting on the backs of the next generation. How can we look at ourselves in the mirror . Knowing that we are absolutely destroying their future. And the sad thing is many of them do not even know we are destroying their future. We have to wake up to young people. Our young people, talk to your young people friends. [laughter] make sure that you know what is going on. Thats your future is being compromised by greedy people in my generation who are selfish and only care about themselves. They only want what they can have, they want it now command to act with anybody else. And to act with anybody else. The heck with anybody else. Those are not good people. They are not our friends. We have to start putting some pressure on them. Letting them know that you will not stand for them to destroy your future because of the agreed to today. We simply cannot allow that to continue. But that is good news. [laughter] it is actually asked for some that it is actually much worse than that. The physical cap. The fiscal gap. Is,ou dont know what that please look it up and you go home. Very important. Every single american must understand that the fiscal gap is. It is the unfunded liabilities that we know. That we social security, oh. Medicare, medicaid, all those Government Agencies and departments, all of the money that we all going into the future, versus what we expect to collect from taxes and other revenue sources. Those numbers should be pretty close together if you are fiscally responsible. If youre not, there is a gap. It is not at the fiscal gap, right now its its in over 200 trillion dollars. Somebody has to be responsible for that. That is a number that is incomprehensible. We just continue to multiply it. The recent deal between the president and congress to raise the debt ceiling. It is just a number, it does not mean anything, are you kidding me . The only reason we can sustain the level of debt that we have is because we can print money. Our currency is the reserve currency of the world. It is a title that generally goes with the number one economy in the world. Which we have been, since the 1870s. Until last year, now we are in a struggle with china for that position. It looks like they have recently passed us out. We may not always be the reserve currency, that is the issue. If tomorrow we were not the reserve currency, and we cannot print money, albeit irresponsibly as we are, our economy would collapse overnight. What happened in 1929 on wall street would be a walk in the park compared what would happen to us. This is a warning. Before horrible things happen usually there is a warning. This is the warning. There is an apparent have it is an imperative that we all know what is going on. That way when somebody comes along, a politician, and says free college for everyone [laughter] you know how to evaluate that. You know that right now there is nothing free. When you have that kind of debt, there is nothing that is free. Were going to have to start doing things to reverse this. First of all, we have this gigantic, bloated government. I would declare a moratorium on hiring, because we have 4. 1 million federal employees. We do not need 4. 1 million federal employees. [applause] and i would just let them retire. Thousands of them retire every year. Just do not replace them, you could shift people around. There are 640 five federal agencies in south agencies. And sub agencies. No one can convince me that there is not acting every single that there is not fat in every single one of them. I would require a certain percentage to be cut out of every single one of them, and that will reduce the cost very significantly. I would make sure that we have a taxation system that is fair. We have the highest Corporate Tax rate in the developed world. Even in the nondeveloped world, there are only two places that have taxes higher, chad and the uae. It is absurd. What i would do is declare a tax holiday for six months so that we could repatriate the older 2. 1 trillion overseas that is not being brought back because of the high Corporate Tax rates. Lets that come back here without taxes, and the only requirement would be that 10 of it has to be used in enterprise zones to create jobs for Unemployed People and people on welfare. Want to talk about the stimulus, that would be the biggest stimulus since fdrs great new deal, and it will not cost the taxpayers one penny. [applause] that is the kind of low hanging fruit that makes a difference. It also gets our businesses into the mindset of reaching out and investing in the people around them. That is the way it used to be in america before the government decided that it would be the great savior and take care of everybody. The Great Society of Lyndon Johnson, where were going to eliminate poverty. 19 trillion later, we have 10 times more people on food stamps, more poverty, welfare, crime, incarceration, wedlock births can ever know was supposed to be better is not only words, it is much worse. I do not want to demonize the government, but they deserve it. [laughter] but the fact of the matter is, they do not do a good job. The people who do a good job are us. I have spoken a lot of different programs, including the save our Youth Program here in denver. Individuals become mentors for students who are heading in the the students who are heading in the wrong direction. Bring them into their own world, teach them things that they would never have known. Almost all of those kids graduate from high school, many go on to college and do very useful things, where the trajectory was just the opposite direction. This is what happens when people invest in people. And that is one of the ways that we got to the pinnacle so quickly because we cared about each other. This is a vital part of who we are. We have to stop allowing the agents of hatr