Get thrown out, and theres a term when youre a congressman. You know what it is . Is there life after congress . Because when you get to be in congress, youre a big shot. Am i right, kitty . You get to go to all the events. Youre the front seat, you get to meet the president. I mean, seriously, thats the way it works, and people like that. Anybody would. But what we have to remember is when we get elected to public office, we are not there for a lifetime job and you have to take risks and you have to remember why youre there, because if you serve for years and you didnt accomplish anything, what was the point . So sir, let me tell you what ive done, and john will attest to this. Sometimes i used to have people who i couldnt didnt want to vote on my budgets. Because when you vote on a budget, it means youre taking something from somebody and giving it to somebody else. One guy had eight or nine kids and he lived in california. And he said, john, dont make me vote on this budget. So i went to him. I was standing an elevator. I said what do you got, eight kids . Nine. You got nine kids. You come from california to washington, youre not with your family. Why are you here . And he stopped for a minute and looked at me and he said, okay, ill vote on the budget. Hear what im saying. Leaders get people to perform at a higher level than where they would normally perform. You look at belichick. You and i could probably suit up for the patriots this weekend and wed win a game because hed probably make us play better. Im serious. You think about all the great leaders weve ever studied. Think about reagan. Think about harry truman, teddy roosevelt. They were able to have that winston churchill. Never ever ever ever ever give in. Have your children study with what he did in great britain. He kept london from just dying. Its because of leadership. It wasnt because of a law. Im not telling you we dont need laws, and im for the term limits and im for these other changes, but at the end, we have to have leaders that get people to perform at a higher level and have guts and realize their legacy lies in fixing america. And wherever you are. So throughout my career, and its why im doing this again, i cant explain it to you. Maybe the lord has given me some special little blessing to get people to be part of a team to get results, and thats not arrogance. Im humbled by the fact that i could be in a leadership position and see things happen, but you have to work with people. You have to encourage people. Thats what you have to do. And so the congress itself, it has to start fixing problems, because the world looks at america and says what the heck is wrong with you . You cant seem to do anything. Its all about government shutdowns. Its all about yelling and screaming. Its all bipartisanship. And i love my country. Can we fix this . If im president , you can count on it. I promise you, you can count on it. [applause] but im coming back here, if im president , and im going to tell you why. Because youre going to speak with a loud voice to that congress, and youre going to say get it done. Thats what reagan did to get his work through. He used the people, and the people have to be part of the solution. Yes, sir . Audience you mentioned fixing america. And im really concerned as im sure you are, about money and politics. Now, a lot of people look at marco rubio as potentially getting the nominee, and that concerns me because he is getting the biggest contributions from the Koch Brothers, and im wondering if you think that his contributions from the Koch Brothers and big oil affect his Energy Policies . Gov. Kasich well, i cant judge the way he thinks. He can only judge the way he thinks. For me, you can give me money, and thank you very much, but you aint going to get squat for it, other than the chance to give me an opinion, okay. Thats just the way it works. But let me just say to you that, again, its back to character, isnt it . But heres the beauty of New Hampshire. Because i dont have all the money and i dont have all the billionaires, and i dont have all that. But im like a little engine that just keeps chugging along, and im rising up here. And heres the beauty of New Hampshire. Youve got that 1. 2 million. Do you know how much i love these town Hall Meetings . You know why i love them . Because you get to see who i am. I put my best out here. If it doesnt work, im fine. I mean, no, i wont be fine. [laughter] heres what i mean by that. You dont care whether im famous. You dont care whether i have money. None of that does that matter to you . I dont think it means a whip. It means that you judge somebody, and this is where people get launched. New hampshire could be renamed cape canaveral. You launch people into the consciousness of america. So if youre worried about that, ive got a good candidate for you, me, okay, just so you know. [laughter] maam, right back here. Audience my name is martha lafleur, im a retired educator and do advocacy work for vip New Hampshire. I want to thank you for taking a stand on Social Security. We all know its an important issue. I realize as a governor you had to work very hard to get your initiatives through the state house. Once youre in the white house, how will you get your plan through congress . And finally, if you make a priority list, where would Social Security be for the future . Where would you put that . Gov. Kasich first of all, the reason why im close to aarp in ohio is for this reason, our medicaid program, which serves the poor, the elderly, went from a growth rate of 10 in my second budget to 2. 5 and not person was taken off the rolls and not one benefit was cut. Did you hear what i just said . Its unbelievable, okay. Not because i was so good but because i had a good team. Let me tell you one of the biggest things i did. The nursing home industry, which is a good industry, but they got too much of what they wanted in the legislature. They were some of the highest reimbursements, and they basically said if you were elderly, you are going to end up in a nursing home and not be able to stay in your own home. They knew i was going to change that. They spent money to defeat me and then to derail my program. To make a long story short, ohio has dramatically changed the mix, because i beat the nursing home industry. Now, if youre a Senior Citizen and you want to stay in your home or you and your husband want to stay in your own home and youre able, you can get the help to stay in your home and stay there rather than being put in a nursing home, okay. [applause] and its been a dramatic change in the state of ohio, and its really, really cool. Social security has to be at the top of the list for this reason. If we dont fix Social Security , in the year starting around 2030, Social Security benefits will have to be cut by a third. Thats not acceptable, because theres a lot of people that cant have that happening. So what are we going to have to do . Well, what youre really going to have to do is the wealthier seniors and i dont want to throw a number i could throw a number out. Im not sure this number sticks, but 100,000 in retirement income, you will get less in Social Security so all the other seniors down the line will get their full benefit, and thats what were going to have to do, and that is a very hard thing to do, to get done, but we can get it done, because were not going to shaft the seniors in this country. So i do have to work through a theres a lot of people that cant have that happening. So what are we going to have to do . Well, what youre really going to have to do is the wealthier seniors and i dont want to throw a number i could throw legislature and get this done, but i also had to work through bill clinton, who was the president of the united states, when i fought to balance the budget. So you have to get people to understand what the problem is. Youve got to be open to some of their suggestions, and then you get it done, and thats exactly so Social Security has to be at the top of the list, because we cant wait. This has to be put into play, because the demographics of the number of people retiring is beginning to outnumber the people who are working and the numbers dont work so we have to fix it. Way in the back, yes, maam . Audience my name is nora rousseau, and im very frustrated over what happened with Social Security, and my understanding, if im correct, is that Congress Took money from the Social Security funds for other programs or for whatever reason. Im just wondering well, first of all, i would like to have Congress Take a pay cut and put that money back for seniors. I get frustrated because i cant imagine gov. Kasich ill let the congressman know your feelings. [laughter] audience please. Thats why im speaking now. Gov. Kasich thats good. Audience also now ive lost my train of thought. Gov. Kasich im sorry. I interrupted. On Social Security, why did they borrow. Audience there are many people today who are in their 60s who for whatever reason, whether it be knee replacement, theyre not well enough to work until theyre 70 years old to be able to retire. I just dont get it why older people have to pay for what congress did years ago over the years and work, you know wait to retire when they need to retire sooner. So thats my question. Gov. Kasich okay, let me explain to you. By the way, for the four years in which we balanced the budget when i was chairman, we didnt borrow from Social Security, which was really terrific. And by the way, that debt clock stopped going up. I am told it stopped going up. In fact, it went down because we paid off a half a trillion dollars of the national debt, which is really good. Audience went up 30 million every five minutes. Gov. Kasich right now . Right now. So let me say to you, maam, heres the situation. The Social Security money came in because of Social Security taxes. There was more money coming in than went out to pay benefits. The government borrowed the money to run the government and put ious in the treasury that have to be redeemed. Right now, my understanding is some of them are absolutely being redeemed. In other words, its not like that doesnt get paid back. The problem we have now is the number of people who are retiring, particularly with the baby boomers, is beginning to outnumber the people who work. The numbers dont add up. So thats why there has to be a fundamental change in the program. But its not like that money doesnt get paid back. It was an iou, and it was the government using it to fund education, agriculture, whatever it is. But it has to be paid back. And those bonds will be redeemed, because you cant just say they dont matter or they dont count. It doesnt work that way. In terms of the retirement age going higher and higher and higher, and theres a point at which it gets to be too high, and, of course, you can have early retirement, or you could retire with disability. Audience [indiscernible] gov. Kasich yeah, well, youre not ready to be retired on Social Security. Audience [indiscernible] gov. Kasich okay. And youve done very well, okay. And what im saying to you is, it really is all about the numbers, but heres the tragedy about this. In 1998, not like im the know it all here, okay, i just had good people. I had offered a Social Security program that would have held the seniors harmless, the baby boomers would have started at a slightly lower level, and the young people would have started they would have less, but they were going to be given 2 in a private account that would grow with the growth of the economy. That plan never was voted on. Its like going to the doctor. The doctor says you have a problem, and then you show up 16 years later and say okay, doc, what are we going to do now . So i did my job, but that doesnt theres no solace in that, because we have a problem now, and weve got to fix it, and weve got to make sure that those who dont have those resources and by the way, that retirementage scale is up over time, but the idea that were going to move it up to 75 or 80, you know, we have to be very cognizant of the fact of what you just said. Audience i think 70 is too much. Gov. Kasich i dont think were going to see it come back the other way though. I just dont think its in the cards. But id like to get the program fixed. Yes, sir, right here. Audience i have a question regarding whats been going on in this country for 40odd years. We have lost our Industrial Base and, consequently, goodpaying jobs. How do we get some of those jobs back in some of the factories running and making things here instead of bringing them from china, japan, and all over the place . Gov. Kasich you mean in terms of them leaving . Well, theres good news. Jobs are actually beginning to onshore. I have a big investment, potentially a 4. 5 billion investment from thailand, at least 100 million invested in ohio. I have people who invested in the Steel Company in ohio since ive been in, and we have whirlpool bringing their jobs back, and we have a Chinese Company that is creating 1500 jobs making windshields in dayton, ohio, and those jobs are going into a factory that was abandoned by an auto company. This is why people in ohio were optimistic because were seeing it happen. Why is that happening . Well, its happening because we have low energy costs and our transportation costs from asia into here are high. So were now starting to get a competitive advantage. The other thing thats happening is we can use technology to create advanced manufacturing where you use i went to an auto plant. Its a thing that provides parts to the auto companies. I went in there. They were all blue collar workers. They dont ever touch a piece of metal. Everything is done with computers. They all learn how to do it, and these are just regular folks. And i said, well, hows the pay . Pay is up. Hows the jobs . The jobs are up. So it is very possible using advanced manufacturing techniques to be able to to have high productivity and to be able to have some of those jobs coming back. But what we have to do, folks, is we have to be also be training our young people for the jobs that exist today. Some of them will come back and some of them are not going to come back. And so what do we do about that . Well, we need to have an Education System thats beginning to train people for jobs that exist, not train people in a vacuum, okay, so we know what jobs are available. And i keep mentioning my state. Im the seventh largest state in the country. Were not a bucket shop. My budget is 63 billion. Its like a miniture of the federal government. What we do there could be done in the country. What were doing now is introducing young people to occupations and now were beginning to tell them, these are the jobs that are available. This is what it takes to get one, and this is what it pays. I just read yesterday that in the state of ohio, we have 240,000 job openings. I guarantee you, you have thousands and thousands of job openings right here in New Hampshire. But we dont have the people who have been trained to take those jobs. So why arent we looking at what the jobs are that are available and training people for those jobs instead of training them for something that doesnt exist . Does that make sense to you . [laughter] yeah, that makes perfect sense, doesnt it . So lets do it. Lets do it. Let me give you another one. Guidance counselors in high school, why dont they do guidance counseling . Why do they spend their time monitoring the lunchroom or rolling the basketball out . [laughter] you know about that. This is like a Church Service tonight, amen. [laughter] amen. But the fact of the matter is, these are not that hard to do, but you have to be creative. Im going to give you another idea. And this is something that should be done all over the country. This one is a little bit farther out there. Lets take the medical business, im talking about profession. Youve got all these people, theyve got to do billing, youve got people phlebotomists that take blood. Youve got all these jobs out there, and they play pretty pay pretty well. So im asking the medical people to put together a curriculum online which you can take. Say you work at mcdonalds and youre stuck. You take the curriculum. If you pass it, youre guaranteed an interview for one of those jobs, and you have the skills and youve been trained to take that job. Now, thats called everybody working together. These are the kinds of things that we have to think about in America Today and our Education System and by the way, i want to move all the Education Programs back to New Hampshire, i mean, with the money. Right now, we have 104 Education Programs. Id like to break it into four buckets and send it back to New Hampshire, ohio, nebraska, and let us run our Education Programs. But we need a flexible [applause] how old are you, young man . Audience 16. Gov. Kasich what do you want to be when you grow up . Audience biomedical engineer. [laughter] gov. Kasich he said he wanted to be a biomedical engineer. Hes 16 years old. Put er there, kid. [applause] listen, youre 16. You get out, you go to college, then you do four more years. I should be running for reelection. Youll be rich. Can i get a Campaign Contribution from you . [laughter] but heres the thing. So he wants to be a biomedical engineer. Why doesnt he be able to take five hours a week or six hours a week and go to a medical setting, a medical laboratory . Audience he cant. Gov. Kasich pardon . Audience he cant. Gov. Kasich okay. But we need to be pushing this more in all of our schools, because people dont know about these programs. But this young man, if he goes out there, hes going to get so excited about what he wants to be. When i was a