Visit ncicap. Org]. Im going to get you right over to senator rand paul speaking right now at the conference. Hes been speaking for about ive minutes now. Senator paul at some point, lincoln was a politician. He said if we can keep the union together and keep slavery, wed settle for that. He got there by somebody had ideas and somebody said slavery is wrong. So we need people, i think in every time who are trying to think beyond the moment of whats the next thing we can do. There are issues of great performance that importance that we find. The idea of whether babies mean anything or children mean anything. Do we just say no big deal . The question i asked Debbie Wasserman schultz about a year ago was when does life begin . Many of them say when you take the baby home. Really . So if youre baby is in the hospital for a couple of months, its not really alive . In my practice i would examine babies that were sometimes a pound, pound and a half. When theyre born really early and get oxygen too soon they can develop abnormal blood vessels and become blind. You almost never see it now because there are cures. You hear people say im not for red light cameras. I hate them, by the way. But you have to be for something even more important that precedes that. Individual liberty and rights. We have to understand where our liberty comes from. That our liberty precedes government, that our liberty comes from our citor. If we dont understand that, we get confused and then when uncle bernie comes along and says well, health care is a right. Well, if its a right does that mean you have a right to the envoluntary servitude of those who are going to give you the health care . If you have a right to concrete items, where does it end . Here we are sitting debating obamacare and my side god help us [laughter] my side decides that the only way we can replace it is to have nearly 300 billion insurance stabilization program. They say insurance is too expensive so well tax everybody, put it into a fund. Give it to the Insurance Companies who can charge less. So i raised my hand, which is always a danger at lunch. I said i havent had a new car in a while. Theyre very expensive. If we could have a new car Stabilization Fund that would help me. And i have two kids in college. Could well a college Stabilization Fund . My kids drop their phone in rivers, lakes, you name it. And iphones are expensive. Could we not have an i phone Stabilization Fund . When indict did it become a republican idea to tax, stick entitle a fwunled, give to it a company and tell them to lower lower their prices . It is not republican, it is not conservative. Thats still what theyre talking about. When they say we dont have a replacement, they want a government replay. So we got into this detective at the very beginning. I was on one of the Television Programs and i said yes, we should replace it at the same time because we need to offer something positive to the people and i would replace it with freedom. Freedom of choice, competition. Legalize the sell of inexpensive insurance. Then everybody said yeah, we need it replailsd but turns out we disagreed on what replace was. To many replace was keeping much of obamacare in place. Adding an Insurance Fund but then keeping the regulations in place. Wait gets to is this you are the next generation. You have to think through things. For example, what are the unintended cons conventions. The problem in washington is we have big hearts but small brains. Sort of a dinosaur kind of syndrome up here in more ways than one. But the thing is, people say we must help people so well to let people buy insurance who are already sick. Because if we dont were foot good people and then compassion is equated with money. People start throwing all kinds of money at every problem which isnt republican and isnt truly compassionate if you destroy the country in the process. The thing is lets throw more money at this and it got biger and biggernder but the fundamental flaw of obamacare is this if you tell people they can buy insurance after theyre sick and then you put a bunch of mandates on insurance to make it more expensive so poor people and working class people cant afford and it say you can buy it when youre sick. They wait to buy it until theyre sick. So you get sicker and sicker people and the young, Healthy People dont buy it. So what did the republicans offer to replace it with . They said well subsidize it. They werent going to fix it so what is the real problem here . Do you think i dont care about sick people . My family are sick, very sick. Trying a lot of my life to get people well. So i do care a lot about sick people but i want to get something that helps. If your house is on fire, do you call your Insurance Agent and say i forgot to get homeowners insurance. I need it. No, you call a fireman so if you are sick, we do have Government Health care. Its call medicaid. But if youre very, very sick and its costing 1 million a year to keep you alive and the Insurance Company knows exactly how many it costs, you cant insure against that. Then you say were going to take all the sick people and put them together and call it a highrisk pool. The Insurance Companies know exactly what its going to cost. When the insurance executives came in, i said if you no longer force people to buy insurance, the mandate. You dont cothat but tell them they can buy insurance after theyre sick, it might be worse than obamacare. We keep what was in obama cares care but we get rid of the force. We dont want to force you to buy insurance but if you keep the regular haitians in place that still say you can buy it after youre sick. People do. It will not work. Really the problem is, and this is true to have anything. You could say, for example, that water is so important, how could we leave that up to individuals to figure out how to get water . Food is so important. Cars are so important. How could we possibly let free individuals make arrangements to buy and sell thing with their neighbors . We have to get the government involved. Id wipe out all the obama regulations tomorrow, including preexisting conditions. Dulls that mean i dont care . What happens for those who fall through the cracks . You dont have a right to health care. We may have an obligation. Do you have a right to health care . No, but do you have an obligation to help people who dont have health care . Absolutely. Theres a difference between an obligation and a right. Are you your brothers keep summer in a religious sense, absolutely. But should Big Government be your brothers keeper . No what i dont want the freshman government to do it. One, i think you lose your liberty in the process, but two, theyre not very good at anything. People will ask me, do you think government is inherently stupid . I say well, i dont know but its a debatable question. They cant even deliver the maim. The post office [laughter] they havent figured out that we have email is the first problem. But the post office loses a billion dollars a quarter. 4 billion a year so they came to my committee a couple of years ago and they said well, to retain good people, to have a good post office, were going to have to pay the executives more. I raised my hand, which is always a problem. And i said well, how many athlete. Does it take to lose a billion dollars a quarter . You think you have to pay people two become to lose that . If the standard is losing 1 billion a quarter when you look at it, there are two main categorical reasons why you want to be for limited government. Small government, really at every level but particularly at the federal level. I call it the liberty argument and the efficiency argument. The liberty argument, when you work and you get sick and lets say you have 100. Whose money is it . Its your labor. You traded for something that paid you 100. Were going to have taxes and were going to have some law enforcement, National Defense and several theres probably one or two other things. I cant remember the other ones. Wed have a small government that does things and youd have some taxes but if i told you you made 100 and the taxes were going to with 90 out of every 100 would you think i stole something that was yours, that i took some of your liberty . So the argument is for the lowest taxable level you can have in the government we have to have to do things that cant be done in the private marketplace. Mostly National Defense. Very few other things. National defense needs to be done by the government. Even sbifmente programs and all, that id do it at the state level. Theyre not very good at the federal level and they end up destroying people. Whats the number one way you get selfesteem . Can anyone give it to you . Youre the selfesteem generation. Everybody tries to give it to you. Everybody gets a trophy. Serving a winner. No, you get selfesteem by doing something. It doesnt mean that everything is a concert pianist, not everyone is an opera singer, a professional baseball player, a doctor or a lawyer but you get your selfesteem by doing things so i think Big Government comes in and takes that away from you. You get it through work. I say yes, we should have work welfare, ts for absolutely. Work is not a punishment. Work is the reward. Work is how you feel better about yourself, no matter what it is. Thats how you get your selfesteem by doing something, producing something. We have to figure out what we think government should do. The first argument against Big Government is liberty argument. That if i give up 90 of your check, youre losing your liberties. My dad used to say well, the church isnt didnt ask for more than 10 , he didnt think the government should either. The other argument is the efficiency argument. This kind of goes with the baufs. A great statement by Milton Friedman said nobody spends someone elses money as wisely as their own. Thats why government is not efficient be. That and because theres no profit motive. The invisible hand of selfinterest. People say how terrible it is. What if government didnt direct all of our Economic Affairs and people were selfish and wanted more money for their family. Selfinterests, trying to maximize profit leads to efficiency. Capitalism is that supply and demand curve crossing. Whats the result of it crossing and finding the intersection . The most amount of goods to the most amount of people at the cheapest cost. You want central planning, go visit venezuela, go visit cuba. Applause] conservatives are very good with the Second Amendment. That may be their best amendment, probably. Im all for the Second Amendment. I am very supportive personally, in public and every which way you can think, but the think i thing is you have to think of all the bill of rights. You want to defend the Second Amendment, you have to really believe in the first amendment. Without speech, discourse, the ant to organize and associate with fellow believers in the Second Amendment or any other amendment, youre not going to keep it but you also have to have the fourth amendment. A spend a lot of my time trying to protect the fourth amendment. That says the government cant come in your house without a warrant. The warrant has to have your name on and it they have to spetch what they want. Why is this important . Because you live in the digital era. You dont even remember the era before the digital error. Its not that the government is going to come into your allows and ask for papers. We dont have papers anymore. The peace officer, we dont have mail anymore. But your whole life is on your phone and the government has no right to look at it unless they individualize. They have to put your name on a warrant and go to a third party, an independents judge. Why is this important . Because you can see how people get carried away sometimes. The jeasms attacked us in world war ii and we were angry. Those people who are asian or looked asian, we have to round them up, put them in camps. We forgot about justice, individualization of whether someone is guilty. The presumption of innocence new mexico proven guilty. We have to be careful. When Edward Snowden reveal that would all of our information was being collected, that was a big deal. I would argue that we might not be safer in the sense that if you delect too much information, you might overwhelmed with the information and not be targeting what you need to do. Recognize the boston bombers . Into russia, they made public postings. It was like absolutely go after that. Go after social media, go to the judge. If im the judge, call me. Id have kevin given a warrant to look at any of their stuff. The guy that fwommed nightclub in florida. You know the f. B. I. Had information on him . Hed been investigated for a year and a half. Six weeks before that he goes to buy a thousand rounds of ammunition in a gun store. They had him on video. The f. B. I. Never investigated. But were getting too consumed with getting everybodys stuff instead of targeting those people who are suspicion. If you come across the border, anybody in this room can be denied demid answer to the country unless you have your password. Thats wrong. Ive worked on a bipartisan level to say you have to individualize. You cant just say anybody coming across the border. You have to get a warrant. Ask an independent judiciary. The reason is there are still people who might make judgments on either what you look like, who you are, what you do, where youre from as opposed to saying there is a risk this person is a criminal and there is evidence, probable cause that we should look at their stuff. When we look at our system, though, compared to over countries, i think the real fallacy this is another berniism. He said we have the worst childhood poverty in the whole world. [laughter]. Are you kidding me . Have you traveled anywhere in the world . It is never good to be poor and we do have poor people in our country but if you compare the poor in our country to almost any other country, it doesnt compare. Go to india, central america, travel in africa and youll find out what poverty is really like. So we do need to be proud of our system but when were discussing anything, obamacare or whatever it is. Do you want freedom or coercion . Big government or to be left alone . But you have to have sufficient confidence in free. Why do we still have obamacare even though hey all promised us they would vote for it . Because the people who bromsed not to vote for it showed insufficient confidence in freedom. You know there was a time when the church took care of team . When the government didnt do anything. Weve forgotten this with our churches too. Many churches have gotten involved and more socially active in helping poor people. But its your obligation to take care of your fellow man. But i think its also important for us to know that we live in the richest, freest, most humanitarian country in recorded history in 2014 1 [applause] quirks in 2014, we give away 400 billion, not the government, almost 400 billion, individually to our churches, the salvation army, to help our fellow man to read nearly 400 million. Many countries are in in their gdp. We gave that away. That isn accident not an accident, it came from embracing freedom, capitalism, the right to exchanger labor and your services with your neighbor. It came from the great wealth, and we have to remember that and become less confident of it. I will i will become and become confident of it. I will lend i will end with this, there was a painter by the name of robert and right, and he sent he said that his exultation was to paint like a man coming over the hill singing. Theke the image of that optimism of it. I would say, when you go back out into the rest of the united states, think about the optimism, the hope that comes from freedom, from the system that has made america great. Great,want america to be you have to understand why we came and why we became great. And remember the image of a man coming over the hill singing. Thank you very much. [applause] i think within a do a couple of questions, as long as there is a questions or hard questions. Thank you senator for coming today. I had the pleasure of meeting you, and i just wanted to ask him a i understand your frustration with republicans at not being able to repeal obama care. But would you be willing to gibbering the midterms, help increase the republicans in the that you said there are only 52, not enough republicans to get the job of repealing obamacare done. Republicans are better than democrats, all right . [applause] i know this is a Nonpartisan Group but i will tell you that there is not one democrat that will repeal any regulation. There was not one democrat that will repeal any taxes. But that is why we needed to do better on this, because it was only going to be republicans repealing it. And a full repeal some of obamacare, we might have actually gotten to part of the compromise where we could work with democrats. But we are stuck now with nothing appealed. So yes, we need more republicans, really, we need more conservatives. So really, it is your job to go out there and get more people. Thank you. High hello, i am from the university of texas austin, and my question to you is, kind of a opposite of the Party Related question, a lot of us in this room or political active now, but not all of us wants to become directly involved in politics. How is it that we can push forward the principal in your mind, that helps make the country great and continue to make the country great, without being actively vertical. How do we perpetuate a system where liberty can survive . Sen. Rand paul i think you have arm yourself, intellectually. The that is how you win debate, ideas have consequences, and you have to in the debate. Lets say you dont want to knock on doors, and you do not have any anyone you feel like working for, there are other ways. There are people here throughout the country who work in political foundations, who work you talksities, and about having some influence, if you were to teach economics or Political Science at one of our colleges, teach hundreds of kids and have influence of them. There is education, and you can also go out and is it ok for he goes out and becomes a billionaire and tries to help road i ron . That stroop am kidding