And its great because it includes women, and it doesnt, you know, it doesnt exclude anybody. But it doesnt leave much of a place for people who may have enormous amount of virtues but mental nimbleness isnt chief among them, you know . People who are physically worthy, capable of enormous hard work, were morally decent, and what do they do in the modern world . Thats a question weve got to answer. And i dont have any, i dont have any funny, you know, wisecracks to make about that. Its you know, i always sort of puzzles me. You know, i always say no, i often think this, that and this comes up in a lot of my advice columns because so many questions really are about identity and the transition and the changes and the loss of identity, and i think the two Big Questions for any of us to answer are who am i and what do i want. And i think this is sort of what, this is the brief of the baby boom. Were still at it. Were still trying to answer these questions. And as p. J. s perm story show d personal story shows, the answer changes through time if youre smart and lucky. Yeah. And luckys part of it. You know, when work is less physicality, its harder to identify with it, you know . I mean, maybe you were just a carrier, people say what do you do, you say i take this pile of bricks and take them up the ladder. And now most of us would be asked what do you do . I sit and i stare at a computer screen. [laughter] what do i do, you know . [laughter] im not at all certain myself. Okay, we have one more question. I think this is our last one. Sir. Good. Ive taken to quoting you a lot, so would you enunciate exactly in your words your famous quote about health care . About health care . Yes. Oh, yes. I did once say that if you think health cares expensive now, just wait until you see how much it costs when its free. [laughter] thank you very much. [applause] thank you, p. J. [applause] i also, i want to point out that p. J. Will be out, i think, in that direction signing books. Please come, have a chat. I will also be there. Ill stay late and solve all your problems, okay . Right. [laughter] ill sign your books, shell solve your problems. Okay . So join us. [applause] [inaudible conversations] booktv is on facebook. Like us to interact with booktv guests and viewers, watch videos and get uptodate information on events. Facebook. Com booktv. There are a hundred things i want to write about, so it is, it is hard work, but its a joy, and the business part of it really doesnt drive me. Around, im not, im not Mahatma Gandhi either. So, i am a capitalist. But that said, what really drives me in trying to push sales is to try and get my books and my arguments into as many hands as i possibly can, because my books are intended to try and affect peoples thinking, to give them ideas, maybe things they havent thought about. And as i say, i cant imagine other authors arent thinking the same way, but thats certainly where im coming from. I have one of the greatest editors in publishing. And his name is mitchell iverson. And he really is terrific. And hes got an eye for this. So he might say, you know, you may not want to use that sentence or you might want to reorganize this chapter or that chapter. But hes also gracious about how he does it, knowing full well that im a little stubborn, like i think most authors are, but i certainly am. He might say you may not want to include that, no, i am. Okay. So i like to bounce things off him. But in the end, i make those decisions, and has there ever been head butting . No. Have i ever turned this a book where theyve said, oh, good lord no, theyve always said theyre really thrilled to have the book because i actually hand them a complete book with all the end notes in the book, with all the sourcing in the book, with all the arguments in the book, with all the chapters in the book. I put it together, and i hand it to them. I mean, at the end of this desk, for instance, theyve returned a few of them to me, and i dont know that other authors do that, other conservative authors do that. I just dont know. But in my case because i had no ghost authors or cowriters of anything of the sort, theyre just glad that i turn them in, and i turn them in on time. Look, there are things i want to write about, theres things i want to talk about, and life is short. They dont need to say, you know, youve missed your deadline. Im excited to get my book in on my deadline, and can im ready to go on the next one. I say its hard work, and it is, because i do a radio show, and im not done until 9 p. M. Eastern time, and that means i work until three in the morning when im working on a book. It does have an effect on your social life and so forth, but this is what i do. This is what i love. People even say to me what do you do for a hobby . This is what i do. Its a hobby, and its work, and i love it. I realize that tax reform and entitlement reform will not be with easy. The politics will be hard for both sides. None of us will get 100 of what we want. But the alternative will cost us jobs, hurt our economy, visit hardship on millions of hard working americans. So lets set Party Interests aside ask work to pass a budget that replaces reckless cuts with smart savings and Wise Investments in our future. 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