Conditions for firms so that they can compete best. Turning to the budget, one also from abroad has the impression that there has been a turn toward heavier military expenditures, certainly more aggressive stance than one thats perceived here. Is that important in terms of the budget or is it more show than reality in terms of spending . If its important in terms of a reallocation of spending, does that limit their opportunities for fiscal effective fiscal adjustment in the regard we have been discussing in the next few years . Well, i mean, if you look at the russian budget, you really have three key big budget categories, and one is social policy expenditure, social benefits. One is National Defense and security. And the third is spending on the national economy, which is in large part subsidies to the economy. This is not such an unusual structure of the budget, but of course, if your revenue situation dramatically changes, the question is can you just cut one or two of these budget items . And that has implications, if i decide to just cut social policy spending, it might mean i need to cut pensions or change my pension system. I need to reduce what i promised to my citizens in a social contract for free health care, free education. So these are not trivial decisions that have to be taken. So thats why it is a really strategic exercise for government to think through what are my priorities for spending going forward, where can i change what is now the status quo, and what would be the impact of that. And i think at the moment, there is definitely a lot of internal debate in the government of what should be the priorities. Is it possible to still run, for instance, this military Renewal Program that was started already a few years ago . Which is a costly program. And what would be then the price that would need to be paid by cutting one of the other two expenditure items for instance if we were then to cut if russia would then cut, for instance, subsidies to the economy, would this mean that some of the stateowned companies have to be more cost efficient and lay off some people . Then we have high unemployment, which we dont have yet. So this is not an easy discussion when you look at these three key budget items. And what is most important, though, in our view, is every country does their own decisions on the budget. And this is resonated or based on the electorate and what empowerment authorities have from its electorate. But in the end, it is about communicating clearly to its citizens what are my policy choices going forward. And this is about the policy on certainty to really help firms you can see all of this Program Online at cspan. Org. Were going to take you to louisville, kentucky. Hillary clinton on stage speaking to supporters just getting underway live here on cspan 3. You know, these elections are always important. Thats how we govern ourselves. I believe that. But boy, do i think this president ial election has about the highest stakes that we have seen in a really long time. You could not imagine a more different vision for our country than the one between our side of democrats for progress and fairness and opportunity than the presumptive nominee on the republican side. Thats why its important we have a big vote next tuesday because we have to get ready to go all the way to november to win the general election. The way i see this, weve got to break down all the barriers that stand in the way of any american getting ahead and staying ahead. And ive been talking about this now for a year as i have chris crossed the country. Talking to thousands of people because, yes, we have to knock down the economic barriers. But there are other barriers that prevent people from fulfill ing their own godgiven potential. And i want you with me to be absolutely on the front lines of making sure that the American Dream is within reach of every Single Person in this country. Number one, we have to have more good jobs with rising incomes. Its an historical fact. The economy does better when we have a democrat in the white house. I know our republican friends hate it when i say that, but all you have to do is look at the record of the last two democratic president s to get all the evidence you need. I know it was a long time ago, but when my husband was president we ended up with 23 million new jobs and incomes that rose for everybody. E we dont incomes just to rise for some, we want them to rise for everybody. When bill was president , that is what happened. More people lifted out of poverty. Median Family Income going up 17 . Median africanamerican Family Income going up 33 . Everybody did better. Thats the way its supposed to be in america. Thats how i was raised. You do your part, work hard and get ahead. Your kids will have a better life than you did. Thats what i want people to believe and make sure happens. So you might ask yourself, okay, if thats what happened in the 90s, why did it fall apart. Theres a kind of easy answer for that. We had a republican president. And ill tell you this is serious because i think we ought to balance the budget, we had new jobs, rising incomes and now we can look back and see that we havent had a raise for most americans in about 16 years. There was a recent survey of republicans and democrats saying so when was the best year you can remember and they said 2000. Now why was that . Because we were on the right track. But the republicans came back with their failed economic positions. Trickle down economics. Then they took their eyes off the Financial Markets and the Mortgage Markets and we know what happened. The worst financial crisis since the great depression. You can already see it. We cant let that happen. We were losing 800,000 jobs a month when president obama was elected. Z they say this was the slowest recovery in history. My friends, that takes a lot of nerve. We would not have needed a recovery if the republicans hadnt driven us off the cliff in the first place. And so heres what i want to do. I have a program to create more good jobs with rising incomes, rebuild the middle class, rooer going to invest in more infrastructure. Our roads, our bridges, our tunnels, our ports, our airports. I think its a about time a bridge you have right here should be fixed. These are good jobs. These pay good money. But they also make us more competitive. Why should we allow all the investment that our parents, our grandparents, our great grandparents made go to waste . It makes no sense whatsoever. Lets put americans to work. These are jobs you cannot export. They have to be done right here in kentucky. They are going to bring back advanced manufacturing. A lot of people say we cant do that. I dont buy it. I believe we can make it in america again. We have to have a plan. We have to invest in tax incentives for companies that will actually produce manufacturing jobs here. Instead of shipping those jobs overseas. But theres a lot of things we have to invent and build. We should do it here in america. My husband was at moore head state and he cant stop talking about it because he was meeting with students doing Research Building tiny satellites for nasa right there at moore head state. The young people will invent the future and create the jobs that are there. You know how were going to combat Climate Change . Not by denying it. I love it when the republicans ask about Climate Change and say im not a scientist. You can go to the university of louisville, kentucky, there are a lot of scientists who will explain it to you. Its going to be i think either germany, china or us. I want it to be us. I have this idea that our future can be even brighter than our past. The best years of america can be ahead of us if we start acting like americans again. Roll up our sleeves and get to work. Were going to do more for Small Business because thats where jobs come from. My dad was a Small Businessman and i love Small Businesses because you never know what could be made from a Small Business. I want to do more to help you get ahead. I believe we should raise the federal minimum wage. Now i got to tell you it really is its really painful when you look at people who are working hard fulltime and they are still in poverty. A lot of them Single Parents supporting their children. I want to raise the federal minimum wage. If states want to go above it, thats their business but we have to get the floor up so people have a chance to make it in america. And ill tell you it is way past time to guarantee actual pay for womens work. This is not just a womans issue. If you have a mother, a wife, a sister who is working, if they are being shortchanged youre being shortchanged. Its not only the Family Income being shortchanged. The woman who is getting less than what her pay should be is getting shortchanged in retirement, getting shortchanged in social security, its not just a one day, one week, one pay period, one year phenomenon. And i dont know about you, but i can tell you Hillary Hillary hillary i can tell you as a woman who has shopped most of her life, i have never gotten a discount when i got to the cashier. I have never had anybody say to me, well, youre a woman so you only have to pay 78 cents on the dollar. That hasnt happened yet. But we need to be fair. People who work hard need to be rewarded. Thats how we built this country. We believe in hard work. We believe in opportunity. I started out in lexington today. And i was talking to some young parents, moms and dads. The stresses on young families today seem to be much greater in lots of ways because between the fact that youre not getting raises like people used to expect and youre not getting maybe equal pay for your work and child care can cost as much as send iing a child to the university and all kinds of challenges were really making it hard. Its time to bring family policy to to the 21st century. Its not the way it used to be. We have to support these young parents. I have been doing this work my entire adult life. First job i had had out of law school was with the childrens defense fund, and i know how important it is that we give people hope. That we give people a real sense that were all in this together. And that they dont feel like the game is rigged against them and the deck is stacked. So im going to keep advocating for good jobs and rising incomes and good work family balance policies that can help people feel like they are being fair to their family while they do their work in their workplace. Every time i advocate for this, the republicans say there she goes playing the womans card. I always say you know what, if talking about equal pay and Womens Health and paid family leave is playing the womans card, then deal me in. Youre a great, great crowd today. You know what else . We have to do more on education. We have to start in the beginning and we have to go all the way through. So i do think we need more Early Childhood education so every child is prepared and we need to work with our teachers, we need to be supporting our teachers. Not scapegoating our teachers. Giving them what they need to do their job. And then i have a plan for Debt Free College if you go to a public college. And the reason we can afford to do this is because we can invest in the education of young people from middle class working, poor families. Not the wealthy. I dont believe in free college for the wealthy. I dont support that. My opponent Bernie Sanders does. We just have a difference. But he also requires that a third of the cost for free college be paid by the states. Now i dont know about you, but it doesnt seem like your new governor is friendly to higher education. So my plan avoids that. We funded directly. The other thing were going to do is pay down student debt by letting you refinance your debt like a mortgage or a car payment. Im excited about this because theres so much student debt and its Holding People back and its holding them down. 1. 2 trillion in student debt. Lets get the Interest Rates down. Lets give people a chance to pay it back as a percentage of their income. Lets put a date certain when it ends and lets stop the federal government from making money off of lending money to students and their families. Now i also will tell you i will defend the Affordable Care act. I am saddened by what i hear may come out of the Governors Office here in kentucky. Im especially saddened because i think you all know this. But kentucky under the governor was widely praised for running the best Affordable Care transition in the whole country. Your state exchange called connect, better than any state, bigger, richer, you guys did it right. Its working. You have had the biggest, the second biggest drop in the uninsured in the country. Nearly 9 its down to. And i was visiting the Family Health centers here in louisville and i was talking to doctors and Nurse Practitioners and patients and i have to tell you it just brought tears to my eyes. People who are Getting Health Care for the first time in ye s years. People who are dealing with problems that they just had to ignore. People who feel healthier, more productive like they can put in a Good Days Work because they now have the treatments that they deserve and need to have. And it is so distressing to me when anybody in public life, anybody u in public life who has all the health care he or she needs wants to take it away from working poor people, Small Business people and others who dont have the health care they need. I dont understand it. I really do believe were all in this together. We are stronger together. And how does it help me or help our economy if you have hundreds of thousands of people in this state who cant afford the health care i need. It doesnt seem like a productive outcome. Im hoping your governor will come out of with plan that doesnt strip away the insurance that they now have. I sure hope thats the case. Because thats the kind of country we should be striving to be. Where we do take care of each other. And there are two issues. I want to get the cost of prescription drugs down. I want to do more on Mental Health and addiction. Both of those issues, were just not doing enough. Theres still too much stigma about Mental Health. If you have diabetes, you tell your family or friends you have been diagnosed with diabetes. You have depression, youre not sure you want anybody to know and may not get the help you need because youre embarrassed. Its time to end the stigma. Were learning so much about the body, about our genomes, about how we actually work. We are all one body and whether its Mental Health or physical health, its all who we are. We need to do more to help people who are suffering. Kentucky is facing a big open yoed crisis. And we have to do more because were losing thousands of people a year to overdoses. I was very pleased at the Family Health center to learn they are starting an opium treatment but we need that everywhere because people need help and they need to be saved from overdoses. A lot of them dont know they are actually overdosing. My husband and i have lost the children of dear friends of ours, adult children, who had no intention to die, but they took a pill after they had a beer or two and they never woke up. This is the single most heartbreaking story i hear as i travel across america. And as your president , if im so fortunate enough to be, were going to do everything we can to save lives, divert people from the criminal Justice System, give them treatment, help them s into recovery and get on a better track. Were also going to reform the criminal Justice System and end the era of mass incarceration with more diversion programs and more Second Chance programs. I think its one of our Biggest Challenges and i want us to lead the way at the local and state level, supported by the federal government. Theres a lot of great work for us to do in our country right now. And i think everybody running for president should have to meet the test of whether or not they are telling you about how they are going to improve the lives of americans. What are the positive results that we are seeking. I also think they should level with you about where they stand on all of the hot button issues, the issues about rights, because theres a big difference between us. I will defend a womans right to make her own health care decisions. And i will defend marriage equality. And i will defend voting rights. And i will work to end Citizens United and rid our political system of unaccountable money. I talked a lot about that in this campaign. I take it personally. That Citizens United case was another right wing attack on me. The right wing never gives up attacking me. Have you noticed that . Honest to goodness, i think they are really going to throw everything including the kitchen sink this time. I have a little message for them. They have done it for 25 years and im still standing. Its also really important when you go to vote on tuesday to remember youre not voting not just for a president but a commanderinchief. And the highest obligation of a president is to protect america. I take that as a solemn obligation and its why i have been so concerned about the reckless talk coming from donald trump. I have to tell you its a long list now that he just sort of throws things out. People say maybe he doesnt really mean it. When you are running for and serving as president , youd better mean what you say. So when