SCOTT WALKER TALKS ABOUT HIS SUCCESS IN WISCONSIN- SAFETY IN AMERICA - WESTERN CONSERVATIVE SUMMIT

SCOTT WALKER TALKS ABOUT HIS SUCCESS IN WISCONSIN AND SAFETY IN AMERICA  AT WESTERN CONSERVATIVE SUMMIT

At the 2015 Western Conservative Summit, Governor Scott Walker discusses Wisconsin's success during his leadership, discusses growth, reform, and safety for America.

    Machine generated transcript, expect errors.   0:00 the 0:06 the thank you 0:12 freedom endowed by our Creator 0:17 defined by our Constitution but defended 0:22 each and every day by the men and women who proudly wear the uniform of these 0:26 United States 0:27 before we go any further with anyone who serves the millage in the military today 0:32 anyone who served as a better in the past and for that matter 0:35 when anyone who is a family member other service member veteran 0:39 would you please stand at this moment 0:50 thank you 0:53 I appreciate that that that includes audio and includes the senate president 0:57 who just showed up here is a military veteran himself in 0:59 so for me to acknowledge that to talk about freedom which I'm a talk about the 1:03 here quite a bit for the next few minutes it's important river where those 1:07 freedoms come from 1:08 in their doubts about Bob defined by the Constitution 1:11 we would have without the men and women that you just saw stood stand-up 1:15 in the families that represent the no way here but across this great country 1:19 it's also an honor to be introduced only by the leader the state Senate here in 1:23 Colorado 1:23 with someone from Colorado Springs because on November 2nd 1967 1:30 I was bored whats car called Memorial Hospital Colorado Springs 1:34 but my parents were 1:41 had come out from Northern Illinois 1:44 were where they were raised my dad was a associate pastor for Christian education 1:48 First Baptist Church in downtown 1:50 the downtown Coral Springs where the church is still there today that 1:54 few years ago after I was first elected governor the first time 1:58 in 2010 we went to a new governors conference it was at the Broadmoor 2:02 but on Sunday instead of going to the sessions that morning 2:05 we went over First Baptist in my wife got a taste of hearing 2:09 all after service from one 2:13 late 78-year-old woman after another who said 2:16 I still hold your husband and my arms in the nursery 2:20 the so I was gonna find so we love to keep coming back to colorado my birthday 2:25 dollars for a dollar from Colorado but all across the western or across the 2:28 country are 2:29 thank you for coming out and it really is an are also want to say thanks 2:34 because I know for many have you here 2:37 your center Kevin talked about this the but but a few years ago we had a few 2:41 visitors in which cuts 2:42 I in fact a so many have you hear that recall election 2:47 help to sell you help to sell many have you sent twenty or thirty blocks 2:51 many have you made phone calls for for some even travel all the way to 2:55 Wisconsin we appreciate that but most of all 2:57 be at the turn at nine our family our boys met now 3:01 somebody told us you prayed force I just got to tell you what a difference it 3:04 made us thank you so much for doing that 3:12 Myler crest going forty don't stop because we need the prayers now more 3:15 than ever 3:16 and we appreciate it because is center Kevin bitchin we we had at one point 3:20 over a hundred thousand protesters in our cap 3:24 effective your may not remember this but the Occupy movement 3:28 did not start Wall Street it started in Madison Wisconsin in my state capital 3:33 it wasn't two months later we finally won those battles that 3:37 that they actually went on the wall street around the rest the country so my 3:40 apologies for certain had 3:41 a but but we did what we thought was important you see Wed 3:45 back in 2009 about a year and a half before the election to net and I sat 3:49 down and talked about thought about ultimately prayed about 3:52 the state of our state and we saw that a state that had a 3:56 unemployment rate peaked at 9.2 percent state were under the previous government 4:01 lost 233,000 jobs were taxes are going up by over a billion dollars 4:06 by the governor democrats were in charge before we saw state it was in trouble on 4:10 behalf of our two signs we said we gotta do something and I'm proud to tell you 4:14 some four-year 4:15 plus years later our state is turned around we couldn't have done it without 4:19 the support of people helping us out as you see when 4:22 when they came in with all those protesters they were trying to 4:24 intimidate us 4:26 that's what they do at the state at the federal at the local level 4:29 they tried to intimidate the big every special interest when I'm proud to tell 4:33 you tonight 4:34 that we were not intimidated charged us with refocusing on why we're electing 4:38 the first place in the people we elected to serve 4:40 and instead of backing down we stood up and took the power 4:44 outta the hands are the big %uh verse special interest to put it firmly 4:47 in the hands of the hardworking taxpayers 4:55 SERR reforms 4:57 now we change unions in our state but but we we were able to change our 5:02 economic status we we went from 9.2 percent unemployment beginning a 2010 5:06 8.1 percent the month before I took office 5:09 were down about four and a half percent last month we took it 5:18 we have a labor participation rate that's well above the national level we 5:21 are a 5:22 3.6 billion dollar budget deficit turned it into a surplus in each in last year's 5:27 balance our budget moving forward 5:28 we have a rainy day fund its a hundred sixty five times bigger we took office 5:32 the pitch pension system delightfully for in the country 5:35 we've done all the things you would expect economically fiscally the one I'm 5:39 most proud of us 5:40 how we change state local government for example our schools we now can hire 5:45 and fire based america's we got rid of seniority and tenure 5:49 the 5:57 member back in 2011 out as protesters at public schools are gonna fall for 6:01 we did some like that one here to tell you four years later graduation rates 6:05 are up 6:06 third-grade reading scores are up ACT scores are now second best in the 6:10 country 6:10 but states where the kids take the exam protect exam but it's not just in those 6:19 areas you see we did other things as well sometimes people don't know about 6:22 this cuz they hear about the union's 6:23 but we did other things we we reined in regulations we 6:27 we got rid a frivolous lawsuits we we did more 6:30 we defunded Planned Parenthood a pass pro-life legislation 6:35 the we pass Castle Doctrine a concealed carry so the people can protect 6:45 themselves 6:46 their family and their loved ones if they're law-abiding citizens 6:49 who woulda thought this but we made Wisconsin the twenty first state in the 6:57 country to have the right to work 6:59 the freedom to work without being forced to beat a labor union in our state it's 7:10 now 7:10 easy to though but hard to cheat if you want about the state wisconsin you gotta 7:15 have a photo ID to vote the next election the 7:19 the it so I tell all the view that 7:28 not to brag well maybe not too much 7:31 but rather tell you in a state like wisconsin 7:34 a state that hasn't gone Republican for President since 1984 when ronald reagan 7:39 lasted for reelection 7:40 if a state like that can take ideas that are big 7:44 and bold and have enacted and then elect a governor not just the first time but a 7:49 second time 7:50 and a third time in four years and now I like to governor but add additional 7:54 seats and a majority 7:55 going from Democrat to Republican to adding more republicans 7:58 adding even more republicans last fall if we can do it in Wisconsin 8:02 we can certainly do in washington at all across America 8:13 and let me give you three quick reasons why that's important for our country 8:17 tall that growth reform and safety 8:20 issue right now I think we've got a lot of politicians in Washington who think 8:24 we grow the economy by growing Washington 8:26 I got a message for we grow the economy in cities 8:30 in towns and villages all across this nation that people create jobs 8:34 not the government's about time to get the government out of the way that means 8:43 raining in frivolous and outta control losses particularly all those new ones 8:47 that the Obama administration put in place 8:49 it means once and for all repealing 8:52 Obama Care outright folio immediately 8:56 at twenty patients and families back in charge it means using the abundant so 9:04 what God has given us here in this country in on this continent 9:07 when it comes to feel energy supplies with all the above not picking winners 9:11 and losers 9:12 but using all that we have here on the West in all across the country 9:15 starting with approving the Keystone pipeline on day one 9:25 it means not only through kindergarten through twelfth grade but beyond 9:29 helping people get the education and the skills 9:32 and the qualifications they need to succeed in a way that says worker let 9:36 the other side 9:37 worry about how low wages are we're going to get people the skills they need 9:40 to succeed 9:41 with careers they pay two or three or four times 9:45 the minimum wage because we want everyone to be lifted up in this 9:48 economic recovery 9:49 and finally it means lowering the burden when it comes to taxes 9:57 warning the bird and hardworking taxpayers will be individuals 10:01 or a job creator so that we're competitive again in the world today 10:04 so that more american jobs can come back home to put more bark fellow citizens 10:09 back to work