>> all right you guys are awesome. keep at it. [inaudible conversations] >> good afternoon. welcome back ladies and gentlemen if you can all take your seats we will get started with the next speaker. good afternoon to all of you attending in person. as well as all of those participating virtually. my name is katrina and i am one

of the interns at young americans foundation. which is one of the principal outreach organizations of the conservative movement. young america foundation introduces thousands of america's youth to fundamental conservative values. such as individual freedom, free enterprise, a strong national defense and traditional american values through campus activism initiatives, campus lecture tours and conferences. thanks to young america foundation i have a great honor today to introduce my own senator, united states senator of florida, rick scott. [applause] >> senator scott to the united states senate in 2018 and currently serving his first term representing the state of florida prior to his election, to the united states senate

senator scott served two terms of the 45th governor of florida. senator scott grew up in public housing in the midwest as his adopted father, a world war veteran and truck driver and his mother and store clerk struggled to financially after mirroring his high school sweetheart, scott joined the navy. where he served -- [applause] he served as an active-duty radar man aboard the uss glover. he then use the g.i. bill to attend the university of missouri kansas city and eventually open his first business. [cheering] from there, senator scott went

on to run the largest healthcare company and continues to fight every day to have a opportunity he had to live the american dream. after florida's economic collapse ten years ago, he made the decision to run for governor as a businessman with no prior political experience. during his term as governor, he successfully championed more than $10 billion in tax cuts and cut thousands of regulations that led florida businesses to create nearly 1.7 million new jobs and under his leadership. [applause] the unemployment rate dropped from 11% to 3.3%. [cheering]

florida pay down $10 billion in state debt and record investments were made and what matters most to floridians, education, the environment and public safety. rick scott and his wife have been married for 47 years and have two daughters allison and jordan and six grandsons. please join me in welcoming the embodiment of the american dream, senator rick scott. [cheering] >> good job. thank you. [cheering] thank you very much. thank you very much. i usually do this and florida. close to the beach. i start these conferences in florida and the first thing i say is spend your money. then i tell people buy a second home, because in florida are taxes are basically sales tax

which tours pay 25% of an they buy homes and don't use them. it's a best business model in the world. [cheering] thank you for being here and things are being involved. you have to be involved in what happens in this country. they're putting on debt all across the country and expect you to pay for. the passing regulations they expect you to comply with and make it more difficult to get a job and expect to be able to get a job. you heard about my background, i am the luckiest authors was personal. i had a very tough mom, my mom got divorced when i was on and i never met my match father, he never helped my mom but my mom was the toughest person ever. if any of you the different at the time and remember the ads in 2010, she seemed like a nice grandmotherly figure, that th nt exec weho i thought of my mom.

she said you're going to make strays, you will be in eagle scout, you will go to church all the time and get out of the house and make money. so i did. we had jobs, i made 85 cents an hour as a cook, i submit papers for pinning a paper and we cleaned telephone booths, they were filthy. so my brothers and i and my sister all worked. and it did not kill us. the group in a time in this country where my mom told me, even though i lived in public housing she said you can be anything. there is no limitation on what you can compass. and i believe you. so i built companies, so my mom could have a job when i got out of the navy and built the largest company eveready infection copy because i wanted to live the dream. and you could. go back to 2010, and think about, you probably don't remember as much as you print. in 2010 this country was in deep

financial trouble. today everybody says look at the miracle of florida, let's go back to 2010. in four years the state of florida lost 832,000 jobs. in four years home prices in florida dropped by 50%. in four years. they raised taxes, increase regulation, they were raising the university tuition every year, 50% plus inflation, every year. you cannot make this stuff up what they were doing to our state. so i got into the race i got in april of election year, i'm a business guy never ran for office and everybody said you have no shot at winning. so we shocked everybody and one the primary and the one the general election. then we set about doing exactly what we said.

they said i have seven steps for 700,000 jobs over seven years and they said you never get to 700,000 jobs, we just lost 800,000 jobs. so we chipped away. i went to the budget line by line which is shocking, people do not do that. there is 4000 lines to the budget. and we would solve the same issue ten different ways. somebody would come to my offi office, and eight years of governor nobody came to my office and said rees my taxes, or cut anything. nothing. every program we need to expand. i went line by line through the budget, there's 4000 lines. and we said what we get for this? if we don't get anything for we will not do it. and if they talk me into it the first year i said i'm going to monitor and if we don't get what we said you're going to get all cut it the next year. there's a line on beetle for the governor in florida. in eight years we were able --

we didn't do 700,000 jobs we did 1.7 million jobs. [applause] [cheering] we cut about 20% of the regulations of the state. by the way when you go to school, here's what i thought about when is going to school, i was not there saying i loved sitting in the classroom all day, i actually liked working. but i thought about higher education, what do students and families care about, what is it going to cost me, do i get a job enjoy make more money? that is what do you think about. was there any measurement in the state on that? none. so we changed the system to say we're going to move more the money to performance to those three things. get a job, how much money, what the cost to get a degree. part of that was tuition and part of it was how fast you got out of school. now for the last three years

running, we have the second lowest tuition in the united states, we stocked all the tuition, it took about three years to put in a people to do that. we stopped the tuition increases and according to the report we are the number one higher education system in the country. of all 50 states. [applause] we grew our economy so we could invest in things even though we cut. here's the stuff that you read that you have to balance the budget, that is not true, you disbar or money. so that we say states have developed the budget, they do not it's how much money you borrow. so my state for 20 state years they borrowed and another billion dollars extra for 20 straight years. when i got elected, they cabinet

meetings i did not even know they had cabinet meetings after inauguration print and go to my first one and they said you'll accrue or debt and i said iran against him. i won the election. and so i stopped it and i find out i took it off the agenda. but in the next eight years we cut $10.5 billion worth of debt which is the third of the state that. they had never done that. mo states still do not do that. they just borrow more money. p. . . . .

we spent $4 million teaching people was in china. last year county office said at the federal level we wasted 150 billion dollars in improper payments. we did not fix it. we have 20 federal organizations that do housing programs. we are wasting money, wasting money and expecting you to pay for it. here's the deal, or collecting about $3 trillion a year in texas and every year we spend $4 trillion. how long could you do that as an individual and how long can a business do that came not for long but we are doing it every year but 20 true trillion dollars worth of debt. twenty true trillion dollars someone has to pay for that.

we collected over $3 trillion in taxes and pain or spending over $400 million in interest which adds no value and no services were not building our military. nothing. by 2028 that will be $900 billion a year. if we don't pay down the debt. so, we just had the budget deal today and i voted against it because you will pay for it. if you stop and think -- here's what i thought about my job as governor. three primary things a typical family cares about. number one, they want a job. they want to be self-sufficient and they don't -- i don't meet people that say i want to be on another government program. how many of you get up every day and say i'm looking forward to government housing human you

don't. by the way, i may give you a test. about 22 million people live in florida, how many people toda today -- throw out a guess -- when i left office how many were on unemployment benefits? 10 million. anybody else? 61000. [applause] how many people on welfare? 71000 out of 22 million. let me tell you how the programs are run when i took office. i'm a business guy and built a lot of businesses so when i buy a business i talked to the employees, competitors, suppliers and say what should we change. go to the agencies in florida and i'll give you one story. go to the agency that is unlimited. now, we are in deep financial trouble and we had lost all

these jobs and very little job growth and i said how does it work? they said governor, were open six days a week because unemployed floridians do not have enough time to apply for an appointment during the week. really? i said to you -- if you get on an employment you have to apply for a job? they said well, there's a lot you have to apply for a job so weak but we do not enforce it. i said i read this article that said you could be in jail and so get on implement benefits. they said well yeah, sure. i said give me the pitch. they said governor, federal money is free. so this is federal -- we only pay 26 weeks of on employment in our state and barack obama gave us another 73 weeks and so were trying to get all that free barack obama money.

it will help grow our economy. i said why don't we enforce the law and try and talk to everyone on unemployment and say what do they need -- training, let's provide training. if they have housing issues, let's work on that. whatever their issue is that some of their issues. that is all we did you're a federal government and give it to the state to help people get a job. there were 24 agencies in florida and guess how many jobs they knew about that they filled every week? they had no idea. no measurement at all. we started measuring it. we started making them everyday. what number do you want to be in a class for first? the all kept getting better. think about your government. all the things all the problems we have we dealt with most of them in florida and they're all taxable. but you don't fix them by just doing nothing about them. you go line by line through a budget like you have to do when your family and you look at the

money and help you spend the money and if you do that eventually you can solve all the problems. i've been up here seven months and it's an interesting place. people don't talk to each other very well. it's pretty dysfunctional but i'm very optimistic because a lot of good people trying to do the right thing and i believe that if you stay involved we will fix the budget problem and rebuild our military so we can defend the freedom of our country and make sure china does not continue to steal our jobs and technology. i'm very optimistic. you have to work hard and be optimistic because we all have families. i have six grandsons and i have been blessed with two daughters. grandsons are easier. [laughter] [applause]

so, my oldest grandson will be a paratrooper, policeman i took him to the kennedy space center and he will be the first person on mars. [applause] the way i think about this job is i want that young man to have the same opportunity i had when i was born and my mom said i don't care we live in public housing, we have no money and you can be anything. if we do that is great for him and every other child a great for society. thank you for being here. i hope all of you get involved in politics, whether you run for office or not and you should run for office. if there's anything i can do i make full-service senator. i tried to be full-service governor. if there's anything i can do to be helpful, don't hesitate to reach out but i have time for a couple questions. i love to answer questions you have. [applause]

>> scott, my name is noah rosenberg and i attended st. petersburg college in florida. my mom and dad are currently foster parents in florida and me and my parents have seen a massive influx of children that parents have not taken good care and event put into the foster care system. they don't have any place to call home. >> any place to call home. >> my question is how do we encourage family in the state of florida and in the country to foster or adopt these children and help get involved? >> you feel so sorry for kids that are in the foster system. here's what we did in the eight years. first off, the foster kids cannot get drivers license did not have any way to -- there was

no system to help them so we solved that problem. the next thing is and my wife we did a lot of work. we worked and got 20000 foster kids adopted. [applause] then when i got elected payment to go to help the children to the parents only went to 18 so we move that to 21 and we dealt with issues with the tuition benefits and things like that but let me tell you. your heart goes out to people that abuse of children and we have story after story with children and families and department of children and families in the stories you hear are devastating but the other side is theirs wonderful families like yours that are willing to put the effort in and

help give these kids the same opportunities that we had in so in our state we have tried to be helpful but i know there's always more and always additional kids because some of the parents don't do a good job. >> thank you for all you do. [applause] >> i'm looking around the room and see a couple of my friends going oh god, not another balanced budget question but i'm glad you brought it up because it's something i'm working with and they have a project calle called -- >> don't what? >> don't bankrupt america. my question is how would you want to see some sort of balance budget were spending cut amendment passed at the federal level and if you don't like the idea of an amendment how do you think we can fix the issue? >> well, right thing to do is have a balanced budget amendment

that would be part of the constitution that would force us to accept in times of emergencies. but it's difficult. in the meantime what you have to do and it's incumbent upon what you do everyday. you have to elect people that will say i'm willing to take the time to go to the budget line by line and fix it. we have to make choices and some are tough. i give this budget deal the democrats and republicans both got what they wanted and there was more spending because we needed to spend more money on the defense which we needed to do but then we spent more money on other programs which i rush in whether we need to do all of those. the biggest thing balanced budget amendment would be nice and that is hard. what you can do is if you elect people like what we did in florida that are willing to do make the tough choices and go through it line by line in the budget then you can balance the budget and so that's probably

more realistic and trying to get the ballot budget amendment but if you could, that be great. in florida what we have is the opportunity we can amend our constitution two ways one through the legislator can do it in a difficult and you can do it three referendum and we have a constitutional revision committee every 20 or so we just had one just last year and i got past with a lot of help from the people takes a two thirds majority of house and senate to erase any fee in the states. make it difficult for people have to put thought into raising those. that includes tuition which are not be going up. thank you for the question. [applause] thank you. have a great conference. goodbye.

>> we have more coverage from the young america's foundation shortly coming up here from arkansas senator tom cotten and this weekend on "after words" former virginia governor who discusses the events that led up to the tragedy in charlottesville, virginia after that unite the right rally in 2017. here's a preview. >> a lot of this started when president obama got elected and for many people just the concept of a black president in the oval office was offensive for many. they may have done it on a social media and then you have a president who comes and who spent a lot of time on the movement say the president was not born in america and then all the other -- she's tweeting or retreating white supremacist neo-nazi activities while as president and then trump comes in with abandon i think [inaudible] president could come

out and say the stuff so so can i. that's bold of them and that's why they felt comfortable coming to charlottesville. if you can say publicly so can i. then the point that people use to wear hoods and they used to do this tonight. they don't think they have to wear hoods anymore. in is also the came out and this was the big coming-out party they got hurt badly in charlottesville. they got pushed, i agree with your point they weren't able to do another charlottesville because they were so injured and wounded and charged and so forth they were able to do it but it has gone out underground on the web that the person from el paso, this killer who wrote his manifesto and specifically talks about white supremacy, white identity directly quoting donald trump's tweets. you are right. president -- he failed us this week it is a speech. i wish he'd come out and said

opened his speech up and said i'm sorry. my rhetoric has created divisions and hatred in this country and i was wrong and a time for us to come together. if president trump had done that he could have turned the entire corner and it would have been a moment for our nation but he does not have it in him but he gave his speech which he read off a teleprompter and talked about the hate speech out there but he's the number one out there with the heat speech and then i wish he is said i'm calling senator mitch mcconnell, senate leader to come back in the house voted for a universal background check 160 days ago and bring that bill up and i want it on the floor of the senate and voted this week. that's what he could've done but it was just words and it's sad. >> watch this entire conversation with former virginia governor terry

mcauliffe talking about his book, beyond charlottesville, this weekend on "after words". saturday at 10:00 p.m. eastern and sunday at 9:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2's book tv. >> saturday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on lectures in history. female activist in the 1960s civil rights movement. >> while women were instrumental in helping to organize and put the march together the event was purely dominated by men. >> sunday at 4:30 p.m. eastern the global significance of the declaration of independence during and after the american revolution. >> the multiple translations of our declaration also made their way to colombia, venezuela and ecuador for the course of the 50 year time after 701776. known as the age of revolution. >> at 6:00 p.m. i witness accounts from inside the white house during the apollo 11 lunar landing.

>> we staked ourselves into the cabinet room and throughout the day you can see the windows were dark so we were in the nighttime and the module landed at 4:15 in the afternoon and the astronauts do not walk until later. >> explore our nation's past on american history tv every weekend on c-span3. up next, editor tom cotten speaking of the young america's foundation earlier this month. the arkansas republican spoke for about 40 minutes. [applause] >> thank you all very much. you very much for that kind introduction and thank you for the warm welcome but i'm impressed that so many college age students are here at 8:00 a.m.