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If Republicans don't win this midterm election, the Democrats will spend the entire time trying to impeach the president, investigate the president, do what they do, maybe they'll bring out the Oswald files, now that they brought out the Epstein files, you never know. Maybe they'll bring out the Wilkes Booth files. I don't know what they'll do, but they're certainly not interested in the best interests of the country. They're moving radical Marxist-Islamist left. And I was thinking about healthcare proposals, and I went back and looked, because I remember, we have all kinds of fantastic proposals out there, including this administration. I think we ought to start talking about them. You don't have to pass them immediately, but when you're asked by a reporter, do you have a proposal? You should have it right in your pocket, I sure as hell do. It's right here, and this is what we want to do. Now, key conservative plans over the years have market-based reforms, allowing insurance plans to be sold across state lines to increase competition, expanding the use of association health plans, which allows small businesses to band together to form effectively their own insurance groups, promoting and expanding health savings accounts through credits, through tax incentives and so forth, so you put money aside, like you do for your pension, and that money is available to use, Medicaid and state flexibility, giving states more control over their Medicaid programs and marketplaces, potentially cutting federal spending on Medicaid, but allowing flexibility with the states, introducing work requirements for Medicaid. The president did this, the Republicans did this, God forbid, if somebody has to work 20 hours a week, even volunteer 20 hours a week for Medicaid, I don't want to, the system's against me. What was it? Get off your butt and do something, so the people who are off their butt doing something don't have to pay for you on the dole, too. And addressing preexisting conditions, all the plans, using state-based high-risk pools or reinsurance programs to cover individual preexisting conditions, so you take cases that are the most difficult, expensive, and you specifically try and help those people, but it doesn't mean all healthy people, all young people, should have the same plan when they don't need the same plan. You know, the Heartland Institute had a great plan several years ago, I looked, Justin Haskins writing in The Hill, this is four, five years old, he said, "The key to fixing the health care system is to provide greater access to all people while making key structural reforms that utilize the power of market economics and personal choice." Not socialism or Marxism, Bernie, no, rather than impose top-down mandates that respect consumer freedom. So they come up with a plan, and the proposal is HOA's, our Health Savings Account, so we just talked about, what else? Those who get employer-provided health insurance, like 160 million Americans, would receive the money from the employers directly so they can purchase their own insurance plans instead of being forced to settle for whatever those plans are, and lower-income Americans, those with disabilities and kids, now enrolled in the Children's Health Insurance Program chip, would receive the government funds directly. This is what the president's talking about when he says, "Why are we funneling this through these bureaucracies, through these insurance companies?" Give the money to the people to make their own decisions. Have their saving account, or small businesses can get together, set up their own consolidated type insurance plans. There's so many opportunities. We throw so much money at the bureaucracy, so much money at insurance companies. Give it to the people. We will help people directly with preexisting conditions. We can do that, and there are many plans out there that Republicans themselves have come up with. How about promoting them and talking about them when the Democrats keep talking about a Soviet-style health care program like Obamacare? It is a complete and utter disaster.

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It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strongman stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs, who comes up short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcoming, but who does actually strive to do the deeds, who knows great enthusiasts, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those whole or intended souls who neither know victory nor death.

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Today we come to the heartland of America to pay tribute to a man who embodied the heart and soul and fight and spirit of our country as much as anyone who ever lived. TR had transformed his country by the reach of his vision and by the force of his will into one of the greatest empires ready to take its rightful place as the strongest and most respected nation anywhere in the world. The life of Theodore Roosevelt reminds us that Americans never give up. We don't give up. He never stopped, never quit, never surrendered. Theodore Roosevelt reminds us all that to be a great nation and to be a free nation we must have courage. Without courage you have nothing. He refused to accept failure, mediocrity, corruption, decay, or decline and neither should we. As America turns 250 years old we look at this remarkable man and we recall that with effort, determination, and drive there is nothing that Americans of competence cannot do.

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to you a long time on that, right? - Yes. - You get treated good? - Oh, yes. - Because I've been talking to boss. - Ah, no. (laughing) - I'm gonna ask my guys, I'm totally serious. Get some hamburgers, I gotta make a speech. Come back, and we're gonna eat you, and we'll have a warm-up. Air Force One is nice warming you up. (laughing) We can warm it, right? We can do anything on Air Force One.

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This is Minnesota judge Sarah West. Judge Sarah West was the judge that oversaw a $7 million Medicaid fraud case. And despite the fact that the jury convicted him unanimously, judge Sarah West said, no, we're not going to be doing that today. Now she claims that she threw out this unanimous guilty verdict due to the fact that all of the evidence presented was merely circumstantial. Now what was the circumstantial evidence? You may be asking, well, a Gfata Yusuf and his wife were running a home healthcare service out of their home. And despite the fact that their business is inside of their house, they were able to afford all of these fancy trips and luxury vehicles and these thousands of dollars of shopping sprees. So the math wasn't really quite mathing. So not only in Minnesota can you absolutely rob the state blind with fraud, but even if you get convicted by unanimous jury, a judge will still let you off the hook. Isn't that special?

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