Massie at the Buffalo Trace Lincoln-Reagan dinner

Jan 23, 2012 · 6:02 kentucky

Six minutes from Massie's first campaign for Congress, at a Republican dinner in January 2012, ten months before he was sworn in.

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i can speak for an hour without notes but to keep it to five minutes i'm going to need some uh good evening before i start i want to thank congressman jeff davis for being
our true conservative representative for all these years in washington d.c
he voted against the bailouts he introduced and passed landmark legislation like the reigns act and he provided unparalleled constituent
to our citizens to government officials but most importantly to the veterans of the fourth district also i think we need to give a hand to pat for backing him she's loaned him
more than once to the service of our country thank you
behind every good man there's a great woman i want to introduce my wife and my family my wife is rhonda massey we have four children
my story is her story because we're high school sweethearts and we've been together all of our adult lives so when i say me you can substitute us
i'm proud to say that i grew up in the most republican county in the most conservative district in kentucky but i'm a little bit embarrassed to say that i went to cambridge massachusetts to
pursue a degree in israel to say that i had culture shock would be an understatement what do they say
that which does not kill you makes you stronger cambridge massachusetts is in a congressional district where a socialist candidate got 10 of the vote in 2006.
don't worry it didn't take me long to figure out i didn't fit in i stepped off the i stepped out of the airplane got out of the airport a couple cars honked at me well i threw up a big
hand to wave i thought boy there's somebody here from lewis county that knows me i looked through the windshield and they were waving back but they didn't have all their fingers extended
that little tube needed to get out of my way in cambridge i remember the first time that i met a person who didn't know that gun control
means hitting your target i mean i heard about these people in the news but i didn't know there were real people that wanted to ban guns and this person wasn't afraid to say it publicly
the next day i joined the nra i took my first economics course at mit as a freshman boy was that exciting
micro economics it can explain that mathematics how free markets work why free commerce and capitalism are the best system in
the world so i was really excited to take my second class it was taught by this hot shot new professor his name was paul krugman
he tried to show us that central planning could manipulate interest rates in the money supply to create a more prosperous economy well
that didn't make sense then and it doesn't make sense now so i went to mit though to get an electrical engineering degree not a
degree in social engineering in my senior year i invented a device that makes computers easier to use my wife and i started a company raised
32 million dollars created 70 jobs high wage jobs and obtained 24 patents in the process like most entrepreneurs we succeeded in
spite of the government the government doesn't create jobs more often than not the government gets in the way we decided to come back to kentucky though to raise our kids here on a farm
and i want to tell you the three reasons the three big reasons that i'm running the first reason is the debt we have got to stop the growth of the
debt it's out of control if you include the unfunded obligations to medicare and social security everybody in this room owes at least a
hundred thousand dollars that includes my four children that concerns me i don't know what the right plan is but there's one that i've decided to get behind instead of waiting for the best
plan that's the penny plan we need to cut spending by the federal government by one percent every year for the next six years at the end of six years let's
cap spending at 18 of gdp and get a balanced budget amendment once we've got the genie in the block the next reason that i'm running is
energy we need more energy independence in our country and i'm not talking about subsidies we need to get out of the way what the administration is doing right
now to hold up the keystone pipeline is just shameful they're stopping jobs they're creating more dependence on the middle east and they're raising the
price of energy in our country the price of energy is embedded in everything we buy from the supermarket to the car lot so we need to quit throttling our
economy by punishing the energy creators in this country my third issue is personally motivated i've got three degrees from mit
including my wife's and we can't even do our own taxes what's wrong with this the tax code is confusing it's unfair
and it's full of loopholes we need to reform it any bill that i vote for will have a basis in the constitution we must respect the constitution it protects our
natural god-given rights to liberties that our founders and our military have fought for and preserved and by the way those rights extend to
the unborn finally in closing i'd like to say that my experience comes from pursuing the american dream as a private citizen by
working hard by building a company by creating jobs for others and i'd like to leave you with this thought our founding fathers weren't politicians weren't career politicians they were not career
government employees they were farmers they were military people they were clergymen they were small business owners they came together and they created the constitution the best
document in the history of our government and it's full of common sense i'm afraid that's what's missing in congress today is common sense if you will vote for me i
will take kentucky convictions and common sense to washington d.c thank you

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