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John McCain: Livestrong Summit 07/24/08

2008-10-28T09:30:37Z

John McCain
Livestrong Summit
Columbus, OH - 07/24/08

TRANSCRIPT:
LANCE ARMSTRONG: This election [...] there's constant coverage. Which I think is great, for the most part. Through this process, I have seen, this is just speaking from fact, I have seen your opponent say that the equivalent, or voting for you is the equivalent of voting for a third George Bush administration. This is what I have read. The second thing I'll say, again a fact, that for the third year in a row the current administration has shrunk the budget at the National Cancer Institute. This is a fact. If you are elected president, will we continue to see that trend? Or will we reverse that trend, and actually increase funding at the National Cancer Institute?

MCCAIN: We will reverse that trend. But [...] I think we ought to all support a better method of aportionating the funds. [...] So we can make sure, that whatever money it is, is going in the most effective way and would lead us to on the path of success in the struggle against various forms of cancer or other diseases. There's unfortunately a competition, as you know, between the important advocates, and the addressing adequately so many of the challenges that America faces in the area of health and other areas. [...] And don't sometimes you feel Lance, like you are competing with people who also have very legitimate causes?

ARMSTRONG: Correct. And that's what they say. [...] And I think that's the beauty of this event. And it's been our approach all along is that we think we need a united approach here. This is one disease, absolutely. And I have no idea who's going to be the president [...] but I want to make sure I heard you right, you would decrease that trend, I mean I'm sorry, you would reverse that trend?

MCCAIN: Oh sure, yes.

PAULA ZAHN: Can you tell us by how much though? Your democratic candidates at your forum in the fall were saying they'd double and they'd triple the [...] budget. Double, triple, those are big numbers.

MCCAIN: How about quadruple, or quintuple? How would that sound? Quintuple or sextuple or whatever it is you want to say? The point is, one, we got to pay for it. And two, we have to apportionate it correctly. So it's easy, particularly in all candor, for liberals to go out and say I'll give you all this. You know the debt we've laid on you, future generations of Americans? Do you know that Medicare, which is a vital safety net, is 40 some trillion dollars in debt? Unfunded liability. So when you go out and you say I'm going to double, or triple, or quadruple the amount of money, I'd like to not lay the debt for it on the next generation of Americans who are not going to receive the same social security benefits, who are not going to receive Medicare.

And so I think we need some fiscal responsibility in Congress also. And the first thing I want to do is cut out the pork barrel projects. Okay, you keep mentioning my opponent or my opponents. I have never asked for a single pork barrel project for my state. Not a one. Never. My opponent has asked for 932 million dollars in pork barrel projects. Literally one million dollars for every working day that he's been in the United States Senate. So if you want to talk about spending money, I know how to spend money, everybody does, but I promise you my friends, I'm not going to lay that debt on the next generation of Americans. We're going to pay for it.

ZAHN: So you're not going to give us any hard numbers then, as president how much you would?

MCCAIN: I'd be glad to give you some hard numbers about the 9,000 pork barrel projects and 18 billion dollars in pork barrel projects that we've accounted for that we could take and immediately transfer, that Senator Obama continues to vote for, and I continue to vote against. So I'd be glad to give you some numbers but I'd also like to give you a couple of other numbers. How bout, 6 trillion, in I believe it is, unfunded debt is social security. These young people here, they're going to have to pay that bill. Let me give you another number. 40 some trillion dollars in unfunded liability from Medicare. [...] I don't think it's particularly fair to say I'll spend all this much more money without paying for it and without having it taken care of in one way or the other. So we will increase the funding my friends, but we will do it because I'll make the pork barreling guys famous, and you'll know their names. And we won't spend anymore. [...] My friends, we won't do those things. And we'll take that money, and we'll make sure it goes to the right place and this is one of the right places.

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John McCain: Livestrong Summit 07/24/08

2008-10-28T09:30:39Z

John McCain
Livestrong Summit
Columbus, OH - 07/24/08

TRANSCRIPT:
LANCE ARMSTRONG: When and if you are elected president and you elect your cabinet, I think it's important, I understand that this is our family, the United States of America is our family. This is how much we make, this is how much we get to spend, we can spend it on wars overseas, we can spend it on diseases, we can spend it on highways. However, and I understand we have to work within the parameters of that budget, however, to me it's easy to understand the significance of this disease when you just look at the toll it takes on American lives. You can look at the emotional and the human toll, 560,000 Americans die every year, and this just keeps clicking and clicking and clicking, it costs our economy 213 billion dollars, and we're spending 5. This makes no economic sense. Meanwhile, 560,000 Americans will not go home next year. That makes no sense morally. [...] You can look at how we allocate money per death, in the United States of America and cancer is underfunded. And then you can look under the umbrella of cancer and say where are we spending our money with regards to the fight against cancer? And you realize that lung cancer is underfunded. And it's underfunded because it's an orphan disease, people say you smoked, it was your choice. But I think we must look at the entire problem, allocate where it effects us the most. [...] I think we have to prioritize what this disease and what certain sets of diseases, how they impact our society.

MCCAIN: I think I'm in total agreement with you. And one of my opening comments, when I talked about I would support increases, we have to make the right kind of decisions and prioritizing. But I'd also like to point out to you that what we also need to do is scrutinize every agency of government and those that are not doing the things they were supposed to do, we should abolish those. One of the things about beurocracies is that once they're established they seem to go on and on. And I can identify so much, do you know in the farm bill my friends we gave 93 million dollars in tax breaks to thorough bred race horse owners. [...] And 15 million dollars for asparagus growers. And the list goes on and on. We need to scrutinize these agencies of government and rather just promise increased spending we should take those funds and then we can put them to the causes that are so vital. In every statistic that you mentioned, Lance, is absolutely true. And frankly, as a person who had one of the toughest fights of quitting smoking, I don't think we should penalize people with lung cancer because they smoked. Especially when the government of the United States encouraged it at one point in time in our history.

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John McCain: Livestrong Summit 07/24/08

2008-10-28T09:30:55Z

John McCain
Livestrong Summit
Columbus, OH - 07/24/08

TRANSCRIPT:
MCCAIN: And can I just say again, this is a great American hero [Lance Armstrong]. I want every American hero to go to every school in America and I want them to motivate young Americans not to smoke, to practice wellness and fitness.

And I'd love to believe that Americans always listen to me. [...]

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John McCain: Livestrong Summit 07/24/08

2008-10-28T09:30:30Z

John McCain
Livestrong Summit
Columbus, OH - 07/24/08

TRANSCRIPT:
MCCAIN: "Some worry that even after this reform many Americans with pre-existing conditions -- including many thousands of cancer patients -- could still be denied insurance. I will make sure they get the high-quality coverage they need, I have proposed a Guaranteed Access Plan -- or GAP -- that will combine industry, state, and federal resources to help in the purchase of coverage for those hardest to insure, including patients with pre-existing conditions. There would be no limits on premiums, and lower-income Americans would get additional financial assistance. The cooperation among states in the purchase of insurance would also be a crucial step in ridding the market of both needless and costly regulations, and the dominance in the market of only a few insurance companies. We need to break down these barriers to competition, creativity, and excellence, with the goal of establishing a national market to make innovative policies and lowest prices available to every person in every state."

LABEL: JM OH 07-24 (RAD#4) Clip 4

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John McCain: Livestrong Summit 07/24/08

2008-10-28T09:30:29Z

John McCain
Livestrong Summit
Columbus, OH - 07/24/08

TRANSCRIPT:
MCCAIN: "You have billed this event as a Presidential Town Hall, and I sincerely hope that the next president is here evening. My opponent, of course, is traveling in Europe, and tomorrow his tour takes him to France. In a scene Lance would recognize, a throng of adoring fans awaits Senator Obama in Paris -- and that's just the American press."

LABEL: JM OH 07-24 (RAD#5) Clip 5

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John McCain: Livestrong Summit 07/24/08

2008-10-28T09:30:30Z

John McCain
Livestrong Summit
Columbus, OH - 07/24/08

TRANSCRIPT:
MCCAIN: "By far, by far the best prescription for good health is to steer clear of high risk behaviors. And, as Lance mentioned, the most obvious of all is tobacco use and the smoking of cigarettes, which still accounts for so much avoidable suffering. Most smokers would love to quit, but find it hard to do so.

"I quit 29 years ago, as having been a two pack a day smoker."

LABEL: JM OH 07-24 (RAD#5) Clip 7

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John McCain: Livestrong Summit 07/24/08

2008-10-28T09:30:28Z

John McCain
Livestrong Summit
Columbus, OH - 07/24/08

TRANSCRIPT:
PAULA ZAHN: [...] A lot of out people out here believe that if you were to raise the Federal cigarette tax, that it would in fact cause fewer younger people to smoke, and might even deter people who are already adults who smoke from smoking anymore. As president, would you support an increase of a Federal tax on tobacco?

MCCAIN: I don't think I would, because I don't think the money is being spent on the state taxes right now. I would have to be confident before I would consider it that it would not be taken by the Congress and put into general revenues. The way the states have done with the tobacco taxes that they impose and they put it in the general revenues. And my friends, before they became completely in the tank we were showing reductions among young peoples use of tobacco through the effective use of anti-tobacco funds and advertising. And it was all over America, particularly in some states like California. So my first thing that would have to happen is I have to be assured that that money would be put in the right place.

And to tell you the truth, I am not confident that the Congress of the United States would do that. Because, does anybody here have confidence in Congress? Please raise your hand, you're one of the 9 percent approval rating of Congress today.

ZAHN: So is there any circumstance that could be proven to you, if there was a direct correlation between taxes going up and the use of tobacco going down?

MCCAIN: It would have to be proven and frankly the constitution of this Congress, they couldn't prove it to me, because I don't believe them. I don't. I've seen corruption in Congress. Ok? We have former members of Congress now residing in Federal prison. So, we'd have to clean up Congress and I think the American people are ready to do that.

And by the way, I'm not for raising anybody's taxes. I think, right now with these economic problems we have, lower taxes is what we need.

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Cancer Forum for Democratic Candidates in CR, IA 08-27-07

2008-10-25T03:31:36Z

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Gov Richardson Speaks Out on Cancer and Healthcare

2008-10-25T09:29:32Z

At the Lance Armstrong Foundation LIVESTRONG candidate forum, Governor Bill Richardson demonstrated that he is the best candidate to fight the war against cancer and provide every American with quality, affordable healthcare

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Colbert Report: Wrist Watch – WristStrong

2008-08-23T13:27:38Z

Stephen reminds us to treasure your wrist and keep it strong.

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John Edwards - RAGBRAI

2008-10-19T21:30:27Z

John Edwards rides with Lance Armstrong in the RAGBRAI (Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa) on July 25, 2007.

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