Carly's Q

nndb I am so thrilled

to be engaged in this great tradition and ritual of presidential politics and you know I have to always

set the record straight when someone introduces me so graciously yes I have had a life that is only possible here in the United States of America is only possible here that a

young woman can start out as Terry and go on eventually run for the presidency of the United States but

I'm like everyone else and like Brian had my share of foreign it is well I battled cancer in that battle learned the

power of love in the song faith we lost our younger daughter Lori to the demands of addiction so

I know as well that each one of us sometimes needs a helping hand and someone to take a chance on us but

I'm not going to give you a speech today because I want to answer as many questions as I can and to get the ball rolling

I'm going to tell you about a question that I was asked early on in my presidential

race I was asked on a national television program whether a woman's hormones prevented her from serving in the oval office nndb

can we think of a single instance in which a man's judgment might have been clouded by his hormones nndb

nndb

Europe I would like how that impacts the tax nnj so

the question is about raising the minimum wage so first I believe that minimum wage should be a state decision not a federal decision why

nnhs to say that the minimum wage in New York City is

the same as the minimum wage in Mason city Iowa that makes no sense secondly we have to remember that

a lot of minimum wage jobs are jobs where people start and in those jobs they learn skills to move forward so

we need to be honest about the consequences of raising the minimum wage to hire one of the consequences is that young

people who are trapped in poor neighborhoods will have less opportunity to learn skills and move

a family owned auto body shop and I tell young people all the time don't worry about getting the perfect job just

get a job any job mn

we need to understand where real growth in jobs comes from it doesn't come from the federal government telling businesses how much to pay their workers actually

where jobs come from our little companies little businesses family owned businesses and farms like

I started out like many of you started out in fact those small family owned businesses and farms create two thirds of the new jobs in this country they

employ half the people and we are crushing them underweight the complexity the