President Carter's Town Meeting

samuel move says says says this program was made possible by the station and other public television stations it's both the president visits elk city oklahoma you're about to see another in a series of town meetings arranged by the white house to enable president carter to me the american people this time in a rural setting on the plains of western oklahoma the town of oak city mr

carter arrived from washington about an hour ago for this appearance in the local high school gymnasium president will speak briefly then we'll take questions from the audience he'll be introduced by his local host mayor larry way well over a thousand people are packed into the gem which has been scrubbed spic and spend for the presidential visit the visit keeps a promise the president made while campaigning here in nineteen seventy five a promise to come back to the old city if he were elected mr crocker will spend the night in elk city as the guest of mayor wade and his family and tomorrow he will fly on the bowels for appearance of broadcasters meeting it's b it's

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questions there's really an open injury it's b and that is a goat november eleventh nineteen seventy five a promise to come by as president you don't we become president ms bee i was there just a few words that was taking questions i'm here because of a friendship and because of a promo for another reason as well i am all

presidents my decisions every day that affect the lives of everyone who lives in a great country we make speeches quite often tried to explain what we do why we make certain decisions things or nine times but isn't for the president was in the people also not just the ones that are able to come to washington and expressed they're concerned but also of applause in the house was you know i have attention to get a warning sometimes that their size of our country and the complexity of the issues like people for you i think paul sees royalty

how your own attitudes by your own lives do those around you could say first senate and selfish but the separation and cooperation or essential to the success of your scones and new churches and you can we be the same sort of cooperation the same recognition that every person madness saw the difficult problems which our nation faces today we've always been able to in a time of crisis the lot of that sense of common problems with the landlord for what is just as cruz you encounter piece president franklin roosevelt set in nineteen thirty three and a lot of it is a mistake to assume that the virtues of war that the sentiment from the virtues of the old line

is about against the mistakes and the human limitations of man against the forces of selfishness and nurture and laziness and we especially need that the dragon was a real caller call upon us to the sonoma nineteen thirty three in a crime that would get inflation the decisions and i had all this life of consumers contribute to inflation it's not a problem the government can solve alone but everyone else continues business as usual all americans will either win the battle against inflation or we will lose about when inflation to get ugly betty we we will again as it was all i need your support yesterday at the

consumer price index figures a large part of that increase was obviously do the international commodity items to world oil prices as of late but those factors did not account for the sharp increase in prices for many goods and services that inflation level is unacceptable and those figures are warning that a message to go this lighter anthems of the last bit of oversupply of enduring heard about a willingness of working people jordan was always a series of crimes you labor negotiations it's vitally important that those who are responsible for the outcome of those negotiations recognize their obligation to show moderation and concern for the economic wellbeing of our country i expect restraint

and the american people expect their strength fueling inflation is not in the long term interest of any american on the price many about their own largest corporations and we monitored every day it seemed to be complying with a pro but i'm very disappointed many medium side and small businesses are not the same sort of restraint to miliband his latest interview that at that protest doesn't apply them and it was all this car prices for everybody alligators to deal with this problem in the immediate days ahead these privacy and we will also be working with labor international prize monitoring and i've instructed the calculated priced ability to use its legal authority to get

regular reports on price increases all price increases from farms in the problem in this is where prices we've already identified several companies which appeared to have broken the guidelines that we was that it will get done by others in the days ahead they'll be given a chance to explain part of the reason for that i cried and i will not hesitate to identify those companies that violent the prize is an absolutely vital ally in the fight against inflation is to restrain federal spending we cannot tolerate that are increasing federal spending the pope i am committed to a balanced budget the

pope in the past two years and i heard you right responsible but because of that wasn't even further and determine a whole line on federal spending this year and i hope you'll give me your support the pen but the problem of inflation is frustrating terribly complex expanded us now poland ten years which is like beyond our quality control for thirty years many believed that the chance for peace between and i'm an agent with the ana

arana but on monday i'm honest the baggage of his room and that anwar sadat of egypt or the white house to sign the treaty of peace the polls but to pay we never thought it would be possible just a few months ago but with courage and determination and cooperation success now within a week that same time a bailiff and that determination hard and cooperation the lead the

problems of its own code problem inflation these volunteers always been taught all american life and another same spirit among you i know that we have the world and the ability to win this fight again and now i want to have your questions and ultimately the first black president and you need to learn and i'd like to know how soon is a peace treaty is foundation has built five they an inflated american tax dollars this petri is a result of thirty years of war and the lessons without nation have learned from and we had two notable for an anomaly among others israel and egypt at this moment they're in a state of the

clerical against each other thousands of people in each was the lines only had just been directly involved we will call from the sinai desert this is a very expensive proposition egyptians out by divisions on the israeli side of the suez canal and israel is at two divisions too large airfields built on egyptian character israel is very much in need of economic stability their inflation rate last year more than thirty percent we will go where the car always easy time changes because all wrong although more than a billion dollars a year

for three or four years for both nations our nation and well according to the action or investment and i believe the american people are strongly in support on this very modest call ortiz when the cost of war he went wrong agent joan tide will be much much greater ms bee mr president my name is dan and you're not missing out on state university i what was that like there's even one like to know is whether or not you think it's fair to reinstate the draft and ran and when i met young males sacrifice for the whole society would you be in favor of increasing salaries so the military can be re manned on a voluntary basis and you know i having a party at this moment to require

registration for the drop but to engage young people enter the old forces would require an act of congress i don't see any president need to do it but it is being considered and we'll like a final decision later on we have to find this to be necessary i would serve a lot that has to some there for drought procedures i don't think in the future for instance that just because a young person is in college and following more well that they all of these looted from the same treatment as a thorough young man the pain now provided with another promise mr predecessors in the white house i think the very visible selling novels and verified training and a good career opportunities for those

volunteer we're meeting the needs of our own forces with the president volunteered to raise some of our reserve units all sure all volunteers and i would like to appeal to nigel as a listener mama was the consent of the armed forces as a career and servant the volatility over the reserve forces but at the present time we don't need to reinstitute the drive like you my name's john fowler and i feel like so honored to be here singing out welcoming city my question is a three point question from i asked one first i know that you're a man of religious principles and they're not saying much written in the papers and such and i know that you're attending church tomorrow but i'd like to hear you say it with your mouth you are a believer in jesus christ the second major award and the second one is and like to

know as leader of this country how much time and he's been in prayer and study to force the direction of this country and the third point mr president i asked and all the respect i would like to know about what scriptural basis you in his party ms carter support the er at scripture as i am a believer in jesus christ and a woman at a duel where he rightly a lot of alone time and every evening alive and i'm a religious service

at follow us as we do each day and we never miss an any circumstances since al assad and begun tonight we have a worship service of oil at the white house today about three o'clock so i did before my duties as a christian a skillful or shop or far short of what can expect i don't like it much support of the dr ala scriptural references i think if one reads the parts of the bible you can find a good argument either lionel paul felt very strongly that there'll be a sharp distinction between men and women and women's role ought to be minimal dr mcgraw to be treated equally it's benny in many ways but i really don't think the video was made to prove

oregon's dr eight fires about a lot the volatile social guidance and pray for god's guidance but that's about it the center at the only theory the pen and since this is an agricultural area to which you have returned and we are primarily a farming community here would it be possible for you to meet with our city farmer's not be radical agriculture committee from artist a bit with are hardworking young farmers in the theory of law it is

i can't have a trade group look at young farmers an invitation to come and visit me at the white house and we get to listen to them and i also would not object at all to their own brain the law so that sokol radical followers and now i have no objection two they're expressing their beliefs and their desires i recognized it as an online journalism for them to follow the naval the fall the voice to be heard and the outlook for to having them come and they even contact the director of the white house for a moment in the time of the visit the pope like there's no ornaments to

you because i get about an average of more than fifty thousand letters every week another survey the sea you load of historical occasion when human video address will contact you and old man from la bala kansas and learned is the lesbian night i liked it to new apartment reading probably a weak state but president the reason it was announced that there was a forty eight forty six point four percent increase in corporate profits over the last year is the government there really going to be able to control business in its fight against inflation it's odd to say you know they are problems to fly from one former to another one month another that they would be honest it just the entire business her committee's actions by on the basis of the one statistic i think the trend over the last ten

years i was examining this vote today as a lot of like show that those problems have been well in line with the average income increases of american bombs visibly state oklahoma very dependent on energy and on agriculture last year the average net income for longtime allies in this party went up thirty percent and i don't know many of the farmers are sitting on the tractors complain about their income going on too rapping so i think those statistics to come out although the very shocking win one for his own have to be taken in the context of the entire nation's economic structure there's no doubt among non of song this is for him to have cheated on their way to price guidelines by increasing the prices more than was warranted but i think you have to remember that the question are writers that me than anyone else can control and that is good if you put it out as of

the joining the world wine we have an employee for her at this point and as you know we're having a difficult time getting that voted so well the cause of the shortage in other colleges impressed that it had in the past have been eager to sell that beep now they have a very remarkable international commodities including the grains so it means aluminum box hop soul and all these bad things about quite rapidly and cried all prices are going up as well so on an international basis prices have gone up and even when the moment a president of all the consumer's all anyone and video course you know things in the produce in a nation where no company can control for instance we've been building about two point two million home units per year for the last two three years a very high rate of production of homes

former reassuring building material long or insulation materials and socal and no one company obviously can control the price of temple being sold by landowners no surprise on the products come from the time so a lot of the causes for inflation almost uncontrollable and then because people around the world are getting more money can buy more the final week ivanov be easy for me to blame business for inflation just because their property seem to be an outlet for their they were great how a surprise but that it would be easy for me to say well the working people in the form of the great concern was a great time a great president but lame american business as

a not exactly active role in together unless we do cooperate in art fraud upon a scapegoat for someone to blame will be successful on a global partnership and all of us that we ourselves into oblivion we're together we can control inflation and romany not dublin in one hour it's been it's raised an ongoing james herrick doctors pharmacists and hospitals spend so much of their time filling out federal forms even here in alex at the first see any possibility of lance federal control and our medical system are revisiting for socialized medicine i don't think we're going to have socialized medicine but i think that the federal government's going to continue to play a major role and medical care for our people we have reduced substantially the number of polls and reporters that have been

reported in the last twelve months i was looking at some statistics on the weight of the government to talk about that tomorrow when i get to dallas it don't have eliminated thirty three hundred the fall that are used in medical carroll that's dealing with medicaid and medicare are quite often the different federal agencies each one individually in the passover products are only poll out we made some progress with the ominous of that legislation the congress this coming week all the regulations that will respect stitched that the number of new regulations also reporting can tear apart in the future and put a responsibility on each one updated says income with the mandate a benefit cost analysis before new form in the attitude of the new regulations and he promulgated a mind and it is not all about don't we just sat and answers with so how a company we were great old resident so how company would go on oil

pipeline across the country to bring alaska's oil for the central plot of a nation under the northern tier states when we investigated the reason why they withdrew from the surprise we found they hadn't fell seven hundred and fifteen permanent only twelve of those oh well permits the other seven hundred or a part of the state thruway set by a medical and for that reason so how withdrew the product we're now working to try to get so yeah so how your pickle that and no build a pipeline to bring or on the west coast i might say that they completed all the panels more than a year ago so the states and the federal government a ball at all and i would hope that we can make some of that improvement in the future one of the most heavily criticized agencies in government before became president joe that was with author

and in one day last year i feel in a thousand oh they're regulations happened without any adverse effect on the health or safety of american workers were my concern the pain mr president welcome to the short rest country the cattlemen in this country and now their point five eighty years during those years was more amazed and it's increased now that cattle prices are to reduce some of the loans be expected that controls on prices and long ago and while serving as your president home the

point mr president my name is danny jordan i'm originally from butler oklahoma a before i could get out of the house today my little daughter ran over to me and ask me a day where you're going to personally on one say the president of the united states and she said oh goody can i go and play with amy it's not my question falls around a pitch of song of the day and then this because she was atlas holding the world and that this was a little bit different than usual he was gray haired and in nineteen seventy five president when you're running for the presidency your hair seemed to be a little more and i was wondering now that seems to be a little lighter if you would attribute that towards the holding the

highest position in the united states famously any variables back away the president's iraq it is a tremendous responsibility law placed on my shoulders that no one else can can answer the question is these events and that our narrator is all in a person's life when the clamor of the vatican is all that may be because the city hall and that dead in the county as they go to the state legislature then it's so complicated the sort of vocal assault while writing it again here is obviously to washington and of course it's the responsibility of the congress in the post in addition to the legislation that we have to deal with which is very controversial and now quite all one there's no way to win politically speaking their responsibilities are international peace

the defense and security of our own country dealing with foreign nations try to raise about no law or human rights tried to repair some damage that was done to our government by viet nam and watergate and the cia revelations so it is a very heavy responsibility alike say that it's a voluntary job the bottom at rowan moore and though i enjoy it i don't know yet got up in the morning and i get up quite early that i looked for for the day because i recognize that in spite of the very nervous at that come along with the job the job numbers because it's been the point as

bleak the peaks but the polls but it's a question more than once as beakman beakman

the pardon well can you go to prison instead of a question i haven't counted as a citizen of the united states of america and western oklahoma the rural community and more particularly as another pre season in three teenage sons' college express to you my personal prayers and gratitude for your role as a peacemaker in the world today he

has and in london as president my name is james johnson and i promise i'm like an innocent question then as president i have a two prong question first of all i left a wife and three kids at home but didn't get to sue your motorcade and i promised them that if i was lucky enough to get to ask your question i ask you to tell and how low so as steph and jeff and as chairman and pointed a mile it is present it is present my main question you alluded to it a little bit in your opening remarks arkansas

inflation which definitely to be middle income and lower income people it is the number one problem an hour increase labor costs in to snowball this line and volunteers so what can be done to in your opinion to keep these labor demands for me it was a pleasure st paul since we've promulgated the voluntary guidelines or strides label has complied almost completely within hundreds of labor settlements throughout the country that take place every week senators will work in people and the lead it's always important for a labor union

a worker who's not a member of the union to take a low wage increase in the rate of inflation and i am reluctant very beginning that in order to make their way to price government should work on a volunteer basis without actually my share of president in the budget and so paul and also encourage writers drank and our have a prominent compliance bar later but i think it's actually say that all of that but so will level has climbed we now face to a very very large wait negotiation problems the first really changed as an actual rerun workers later on in the ball the uaw united automobile workers i hope that we can demonstrate to these three groups that we are sincere and not been determined now been successful enough and pulling down the general inflationary trends the hold on ways to manage

alone or wage earners judging by gallup poll recently said they would rather play a lore wage increase if inflation was being control than it's a cow wage increase with uncertain inflation and i think everyone who thinks about it knows that you cannot stop inflation being control and just want to mars it's got a play three applause at least before you can see the first indications of these restraints being i believe that we can be successful enough that we can continue the good cooperation the reporters received from like what it would do on top together the pain with inflation increasing every man can you foresee a time when the average american family will be able to live on one salary again are we doing to be working house was

yes the trend for more than one person working on family would continue now the two people working like a much more much more than twice as much income as a single person working alabama did ten fifteen twenty years ago we had a much higher standard of living i remember when i was a boy or for ramadan have an automobile made them one of the richest families in the community and i grew up without electricity or running water and my home and many things now that they have a grand even by supporting the whole lot of it has the extremely

wealthy you don't like this when i was a child so i would guess it because people do want to live about a line that more leisure time to learn more about the world do more studies we have more recreation audit they will contain a worn out the how wage income even though one person can provide i know many people i know you do as well or a husband might make on a fairly high income fifty thousand one hundred thousand dollars or more or the light but this adds to work because you won't express himself or because you have some special talent or to expand the light beyond them its own journey of the children are grown way that they give social i would guess that trend would continue if not all because of them has been stalled without the live cell but i know that in this great time off inflation that to all incomes can give a family that's donovan was a woman deserve i don't think about my sugar well think that that sentiment a prominent secular american

saying that many i owe it to double wage earners or even more withdrawn candidate obama i think that that is a positive sign humans mr whiston is dealing with this that to abortion and radiance an hour just wondering what you're going to do appealing but i fear of a possible to hold an abortion in this country i am not in favor of government funds for us is being spent all the pain i would like to see a time in our nation from an average child is

awarding jobs and this is i have there's a very adverse incident issue is one that is very divisive and as out what's the nineteen seventy eight election returns come in november as so many of the old members of the congress particularly in that flavor and encouragement are abortions lose those seats because of the struggle is against it i'm not i'm not in favor of a constitutional amendment to prohibit abortions but i think that within the realm of legislation and the action that can be taken by government and by private organizations and by individual americans we should do everything we can to minimize any need for abortions the peak my name is joe and savage manford this is my daughter

hayley and for community action i worked with children in head start their special needs and mine is not a question really the weapon t e e to montana and her quest to treat to fail and i am a farmer's wife and i have mixed feelings towards you that respects you and like to believe that more can be a tainted led into balance this is where my request can see and some people cite cite many different things were memories my moment oh's fallen little different category the last person to drill fulfill my request was given that i don't believe the choir members that bad i don't want to get all but i'll be darned fungal miss out on the cases it's been the peak

to peak the pay to play you do use it in the pub i got to get it just a bit of trivia i guess my car is as i rode with

the president before he was prison and then his lovely wife after and i'd even after his me wanting my goodness i want to the news one s and as i ask you the evening hours riding with you about various substances end category b i don't know if a lot of people know what everybody is here you do don't you know it is where people lived off the base and they were all they signed up a texas us and you know and this is cindi in dire need will we lose one point six million dollars for this new system and we can say that if we don't get that gun i went to a place and before you turn your eyes

at her son's plight river's edge of the area where you're spending an oligarch know what you planned to do in order to have paler retired or disabled and lower income people with their utility bills you know it's very difficult to answer that question successfully because the other major component parts of utility pole georgia's fiercely private entity going to generate electricity we have that

legislation supplements the ability of obama to insulate homes and to cut down on the weight for all he and electricity also we have new legislation has passed last fall that gives us the right to change the right structure taller or charges so that a person is for and can use electricity at a time during the day when it's most he patiently producer when the man his lot with a kid again now a law to charge for their utilities yeah the thing about that is that the general obligation bonds for poor people as ben substantially improve last year after the budget is now in effect you're in nineteen seventy nine that increased sales are for allocation of federal funds with a pool of

four point five billion dollars and the next year you know it's a very tight budget but those reunited at beginning of the cycle we again increase the allocation of funds for the war four billion dollars more so the change in and eight for the elderly who genuinely cool and all the changes in the restaurant you electricity and they help or insulating homes that the federal government can do they alternate days ago the state government and the us government i will not with the circuit breaker type of joint is full property taxes or if a person is all gold and jewel they might be forgiven part are they're all property taxes and goes there are some states that provides special lot all call a lot of services from the utility comes in the statements of the difference but i think for the federal government to take additional action on a nationwide basis would be very difficult and i think what i describe as at least some

help maybe not enough at the evening news to pristine welcome to healthy and my name is gloria welna and what i like is why does it get me every time you turn around and take that stance and welfare away from the elderly to get to that end children for the murders that can better able to work that won't work when they are really really needed many specially when they're in their cities are unable to work at i don't deny that we give more help to mothers with the uninsured and i don't think as activists say that we take money away from elevation or so we have very very substantial changes in the laws on in an operation by not requiring that pay a certain

amount of elderly people living on a fixed income we're not able to raise enough money to play the cash portion of the food stamps and suvs are we have removed that the promise from the law now i think we are increasing the our ability our elderly to get food stamps in that respect we will surprise no food stamp use more active than people in the most in the past it was abused because the original law as it was written that people get food stamps you didn't really need to order sir those dams so i think we're focusing and much more accurate now on the people that you describe reviewing the hell allegory but i don't agree with your premise that we ever all the elderly in order to benefit another group of four people i think we are treating them it's

been on the pages saving and answering questions in mind certainly being touched on solace for getting that first of all my voice into china happy birthday what i want now is why does the government threatened to stop federal manning that we pay in taxes instead of oklahoma race speed limit to sixty five because his menial more accidents or cars from i am fighting vehicles get out and how many is the psychic inspection lot and there's the bill and he asked to cancel it an actor i also wondered why the federal government doesn't do something about second inspection was the second question laws are left up to the

states and the inspection procedure within of other states and i think this will be the federal government in nineteen seventy three or nineteen seventy four when we had another energy shortage has lost to the congress and signed by the president which i am sworn to carry out all marble one provision of that law is that any state does not comply with a nationwide requirement on a fifty five mile per hour speed limit that all transportation funds will be withheld on that state if any state should change its speed limit from about sixty five those funds will be law that's a state option that they want their houses in your legislators are done so i realize that but if the other house sure it changes the limit on and the government his chances on the wall and that affected

then i think oklahoma should realize that out of the united states was required to hold those funds will be without i think that the law i think the larger the and for the speed limit upset about it they maintain i don't want to mislead you about i know you're a parent there's a great clip of speed limits changed or goes dollars of money i hope it don't change the law singing enzi i think it's a it's a considerable amount in an update and also because there's a considerable number of lives that now that that approach it the poem let me say this is i think obviously they call it has other people will stay in

nationwide problem i had a town hall meetings now in many places because of bangor mich massachusetts and oregon and mississippi and poland warsaw poland and west berlin in germany and sao paulo brazil and i think it's one of the best ways possible for me to learn what your interest in your concerns on your post and you've made me feel that i've come home and you'll never know how much it means to me to be nice to have a sense that occupy the highest political office in the world and so an average american

audio family living in the greatest nation on earth standing before the flag which still inspires me every time i see you've inspired me and i thank you from the bottom of our fb president carter at a town meeting in elk city oklahoma answering questions from members of the audience of more than a thousand local high school gymnasium this the eighth in a series of such meetings the president has held since assuming office a little over two years ago the programme arranged by the white house in cooperation with local officials missed a car clearly seem to have a good time even granting request for free kisses this concludes the town meeting with the residents of elk city oklahoma we'll be back in a few moments on many of these public television stations to discuss the president's visit with some oklahoma journalists and some

political observers i'm cold in oklahoma city to visit the oklahoma by the president was the first stop in a week and the politicking by postcard this president like most presidents loves to get out of washington this is one of the reasons he's periodically hold these town meetings across the country to personally find out what's on people's minds what the country's concerns are there is of course a public relation side to all of this to show the president on a person to person basis to try to portray mr carter as a friendly can video man who is keeping touch with the folks at the grass at the grassroots and speaking of the grassroots for the next few minutes we're going to bring you our own special report on the american mood most of you are used to getting the view from washington constantly see the president members of the

cabinet and members of congress on television you read and hear the rig ports of the washington reporters and correspondents who cover all the big stories to tell you what's going on in the capital now for a change were going to reverse that process and give you the view from the southwest the oklahoma view about what's happening in washington and the world and to do this we have with us around the table frosty troy who is the editor and publisher of the political commentary journal the oklahoma observer hollen meacham an elk city lawyer and former member of the oklahoma legislature then blackstock director of the oklahoma press association and created the average member of the oklahoma legislature from norman oklahoma we've seen the presidential road show which in many ways turned out to be a lovely we want to

go beyond that how the president knew how to respond to the questions what was your impression of his performance tonight well if i might start i would just say a couple of things that struck me obviously there's a lot of warmth and affection for president i think that approach will be true no matter where you went into nine states with the possible exception of washington that he talked he started out with his prepared remarks as somewhat major now and i think with regard to inflation and response to yesterday's announcement that the consumer price in that index in there i projected a knowing question of fifteen percent but he talked about it we need to pull together talks about franklin roosevelt's words in nineteen thirty three a reminded me of his statement about the moral equivalent of war with regard to energy and yet i noticed several different responses to questions on inflation well that such and such is beyond our control we can't really do anything about the fact that there are shortages and they're

creative because of the influence of other countries we can do anything about this or that and many causes by saying i'm just an average american and just like all of you and i i'm sort of left with a feeling that it makes it difficult for people to believe that this announcement out how we're going to really beef up this fight against inflation were going to have this determined war against inflation and it makes me wonder how does with that and be successful when you thought you were shortchanged you will achieve them like huge price really wasn't into this sears in people want certainly more than there have been just a gasoline prices one seems likely we have two choices one is controlling the consumption of gasoline by i ever higher prices and the other side is a ranch near here in the wide open spaces we feel that how we going to have enough gasoline to

get to work and to do the jobs we have that we do not have the kind of public transportation at the head in the east and yet the people there and the planets that may go into effect on us and present state if we get one think that there is that they still answer on the shortage of the gasoline deal with more production and deregulation that he's coming with the statement we understand on the one at the martin course i was personally disappointed that he didn't get into the deregulation of the natural gas the questions or his promise to bring that out but i feel it in addition to the resting or the conservation it feel it seemed to me that people are illiterate and you thought of this thought they are today and even if the big i trump has been there to fill up the gas pump since the last time you were there and that from the administration they're just encouraging him say in the price of the wonder bar gal and the retailers that they're descendants

get this lesson can and that doesn't seem to be an answer they need to get production from our country and not be dependent on me i did expect an awful lot because i've watched it one other town hall meeting that he held under these are principally and primarily media vans and they're also a way that the president to let his hair down and goes out gets his battery charge through a sort of a filling station an old cities in the station because it was a few caddies not on that supported him as one of few places in oklahoma even get that that warm welcome an ngo softball questions i was surprised that even the agricultural questions were very weak no offense but i don't in an honest women dominated the questions and and then quite often and are very very weak how the course has chosen call a question from nelson well as i understand it they had them in their five forty five apple when apple football field rodeo grounds enough parking and then came the bus and the high school gymnasium and were in their early and late divide the gym all things

for what prince and asked people how many of you asked the questions and they had a direct questions than him no questions were handed out to be asked but they tried to get complicated questions and to have they say that he could answer probably twenty questions and i didn't count but he had sixteen places but they were chosen that way that then the wi five or six from each quadrant of the gymnasium to go to microphone while some people clearly try to get some things off their chest tonight and in another sense though did you have any feeling that the president himself was playing to the crowd we talked about the need to reduce federal spending when he re emphasized his stand against abortion jerry can't effect is not that they are much on the president on the debt in an honest reaction be that most of what we heard in i was assigned rhetoric that jimmy carter that has been has been using for two solid years and what's really disappointing is it

and the one thing that he you know he's got a magnificent accomplishment now obviously he's not to get into these kinds of the peace treaty and you'd see what the reaction of people from another dubious anywhere but the thing that that faces the american people it is just an awesome proportions is what to do about inflation and the president is so far out of touch and obviously with the facts on that than he he agrees with the lanes and there's a twenty six percent increase in price point four percent increase and in that corporate profits the associated press put out a correction on that day before yesterday the reporter had or misapplied statistics and actually was about sixteen percent so we don't say you get the feeling that there's nobody really in charge in washington on the fight against inflation and it thinks that you can love that issue away or that we can all get together and voluntarily do something that he said and this is really frustrating to the public i think that is the questions showed that that's the number one concern that people most people in the field the governor's not doing enough of that just sitting around wringing its hands and say well everybody goes along with the guidelines and yet i understand it only one hundred of the top three hundred large companies a

nation have agreed to go along with about that we'll be turned the question around an end and ask you about what oklahomans would be willing to support for example we hear a lot of talk from time to time about the necessity for wage and price got on the wage and price controls many economists feel that that controls what we're most members of congress feel that will work the white house putin has said that we will not have wage and price controls what is there any support for that miracle gro if they can believe that will be enforced and forced merriment yes oklahomans have a history of really supporting them in if it has a program they don't revolt there was support so and that they can say it's real and not just a theory and we see some positive steps and i think a lot of people would like to see those positive steps taken home you know the these trips abroad or greater necessary inserted important they want the president

to spend most of his time and from now on dealing with the problems of the economy and the domestic issues i don't think the president has a choice about that i think that these are such demanding questions that at this time sir i feel little bit of a resentment and hope that he doesnt to forget that this is his primary sponsor building i think that it's important and not something else to the us quote obama's would support having up a home answering different trend people anywhere in this country and their bets gets frank on the one hand you know this that a great applause that they use interrupted three times in a row with applause from the audience with regard to having federal spending when the city i was going to have a balanced budget line when he was determined to hold the line and be you responsibility about a restraint we passed that resolution in the house representatives and there was a question about that issue of loss of federal and pat burns for schools and

we passed a resolution last represented the legislature to ask congress not to abolish that our impact and for schools which is something that the president would you feel about cutting thirteen force a new york city what's ok to say but don't you dare take hours away and we get a higher proportion at how we have a wizard who goes to washington and get lots of federal dollars for welfare has spawned the top five states net importers in federal tax dollars we get immediately knew more they pay any day and the funny thing about it is the president must know this he's briefed on not only doesn't come here cents billion here to the guy really knows what he's doing he's got some top advisors but they just you see it now what he did in elk city was freed to us exactly what we wanted to hear we wanted to do was low energy prices though when we certainly want to get away from welfare either the welfare marks and we won't stop federal spending in your fuel industry here isn't what wage and price controls but they don't agriculture here was the deal for example one of the wheat

farmers and obama won ninety percent guarantee and just this year will cost billions of dollars and as in office we have a great to do in washington and elsewhere across the country governor jerry brown in california is pushing a constitutional amendment for balancing the budget i understand your legislature as has endorsed government where would oklahoma be willing to say we don't need more federal aid you know that's an interesting question because when we were discussing a resolution on federal impact aid i asked the question that very question to the house either i said are we one of the legislature's that as the budget balancing intimate and we sing about these resolutions to congress which one is that we want to pay attention to it we certainly we do we want to balance the federal budget that don't take away our are paid for water and sewage plants are cities are counties would be desperate is worth noting that washington now provides twenty five percent of all the local and state spending

any way i can get on this aren't terrible financial condition anyway and you get what that a reverend sharon and wearing thin their own insurance and then sad thing because if the dollar scheme involves certain where we're sharing federal revenue sharing service were sharing an increase deficit and the how long can the federal government keep this up in our communities and counties in the state and all kinds of program they have committed themselves to different projects in are carson and nine when the state democratic central committee meeting this morning that revenue sharing is really a misnomer that will we really have a stair chair and that we have to make a decision as to how much of that this convoy led offensive how much by the state counties and cities whether it's revenue sharing our debt sharing its there and i don't see either gonna r us are we willing to cut it off and then our community after i see have a clip of that

they're not political yemeni impact on just one small state oklahoma's a small state will have the three main population center or put in the congressional record last week a list of the twenty seven states that had voted for the constitutional convention to heaven allows federal budget before that the call on three caution state he listed all the federal aid for all of those twenty seven states the little state of oklahoma would lose eight hundred and seventy three million dollars cash the first year under a balanced budget i would you know that that would that would just simply break this detour to give you an idea the legislature will save a community here will appropriate just over a billion dollars so that is almost equal to our entire appropriate budget i get a sense that that that all of you were disappointed in president carter night and you think that he didn't really talk sense people's of criminality sounds would be disappointed in terms of substance but i wouldn't expect him to

talk in that format in terms of substance i didn't expect him to day thing but when it's hard to go from kissing somebody and telling jokes and on the web in the morning in a christian and telling people are going to have to sacrifice now what he's got these he's got to washington and then somehow convince this country's leaders in congress and some of the people in his own administration that it is not what we are willing to sacrifice but what they're willing to put on ice because we don't volunteer to do anything especially the states we need the kind of leadership that may that may rescue the country from double digit inflation and they cost him reelection that may save the nation let me ask you this question is oklahoma now ready for that kind of leadership you say you need it but for the people of oklahoma are ready to two to make the sucker was you know it was asking the question that the building was talking about the elderly trying to pay utility bills listen we've had utility bills this and we had a very hard when we had some fixed income will for cases been to run for more utility bills but none is more than they can possibly let you get average

people and i met at all industry home is an annual visit and businesses and that the establishment obama's ideas as to overstate the people who are enjoying the fruits of inflation or the rich and the super rich in this country and there are and there and working folks are really up against another important vote and we will would be willing to sacrifice and they knew that when that everybody was and sacrifice on and are more concerned with inflation than they are the peace treaty between israel and egypt i mean it's got a factor here afterwards to see that the number one problem in the number one thing they're looking for a solution and we would be willing to help solve is inflation i was somewhat dumbfounded that that there were only two questions tonight related to the energy problem uncanny you were sitting right on top of our roadways it as long and that's the deepest natural gas mason nine states

and an un surprises but again i think that will you have to think in the moment in the lab and the good time this is an exciting event to have a president that i'm not putting the people benefit unless the questions but i really believe that it's time that he find a forum somewhere maybe will announce tomorrow and start telling the american people the truth let me ask you speaking the truth i notice one of the things when i drove into your dope on the city from the airport that that your prices for gasoline at the service stations is about the same as it is back east why is that when you have oil wells right here on the state capital grounds because the st andrews well i understand that the press today aslund the southwest is cheaper than any place in the nation know that they're using gasoline for example in the east now mostly seventy five at seventy seven an imam in elk city yesterday that's what maybe you could enlighten me because there is a feeling out which a lot of people have in this country right or wrong when that they're being ripped off and there's also a feeling that there is no real energy shortage

what is the feeling here in oklahoma that has that has that attitude prevailed here's well western oklahoma we feel have failed they worried the regulated the dead says below fifteen thousand feet that goes off in november and we now have seventy five rigs that they're drilling and that means seventy five wells point an american three million ten twelve million dollars for work and if we can get that obama thirty eight k ville one has gotten really ramrod to police once huge clever have their candidate will come walk up in age and which is his company he'd been on the big routes in anadarko basin to develop its natural gas and he says it under the regulation they have the technology in a heavy equipment can get money if prices rise to have four trillion cubic feet of that our year by nineteen eighty one minute that the seven hundred and sixty seven million barrels or we will have to import from far from being except as figures understand what we are creating that situation that there were

serious issues facing this country interchange question i'm bouncing off against one another yet what the president actually does isn't answered currently regulation policy which is what the people would like to have that content it's to perhaps losing the energy crisis but it absolutely was the top they question how well he doesn't even increasing aging fleet of a million illegally give me some figures it and these are actually we didn't we knew we'd be regulated to a large extent natural gas affected last december the first i think everybody agrees that happen the federal government did that because they thought that would give them the necessary incentives to really get out there and start drilling someone knows well gee in january and february fewer wells were drilled than in the same period a year ago we weren't long without realizing what about the what about the gulf coast was its knowing that it is south texas well thank you

also hear is that some producers are capping their wells in anticipation of the control and that they'll be able to make make a lot more money is that true you hear those stories and it did at least it you know the press that say no radio television let you go i am actually famine years stores like what does the oil industry need more insect of some adjustments when you do know well into like deep well and they're companion animal that much about it because we're fighting and fifty million dollars to go down it it's very expensive it's very risky and they have the same price for that yes they have to get a higher level and cheaper hall something that's been in production for a long time and i think what that he puts investing in the albany isn't working all in this state another state law for the same shake that they're getting from the opec countries that they're not be there there'd be regulated he's just as right as rain the american producer with the gowns just as much as the as the

middle eastern countries do and in fact is that was the whole that was the whole rationale match against new regulation that could come near the year the world oil prices this old stripper wells that so they're well mated makes to marital bliss of that their prize is unregulated but people of my fifteen barrels of a hundred in all prize or five hours maybe since the bear and one third rails and marketing to fourteen dollars on the opec oil and sold some lumber want to bring their production than to kill our wealth and where to get stricter price so that it's unregulated because they're only a third will reform has resigned as a demonstration it's really aggressive stuff right here liam farrell is the commission's to enter and friends will think that i think that that reality and he draws back to take politic side i think was will rogers of our call a native oklahoman who once said that he was not a member of any organized party you just a democrat and around the country and

especially in washington there's a feeling that the political parties just don't have the kind of plunged they used it was the truth you know it is a legal process and robin it's an interesting question that you should ask on this very day because today was that the date of the final meeting the opponent democratic party structure the president announced that he was coming to the state of oklahoma the chairman of the state democratic party said we will move our meeting to a different time to move to the afternoon at the president could at least stopping in and speak to the candy officials from all counties in the state of oklahoma and the white house said there was no way to arrange that i think that's an interesting point and i think if the parties are unraveling which i'd say they are the jimmy carter certainly has contributed substantially to that at least in the democratic party selection just in my yeah my district my congressional district sent a resolution to the president saying that they are just discouraged about the large number of vacancies still existing in the

administration since he's become president and his failure to there's approximately because a lot of people know that he's way down in the popularity polls and yet they also showed that most people think he's an honest man was really trying to solve a problem to use were trying to grapple with some very tough difficult eat an enormous latent support in this country and an enclave wine it has to do with his demeanor it has to do with the religious factor which is much deeper than any folks in east even remotely suspected to think they're related to the crowd oh i mean you know he had to do was press at purple sure but i want to get back to what you said something when you do your question of what were moving into right now fall of a brokerage the party's over is darrell issa wasn't right the demo pubs and republic right say it's reaching the point of all the year there's none of that with the difference between the leadership and the parties now you still find some republicans and democrats in the grassroots about in offices tour of the continent well you don't have

i think a part of that feeling the frustration people have is that they have a difficult time seeing that if they make a contribution locally in their party for their candidate that for president that it makes a difference in what happens all too in terms of public health and i think that the president's failure to address that is and i think that's a serious omission and i personally think that in that we suffer from when he played both liberals and conservatives to him and his questions as answers are on an abortion and that the whole thing out organized labor this is a this is oh this is a nice rhetorical trick he uses them and the politicians again you know i think the definition of leadership at least for the president is to divide the country creatively he ought to divide the country this idea that you lead a united country is pure falling but you better believe it or you know your troops are all in one way or another upset that though that you wish the president would be more of a leader do you think he can win in nineteen eighty

five and i think that because of that weight and support because of the gallup poll findings which dr gordon they're washington so few weeks ago that people do have this basic they in that when push comes to shove basically out that people think that anybody can do anything about any of the issues and some worked and the question of his honest still trying and the states and some of the sources on staff that i experienced maybe he will keep the internet it was seventy votes on daily the desert island i honestly we haven't done that that backlash is really starting to hear people say you know support president because of this mean i think he'd be tough to be in the republicans will probably make their number one mistake and then this is in modern times is they'll they'll nominate somebody who's very conservative but if they do that my deep gangster to each of you for being here tonight and for taking part in this discussion giving us an oklahoma

view of the state of the nation and all do in oklahoma city this program was produced by the oklahoma educational television authority which is solely responsible for its content and was made possible by the station and other public television stations you know i don't know