Good morning everyone. Welcome to Ron Paul Country. It's great to have you here. Beautiful Lake Jackson.

My name is Chris Rossini. I'm a senior fellow at the Ron Paul Institute and co-hosts on Fridays.

You may recognize me on the Ron Paul Liberty Report, so it's great to have everyone here today on this beautiful morning.

Thank you, thank you.

I want to start off by thanking our host committee

because they literally make this possible.

This is their conference as much as it is ours

because they help to finance getting us all in this room

and all the work that Daniel and my colleague Adam do in the months prior.

But the host committee really makes this possible.

We do not have big corporations that tell us, hey, go on stage, say these things and we'll take care of you.

You'll never have to worry about money again. We don't have that. We have regular people that support our ideas, Ron Paul's ideas,

and because of that, we are able to sit here and spend a few hours together. So thank you, the host

committee. I also want to thank our speakers.

We have a great lineup.

The way we do our speakers is we want to hear them too.

We not only want to bring them up on stage for you, but we love them ourselves and love to sit and listen to them speak and share their brilliant ideas.

We have a brilliant lineup today.

We hope that you enjoy it and we look forward to each and every one of them.

And last but not least, everyone else that is here from all over the country,

last night we had a dinner and people from all over. It's so, it pulls on the heart to hear somebody I traveled across the country to come see you guys.

Because, you know, our work is over the internet.

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