From The Archive: Will Americans Sacrifice to Save the Country? Charlie at Win The Storm 2025

**Charlie Kirk** (0:03)
My name is Charlie Kirk. I run the largest pro-American student organization in the country, fighting for the future of our republic. My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth. If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're going to end up miserable. But if the most important thing is doing good, you will end up purposeful. College is a scam, everybody. You got to stop sending your kids to college. You should get married as young as possible, have as many kids as possible. Go start a Turning Point USA college chapter. Go start a Turning Point USA high school chapter. Go find out how your church can get involved. Sign up and become an activist. I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade. Most important decision I ever made in my life. And I encourage you to do the same. Here I am, Lord, use me.
Buckle up, everybody. Here we go.
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Thank you, everybody. Thank you. Thank you, Josie. That's very sweet. And hello, everybody. It's great to be here. And I told Josie, I said, Josie, you got to go up there and say that you can you can create distance from anything I say. So Josie's a really sweet guy. Give it up for Josie. He's doing a great job. And it's a really wonderful event.
I want I want to talk about a couple of things. And then honestly, I want to learn from you guys. You guys are on the front lines. I have some views on immigration and other stuff that you might not share. But instead of us yelling at each other, I want to learn from you in the open mic perspective and hear what you're going through on the front lines and then we can have a back and forth because that's actually how this country should operate, right? Not name calling or death threats or any of that nonsense. But the main thing I want to talk about is the perspective that we have or the lack thereof of how we educate young people. What you guys are involved in is what I call a muscular class job. It's a job where the people that you employ, they shower before work and they shower after work. It's a lunch pail type job. Far too often we have had over the last 20 years, an overemphasis on a brain economy while sacrificing the body of the economy. We have shipped too many jobs overseas to China. We've allowed the middle class to be destroyed. We've allowed the industrial base of America to be hollowed out, and we have forgotten that more than anything else, an economy is made strong based on your ability to make stuff, and fix stuff, build stuff, things you can touch, places you can live, places you can travel to. And far too often we act as if economic growth is nothing more than just flipping through a social media app, or creating a better selfie or a different dancing video. We ask ourselves the question, are we still building the great buildings, the great towers, the great dams, and the great places of a generation prior, and increasingly it is difficult to do that through regulation and red tape. And one of the other main reasons, and this is where I have kind of spent a lot of time in my commentary, is we have unnecessarily sent way too many kids to four-year college in this country. We are sending way too many kids to four-year college. It's not even a political standpoint, by the way. It's a very simple one. We have a need for 500,000 electricians right now. We do not need more sociologists, but we certainly need more electricians. What happens is that in the suburbs of Dallas, or anywhere across the country, parents believe, and they're being kind of taught, hey, you have to send your kid to four-year college. You have to send them to University of Texas or University of Houston. I have to say Texas A&M or someone's gonna throw something at me, or whatever, or Texas Tech, or someone's gonna, I think I checked most of the boxes, or Baylor, or, what did I forget?
I forgot, I forgot some school, I'm sure. Texas is a big state, we love Texas. So, by the way, the most hate I ever got was when I spoke at A&M and I did this. People got so mad, I got the most nasty messages. So anyway, we are sending, we've been sending way too many kids to four-year college to go borrow money they don't have, to study things that don't matter, to find jobs that do not exist. And there is a massive trades deficit right now in this country. And it's because, if we're honest with it, you guys are in the roofing business. If you grew up in Plano or in Frisco, and you went to high school, and you told your parents, hey, I'm gonna go become a roofer.