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nistration of George Bush, 1992
Administration of George Bush, 1992 / June 20
1115
as an attorney with the Amer-
Note: This item was not received in time for
remarks how much I respect Pete Wilson.
Company in Hollywood,
publication in the appropriate issue.
Here he is, with the economy obviously not
doing well in California, but taking a tremen-
graduated from the University
dously courageous position, trying to whip
Los Angeles (A.B., 1970) and
that legislature in line and saying the way
rsity of Los Angeles School of
Nomination of John Stern Wolf To
to solve our fiscal problems is by getting
73). She was born October 2,
Be United States Ambassador to
spending down, not taxes up. And we all de-
Rita, NM. Ms. Dennis is mar-
Malaysia
serve a big vote of thanks for him.
ee children, and resides in
June 19, 1992
Let me also extend a thank you to our
host-he and the directors and others here-
The President today announced his inten-
but to our host today, Joel Fox, who is the
2 was not received in time for
tion to nominate John Stern Wolf, of Mary-
president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers As-
he appropriate issue.
land, a Minister-Counselor in the Senior For-
sociation. If you want a good leader, get a
eign Service, to be Ambassador of the United
strong man, get somebody in there that's
States of America to Malaysia. He would suc-
going to take the positions he did and has
ceed Paul Matthews Cleveland.
taken. We respect him, and I thank him for
of Edward J. Melanson,
Since 1989 Mr. Wolf has served as Prin-
this morning's hospitality.
rsonal Rank of
cipal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for
And to each and every one of you, I apolo-
While Serving as Chief
International Organization Affairs at the De-
gize for being a little late. The weather got
r Defense and Space
partment of State. He has also served at the
us, and we've been orbiting around out there.
Department of State as executive assistant to
We've just landed, but we landed in an alter-
the Under Secretary of State for Political Af-
native air zone.
today announced his inten-
fairs, 1988-89; and as Office Director of Re-
May I congratulate, on his primary win,
Edward J. Melanson, Jr., of
gional and Multilateral Force and Observers
one who really stands with you on principle,
Affairs in the Bureau of Near Eastern and
ccorded the personal rank
Bruce Herschensohn, who will make a great
South Asian Affairs, 1987-88. Mr. Wolf has
his capacity as Chief Nego-
United States Senator. Speaking of Bruce
also served as Political Counselor at the
and Space.
and what he stands for, I will simply say it's
r. Melanson has served as
American Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan,
a shame that I don't have time to tour the
1984-87; special assistant to the Under Sec-
Universal Studio. But if I want to see behind-
or for Defense and Space
retary of State for Science and Technology
the-scenes tricks or outrageous fantasy, I
gation to the Nuclear and
at the State Department, 1981-84; and finan-
don't have to visit Hollywood-{laughter}-
ciations in Geneva, Switzer-
cial economist in the Bureau of Economic
I can watch the Congress try to deal with
) 1991, he served as Assist-
and Business Affairs, 1979-81.
the budget of the United States of America.
Security in the Office of
Mr. Wolf graduated from Dartmouth Col-
And may I say, on a very sincere personal
nnel at the White House.
lege (B.A., 1970) and Princeton University
note, what a pleasure it is to see Estelle Jar-
/ed as senior defense ad-
Woodrow Wilson School (mid-career fellow,
vis. It's a special privilege to be with you and
I States Delegation for the
1978-79). He was born September 12, 1948,
the members of the association. And Estelle,
Arms Negotiations with
in Philadelphia, PA. Mr. Wolf is married, has
your late husband really was a true pioneer.
in Geneva, 1985-88. He
two children, and resides in Bethesda, MD.
In the Utah mining town where he grew up,
rtment of Defense as As-
he learned from his parents to love freedom,
onal Space Policy, 1982-
Note: This item was not received in time for
to take on responsibility, to dream dreams
international Intelligence
publication in the appropriate issue.
as big as the desert horizon. His political
efense Representative to
credo was simple and yet profound. He said,
Anti-Satellite Negotia-
"Our freedom depends on four words: Gov-
d Assistant for Inter-
ernment must be limited."
Policy, 1975-78.
Remarks to the Howard Jarvis
Here in California 14 years ago, Howard
duated from Tufts Uni-
Taxpayers Association in Universal
Jarvis won that famous victory, obviously as-
and George Washington
City, California
sisted and helped by everybody here, that tax
72). He served in the
June 20, 1992
limitation plan called Proposition 13. He
He was born December
fired the first shot in what later became
m, MA. Mr. Melanson
Thank you very much. And Pete, thank
known as the Reagan revolution. And we're
hildren, and resides in
you, Governor Wilson, for that introduction.
still feeling the reverberations today as we
And let me just say at the outset of these
fight to expand freedom and hold back un-
1116
June 20 / Administration of George Bush, 1992
necessary burdens of Government. And it
you, because you're greedy, well, naturally,
couldn't be more fitting that we meet this
you stand up and fight back.
week, as Joel pointed out, just 2 days after
Our fighting spirit has brought us to a
the historic United States Supreme Court de-
turning point. We're on the threshold of
cision upholding Proposition 13. This was an-
something big. And already we're rolling
other tremendous victory for the rights of the
back needless restrictions on innovation and
taxpayer and the legacy of the late, great
job creation through my moratorium on new
Howard Jarvis.
Federal regulations. Here's a small but sym-
Our revolution isn't the work of a single
bolic example: A construction project, oddly
Presidency; it's the mission for a whole gen-
enough an expansion-it's quite ironic
eration of reform. Since President Reagan
here-an expansion of a homeless shelter,
and I went to Washington in 1981, tax rates
was being delayed by the bureaucracy be-
have been cut across the board. We made
cause it was counter to a rule regarding wet-
them flatter; we made them fairer. We've cut
lands. But what no one quite could under-
the top rate from 70 percent to 31 percent.
stand was that this project was on a devel-
We've raised the standard deduction. We've
oped downtown city block, totally sur-
taken millions of low-to-moderate-income
rounded by concrete and pavement. Some-
people off the tax rolls altogether. And we've
thing was all wet all right, but it certainly
made landmark reforms to get big Govern-
wasn't the building site. The project is now
ment regulation off the backs of our families
underway. We're going to keep it up. For
and our businesses.
businesses, for charities, for homeowners,
But we have much more to do. With the
we're getting unreasonable regulation off of
their backs. And I am pledged to continue
tax-and-spend liberals still in charge of the
Congress, Government keeps growing. And
that program of regulatory relief.
Congress now spends nearly a quarter of
And I'm pushing hard to reform our civil
what people in this country work to produce;
justice system. We are simply suing each
other too much and caring for each other
that's right, almost 25 percent of the gross
too little. Americans want to stop nuisance
domestic product of the United States of
lawsuits. Someone asked me the other day,
America. The habit of deficit spending has
if an apple a day keeps the doctor away, what
brought us to the point that the national debt
works for lawyers? [Laughter] Let me add,
now equals about $65,000 for every family
parenthetically, I will continue to appoint
of four in the United States of America. And
well-qualified judges to our Federal courts,
that is a mortgage on our kids' future. And
including the Supreme Court, who will inter-
it says we're not really as free a society as
pret our Constitution and not legislate from
we should be. And why? Because Govern-
the Federal Bench.
ment is just too big, and it spends too much.
And I'm committed as strongly as ever to
Again and again and again, the liberals in
win more tax relief and reform. We need to
Congress have said no to spending reform.
lift the dead weight that punishes home-
And it's no wonder that Americans keep
owners and prevents more investment and
clamoring for stricter limits on the power and
job creation, those sky-high taxes on capital
the cost of Government. From coast to coast,
gains. Get people back to work in this coun-
people are mobilizing for change. The air is
try. Frankly, I wish Congress would move on
crackling with the feeling that Howard Jarvis
our other growth incentives. We need to
made his battle cry: I am mad as hell.
enact another proposal to ease tax burdens
Maybe you're like millions of other Ameri-
on families and homeowners, like a $5,000
cans. You shop at K-Mart. You go to Carl's
tax credit for that first-time homebuyer. I
Jr. You work to get your kids through school
want those young families to participate in
and pay off a mortgage. And you know it's
the American dream by owning their own
not only your right, it is your duty to your
homes.
family to fight high taxes and Government
As you may know, we are fighting for fun-
waste. And when liberal elitists ridicule you
damental change in our education and wel-
and say we have social problems because of
fare systems. It's time for parents to have
George Bush, 1992
Administration of George Bush, 1992 / June 20
1117
dy, well, naturally,
the freedom to choose their kids' schools,
The plan I have makes good sense. It
k.
public, private, and religious. That's how
would help working people and needy people
brought us to a
we'll give parents the muscle to change our
with vouchers and tax credits. It would pro-
the threshold of
schools and make them the best in the entire
vide access to insurance, make that available
ady we're rolling
world.
to everybody. And it would provide Ameri-
on innovation and
And here, with Pete Wilson sitting here,
cans like yourselves with quality care, care
oratorium on new
we're preaching to the choir a little bit. But
you can afford, while wringing out the ex-
S a small but sym-
right now we have a welfare system designed
cesses and the waste. That's because it uses
tion project, oddly
by the liberal politicians and these social
old-fashioned American ideas: free markets
it's quite ironic
theorists. It's a burden on taxpayers, but
and choice.
homeless shelter,
that's not the worst of it. That's not my major
In the long run, reforming education and
bureaucracy be-
concern, even. Much of the time, this system
welfare could make a major contribution to
ule regarding wet-
hurts the very people that it claims to help.
increasing productivity and solving fiscal cri-
quite could under-
The system discourages single mothers from
sis. And health care reform can make a major
it was on a devel-
getting married. It leaves too many young
contribution to improving and, put it this
lock, totally sur-
women and children without the stability of
way, to getting rid of the worry that so many
pavement. Some-
a home, two-parent home. And let's face it,
American families have. And we can make
t, but it certainly
the welfare state system traps too many peo-
these reforms without raising taxes and with-
he project is now
ple in a cycle of dependency, destroying dig-
out piling new burdens onto State and local
keep it up. For
nity, telling the little guy who wants to pick
taxpayers.
for homeowners,
himself up that he really doesn't have much
Hand-in-hand with these reforms goes. the
regulation off of
of a chance. And I am determined to change
crusade to enforce fiscal discipline. This is
dged to continue
that.
absolutely essential to make these reforms
relief.
I'm working to transform this failed wel-
work. Our burden of debt and uncontrolled
0 reform our civil
fare system into something that makes sense,
spending results from almost four decades
mply suing each
something that gives people a shot at dignity.
of liberal Democratic control of the United
g for each other
Right now, I'm working with tough-minded,
States House of Representatives. Time and
to stop nuisance
creative Governors like Pete Wilson, like
again, Ronald Reagan and I have pushed for
e the other day,
Tommy Thompson-some of you may have
popular reforms. And I believe the American
doctor away, what
read about his reforms, the Governor of Wis-
people want the President to have in law
ter] Let me add,
consin-to give them flexibility under the
what 43 Governors have, that line-item veto.
tinue to appoint
Federal laws to try out new ideas and to turn
And I believe and I know the American peo-
r Federal courts,
around their State welfare programs. And
ple believe the only way to discipline both
rt, who will inter-
with Governors in all 50 States like Pete and
the Congress and the executive branch is
ot legislate from
Tommy, we'd soon be making major progress
through a constitutional amendment to bal-
fostering dignity and the rewards of work.
ance the budget.
rongly as ever to
We'll make more headway in connecting wel-
I hope you followed that debate. If you
orm. We need to
fare with requirements for work, training,
did, you'll know that standing in our way is
punishes home-
education. We'll get more deadbeat dads to
the liberal hardcore of the Democratic Con-
investment and
pay the child support they owe. And we'd
gress, barely more than one-third of the
taxes on capital
help a lot more families come together and
membership. Read the rollcall. Just take a
ork in this coun-
stay together.
look at it. Go back and look at the papers
would move on
My proposal-another area-for health in-
and read the rollcall from last week's vote
S. We need to
surance reform is a model of the new way
in the House on the balanced budget amend-
ase tax burdens
of thinking about social programs. You prob-
ment, and you'll see who I'm talking about.
S, like a $5,000
ably haven't heard much about it. It's before
And pay attention to the Democrats who be-
3 homebuyer. I
the Congress now. The liberal Democrats
long in a special Hall of Shame. I'm talking
0 participate in
that hold control of Congress are too busy
here about the 12 Democrats, two from Cali-
ning their own
beating the drum for that stale idea of a Ted
fornia, who listed themselves as sponsors, as
Kennedy-style system of nationalized health
sponsors of the balanced budget amendment.
fighting for fun-
care. And I am going to veto anything that
They did that to look good and talk good to
cation and wel-
makes socialized medicine for America. We
the people back home. And then these 12
arents to have
are not going to have that.
switched sides and voted to kill the very
1118
June 20 / Administration of George Bush, 1992
amendment that they had sponsored. They
to this debate for who should be President,
did that to curry favor with those liberal party
and you might think foreign affairs don't
bosses that control the House of Rep-
exist, that we aren't really the only undis-
resentatives, and we'd better change that in
puted leader of the world today, which we
this election coming up in the fall.
are. So before I finish, I want to say a word
We know better than to expect these peo-
about the summit meeting that Boris Yeltsin
ple to discipline themselves. This is the same
and I just completed in Washington, where
crowd we've seen for decades: in charge, un-
we reached historic agreements for peace
challenged, and out of control. Let me re-
and for security. Thousands of visitors joined
mind you: For the last 30 years-make that
Barbara and me on the White House lawn
35, I think-the Democrats have controlled
to welcome the first democratically elected
the House of Representatives. For 24 out of
President of Russia. And I just wish, really,
the last 30 years, they've controlled the Unit-
that each one of you could have been there
ed States Senate. And the Congress appro-
with us to share in that very special moment.
priates-and people forget this, but let me
That's because it is patriotic people like you
say it-the Congress appropriates every sin-
who helped make that moment possible.
gle dime and tells me how to spend every
Now the Russian people can worship free-
single dime.
ly. They can compete in free markets. They
Unlike one of my opponents for President,
can choose their own government. And our
I don't believe the only way to confront a
children, our precious kids and grandkids,
massive deficit is with a "massive tax in-
will no longer live in that same shadow of
crease." And that's in quotes because that's
nuclear war that has haunted us for 40 years.
what he said. I know we can do it without
And that is big, and that is important. And
raising taxes, and I have a detailed plan. This
your support made that possible. And today,
isn't just election year rhetoric. We have a
ordinary Russians thank God that ordinary
detailed plan sitting up there before the
Americans stood fast against the Communist
United States Congress right now. It controls
dictatorship that threatened us and op-
the growth of mandatory programs. It doesn't
pressed them.
cut them; it permits the growth in inflation
I think what this shows is that if you have
and in population. Doesn't touch Social Se-
the will, the perseverance, there's always a
curity. It doesn't raise taxes. And here it is.
chance to make a difference. Howard Jarvis
So when the election rolls around, let's get
spent 16 years fighting for tax limitation. He
some of these people who are saying they're
was 76 years old when at last he won, when
going to change things to talk some specifics
he shook the establishment of this entire
and to say how it's going to be done. Here
country. I've highlighted for you important
it is. And we need again, though, the disciple
proposals for the future, with a new Con-
and the sense of urgency that that balanced
gress: Revolutionize our schools; put parents
budget amendment will bring. And while I'm
and kids ahead of bureaucrats. Reform our
at it, I'd like the President to again have what
system of health care. Overhaul the welfare
43 Governors have, let me repeat it, the line-
system; give needy people opportunity in-
item veto.
stead of dependency. Adopt a balanced
It is time for change. Somebody says,
budget amendment. And hold the line
"You're for enterprise zones for the cities.
against excessive spending, taxes, and regula-
That's not a new idea." I said, "Yes, it is;
tion. With a new Congress that shares our
it has never been tried." And isn't it better
values, we can use the next 4 years to set
to try something new, try what hasn't been
our country on the right track for the next
tried: a Republican House, a Republican
40 years. And with your help, I know we can.
Senate, a Republican Congress. That has not
Thank you all very, very much, and may
been tried in 35 years, and it's time to make
God bless the United States of America.
that kind of, significant change.
Thank you all.
In my introduction by our wonderful Gov-
ernor and my friend, Pete mentioned some-
Note: The President spoke at 9:30 a.m. at
thing about international affairs. You listen
the Universal City Hilton.
HOWARD JARVIS TAXPAYERS ASSN.
UNIVERSAL CITY HILTON
UNIVERSAL CITY, CALIFORNIA
SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1992
9:00 A.M
THANK YOU PETE [GOV. WILSON] FOR THAT INTRODUCTION.
LET ME ALSO EXTEND A THANK YOU TO OUR HOST JOEL FOX
[PRESIDENT OF HOWARD JARVIS TAXPAYER ASSOC.]. ((IT'S A
SHAME I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR THE UNIVERSAL STUDIO TOUR.
11 BUT IF I WANT TO SEE BEHIND-THE-SCENES TRICKS OR
OUTRAGEOUS FANTASY, I DON'T HAVE TO VISIT HOLLYWOOD. 11
I CAN JUST WATCH CONGRESS DEAL WITH THE BUDGET. 11 ))
ESTELLE JARVIS, IT IS A SPECIAL PRIVILEGE TO BE
WITH YOU AND THE MEMBERS OF THE HOWARD JARVIS TAXPAYERS
ASSOCIATION. ESTELLE, YOUR LATE HUSBAND WAS A TRUE
PIONEER. IN THE UTAH MINING TOWN WHERE HE GREW UP, HE
LEARNED FROM HIS PARENTS TO LOVE FREEDOM, TO TAKE ON
RESPONSIBILITY, TO DREAM DREAMS AS BIG AS THE DESERT
HORIZON. HIS POLITICAL CREDO WAS SIMPLE AND PROFOUND.
HE SAID, "OUR FREEDOM DEPENDS ON FOUR WORDS:
GOVERNMENT MUST BE LIMITED."
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HERE IN CALIFORNIA 14 YEARS AGO, HOWARD JARVIS WON
A FAMOUS VICTORY -- THE TAX LIMITATION PLAN CALLED
PROPOSITION 13. HE FIRED THE FIRST SHOT IN THE REAGAN
REVOLUTION. AND WE'RE STILL FEELING THE REVERBERATIONS
TODAY AS WE FIGHT TO EXPAND FREEDOM AND HOLD BACK
UNNECESSARY BURDENS OF GOVERNMENT. IT COULDN'T BE MORE
FITTING THAT WE MEET THIS WEEK -- JUST TWO DAYS AFTER
THE HISTORIC U.S. SUPREME COURT DECISION UPHOLDING
PROPOSITION 13. THIS WAS ANOTHER TREMENDOUS VICTORY
FOR THE RIGHTS OF TAXPAYERS AND THE LEGACY OF HOWARD
JARVIS.
OUR REVOLUTION ISN'T THE WORK OF A SINGLE
PRESIDENCY -- IT'S THE MISSION FOR A WHOLE GENERATION
OF REFORM. SINCE RONALD REAGAN AND I CAME TO
WASHINGTON IN 1981, WE'VE CUT TAX RATES ACROSS THE
BOARD, MADE THEM FLATTER AND FAIRER. WE'VE CUT THE TOP
RATE FROM 70 PERCENT TO 31 PERCENT. WE'VE RAISED THE
STANDARD DEDUCTION. WE'VE TAKEN MILLIONS OF LOW-TO-
MODERATE INCOME PEOPLE OFF THE TAX ROLLS ALTOGETHER.
AND WE'VE MADE LANDMARK REFORMS TO GET BIG GOVERNMENT
REGULATION OFF
THE BACKS OF OUR FAMILIES AND
BUSINESSES.
- 3 -
BUT WE'VE GOT MUCH MORE TO DO. WITH TAX-AND-SPEND
LIBERALS STILL IN CHARGE OF CONGRESS, GOVERNMENT KEEPS
GROWING. CONGRESS NOW SPENDS NEARLY A QUARTER OF WHAT
PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY WORK TO PRODUCE: THAT'S RIGHT,
ALMOST 25 PERCENT OF THE GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT. THE
HABIT OF DEFICIT SPENDING HAS BROUGHT US TO THE POINT
THAT THE NATIONAL DEBT NOW EQUALS ABOUT $65,000 FOR
EVERY FAMILY OF FOUR IN THE UNITED STATES. THAT'S A
MORTGAGE ON OUR KIDS' FUTURE. IT SAYS WE'RE NOT REALLY
AS FREE A SOCIETY AS WE SHOULD BE. AND WHY? -- BECAUSE
GOVERNMENT IS JUST TOO BIG -- AND IT SPENDS TOO MUCH.
AGAIN AND AGAIN, THE LIBERALS IN CONGRESS HAVE
SAID NO TO SPENDING REFORM. IT'S NO WONDER THAT
AMERICANS KEEP CLAMORING FOR STRICTER LIMITS ON THE
POWER AND COST OF GOVERNMENT. FROM COAST TO COAST,
PEOPLE ARE MOBILIZING FOR CHANGE. THE AIR IS CRACKLING
WITH THE FEELING THAT HOWARD JARVIS MADE HIS BATTLE
CRY: "I'M MAD AS HELL."
- 4 -
MAYBE YOU'RE LIKE MILLIONS OF OTHER AMERICANS.
YOU SHOP AT K-MART, YOU EAT AT CARL'S JR. YOU'VE
WORKED TO GET YOUR KIDS THROUGH SCHOOL AND PAY OFF A
MORTGAGE. YOU KNOW IT'S NOT ONLY YOUR RIGHT -- IT'S
YOUR DUTY TO YOUR FAMILY -- TO FIGHT HIGH TAXES AND
GOVERNMENT WASTE. AND WHEN LIBERAL ELITISTS RIDICULE
YOU AND SAY WE HAVE SOCIAL PROBLEMS BECAUSE OF YOU --
BECAUSE YOU'RE "GREEDY" -- WELL, NATURALLY, YOU STAND
UP AND FIGHT BACK.
- 5 -
OUR FIGHTING SPIRIT HAS BROUGHT US TO A TURNING
POINT. WE'RE ON THE THRESHOLD OF SOMETHING BIG.
ALREADY WE'RE ROLLING BACK NEEDLESS RESTRICTIONS ON
INNOVATION AND JOB CREATION THROUGH MY MORATORIUM ON
NEW FEDERAL REGULATIONS. HERE'S A SMALL BUT SYMBOLIC
EXAMPLE: A CONSTRUCTION PROJECT -- ODDLY ENOUGH AN
EXPANSION OF A HOMELESS SHELTER WAS BEING DELAYED BY
THE BUREAUCRACY BECAUSE IT WAS COUNTER TO A RULE
REGARDING WETLANDS. BUT WHAT NO ONE COULD QUITE
UNDERSTAND WAS THAT THIS PROJECT WAS ON A DEVELOPED,
DOWNTOWN CITY BLOCK -- TOTALLY SURROUNDED BY CONCRETE
AND PAVEMENT. SOMETHING WAS "ALL WET" ALRIGHT, BUT IT
CERTAINLY WASN'T THE BUILDING SITE. THE PROJECT IS NOW
UNDERWAY. WE'RE GOING TO KEEP IT UP -- FOR BUSINESSES,
FOR CHARITIES,
FOR HOMEOWNERS, WE'RE GETTING
UNREASONABLE REGULATION OFF THEIR BACKS.
I'M PUSHING HARD TO REFORM OUR CIVIL JUSTICE
SYSTEM. WE ARE SIMPLY SUING EACH OTHER TOO MUCH.
AMERICANS WANT TO STOP NUISANCE LAWSUITS. 11 ((SOMEONE
ASKED ME THE OTHER DAY, IF AN APPLE A DAY KEEPS THE
DOCTOR AWAY, WHAT WORKS FOR LAWYERS?)) III
- 6 -
I'M COMMITTED AS STRONGLY AS EVER TO WIN MORE TAX
RELIEF AND REFORM. WE NEED TO LIFT THE DEAD WEIGHT
THAT PUNISHES HOMEOWNERS AND PREVENTS MORE INVESTMENT
AND JOB CREATION -- THOSE SKY-HIGH TAXES ON CAPITAL
GAINS. WE NEED TO ENACT MY OTHER PROPOSALS TO EASE TAX
BURDENS ON FAMILIES AND HOMEOWNERS -- LIKE A $5,000 TAX
CREDIT FOR FIRST-TIME HOMEBUYERS.
I'M FIGHTING FOR FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE IN OUR
EDUCATION AND WELFARE SYSTEMS. IT'S TIME FOR PARENTS
TO HAVE THE FREEDOM TO CHOOSE THEIR KIDS' SCHOOLS --
PUBLIC, PRIVATE OR RELIGIOUS. THAT'S HOW WE'LL GIVE
PARENTS THE MUSCLE TO CHANGE OUR SCHOOLS AND MAKE THEM
THE BEST IN THE WORLD.
- 7 -
RIGHT NOW, WE HAVE A WELFARE SYSTEM DESIGNED BY
LIBERAL POLITICIANS AND SOCIAL THEORISTS. IT'S A
BURDEN ON TAXPAYERS, BUT THAT'S NOT THE WORST OF IT.
MUCH OF THE TIME, THIS SYSTEM HURTS THE VERY PEOPLE IT
CLAIMS TO HELP. THE SYSTEM DISCOURAGES SINGLE MOTHERS
FROM GETTING MARRIED. IT LEAVES TOO MANY YOUNG WOMEN
AND CHILDREN WITHOUT THE STABILITY OF A TWO-PARENT
HOME. AND LET'S FACE IT: THE WELFARE-STATE SYSTEM
TRAPS TOO MANY PEOPLE IN A CYCLE OF DEPENDENCY --
DESTROYING DIGNITY, TELLING THE LITTLE GUY WHO WANTS TO
PICK HIMSELF UP THAT HE REALLY DOESN'T HAVE MUCH OF A
CHANCE. I'M DETERMINED TO CHANGE THAT.
I'M WORKING TO TRANSFORM THIS FAILED WELFARE SYSTEM
INTO SOMETHING THAT MAKES SENSE -- SOMETHING THAT GIVES
PEOPLE A SHOT AT DIGNITY. RIGHT NOW, I'M WORKING WITH
TOUGH-MINDED, CREATIVE GOVERNORS LIKE PETE WILSON HERE,
AND TOMMY THOMPSON IN WISCONSIN, TO GIVE THEM
FLEXIBILITY UNDER FEDERAL LAWS TO TRY OUT NEW IDEAS TO
TURN AROUND THEIR STATE WELFARE PROGRAMS. WITH
GOVERNORS IN ALL 50 STATES LIKE PETE AND TOMMY, WE'D
SOON BE MAKING MAJOR PROGRESS FOSTERING THE DIGNITY AND
THE REWARDS OF WORK.
- 8 -
WE'LL MAKE MORE HEADWAY IN CONNECTING WELFARE WITH
REQUIREMENTS FOR WORK, TRAINING AND EDUCATION. WE'LL
GET MORE DEADBEAT DADS TO PAY THE CHILD SUPPORT THEY
OWE. AND WE'D HELP A LOT MORE FAMILIES COME TOGETHER
AND STAY TOGETHER.
MY PROPOSAL FOR HEALTH INSURANCE REFORM IS A MODEL
OF THE NEW WAY OF THINKING ABOUT SOCIAL PROGRAMS. YOU
PROBABLY HAVEN'T HEARD MUCH ABOUT IT. THE LIBERAL
DEMOCRATS THAT CONTROL CONGRESS ARE TOO BUSY BEATING
THE DRUM FOR THAT STALE IDEA OF A TED KENNEDY-STYLE
SYSTEM OF NATIONALIZED HEALTH CARE.
MY HEALTH CARE PLAN MAKES MORE SENSE. IT WOULD
HELP WORKING PEOPLE AND NEEDY PEOPLE WITH VOUCHERS AND
TAX CREDITS -- PROVIDE ACCESS TO INSURANCE AVAILABLE
TO EVERYONE. IT WOULD PROVIDE AMERICANS LIKE
YOURSELVES WITH QUALITY CARE, CARE YOU CAN AFFORD --
WHILE WRINGING OUT EXCESS AND WASTE. THAT'S BECAUSE IT
USES OLD-FASHIONED AMERICAN IDEAS: FREE MARKETS AND
CHOICE.
- 9 -
IN THE LONG RUN, REFORMING EDUCATION AND WELFARE
COULD MAKE A MAJOR CONTRIBUTION TO INCREASING
PRODUCTIVITY AND SOLVING OUR FISCAL CRISIS. WE CAN
MAKE THESE REFORMS WITHOUT RAISING TAXES -- AND WITHOUT
PILING NEW BURDENS ONTO STATE AND LOCAL TAXPAYERS.
HAND IN HAND WITH THESE REFORMS GOES OUR CRUSADE TO
ENFORCE FISCAL DISCIPLINE. OUR BURDEN OF DEBT AND
UNCONTROLLED SPENDING RESULTS FROM ALMOST FOUR DECADES
OF LIBERAL DEMOCRAT CONTROL OF THE U.S. HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES. TIME AND AGAIN, RONALD REAGAN AND I
HAVE PUSHED FOR POPULAR REFORMS: I BELIEVE THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE WANT THE PRESIDENT TO HAVE WHAT 43
GOVERNORS HAVE: THE LINE-ITEM VETO. AND I KNOW THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE BELIEVE THE ONLY WAY TO DISCIPLINE BOTH
THE CONGRESS AND THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH IS THROUGH A
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO BALANCE THE BUDGET.
- 10 -
STANDING IN OUR WAY IS THE LIBERAL HARD CORE OF THE
DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS -- BARELY MORE THAN ONE-THIRD OF
THE MEMBERSHIP. READ THE ROLL CALL FROM LAST WEEK'S
VOTE IN THE HOUSE -- YOU'LL SEE WHO I'M TALKING ABOUT.
AND PAY ATTENTION TO THE DEMOCRATS WHO BELONG IN A
SPECIAL HALL OF SHAME. I'M TALKING ABOUT THE 12
DEMOCRATS -- TWO FROM CALIFORNIA -- WHO LISTED
THEMSELVES AS SPONSORS OF THE AMENDMENT: THEY DID THAT
TO LOOK GOOD TO THE FOLKS AT HOME. THEN THESE
DEMOCRATS SWITCHED SIDES AND VOTED TO KILL THE
AMENDMENT THEY HAD SPONSORED: THEY DID THAT TO CURRY
FAVOR WITH THEIR PARTY BOSSES IN WASHINGTON.
WE KNOW BETTER THAN TO EXPECT THESE PEOPLE TO
DISCIPLINE THEMSELVES. THIS IS THE SAME CROWD WE'VE
SEEN FOR DECADES: IN CHARGE, UNCHALLENGED, AND OUT OF
CONTROL. 11
- 11 -
FOR THE LAST 30 YEARS THE DEMOCRATS HAVE CONTROLLED
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. FOR 24 OUT THE LAST 30
YEARS THEY'VE CONTROLLED THE SENATE. CONGRESS
APPROPRIATES EVERY DIME AND TELLS ME HOW TO SPEND EVERY
DIME. [[ UNLIKE ONE OF MY OPPONENTS I DON'T BELIEVE
THE ONLY WAY TO CONFRONT A MASSIVE DEFICIT IS WITH A
"MASSIVE TAX INCREASE". I KNOW WE CAN DO IT WITHOUT
RAISING TAXES. ]] IT IS TIME TO CHANGE -- TRY WHAT
HASN'T BEEN TRIED -- - A REPUBLICAN HOUSE, A REPUBLICAN
SENATE, A REPUBLICAN CONGRESS.
- 12 -
BEFORE I FINISH, I WANT TO SAY A WORD ABOUT THE
SUMMIT MEETING BORIS YELTSIN AND I JUST COMPLETED IN
WASHINGTON -- WHERE WE REACHED HISTORIC AGREEMENTS FOR
PEACE AND SECURITY. THOUSANDS OF VISITORS JOINED
BARBARA AND ME ON THE WHITE HOUSE LAWN TO WELCOME THE
FIRST DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA. I
WISH EACH ONE OF YOU COULD HAVE BEEN THERE WITH US.
THAT'S BECAUSE IT'S PATRIOTIC PEOPLE LIKE YOU WHO
HELPED MAKE THIS MOMENT POSSIBLE. NOW THE RUSSIAN
PEOPLE CAN WORSHIP FREELY, COMPETE IN FREE MARKETS, AND
CHOOSE THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT. AND OUR KIDS AND
GRANDKIDS WON'T LIVE IN THE SHADOW OF NUCLEAR WAR THAT
HAUNTED US FOR FORTY YEARS. 11 TODAY, ORDINARY
RUSSIANS THANK GOD THAT ORDINARY AMERICANS STOOD FAST
AGAINST THE COMMUNIST DICTATORSHIP THAT THREATENED US
AND OPPRESSED THEM. 11
IF YOU HAVE THE WILL, THE PERSEVERANCE, THERE'S
ALWAYS A CHANCE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. HOWARD JARVIS
SPENT 16 YEARS FIGHTING FOR TAX LIMITATION. HE WAS 76
YEARS OLD WHEN AT LAST HE WON -- WHEN HE SHOOK THE
ESTABLISHMENT OF THIS ENTIRE COUNTRY.
- 13 -
I'VE HIGHLIGHTED FOR YOU IMPORTANT PROPOSALS FOR
THE FUTURE, WITH A NEW CONGRESS: REVOLUTIONIZE OUR
SCHOOLS -- PUT PARENTS AND KIDS AHEAD OF BUREAUCRATS.
REFORM OUR SYSTEM OF HEALTH CARE. OVERHAUL THE WELFARE
SYSTEM - -- GIVE NEEDY PEOPLE OPPORTUNITY INSTEAD OF
DEPENDENCY. ADOPT A BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT. AND
HOLD THE LINE AGAINST EXCESSIVE SPENDING, TAXES AND
REGULATION. WITH A NEW CONGRESS THAT SHARES OUR
VALUES, WE CAN USE THE NEXT FOUR YEARS TO SET OUR
COUNTRY ON THE RIGHT TRACK FOR THE NEXT FORTY YEARS.
WITH YOUR HELP, I KNOW WE CAN.
THANK YOU. GOD BLESS YOU AND THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA.
# # #
HOWARD JARVIS TAXPAYERS ASSN.
UNIVERSAL CITY HILTON
UNIVERSAL CITY, CALIFORNIA
SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1992
9:00 A.M
THANK YOU PETE [GOV. WILSON] FOR THAT INTRODUCTION.
LET ME ALSO EXTEND A THANK YOU TO OUR HOST JOEL FOX
[PRESIDENT OF HOWARD JARVIS TAXPAYER ASSOC.]. ((IT'S A
SHAME I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR THE UNIVERSAL STUDIO TOUR.
11 BUT IF I WANT TO SEE BEHIND-THE-SCENES TRICKS OR
OUTRAGEOUS FANTASY, I DON'T HAVE TO VISIT HOLLYWOOD. 11
I CAN JUST WATCH CONGRESS DEAL WITH THE BUDGET. 11 "
ESTELLE JARVIS, IT IS A SPECIAL PRIVILEGE TO BE
WITH YOU AND THE MEMBERS OF THE HOWARD JARVIS TAXPAYERS
ASSOCIATION. ESTELLE, YOUR LATE HUSBAND WAS A TRUE
PIONEER. IN THE UTAH MINING TOWN WHERE HE GREW UP, HE
LEARNED FROM HIS PARENTS TO LOVE FREEDOM, TO TAKE ON
RESPONSIBILITY, TO DREAM DREAMS AS BIG AS THE DESERT
HORIZON. HIS POLITICAL CREDO WAS SIMPLE AND PROFOUND.
HE SAID, "OUR FREEDOM DEPENDS ON FOUR WORDS:
GOVERNMENT MUST BE LIMITED."
- 2 -
HERE IN CALIFORNIA 14 YEARS AGO, HOWARD JARVIS WON
A FAMOUS VICTORY -- THE TAX LIMITATION PLAN CALLED
PROPOSITION 13. HE FIRED THE FIRST SHOT IN THE REAGAN
REVOLUTION. AND WE'RE STILL FEELING THE REVERBERATIONS
TODAY AS WE FIGHT TO EXPAND FREEDOM AND HOLD BACK
UNNECESSARY BURDENS OF GOVERNMENT. IT COULDN'T BE MORE
FITTING THAT WE MEET THIS WEEK -- JUST TWO DAYS AFTER
THE HISTORIC U.S. SUPREME COURT DECISION UPHOLDING
PROPOSITION 13. THIS WAS ANOTHER TREMENDOUS VICTORY
FOR THE RIGHTS OF TAXPAYERS AND THE LEGACY OF HOWARD
JARVIS.
OUR REVOLUTION ISN'T THE WORK OF A SINGLE
PRESIDENCY -- IT'S THE MISSION FOR A WHOLE GENERATION
OF REFORM. SINCE RONALD REAGAN AND I CAME TO
WASHINGTON IN 1981, WE'VE CUT TAX RATES ACROSS THE
BOARD, MADE THEM FLATTER AND FAIRER. WE'VE CUT THE TOP
RATE FROM 70 PERCENT TO 31 PERCENT. WE'VE RAISED THE
STANDARD DEDUCTION. WE'VE TAKEN MILLIONS OF LOW-TO-
MODERATE INCOME PEOPLE OFF THE TAX ROLLS ALTOGETHER.
AND WE'VE MADE LANDMARK REFORMS TO GET BIG GOVERNMENT
REGULATION OFF
THE BACKS OF OUR FAMILIES AND
BUSINESSES.
- 3 -
BUT WE'VE GOT MUCH MORE TO DO. WITH TAX-AND-SPEND
LIBERALS STILL IN CHARGE OF CONGRESS, GOVERNMENT KEEPS
GROWING. CONGRESS NOW SPENDS NEARLY A QUARTER OF WHAT
PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY WORK TO PRODUCE: THAT'S RIGHT,
ALMOST 25 PERCENT OF THE GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT. THE
HABIT OF DEFICIT SPENDING HAS BROUGHT US TO THE POINT
THAT THE NATIONAL DEBT NOW EQUALS ABOUT $65,000 FOR
EVERY FAMILY OF FOUR IN THE UNITED STATES. THAT'S A
MORTGAGE ON OUR KIDS' FUTURE. IT SAYS WE'RE NOT REALLY
AS FREE A SOCIETY AS WE SHOULD BE. AND WHY? -- BECAUSE
GOVERNMENT IS JUST TOO BIG -- AND IT SPENDS TOO MUCH.
AGAIN AND AGAIN, THE LIBERALS IN CONGRESS HAVE
SAID NO TO SPENDING REFORM. IT'S NO WONDER THAT
AMERICANS KEEP CLAMORING FOR STRICTER LIMITS ON THE
POWER AND COST OF GOVERNMENT. FROM COAST TO COAST,
PEOPLE ARE MOBILIZING FOR CHANGE. THE AIR IS CRACKLING
WITH THE FEELING THAT HOWARD JARVIS MADE HIS BATTLE
CRY: "I'M MAD AS HELL."
- 4 -
MAYBE YOU'RE LIKE MILLIONS OF OTHER AMERICANS.
YOU SHOP AT K-MART, YOU EAT AT CARL'S JR. YOU'VE
WORKED TO GET YOUR KIDS THROUGH SCHOOL AND PAY OFF A
MORTGAGE. YOU KNOW IT'S NOT ONLY YOUR RIGHT -- IT'S
YOUR DUTY TO YOUR FAMILY -- TO FIGHT HIGH TAXES AND
GOVERNMENT WASTE. AND WHEN LIBERAL ELITISTS RIDICULE
YOU AND SAY WE HAVE SOCIAL PROBLEMS BECAUSE OF YOU --
BECAUSE YOU'RE "GREEDY" -- WELL, NATURALLY, YOU STAND
UP AND FIGHT BACK.
- 5 -
OUR FIGHTING SPIRIT HAS BROUGHT US TO A TURNING
POINT. WE'RE ON THE THRESHOLD OF SOMETHING BIG.
ALREADY WE'RE ROLLING BACK NEEDLESS RESTRICTIONS ON
INNOVATION AND JOB CREATION THROUGH MY MORATORIUM ON
NEW FEDERAL REGULATIONS. HERE'S A SMALL BUT SYMBOLIC
EXAMPLE: A CONSTRUCTION PROJECT ODDLY ENOUGH AN
EXPANSION OF A HOMELESS SHELTER WAS BEING DELAYED BY
THE BUREAUCRACY BECAUSE IT WAS COUNTER TO A RULE
REGARDING WETLANDS. BUT WHAT NO ONE COULD QUITE
UNDERSTAND WAS THAT THIS PROJECT WAS ON A DEVELOPED,
DOWNTOWN CITY BLOCK -- TOTALLY SURROUNDED BY CONCRETE
AND PAVEMENT. SOMETHING WAS "ALL WET" ALRIGHT, BUT IT
CERTAINLY WASN'T THE BUILDING SITE. THE PROJECT IS NOW
UNDERWAY. WE'RE GOING TO KEEP IT UP -- FOR BUSINESSES,
FOR CHARITIES,
FOR HOMEOWNERS, WE'RE GETTING
UNREASONABLE REGULATION OFF THEIR BACKS.
I'M PUSHING HARD TO REFORM OUR CIVIL JUSTICE
SYSTEM. WE ARE SIMPLY SUING EACH OTHER TOO MUCH.
AMERICANS WANT TO STOP NUISANCE LAWSUITS. 11 ((SOMEONE
ASKED ME THE OTHER DAY, IF AN APPLE A DAY KEEPS THE
DOCTOR AWAY, WHAT WORKS FOR LAWYERS?)) III
- 6 -
I'M COMMITTED AS STRONGLY AS EVER TO WIN MORE TAX
RELIEF AND REFORM. WE NEED TO LIFT THE DEAD WEIGHT
THAT PUNISHES HOMEOWNERS AND PREVENTS MORE INVESTMENT
AND JOB CREATION -- THOSE SKY-HIGH TAXES ON CAPITAL
GAINS. WE NEED TO ENACT MY OTHER PROPOSALS TO EASE TAX
BURDENS ON FAMILIES AND HOMEOWNERS -- LIKE A $5,000 TAX
CREDIT FOR FIRST-TIME HOMEBUYERS.
I'M FIGHTING FOR FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE IN OUR
EDUCATION AND WELFARE SYSTEMS. IT'S TIME FOR PARENTS
TO HAVE THE FREEDOM TO CHOOSE THEIR KIDS' SCHOOLS --
PUBLIC, PRIVATE OR RELIGIOUS. THAT'S HOW WE'LL GIVE
PARENTS THE MUSCLE TO CHANGE OUR SCHOOLS AND MAKE THEM
THE BEST IN THE WORLD.
- 7 -
RIGHT NOW, WE HAVE A WELFARE SYSTEM DESIGNED BY
LIBERAL POLITICIANS AND SOCIAL THEORISTS. IT'S A
BURDEN ON TAXPAYERS, BUT THAT'S NOT THE WORST OF IT.
MUCH OF THE TIME, THIS SYSTEM HURTS THE VERY PEOPLE IT
CLAIMS TO HELP. THE SYSTEM DISCOURAGES SINGLE MOTHERS
FROM GETTING MARRIED. IT LEAVES TOO MANY YOUNG WOMEN
AND CHILDREN WITHOUT THE STABILITY OF A TWO-PARENT
HOME. AND LET'S FACE IT: THE WELFARE-STATE SYSTEM
TRAPS TOO MANY PEOPLE IN A CYCLE OF DEPENDENCY --
DESTROYING DIGNITY, TELLING THE LITTLE GUY WHO WANTS TO
PICK HIMSELF UP THAT HE REALLY DOESN'T HAVE MUCH OF A
CHANCE. I'M DETERMINED TO CHANGE THAT.
I'M WORKING TO TRANSFORM THIS FAILED WELFARE SYSTEM
INTO SOMETHING THAT MAKES SENSE -- SOMETHING THAT GIVES
PEOPLE A SHOT AT DIGNITY. RIGHT NOW, I'M WORKING WITH
TOUGH-MINDED, CREATIVE GOVERNORS LIKE PETE WILSON HERE,
AND TOMMY THOMPSON IN WISCONSIN, TO GIVE THEM
FLEXIBILITY UNDER FEDERAL LAWS TO TRY OUT NEW IDEAS TO
TURN AROUND THEIR STATE WELFARE PROGRAMS. WITH
GOVERNORS IN ALL 50 STATES LIKE PETE AND TOMMY, WE'D
SOON BE MAKING MAJOR PROGRESS FOSTERING THE DIGNITY AND
THE REWARDS OF WORK.
- 8 -
WE'LL MAKE MORE HEADWAY IN CONNECTING WELFARE WITH
REQUIREMENTS FOR WORK, TRAINING AND EDUCATION. WE'LL
GET MORE DEADBEAT DADS TO PAY THE CHILD SUPPORT THEY
OWE. AND WE'D HELP A LOT MORE FAMILIES COME TOGETHER
AND STAY TOGETHER.
MY PROPOSAL FOR HEALTH INSURANCE REFORM IS A MODEL
OF THE NEW WAY OF THINKING ABOUT SOCIAL PROGRAMS. YOU
PROBABLY HAVEN'T HEARD MUCH ABOUT IT. THE LIBERAL
DEMOCRATS THAT CONTROL CONGRESS ARE TOO BUSY BEATING
THE DRUM FOR THAT STALE IDEA OF A TED KENNEDY-STYLE
SYSTEM OF NATIONALIZED HEALTH CARE.
MY HEALTH CARE PLAN MAKES MORE SENSE. IT WOULD
HELP WORKING PEOPLE AND NEEDY PEOPLE WITH VOUCHERS AND
TAX CREDITS -- PROVIDE ACCESS TO INSURANCE AVAILABLE
TO EVERYONE. IT WOULD PROVIDE AMERICANS LIKE
YOURSELVES WITH QUALITY CARE, CARE YOU CAN AFFORD --
WHILE WRINGING OUT EXCESS AND WASTE. THAT'S BECAUSE IT
USES OLD-FASHIONED AMERICAN IDEAS: FREE MARKETS AND
CHOICE.
- 9 -
IN THE LONG RUN, REFORMING EDUCATION AND WELFARE
COULD MAKE A MAJOR CONTRIBUTION TO INCREASING
PRODUCTIVITY AND SOLVING OUR FISCAL CRISIS. WE CAN
MAKE THESE REFORMS WITHOUT RAISING TAXES -- AND WITHOUT
PILING NEW BURDENS ONTO STATE AND LOCAL TAXPAYERS.
HAND IN HAND WITH THESE REFORMS GOES OUR CRUSADE TO
ENFORCE FISCAL DISCIPLINE. OUR BURDEN OF DEBT AND
UNCONTROLLED SPENDING RESULTS FROM ALMOST FOUR DECADES
OF LIBERAL DEMOCRAT CONTROL OF THE U.S. HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES. TIME AND AGAIN, RONALD REAGAN AND I
HAVE PUSHED FOR POPULAR REFORMS: I BELIEVE THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE WANT THE PRESIDENT TO HAVE WHAT 43
GOVERNORS HAVE: THE LINE-ITEM VETO. AND I KNOW THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE BELIEVE THE ONLY WAY TO DISCIPLINE BOTH
THE CONGRESS AND THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH IS THROUGH A
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO BALANCE THE BUDGET.
- 10 -
STANDING IN OUR WAY IS THE LIBERAL HARD CORE OF THE
DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS -- BARELY MORE THAN ONE-THIRD OF
THE MEMBERSHIP. READ THE ROLL CALL FROM LAST WEEK'S
VOTE IN THE HOUSE -- YOU'LL SEE WHO I'M TALKING ABOUT.
AND PAY ATTENTION TO THE DEMOCRATS WHO BELONG IN A
SPECIAL HALL OF SHAME. I'M TALKING ABOUT THE 12
DEMOCRATS -- TWO FROM CALIFORNIA -- WHO LISTED
THEMSELVES AS SPONSORS OF THE AMENDMENT: THEY DID THAT
TO LOOK GOOD TO THE FOLKS AT HOME. THEN THESE
DEMOCRATS SWITCHED SIDES AND VOTED TO KILL THE
AMENDMENT THEY HAD SPONSORED: THEY DID THAT TO CURRY
FAVOR WITH THEIR PARTY BOSSES IN WASHINGTON.
WE KNOW BETTER THAN TO EXPECT THESE PEOPLE TO
DISCIPLINE THEMSELVES. THIS IS THE SAME CROWD WE'VE
SEEN FOR DECADES: IN CHARGE, UNCHALLENGED, AND OUT OF
CONTROL. 11
- 11 -
FOR THE LAST 30 YEARS THE DEMOCRATS HAVE CONTROLLED
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. FOR 24 OUT THE LAST 30
YEARS THEY'VE CONTROLLED THE SENATE. CONGRESS
APPROPRIATES EVERY DIME AND TELLS ME HOW TO SPEND EVERY
DIME. [[ UNLIKE ONE OF MY OPPONENTS I DON'T BELIEVE
THE ONLY WAY TO CONFRONT A MASSIVE DEFICIT IS WITH A
"MASSIVE TAX INCREASE". I KNOW WE CAN DO IT WITHOUT
RAISING TAXES. ]] IT IS TIME TO CHANGE -- TRY WHAT
HASN'T BEEN TRIED -- A REPUBLICAN HOUSE, A REPUBLICAN
SENATE, A REPUBLICAN CONGRESS.
- 12 -
BEFORE I FINISH, I WANT TO SAY A WORD ABOUT THE
SUMMIT MEETING BORIS YELTSIN AND I JUST COMPLETED IN
WASHINGTON -- WHERE WE REACHED HISTORIC AGREEMENTS FOR
PEACE AND SECURITY. THOUSANDS OF VISITORS JOINED
BARBARA AND ME ON THE WHITE HOUSE LAWN TO WELCOME THE
FIRST DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA. I
WISH EACH ONE OF YOU COULD HAVE BEEN THERE WITH US.
THAT'S BECAUSE IT'S PATRIOTIC PEOPLE LIKE YOU WHO
HELPED MAKE THIS MOMENT POSSIBLE. NOW THE RUSSIAN
PEOPLE CAN WORSHIP FREELY, COMPETE IN FREE MARKETS, AND
CHOOSE THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT. AND OUR KIDS AND
GRANDKIDS WON'T LIVE IN THE SHADOW OF NUCLEAR WAR THAT
HAUNTED US FOR FORTY YEARS. 11 TODAY, ORDINARY
RUSSIANS THANK GOD THAT ORDINARY AMERICANS STOOD FAST
AGAINST THE COMMUNIST DICTATORSHIP THAT THREATENED US
AND OPPRESSED THEM. 11
IF YOU HAVE THE WILL, THE PERSEVERANCE, THERE'S
ALWAYS A CHANCE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. HOWARD JARVIS
SPENT 16 YEARS FIGHTING FOR TAX LIMITATION. HE WAS 76
YEARS OLD WHEN AT LAST HE WON -- WHEN HE SHOOK THE
ESTABLISHMENT OF THIS ENTIRE COUNTRY.
- 13 -
I'VE HIGHLIGHTED FOR YOU IMPORTANT PROPOSALS FOR
THE FUTURE, WITH A NEW CONGRESS: REVOLUTIONIZE OUR
SCHOOLS -- PUT PARENTS AND KIDS AHEAD OF BUREAUCRATS.
REFORM OUR SYSTEM OF HEALTH CARE. OVERHAUL THE WELFARE
SYSTEM -- GIVE NEEDY PEOPLE OPPORTUNITY INSTEAD OF
DEPENDENCY. ADOPT A BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT. AND
HOLD THE LINE AGAINST EXCESSIVE SPENDING, TAXES AND
REGULATION. WITH A NEW CONGRESS THAT SHARES OUR
VALUES, WE CAN USE THE NEXT FOUR YEARS TO SET OUR
COUNTRY ON THE RIGHT TRACK FOR THE NEXT FORTY YEARS.
WITH YOUR HELP, I KNOW WE CAN.
THANK YOU. GOD BLESS YOU AND THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA.
#
#
#
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
June 17, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
DAVID DEMAREST Dur
FROM:
JOSEPH P. DUGGAN
SUBJECT:
HOWARD JARVIS TAX REFORM EVENT
I. SUMMARY
On Saturday, June 20, at 9:00 a.m., at the Universal City
Hilton, you will address approximately 1,000 members of the
Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association.
II. DISCUSSION
Your remarks (13) minutes, on prompter) focus on taxation and
the national debt and the toll a liberal Congress has exacted on
these issues. Additionally, you pay tribute to Mr. Mad-as-Hell,
the late Howard Jarvis.
(Duggan/Nix)
June 17, 1992
Draft Six
Jarvis
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
HOWARD JARVIS TAXPAYERS ASSN.
UNIVERSAL CITY HILTON
UNIVERSAL CITY, CALIFORNIA
SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1992
9:00 a.m
[Acknowledgments] ((It's a shame I don't have time for the
Universal Studio tour. 11 But if I want to see behind-the-scenes
tricks or outrageous fantasy, I don't have to visit Hollywood. 11
I can just watch Congress deal with the budget. \\))
Estelle Jarvis, it is a special privilege to be with you and
the members of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. Estelle,
your late husband was a true pioneer. In the Utah mining town
where he grew up, he learned from his parents to love freedom, to
take on responsibility, to dream dreams as big as the desert
horizon. His political credo was simple and profound. He said,
"Our freedom depends on four words: Government must be limited."
Here in California 14 years ago, Howard Jarvis won a famous
victory -- the tax limitation plan called Proposition 13. He
fired the first shot in the Reagan Revolution. And we're still
feeling the reverberations today as we keep fighting to expand
our freedom and hold back unnecessary burdens of government. 11
Our revolution isn't the work of a single presidency -- it's
the mission for a whole generation of reform. Since 1980, we've
lowered taxes, made them flatter and fairer. 11 We've made
landmark reforms to get big government regulation off the backs
of our families and businesses. 11
But we've got much more to do. With tax-and-spend liberals
2
still in charge of Congress, government keeps growing. Congress
now spends nearly a quarter of what people in this country work
to produce: That's right, almost 25 percent of the Gross
Domestic Product. The habit of deficit spending has brought us
to the point that the national debt now equals about $65,000 for
every family of four in the United States. That's about what
you'd pay to send two kids through college. Those facts tell us
we're not really as free a society as we should be. You and I
know that government is too big -- and it spends too much. 111
The burden of debt and profligate spending is the legacy of
almost four decades of liberal Democrat control of the U.S. House
of Representatives. Time and again, Ronald Reagan and I have
asked for popular reforms: The line-item veto. A balanced
budget amendment. Again and again, the liberals in Congress have
said no. It's no wonder that Americans keep clamoring for
stricter limits on the power and cost of government. From coast
to coast, people are mobilizing for change. The air is crackling
with the feeling that Howard Jarvis made his battle cry: "I'm mad
as hell. III
What it comes down to is this: Ordinary Americans are plain
fed up with pressure to be "politically correct." Aren't you
tired of hearing the liberal know-it-alls drone on, demanding
that you believe things that defy common sense? Aren't you sick
of self-righteous demands that you surrender to some bureaucracy
freedoms that enabled our ancestors to make this country great?
Maybe you're like millions of other Americans. You shop at
3
K-Mart, you eat at Carl's Jr. You've worked to get your kids
through school and pay off a mortgage. You know it's not only
your right -- it's your duty to your family -- to fight high
taxes and government waste. And when liberal elitists ridicule
you and say we have social problems because of you -- because
you're "greedy" -- well, naturally, you stand up and fight back.
Our fighting spirit has brought us to a turning point.
We're on the threshold of something big. We'll have to put up
with a few more months of frustration from the lame-duck liberal
Congress, but after that I see a clear road and powerful
acceleration for the changes we want.
We're rolling back needless restrictions on innovation and
job creation through my moratorium on new federal regulations.
We've stopped, for example, a senseless regulation that delayed
expansion of a homeless shelter on a developed, downtown city
block that bureaucrats were trying to say was a "wetland." For
businesses, for charities, for homeowners, we're working to get
unreasonable regulation off their backs. 11
I'm pushing hard to reform our civil justice system.
Americans want to stop nuisance lawsuits. 11 ((Someone asked me
the other day, if an apple a day keeps the doctor away, what
works for lawyers?) )
111
I'm committed as strongly as ever to win more tax relief and
reform. 11 We need to lift the dead weight that punishes
homeowners and prevents more investment and job creation -- those
sky-high taxes on capital gains. 11 We need to enact my other
4
proposals to ease tax burdens on families and homeowners.
I'm fighting for fundamental change in our education and
welfare systems. It's time for parents to have real financial
freedom to choose their kids' schools -- public, private or
religious. We'll give families more opportunities. We'll
give parents the muscle to change our schools and make them the
best in the world. 11
Right now, we have a welfare system designed by liberal
politicians and social theorists. It's a burden on taxpayers,
but that's not the worst of it. Much of the time, this system
hurts the very people it claims to help. The system discourages
single mothers from getting married. It leaves too many young
women and children without the stability of a two-parent home.
And let's face it: The welfare-state system traps too many
people in a cycle of dependency --- destroying dignity, telling
the little guy who wants to pick himself up that he really
doesn't have much of a chance.
I'm working to transform this failed welfare system into
something that makes sense -- something that gives people a shot
at dignity. 11 Right now, I'm working with tough-minded,
creative governors like Pete Wilson here, and Tommy Thompson in
Wisconsin, to give them flexibility under federal laws to try out
new ideas and begin turning their state welfare programs around.
With governors in all 50 states like Pete and Tommy, we'd soon be
making major progress fostering the dignity and the rewards of
work. 11 We'll make more headway in connecting welfare with
5
requirements for work, training and education. We'll get more
deadbeat dads to pay the child support they owe. And we'd help a
lot more families come together and stay together. 11
My proposal for health insurance reform is a model of the
new way of thinking about social programs. The big news media
haven't told you much about my plan -- they're too busy beating
the drum for that stale old idea of a Ted Kennedy-style national
system of socialized medicine. 11 Like my education plan, my
health care plan would help working people and needy people with
vouchers and tax credits -- employing an old-fashioned American
idea: free markets and choice. It would provide Americans like
yourselves with quality care, care you can afford -- while
wringing out excess and waste. 11
In the long run, reforming education and welfare could make
a major contribution to increasing productivity and solving our
fiscal crisis. We can make these reforms without raising taxes -
- and without piling new burdens onto state and local taxpayers.
Hand in hand with these reforms goes our crusade to enforce
fiscal discipline. That's why I need what 43 governors have:
the line-item veto. 111 And now more than ever, Americans are
calling for a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution.
11
Forty-four states have constitutional requirements for balancing
the budget. Most state legislatures are on record supporting a
federal Balanced Budget Amendment.
Standing in our way is the liberal hard core of the
Democratic Congress -- barely more than one-third of the
6
membership. Read the roll call from last week's vote in the
House -- you'll see who I'm talking about. And pay attention to
the Democrats who belong in a special Hall of Shame. I'm talking
about the 12 Democrats -- two from California -- who listed
themselves as sponsors of the amendment: They did that to look
good to the folks at home. Then these Democrats switched sides
and voted to kill the amendment they had sponsored: They did
that to curry favor with their party bosses in Washington.
We know better than to expect these people to discipline
themselves. This is the same crowd we've seen for decades: in
charge, unchallenged, and out of control. 11
How about it if we send them a message in November?
Can I count on each one of you to get to work on this? Can I
count on you to deliver the liberals some bad news at the polls
this November? 111 Thanks! It I knew I could! 11
Before I finish, I want say a word about the summit meeting
Boris Yeltsin and I just completed in Washington -- where we
reached historic agreements for peace and security. Thousands of
visitors joined Barbara and me on the White House lawn to welcome
the first democratically elected president of Russia. I wish
each one of you could have been there with us. That's because
it's patriotic people like you who helped make this moment
possible. Now the Russian people can worship freely, compete in
free markets, and choose their own government. And our kids and
grandkids won't live in the shadow of nuclear war that haunted us
for forty years. 11
Today, ordinary Russians thank God that
7
ordinary Americans stood fast against the Communist dictatorship
that threatened us and oppressed them. 11
If you have the will, the perseverance, there's always a
chance to make a difference. Howard Jarvis spent 16 years
fighting for tax limitation. He was 76 years old when at last he
won -- when he shook the establishment of this entire country.
I've highlighted for you my agenda for a new term, working
with a new Congress: Revolutionize our schools -- put parents
and kids and traditional excellence ahead of bureaucrats. Reform
our system of health care. Overhaul the welfare system -- give
needy people opportunity instead of dependency. Adopt a balanced
budget amendment. And hold the line against excessive spending,
taxes and regulation. 11
With a new Congress that shares our values, we can use the
next four years to-set our country on the right track for the
next forty years. 11
With your help, I know we can. 11 Thank
you. God bless you and the United States of America. 11
#
#
#
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
June 17, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
DAVID DEMAREST
FROM:
JOSEPH P. DUGGAN
SUBJECT:
HOWARD JARVIS TAX REFORM EVENT
I. SUMMARY
On Saturday, June 20, at 9:00 a.m., at the Universal City
Hilton, you will address approximately 1,000 members of the
Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association.
II. DISCUSSION
Your remarks (13 minutes, on prompter) focus on taxation and
the national debt and the toll a liberal Congress has exacted on
these issues. Additionally, you pay tribute to Mr. Mad-as-Hell,
the late Howard Jarvis.
(Duggan/Nix)
June 17, 1992
Draft Six
Jarvis
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
HOWARD JARVIS TAXPAYERS ASSN.
UNIVERSAL CITY HILTON
UNIVERSAL CITY, CALIFORNIA
SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1992
9:00 a.m
[Acknowledgments] ((It's a shame I don't have time for the
Universal Studio tour. 11 But if I want to see behind-the-scenes
tricks or outrageous fantasy, I don't have to visit Hollywood.
11
I can just watch Congress deal with the budget. 11 ))
Estelle Jarvis, it is a special privilege to be with you and
the members of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. Estelle,
your late husband was a true pioneer. In the Utah mining town
where he grew up, he learned from his parents to love freedom, to
take on responsibility, to dream dreams as big as the desert
horizon. His political credo was simple and profound. He said,
"Our freedom depends on four words: Government must be limited."
Here in California 14 years ago, Howard Jarvis won a famous
victory -- the tax limitation plan called Proposition 13. He
fired the first shot in the Reagan Revolution. And we're still
feeling the reverberations today as we keep fighting to expand
our freedom and hold back unnecessary burdens of government. \/\
Our revolution isn't the work of a single presidency -- it's
the mission for a whole generation of reform. Since 1980, we've
lowered taxes, made them flatter and fairer. 11 We've made
landmark reforms to get big government regulation off the backs
of our families and businesses. 11
But we've got much more to do. With tax-and-spend liberals
2
still in charge of Congress, government keeps growing. Congress
now spends nearly a quarter of what people in this country work
to produce: That's right, almost 25 percent of the Gross
Domestic Product. The habit of deficit spending has brought us
to the point that the national debt now equals about $65,000 for
every family of four in the United States. That's about what
you'd pay to send two kids through college. Those facts tell us
we're not really as free a society as we should be. You and I
know that government is too big -- and it spends too much. 111
The burden of debt and profligate spending is the legacy of
almost four decades of liberal Democrat control of the U.S. House
of Representatives. Time and again, Ronald Reagan and I have
asked for popular reforms: The line-item veto. A balanced
budget amendment. Again and again, the liberals in Congress have
said no. It's no wonder that Americans keep clamoring for
stricter limits on the power and cost of government. From coast
to coast, people are mobilizing for change. The air is crackling
with the feeling that Howard Jarvis made his battle cry: "I'm mad
as hell.' III
What it comes down to is this: Ordinary Americans are plain
fed up with pressure to be "politically correct." Aren't you
tired of hearing the liberal know-it-alls drone on, demanding
that you believe things that defy common sense? Aren't you sick
of self-righteous demands that you surrender to some bureaucracy
freedoms that enabled our ancestors to make this country great?
Maybe you're like millions of other Americans. You shop at
3
K-Mart, you eat at Carl's Jr. You've worked to get your kids
through school and pay off a mortgage. You know it's not only
your right -- it's your duty to your family -- to fight high
taxes and government waste. And when liberal elitists ridicule
you and say we have social problems because of you -- because
you're "greedy" -- well, naturally, you stand up and fight back.
Our fighting spirit has brought us to a turning point.
We're on the threshold of something big. We'll have to put up
with a few more months of frustration from the lame-duck liberal
Congress, but after that I see a clear road and powerful
acceleration for the changes we want.
We're rolling back needless restrictions on innovation and
job creation through my moratorium on new federal regulations.
We've stopped, for example, a senseless regulation that delayed
expansion of a homeless shelter on a developed, downtown city
block that bureaucrats were trying to say was a "wetland." For
businesses, for charities, for homeowners, we're working to get
unreasonable regulation off their backs. 11
I'm pushing hard to reform our civil justice system.
Americans want to stop nuisance lawsuits. ((Someone asked me
the other day, if an apple a day keeps the doctor away, what
works for lawyers?) )
III
I'm committed as strongly as ever to win more tax relief and
reform. We need to lift the dead weight that punishes
homeowners and prevents more investment and job creation -- those
sky-high taxes on capital gains. 11 We need to enact my other
4
proposals to ease tax burdens on families and homeowners.
I'm fighting for fundamental change in our education and
welfare systems. It's time for parents to have real financial
freedom to choose their kids' schools -- public, private or
religious. 11 We'll give families more opportunities. We'll
give parents the muscle to change our schools and make them the
best in the world.
Right now, we have a welfare system designed by liberal
politicians and social theorists. It's a burden on taxpayers,
but that's not the worst of it. Much of the time, this system
hurts the very people- it claims to help. The system discourages
single mothers from getting married. It leaves too many young
women and children without the stability of a two-parent home.
And let's face it: The welfare-state system traps too many
people in a cycle of dependency -- destroying dignity, telling
the little guy who wants to pick himself up that he really
doesn't have much of a chance.
I'm working to transform this failed welfare system into
something that makes sense -- something that gives people a shot
at dignity. Right now, I'm working with tough-minded,
creative governors like Pete Wilson here, and Tommy Thompson in
Wisconsin, to give them flexibility under federal laws to try out
new ideas and begin turning their state welfare programs around.
With governors in all 50 states like Pete and Tommy, we'd soon be
making major progress fostering the dignity and the rewards of
work. We'll make more headway in connecting welfare with
5
requirements for work, training and education. We'll get more
deadbeat dads to pay the child support they owe. And we'd help a
lot more families come together and stay together.
My proposal for health insurance reform is a model of the
new way of thinking about social programs. The big news media
haven't told you much about my plan -- they're too busy beating
the drum for that stale old idea of a Ted Kennedy-style national
system of socialized medicine. 11 Like my education plan, my
health care plan would help working people and needy people with
vouchers and tax credits -- employing an old-fashioned American
idea: free markets and choice. It would provide Americans like
yourselves with quality care, care you can afford -- while
wringing out excess and waste. 11
In the long run, reforming education and welfare could make
a- major-contribution to increasing productivity and solving our
fiscal crisis. We can make these reforms without raising taxes -
- and without piling new burdens onto state and local taxpayers.
Hand in hand with these reforms goes our crusade to enforce
fiscal discipline. That's why I need what 43 governors have:
the line-item veto. 111 And now more than ever, Americans are
calling for a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution. 11
Forty-four states have constitutional requirements for balancing
the budget. Most state legislatures are on record supporting a
federal Balanced Budget Amendment.
Standing in our way is the liberal hard core of the
Democratic Congress -- barely more than one-third of the
6
membership. Read the roll call from last week's vote in the
House -- you'll see who I'm talking about. And pay attention to
the Democrats who belong in a special Hall of Shame. I'm talking
about the 12 Democrats -- two from California -- who listed
themselves as sponsors of the amendment: They did that to look
good to the folks at home. Then these Democrats switched sides
and voted to kill the amendment they had sponsored: They did
that to curry favor with their party bosses in Washington.
We know better than to expect these people to discipline
themselves. This is the same crowd we've seen for decades: in
charge, unchallenged, and out of control. 11
How about it if we send them a message in November?
Can I count on each one of you to get to work on this? Can I
count on you to deliver the liberals some bad news at the polls
this November? III Thanks! 11 I knew I could! 11
Before I finish, I want say a word about the summit meeting
Boris Yeltsin and I just completed in Washington -- where we
reached historic agreements for peace and security. Thousands of
visitors joined Barbara and me on the White House lawn to welcome
the first democratically elected president of Russia. I wish
each one of you could have been there with us. That's because
it's patriotic people like you who helped make this moment
possible. Now the Russian people can worship freely, compete in
free markets, and choose their own government. And our kids and
grandkids won't live in the shadow of nuclear war that haunted us
for forty years. 11 Today, ordinary Russians thank God that
7
ordinary Americans stood fast against the Communist dictatorship
that threatened us and oppressed them. 11
If you have the will, the perseverance, there's always a
chance to make a difference. Howard Jarvis spent 16 years
fighting for tax limitation. He was 76 years old when at last he
won -- when he shook the establishment of this entire country.
I've highlighted for you my agenda for a new term, working
with a new Congress:
Revolutionize our schools -- put parents
and kids and traditional excellence ahead of bureaucrats. Reform
our system of health care. Overhaul the welfare system -- give
needy people opportunity instead of dependency. Adopt a balanced
budget amendment. And hold the line against excessive spending,
taxes and regulation.
11
With a new Congress that shares our values, we can use the
next four years to set our country on the right track for the
next forty years. 11
With your help, I know we can. 11
Thank
you. God bless you and the United States of America. 11
#
#
#
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
June 16, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
DAVID DEMAREST shekford
FROM:
JOE DUGGAN go
SUBJECT:
HOWARD JARVIS TAX REFORM EVENT
I. SUMMARY
On Saturday, June 20, at 9:00 a.m., at the Universal City
Hilton, you will address approximately 1,000 members of the
Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association.
II. DISCUSSION
Your remarks (11 minutes, on prompter) focus on taxation and
the national debt and the toll a liberal Congress has exacted on
these issues. Additionally, you pay tribute to Mr. Mad-as-Hell,
the late Howard Jarvis.
(Duggan/Nix)
June 16, 1992
Draft Five
Jarvis
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
HOWARD JARVIS TAXPAYERS ASSN.
UNIVERSAL CITY HILTON
UNIVERSAL CITY, CALIFORNIA
SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1992
9:00 a.m
[Acknowledgments] ((It's a shame I don't have time to go
across the way and take the Universal Studio tour. 11 But if I
want to see behind-the-scenes tricks or heart-stopping scares or
outrageous fantasy, I don't have to visit Hollywood. 11 I can
just watch Congress deal with the budget. \\))
Estelle Jarvis, it is a special privilege to be with you and
with members of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association.
Estelle, your late husband was a true pioneer. In the little
Utah mining town where he grew up, he learned from his parents to
love freedom, to take on responsibility, to dream dreams as big
as the desert horizon. His political credo was simple and
profound. He said, "Our freedom depends on four words:
Government must be limited." 11
Here in California 14 years ago, Howard Jarvis won a famous
victory -- the tax limitation plan called Proposition 13.
History will mark this as the first shot in the Reagan
Revolution. 11 And we're still feeling the reverberations today
as we keep fighting to expand our freedom and hold back
unnecessary burdens of government.
Our revolution isn't the work of a single presidency -- it's
the mission for a whole generation of reform. Since 1980, we've
lowered taxes, made them flatter and fairer. 11 We've made
2
landmark reforms to get big government regulation off the backs
of our families and businesses. 11
But we've got much more to do. With tax-and-spend liberals
still in charge of Congress, government keeps growing. Congress
now spends nearly a quarter of what people in this country work
to produce: That's right, almost 25 percent of the Gross
Domestic Product. The habit of deficit spending has brought us
to the point that the national debt now equals about $65,000 for
every family of four in the United States. That's about what
you'd pay to send two kids through college. Those facts tell us
we're not really as free a society as we should be. You and I
know that government is too big -- and it spends too much. III
Americans are clamoring for stricter limits on the power and
cost of government. From coast to coast, people are mobilizing
for change. The air is crackling with the feeling that Howard
Jarvis made his battle cry: "I'm mad as hell." III
What it comes down to is this: Ordinary Americans are plain
fed up with pressure to be "politically correct." Aren't you
tired of hearing the liberal know-it-alls drone on, demanding
that you believe things that defy common sense? Aren't you sick
of self-righteous demands that you surrender to some bureaucracy
freedoms that enabled our ancestors to make this country great?
Maybe you're like millions of other Americans. You shop at
K-Mart, you eat at Carl's Jr. You've worked all your life to get
your kids through school and pay off a mortgage. You know it's
not only your right -- it's your duty to your family -- to fight
3
high taxes and government waste. And when liberal elitists
ridicule you and say we have social problems because of you --
because you're "greedy" -- well, naturally, you stand up and
fight back.
Our fighting spirit has brought us to a turning point.
We're on the threshold of something big. We'll have to put up
with a few more months of frustration from the lame-duck liberal
Congress, but after that I see a clear road and powerful
acceleration for the changes we want.
We're rolling back needless restrictions on innovation and
job creation through my moratorium on new federal regulations.
11
I'm pushing hard to reform our civil justice system.
Americans want to stop nuisance lawsuits. 11 ((Someone asked me
the other day, if an apple a day keeps the doctor away, what
works for lawyers?)
I'm committed as strongly as ever to win more tax relief and
reform. 11 We need to lift the dead weight that punishes
homeowners and prevents more investment and job creation -- those
sky-high taxes on capital gains. 11 We need to enact my other
proposals to ease tax burdens on families and homeowners.
I'm fighting for fundamental change in our education and
welfare systems. Parents deserve to exercise all their rights in
their children's education. Now it's time for parents to have
real financial freedom to choose their kids' schools -- public,
private or religious. 11 More involvement by parents, restored
respect for traditional values, and more competition in the
4
marketplace will renew our whole system of education.
Right now, we have a welfare system designed by liberal
politicians and social theorists. It's a burden on taxpayers,
but that's not the worst of it. Much of the time, this system
hurts the very people it claims to help. For the welfare
recipient who desperately wants to start working and supporting
himself, the system denies him any incentive. It discourages
single mothers from getting married. It leaves too many young
women and children without the stability of a two-parent home.
I'm working to transform this failed welfare system into
something that makes sense -- something that gives people a shot
at dignity. Right now, I'm working with tough-minded,
creative governors like Pete Wilson here, and Tommy Thompson in
Wisconsin, to give them flexibility under federal laws to try out
new ideas and begin-turning their state welfare programs around.
With governors in all 50 states like Pete and Tommy, we'd soon be
making major progress fostering the dignity and the rewards of
work. We'll make more headway in connecting welfare with
requirements for work, training and education. We'll get more
deadbeat dads to pay the child support they owe. And we'd help a
lot more families come together and stay together. 11
My proposal for health insurance reform is a model of the
new way of thinking about social programs. The big news media
haven't told you much about my plan -- they're too busy beating
the drum for that stale old idea of a Ted Kennedy-style national
system of socialized medicine. 11 Like my education plan, my
5
health care plan would help working people and needy people with
vouchers and tax credits -- employing free markets and choice. 11
In the long run, reforming education and welfare could make
a major contribution to increasing productivity and solving our
fiscal crisis. We can make these reforms without raising taxes -
- and without piling new burdens onto state and local taxpayers.
Hand in hand with these reforms goes our crusade to enforce
fiscal discipline. That's why I need what 43 governors have:
the line-item veto. 111 And now more than ever, Americans are
calling for a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution.
Forty-four states have constitutional requirements for balancing
the budget. Most state legislatures are on record supporting a
federal Balanced Budget Amendment.
Standing in our way is the liberal hard core of the
Democratic Congress -- barely more than one-third of the
membership. Read the roll call from last week's vote in the
House -- you'll see who I'm talking about. Better yet, make them
read some startling vote tallies this November -- then they'll
finally understand what we're talking about. 11
Can I count on each one of you to get to work on this?
Can I count on you to deliver the liberals some bad news this
November? III Thanks! 11 I knew I could! 11
Before I finish, I want say a word about the summit meeting
Boris Yeltsin and I just completed in Washington -- where we
reached historic agreements for peace and security. Thousands of
visitors joined Barbara and me on the White House lawn to welcome
6
the first democratically elected president of Russia. I wish
each one of you could have been there with us. That's because
it's patriotic people like you who helped make this moment
possible. Now the Russian people can worship freely, compete in
free markets, and choose their own government. And our kids and
grandkids won't live in the shadow of nuclear war that haunted us
for forty years.
Today, ordinary Russians thank God that
ordinary Americans stood fast against the Communist dictatorship
that threatened us and oppressed them.
If you have the will, if you have perseverance, it's never
too soon or too late to make a difference. Howard Jarvis spent
16 years fighting for the concept of Proposition 13. He was 76
years old when at last he won -- when he shook the political
establishment of this entire country.
I've highlighted for you my agenda for a new term, working
with a new Congress: Revolutionize our schools -- put parents
and kids and traditional excellence ahead of bureaucrats. Reform
our system of health care. Overhaul the welfare system -- give
needy people opportunity instead of dependency. Adopt a balanced
budget amendment. And hold the line against excessive spending,
taxes and regulation. 11
With a new Congress that shares our values, we can use the
next four years to set our country on the right track for the
next forty years. 11 With your help, I know we can. 11 Thank
you. God bless you and the United States of America. 11
#
#
#
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
June 16, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
DAVID DEMAREST
FROM:
JOE DUGGAN go
SUBJECT:
HOWARD JARVIS TAX REFORM EVENT
I. SUMMARY
On Saturday, June 20, at 9:00 a.m., at the Universal City
Hilton, you will address approximately 1,000 members of the
Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association.
II. DISCUSSION
Your remarks (11 minutes, on prompter) focus on taxation and
the national debt and the toll a liberal Congress has exacted on
these issues. Additionally, you pay tribute to Mr. Mad-as-Hell,
the late Howard Jarvis.
(Duggan/Nix)
June 16, 1992
Draft Five
Jarvis
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
HOWARD JARVIS TAXPAYERS ASSN.
UNIVERSAL CITY HILTON
UNIVERSAL CITY, CALIFORNIA
SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1992
9:00 a.m
[Acknowledgments] ((It's a shame I don't have time to go
across the way and take the Universal Studio tour. 11 But if I
want to see behind-the-scenes tricks or heart-stopping scares or
outrageous fantasy, I don't have to visit Hollywood. 11 I can
just watch Congress deal with the budget. \\))
Estelle Jarvis, it is a special privilege to be with you and
with members of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association.
Estelle, your late husband was a true pioneer. In the little
Utah mining town where he grew up, he learned from his parents to
love freedom, to take on responsibility, to dream dreams as big
as the desert horizon. His political credo was simple and
profound. He said, "Our freedom depends on four words:
Government must be limited." 11
Here in California 14 years ago, Howard Jarvis won a famous
victory -- the tax limitation plan called Proposition 13.
History will mark this as the first shot in the Reagan
Revolution. 11 And we're still feeling the reverberations today
as we keep fighting to expand our freedom and hold back
unnecessary burdens of government. 11
Our revolution isn't the work of a single presidency -- it's
the mission for a whole generation of reform. Since 1980, we've
lowered taxes, made them flatter and fairer. 11 We've made
2
landmark reforms to get big government regulation off the backs
of our families and businesses. 11
But we've got much more to do. With tax-and-spend liberals
still in charge of Congress, government keeps growing. Congress
now spends nearly a quarter of what people in this country work
to produce: That's right, almost 25 percent of the Gross
Domestic Product. The habit of deficit spending has brought us
to the point that the national debt now equals about $65,000 for
every family of four in the United States. That's about what
you'd pay to send two kids through college. Those facts tell us
we're not really as free a society as we should be. You and I
know that government is too big -- and it spends too much. III
Americans are clamoring for stricter limits on the power and
cost of government. From coast to coast, people are mobilizing
for change. The air is crackling with the feeling that Howard
Jarvis made his battle cry: "I'm mad as hell.' III
What it comes down to is this: Ordinary Americans are plain
fed up with pressure to be "politically correct." Aren't you
tired of hearing the liberal know-it-alls drone on, demanding
that you believe things that defy common sense? Aren't you sick
of self-righteous demands that you surrender to some bureaucracy
freedoms that enabled our ancestors to make this country great?
Maybe you're like millions of other Americans. You shop at
K-Mart, you eat at Carl's Jr. You've worked all your life to get
your kids through school and pay off a mortgage. You know it's
not only your right -- it's your duty to your family -- to fight
3
high taxes and government waste. And when liberal elitists
ridicule you and say we have social problems because of you --
because you're "greedy" -- well, naturally, you stand up and
fight back.
Our fighting spirit has brought us to a turning point.
We're on the threshold of something big. We'll have to put up
with a few more months of frustration from the lame-duck liberal
Congress, but after that I see a clear road and powerful
acceleration for the changes we want.
We're rolling back needless restrictions on innovation and
job creation through my moratorium on new federal regulations.
11
I'm pushing hard to reform our civil justice system.
Americans want to stop nuisance lawsuits. 11 ( (Someone asked me
the other day, if an apple a day keeps the doctor away, what
works for lawyers?)) III
I'm committed as strongly as ever to win more tax relief and
reform. We need to lift the dead weight that punishes
homeowners and prevents more investment and job creation -- those
sky-high taxes on capital gains. 11 We need to enact my other
proposals to ease tax burdens on families and homeowners. 11
I'm fighting for fundamental change in our education and
welfare systems. Parents deserve to exercise all their rights in
their children's education. Now it's time for parents to have
real financial freedom to choose their kids' schools -- public,
private or religious. 11 More involvement by parents, restored
respect for traditional values, and more competition in the
4
marketplace will renew our whole system of education. 11
Right now, we have a welfare system designed by liberal
politicians and social theorists. It's a burden on taxpayers,
but that's not the worst of it. Much of the time, this system
hurts the very people it claims to help. For the welfare
recipient who desperately wants to start working and supporting
himself, the system denies him any incentive. It discourages
single mothers from getting married. It leaves too many young
women and children without the stability of a two-parent home.
I'm working to transform this failed welfare system into
something that makes sense -- something that gives people a shot
at dignity. 11 Right now, I'm working with tough-minded,
creative governors like Pete Wilson here, and Tommy Thompson in
Wisconsin, to give them flexibility under federal laws to try out
new ideas and begin-turning their state welfare programs around.
With governors in all 50 states like Pete and Tommy, we'd soon be
making major progress fostering the dignity and the rewards of
work. 11 We'll make more headway in connecting welfare with
requirements for work, training and education. We'll get more
deadbeat dads to pay the child support they owe. And we'd help a
lot more families come together and stay together. 11
My proposal for health insurance reform is a model of the
new way of thinking about social programs. The big news media
haven't told you much about my plan -- they're too busy beating
the drum for that stale old idea of a Ted Kennedy-style national
system of socialized medicine. 11 Like my education plan, my
5
health care plan would help working people and needy people with
vouchers and tax credits -- employing free markets and choice. 11
In the long run, reforming education and welfare could make
a major contribution to increasing productivity and solving our
fiscal crisis. We can make these reforms without raising taxes -
- and without piling new burdens onto state and local taxpayers.
Hand in hand with these reforms goes our crusade to enforce
fiscal discipline. That's why I need what 43 governors have:
the line-item veto. 111 And now more than ever, Americans are
calling for a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution.
11
Forty-four states have constitutional requirements for balancing
the budget. Most state legislatures are on record supporting a
federal Balanced Budget Amendment.
Standing in our way is the liberal hard core of the
Democratic Congress -- barely more than one-third of the
membership. Read the roll call from last week's vote in the
House -- you'll see who I'm talking about. Better yet, make them
read some startling vote tallies this November -- then they'll
finally understand what we're talking about. 11
Can I count on each one of you to get to work on this?
Can I count on you to deliver the liberals some bad news this
November? III Thanks! 11 I knew I could! 11
Before I finish, I want say a word about the summit meeting
Boris Yeltsin and I just completed in Washington -- where we
reached historic agreements for peace and security. Thousands of
visitors joined Barbara and me on the White House lawn to welcome
6
the first democratically elected president of Russia. I wish
each one of you could have been there with us. That's because
it's patriotic people like you who helped make this moment
possible. Now the Russian people can worship freely, compete in
free markets, and choose their own government. And our kids and
grandkids won't live in the shadow of nuclear war that haunted us
for forty years. 11
Today, ordinary Russians thank God that
ordinary Americans stood fast against the Communist dictatorship
that threatened us and oppressed them.
If you have the will, if you have perseverance, it's never
too soon or too late to make a difference. Howard Jarvis spent
16 years fighting for the concept of Proposition 13. He was 76
years old when at last he won -- when he shook the political
establishment of this entire country.
I've highlighted for you my agenda for a new term, working
with a new Congress: Revolutionize our schools -- put parents
and kids and traditional excellence ahead of bureaucrats. Reform
our system of health care. Overhaul the welfare system -- give
needy people opportunity instead of dependency. Adopt a balanced
budget amendment. And hold the line against excessive spending,
taxes and regulation. 11
With a new Congress that shares our values, we can use the
next four years to set our country on the right track for the
next forty years. 11 With your help, I know we can. Thank
you. God bless you and the United States of America. 11
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
HOWARD JARVIS TAXPAYERS ASSN.
UNIVERSAL CITY HILTON
-Ive
UNIVERSAL CITY, CALIFORNIA
SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1992
9:00 a.m
[Acknowledgments] ((It's a shame I don't have time for the
Universal Studio tour. But if I want to see behind-the-scenes
ok
tricks or outrageous fantasy, I don't have to visit Hollywood. 11
I can just watch Congress deal with the budget. 11 ))
Estelle Jarvis, it is a special privilege to be with you and
the members of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. Estelle,
your late husband was a true pioneer. In the Utah mining town
where he grew up, he learned from his parents to love freedom, to
take on responsibility, to dream dreams as big as the desert
horizon. His political credo was simple and profound. He said,
"Our freedom depends on four words: Government must be limited."
Here in California 14 years ago, Howard Jarvis won a famous
victory -- the tax limitation plan called Proposition 13. He
fired the first shot in the Reagan Revolution. And we're still
feeling the reverberations today as we keep fighting to expand
our freedom and hold back unnecessary burdens of government. 11
Our revolution isn't the work of a single presidency -- it's
the mission for a whole generation of reform.
Since Ronald
Reagan and I came to Washington in 1981, we've cut tax rates
across the board, made them flatter and fairer. We've cut the
top rate from 70 percent to 31 perecent. We've raised the
standard deduction. We've taken millions of low-to-moderate
2
income people off the tax rolls altogether.
We've made
landmark reforms to get big government regulation off the backs
of our families and businesses. 11
But we've got much more to do. With tax-and-spend liberals
still in charge of Congress, government keeps growing. Congress
now spends nearly a quarter of what people in this country work
to produce: That's right, almost 25 percent of the Gross
Domestic Product. The habit of deficit spending has brought us
to the point that the national debt now equals about $65,000 for
every family of four in the United States. That's about what
you'd pay to send two kids through college. Those facts tell us
we're not really as free a society as we should be. You and I
know that government is too big -- and it spends too much. III
The burden of debt and profligate spending is the legacy of
almost four decades of liberal Democrat control of the U.S. House
of Representatives. Time and again, Ronald Reagan and I have
asked for popular reforms: The line-item veto. A balanced
budget amendment. Again and again, the liberals in Congress have
said no. It's no wonder that Americans keep clamoring for
stricter limits on the power and cost of government. From coast
to coast, people are mobilizing for change. The air is crackling
with the feeling that Howard Jarvis made his battle cry: "I'm mad
as hell. III
What it comes down to is this: Ordinary Americans are plain
fed up with pressure to be "politically correct." Aren't you
tired of hearing the liberal know-it-alls drone on, demanding
3
that you believe things that defy common sense? Aren't you sick
of self-righteous demands that you surrender to some bureaucracy
freedoms that enabled our ancestors to make this country great?
Maybe you're like millions of other Americans. You shop at
K-Mart, you eat at Carl's Jr. You've worked to get your kids
through school and pay off a mortgage. You know it's not only
your right -- it's your duty to your family -- to fight high
taxes and government waste. And when liberal elitists ridicule
you and say we have social problems because of you -- because
you're "greedy" -- well, naturally, you stand up and fight back.
Our fighting spirit has brought us to a turning point.
We're on the threshold of something big. We'll have to put up
with a few more months of frustration from the lame-duck liberal
Congress, but after that I see a clear road and powerful
acceleration for the changes we want.
We're rolling back needless restrictions on innovation and
job creation through my moratorium on new federal regulations.
We've stopped, for example, a senseless regulation that delayed
expansion of a homeless shelter on a developed, downtown city
block that bureaucrats were trying to say was a "wetland." For
businesses, for charities, for homeowners, we're working to get
unreasonable regulation off their backs. 11
I'm pushing hard to reform our civil justice system.
Americans want to stop nuisance lawsuits. 11 ( (Someone asked me
the other day, if an apple a day keeps the doctor away, what
works for lawyers?) ) 111
4
I'm committed as strongly as ever to win more tax relief and
reform. We need to lift the dead weight that punishes
homeowners and prevents more investment and job creation -- those
sky-high taxes on capital gains. 11 We need to enact my other
proposals to ease tax burdens on families and homeowners.
I'm fighting for fundamental change in our education and
welfare systems. It's time for parents to have real financial
freedom to choose their kids' schools -- public, private or
religious. 11 We'll give families more opportunities. We'll
give parents the muscle to change our schools and make them the
best in the world.
Right now, we have a welfare system designed by liberal
politicians and social theorists. It's a burden on taxpayers,
but that's not the worst of it. Much of the time, this system
hurts the very people it claims to help. The system discourages
single mothers from getting married. It leaves too many young
women and children without the stability of a two-parent home.
And let's face it: The welfare-state system traps too many
people in a cycle of dependency -- destroying dignity, telling
the little guy who wants to pick himself up that he really
doesn't have much of a chance.
I'm working to transform this failed welfare system into
something that makes sense -- something that gives people a shot
at dignity. 11 Right now, I'm working with tough-minded,
creative governors like Pete Wilson here, and Tommy Thompson in
Wisconsin, to give them flexibility under federal laws to try out
5
new ideas and begin turning their state welfare programs around.
With governors in all 50 states like Pete and Tommy, we'd soon be
making major progress fostering the dignity and the rewards of
work. 11 We'll make more headway in connecting welfare with
requirements for work, training and education. We'll get more
deadbeat dads to pay the child support they owe. And we'd help a
lot more families come together and stay together. 11
My proposal for health insurance reform is a model of the
new way of thinking about social programs. The big news media
haven't told you much about my plan -- they're too busy beating
the drum for that stale old idea of a Ted Kennedy-style national
system of socialized medicine. Like my education plan, my
health care plan would help working people and needy people with
vouchers and tax credits -- employing an old-fashioned American
idea: free markets and choice. It would provide Americans like
yourselves with quality care, care you can afford -- while
wringing out excess and waste. 11
In the long run, reforming education and welfare could make
a major contribution to increasing productivity and solving our
fiscal crisis. We can make these reforms without raising taxes -
- and without piling new burdens onto state and local taxpayers.
Hand in hand with these reforms goes our crusade to enforce
fiscal discipline. That's why I need what 43 governors have:
the line-item veto. 111 And now more than ever, Americans are
calling for a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution.
11
Forty-four states have constitutional requirements for balancing
6
the budget. Most state legislatures are on record supporting a
federal Balanced Budget Amendment.
Standing in our way is the liberal hard core of the
Democratic Congress -- barely more than one-third of the
membership. Read the roll call from last week's vote in the
House -- you'll see who I'm talking about. And pay attention to
the Democrats who belong in a special Hall of Shame. I'm talking
about the 12 Democrats -- two from California -- who listed
themselves as sponsors of the amendment: They did that to look
good to the folks at home. Then these Democrats switched sides
and voted to kill the amendment they had sponsored: They did
that to curry favor with their party bosses in Washington.
We know better than to expect these people to discipline
themselves. This is the same crowd we've seen for decades: in
charge, unchallenged, and out of control. 11
How about it if we send them a message in November? 11
Can I count on each one of you to get to work on this? 11 Can I
count on you to deliver the liberals some bad news at the polls
this November? III Thanks! 11 I knew I could! 11
Before I finish, I want say a word about the summit meeting
Boris Yeltsin and I just completed in Washington -- where we
reached historic agreements for peace and security. Thousands of
visitors joined Barbara and me on the White House lawn to welcome
the first democratically elected president of Russia. I wish
each one of you could have been there with us. That's because
it's patriotic people like you who helped make this moment
7
possible. Now the Russian people can worship freely, compete in
free markets, and choose their own government. And our kids and
grandkids won't live in the shadow of nuclear war that haunted us
for forty years. 11 Today, ordinary Russians thank God that
ordinary Americans stood fast against the Communist dictatorship
that threatened us and oppressed them. 11
If you have the will, the perseverance, there's always a
chance to make a difference. Howard Jarvis spent 16 years
fighting for tax limitation. He was 76 years old when at last he
won --- when he shook the establishment of this entire country.
I've highlighted for you my agenda for a new term, working
with a new Congress: Revolutionize our schools -- put parents
and kids and traditional excellence ahead of bureaucrats. Reform
our system of health care. Overhaul the welfare system -- give
needy people opportunity instead of dependency. Adopt a balanced
budget amendment. And hold the line against excessive spending,
taxes and regulation.
11
With a new Congress that shares our values, we can use the
next four years to set our country on the right track for the
next forty years. 11
With your help, I know we can. 11 Thank
you. God bless you and the United States of America. 11
#
#
#
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
June 16, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR DAN McGROARTY
FROM:
ROGER B. PORTER
SUBJECT:
Presidential Remarks: Howard Jarvis Taxpayers
Association
We have reviewed the attached presidential remarks and
have noted several suggested changes on the draft.
If you have any questions or we can be of further
assistance, please let us know.
DAN-
Please give me a call after you have had
an opportunity to review there comments.
Roge
CC: Phillip D. Brady
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NOON, TUES., JUN 16
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: HOWARD JARVIS TAXPAYERS ASSN.
SUBJECT:
UNIVERSAL CITY HILTON
UNIVERSAL CITY, CALIFORNIA
SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1992
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
HORNER
SKINNER
MCBRIDE
SCOWCROFT
MOORE
DARMAN
PETERSMEYER
BRADY
PORTER
BROMLEY
1
CALIO
SMITH
DEMAREST
YEUTTER
FITZWATER
FINDLAY
GRAY
KAUFMAN
BOSKIN
HOLIDAY
MCGROARTY
REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Dan McGroarty, Rm. 122, x2930,
no later than NOON, TUESDAY, JUNE 16, with a copy to this office.
Thank you.
RESPONSE:
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Duggan/Nix)
June 12, 1992
Draft Two
22 JUN15 All : 52
Jarvis
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
HOWARD JARVIS TAXPAYERS ASSN.
UNIVERSAL CITY HILTON
UNIVERSAL CITY, CALIFORNIA
SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1992
[TIME]
[Acknowledgments, humor] Estelle Jarvis, it is a special
privilege to be with you and with members of the Howard Jarvis
Taxpayers Association. Estelle, your late husband was a true
SMALL
pioneer. In the little Utah mining town where he grew up, he
learned from his parents to love freedom, to take on
responsibility, to dream dreams as big as the desert horizon.
His political credo was simple and profound. He said, "Our
freedom depends on four words: Government must be limited. " 11
Here in California 14 years ago, Howard Jarvis won a famous
victory -- the tax limitation plan called Proposition 13.
History will mark this as the first shot in the Reagan
Revolution
And we're still feeling the reverberations today
WORKING
as we keep fighting to expand our freedom and hold back THE
unnecessary burdens of government. 11
Our revolution isn't the work of a single presidency -- it's
the mission for a whole generation of reform
Since 1980, we've
lowered taxes, made them flatter and fairer. We've made landmark
reforms to get big government regulation off the backs of our
families and businesses.
But we've got much more to do. With tax-and-spend liberals
CONTROL
still in charge of Congress, government keeps growing. Congress
now spends more than 25 percent of what people in this country
SPENDING
(STATE,
2
work to produce: That's right, 25 percent of the Gross Domestic
Product. The habit of deficit spending has brought us to the
point that this year, every family of four in the United States
on average will have to pay $3,300 just in interest payments on
IT IS A SOBER REMINDER OF A FUNDAMENTAL FACT.
the national debt. Those facts alone tell us we're not really as e
free a society as we can and should be. You and I know that e
government is too big -- and it spends too much. III
Americans are WANT clamoring for I stricter limits on the power and
cost of government. From coast to coast, people are mobilizing
for change.
The air is crackling with the feeling that Howard
Jarvis made his battle cry: "I'm m mad as hell. " 111]
What it comes down to is this: Ordinary Americans are plain
fed up with pressure to be "politically correct." Aren't you
tired of hearing the liberal know-it-alls drone on, demanding
that you believe things that defy common sense? Aren't you sick
of moralistic demands that you surrender to some bureaucracy
freedoms that enabled our ancestors to make this country great?
Maybe you're like millions of other Americans. You shop at
Wal-Mart, you eat at Big Boy. You've worked all your life to get
your kids through school and pay off a mortgage. You know it's
not only your right -- it's your duty to your family -- to fight
high taxes and government waste. And when the liberal elitists
ridicule you and say we have social problems because of you --
because you're "greedy" -- well, naturally, you stand up and
fight back. 11
Our fighting spirit has brought us to a turning point.
3
MAY
We're on the threshhold of something big. We have to put up
with a few more months of frustration from the lame-duck liberal
Congress, but after that I see a clear road and powerful
acceleration for the changes we want.
We're rolling back needless restrictions on innovation and
job creation through my moratorium on new federal regulations.
I'm pushing hard to reform our civil justice system.
Americans want to stop nuisance lawsuits. 11 ((Someone asked me
the other day, if an apple a day keeps the doctor away, what
works for lawyers?) ) III
I'm committed as strongly as ever to win more tax relief and
reform. 11 We need to lift the dead weight that punishes
homeowners and prevents more investment and job creation -- those
sky-high taxes on capital gains. 11 We need to enact my other
proposals to ease tax burdens on families and homeowners.
I'm fighting for fundamental change in our education and
welfare systems. Parents deserve to exercise all their rights in
their children's education. Now it's time for parents to have
real financial freedom to choose their kids' schools -- public,
private or religious. 11 More involvement by parents, restored
respect for traditional values, and more competition in the
marketplace will renew our whole system of education. 11
Right now, we have a welfare system designed by liberal
politicians and social theorists. It's a burden on taxpayers,
but that's not the worst of it. Much of the time, this system
WE HAVE A SAFETY NET,
hurts the very people it claims to help. The system punishes
$ #
4
BUT NEB TRAP PEOPLE WHAT WE NEED IS CADDERS of OPPORTUNITY, HELPING PEOPLE
single mothers who want to work their way out of dependency. The
TO SELF- SUFFICIENCY AND INDEPENDENCE
system takes benefits away from single mothers who get married.
Because of our current system, countless young women and children
are denied the stability of a two parent home
I'm working to transform this failed welfare system into
THAT EFFICIENTLY PRODUCES
something that makes sense -- into something all Americans can be
POSITIVE RESULTSO
proud of 11 Right now, I'm working with tough-minded, creative
governors like Pete Wilson here, and Tommy Thompson in Wisconsin,
TRY OUT NEW IDEAS.
to give them flexibility under federal laws to turn their state
WISCONSIN'S
LATEST WAIVER welfare programs around. With governors in all 50 states like
AFFECTS 2% of
AFDC RECIPIENTS-
Pete and Tommy, we'd soon be making major progress fostering the
NOT
ENOUGH TO dignity and the rewards of work. 11 And we'd help a lot more
"TURN WELFARE
ARAND."
families come together and stay together. 11
My proposal for health insurance reform is a model of the
new way of thinking about welfare. The big news media haven't
told you much about my plan -- they're too busy beating the drum
for that stale old idea of a Ted Kennedy-style national I system of
NATIONAL
socialized medicine. 11 Like my education plan, my health care
proposal would help working people and needy people with vouchers
and tax credits -- employing free markets and choice. 11
Reforming education and welfare alone would go a long way
toward solving our fiscal crisis. When we get these reforms in
DELETE
place, we will realistically be able to balance the federal
AFDC IS
budget without raising taxes -- and without piling new burdens
2% OF
FEDERAL
onto state and local taxpayers.
SPENDINE
!
Hand in hand with these reforms goes our crusade to enforce
5% of THE
DEFICIT. THE PHETORIC
IS OVERSTATED.
5
fiscal discipline with the power of the United States
Constitution. Now more than ever, it's clear that Americans
want a Balanced Budget Amendment. Forty-four states follow
some form of balanced budget requirement. Most state
legislatures are on record supporting a federal Balanced Budget
Amendment.
Standing in our way is the liberal hard T core of the
Democratic Congress -- barely more than one-third of the
membership. Read the roll call from last week's vote in the
House -- you'll see who I'm talking about. Better yet, make them
read some startling vote tallies this November -- then they'll
finally understand what we're talking about. 11
Can I count on each one of you to get to work on this? 11
Can I count on you to deliver the liberals some bad news this
November? 111 Thanks! I knew I could! 11
Before I finish, I want say a word about that historic
summit meeting Boris Yeltsin and I just completed in Washington.
There were thousands of visitors on the White House lawn to
welcome him, the first democratically elected president of
Russia. I wish each and every one of you could have been there
to join us. That's because it's patriotic people like you who
helped make this moment possible. Now the Russian people can
worship freely, compete in free markets, and choose their own
government. And our kids and grandkids won't live in the shadow
of nuclear war that haunted us for forty years. 11 Today,
ordinary Russians thank God that ordinary Americans stood fast
6
against the Communist
dictatorship that threatened us and
oppressed them. 11
If you have the will, if you have perseverance, it's never
too soon or too late to make a difference. Howard Jarvis spent
16 years fighting for the concept of Proposition 13. He was 76
years old when at last he won -- when he shook the political
establishment of this entire country.
I've highlighted for you my agenda for a new term, working
with a new Congress:
Revolutionize our schools -- put parents
and kids and traditonal excellence ahead of bureaucrats.
Overhaul the welfare system -- give needy people opportunity
instead of dependency. Adopt a balanced budget amendment. And
hold the line against new spending and taxes. 11
With a new Congress that shares our values, we can use the
next four years to set our country on the right track for the
next forty years.
With your help, I know we can.
Thank
you. God bless you and the United States of America.
#
#
#
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Document No.
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
6/15 /92
NOON, TUES., JUN 16
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: HOWARD JARVIS TAXPAYERS ASSN.
SUBJECT:
UNIVERSAL CITY HILTON
UNIVERSAL CITY, CALIFORNIA
SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1992
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
HORNER
SKINNER
MCBRIDE
SCOWCROFT
MOORE
DARMAN
PETERSMEYER
BRADY
PORTER
BROMLEY
CALIO
SMITH
DEMAREST
YEUTTER
FITZWATER
FINDLAY
GRAY
KAUFMAN
BOSKIN
HOLIDAY
MCGROARTY
REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Dan McGroarty, Rm. 122, x2930,
no later than NOON, TUESDAY, JUNE 16, with a copy to this office.
Thank you.
RESPONSE:
CAWEDTO
URGENT
Comments of Richard Darman
CM 2PM 6/19/92
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
- MUST be included.
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Duggan/Nix)
June 12, 1992
Draft Two
02 JUN15 All : 52
Jarvis
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
HOWARD JARVIS TAXPAYERS ASSN.
UNIVERSAL CITY HILTON
UNIVERSAL CITY, CALIFORNIA
SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1992
[TIME]
[Acknowledgments, humor] Estelle Jarvis, it is a special
privilege to be with you and with members of the Howard Jarvis
Taxpayers Association. Estelle, your late husband was a true
pioneer. In the little Utah mining town where he grew up, he
learned from his parents to love freedom, to take on
responsibility, to dream dreams as big as the desert horizon.
His political credo was simple and profound. He said, "Our
freedom depends on four words: Government must be limited. = 11
Here in California 14 years ago, Howard Jarvis won a famous
victory -- the tax limitation plan called Proposition 13.
History will mark this as the first shot in the Reagan
Revolution. 11 And we're still feeling the reverberations today
as we keep fighting to expand our freedom and hold back
unnecessary burdens of government. 11
Our revolution isn't the work of a single presidency -- it's
the mission for a whole generation of reform. Since 1980, we've
lowered taxes, made them flatter and fairer. We've made landmark
reforms to get big government regulation off the backs of our
families and businesses. 11
But we've got much more to do. With tax-and-spend liberals
still in charge of Congress, government keeps growing. Congress
now spends more than 25 percent of what people in this country
2
work to produce: That's right, 25 percent of the Gross Domestic
Product. The habit of deficit spending has brought us to the
point that this year, every family of four in the United States
on average will have to pay $3,300 just in interest payments on
the national debt. Those facts alone tell us we're not really as
free a society as we can and should be. You and I know that
government is too big -- and it spends too much. III
Americans are clamoring for stricter limits on the power and
cost of government. From coast to coast, people are mobilizing
for change. The air is crackling with the feeling that Howard
Jarvis made his battle cry: "I'm mad as hell.' III
What it comes down to is this: Ordinary Americans are plain
fed up with pressure to be "politically correct." Aren't you
tired of hearing the liberal know-it-alls drone on, demanding
that you believe things that defy common sense? Aren't you sick
of moralistic demands that you surrender to some bureaucracy
freedoms that enabled our ancestors to make this country great?
Maybe you're like millions of other Americans. You shop at
Wal-Mart, you eat at Big Boy. You've worked all your life to get
your kids through school and pay off a mortgage. You know it's
not only your right -- it's your duty to your family -- to fight
high taxes and government waste. And when the liberal elitists
ridicule you and say we have social problems because of you --
because you're "greedy" -- well, naturally, you stand up and
fight back. 11
Our fighting spirit has brought us to a turning point.
3
We're on the threshhold of something big. We'll have to put up
with a few more months of frustration from the lame-duck liberal
Congress, but after that I see a clear road and powerful
acceleration for the changes we want.
We're rolling back needless restrictions on innovation and
job creation through my moratorium on new federal regulations.
I'm pushing hard to reform our civil justice system.
Americans want to stop nuisance lawsuits. 11 ((Someone asked me
the other day, if an apple a day keeps the doctor away, what
works for lawyers?) ) 111
I'm committed as strongly as ever to win more tax relief and
reform. 11 We need to lift the dead weight that punishes
homeowners and prevents more investment and job creation -- those
sky-high taxes on capital gains. 11 We need to enact my other
proposals to ease tax burdens on families and homeowners. 11
I'm fighting for fundamental change in our education and
welfare systems. Parents deserve to exercise all their rights in
their children's education. Now it's time for parents to have
real financial freedom to choose their kids' schools -- public,
private or religious. 11 More involvement by parents, restored
respect for traditional values, and more competition in the
marketplace will renew our whole system of education. 11
Right now, we have a welfare system designed by liberal
politicians and social theorists. It's a burden on taxpayers,
but that's not the worst of it. Much of the time, this system
hurts the very people it claims to help. The system punishes
4
single mothers who want to work their way out of dependency. The
system takes benefits away from single mothers who get married.
Because of our current system, countless young women and children
are denied the stability of a two-parent home.
I'm working to transform this failed welfare system into
something that makes sense -- into something all Americans can be
proud of. 11 Right now, I'm working with tough-minded, creative
governors like Pete Wilson here, and Tommy Thompson in Wisconsin,
to give them flexibility under federal laws to turn their state
welfare programs around. With governors in all 50 states like
Pete and Tommy, we'd soon be making major progress fostering the
dignity and the rewards of work. 11 And we'd help a lot more
families come together and stay together. 11
My proposal for health insurance reform is a model of the
new way of thinking about welfare. The big news media haven't
told you much about my plan -- they're too busy beating the drum
for that stale old idea of a Ted Kennedy-style national system of
socialized medicine. Like my education plan, my health care
proposal would help working people and needy people with vouchers
and tax credits -- employing free markets and choice. 11
Reforming education and welfare alone would go a long way
toward solving our fiscal crisis. When we get these reforms in
place, we will realistically be able to balance the federal
budget without raising taxes -- and without piling new burdens
onto state and local taxpayers.
Hand in hand with these reforms goes our crusade to enforce
5
fiscal discipline with the power of the United States
Constitution. 11 Now more than ever, it's clear that Americans
want a Balanced Budget Amendment. 11 Forty-four states follow
some form of balanced budget requirement. Most state
legislatures are on record supporting a federal Balanced Budget
Amendment.
Standing in our way is the liberal hard core of the
Democratic Congress -- barely more than one-third of the
membership. Read the roll call from last week's vote in the
House -- you'll see who I'm talking about. Better yet, make them
read some startling vote tallies this November -- then they'll
finally understand what we're talking about. 11
Can I count on each one of you to get to work on this? 11
Can I count on you to deliver the liberals some bad news this
November? 111 Thanks! 11 I knew I could! 11
Before I finish, I want say a word about that historic
summit meeting Boris Yeltsin and I just completed in Washington.
There were thousands of visitors on the White House lawn to
welcome him, the first democratically elected president of
Russia. I wish each and every one of you could have been there
to join us. That's because it's patriotic people like you who
helped make this moment possible. Now the Russian people can
worship freely, compete in free markets, and choose their own
government. And our kids and grandkids won't live in the shadow
of nuclear war that haunted us for forty years. 11 Today,
ordinary Russians thank God that ordinary Americans stood fast
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against the Communist dictatorship that threatened us and
oppressed them. 11
If you have the will, if you have perseverance, it's never
too soon or too late to make a difference. Howard Jarvis spent
16 years fighting for the concept of Proposition 13. He was 76
years old when at last he won -- when he shook the political
establishment of this entire country.
I've highlighted for you my agenda for a new term, working
with a new Congress: Revolutionize our schools -- put parents
and kids and traditonal excellence ahead of bureaucrats.
Overhaul the welfare system -- give needy people opportunity
instead of dependency. Adopt a balanced budget amendment. And
hold the line against new spending and taxes. 11
With a new Congress that shares our values, we can use the
next four years to set our country on the right track for the
next forty years. 11 With your help, I know we can. 11 Thank
you. God bless you and the United States of America. 11
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Mr. President, on behalf of Mrs. Jarvis, the Board of
Directors, and the members of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers
Association, thank you for accepting our invitation to be here
today.
And thank you for acknowleding the taxpayers in your
state of the union address last January. At that time, in
speaking of America's success in the Cold War, you said:
"The American taxpayer bore the brunt of the burden, and
deserves a hunk of the glory."
But, not only did the American taxpayers help win the
Cold War, they are the everyday heroes of our country.
They look after themselves, their businesses and their
families, -- and they support their government, too. Every
penny spent by government to build, to defend, to explore, to
assist is provided by the taxpayer.
We're like the generous guy or gal in the back of the
room who yells out, "put it on my bill." Unfortunately, there
are those who want to pad our bills.
It's an old story. John Randolph was a congressman from
Virginia when Thomas Jefferson was president. He once
opposed an appropriations measure, and told those in
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Congress who supported the measure: "You enjoy the most
delicious of all privileges, spending somebody else's money."
Of course, Congress wouldn't think of doing that today.
Now, they not only spend their fellow citizen's money,
they want to spend the money of future generations as well.
Well, as Howard Jarvis use to say: Death and taxes may
be inevitable, but being taxed to death is not inevitable.
It is our job as taxpayers to respectfully remind our
leaders -- from our president to our city councilmembers -
that our money for government is limited.
And, this reminder is not merely one of dollars and cents.
It is far more important than that. For the way we tax ourselves
is a measure of our freedom.
Mr. President, by choosing this forum, once again you are
giving the taxpayers their due recognition and I say thank you.
A few months ago we had a similar gathering and our guest
speaker came to talk about his support for Proposition 13, and to
tell us of his new plan, called the Taxpayers Protection Act. I
am pleased to welcome him once again. Ladies and gentleman,
the Governor of California, Pete Wilson.
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INTRODUCTION: PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH
HOWARD JARVIS TAXPAYER'S ASSOCIATION
UNIVERSAL CITY HILTON, BURBANK
9:00 A.M., SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1992
Thank you, Joel [[Fox]]. Ladies and gentleman, I'm very
happy to be here to honor one of America's greatest presidents.
Three years ago, George Bush stood watch over the foreign policy
that tore down the Berlin Wall. This week, be achieved an
agreement to tear down the nuclear stockpiles of the United States
and Russia by two-thirds.
In this political year, in the heat and passion of watching
Bill Clinton on MTV and the Arsenio Hall show, it's all too easy
to forget what real leadership is, what real accomplishment is.
George Bush brought us victory in the Cold War and he brought
us victory in the Persian Gulf.
The peace George Bush has won for America, the victories he's
won for democracy and economic freedom, have changed the world.
They mean vast new vistas for trade - American trade,
California trade -- with Russia, its neighboring republics, and
other countries that were once under the Communist heel.
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George Bush has won for us a new opportunity, to turn from the
long, twilight global struggle and tackle the pressing issues at
home.
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But here at home George Bush faces a tenacious opposition
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the entrenched power of the incumbent liberal Congress.
It's time for us to rally behind our Commander-in-Chief, to
elect a Republican Congress, to give the President the foot
soldiers he needs to win the Battle for Capitol Hill.
And here in California, we have a special opportunity. We
can elect two fiscal conservative, pro-defense Republican Senators
- John Seymour and Bruce Herschensohn - who will join our
President to pass a Balanced Budget Amendment, to enact a capital
gains tax, and to create an economic climate that will mean jobs,
jobs, and more jobs for Californians and our fellow Americans.
George Bush's first term has been marked by historic
achievements that have liberated millions and transformed the
world. George Bush's second term will transform America, liberate
our economy, and make us stronger and better than ever.
Ladies and gentleman, I give you the President of the United
States
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
HOWARD JARVIS TAXPAYERS ASSN.
UNIVERSAL CITY HILTON
UNIVERSAL CITY, CALIFORNIA
SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1992
9:00 a.m
[Acknowledgments]
(
(It's a shame I don't have time for the
Universal Studio tour. \\ But if I want to see behind-the-scenes
tricks or outrageous fantasy, I don't have to visit Hollywood.
I can just watch Congress deal with the budget. \\ ))
Estelle Jarvis, it is a special privilege to be with you and
the members of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. Estelle,
your late husband was a true pioneer. In the Utah mining town
where he grew up, he learned from his parents to love freedom, to
take on responsibility, to dream dreams as big as the desert
horizon. His political credo was simple and profound. He said,
"Our freedom depends on four words: Government must be limited."
Here in California 14 years ago, Howard Jarvis won a famous
victory -- the tax limitation plan called Proposition 13. He
fired the first shot in the Reagan Revolution. And we're still
feeling the reverberations today as we keep fighting to expand
our freedom and hold back unnecessary burdens of government. \\
Our revolution isn't the work of a single presidency -- it's
the mission for a whole generation of reform. Since Ronald
Reagan and I came to Washington in 1981, we've cut tax rates
across the board, made them flatter and fairer. We've cut the
top rate from 70 percent to 31 perecent. We've raised the
standard deduction. We've taken millions of low-to-moderate
2
income people off the tax rolls altogether. \\ We've made
landmark reforms to get big government regulation off the backs
of our families and businesses.
But we've got much more to do. With tax-and-spend liberals
still in charge of Congress, government keeps growing. Congress
now spends nearly a quarter of what people in this country work
to produce: That's right, almost 25 percent of the Gross
Domestic Product. The habit of deficit spending has brought us
to the point that the national debt now equals about $65,000 for
every family of four in the United States. That's about what
you'd pay to send two kids through college. Those facts tell us
we're not really as free a society as we should be. You and I
know that government is too big -- and it spends too much. \\\
The burden of debt and profligate spending is the legacy of
almost four decades of liberal Democrat control of the U.S. House
of Representatives. Time and again, Ronald Reagan and I have
asked for popular reforms: The line-item veto. A balanced
budget amendment. Again and again, the liberals in Congress have
said no. It's no wonder that Americans keep clamoring for
stricter limits on the power and cost of government. From coast
to coast, people are mobilizing for change. The air is crackling
with the feeling that Howard Jarvis made his battle cry: "I'm mad
as hell. III
What it comes down to is this: Ordinary Americans are plain
fed up with pressure to be "politically correct." Aren't you
tired of hearing the liberal know-it-alls drone on, demanding
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that you believe things that defy common sense? Aren't you sick
of self-righteous demands that you surrender to some bureaucracy
freedoms that enabled our ancestors to make this country great?
Maybe you're like millions of other Americans. You shop at
K-Mart, you eat at Carl's Jr. You've worked to get your kids
through school and pay off a mortgage. You know it's not only
your right -- it's your duty to your family -- to fight high
taxes and government waste. And when liberal elitists ridicule
you and say we have social problems because of you -- because
you're "greedy" -- well, naturally, you stand up and fight back.
Our fighting spirit has brought us to a turning point.
We're on the threshold of something big. We'll have to put up
with a few more months of frustration from the lame-duck liberal
Congress, but after that I see a clear road and powerful
acceleration for the changes we want.
We're rolling back needless restrictions on innovation and
job creation through my moratorium on new federal regulations.
We've stopped, for example, a senseless regulation that delayed
expansion of a homeless shelter on a developed, downtown city
block that bureaucrats were trying to say was a "wetland." For
businesses, for charities, for homeowners, we're working to get
unreasonable regulation off their backs.
I'm pushing hard to reform our civil justice system.
Americans want to stop nuisance lawsuits. 11 ( (Someone asked me
the other day, if an apple a day keeps the doctor away, what
works for lawyers?) ) III
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I'm committed as strongly as ever to win more tax relief and
reform. We need to lift the dead weight that punishes
homeowners and prevents more investment and job creation -- those
sky-high taxes on capital gains. We need to enact my other
proposals to ease tax burdens on families and homeowners.
I'm fighting for fundamental change in our education and
welfare systems. It's time for parents to have real financial
freedom to choose their kids' schools -- public, private or
religious. We'll give families more opportunities. We'll
give parents the muscle to change our schools and make them the
best in the world. \\
Right now, we have a welfare system designed by liberal
politicians and social theorists. It's a burden on taxpayers,
but that's not the worst of it. Much of the time, this system
hurts the very people it claims to help. The system discourages
single mothers from getting married. It leaves too many young
women and children without the stability of a two-parent home.
And let's face it: The welfare-state system traps too many
people in a cycle of dependency -- destroying dignity, telling
the little guy who wants to pick himself up that he really
doesn't have much of a chance.
I'm working to transform this failed welfare system into
something that makes sense -- something that gives people a shot
at dignity. \\ Right now, I'm working with tough-minded,
creative governors like Pete Wilson here, and Tommy Thompson in
Wisconsin, to give them flexibility under federal laws to try out
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new ideas and begin turning their state welfare programs around.
With governors in all 50 states like Pete and Tommy, we'd soon be
making major progress fostering the dignity and the rewards of
work. We'll make more headway in connecting welfare with
requirements for work, training and education. We'll get more
deadbeat dads to pay the child support they owe. And we'd help a
lot more families come together and stay together.
My proposal for health insurance reform is a model of the
new way of thinking about social programs. The big news media
haven't told you much about my plan -- they're too busy beating
the drum for that stale old idea of a Ted Kennedy-style national
system of socialized medicine. 11 Like my education plan, my
health care plan would help working people and needy people with
vouchers and tax credits -- employing an old-fashioned American
idea: free markets and choice. It would provide Americans like
yourselves with quality care, care you can afford -- while
wringing out excess and waste.
In the long run, reforming education and welfare could make
a major contribution to increasing productivity and solving our
fiscal crisis. We can make these reforms without raising taxes -
- and without piling new burdens onto state and local taxpayers.
Hand in hand with these reforms goes our crusade to enforce
fiscal discipline. That's why I need what 43 governors have:
the line-item veto. III And now more than ever, Americans are
calling for a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution.
Forty-four states have constitutional requirements for balancing
6
the budget. Most state legislatures are on record supporting a
federal Balanced Budget Amendment.
Standing in our way is the liberal hard core of the
Democratic Congress -- barely more than one-third of the
membership. Read the roll call from last week's vote in the
House -- you'll see who I'm talking about. And pay attention to
the Democrats who belong in a special Hall of Shame. I'm talking
about the 12 Democrats -- two from California -- who listed
themselves as sponsors of the amendment: They did that to look
good to the folks at home. Then these Democrats switched sides
and voted to kill the amendment they had sponsored: They did
that to curry favor with their party bosses in Washington.
We know better than to expect these people to discipline
themselves. This is the same crowd we've seen for decades: in
charge, unchallenged, and out of control.
How about it if we send them a message in November? \\
Can I count on each one of you to get to work on this? \\ Can I
count on you to deliver the liberals some bad news at the polls
this November? \\\ Thanks! \\ I knew I could! \\
Before I finish, I want say a word about the summit meeting
Boris Yeltsin and I just completed in Washington -- where we
reached historic agreements for peace and security. Thousands of
visitors joined Barbara and me on the White House lawn to welcome
the first democratically elected president of Russia. I wish
each one of you could have been there with us. That's because
it's patriotic people like you who helped make this moment
7
possible. Now the Russian people can worship freely, compete in
free markets, and choose their own government. And our kids and
grandkids won't live in the shadow of nuclear war that haunted us
for forty years. Today, ordinary Russians thank God that
ordinary Americans stood fast against the Communist dictatorship
that threatened us and oppressed them.
If you have the will, the perseverance, there's always a
chance to make a difference. Howard Jarvis spent 16 years
fighting for tax limitation. He was 76 years old when at last he
won -- when he shook the establishment of this entire country.
I've highlighted for you my agenda for a new term, working
with a new Congress: Revolutionize our schools -- put parents
and kids and traditional excellence ahead of bureaucrats. Reform
our system of health care. Overhaul the welfare system -- give
needy people opportunity instead of dependency. Adopt a balanced
budget amendment. And hold the line against excessive spending,
taxes and regulation.
With a new Congress that shares our values, we can use the
next four years to set our country on the right track for the
next forty years. \\ With your help, I know we can. Thank
you. God bless you and the United States of America.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
June 17, 1992
TO:
David Demarest
Dan McGroarty
FROM:
Joe Duggan
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SUBJECT: Jarvis speech
Jack Flanagan, California B-Q co-chairman, called me this
afternoon. It was a conference call with another California
apparatchik, I believe her name was Kathy Shanahan. He remarked
that if the President is prepared to say definitely that he'll
seek another vote on the Balanced Budget Amendment from this
Congress, that this would be the place to announce it. He also
flagged Perot's position on Social Security as something likely
to be important to the many senior citizens in the audience. He
warned against reciting too long a "laundry list" of issues.
Kathy voiced concern that it would not be good to speak of
educational reform and choice in education. The reasoning seemed
convoluted, but the point she made was that Proposition 13 and
tax limitation draw criticism in California as a factor that led
to the decline of public schools there.
I just listened and said I'd pass the comments along.