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leorge Bush, 1992
Administration of George Bush, 1992 / Aug. 24
1489
d the liberal lead-
that'll change during the day. But it's a seri-
way from Moscow to Mexico. And that means
ve got to change
ous matter, and my heart goes out to the
new American jobs from Union, New Jersey,
e that gridlocked
people in Florida.
all the way out to California.
n House.
Right now, one in every six Americans'
usion: Two years
Note: The President spoke at 8:06 a.m. on
manufacturing job is tied directly to exports.
toughest decision
the South Lawn at the White House, prior
And that doesn't count the economic ripple
and that is to send
to his departure for Union, New Jersey.
effect created when those workers pay the
rs into battle. The
mortgage, buy a car, or feed the kids. Since
is and every other
1988, three-fifths of all of our economic
ession, fought to
growth has come from people in other coun-
it to prevent the
Remarks at Lincoln Technical
tries buying what's made in the United States
nuclear powder
home. And this
Institute in Union, New Jersey
of America, the good products made right
here in New Jersey.
is about making
August 24, 1992
Now, the jobs in these new export indus-
be proud of, an
The President. Thank you very much,
tries demand workers with higher skills than
ud of: good jobs,
Secretary Martin. Let me just salute our
the old economy. And workers must realize
ilies. And so I ask
great Secretary of Labor and thank her very
what you know here at Lincoln: During the
lange for the sake
much for her introduction. Salute the former
course of a career you may develop as many
America to make
Governor of this State, Tom Kean. The work-
as five or six skills or proficiencies, putting
more promising
ing man and woman never had a better friend
a premium on flexibility, long-life learning.
today.
than Tom Kean. Mattie Rinaldo, he and I
Now, these principles are reflected in a new
And thank you for
go back a long time. He's the Congressman
commitment to job training. This is a new
proud to be back.
from this area, doing a superb job. If we had
national commitment to job training that I'm
more like him, we wouldn't have a gridlocked
unveiling today, a program that is bold. It
? at 1:07 p.m. at
Congress. And I want to thank Pat
is innovative, and it is loyal only to the future
Santangelo for the tour, and also Senator
and to the needs of the American workers.
Is. In his remarks,
Don DiFrancesco and all the students and
Governor of Illi-
Now, earlier this year we introduced a pro-
faculty here. This has been an inspiring visit.
gram called Job Training 2000, a comprehen-
Now, let me tell you why I've come to Lin-
sive program to streamline this crazy quilt
coln Tech. I'm here today because of what
of over 100 different Federal jobs programs.
will take place 71 days from now, because
Now that we've designed that effective struc-
of the decision you're going to be making
ture for delivering job training, I want to ex-
ssistance for
on November 3d. And that's going to set the
pand on our efforts. If our Nation is to suc-
ricane Andrew
course of this Nation. The defining challenge
ceed in this world economy, we cannot afford
of the 1990's is to win the economic competi-
to waste the talent of one single worker. And
tion and to win the peace.
that means we need better training for young
express my heart-
America's got to be-and is, a military
people first coming into the work force, bet-
of Florida on this
superpower-an economic superpower,
ter retraining for workers that are changing
ntly it's one of the
t in six decades.
though, and an export superpower. Now, in
careers, and better training and assistance for
this election you're going to hear two very
workers who lose their jobs.
0 FEMA teams,
different versions of how we go about this.
You start with this new initiative. We call
mergency teams,
Theirs is to look inward and protect what
it the Youth Training Corps. The program
will be declaring
aster area. There
we've got. And ours is to look forward to
is aimed at young people, primarily in our
open new markets, to create incentives, to
inner cities, kids with talent, kids with ambi-
Government then
restore our social fabric, and to prepare our
tion, but with no outlets for their abilities
that the Federal
people to compete so that we can win. And
other than a life of drugs and crime. Right
that's what this is all about here today.
now we have a great program called the con-
during the day to
I want to talk about the last of those chal-
servation centers, which takes these kids to
moothly and that
lenges, the new ways to prepare our Amer-
job training centers, often in rural areas, puts
0 help the people
ican workers to compete. We know the world
them to work, for example, helping rebuild
t was a very bad
e evaluation teams
economy is changing. And America must
the parks or recreation and community facili-
change with it. As President, we worked to
ties. But at the same time these kids learn
now, but I expect
create new jobs, open new markets all the
a skill, find out how to manage their finances,
1490
Aug. 24 / Administration of George Bush, 1992
Ac
and get counseling about how to break away
got to help older workers obtain new skills.
ph
from the temptations of the mean streets that
These are people caught in the transition of
fo
they once hung out on.
our economy, eager to earn new skills so they
Now, we're going to build on those con-
can get new jobs and protect their standard
C
servation centers, add 25 new centers with
of living. And that's why I'm announcing
positions for 43,000 new trainees. And to
today a dramatic new departure in job train-
is
staff these centers we will give hiring priority
ing for Americans in the middle of their ca-
ca
to former members of our Armed Forces,
reers.
pi
people with the proven leadership skills-
The key concept here is something I call
bi
these people, they've demonstrated that they
skill grants. These are vouchers worth up to
A
can lead-proven leadership skills, the drive,
$3,000 per person that can be used toward
W
and the discipline that breeds success.
training programs of their choice. And these
Now, we need to expand our existing ef-
vouchers can go not simply to those that are
forts to teach high school kids about their
unemployed but to those who worry the next
W
opportunities in life, provide them strong
pink slip may be coming their way, to help
SI
role models, and encourage a sense of per-
defense workers retool, to help workers in
W
sonal responsibility and discipline. And so
declining industries sharpen the skills that
also today I am also doubling the size of our
they'll need to stay one step ahead. What Pell
Junior ROTC program. It is in almost 1,500
grants have done to open up opportunities
n
schools today; we're going to expand it to
for our younger kids, skill grants will do for
2,900 schools. And with $50 million a year
experienced workers in need of new skills.
a
in new funding, another 150,000 kids will get
The program will focus on the needs of
the benefit of what has been a great program
what we call dislocated workers, people in
that boosts high school competition, high
industries that are changing because of global
school completion rates, reduces drug use,
competition. Twelve days ago I announced
raises self-esteem, and gets these kids firmly
the North American free trade agreement to
on the right track.
open new economic opportunities for Amer-
Now, I will also urge the Congress to ex-
ican products from the Yukon to Yucatan. In
pand my youth apprenticeship program. This
the 1990's that agreement will create millions
one's aimed at high school juniors and sen-
of new American jobs, but near-term may
iors who may be in danger of dropping out.
also mean dislocations in some industries.
And the program combines classroom in-
And thus, I've assured the Congress that I'd
struction with structured work programs.
work with them to ease the transition for the
And when students finish, they not only have
workers in the NAFTA. Today's plan will
a diploma, they have a certificate saying
meet that commitment.
they've developed a skill and can get a job.
My plan sets aside up to, I think it's $670
Right now this program is working as a dem-
million per year for the Secretary of Labor
onstration project in six States. It ought to
to pump into areas that might be negatively
be expanded. If I have my way, it will be
affected by NAFTA. This funding is more
expanded to all 50 States.
than enough to ensure that any and every
Another part of this: We'll also do more
affected worker gets the kind of training he
for troubled kids, and we'll connect our ef-
or she needs. And more important, they'll
forts to get the young people off of drugs
have a choice, get them into programs that
with the skills that help them get a clean
they want to be in, not shoehorned into some
start. We are going to expand drug treatment
training program that just happens to have
to reach an additional 28,000 kids a year.
openings.
We're going to tie successful drug treatment
Now, that's our approach to job training.
to job training. I call it Treat and Train. It
And it rests on the proposition that we should
will guarantee these kids a place in our job
empower people with skills instead of em-
training program the moment they finish re-
powering bureaucracies with people. Just a
habilitation.
quick political word here: My opponent
So helping young people is a part of the
agrees with this in principle, but when you
picture. But if we want to compete, we've
get to the details we really do have a vast
rge Bush, 1992
Administration of George Bush, 1992 / Aug. 24
1491
tain new skills.
philosophical difference. I believe we can pay
other high-tech industry, or some short-term
e transition of
for this new job training offensive without
Government make-work job. I vote for the
W skills so they
raising taxes on people or increasing overall
former. We can do it. We can get everybody
their standard
Government spending.
engaged in high-tech jobs with this retraining
n announcing
We've got to make the tough calls. This
approach.
re in job train-
is a priority. We've got to make the tough
Now, the big point I want to make here
dle of their ca-
calls, set the budget priorities. This entire
in this working State is higher spending and
proposal, and yes, it's going to cost money,
higher taxes will not do any favors to the
mething I call
but it will be funded under the budget caps.
American worker. According to one congres-
rs worth up to
And I will project these in more detail as
sional analysis, it could cost America almost
e used toward
we move into the next budget cycle.
3 million jobs, this tax-and-spend approach.
ice. And these
My opponent is different. He sees job
And my opponent's whole approach reminds
those that are
training as a tax raiser, and he wants to tax
me of the guy with the head cold. The doctor
worry the next
workers to pay for their own training and tax
wants to amputate his leg. And to the patient
r way, to help
small businesses-this is the one that's the
it sounds a little odd, you know, a little radi-
-lp workers in
worst-
cal. To the doctor it's logical: If your cold
the skills that
Audience members. Boo-o-o!
settles in your lungs, you'll get pneumonia;
ead. What Pell
The President. taxing small busi-
if you get pneumonia, your circulation will
opportunities
nesses around the country 1.5 percent. That
go; if your circulation goes, you'll get gan-
nts will do for
is 1.5 that will come out of your paycheck,
grene. So just to be safe, better take off the
of new skills.
and it's on top of the new income and other
leg. [Laughter]
the needs of
payroll taxes he's proposing. Think of what
Well, that ain't it. That's not going to get
ers, people in
this is going to do to small business, which
the job done. We need a new approach and
cause of global
has created over two-thirds of the new jobs
one that doesn't cripple the economy and
I announced
in the past decade. So let me say this to my
then offer workers a crutch, one that helps
agreement to
opponent: There is no point in training peo-
people keep the jobs they have, creates the
ties for Amer-
ple for jobs if your plan is going to be in
new jobs that they demand, and one that
to Yucatan. In
the process of destroying jobs.
helps America retool for the challenges of
create millions
And there's another difference between
a new century, for the challenges of your life-
ear-term may
our two approaches. My opponent says he'll
time.
me industries.
do more to help defense workers coping with
I like the spirit here at Lincoln. The people
ngress that I'd
the post-cold-war economic realities. What
at Lincoln, students and faculty, seem to un-
nsition for the
he won't tell you, though, is this: We sent
derstand that training for jobs that exist and
ay's plan will
forward a prudent defense budget. Because
moving people up the ladder is the goal that
of what we've accomplished around the
we all ought to share. It's certainly one I do.
think it's $670
world, because the world is more peaceful,
And I appreciate this visit very much.
etary of Labor
we are able to reduce spending. But he sent
You know, I put forward this approach. I'm
t be negatively
forward a program that plans $60 billion in
going to fight for it in the campaign, fight
nding is more
additional cuts in defense beyond what the
for it with what I hope is a new,
any and every
experts say is responsible. And that not only
nongridlocked Congress-that is fouling up
of training he
will damage the national defense, it will
everything in this country. And so I appre-
ortant, they'll
throw one million more defense-related in-
ciate very much what you all have shown me
programs that
dustry employees out of work and on to the
here today. I wish each and every student
ned into some
unemployment rolls. And I'm not going to
at this wonderful institution Godspeed and
opens to have
have it, on two counts: adding to the unem-
good luck. And I'll tell you, I will do my level-
ployment, but fundamentally I must protect
best to hold the line on the taxes and to hold
) job training.
the national security of the United States.
the line on the spending and create new jobs
:hat we should
Once these workers have lost those jobs,
through this kind of new job training ap-
nstead of em-
high-paid, high-tech jobs, the other side will
proach.
people. Just a
step in with some, you know, kind of a make-
Thank you all, and God bless you. May
My opponent
work program. Someone ought to ask the
God bless you all. And let me say this: I know
but when you
workers whether they would rather have
things have been tough, but we are the Unit-
10 have a vast
their high-tech jobs and good training for an-
ed States of America. We can overcome our
1492
Aug. 24 / Administration of George Bush, 1992
problems and continue to lead in the world.
direction of this country and also the new
Thank you very much.
century beyond.
I heard my grandson speak at our conven-
Note: The President spoke at 10:05 a.m. in
tion, and I was so very proud of that young
the main automotive shop area. In his re-
kid. It just reminded me on a very personal
marks, he referred to P.J. Santangelo, Lincoln
basis of what the Reverend Father was talk-
Technical Institute president and chief execu-
ing about and the job that lies ahead of us,
tive officer, and Donald T. DiFrancesco, New
to make life better for all.
Jersey State Senate president.
Now, we have witnessed, as I pointed out
down there, a world of change from Managua
to Moscow. Millions of men and women now
turn towards freedom. They're celebrating a
Remarks to the Chamber of
new birth of freedom. I believe people right
Commerce in Ansonia, Connecticut
here in the valley, many of whom came here
August 24, 1992
from other countries, many of whose family
came here, understand what I'm talking
The President. Thank you very, very
about when I say this Nation can take pride
much. Michael, thank you and all the others
in the freedom of others. Many right in this
at the Chamber. Thank you for that introduc-
room, because of family, not just because of
tion. Let me just explain what Michael was
freedom and democracy, because of family,
talking about. There has been this hurricane
prayed for this day of freedom to come to
down in Florida, and so we leave right from
Eastern Europe, to Russia, to the countries
here to go down to Newark, take the plane
south of our border. We've witnessed this re-
and head on down to look at that damage
markable change, and this miracle has come
and express our concerns to the people there.
true.
But I am just delighted to be here. A warm
So now the challenge for this country is
reception coming into town. I want to thank
to bring that spirit home from Warsaw, Po-
David Rifkin and especially the Mayor
land, to Warsaw Park and to focus this great
Nation on the mission ahead. We have lit-
Thomas Hallihan. Let me also mention an
old friend and a good man, Gary Franks,
erally changed the world with the help of
who's the Congressman here. I am so in-
the taxpayer, Presidents that preceded me,
debted to him. And another that you all know
fighting men and women that have served
this great country with distinction. We've
so well in this valley, John Rowland, he's a
changed the world, and now we must change
great man, and I want to see him do more.
America for the better.
I was touched by the Reverend Father Weiss'
Our challenge quite simply is to win the
invocation. And I want to ask today that we
global economic challenge, to win the peace,
now take a little political look ahead to the
fall.
be a military superpower, an economic su-
perpower, an export superpower. In this
I'll tell you something. I came out of that
election you're going to hear two very dif-
Houston convention, and the whole spirit
ferent visions of how to do this. Theirs is to
around this country is different. I am deter-
turn inward and protect; and ours is to look
mined to win this election, and I'm deter-
outward and open new markets and prepare
mined to do it fair and square. If I hadn't
our people to compete, to restore social fab-
been fired up when I walked in here, the
ric, to save and invest. When I'm talking
Company, that great music, would have got
about investment, I don't mean more tax-
it going, I'll tell you. That was fantastic. I
payer money going into Government invest-
don't even know where they are.
ment. I mean more private investment, small
But anyway, we're looking ahead to a great
business investment.
classic that takes place this fall. I'm not talk-
I don't want to get too personal in this
ing about Ansonia versus Derby-[laugh-
wonderful area that I understand has some
ter]-I'm talking about the November 3d
wonderfully smart Democrats because I
contest. That does have a lot to do with the
need you guys in the fall. But let me say this,
Document No. 345524
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE:
08/17/92
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: LINCOLN TECHNICAL INSTITUTE/NEW JERSEY/
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than 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, 08/18, with a copy to this office.
Thanks.
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Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
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6:30 p.m.
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[LINCOLN]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: LINCOLN TECHNICAL INSTITUTE
UNION TOWNSHIP, NEW JERSEY
AUGUST 24, 1992
??:00 A.M.
Thank you,
,
for those kind words.
[Acknowledgements.]
Let me tell you why I've come to Lincoln Tech this morning
to cut into your coffee break. I'm here today because of what
will take place 71 days from now -- because of a decision you'll
be making November 3rd, that will set the course of this nation
at a critical moment in America's history.
This election is about the big issues. About the issues
that shape the world -- about the values close to home: I'm
talking about family and faith -- about neighborhoods free from
crime ... about a world free from fear. //
But we all know the number one worry today is the economy,
it's jobs. Just as you can't drive a nail without a hammer, you
can't build a dream without a job. You're here at Lincoln Tech
because you made the decision to meet the real-world head-on. If
anyone tells you what you're doing here doesn't matter -- let me
tell you: Don't you believe it. What you're doing here makes
all the difference in the world.
If you want to talk to the most productive workers in the
world -- you don't have to brush up on your German, or take a
crash course in Japanese. You can start right here in the U.S.A.
2
-- because the American worker is the most productive worker in
the world. //
That simple fact is worth pointing out because it can help
us keep our economic problems in perspective. And that's
important -- because we're hearing an awful lot these days from
folks who are itching to "play mechanic" with the American
economy. They've got a vested interest in talking this economy
down, feeding fears, treating what's temporary as terminal.
You know the kind of mechanic I mean: Ask him to change the
oil -- and he wants to pull the engine. //
My point is: When it comes to what happens in this garage:
Experience counts. / You can't solve a problem you don't
understand. The economy's no different.
The simple fact is, there is only one candidate for
President who has lived a life beyond government
who has
known a call above political ambition. Since the day he left law
school, every paycheck Bill Clinton has earned has come out of
the taxpayer's pocket. He's put plenty of people on the public
payroll -- but he's never created a single job. //
I come at things a different way. Long before I came to
public service, I built a company
I met a payroll
took
the risks
made it work. And I happen to think that's not a
bad qualification for being President. //
We know the world economy is changing -- and America must
change with it, if we want to compete. Think of the jobs you'll
hold -- think of your friends and families. Right now, 1 in
3
every 14 Americans works a job tied directly to foreign trade --
and that doesn't count the economic ripple effect created when
those workers pay the mortgage, buy a car or feed their kids. In
the past [three] years -- [more than half] of all our economic
growth has come from people in other countries buying what's Made
in America.
We don't need more studies or statistics to prove that free
trade is our future. America's real wealth isn't something we
dig up from the ground -- it's the sweat and the smarts of the
American worker. Yes, the world's coming our way -- but I know:
we can play the game. //
As President, I've worked to create the new American markets
in Ukraine and [xxxx] that mean new American jobs in Union and
[xxxxx]. I'm convinced the answer is not to build a wall around
our economy, not to put the government in charge -- but to use
the government to help you -- literally -- go to work.
It's part of a larger philosophy. Look at every big issue
we face. You'll see a choice -- a choice between those who put
their faith in everyday Americans, and those who put their faith
in government.
Bill Clinton says he's all for free enterprise -- then he
proposes the largest tax hike in history, much of it on the back
of small business.
Bill Clinton says he wants smaller government -- but of all
the thousands of government programs, he can find only one he's
willing to cut: The honey bee subsidy.
4
[[And they could still get stung on that one. 1]
Bill Clinton says he's for fiscal responsibility -- and then
he comes out against the Balanced Budget Amendment.
That's what Bill Clinton says now let me tell you what a
former Democratic candidate says about Bill Clinton -- and I
quote: "This year's Democratic ticket is a Trojan Horse.
They're much more liberal underneath -- and they'll prove it when
they're elected."
That's not me using the "L" word -- that's George McGovern.
So if you ask me how I'd get ready for November 3rd, I have
just two pieces of advice to the American voter: Kick the tires.
And don't get taken for a ride. //
This year, the choice is clear. It's a choice between two
fundamentally different philosophies: Of the government, by the
government, for the government" versus "of the people, by the
people, for the people.'
I trust parents -- not the government -- to make the
decisions that matter in life. //
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's schools: public, private or religious. //
I trust the people -- not the government -- to choose their
own health care.
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's child care. // When the other side says, "government
knows best" -- I say: Parents know better. Parents know better
than some bureaucrat in Washington, D.C. //
5
The genius of free enterprise is something the "Government
First" folks just won't ever understand. They'd look at Thomas
Edison's light bulb -- and see a threat to the candle industry.
What we need now is someone who sees the new horizon --
someone who understands America's place in the world is never to
be the patrons of the past -- but the architects of the future.
//
Consider my approach to the issue that right now concerns
you most: job training.
Earlier this year, I announced Jobs Training 2000 -- a
comprehensive program to help American workers of all ages adapt
to our evolving economy. Today, I want to expand that effort --
- for young people trying to get that first-job, and for older
workers retooling for a new career.
Start with a new initiative I call Youth Training Corps.
The idea here is to take at-risk youth off the mean streets
and give them a second chance to build the skills they need to
succeed. We're going to build on existing Civilian Conservation
Corps -- and add 25 new centers, with positions for 23,000 new
trainees. //
We will give hiring priority to former members of our Armed
Forces -- people with the proven leadership skills, the drive and
discipline that breed success.
I will also urge the Congress to expand my Youth
Apprenticeship Program. This program offers today's high school
students the best chance to get a start in the workforce without
6
dropping out of school. It's working now in 6 states -- we ought
to take it to all 50 states.
Finally, we've got to connect our efforts to get young
people off drugs with the job skills that help them get a clean
start. That's the aim of a new program I call Treat and Train -
- to pair intensive drug treatment with an inside track into the
new Youth Training Corps I announced just a moment ago.
Helping young people is part of the picture. If we want to
compete, we've got to help older workers obtain new skills. //
That's why I am announcing today a new departure in job
training -- scrapping the present system, tripling present
funding, and putting the focus on greater flexibility for the
worker. The key concept here is Skills Grant Vouchers --
vouchers worth up to $3000 dollars per person, to be used toward
the training program of their choice. And these vouchers can go
not simply to the unemployed -- but to those who worry the next
pink slip may be their own: to help defense workers retool, to
help workers in declining industries sharpen the skills they'l 11
need to stay one step ahead.
That's our approach to job training: Meaningful work -- not
make-work. Real-world help
for real jobs. //
That's an approach the other side can't match. The other
side sees job training as just another reason to raise taxes.
Right now the federal government spends $1.5 trillion
dollars a year. But it seems $1.5 trillion just isn't enough.
So they want to tax workers to pay for their own training.
7
The other side says they'll do more to help defense workers
coping with post-Cold War economic realities. What they won't
tell you is they plan $60 billion dollars in added defense cuts -
- reckless cuts that will damage our national defense and throw
one million more defense-industry employees out of work and onto
welfare. Then, once these workers have lost their jobs -- high-
paid, high-tech jobs -- the other side will step in with
government "make-work." Someone ought to ask these workers what
they'd rather have: Their jobs -- or job training? //
But I guess my opponents are doing the only thing they know
how: Drive the private sector into bankruptcy -- then offer
everyone a dead-end job on the public payroll. //
(( It reminds me of the guy with a head cold --- and the
doctor who wants to amputate his leg. To the patient, it sounds
a bit radical. To the doctor, it's logical: "If your cold
settles in your lungs -- you'll get pneumonia. If you get
pneumonia, your circulation will go. If your circulation goes,
you'll get gangrene." // "So, just to be safe: better take off
the leg." //))
We need a new approach -- one that doesn't cripple the
economy and then offer workers a crutch. One that helps people
keep the jobs they've got ... and creates new ones. One that
helps America retool for the challenges of a new century -- for
the challenge of your lifetimes. //
Thank you all for this warm welcome -- and may God bless
this great nation, the United States of America.
MASTER
INCLUDING EDITS AND FACT CHANGES (FC)
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6:30 p.m.
[LINCOLN]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
LINCOLN TECHNICAL INSTITUTE
UNION TOWNSHIP, NEW JERSEY
AUGUST 24, 1992
??:00 A.M.
Thank you,
/
for those kind words.
[Acknowledgements.]
Dowe know the time
Let me tell you why I've come to Lincoln Tech
this morning
of the
event yet?
to cut into your coffee break.
I'm here today because of what
will take place 71 days from now -- because of a decision you'll
be making November 3rd, that will set the course of this nation
future
at a critical moment in America's history.
This election is about the big issues. About the issues
that shape the world -- about the values close to home: I'm
talking about family and faith -- about neighborhoods free from
crime
about a world free from fear. //
But we all know the number one worry today is the economy,
it's jobs. Just as you can't drive a nail without a hammer, you
can't build a dream without a job. You're here at Lincoln Tech
because you made the decision to meet the real-world head-on. If
scowcroft)
possible
anyone tells you what you're doing here doesn't matter -- let me
insert:
tell you: Don't you believe it. What you're doing here makes
you are
pulling
all the difference in the world.
yourse up by
your bootstraps
If you want to talk to the most productive workers in the
the American way. world
-- you don't have to brush up on your German, or take a
crash course in Japanese. You can start right here in the U.S.A.
2
-- because the American worker is the most productive worker in
the world. //
That simple fact is worth pointing out because it can help
us keep our economic problems in perspective. And that's
important -- because we're hearing an awful lot these days from
folks who are itching to "play mechanic" with the American
economy. They've got a vested interest in talking this economy
down, feeding fears, treating what's temporary as terminal.
You know the kind of mechanic I mean: Ask him to change the
take out (SCOWCROFT)
oil -- and he wants to pull the engine. / (underline)
My point is: When it comes to what happens in this garage:
Experience counts. / You can't solve a problem you don't
understand. The economy's no different.
The simple fact is, there is only one candidate for
President who has lived a life beyond government
who has
known a call above political ambition. Since the day he left law
my opponent (SCOWCROFT)
school, every paycheck Bill Clinton has earned has come out of
the taxpayer's pocket. He's put plenty of people on the public
payroll -- but he's never created a single job.
//
[see
memo
from
4
Bunton
re: Washington Post Article
I come at things a different way. Long before I came to
public service, I built a company
...
I met a payroll
took
the risks
made it work. And I happen to think that's not a
bad qualification for being President. //
We know the world economy is changing -- and America must
change with it, if we want to compete. Think of the jobs you'll
(FC) more than
hold -- think of your friends and families. Right now, 1 in
(DAVID WALTERS/USTR)
INFO FROM
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and that doesn't count the economic ripple effect created when
those workers pay the mortgage, buy a car or feed their kids. In
Since 1988, three fifths (Samarrie 5873-0MB)
the past [three] years -- [more than half] of all our economic
(Scowcroft)
growth has come from people in other countries buying what's Made
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in America.
thinkof is
that horrible
We don't need more studies or statistics to prove that free
Madein USA
TVAD.
trade is our future. America's real wealth isn't something we
THERE SOMEWAY
dig up from the ground -- it's the sweat and the smarts of the
DEMOCRATS BULLT COUNTER STRONE COUNTER AD ON? THE IS
THAT NEGATIVISM
TO
American worker.
WHICH
Yes, the world's coming our way -- but I know:
HAVE
I we can play the game. .] 11I DON'T KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS (SCOWCROFT)
DON'T THINK
is
THIS ENOUCH from TO Beijing to Bukarest
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As President, I've worked to create the new American markets
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from
in Ukraine and [xxxx] that mean new American jobs in Union and to
Township, New Jersey
to Ukiah, California.
THAT
[xxxxx]. I'm convinced the answer is not to build a wall around
IMAGE!
our economy, not to put the government in charge -- but to use
the government to help you -- literally -- go to work.
It's part of a larger philosophy. Look at every big issue
we face. You'll see a choice -- a choice between those who put
their faith in everyday Americans, and those who put their faith
big (Soswcroft)
in government.
Bill Clinton says he's all for free enterprise -- then he
proposes the largest tax hike in history, much of it on the back
of small business.
Bill Clinton says he wants smaller government -- but of all
the thousands of government programs, he can find only one he's
willing to cut: The honey bee subsidy.
4
[[And they could still get stung on that one. ]]
Bill Clinton says he's for fiscal responsibility -- and then
he comes out against the Balanced Budget Amendment.
That's what Bill Clinton says now let me tell you what a
former Democratic candidate says about Bill Clinton and I I
He thinks
quote: "This year's Democratic ticket is a Trojan Horse and Iquote:
"They're much more liberal underneath -- and they'll prove it when
they're elected." (New York Times July 14,1992)
That's not me using the "L" word -- that's George McGovern.
So if you ask me how I'd get ready for November 3rd, I have
just two pieces of advice to the American voter: Kick the tires.
And don't get taken for a ride. //
This year, the choice is clear. It's a choice between two
fundamentally different philosophies: of the government, by the
government, for the government" versus "of the people, by the
people, for the people."
I trust parents -- not the government -- to make the
decisions that matter in life. //
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's schools: public, private or religious. //
I trust the people -- not the government -- to choose their
own health care.
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's child care. // When the other side says, "government
knows best" -- I say: Parents know better. Parents know better
than some bureaucrat in Washington, D.C. //
5
The genius of free enterprise is something the "Government
First" folks just won't ever understand. They'd look at Thomas
Edison's light bulb -- and see a threat to the candle industry.
What we need now is someone who sees the new horizon --
someone who understands America's place in the world is never to
be the patrons of the past -- but the architects of the future.
//
Consider my approach to the issue that right now concerns
you most: job training.
Earlier this year, I announced Jobs Training 2000 -- a
(Seally) to provide "one stop shopping "for job training and career services in
comprehensive program to help American workers of all ages adapt
an our local communities- to fix the crazy quilt of 100jobs programs and # 18 Billion in job training.
(SCULLY)
to our evolving economy. Today, I want to expand that effort our job
Now that
-- for young people trying to get that first-job, and for older
training efforts
Ne have a
(sully)
structure
workers retooling for a new career. I want to triple our job training resources. Better
Sr delivering
Start with a new initiative I call Youth Training Corps. young people
training for
etter services,
fortheir first
The idea here is to take at-risk youth off the mean streets
job; better
and give them a second chance to build the skills they need to
re-training
the
for workers
succeed.
We're going to build on existing Civilian Conservation changing careers;
4 (Scalhy)
and better
Corps -- and add 25 new centers, with positions for $3,000 new
training assistance and
trainees
for those
We will give hiring priority to former members of our Armed who
we
lose their
Forces -- people with the proven leadership skills, the drive and jobs.
discipline that breed success.
(scully)
I will also urge the Congress to expand my Youth
Apprenticeship Program. This program offers today's high school
students the best chance to get a start in the workforce without
LABOR WANTS TO SAY: WE'RE GOING TO COMBINE 30 EXISTING JOB CORPS CONSERVATION CORPS- WITH 25
NEW CENTERS TO CREATE POSITIONS FOR 29,600 TRAINEES NATIONWIDE. (Sully has gone for the day So,
I couldn't run Labors' edits
by him-)
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6
dropping out of school. It's working now in 6 states -- we ought
to take it to all 50 states.
Finally, we've got to connect our efforts to get young
people off drugs with the job skills that help them get a clean
start. That's the aim of a new program I call Treat and Train -
- to pair intensive drug treatment with an inside track into the
new Youth Training Corps I announced just a moment ago. Once we get these
Kids back on track we need to train them for meaningful careers 30 they can sustain their
Helping young people is part of the picture. If we want to new lives.
American (LABOR) the training and (LABOR)
(Scully)
they need to be secure in their employment. (LABOR)
compete, we've got to help older workers obtain ^ new skillsx //
That's why I am announcing today a new departure in job
current (Scully)
training, scrapping the present system, tripling present
for dislocated workers (labor)
funding, and putting the focus on greater flexibility for the
S
(cabinet affairs)
worker. The key concept here is Skills Grant Vouchers
vouchers worth up to $3000 dollars per person, to be used toward
the training program of their choice. And these vouchers can go
new trainees or (Scully)
have layott notices or who (Cabinet)
not simply to the, unemployed -- but to those who worry the next Affairs
workers (cabinet affairs)
pink slip may be their own: to help defense workers retool, to
NSERT, ETC.
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help workers in declining industries sharpen the skills they' 11
TO COME
need to stay one step ahead.
FROM
That's our approach to job training: Meaningful work -- not
SCULLY
make-work. Real-world help
for real jobs. //
That's an approach the other side can't match. The other
side sees job training as just another reason to raise taxes of - we see it
as a way to raise Self-esteem and restore productivity and economic growth. (Scully)
Right now the federal government spends $1.5 trillion
4 (DOC)
dollars a year. But it seems $1.5 trillion just isn't enough. 93 Budget
4(DOC)
Med-session
So they want to tax workers to pay for their own training.
rever
7
The other side says they'll do more to help defense workers
coping with post-Cold War economic realities. What they won't
nearly (oDetics speech 30 Jhly92) July
tell you is they plan $60 billion dollars in added defense cuts -
- reckless cuts that will damage our national defense and throw
as many as (ODetics speech 30July 1992)
one million more defense-industry employees out of work and onto
welfare. Then, once these workers have lost their jobs -- high-
paid, high-tech jobs -- the other side will step in with
government "make-work." Someone ought to ask these workers what
they'd rather have:
job
training?
III
DOESN'T THIS
Their
jobs
--
or
//
COUNTER BALANCE
WHAT YOU'VE SAID
But I guess my opponents are doing the only thing they know PREVIOUSLY?
how: Drive the private sector into bankruptcy -- then offer (Scowcrift)
everyone a dead-end job on the public payroll. //
(( It reminds me of the guy with a head cold -- and the
doctor who wants to amputate his leg. To the patient, it sounds
a bit radical. To the doctor, it's logical: "If your cold
settles in your lungs -- you'll get pneumonia. If you get
pneumonia, your circulation will go. If your circulation goes,
you'll get gangrene." // "So, just to be safe: better take off
the leg.' " //))
We need a new approach -- one that doesn't cripple the
economy and then offer workers a crutch. One that helps people
keep the jobs they've got and creates new ones. One that
helps America retool for the challenges of a new century -- for
with your help, well have that
the challenge of your lifetimes. // new approach. (9cowcrft)
Thank you all for this warm welcome -- and may God bless
this great nation, the United States of America.
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REMARKS: STILL WAITING ON PORTER COMMENTS. SCULLY
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
August 18, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM:
DAN MC GROARTY
SUBJECT:
PROPOSED REMARKS TO LINCOLN TECHNICAL INSTITUTE
I. SUMMARY
On Monday, August 24th you will deliver remarks to an
audience of 700 students and faculty members at Lincoln Technical
Institute in Union Township, New Jersey.
II. DISCUSSION
Your remarks (approximately 12 minutes / cards), focus on
the economy and jobs and announce expanded initiatives of your
Job Training 2000 program: Youth Training Corps and Skills Grant
Vouchers.
17 August 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR DAN MC GROARTY
FROM:
J. BUNTON Jog
SUBJECT:
POST ARTICLE ON CLINTON / JOBS IN ARKANSAS
ATTACHED ARTICLE FROM TODAY'S WASHINGTON POST SPELLS OUT THE
NUMBER OF MANUFACTURING JOBS VS. GOVERNMENT JOBS UNDER CLINTON'S
ADMINISTRATION IN ARKANSAS.
MANUFACTURING:
JAN. 1989 212,400
JAN. 1992 235,300
STATE & LOCAL GOVERNMENT:
JAN. 1989 119,000
JAN. 1992 143,900
"SINCE CLINTON WAS ELECTED GOVERNOR IN 1978, MANUFACTURING JOBS
IN ARKANSAS HAVE RISEN BY ABOUT 11 PERCENT; AT THE SAME TIME,
GOVERNMENT JOBS THERE HAVE RISEN BY NEARLY TWICE THAT MUCH."
WASHINGTON POST, FEDERAL PAGE, AUG. 18, 1992
George Bush, 1992
Administration of George Bush, 1992 / Jan. 17
127
United States of America the two hundred
om youth, he de-
tive capacity to learn new skills and test the
and sixteenth.
eace on earth and
limits of our potential. On an individual level,
le
what we learn defines who we are. No one,
affirmation
George Bush
young, old, or in between, can hope to reach
human life. Every
e he is a child of
[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register,
their dreams without sharpening their skills
worth repeating
10:15 a.m., January 21, 1992]
and mastering the tools of thought.
And that's the idea behind our overall na-
Note: This proclamation will be published in
tional education strategy, America 2000. And
cades, our Nation
the Federal Register on January 22.
it's the impulse behind the initiative that I'm
les toward ensur-
announcing today, Job Training 2000.
The Civil Rights
Job training must be more than merely
hts Act of 1964,
make-work. It's got to suit the needs of the
of 1965 marked
Remarks Announcing Job Training
workplace and the marketplace. And the pri-
ly important ad-
2000 in Atlanta
vate sector will always bear primary respon-
nd women-ad-
January 17, 1992
sibility for training the workers it needs to
S day. However,
get the jobs done, the unions here taking a
e painful legacy
Let me say it's been a joy to be back in
very active and critical role in all of this. But
ountry, we know
Atlanta. I was privileged to be over at the
government, at all levels, can and must play
At a time when
Martin Luther King Center, pay fitting and
a role, to use a word that's well-known, as
ned by violence
appropriate tribute to that great leader, and
catalysts in this process.
or by unfulfilled
now have an opportunity to be here.
And we are. Right now, the Federal Gov-
)O many young
And I want to single out again, to those
ernment's commitment to worker training
themselves and
who weren't over there, Secretary Sullivan.
spans more than 60 programs, 7 Federal
) reflect, once
Dr. Sullivan is the Secretary of HHS, the
agencies, resources totaling some $18 billion
S timeless mes-
largest Department in the Federal Govern-
a year.
ores the impor-
ment, and doing a superb job. And for you
Well, we've got to make certain that these
kids, he's from Morehouse Medical right
spect, and re-
funds are spent to maximum effect, and that's
here and went to Morehouse. So, we've got
where Job Training 2000 comes in. It's the
an Atlanta man running this enormous part
iven the night
product of hard work, of our Vice President
of the Federal Government and doing a su-
iolence he so
and of Secretary of Labor Lynn Martin, of
perb job at it.
ther King en-
our Education Secretary, all these working
I was so pleased to have been greeted by
together trying to express a commitment to
'e on in these
the mayor, who I don't think is here right
challenge, to
this country's future.
now, and the Governor, both of whom gave
Job Training 2000 rests on four corner-
Recall-
me a warm welcome, one to Georgia and one
stones. First, the creation of a 21st-century
for America,
to Atlanta.
training system. Job Training 2000 creates a
3 of renewed
I want to salute the Private Industry Coun-
one-stop shopping center for job training, co-
di to our fel-
cil of Atlanta members who have taken the
ordinated by private industry councils all
time to be with us. Pleased to be joined by
across the country. It will move us away from
hird Monday
Alvin Darden, members of this effective
the heavy hand of a bureaucratic overkill to
2 designated
CATALYST team now on their coffee break.
a system that allows greater freedom for the
[Laughter] And I've come here to Morris
private sector and local governments to shape
3ush, Presi-
Brown College in the center, the Atlanta
programs that work. I've been asking that
rica, by vir-
University center, to see this wonderful work
question, "Does this work?" And each person
by the Con-
in progress and to announce a pioneering
I've asked said, "This one works. It's effec-
States, do
new approach to job training, a program that
tive."
y 20, 1992,
I call Job Training 2000.
Second, this program will help ease the
deral Holi-
DD.
Programs like the CATALYST project
transition from welfare to work, from de-
highlight just how critical job training is to
pendence to independence. Under Job
ereunto set
the American economy, to American com-
Training 2000, we'll dedicate more than $20
anuary, in
petitiveness, and yes, to the American dream.
million to demonstration projects to place
ndred and
As a Nation, America's ability to prosper
welfare recipients in permanent jobs. And
nce of the
in the century coming up rests on our collec-
then we'll enlist market forces to break the
128
Jan. 17 / Administration of George Bush, 1992
Administration.
welfare dependency. A substantial portion of
Note: The President spoke at 11:52 a.m. at
the money government saves as each new
the Ventures in Community Improvement
January 11
worker leaves welfare behind will be shared
classroom on the campus of Morris Brown
Sun Sounds Rac
with the company that helped that person
College. In his remarks, he referred to Alvin
AZ
get a job.
Darden, coordinator of Project CATALYST.
January 13
And thirdly, this program will ease the
A tape was not available for verification of
The Community
transition from school to work. Job Training
the content of these remarks.
2000 will encourage voluntary apprentice
January 14
programs for high school students, com-
Hugh Larkins,J
bining quality education, on-the-job training,
and mentoring. This approach will help these
January 15
apprentices keep their options open to pur-
Nomination of William O. Studeman
Pinellas County
sue their education or, alternatively, to enter
To Be Deputy Director of Central
of Pinellas CoL
the work force as they wish.
Intelligence
January 16
Fourth and finally, Job Training 2000 pro-
January 17, 1992
Community H.
motes lifelong learning. Job Training 2000
establishes lifetime training in education that
The President today announced his inten-
Wayne, IN
counts, enabling the Federal Government to
tion to nominate Vice Adm. William O.
January 17
provide the average American tens of thou-
Studeman, USN, to be Deputy Director of
El Centro de la 1
sands of dollars' worth of education and
Central Intelligence. He would succeed
training over the course of his lifetime. Job
Richard J. Kerr.
Training 2000 will create a kind of passport
Currently Vice Admiral Studeman serves
to continuing education, making it easier for
as Director of the National Security Agency
in Fort Meade, MD. Prior to this, he served
Digest of Oth
people of all ages to receive grants and loans
White House
that they need to keep pace with the chal-
as Director of Naval Intelligence, 1985-1988,
lenges of the 21st-century workplace. This
and as Director of the Long Range Planning
The following
program is our plan to capture the spirit of
Group at the Department of the Navy, 1984-
public schedule
programs like the ones that I've been privi-
1985. In addition, Vice Admiral Studeman
interest annour.
leged to see today, and bring that innovative
served as commanding officer of the Navy
Secretary and :
Atlanta approach, if you will, to every Amer-
Operational Intelligence Center, 1982-1984,
issue.
ican community.
and executive assistant to the Vice Chief
Let me say to the young men and women
Naval Operations, 1981-1982.
that I've met today: Not long from now, these
Vice Admiral Studeman graduated from
January 12
In the after-
four walls will house the new Project CATA-
the University of the South (B.A., 1962);
Bush returned
LYST Center. But what you're building here
George Washington University (M.S., 1973);
is far more than a work of bricks and mortar
Naval War College (1973); and National War
Camp David, M
or plaster or paint. This renovation is a sym-
College (1981). He was born January 16,
January 13
bol of the larger commitment of this commu-
1940, in Brownsville, TX. Since 1962, Vice
In the morn:
nity to generate opportunity for the people
Admiral Studeman has served in the U.S.
Kansas City, N
who call it home.
Navy. He is married, has three children, and
ception hosted
So once again, my congratulations on the
resides in Fort Meade, MD.
the American :
future that you're building here, on the op-
met with the
portunity you're giving the young people
Kansas City.
here. And my thanks to the CATALYST team
In the after.
for showing me around this site. And thanks
to all of you, whether you're in city govern-
Points of Light Recognition Program
to Washington,
ment, State government, marketplace, busi-
January 14
ness, labor unions, whatever, for the fine
The President named the following individ-
The Preside:
work you are doing, the example you're set-
uals and institutions as exemplars of his com-
with the Vice F
ting.
mitment to making community service
Chief of Staff 1.1
central to the life and work of every Amer-
And now, back to work. [Laughter] Ham-
croft, Assistant
ican.
mer time. Thank you all very, very much.
Security Affair
briefing staff.
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: LINCOLN TECHNICAL INSTITUTE
UNION, NEW JERSEY
AUGUST 24, 1992
10:00 A.M.
Thank you, Secretary Martin for those kind words. Former
Governor Tom Kean. Rep. Matty Renaldo -- it's good to be in your
hometown. Pat Santangelo thank you for the tour. Students and
faculty.
Let me tell you why I've come to Lincoln Tech this morning
to cut into your coffee break. I'm here today because of what
will take place 71 days from now -- because of a decision you'll
be making November 3rd, that will set the course of this nation.
The defining challenge of the 1990's is to win the economic
competition -- win the peace.
America must be a military superpower, an economic
superpower, and an export superpower.
In this election -- you'll hear two visions of how to do
this. Theirs is to look inward, and protect what we already
have. Ours is to look forward -- to open new markets, create
incentives, restore our social fabric -- and prepare our people
to compete -- so that we can win.
This morning, I want to talk about the last of those
challenges -- new ways to prepare our American workers to
compete.
We know the world economy is changing -- and America must
change with it. As President, I've worked to create new markets
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from Mexico City to Moscow -- that mean new American jobs from
Union, New Jersey to Ukiah, California. Right now, 1 in every 6
American manufacturing jobs is tied directly to exports -- and
that doesn't count the economic ripple effect created when those
workers pay the mortgage, buy a car or feed their kids. Since
1988, three-fifths of all our economic growth has come from
people in other countries buying what's Made in America.
Jobs in these new export industries demand workers with
higher skills than the jobs of the old economy. And workers must
realize what you know here at Lincoln. During the course of a
career -- you may develop as many as five or six skills or
proficiencies -- putting a premium on flexibility and life-long
learning.
These principles are reflected in a new commitment to job
training I am unveiling today -- a program that is bold,
innovative and loyal only to the future -- and the needs of the
American worker.
Earlier this year, I announced Job Training 2000 -- a
comprehensive program to streamline the crazy quilt of over 100
different federal jobs programs. Now that we've designed an
effective structure for delivering job training, I want to expand
our efforts.
We will do it by almost tripling the funds we devote to
training workers who've lost their jobs. If our nation is to
succeed in the world economy; we can't afford to waste the
talents of any worker. That means we need better training for
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young people first joining the workforce -- better re-training
for workers changing careers -- and better training and
assistance for workers who lose their jobs. 11
Start with a new initiative I call Youth Training Corps.
This program is aimed at young people, primarily in our inner
cities. Kids with talent, kids with ambition -- but with no
outlets for their abilities other than a life of drugs and crime.
Right now, we have a great program -- called the
Conservation Centers -- which takes these kids to job training
centers, often in rural areas, and puts them to work -- for
example, helping rebuild parks or recreation and community
facilities. At the same time, these kids learn a skill, find out
how to manage their finances, and get counseling about how to
break away from the temptations of the mean streets they once
hung out on.
Centers
We're going to build on the Civilian Conservation Corps --
and add 25 new centers, with positions for 43,000 new trainees.
11
To staff these centers, we will give hiring priority to
former members of our Armed Forces -- people with the proven
leadership skills, the drive and discipline that breed success.
And we need to expand our existing efforts to teach high
school kids about their opportunities in life, provide them
strong role models and encourage a sense of personal
responsibility and discipline. So, I am also to day doubling the
size of our Jr. ROTC program. The program is in almost 1,500
million
4
schools today -- I'll expand it to 2,900 schools. With
$50,000
a
year in new funding another 150,000 kids will get the benefit of
what has been a great program that boosts high school completion
rates, reduces drug use, raises self-esteem and gets these kids
firmly on the right track.
I will also urge the Congress to expand my Youth
Apprenticeship Program. This program is aimed at high school
juniors and seniors who may be in danger of dropping out. The
program combines classroom instruction with structured work
programs. When students finish, they not only have a diploma,
they have a certificate saying they have developed a skill -- and
can get a job. Right now, this program is working as a
demonstration project in 6 states -- it ought to be expand'to all
50 states.
We'll also do more for troubled kids and we'll connect our
efforts to connect our. efforts to get young people off drugs with
the skills that help them get a clean start. To this end, I am
going to expand drug treatment to reach an additional 28,000 kids
a year -- and we're going to tie it to 9 successful drug treatment
to job training. I call it Treat and Train -- and it will
guarantee these kids a place in our job training program the
moment they finish rehabilitation.
Helping young people is part of the picture. But if we want
to compete, we've got to help older workers obtain new skills.
These are people caught in the transition of our economy
eager
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to earn new skills -- so they can get new jobs, and protect their
standard of living.
That's why I am announcing today a dramatic new departure in
job training for Americans in the middle of their career.
We
will scrap the present system, tripling current funding, and
putting the focus on greater flexibility for the worker.
The key concept here is something I call Skill Grants.
These are vouchers -- worth up to $3,000 dollars per person --
that can be used toward the training program of their choice.
And these vouchers can go not simply to the unemployed -- but to
those who worry the next pink slip may be their own: to help
-
defense workers retool, to help workers in declining industries
sharpen the skills they'll need to stay one step ahead.
What Pell Grants have done to open up opportunities for our
younger kids, Skill Grants will do for experienced workers in
need of new skills. And the program will focus on the needs of
what we call "dislocated workers" -- people in industries that
are changing because of global competition.
Twleve days ago, I announced the NAFTA -- the North American
Free Trade Agreement, to open new economic opportunities for
American products from the Yukon to the Yucatan. In the 1990s,
NAFTA will create millions of new American jobs -- but near-
term, it may also mean dislocations in some industries.
I've assured the Congress I'd work with them to ease the
transition to NAFTA -- and today's plan will meet that
commitment.
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My plan sets aside up to $670 million per year for the
Secretary of Labor to pump into areas that might be negatively
effected by NAFTA. This funding is more than enough to ensure
that any and every affected worker gets training. More
important, it will help them get the kind of training they want -
- not simply shoehorn them into training programs that just
happen to have openings.
That's our approach to job training: It rests on the
proposition that we should empower people with skills -- instead
of empowering bureaucracies with people.
11
My opponent agrees with this -- in principle. But when you
get to the details, you see a vast difference between our two
philosophies. I believe we can pay for this new job training
offensive without raising taxes or increasing overall government
spending -- by making the tough calls and setting budget
priorities. My entire proposal will be funded within the budget
caps on spending.
My opponent is different -- he sees job training as just
another excuse to raise taxes. // He wants to tax workers to
pay for their own training. He wants to tax small businesses
around the country 1.5 percent -- that's 1.5 percent that will
come out of every worker's paycheck, and it's on top of new
income and other payroll taxes he's proposing.
Think of what this will do to small business, which has
created over two-thirds of the new jobs in the past decade. Let
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me say this to Governor Clinton -- there is no point in training
people for jobs -- if your plan is going to destroy them.
There is another difference between our two approaches. My
opponent says he'll do more to help defense workers coping with
post-Cold War economic realities. What he won't tell you is he
plans $60 billion dollars in added defense cuts beyond what the
experts say is responsible -- reckless cuts that will damage our
national defense and throw one million more defense-industry
employees out of work and onto the unemployment rolls.
Then, once these workers have lost their jobs -- high-paid,
high-tech jobs -- the other side will step in with government
"make-work program. Someone ought to ask these workers what
they'd rather have: Their high-tech jobs and good job training
for another high-tech industry or short-term government "make
work" jobs. //
Don't kid yourself. My opponents prescription of higher
spending and higher taxes will not do any favors for the American
worker. According to one Congressional analysis, it could cost
America almost 3 2.6 , million jobs in the short-term. 11
My opponents whole approach reminds me of the guy with a
head cold -- and the doctor who wants to amputate his leg. To
the patient, it sounds a bit radical. To the doctor, it's
logical: "If your cold settles in your lungs -- you'll get
pneumonia. If you get pneumonia, your circulation will go. If
your circulation goes, you'll get gangrene." 11 "So, just to be
safe: better take off the leg." 111)
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We need a new approach -- one that doesn't cripple the
economy and then offer workers a crutch. One that helps people
keep the jobs they have
T...
and creates the new jobs they
demand. One that helps America retool for the challenges of a
new century -- for the challenge of your lifetimes. 11
I believe I have put forward that approach -- and I will
fight for it in this campaign -- and with a new Congress.
Thank you all for allowing me to come here to talk about
this subject this morning -- and may God bless this great nation,
the United States of America.
#
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LINCOLN TECHNICAL INSTITUTE \ UNION, NEW JERSEY
AUGUST 24, 1992 \ 10:00 A.M.
THANK YOU, SECRETARY MARTIN FOR THOSE KIND WORDS.
FORMER GOVERNOR ToM KEAN. REP. MATTY RINALDO -- IT'S
GOOD TO BE IN YOUR HOMETOWN. PAT SANTANGELO THANK YOU
FOR THE TOUR. CHUCK HAYTAIAN. DON DIFRANCESCO.
STUDENTS AND FACULTY.
LET ME TELL YOU WHY I'VE COME TO LINCOLN TECH THIS
MORNING TO CUT INTO YOUR COFFEE BREAK. I'M HERE TODAY
BECAUSE OF WHAT WILL TAKE PLACE 71 DAYS FROM NOW --
BECAUSE OF A DECISION YOU'LL BE MAKING NOVEMBER 3RD,
THAT WILL SET THE COURSE OF THIS NATION.
- 2 -
THE DEFINING CHALLENGE OF THE 1990's IS TO WIN THE
ECONOMIC COMPETITION -- WIN THE PEACE.
AMERICA MUST BE A MILITARY SUPERPOWER, AN ECONOMIC
SUPERPOWER, AND AN EXPORT SUPERPOWER.
IN THIS ELECTION -- YOU'LL HEAR TWO VISIONS OF HOW
TO DO THIS. THEIRS IS TO LOOK INWARD, AND PROTECT WHAT
WE ALREADY HAVE.
- 3 -
OURS IS TO LOOK FORWARD -- TO OPEN NEW MARKETS, CREATE
INCENTIVES, RESTORE OUR SOCIAL FABRIC -- AND PREPARE
OUR PEOPLE TO COMPETE -- so THAT WE CAN WIN.
THIS MORNING, I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE LAST OF
THOSE CHALLENGES -- NEW WAYS TO PREPARE OUR AMERICAN
WORKERS TO COMPETE.
WE KNOW THE WORLD ECONOMY IS CHANGING -- AND
AMERICA MUST CHANGE WITH IT.
- 4 -
As PRESIDENT, I'VE WORKED TO CREATE NEW MARKETS FROM
MEXICO CITY TO Moscow -- THAT MEANS NEW AMERICAN JOBS
FROM UNION, NEW JERSEY TO UKIAH, CALIFORNIA. RIGHT
NOW, 1 IN EVERY 6 AMERICAN MANUFACTURING JOBS IS TIED
DIRECTLY TO EXPORTS -- AND THAT DOESN'T COUNT THE
ECONOMIC RIPPLE EFFECT CREATED WHEN THOSE WORKERS PAY
THE MORTGAGE, BUY A CAR OR FEED THEIR KIDS. SINCE
1988, THREE-FIFTHS OF ALL OUR ECONOMIC GROWTH HAS COME
FROM PEOPLE IN OTHER COUNTRIES BUYING WHAT'S MADE IN
AMERICA.
- 5 -
JOBS IN THESE NEW EXPORT INDUSTRIES DEMAND WORKERS
WITH HIGHER SKILLS THAN THE JOBS OF THE OLD ECONOMY.
AND WORKERS MUST REALIZE WHAT YOU KNOW HERE AT LINCOLN.
DURING THE COURSE OF A CAREER -- YOU MAY DEVELOP AS
MANY AS FIVE OR SIX SKILLS OR PROFICIENCIES -- PUTTING
A PREMIUM ON FLEXIBILITY AND LIFE-LONG LEARNING.
- 6 -
THESE PRINCIPLES ARE REFLECTED IN A NEW COMMITMENT
TO JOB TRAINING I AM UNVEILING TODAY -- A PROGRAM THAT
IS BOLD, INNOVATIVE AND LOYAL ONLY TO THE FUTURE -- AND
THE NEEDS OF THE AMERICAN WORKER.
EARLIER THIS YEAR, I ANNOUNCED JOB TRAINING 2000
-- A COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAM TO STREAMLINE THE CRAZY
QUILT OF OVER 100 DIFFERENT FEDERAL JOBS PROGRAMS.
- 7 -
Now THAT WE'VE DESIGNED AN EFFECTIVE STRUCTURE FOR
DELIVERING JOB TRAINING, I WANT TO EXPAND OUR EFFORTS.
WE WILL DO IT BY ALMOST TRIPLING THE FUNDS WE
DEVOTE TO TRAINING WORKERS WHO'VE LOST THEIR JOBS. IF
OUR NATION IS TO SUCCEED IN THE WORLD ECONOMY, WE CAN'T
AFFORD TO WASTE THE TALENTS OF ANY WORKER.
- 8 -
THAT MEANS WE NEED BETTER TRAINING FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
FIRST JOINING THE WORKFORCE -- BETTER RE-TRAINING FOR
WORKERS CHANGING CAREERS -- AND BETTER TRAINING AND
ASSISTANCE FOR WORKERS WHO LOSE THEIR JOBS. //
START WITH A NEW INITIATIVE I CALL YOUTH TRAINING
CORPS. THIS PROGRAM IS AIMED AT YOUNG PEOPLE,
PRIMARILY IN OUR INNER CITIES. KIDS WITH TALENT, KIDS
WITH AMBITION -- BUT WITH NO OUTLETS FOR THEIR
ABILITIES OTHER THAN A LIFE OF DRUGS AND CRIME.
- 9 -
RIGHT NOW, WE HAVE A GREAT PROGRAM -- CALLED THE
CONSERVATION CENTERS -- WHICH TAKES THESE KIDS TO JOB
TRAINING CENTERS, OFTEN IN RURAL AREAS, AND PUTS THEM
TO WORK -- FOR EXAMPLE, HELPING REBUILD PARKS OR
RECREATION AND COMMUNITY FACILITIES. AT THE SAME TIME,
THESE KIDS LEARN A SKILL, FIND OUT HOW TO MANAGE THEIR
FINANCES, AND GET COUNSELING ABOUT HOW TO BREAK AWAY
FROM THE TEMPTATIONS OF THE MEAN STREETS THEY ONCE HUNG
OUT ON.
- 10 -
WE'RE GOING TO BUILD ON THE CONSERVATION CENTERS -
- AND ADD 25 NEW CENTERS, WITH POSITIONS FOR 43,000 NEW
TRAINEES. //
To STAFF THESE CENTERS, WE WILL GIVE HIRING
PRIORITY TO FORMER MEMBERS OF OUR ARMED FORCES --
PEOPLE WITH THE PROVEN LEADERSHIP SKILLS, THE DRIVE AND
DISCIPLINE THAT BREED SUCCESS.
- 11 -
AND WE NEED TO EXPAND OUR EXISTING EFFORTS TO TEACH
HIGH SCHOOL KIDS ABOUT THEIR OPPORTUNITIES IN LIFE,
PROVIDE THEM STRONG ROLE MODELS AND ENCOURAGE A SENSE
OF PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY AND DISCIPLINE. So, I AM
ALSO TODAY DOUBLING THE SIZE OF OUR JR. ROTC PROGRAM.
THE PROGRAM IS IN ALMOST 1,500 SCHOOLS TODAY -- I'LL
EXPAND IT TO 2,900 SCHOOLS.
- 12 -
WITH $50 MILLION A YEAR IN NEW FUNDING ANOTHER 150,000
KIDS WILL GET THE BENEFIT OF WHAT HAS BEEN A GREAT
PROGRAM THAT BOOSTS HIGH SCHOOL COMPLETION RATES,
REDUCES DRUG USE, RAISES self-esteem AND GETS THESE
KIDS FIRMLY ON THE RIGHT TRACK.
I WILL ALSO URGE THE CONGRESS TO EXPAND MY YOUTH
APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM. THIS PROGRAM IS AIMED AT HIGH
SCHOOL JUNIORS AND SENIORS WHO MAY BE IN DANGER OF
DROPPING OUT.
- 13 -
THE PROGRAM COMBINES CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION WITH
STRUCTURED WORK PROGRAMS. WHEN STUDENTS FINISH, THEY
NOT ONLY HAVE A DIPLOMA, THEY HAVE A CERTIFICATE SAYING
THEY HAVE DEVELOPED A SKILL -- AND CAN GET A JOB.
RIGHT NOW, THIS PROGRAM IS WORKING AS A DEMONSTRATION
PROJECT IN 6 STATES -- IT OUGHT TO BE EXPANDED TO ALL
50 STATES.
- 14 -
WE' LL ALSO DO MORE FOR TROUBLED KIDS AND WE'LL
CONNECT OUR EFFORTS TO GET YOUNG PEOPLE OFF DRUGS WITH
THE SKILLS THAT HELP THEM GET A CLEAN START. To THIS
END, I AM GOING TO EXPAND DRUG TREATMENT TO REACH AN
ADDITIONAL 28,000 KIDS A YEAR -- AND WE'RE GOING TO TIE
IT TO SUCCESSFUL DRUG TREATMENT TO JOB TRAINING. I
CALL IT TREAT AND TRAIN -- AND IT WILL GUARANTEE THESE
KIDS A PLACE IN OUR JOB TRAINING PROGRAM THE MOMENT
THEY FINISH REHABILITATION.
- 15 -
HELPING YOUNG PEOPLE IS PART OF THE PICTURE. BUT
IF WE WANT TO COMPETE, WE'VE GOT TO HELP OLDER WORKERS
OBTAIN NEW SKILLS. THESE ARE PEOPLE CAUGHT IN THE
TRANSITION OF OUR ECONOMY -- EAGER TO EARN NEW SKILLS -
- SO THEY CAN GET NEW JOBS, AND PROTECT THEIR STANDARD
OF LIVING.
THAT'S WHY I AM ANNOUNCING TODAY A DRAMATIC NEW
DEPARTURE IN JOB TRAINING FOR AMERICANS IN THE MIDDLE
OF THEIR CAREERS.
- 16 -
WE WILL SCRAP THE PRESENT SYSTEM, TRIPLING CURRENT
FUNDING, AND PUTTING THE FOCUS ON GREATER FLEXIBILITY
FOR THE WORKER.
THE KEY CONCEPT HERE IS SOMETHING I CALL SKILL
GRANTS. THESE ARE VOUCHERS -- WORTH UP TO $3000
DOLLARS PER PERSON -- THAT CAN BE USED TOWARD THE
TRAINING PROGRAMS OF THEIR CHOICE. AND THESE VOUCHERS
CAN GO NOT SIMPLY TO THE UNEMPLOYED -- BUT TO THOSE WHO
WORRY THE NEXT PINK SLIP MAY BE THEIR OWN:
- 17 -
To HELP DEFENSE WORKERS RETOOL, TO HELP WORKERS IN
DECLINING INDUSTRIES SHARPEN THE SKILLS THEY' LL NEED TO
STAY ONE STEP AHEAD.
WHAT PELL GRANTS HAVE DONE TO OPEN UP OPPORTUNITIES
FOR OUR YOUNGER KIDS, SKILL GRANTS WILL DO FOR
EXPERIENCED WORKERS IN NEED OF NEW SKILLS. AND THE
PROGRAM WILL FOCUS ON THE NEEDS OF WHAT WE CALL
"DISLOCATED WORKERS" -- PEOPLE IN INDUSTRIES THAT ARE
CHANGING BECAUSE OF GLOBAL COMPETITION.
- 18 -
TWELVE DAYS AGO, I ANNOUNCED THE NAFTA -- THE NORTH
AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT, TO OPEN NEW ECONOMIC
OPPORTUNITIES FOR AMERICAN PRODUCTS FROM THE YUKON TO
THE YUCATAN. IN THE 1990s, NAFTA WILL CREATE MILLIONS
OF NEW AMERICAN JOBS -- BUT NEAR-TERM, IT MAY ALSO MEAN
DISLOCATIONS IN SOME INDUSTRIES.
I'VE ASSURED THE CONGRESS I'D WORK WITH THEM TO
EASE THE TRANSITION TO NAFTA -- AND TODAY'S PLAN WILL
MEET THAT COMMITMENT.
- 19 -
MY PLAN SETS ASIDE UP TO $670 MILLION PER YEAR FOR
THE SECRETARY OF LABOR TO PUMP INTO AREAS THAT MIGHT BE
NEGATIVELY EFFECTED BY NAFTA. THIS FUNDING IS MORE
THAN ENOUGH TO ENSURE THAT ANY AND EVERY AFFECTED
WORKER GETS TRAINING. MORE IMPORTANT, IT WILL HELP
THEM GET THE KIND OF TRAINING THEY WANT -- NOT SIMPLY
SHOEHORN THEM INTO TRAINING PROGRAMS THAT JUST HAPPEN
TO HAVE OPENINGS.
- 20 -
THAT'S OUR APPROACH TO JOB TRAINING: IT RESTS ON
THE PROPOSITION THAT WE SHOULD EMPOWER PEOPLE WITH
SKILLS -- INSTEAD OF EMPOWERING BUREAUCRACIES WITH
PEOPLE. //
My OPPONENT AGREES WITH THIS -- IN PRINCIPLE. BUT
WHEN YOU GET TO THE DETAILS, YOU SEE A VAST DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN OUR TWO PHILOSOPHIES. I BELIEVE WE CAN PAY FOR
THIS NEW JOB TRAINING OFFENSIVE WITHOUT RAISING TAXES
OR INCREASING OVERALL GOVERNMENT SPENDING -- BY MAKING
THE TOUGH CALLS AND SETTING BUDGET PRIORITIES.
- 21 -
MY ENTIRE PROPOSAL WILL BE FUNDED WITHIN THE BUDGET
CAPS ON SPENDING.
MY OPPONENT IS DIFFERENT -- HE SEES JOB TRAINING AS
JUST ANOTHER EXCUSE TO RAISE TAXES. // HE WANTS TO
TAX WORKERS TO PAY FOR THEIR OWN TRAINING. HE WANTS TO
TAX SMALL BUSINESSES AROUND THE COUNTRY 1.5 PERCENT --
THAT'S 1.5 PERCENT THAT WILL COME OUT OF EVERY WORKER'S
PAYCHECK, AND IT'S ON TOP OF NEW INCOME AND OTHER
PAYROLL TAXES HE'S PROPOSING.
- 22 -
THINK OF WHAT THIS WILL DO TO SMALL BUSINESS, WHICH
HAS CREATED OVER TWO-THIRDS OF THE NEW JOBS IN THE PAST
DECADE. LET ME SAY THIS TO GOVERNOR CLINTON -- THERE
IS NO POINT IN TRAINING PEOPLE FOR JOBS -- IF YOUR PLAN
IS GOING TO DESTROY THEM.
THERE IS ANOTHER DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OUR TWO
APPROACHES. My OPPONENT SAYS HE'LL DO MORE TO HELP
DEFENSE WORKERS COPING WITH POST-COLD WAR ECONOMIC
REALITIES.
- 23 -
WHAT HE WON'T TELL YOU IS HE PLANS $60 BILLION DOLLARS
IN ADDED DEFENSE CUTS BEYOND WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY IS
RESPONSIBLE -- RECKLESS CUTS THAT WILL DAMAGE OUR
NATIONAL DEFENSE AND THROW ONE MILLION MORE DEFENSE-
INDUSTRY EMPLOYEES OUT OF WORK AND ONTO THE
UNEMPLOYMENT ROLLS.
THEN, ONCE THESE WORKERS HAVE LOST THEIR JOBS --
HIGH-PAID, HIGH-TECH JOBS -- THE OTHER SIDE WILL STEP
IN WITH GOVERNMENT "MAKE-WORK PROGRAM."
- 24 -
SOMEONE OUGHT TO ASK THESE WORKERS WHAT THEY'D RATHER
HAVE: THEIR HIGH-TECH JOBS AND GOOD JOB TRAINING FOR
ANOTHER HIGH-TECH INDUSTRY OR SHORT-TERM GOVERNMENT
"MAKE WORK" JOBS. //
DON'T KID YOURSELF. MY OPPONENTS PRESCRIPTION OF
HIGHER SPENDING AND HIGHER TAXES WILL NOT DO ANY FAVORS
FOR THE AMERICAN WORKER. ACCORDING TO ONE
CONGRESSIONAL ANALYSIS, IT COULD COST AMERICA ALMOST 3
MILLION JOBS IN THE SHORT-TERM.//
- 25 -
MY OPPONENTS WHOLE APPROACH REMINDS ME OF THE GUY
WITH A HEAD COLD -- AND THE DOCTOR WHO WANTS TO
AMPUTATE HIS LEG. To THE PATIENT, IT SOUNDS A BIT
RADICAL. To THE DOCTOR, IT'S LOGICAL: "IF YOUR COLD
SETTLES IN YOUR LUNGS -- YOU'LL GET PNEUMONIA. IF YOU
GET PNEUMONIA, YOUR CIRCULATION WILL GO. IF YOUR
CIRCULATION GOES, YOU' LL GET GANGRENE." // "So, JUST
TO BE SAFE: BETTER TAKE OFF THE LEG." //))
- 26 -
WE NEED A NEW APPROACH -- ONE THAT DOESN'T CRIPPLE
THE ECONOMY AND THEN OFFER WORKERS A CRUTCH. ONE THAT
HELPS PEOPLE KEEP THE JOBS THEY HAVE ... AND CREATES
THE NEW JOBS THEY DEMAND. ONE THAT HELPS AMERICA
RETOOL FOR THE CHALLENGES OF A NEW CENTURY -- FOR THE
CHALLENGE OF YOUR LIFETIMES. //
I BELIEVE I HAVE PUT FORWARD THAT APPROACH -- AND I
WILL FIGHT FOR IT IN THIS CAMPAIGN -- AND WITH A NEW
CONGRESS.
- 27 -
THANK YOU ALL FOR ALLOWING ME TO COME HERE TO TALK
ABOUT THIS SUBJECT THIS MORNING -- AND MAY GOD BLESS
THIS GREAT NATION, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
# # #
LINCOLN TECHNICAL INSTITUTE \ UNION, NEW JERSEY
AUGUST 24, 1992 \ 10:00 A.M.
THANK YOU, SECRETARY MARTIN FOR THOSE KIND WORDS.
FORMER GOVERNOR ToM KEAN. REP. MATTY RINALDO -- IT'S
GOOD TO BE IN YOUR HOMETOWN. PAT SANTANGELO THANK YOU
FOR THE TOUR. CHUCK HAYTAIAN. DON DIFRANCESCO.
STUDENTS AND FACULTY.
LET ME TELL YOU WHY I'VE COME TO LINCOLN TECH THIS
MORNING TO CUT INTO YOUR COFFEE BREAK. I'M HERE TODAY
BECAUSE OF WHAT WILL TAKE PLACE 71 DAYS FROM NOW --
BECAUSE OF A DECISION YOU'LL BE MAKING NOVEMBER 3RD,
THAT WILL SET THE COURSE OF THIS NATION.
- 2 -
THE DEFINING CHALLENGE OF THE 1990's IS TO WIN THE
ECONOMIC COMPETITION -- WIN THE PEACE.
AMERICA MUST BE A MILITARY SUPERPOWER, AN ECONOMIC
SUPERPOWER, AND AN EXPORT SUPERPOWER.
IN THIS ELECTION -- YOU'LL HEAR TWO VISIONS OF HOW
TO DO THIS. THEIRS IS TO LOOK INWARD, AND PROTECT WHAT
WE ALREADY HAVE.
- 3 -
OURS IS TO LOOK FORWARD -- TO OPEN NEW MARKETS, CREATE
INCENTIVES, RESTORE OUR SOCIAL FABRIC -- AND PREPARE
OUR PEOPLE TO COMPETE -- so THAT WE CAN WIN.
THIS MORNING, I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE LAST OF
THOSE CHALLENGES -- NEW WAYS TO PREPARE OUR AMERICAN
WORKERS TO COMPETE.
WE KNOW THE WORLD ECONOMY IS CHANGING -- AND
AMERICA MUST CHANGE WITH IT.
- 4 -
As PRESIDENT, I'VE WORKED TO CREATE NEW MARKETS FROM
MEXICO CITY TO Moscow -- THAT MEANS NEW AMERICAN JOBS
FROM UNION, NEW JERSEY TO UKIAH, CALIFORNIA. RIGHT
NOW, 1 IN EVERY 6 AMERICAN MANUFACTURING JOBS IS TIED
DIRECTLY TO EXPORTS -- AND THAT DOESN'T COUNT THE
ECONOMIC RIPPLE EFFECT CREATED WHEN THOSE WORKERS PAY
THE MORTGAGE, BUY A CAR OR FEED THEIR KIDS. SINCE
1988, THREE-FIFTHS OF ALL OUR ECONOMIC GROWTH HAS COME
FROM PEOPLE IN OTHER COUNTRIES BUYING WHAT'S MADE IN
AMERICA.
- 5 -
JOBS IN THESE NEW EXPORT INDUSTRIES DEMAND WORKERS
WITH HIGHER SKILLS THAN THE JOBS OF THE OLD ECONOMY.
AND WORKERS MUST REALIZE WHAT YOU KNOW HERE AT LINCOLN.
DURING THE COURSE OF A CAREER -- YOU MAY DEVELOP AS
MANY AS FIVE OR SIX SKILLS OR PROFICIENCIES -- PUTTING
A PREMIUM ON FLEXIBILITY AND LIFE-LONG LEARNING.
- 6 -
THESE PRINCIPLES ARE REFLECTED IN A NEW COMMITMENT
TO JOB TRAINING I AM UNVEILING TODAY -- A PROGRAM THAT
IS BOLD, INNOVATIVE AND LOYAL ONLY TO THE FUTURE -- AND
THE NEEDS OF THE AMERICAN WORKER.
EARLIER THIS YEAR, I ANNOUNCED JOB TRAINING 2000
-- A COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAM TO STREAMLINE THE CRAZY
QUILT OF OVER 100 DIFFERENT FEDERAL JOBS PROGRAMS.
- 7 -
Now THAT WE'VE DESIGNED AN EFFECTIVE STRUCTURE FOR
DELIVERING JOB TRAINING, I WANT TO EXPAND OUR EFFORTS.
WE WILL DO IT BY ALMOST TRIPLING THE FUNDS WE
DEVOTE TO TRAINING WORKERS WHO'VE LOST THEIR JOBS. IF
OUR NATION IS TO SUCCEED IN THE WORLD ECONOMY, WE CAN'T
AFFORD TO WASTE THE TALENTS OF ANY WORKER.
- 8 -
THAT MEANS WE NEED BETTER TRAINING FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
FIRST JOINING THE WORKFORCE -- BETTER RE-TRAINING FOR
WORKERS CHANGING CAREERS -- AND BETTER TRAINING AND
ASSISTANCE FOR WORKERS WHO LOSE THEIR JOBS. //
START WITH A NEW INITIATIVE I CALL YOUTH TRAINING
CORPS. THIS PROGRAM IS AIMED AT YOUNG PEOPLE,
PRIMARILY IN OUR INNER CITIES. KIDS WITH TALENT, KIDS
WITH AMBITION -- BUT WITH NO OUTLETS FOR THEIR
ABILITIES OTHER THAN A LIFE OF DRUGS AND CRIME.
- 9 -
RIGHT NOW, WE HAVE A GREAT PROGRAM -- CALLED THE
CONSERVATION CENTERS -- WHICH TAKES THESE KIDS TO JOB
TRAINING CENTERS, OFTEN IN RURAL AREAS, AND PUTS THEM
TO WORK -- FOR EXAMPLE, HELPING REBUILD PARKS OR
RECREATION AND COMMUNITY FACILITIES. AT THE SAME TIME,
THESE KIDS LEARN A SKILL, FIND OUT HOW TO MANAGE THEIR
FINANCES, AND GET COUNSELING ABOUT HOW TO BREAK AWAY
FROM THE TEMPTATIONS OF THE MEAN STREETS THEY ONCE HUNG
OUT ON.
- 10 -
WE'RE GOING TO BUILD ON THE CONSERVATION CENTERS -
- AND ADD 25 NEW CENTERS, WITH POSITIONS FOR 43,000 NEW
TRAINEES. //
To STAFF THESE CENTERS, WE WILL GIVE HIRING
PRIORITY TO FORMER MEMBERS OF OUR ARMED FORCES --
PEOPLE WITH THE PROVEN LEADERSHIP SKILLS, THE DRIVE AND
DISCIPLINE THAT BREED SUCCESS.
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AND WE NEED TO EXPAND OUR EXISTING EFFORTS TO TEACH
HIGH SCHOOL KIDS ABOUT THEIR OPPORTUNITIES IN LIFE,
PROVIDE THEM STRONG ROLE MODELS AND ENCOURAGE A SENSE
OF PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY AND DISCIPLINE. So, I AM
ALSO TODAY DOUBLING THE SIZE OF OUR JR. ROTC PROGRAM.
THE PROGRAM IS IN ALMOST 1,500 SCHOOLS TODAY -- I'LL
EXPAND IT TO 2,900 SCHOOLS.
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WITH $50 MILLION A YEAR IN NEW FUNDING ANOTHER 150,000
KIDS WILL GET THE BENEFIT OF WHAT HAS BEEN A GREAT
PROGRAM THAT BOOSTS HIGH SCHOOL COMPLETION RATES,
REDUCES DRUG USE, RAISES SELF=ESTEEM AND GETS THESE
KIDS FIRMLY ON THE RIGHT TRACK.
I WILL ALSO URGE THE CONGRESS TO EXPAND MY YOUTH
APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM. THIS PROGRAM IS AIMED AT HIGH
SCHOOL JUNIORS AND SENIORS WHO MAY BE IN DANGER OF
DROPPING OUT.
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THE PROGRAM COMBINES CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION WITH
STRUCTURED WORK PROGRAMS. WHEN STUDENTS FINISH, THEY
NOT ONLY HAVE A DIPLOMA, THEY HAVE A CERTIFICATE SAYING
THEY HAVE DEVELOPED A SKILL -- AND CAN GET A JOB.
RIGHT NOW, THIS PROGRAM IS WORKING AS A DEMONSTRATION
PROJECT IN 6 STATES -- IT OUGHT TO BE EXPANDED TO ALL
50 STATES.
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WE' LL ALSO DO MORE FOR TROUBLED KIDS AND WE'LL
CONNECT OUR EFFORTS TO GET YOUNG PEOPLE OFF DRUGS WITH
THE SKILLS THAT HELP THEM GET A CLEAN START. To THIS
END, I AM GOING TO EXPAND DRUG TREATMENT TO REACH AN
ADDITIONAL 28,000 KIDS A YEAR -- AND WE'RE GOING TO TIE
IT TO SUCCESSFUL DRUG TREATMENT TO JOB TRAINING. I
CALL IT TREAT AND TRAIN -- AND IT WILL GUARANTEE THESE
KIDS A PLACE IN OUR JOB TRAINING PROGRAM THE MOMENT
THEY FINISH REHABILITATION.
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HELPING YOUNG PEOPLE IS PART OF THE PICTURE. BUT
IF WE WANT TO COMPETE, WE'VE GOT TO HELP OLDER WORKERS
OBTAIN NEW SKILLS. THESE ARE PEOPLE CAUGHT IN THE
TRANSITION OF OUR ECONOMY -- EAGER TO EARN NEW SKILLS -
- so THEY CAN GET NEW JOBS, AND PROTECT THEIR STANDARD
OF LIVING.
THAT'S WHY I AM ANNOUNCING TODAY A DRAMATIC NEW
DEPARTURE IN JOB TRAINING FOR AMERICANS IN THE MIDDLE
OF THEIR CAREERS.
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WE WILL SCRAP THE PRESENT SYSTEM, TRIPLING CURRENT
FUNDING, AND PUTTING THE FOCUS ON GREATER FLEXIBILITY
FOR THE WORKER.
THE KEY CONCEPT HERE IS SOMETHING I CALL SKILL
GRANTS. THESE ARE VOUCHERS -- WORTH UP TO $3000
DOLLARS PER PERSON -- THAT CAN BE USED TOWARD THE
TRAINING PROGRAMS OF THEIR CHOICE. AND THESE VOUCHERS
CAN GO NOT SIMPLY TO THE UNEMPLOYED -- BUT TO THOSE WHO
WORRY THE NEXT PINK SLIP MAY BE THEIR OWN:
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To HELP DEFENSE WORKERS RETOOL, TO HELP WORKERS IN
DECLINING INDUSTRIES SHARPEN THE SKILLS THEY' LL NEED TO
STAY ONE STEP AHEAD.
WHAT PELL GRANTS HAVE DONE TO OPEN UP OPPORTUNITIES
FOR OUR YOUNGER KIDS, SKILL GRANTS WILL DO FOR
EXPERIENCED WORKERS IN NEED OF NEW SKILLS. AND THE
PROGRAM WILL FOCUS ON THE NEEDS OF WHAT WE CALL
"DISLOCATED WORKERS" -- PEOPLE IN INDUSTRIES THAT ARE
CHANGING BECAUSE OF GLOBAL COMPETITION.
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TWELVE DAYS AGO, I ANNOUNCED THE NAFTA -- THE NORTH
AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT, TO OPEN NEW ECONOMIC
OPPORTUNITIES FOR AMERICAN PRODUCTS FROM THE YUKON TO
THE YUCATAN. IN THE 1990s, NAFTA WILL CREATE MILLIONS
OF NEW AMERICAN JOBS -- BUT NEAR-TERM, IT MAY ALSO MEAN
DISLOCATIONS IN SOME INDUSTRIES.
I'VE ASSURED THE CONGRESS I'D WORK WITH THEM TO
EASE THE TRANSITION TO NAFTA -- AND TODAY'S PLAN WILL
MEET THAT COMMITMENT.
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MY PLAN SETS ASIDE UP TO $670 MILLION PER YEAR FOR
THE SECRETARY OF LABOR TO PUMP INTO AREAS THAT MIGHT BE
NEGATIVELY EFFECTED BY NAFTA. THIS FUNDING IS MORE
THAN ENOUGH TO ENSURE THAT ANY AND EVERY AFFECTED
WORKER GETS TRAINING. MORE IMPORTANT, IT WILL HELP
THEM GET THE KIND OF TRAINING THEY WANT -- NOT SIMPLY
SHOEHORN THEM INTO TRAINING PROGRAMS THAT JUST HAPPEN
TO HAVE OPENINGS.
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THAT'S OUR APPROACH TO JOB TRAINING: IT RESTS ON
THE PROPOSITION THAT WE SHOULD EMPOWER PEOPLE WITH
SKILLS -- INSTEAD OF EMPOWERING BUREAUCRACIES WITH
PEOPLE. //
MY OPPONENT AGREES WITH THIS -- IN PRINCIPLE. BUT
WHEN YOU GET TO THE DETAILS, YOU SEE A VAST DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN OUR TWO PHILOSOPHIES. I BELIEVE WE CAN PAY FOR
THIS NEW JOB TRAINING OFFENSIVE WITHOUT RAISING TAXES
OR INCREASING OVERALL GOVERNMENT SPENDING -- BY MAKING
THE TOUGH CALLS AND SETTING BUDGET PRIORITIES.
- 21 -
MY ENTIRE PROPOSAL WILL BE FUNDED WITHIN THE BUDGET
CAPS ON SPENDING.
MY OPPONENT IS DIFFERENT -- HE SEES JOB TRAINING AS
JUST ANOTHER EXCUSE TO RAISE TAXES. // HE WANTS TO
TAX WORKERS TO PAY FOR THEIR OWN TRAINING. HE WANTS TO
TAX SMALL BUSINESSES AROUND THE COUNTRY 1.5 PERCENT --
THAT'S 1.5 PERCENT THAT WILL COME OUT OF EVERY WORKER'S
PAYCHECK, AND IT'S ON TOP OF NEW INCOME AND OTHER
PAYROLL TAXES HE'S PROPOSING.
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THINK OF WHAT THIS WILL DO TO SMALL BUSINESS, WHICH
HAS CREATED OVER TWO-THIRDS OF THE NEW JOBS IN THE PAST
DECADE. LET ME SAY THIS TO GOVERNOR CLINTON -- THERE
IS NO POINT IN TRAINING PEOPLE FOR JOBS -- IF YOUR PLAN
IS GOING TO DESTROY THEM.
THERE IS ANOTHER DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OUR TWO
APPROACHES. My OPPONENT SAYS HE'LL DO MORE TO HELP
DEFENSE WORKERS COPING WITH POST-COLD WAR ECONOMIC
REALITIES.
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WHAT HE WON'T TELL YOU IS HE PLANS $60 BILLION DOLLARS
IN ADDED DEFENSE CUTS BEYOND WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY IS
RESPONSIBLE -- RECKLESS CUTS THAT WILL DAMAGE OUR
NATIONAL DEFENSE AND THROW ONE MILLION MORE DEFENSE-
INDUSTRY EMPLOYEES OUT OF WORK AND ONTO THE
UNEMPLOYMENT ROLLS.
THEN, ONCE THESE WORKERS HAVE LOST THEIR JOBS --
HIGH-PAID, HIGH-TECH JOBS -- THE OTHER SIDE WILL STEP
IN WITH GOVERNMENT "MAKE-WORK PROGRAM."
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SOMEONE OUGHT TO ASK THESE WORKERS WHAT THEY'D RATHER
HAVE: THEIR HIGH-TECH JOBS AND GOOD JOB TRAINING FOR
ANOTHER HIGH-TECH INDUSTRY OR SHORT-TERM GOVERNMENT
"MAKE WORK" JOBS. //
DON'T KID YOURSELF. My OPPONENTS PRESCRIPTION OF
HIGHER SPENDING AND HIGHER TAXES WILL NOT DO ANY FAVORS
FOR THE AMERICAN WORKER. ACCORDING TO ONE
CONGRESSIONAL ANALYSIS, IT COULD COST AMERICA ALMOST 3
MILLION JOBS IN THE SHORT-TERM.//
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My OPPONENTS WHOLE APPROACH REMINDS ME OF THE GUY
WITH A HEAD COLD -- AND THE DOCTOR WHO WANTS TO
AMPUTATE HIS LEG. To THE PATIENT, IT SOUNDS A BIT
RADICAL. To THE DOCTOR, IT'S LOGICAL: "IF YOUR COLD
SETTLES IN YOUR LUNGS -- YOU'LL GET PNEUMONIA. IF YOU
GET PNEUMONIA, YOUR CIRCULATION WILL GO. IF YOUR
CIRCULATION GOES, YOU'LL GET GANGRENE." 11 "So, JUST
TO BE SAFE: BETTER TAKE OFF THE LEG." //))
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WE NEED A NEW APPROACH -- ONE THAT DOESN'T CRIPPLE
THE ECONOMY AND THEN OFFER WORKERS A CRUTCH. ONE THAT
HELPS PEOPLE KEEP THE JOBS THEY HAVE ... AND CREATES
THE NEW JOBS THEY DEMAND. ONE THAT HELPS AMERICA
RETOOL FOR THE CHALLENGES OF A NEW CENTURY -- FOR THE
CHALLENGE OF YOUR LIFETIMES. //
I BELIEVE I HAVE PUT FORWARD THAT APPROACH -- AND I
WILL FIGHT FOR IT IN THIS CAMPAIGN -- AND WITH A NEW
CONGRESS.
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THANK YOU ALL FOR ALLOWING ME TO COME HERE TO TALK
ABOUT THIS SUBJECT THIS MORNING -- AND MAY GOD BLESS
THIS GREAT NATION, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
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McGroarty/Bunton
August 20, 1992
11:30 a.m.
[LINCOLN]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: LINCOLN TECHNICAL INSTITUTE
UNION, NEW JERSEY
AUGUST 24, 1992
10:00 A.M.
Thank you, Secretary Martin for those kind words. Former
Governor Tom Kean. Rep. Matty Renaldo -- it's good to be in your
hometown. Pat Santangelo thank you for the tour. Students and
faculty.
Let me tell you why I've come to Lincoln Tech this morning
to cut into your coffee break. I'm here today because of what
will take place 71 days from now -- because of a decision you'll
be making November 3rd, that will set the course of this nation.
The defining challenge of the 1990's is to win the economic
competition -- win the peace.
America must be a military superpower, an economic
superpower, and an export superpower.
In this election -- you'll hear two visions of how to do
this. Theirs is to look inward, and protect what we already
have. Ours is to look forward -- to open new markets, create
incentives, restore our social fabric -- and prepare our people
to compete -- so that we can win.
This morning, I want to talk about the last of those
challenges -- new ways to prepare our American workers to
compete.
We know the world economy is changing -- and America must
change with it. As President, I've worked to create new markets
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from Mexico City to Moscow -- that mean new American jobs from
Union, New Jersey to Ukiah, California. Right now, 1 in every 6
American manufacturing jobs is tied directly to exports -- and
that doesn't count the economic ripple effect created when those
workers pay the mortgage, buy a car or feed their kids. Since
1988, three-fifths of all our economic growth has come from
people in other countries buying what's Made in America.
Jobs in these new export industries demand workers with
higher skills than the jobs of the old economy. And workers must
realize what you know here at Lincoln. During the course of a
career -- you may develop as many as five or six skills or
proficiencies -- putting a premium on flexibility and life-long
learning.
These principles are reflected in a new commitment to job
training I am unveiling today -- a program that is bold,
innovative and loyal only to the future -- and the needs of the
American worker.
Earlier this year, I announced Job Training 2000 -- a
comprehensive program to streamline the crazy quilt of over 100
different federal jobs programs. Now that we've designed an
effective structure for delivering job training, I want to expand
our efforts.
We will do it by almost tripling the funds we devote to
training workers who've lost their jobs. If our nation is to
succeed in the world economy; we can't afford to waste the
talents of any worker. That means we need better training for
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young people first joining the workforce -- better re-training
for workers changing careers -- and better training and
assistance for workers who lose their jobs. //
Start with a new initiative I call Youth Training Corps.
This program is aimed at young people, primarily in our inner
cities. Kids with talent, kids with ambition -- but with no
outlets for their abilities other than a life of drugs and crime.
Right now, we have a great program -- called the
Conservation Centers -- which takes these kids to job training
centers, often in rural areas, and puts them to work -- for
example, helping rebuild parks or recreation and community
facilities. At the same time, these kids learn a skill, find out
how to manage their finances, and get counseling about how to
break away from the temptations of the mean streets they once
hung out on.
We're going to build on the Civilian Conservation Corps --
and add 25 new centers, with positions for 43,000 new trainees.
//
To staff these centers, we will give hiring priority to
former members of our Armed Forces -- people with the proven
leadership skills, the drive and discipline that breed success.
And we need to expand our existing efforts to teach high
school kids about their opportunities in life, provide them
strong role models and encourage a sense of personal
responsibility and discipline. So, I am also to day doubling the
size of our Jr. ROTC program. The program is in almost 1,500
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schools today -- I'll expand it to 2,900 schools. With $50,000 a
year in new funding another 150,000 kids will get the benefit of
what has been a great program that boosts high school completion
rates, reduces drug use, raises self-esteem and gets these kids
firmly on the right track.
I will also urge the Congress to expand my Youth
Apprenticeship Program. This program is aimed at high school
juniors and seniors who may be in danger of dropping out. The
program combines classroom instruction with structured work
programs. When students finish, they not only have a diploma,
they have a certificate saying they have developed a skill -- and
can get a job. Right now, this program is working as a
demonstration project in 6 states -- it ought to be expand to all
50 states.
We'll also do more for troubled kids and we'll connect our
efforts to connect our efforts to get young people off drugs with
the skills that help them get a clean start. To this end, I am
going to expand drug treatment to reach an additional 28,000 , kids
a year -- and we're going to tie it to successful drug treatment
to job training. I call it Treat and Train -- and it will
guarantee these kids a place in our job training program the
moment they finish rehabilitation.
Helping young people is part of the picture. But if we want
to compete, we've got to help older workers obtain new skills.
These are people caught in the transition of our economy --eager
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to earn new skills -- so they can get new jobs, and protect their
standard of living.
That's why I am announcing today a dramatic new departure in
job training for Americans in the middle of their career. We
will scrap the present system, tripling current funding, and
putting the focus on greater flexibility for the worker.
The key concept here is something I call Skill Grants.
These are vouchers -- worth up to $3000 dollars per person --
that can be used toward the training program of their choice.
And these vouchers can go not simply to the unemployed -- but to
those who worry the next pink slip may be their own: to help
defense workers retool, to help workers in declining industries
sharpen the skills they'll need to stay one step ahead.
What Pell Grants have done to open up opportunities for our
younger kids, Skill Grants will do for experienced workers in
need of new skills. And the program will focus on the needs of
what we call "dislocated workers" -- people in industries that
are changing because of global competition.
Twleve days ago, I announced the NAFTA -- the North American
Free Trade Agreement, to open new economic opportunities for
American products from the Yukon to the Yucatan. In the 1990s,
NAFTA will create millions of new American jobs -- but near-
term, it may also mean dislocations in some industries.
I've assured the Congress I'd work with them to ease the
transition to NAFTA -- and today's plan will meet that
commitment.
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My plan sets aside up to $670 million per year for the
Secretary of Labor to pump into areas that might be negatively
effected by NAFTA. This funding is more than enough to ensure
that any and every affected worker gets training. More
important, it will help them get the kind of training they want -
- not simply shoehorn them into training programs that just
happen to have openings.
That's our approach to job training: It rests on the
proposition that we should empower people with skills -- instead
of empowering bureaucracies with people.
//
My opponent agrees with this -- in principle. But when you
get to the details, you see a vast difference between our two
philosophies. I believe we can pay for this new job training
offensive without raising taxes or increasing overall government
spending -- by making the tough calls and setting budget
priorities. My entire proposal will be funded within the budget
caps on spending.
My opponent is different -- he sees job training as just
another excuse to raise taxes. 11 He wants to tax workers to
pay for their own training. He wants to tax small businesses
around the country 1.5 percent -- that's 1.5 percent that will
come out of every worker's paycheck, and it's on top of new
income and other payroll taxes he's proposing.
Think of what this will do to small business, which has
created over two-thirds of the new jobs in the past decade. Let
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me say this to Governor Clinton -- there is no point in training
people for jobs -- if your plan is going to destroy them.
There is another difference between our two approaches. My
opponent says he'll do more to help defense workers coping with
post-Cold War economic realities. What he won't tell you is he
plans $60 billion dollars in added defense cuts beyond what the
experts say is responsible -- reckless cuts that will damage our
national defense and throw one million more defense-industry
employees out of work and onto the unemployment rolls.
Then, once these workers have lost their jobs -- high-paid,
high-tech jobs -- the other side will step in with government
"make-work program." Someone ought to ask these workers what
they'd rather have: Their high-tech jobs and good job training
for another high-tech industry or short-term government "make
work" jobs. 11
Don't kid yourself. My opponents prescription of higher
spending and higher taxes will not do any favors for the American
worker. According to one Congressional analysis, it could cost
America almost 3 million jobs in the short-term.//
My opponents whole approach reminds me of the guy with a
head cold -- and the doctor who wants to amputate his leg. To
the patient, it sounds a bit radical. To the doctor, it's
logical: "If your cold settles in your lungs -- you'll get
pneumonia. If you get pneumonia, your circulation will go. If
your circulation goes, you'll get gangrene." // "So, just to be
safe: better take off the leg." 11))
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We need a new approach -- one that doesn't cripple the
economy and then offer workers a crutch. One that helps people
keep the jobs they have
and creates the new jobs they
demand. One that helps America retool for the challenges of a
new century -- for the challenge of your lifetimes. //
I believe I have put forward that approach -- and I will
fight for it in this campaign -- and with a new Congress.
Thank you all for allowing me to come here to talk about
this subject this morning -- and may God bless this great nation,
the United States of America.
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August 20, 1992
11:30 a.m.
[LINCOLN]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
LINCOLN TECHNICAL INSTITUTE
UNION TOWNSHIP, NEW JERSEY
ADD TON ADP
AUGUST 24, 1992
??:00 A.M.
RILE
Thank you,
,
for those kind words.
[Acknowledgements.]
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Let me tell you why I've come to Lincoln Tech this morning
to cut into your coffee break. I'm here today because of what
Scully commints
will take place 71 days from now -- because of a decision you'll
be making November 3rd, that will set the course of this nation
8/21/92
at a critical moment in America's future.
Noon
This election is about the big issues. About the issues
that shape the world -- about the values close to home: I'm
talking about family and faith -- about neighborhoods free from
crime
about a world free from fear. //
But we all know the number one worry today is the economy,
it's jobs. Just as you can't drive a nail without a hammer, you
can't build a dream without a job. You're here at Lincoln Tech
because you made the decision to meet the real-world head-on. If
anyone tells you what you're doing here doesn't matter -- let me
tell you: Don't you believe it. What you're doing here makes
all the difference in the world.
If you want to talk to the most productive workers in the
world -- you don't have to brush up on your German, or take a
crash course in Japanese. You can start right here in the U.S.A.
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-- because the American worker is the most productive worker in
the world. / /
That simple fact is worth pointing out because it can help
us keep our economic problems in perspective. And that's
important -- because we're hearing an awful lot these days from
folks who are itching to "play mechanic" with the American
economy. They've got a vested interest in talking this economy
down, feeding fears, treating what's temporary as terminal.
You know the kind of mechanic I mean: Ask him to change the
oil -- and he wants to pull the engine. 11
My point is: When it comes to what happens in this garage:
Experience counts. / You can't solve a problem you don't
understand. The economy's no different.
The simple fact is, there is only one candidate for
President who has lived a life beyond government
...
who has
known a call above political ambition. Once Bill Clinton got
into office, the only way they got him out
...
was when the
voters kicked him out. //
My opponent's idea about creating jobs is to put people on
(state and local
the public payroll. There are 144,000 government employees in
Arkansas, and 235,000 in private industry. That's the kind of
ratio we'd expect to see in the old U.S.S.R. -- not the U.S.A.
//
I come at things a different way. Long before I came to
public service, I built a company
I met a payroll
...
took
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the risks made it work. And I happen to think that's not a
bad qualification for being President. 11
We know the world economy is changing -- and America must
change with it, if we want to compete. Think of the jobs you'll
hold -- think of your friends and families. Right now, 1 in
every 6 American manufacturing jobs is tied directly to exports -
- and that doesn't count the economic ripple effect created when
those workers pay the mortgage, buy a car or feed their kids.
Since 1988, three-fifths of all our economic growth has come from
people in other countries buying what's Made in America.
We don't need more studies or statistics to prove that free
trade is our future. America's real wealth isn't something we
dig up from the ground -- it's the sweat and the smarts of the
American worker. Yes, the world's coming our way -- but I know:
we can play the game. 11
AS President, I've worked to create the new American markets
from Mexico city to Moscow that mean new American jobs from Union
Township, New Jersey to Ukiah, California. I'm convinced the
answer is not to build a wall around our economy, not to put the
government in charge -- but to use the government to help you --
literally -- go to work.
It's part of a larger philosophy. Look at every big issue
we face. You'll see a choice -- a choice between those who put
their faith in everyday Americans, and those who put their faith
in government.
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Bill Clinton says he's all for free enterprise -- then he
proposes the largest tax hike in history, much of it on the back
of small business.
Bill Clinton says he wants smaller government -- but of all
the thousands of government programs, he can find only one he's
willing to cut: The honey bee subsidy.
[[And they could still get stung on that one. ]]
Bill Clinton says he's for fiscal responsibility -- and then
he comes out against the Balanced Budget Amendment.
That's what Bill Clinton says
now let me tell you what a
former Democratic candidate says about Bill Clinton -- he thinks
this year's Democratic ticket is a Trojan Horse: and I quote --
"They're much more liberal underneath -- and they'll prove it
when they're elected."
That's not me using the "L" word - that's George McGovern.
So if you ask me how I'd get ready for November 3rd, I have
just two pieces of advice to the American voter: Kick the tires.
And don't get taken for a ride. 11
This year, the choice is clear. It's a choice between two
fundamentally different philosophies: of the government, by the
government, for the government" versus "of the people, by the
people, for the people.'
I trust parents -- not the government -- to make the
decisions that matter in life. 11
I trust parents - not the government -- to choose their
children's schools: public, private or religious. 11
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I trust the people -- not the government -- to choose their
own health care.
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's child care. 11 When the other side says, "government
knows best" -- I say: Parents know better. Parents know better
than some bureaucrat in Washington, D.C. //
The genius of free enterprise is something the "Government
First" folks just won't ever understand. They'd look at Thomas
Edison's light bulb -- and see a threat to the candle industry.
What we need now is someone who sees the new horizon --
someone who understands America's place in the world is never to
be the patrons of the past - but the architects of the future.
Consider my approach to the issue that right now concerns
you most: job training.
Earlier this year, I announced Job Training 2000 -- a
comprehensive program to streamline the crazy quilt of over 100
different federal jobs programs. Now that we've put an
designed
effective structure for delivering job training, I want to expand
our efforts -- for young people trying to get that first job, and
for older workers retooling for a new career.
We will do it by almost tripling the funds we devote to job
district workers
training Our aim is: Better training for young people first
joining the workforce -- better re-training for workers changing
careers -- better training and assistance for workers who lose
their jobs. //
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worker. The key concept here is Skills Grants -- vouchers worth
up to $3000 dollars per person, to be used toward the training
program of their choice. And these vouchers can go not simply to
the unemployed -- but to those who worry the next pink slip may
be their own: to help defense workers retool, to help workers in
declining industries sharpen the skills they'll need to stay one
step ahead.
What Pell Grants have done to open up opportunities for our younger
kids, Skills Grants will do for young trainees and
experienced workers in need of new skills. And it will key in on
the needs of dislocated workers. Per days ago, I signed announced the
Twelve
NAFTA -- the North American Free Trade Agreement, to open new
economic opportunities for American products from the Yukon to
the Yucatan. In the 1990s, NAFTA will create millions of new
American jobs - but near-term, it may also mean dislocations in
some industries.
I've assured the Congress I'd work with them to ease the
meet that commitment.
transition to NAFTA -- and my plan will make a good beginning.
My plan sets aside up to $660 million per year for the
Secretary of Labor to pump into areas that might be negatively
effected by NAFTA -- or to other hard-hit areas. This funding is
more than enough to ensure that any and every affected worker
gets training. More important, it will help them get the kind of
training they want -- not simply shoehorn them into existing
programs that just happen to have openings.
trainings
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Choice in careers 8 and
That's our approach to job training: Meaningful work -- not
make-work. Real-world help ... for real jobs. 11
That's an approach the other side can't match. The other
side sees job training as just another reason to raise taxes. We
see it as a way to raise self-esteem -- restore productivity and
generate economic growth. //
Right now the federal government spends $1.4 trillion
dollars a year. But it seems $1.4 trillion just isn't enough.
So the other side wants to tax workers to pay for their own
training.
The other side says they'll do more to help defense workers
coping with post-Cold War economic realities. What they won't
tell you is they plan $60 billion dollars in added defense cuts -
- reckless cuts that will damage our national defense and throw
one million more defense-industry employees out of work and onto
the unemployment rolls
welfare. Then, once these workers have lost their jobs - high-
paid, high-tech jobs -- the other side will step in with
government "make-work." Someone ought to ask these workers what
high tech, good training for another
they'd rather have: Their jobs or job training? LHI high tach industry,
But I guess my opponents are doing the only thing they know
how: Drive the private sector into bankruptcy -- then offer
short term
everyone a dead-end job on the public payroll. 11
government
(( It reminds me of the guy with a head cold --- and the
make work
job-
doctor who wants to amputate his leg. To the patient, it sounds
a bit radical. To the doctor, it's logical: "If your cold
settles in your lungs -- you'll get pneumonia. If you get
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pneumonia, your circulation will go. If your circulation goes,
you'll get gangrene." 11 "so, just to be safe: better take off
the leg." 11))
We need a new approach -- one that doesn't cripple the
economy and then offer workers a crutch. One that helps people
keep the jobs they've got and creates new ones. One that
helps America retool for the challenges of a new century -- for
the challenge of your lifetimes. 11
Thank you all for this warm welcome -- and may God bless
this great nation, the United States of America.
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: LINCOLN TECHNICAL INSTITUTE
UNION TOWNSHIP, NEW JERSEY
AUGUST 24, 1992
??:00 A.M.
Thank you,
,
for those kind words.
[Acknowledgements.]
Let me tell you why I've come to Lincoln Tech this morning
to cut into your coffee break. I'm here today because of what
will take place 71 days from now -- because of a decision you'll
be making November 3rd, that will set the course of this nation
at a critical moment in America's history.
This election is about the big issues. About the issues
that shape the world -- about the values close to home: I'm
talking about family and faith -- about neighborhoods free from
crime
about a world free from fear. 11
But we all know the number one worry today is the economy,
it's jobs. Just as you can't drive a nail without a hammer, you
can't build a dream without a job. You're here at Lincoln Tech
because you made the decision to meet the real-world head-on. If
anyone tells you what you're doing here doesn't matter -- let me
tell you: Don't you believe it. What you're doing here makes
all the difference in the world.
If you want to talk to the most productive workers in the
world -- you don't have to brush up on your German, or take a
crash course in Japanese. You can start right here in the U.S.A.
'WHITE' HOUSE COMMCTR
TUE 18 AUG 92 00:52
PG.03
2
-- because the American worker is the most productive worker in
the world. //
That simple fact is worth pointing out because it can help
CHALLENGES
us keep our economic problems in perspective. And that's
important -- because we're hearing an awful lot these days from
folks who are itching to "play mechanic" with the American
economy. They've got a vested interest in talking this economy
down, feeding fears, treating what's temporary as terminal.
You know the kind of mechanic I mean: Ask him to change the
oil -- and he wants to pull the engine. //
My point is: When it comes to what happens in this garage:
Experience counts. / You can't solve a problem you don't
understand. The economy's no different.
The simple fact is, there is only one candidate for
President who has lived a life beyond government
who has
NEEDS
known a call above political ambition. Since the day he left law
ORE
school, every paycheck Bill Clinton has earned has come out of
the taxpayer's pocket. He's put plenty of people on the public
payroll -- but he's never created a single job. //
I come at things a different way. Long before I came to
public service, I built a company
I met a payroll
took
the risks
made it work. And I happen to think that's not a
bad qualification for being President. //
We know the world economy is changing -- and America must
change with it, if we want to compete. Think of the jobs you'll
hold -- think of your friends and families. Right now, 1 in
WHITE HOUSE COMMCTR
TUE 18 AUG 92 00:53
PG.04
3
every 14 Americans works a job tied directly to foreign trade --
and that doesn't count the economic ripple effect created when
those workers pay the mortgage, buy a car or feed their kids. In
the past [three] years -- [more than half] of all our economic
growth has come from people in other countries buying what's Made
in America.
We don't need more studies or statistics to prove that free
trade is our future. America's real wealth isn't something we
dig up from the ground -- it's the sweat and the smarts of the
American worker. Yes, the world's coming our way -- but I know:
we play game.
can WILL SUCCEED the IN INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION.
As President, I've worked to create the new American markets
in Ukraine and [xxxx] that mean new American jobs in Union and
[xxxxx]. I'm convinced the answer is not to build a wall around
NOR
our economy, not to put the government in charge -- but to use
the government to help you -- literally -- go to work.
It's part of a larger philosophy. Look at every big issue
we face. You'll see a choice -- a choice between those who put
their faith in everyday Americans, and those who put their faith
in government.
Bill Clinton says he's all for free enterprise -- then he
proposes the largest tax hike in history, much of it on the back
of small business.
Bill Clinton says he wants smaller government -- but of all
yes
the thousands of government programs, he can find only one he's
ELIMINATE
willing to cut: The honey bee subsidy.
WHITE HOUSE COMMCTR
TUE 18 AUG 92 00:53
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XNO
SUBSIDY FOR WHICH HIS RUNNING 4 MATE VOTED FOR.
[[And they could still get stung on that one. ]]
Bill Clinton says he's for fiscal responsibility -- and then
he comes out against the Balanced Budget Amendment.
That's what Bill Clinton says ... now let me tell you what a
former Democratic candidate says about Bill Clinton -- and I
quote: "This year's Democratic ticket is a Trojan Horse.
They're much more liberal underneath -- and they'll prove it when
they're elected."
That's not me using the "L" word -- that's George McGovern.
So if you ask me how I'd get ready for November 3rd, I have
just two pieces of advice to the American voter: Kick the tires.
And don't get taken for a ride. //
This year, the choice is clear. It's a choice between two
fundamentally different philosophies: of the government, by the
government, for the government" versus "of the people, by the
people, for the people."
I trust parents -- not the government -- to make the
decisions that matter in life. //
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's schools: public, private or religious. //
I trust the people -- not the government -- to choose their
own health care.
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's child care. // When the other side says, "government
No
knows best" GOVERNMENT -- I say: Parents know better. Parents know better
than some bureaucrat, in Washington, D.C. //
WHITE HOUSE COMMCTR
TUE 18 AUG 92 00:54
PG.06
5
The genius of free enterprise is something the "Government
First" folks just won't ever understand. They'd look at Thomas
Edison's light bulb -- and see a threat to the candle industry.
What we need now is someone who sees the new horizon --
the
someone who understands America's place in the world is never to
be the patrons of the past -- but the architects of the future.
//
Consider my approach to the issue that right now concerns
you most: job training.
Earlier this year, I announced Jobs Training 2000 -- a
comprehensive program to help American workers of all ages adapt
to our evolving economy. Today, I want to expand that effort --
- for young people trying to get that first-job, and for older
workers retooling for a new career.
Start with a new initiative I call Youth Training Corps.
The idea here is to take at-risk youth off the mean streets
add
ANOPPORTUNITY
and give them a second STET chance to build the skills they need to
WE WILL
OUR
succeed, We re going to build on existing Civilian Conservation
Corps -- and add 25 new centers, with positions for 23,000 new
trainees. //
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IN PROVIDING INSTRUCTORS FOR THESE CENTERS,
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We will give hiring priority to former members of our Armed
Forces -- people with the proven leadership skills, the drive and
discipline that breed success.
NATIONWIDE
I will also urge the Congress to expand my Youth
No
Apprenticeship Program. This program offers today's high school
A MARVELOUS OPPORTUNITY
students the best chance to get a start in the workforce without
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TUE 18 AUG 92 00:55
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dropping out of school. It's working now in 6 states -- we ought
THIS EXPANSION
No
WILL
to take it to all 50 states.
Finally, we've got to connect our efforts to get young
people off drugs with the job skills that help them get a clean
start. That's the aim of a new program I call Treat and Train -
OBE
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- to pair intensive drug treatment with an inside track into the
HAVE
TODAY.
new Youth Training Corps I announced just a moment ago.
Helping young people is part of the picture. If we want to
WE MUST ALSO
compete, we've got to help older workers obtain new skills. //
That's why I am announcing today a new departure in job
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REPLACING
training
scrapping the present system, tripling present
(XWITH A PROGRAM FOR All DISPLACED WORKERS,
funding, and putting X the focus on greater flexibility for the
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worker. The key concept here is Skills Grant Vouchers --
vouchers worth up to $3000 dollars per person, WORKER to be used toward
WORKER'S
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the training program of their choice. And these vouchers can go
not simply to the unemployed -- but to those who worry the next
HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED
THEIR JOBS ARE BEING TERMINATED, OR TO WORKERS IN INDUSTRIES UNDERGOING SIGNIFICANT
pink slip may be their own: to help defense workers retool, to
help workers in declining industries sharpen the skills they 11
need to stay one step ahead.
ADJUSTMENTS,
That's our approach to job training: Meaningful work -- not
make-work. Real-world help
for real jobs. //
That's an approach the other side can't match. The other
side sees job training as just another reason to raise taxes.
Right now the federal government spends $1.5 trillion
dollars a year. But it seems $1.5 trillion just isn't enough.
So they want to tax workers to pay for their own training.
WHITE HOUSE COMMCTR
TUE 18 AUG 92 00:55
PG.08
7
The other side says they'll do more to help defense workers
coping with post-Cold War economic realities. What they won't DON'T
EMPHASIZE THAT
tell you is they plan $60 billion dollars in added defense cuts -
- reckless cuts that will damage our national defense and throw
one million more defense-industry employees out of work [and onto
yes
unempcoyment welfare Then, once these workers have lost their jobs -- high-
paid, high-tech jobs -- the other side will step in with
government "make-work." Someone ought to ask these workers what
?
they'd rather have: Their jobs -- or job training? //
But I guess my opponents are doing the only thing they know
how: Drive the private sector into bankruptcy -- then offer
everyone a dead-end job on the public payroll. //
(( It reminds me of the guy with a head cold -- and the
doctor who wants to amputate his leg. To the patient, it sounds
a bit radical. To the doctor, it's logical: "If your cold
settles in your lungs -- you'll get pneumonia. If you get
pneumonia, your circulation will go. If your circulation goes,
you'll get gangrene." // "So, just to be safe: better take off
the leg. " 11))
We need a new approach -- one that doesn't cripple the
economy and then offer workers a crutch. One that helps people
keep the jobs they've got and creates new ones. One that
helps America retool for the challenges of a new century -- for
the challenge of your lifetimes. //
Thank you all for this warm welcome -- and may God bless
this great nation, the United States of America.
name
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Can you believe that, according to the Wash Post, there are 144,00 federal state and
local workers in Arkansas --- and only 235,00 workers in industry! I thought that
kind of ratio could only be found under East German management!
Insert #2 page 4
and-- as you'll see today -- when it comes to job training I turst the people-- not the
government to choose their own careers, their own skills -- and their own path to
personal reward and success.
Insert #3
Earlier this year, I announced Job Training 2000 -- a comprehensive program to
streamline the crazy quilt of over 100 different jobs programs. It will provide "one
stop shoping" for anyone seeking job training or career services in a local
community. Now that we have found an effective structure for delivering these
services, I want to almost triple the size of our programs for this type of training.
Better resources for young people for their first jobs; better retraining for workers
changing careers; and better training and assistance for workers who've lost their
jobs.
Insert #4
We also want to tie this new training effort to our war on drugs -- and our fight to
bring young kids terrorized by drugs back into the mainstream -- to good jobs and
good lives. I am going to create 10,000 new drug treatment slots -- which will treat
another 28,000 kids each year. But, in a new twist, we are going to tie success in this
program to job training as well. I call it "Treat and Train", and it will guarantee the
kids in thses drug treeatment programs a spot in intensive job training as soon as
they fininsh rehabilitation. Instead of putting them back on the streets, we will give
them real skilld and send them back into the community with knowlegede, with
hope, with skills and with a job. When we get these kids back on track we must give
them the tools to build and sustain a new life.
Insert #5
What Pell Grants have done to open up opportunities for college kids, Skill Grants
will do for young trainess and experienced workers in need of a new skill. But it
will also provide far greater funding and flexibility in quickly responding to the
needs of dislocated workers. For example, ten days ago we finalized an historic
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). This agreement will create
millions of new American jobs -- but some argue it might also have the effect of
causing dislocation in some industries. This plan sets aside up to $660 million per
year for the Secretary of Labor to pump into areas that might be negatively affected
by NAFTA, or to other areas with high job loss. This funding is more than enough
to ensure that any and every affected worker gets help and training. But more
importantly it is more flexible than existing programs in that it allows them to get
the training they want and need -- not only what happens to be available through
government sponsored training contracts.
Real skills and real opporuntiy that the worer chooses. That's our approach
McGroarty/Bunton
August 17, 1992
6:30 p.m.
[LINCOLN]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: LINCOLN TECHNICAL INSTITUTE
UNION TOWNSHIP, NEW JERSEY
AUGUST 24, 1992
??:00 A.M.
Thank you,
for those kind words.
,
[Acknowledgements.]
Let me tell you why I've come to Lincoln Tech this morning
to cut into your coffee break. I'm here today because of what
will take place 71 days from now -- because of a decision you'll
be making November 3rd, that will set the course of this nation
at a critical moment in America's history.
This election is about the big issues. About the issues
that shape the world -- about the values close to home: I'm
talking about family and faith -- about neighborhoods free from
crime
about a world free from fear. //
But we all know the number one worry today is the economy,
it's jobs. Just as you can't drive a nail without a hammer, you
can't build a dream without a job. You're here at Lincoln Tech
because you made the decision to meet the real-world head-on. If
anyone tells you what you're doing here doesn't matter -- let me
tell you: Don't you believe it. What you're doing here makes
all the difference in the world.
If you want to talk to the most productive workers in the
world -- you don't have to brush up on your German, or take a
crash course in Japanese. You can start right here in the U.S.A.
2
-- because the American worker is the most productive worker in
the world. //
That simple fact is worth pointing out because it can help
us keep our economic problems in perspective. And that's
important -- because we're hearing an awful lot these days from
folks who are itching to "play mechanic" with the American
economy. They've got a vested interest in talking this economy
down, feeding fears, treating what's temporary as terminal.
You know the kind of mechanic I mean: Ask him to change the
oil -- and he wants to pull the engine. //
My point is: When it comes to what happens in this garage:
Experience counts. / You can't solve a problem you don't
understand. The economy's no different.
The simple fact is, there is only one candidate for
President who has lived a life beyond government
who has
known a call above political ambition. Since the day he left law
school, every paycheck Bill Clinton has earned has come out of
235,000
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hold -- think of your friends and families. Right now, 1 in
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and that doesn't count the economic ripple effect created when
those workers pay the mortgage, buy a car or feed their kids. In
the past [three] years -- [more than half] of all our economic
growth has come from people in other countries buying what's Made
in America.
We don't need more studies or statistics to prove that free
trade is our future. America's real wealth isn't something we
dig up from the ground -- it's the sweat and the smarts of the
American worker. Yes, the world's coming our way -- but I know:
we can play the game. //
As President, I've worked to create the new American markets
in Ukraine and [xxxx] that mean new American jobs in Union and
[xxxxx]. I'm convinced the answer is not to build a wall around
our economy, not to put the government in charge -- but to use
the government to help you -- literally -- go to work.
It's part of a larger philosophy. Look at every big issue
we face. You'll see a choice -- a choice between those who put
their faith in everyday Americans, and those who put their faith
in government.
Bill Clinton says he's all for free enterprise -- then he
proposes the largest tax hike in history, much of it on the back
of small business.
Bill Clinton says he wants smaller government -- but of all
the thousands of government programs, he can find only one he's
willing to cut: The honey bee subsidy.
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Bill Clinton says he's for fiscal responsibility -- and then
he comes out against the Balanced Budget Amendment.
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quote: "This year's Democratic ticket is a Trojan Horse.
They're much more liberal underneath -- and they'll prove it when
they're elected."
That's not me using the "L" word -- that's George McGovern.
So if you ask me how I'd get ready for November 3rd, I have
just two pieces of advice to the American voter: Kick the tires.
And don't get taken for a ride. //
This year, the choice is clear. It's a choice between two
fundamentally different philosophies: of the government, by the
government, for the government" versus "of the people, by the
people, for the people."
I trust parents -- not the government -- to make the
decisions that matter in life. //
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's schools: public, private or religious. //
I trust the people -- not the government -- to choose their
own health care.
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's child care. // When the other side says, "government
knows best" -- I say: Parents know better. Parents know better
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someone who understands America's place in the world is never to
be the patrons of the past -- but the architects of the future.
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dranatic program for (in 11 our changing
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much of
training -- scrapping the present system, tripling present current
funding, and putting the focus on greater flexibility for the
worker. The key concept here is Skills Grant Vouchers --
vouchers worth up to $3000 dollars per person, to be used toward
the training program of their choice. And these vouchers can go
now traines
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pink slip may be their own: to help defense workers retool, to
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The other side says they'll do more to help defense workers
coping with post-Cold War economic realities. What they won't
tell you is they plan $60 billion dollars in added defense cuts -
- reckless cuts that will damage our national defense and throw
one million more defense-industry employees out of work and onto
welfare. Then, once these workers have lost their jobs -- high-
paid, high-tech jobs -- the other side will step in with
government "make-work." Someone ought to ask these workers what
they'd rather have: Their jobs -- or job training? //
But I guess my opponents are doing the only thing they know
how: Drive the private sector into bankruptcy -- then offer
everyone a dead-end job on the public payroll. //
(( It reminds me of the guy with a head cold -- and the
doctor who wants to amputate his leg. To the patient, it sounds
a bit radical. To the doctor, it's logical: "If your cold
settles in your lungs -- you'll get pneumonia. If you get
pneumonia, your circulation will go. If your circulation goes,
you'll get gangrene." // "So, just to be safe: better take off
the leg." //))
We need a new approach -- one that doesn't cripple the
economy and then offer workers a crutch. One that helps people
keep the jobs they've got and creates new ones. One that
helps America retool for the challenges of a new century -- for
the challenge of your lifetimes. //
Thank you all for this warm welcome -- and may God bless
this great nation, the United States of America.
Scuem
McGroarty/Bunton
August 17, 1992
6:30 p.m.
[LINCOLN]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: LINCOLN TECHNICAL INSTITUTE
UNION TOWNSHIP, NEW JERSEY
AUGUST 24, 1992
??:00 A.M.
Thank you,
,
for those kind words.
[Acknowledgements.]
Let me tell you why I've come to Lincoln Tech this morning
to cut into your coffee break. I'm here today because of what
will take place 71 days from now -- because of a decision you'll
be making November 3rd, that will set the course of this nation
at a critical moment in America's history.
This election is about the big issues. About the issues
that shape the world -- about the values close to home: I'm
talking about family and faith -- about neighborhoods free from
crime
... about a world free from fear. //
But we all know the number one worry today is the economy,
it's jobs. Just as you can't drive a nail without a hammer, you
can't build a dream without a job. You're here at Lincoln Tech
because you made the decision to meet the real-world head-on. If
anyone tells you what you're doing here doesn't matter -- let me
tell you: Don't you believe it. What you're doing here makes
all the difference in the world.
If you want to talk to the most productive workers in the
world -- you don't have to brush up on your German, or take a
crash course in Japanese. You can start right here in the U.S.A.
2
-- because the American worker is the most productive worker in
the world. / /
That simple fact is worth pointing out because it can help
us keep our economic problems in perspective. And that's
important -- because we're hearing an awful lot these days from
folks who are itching to "play mechanic" with the American
economy. They've got a vested interest in talking this economy
down, feeding fears, treating what's temporary as terminal.
You know the kind of mechanic I mean: Ask him to change the
oil -- and he wants to pull the engine. //
My point is: When it comes to what happens in this garage:
Experience counts. / You can't solve a problem you don't
understand. The economy's no different.
The simple fact is, there is only one candidate for
President who has lived a life beyond government
who has
known a call above political ambition. Since the day he left law
(144,000
goes
school, every paycheck Bill Clinton has earned has come out of
235,000
in
industry
the taxpayer's pocket. He's put plenty of people on the public
payroll -- but he's never created a single job. //
I come at things a different way. Long before I came to
public service, I built a company
...
I met a payroll
took
the risks
made it work. And I happen to think that's not a
bad qualification for being President. //
We know the world economy is changing -- and America must
change with it, if we want to compete. Think of the jobs you'll
hold -- think of your friends and families. Right now, 1 in
3
every 14 Americans works a job tied directly to foreign trade --
and that doesn't count the economic ripple effect created when
those workers pay the mortgage, buy a car or feed their kids. In
the past [three] years -- [more than half] of all our economic
growth has come from people in other countries buying what's Made
in America.
We don't need more studies or statistics to prove that free
trade is our future. America's real wealth isn't something we
dig up from the ground -- it's the sweat and the smarts of the
American worker. Yes, the world's coming our way -- but I know:
we can play the game. //
As President, I've worked to create the new American markets
in Ukraine and [xxxx] that mean new American jobs in Union and
[xxxxx]. I'm convinced the answer is not to build a wall around
our economy, not to put the government in charge -- but to use
the government to help you -- literally -- go to work.
It's part of a larger philosophy. Look at every big issue
we face. You'll see a choice -- a choice between those who put
their faith in everyday Americans, and those who put their faith
in government.
Bill Clinton says he's all for free enterprise -- then he
proposes the largest tax hike in history, much of it on the back
of small business.
Bill Clinton says he wants smaller government -- but of all
the thousands of government programs, he can find only one he's
willing to cut: The honey bee subsidy.
4
[[And they could still get stung on that one. ]]
Bill Clinton says he's for fiscal responsibility -- and then
he comes out against the Balanced Budget Amendment.
That's what Bill Clinton says
now let me tell you what a
former Democratic candidate says about Bill Clinton -- and I
quote: "This year's Democratic ticket is a Trojan Horse.
They're much more liberal underneath -- and they'll prove it when
they're elected."
That's not me using the "L" word -- that's George McGovern.
So if you ask me how I'd get ready for November 3rd, I have
just two pieces of advice to the American voter: Kick the tires.
And don't get taken for a ride. //
This year, the choice is clear. It's a choice between two
fundamentally different philosophies: of the government, by the
government, for the government" versus "of the people, by the
people, for the people."
I trust parents -- not the government -- to make the
decisions that matter in life. //
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's schools: public, private or religious. //
I trust the people -- not the government -- to choose their
own health care.
I trust parents -- not the government -- to choose their
children's child care. // When the other side says, "government
knows best" -- I say: Parents know better. Parents know better
than some bureaucrat in Washington, D.C. //
5
The genius of free enterprise is something the "Government
First" folks just won't ever understand. They'd look at Thomas
Edison's light bulb -- and see a threat to the candle industry.
What we need now is someone who sees the new horizon --
someone who understands America's place in the world is never to
be the patrons of the past -- but the architects of the future.
//
Consider my approach to the issue that right now concerns
you most: job training.
Earlier this year, I announced Jobs Training 2000 -- a
provide "our stop shopping" for job training and career
comprehensive program to help American workers of all ages adapt
services in all our local communities to fix The crazy qualt of 100 jobs programs and $18 Bellur in
to our evolving economy. Today, I want to expand that effort job taining-
Now that
- for young people trying to get that first-job, and for older
four jos training efforts
we have
a
structure workers retooling for a new career. I want to TRIPLE our job training
for delivering
(resorreas. Better training for young people for their first jus; better
better
Start with a new initiative I call Youth Training Corps.
services
for retraining workers
The idea here is to take at-risk youth off the mean streets
changing
and give them a second chance to build the skills they need to
careers;
succeed. We're going to build on the existing Civilian Conservation
and
better
Corps -- and add 25 new centers, with positions for 4 23,000 new
training
and
trainees. //
assistance
for Those
We will give hiring priority to former members of our Armed
who
lose
Forces -- people with the proven leadership skills, the drive and
their
discipline that breed success.
joss
I will also urge the Congress to expand my Youth
the
nation
Apprenticeship Program. This program offers today's high school
students the best chance to get a start in the workforce without
6
dropping out of school. It's working now in 6 states -- we ought
to take it to all 50 states.
Finally, we've got to connect our efforts to get young
people off drugs with the job skills that help them get a clean
start. That's the aim of a new program I call Treat and Train -
- to pair intensive drug treatment with an inside track into the
new Youth Training Corps I announced just a moment ago. Once we get these
kids back an trach we need to train the for meaningful careers so They can sustain Their
new lives
Helping young people is part of the picture. If we want to
compete, we've got to help older workers obtain new skills. //
That's why I am announcing today a new departure in job
training -- scrapping the present system, tripling present current
funding, and putting the focus on greater flexibility for the
worker. The key concept here is Skills Grant Vouchers --
vouchers worth up to $3000 dollars per person, to be used toward
the training program of their choice. And these vouchers can go
new traines ar
not simply to the unemployed -- but to those who worry the next
pink slip may be their own: to help defense workers retool, to
help workers in declining industries sharpen the skills they'll
All
need to stay one step ahead.
None
That's our approach to job training: Meaningful work -- not
detail
make-work. Real-world help for real jobs. //
NATTA
That's an approach the other side can't match. The other
etc.
self estam
side sees job training as just another reason to raise taxes, we see
it as a way to raise productive and raise self esteem restone podnutivity
Right now the federal government spends $1.5 trillion
and
economic
dollars a year. But it seems $1.5 trillion just isn't enough.
growth.
So they want to tax workers to pay for their own training.
7
The other side says they'll do more to help defense workers
coping with post-Cold War economic realities. What they won't
tell you is they plan $60 billion dollars in added defense cuts -
- reckless cuts that will damage our national defense and throw
one million more defense-industry employees out of work and onto
welfare. Then, once these workers have lost their jobs -- high-
paid, high-tech jobs -- the other side will step in with
government "make-work." Someone ought to ask these workers what
they'd rather have: Their jobs -- or job training? //
But I guess my opponents are doing the only thing they know
how: Drive the private sector into bankruptcy -- then offer
everyone a dead-end job on the public payroll. //
(( It reminds me of the guy with a head cold -- and the
doctor who wants to amputate his leg. To the patient, it sounds
a bit radical. To the doctor, it's logical: "If your cold
settles in your lungs -- you'll get pneumonia. If you get
pneumonia, your circulation will go. If your circulation goes,
you'll get gangrene." // "So, just to be safe: better take off
the leg.' " //))
We need a new approach -- one that doesn't cripple the
economy and then offer workers a crutch. One that helps people
keep the jobs they've got and creates new ones. One that
helps America retool for the challenges of a new century -- for
the challenge of your lifetimes. //
Thank you all for this warm welcome -- and may God bless
this great nation, the United States of America.