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McGroarty/Bunton
August 20, 1992
11:30 a.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 future.
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.
AUG-20-1992
2
-- because the American worker is the most productive worker in
the world. 11
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. 11
My opponent's idea about creating jobs is to put people on
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.
11
I come at things a different way. Long before I came to
public service, I built a company
...
I met a payroll
took
3
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.
4
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
5
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. 11
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 in place an
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
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. 11
6
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 the existing Civilian
Conservation Corps -- and add 25 new centers, with positions for
43,000 new trainees. 11
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
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. 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
successful drug treatment to job training as well. 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. If we want to
compete, we've got to help older workers obtain new skills. 11
That's why I am announcing today a dramatic new departure in
job training -- scrapping the present system, tripling current
funding, and putting the focus on greater flexibility for the
7
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
college 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. Ten days ago, I signed 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 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.
8
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. 11
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
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? 11
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. 11
(( 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
9
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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DATE:
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ACTION/CONCURRENCE/ COMMENT DUE BY: 2:00p.m. 08/18
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: LINCOLN TECHNICAL INSTITUTE/NEW JERSEY/
SUBJECT:
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VICE PRESIDENT
HORNER
SKINNER
MCBRIDE
SCOWCROFT
MOORE
DARMAN
PETERSMEYER
BRADY
PORTER
BROMLEY
PROVOST
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HOLIDAY
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REMARKS:
Please provide any comments directly to Dan McGroarty no later
than 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, 08/18, with a copy to this office.
Thanks.
RESPONSE:
TO: DANIEL MCGROARTY
August 18, 1992
The NSC has reviewed the above-referenced matter and has no objection,
subject to the changes noted on the attached text.
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Brent 10 Scowcroft
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
CC: Phillip D. Brady
McGroarty/Bunton
August 17, 1992
6:30 p.m.
2 AUG 17 P6: 30
[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,
ossible
it's jobs. Just as you can't drive a nail without a hammer, you
insert:
can't build a dream without a job. You're here at Lincoln Tech
you are
because you made the decision to meet the real-world head-on. If
pulling
yourselves
IP ootstraps by your
anyone tells you what you're doing here doesn't matter -- let me
the American
tell you: Don't you believe it. What you're doing here makes
Nay
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
take out
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
my opponent ?!?
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
commentary
growth has come from people in other countries buying what's Made
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hat regativism
which the
dig up from the ground -- it's the sweat and the smarts of the
Democrats have
built on? I
American worker. Yes, the world's coming our way -- but I know:
don't think
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we can play the game. // (I don't know what this means.)
is strong
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As President, I've worked to created the new American markets
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our economy, not to put the government in charge -- but to use
rowthin
exports
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 big 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
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'll
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
doesn't
this
they'd rather have: Their jobs -- or job training? //
counterbalance
But I guess my opponents are doing the only thing they know
said presionsly?
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
with your help, we'll have
the challenge of your lifetimes. // that new approach
Thank you all for this warm welcome -- and may God bless
this great nation, the United States of America.
Labor, p.s
Document No. 543524
Treas.
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WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
FMI Bill
Kathy
DATE: 08/17/92
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 2:00p m 08/18
92 AUG 18 P3:16
SUBJECT:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: LINCOLN TECHNICAL INSTITUTE/NEW JERSEY/
08/24
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
HORNER
SKINNER
MCBRIDE
SCOWCROFT
MOORE
DARMAN
PETERSMEYER
BRADY
PORTER
BROMLEY
PROVOST
CALIO
SMITH
DEMAREST
YEUTTER
FITZWATER
FINDLAY
GRAY
KAUFMAN
MCGROARTY
HOLIDAY
BOSKIN
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments directly to Dan McGroarty no later
than 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, 08/18, with a copy to this office.
Thanks.
RESPONSE:
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PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
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UNION TOWNSHIP, NEW JERSEY
AUGUST 24, 1992
77:00 A.M.
Thank you, -------, for those kind words.
(Acknowledgements.)
Let me tall 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 shane 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 & 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 Include
tall your 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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the world. "
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us keep our economic problems in perspactive. And that's
important -- because we're hearing an avful lot these days from
folks who are itching to "play mechanic" with the American
econemy. They've got a vested interest in talking this economy
down, feeding fears, treating what's temporary am terminal.
You know the kind of mechanic H 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 & 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. 11
I come at things a different way. Long before I came to
public service, I built a company ... I not a payroll ... took
the risks ... made it work. And I happen to think that's not a
bad qualification for being President. 11
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growth has come from people in other countries buying what's Made
in America.
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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 H know:
we can play the game. 11
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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.
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quote: "This year's Democratic ticket is a Trojan Horse.
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they're elected."
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So if you ask no 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
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fundamentally different philosophies: of the government, by the
government. for the government" versus "of the people. by the
people. for the people."
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decisions that matter in life. 11
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children's schools: public. private or religious. 11
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workers retooling for a new career.
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one million more defense-industry employees out of work and onto
velfare. Then, once these workers have lost their jobs -- high-
paid, high-tech jobs -- the other side will stop in with
government "make-work." Scheone ought to ask these workers what
they'd rather have: Their jobs - or job training? 11
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. 11
" 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." 11 "50, just to be safe: better take off
the leg." 1111
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economy and then offer workers a crutch. One that helps people
keep the jobs they've got ... and creates new ones. One that
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the challenge of your lifetimes. "
Thank you all for this warm welcome -- and may God bless
this great nation, the United States of America.
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EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20503
8-18-92
92 AUG 18 P1:52
NOTICE:
Enclosed are comments from staff members of the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB). Such comments do not necessarily
represent the official position of the Director of OMB or of the
Office of Management and Budget. If you wish to have the
Director's personal comments, please let me know -- and contact
me if you have any questions.
James UCM C. Murr
Associate Director for
Legislative Reference
and Administration
Document No. 345524
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE:
08/17/92
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 2:00p.m. 08/18
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: LINCOLN TECHNICAL INSTITUTE/NEW JERSEY/
SUBJECT:
08/24
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
HORNER
SKINNER
MCBRIDE
SCOWCROFT
MOORE
DARMAN
PETERSMEYER
BRADY
PORTER
BROMLEY
PROVOST
CALIO
SMITH
DEMAREST
YEUTTER
FINDLAY
FITZWATER
KAUFMAN
GRAY
MCGROARTY
HOLIDAY
BOSKIN
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments directly to Dan McGroarty no later
than 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, 08/18, with a copy to this office.
Thanks.
RESPONSE:
See comment
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
NOTE: Tom Scully provided
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
comments directly to
D. ME Greatie ofc. (not included herein)
McGroarty/Bunton
August 17, 1992
6:30 p.m.
2 AUG 17 P6: 30
[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
Senarie) 5873
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
Since 1988
three Lifths (al: Samarrie- 5873)
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.
(Seally 5178)
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'll
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." 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.
Peteramen
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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
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
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'll
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.
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 Vouchers. Training 2000 program: Youth Training Corps and Skills Grant
McGroarty/Bunton
August 20, 1992
11:30 a.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 future.
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 candidates this year offer two different background and
philosophies.
My opponent is a professional politician. His idea about
creating jobs is to put people on 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. I spent half my life in
the private sector
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. //
3
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.
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.
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 in place an
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
training. Our aim is: Better training for young people first
joining the workforce -- better re-training for workers changing
4
careers -- better training and assistance for workers who lose
their jobs. //
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
2
succeed. We're going to build on the existing Civilian
,
Conservation Corps -- and add 25 new centers, with positions for
43,000 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
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. 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
successful drug treatment to job training as well. 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. If we want to
compete, we've got to help older workers obtain new skills.
//
5
That's why I am announcing today a dramatic new departure in
job training -- scrapping the present system, tripling current
funding, and putting the focus on greater flexibility for the
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
college 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. Ten days ago, I signed 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 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
6
training they want -- not simply shoehorn them into existing
programs that just happen to have openings.
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. 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
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
7
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.
# # #
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
Vouchers. Job Training 2000 program: Youth Training Corps and Skills Grant
McGroarty/Bunton
August 20, 1992
11:30 a.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 future.
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 candidates this year offer two different background and
philosophies.
My opponent is a professional politician. His idea about
creating jobs is to put people on 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. I spent half my life in
the private sector
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. //
3
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.
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.
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 in place an
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
training. Our aim is: Better training for young people first
joining the workforce -- better re-training for workers changing
4
careers -- better training and assistance for workers who lose
their jobs. //
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 the existing Civilian
Conservation Corps -- and add 25 new centers, with positions for
43,000 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
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. 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
successful drug treatment to job training as well. 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. If we want to
compete, we've got to help older workers obtain new skills. //
5
That's why I am announcing today a dramatic new departure in
job training -- scrapping the present system, tripling current
funding, and putting the focus on greater flexibility for the
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
college 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. Ten days ago, I signed 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 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
6
training they want -- not simply shoehorn them into existing
programs that just happen to have openings.
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. 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
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
7
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.
# # #
lachilyn in
Counseled office gl
92 AUG 18 P12:
called in
no legal objection
for mach Paoletta