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Aug. 25 / Administration of George Bush, 1992
greatest, freest country on the face of the
kansas on the environment? Now, is it any
Earth. Thank you all.
wonder that they rank dead last in the Nation
in policies to protect the environment, ac-
cording to a study by the Institute of South-
Note: The President spoke at 10:15 a.m. at
ern Studies. The good people of Arkansas de-
the Sheraton Chicago Hotel. In his remarks,
serve better than that. And we don't need
he referred to Dominic D. DiFrancesco, na-
that kind of record running the environ-
tional commander of the American Legion,
mental policies of the United States Govern-
and Herman F. (Sparky) Gierke, judge on
ment.
the U.S. Court of Military Appeals and
Remember what I said down there in
former national commander of the Legion.
Houston, slippery when wet? Well, listen to
this one. Listen to this one. He's gone all
the way over from that lousy record now to
becoming bright green. He's turned that
Remarks at a Bush-Quayle Rally in
bright. And if Clinton has his way, Michigan
Canton, Michigan
auto workers are going to be turning green
August 25, 1992
with illness. Here's why.
In a speech in Drexel University on April
The President. Thank you all very much
22, Governor Clinton talked about a more
for that warm welcome. May I salute all the
ambitious Federal regulation that he sup-
party leaders here, especially the great Gov-
ports involving the fuel standards for cars.
ernor of Michigan, John Engler. He's doing
He said this, and this is an exact quote: "In
a first-class job. May I thank the band, the
my administration we will accelerate our
Catholic High School band, the Motown
progress toward fuel-efficient cars and seek
band, Canton VFW colorguard; Susan
to raise the average goal for automakers to
Heintz and all those that have been out here
40 miles per gallon by the year 2000, 45 miles
making this program possible. Thank you
by the year 2020." Now, that is not me, that
very, very much.
is Governor Clinton talking.
You know, this town proves what we all
You might ask what would happen if we
know in our hearts. America's best days are
did that. Well, according to the National
ahead of us. Last Thursday at our great con-
Highway Traffic Safety Administration, fa-
vention in Houston, I laid out a central chal-
talities and injuries will increase. But the
lenge to our Nation to win the global eco-
worst thing is we will throw American auto-
nomic competition, to win the peace. Amer-
workers out of their jobs, and I'm not going
ica must be a military superpower, an eco-
to have that. The Motor Vehicle Manufactur-
nomic superpower, and an export super-
ers Association in Michigan alone said that
power.
40,000 workers would go from the assembly
I differ with the Governor of Arkansas. He
line to the unemployment line if we go from
wants to turn inward and protect. I want to
those ridiculous standards.
look outward and expand markets, expand
We've got to fight against that kind of ex-
American jobs. Let me just touch on what
tremism. Those 40,000 will be joined by
Governor Engler said because it affects the
700,000 workers put out there by the payroll
life of everybody in the automobile industry
tax that Governor Clinton is suggesting for
and everybody who's connected with the
his backdoor Government takeover of our
automobile industry.
health care system. You know, he says he
Governor Clinton's record on the environ-
likes to put people first. He doesn't mention
ment, to be charitable, is a little less than
that it's first out there on the unemployment
stellar. Listen to his own chairman of the Ar-
line. We're trying to get people off of that.
kansas Pollution Control and Ecology Com-
His tax-and-spend policies will put people
mission who said that the Arkansas laws are
out there. We don't want that.
so lenient that "if California was operating
I normally don't speak much about his run-
on the laws of Arkansas, you'd have to wear
ning mate, Senator Gore of Tennessee, but
a gas mask." How is that for the laws in Ar-
he's written this famous book now that Gov-
George Bush, 1992
Administration of George Bush, 1992 / Aug. 25
1507
ent? Now, is it any
ernor Clinton talks about. On page 325 of
these young ones. So I am fighting for a line-
d last in the Nation
the book, he makes an interesting compari-
item veto, a balanced budget amendment to
e environment, ac-
son. He says that the automobile industry,
the Constitution. You know who says no to
Institute of South-
and I quote right here, quotation, "poses a
all this: the gridlocked Congress, the Clinton-
ople of Arkansas de-
mortal threat to the security of every nation,
Gore gridlocked Congress.
and we don't need
that is more deadly than that of any military
So last week, last week-the editorial writ-
ning the environ-
enemy we're ever again likely to confront."
ers don't like this one; the sophisticated
ited States Govern-
That is Clinton's running mate talking about
elitists don't like it-but let me tell you some-
the auto industry that means so much to our
thing, I unveiled an idea last week that the
id down there in
country. And one page later he calls for the
American people like, and it says this. You
vet? Well, listen to
"elimination of the internal combustion en-
have the right to check off on your tax return
one. He's gone all
gine." What kind of people are we dealing
using up to 10 percent of your income tax
busy record now to
with here? [Laughter]
for one purpose, if you want to, and that is
He's turned that
Well, it would be funny if it weren't so
to reduce the budget deficit. It's a good idea.
his way, Michigan
serious, if one out of six jobs in America today
If Congress can't do it, let the American peo-
0 be turning green
weren't in some way tied to the car industry,
ple have a shot at it. The editorial writers
and if this philosophy of tax and spend, regu-
and Congress, they call it a gimmick. But I
University on April
late and regulate wasn't going to make it im-
think the American people want the power
ked about a more
possible for us to win the economic competi-
to say to Congress, "If you won't cut the defi-
ation that he sup-
tion. Now, look, we have a sound and positive
cit, we'll get the job done for you."
standards for cars.
and strong environmental record. I fought for
Yesterday, we unveiled a new program to
in exact quote: "In
and won the first meaningful revision to the
help people that need to transition into new
vill accelerate our
Clean Air Act, and we got that done in spite
jobs. Because we've been successful in war
cient cars and seek
of that gridlocked Congress.
and peace, because we've changed the world,
for automakers to
Audience members. Clean the House!
we have been able to reduce defense spend-
year 2000, 45 miles
Clean the House! Clean the House!
ing. Now, that's cost people some jobs. So
that is not me, that
The President. I'll be there. Just a minute.
now we've got a new training program to help
g.
I've got more to say about that one, and I
those people find work, find work, jobs, pro-
ould happen if we
love saying it because it's true. Now, wait a
ductive jobs in this country. So we're talking
g to the National
minute, I'll be there in a second.
about skill grants, giving workers in certain
Administration, fa-
Environment: We have expanded our
industries $3,000 to go out and buy training
increase. But the
parks and wildlife refuges. We've curtailed
on their own. The philosophy isn't to em-
ow American auto-
drilling in the environmental sensitive area
power the bureaucrats but empower the peo-
and I'm not going
of California and New England. We've en-
ple so you can stay ahead of the economic
ehicle Manufactur-
forced our environmental laws so we've col-
change.
{an alone said that
lected record amounts of fines. I have been
Heavens knows, we've got to reform our
from the assembly
criticized by some in big business and by en-
welfare system, get people to work and to
C line if we go from
vironmentalists. But I believe that some-
learn and avoid the indignity of welfare. So
where you can find a reasonable formula
later today I'm going to be signing a welfare
nst that kind of ex-
where you protect jobs and still clean up the
waiver giving Michigan the authority to ex-
will be joined by
environment. That's what we've got to do.
periment with welfare programs that keep
here by the payroll
So when that Clinton-Gore bus goes off
families together and get people off the dole
a is suggesting for
the left side of the highway onto the shoul-
and into jobs.
it takeover of our
der, we've got to guard against that, too.
And one other thing. My opponent is sup-
know, he says he
Here's what I want to do to lift the burden
ported by this trial lawyers group. I want to
le doesn't mention
from the small businessman, the mom and
break the back of those who are suing us
the unemployment
pop operations, and others: Put a freeze on
too much and caring for ourselves too little,
people off of that.
unnecessary Federal regulation. We're regu-
caring for us too little. These reckless law-
es will put people
lating ourselves to death.
suits are keeping doctors from practicing
hat.
You didn't hear much about this in the
medicine, keeping people out away from
nuch about his run-
Clinton-Gore convention, but I'll tell you
coaching Little League, and we've got to stop
of Tennessee, but
something. The Federal deficit is threatening
it. I've tried for 3 straight years. Now change
ook now that Gov-
the very future of these children here today,
that Congress, and help me stop it.
1508
Aug. 25 / Administration of George Bush, 1992
Audience members. Clean the House!
time. The President's term is limited. Let's
Clean the House! Clean the House!
limit this gridlocked Congress and get them
The President. All right, I'll give you an
out of there.
example. That's a great idea. Now I'll give
The key issue-clean that House! You're
you an example. We know that our schools
right. The key issue is, do you want to try
have to improve. If we're going to compete,
to cut Federal spending and give Americans
they've got to improve. I believe competition
relief from higher taxes? Well, Governor
can be a force for good in education, just
Clinton and Congressman Ford, linked to-
as it's been a force for greatness in American
gether, say no. And I say yes.
industry. Earlier this year I sent a proposal
to Capitol Hill, a "GI bill" for kids to give
Governor Clinton refers to himself as
States and localities the flexibility to allow
Elvis. Well, let me tell you something.
parents, not government, to choose the
[Laughter] He does. We're playing an old
schools their kids attend, public, private, or
Elvis Presley song, "Return to Sender," re-
religious.
turn to Arkansas. As we get that done in No-
A few weeks ago this came before the
vember, as we get that done in November,
gridlocked Congress, a brandnew proposal,
let's take Congressman Ford and others like
and they killed it. Why did this great idea
him that talk one way at home, vote different
fail? It failed, according to news reports, be-
in Washington, that whole leadership of the
cause the Democratic leadership did not
gridlocked Congress, and do what those
want to give me credit for a new idea in edu-
brooms say: Clean House!
cation. Now, that is not progress. That is
gridlock, and they are doing it to the taxpayer
Audience members. Clean the House!
in this country.
Clean the House! Clean the House!
Let me be a little more specific. I'm a little
The President. Get them out of there. We
tired of Congressmen that talk one way in
have been trying and trying to move this
Michigan and vote different in Washington.
country forward, blocked by this gridlocked
I'll give you an example. One of those Demo-
Congress. And I am tired of it.
cratic leaders that blocked this new proposal
in education is named Congressman Ford,
While we're at it, let's send Charles Vin-
Bill Ford. He has stood against school choice
cent, Dick Chrysler, Megan O'Neill, John
and just about every education reform I have
Gordon, Frank Beaumont, Nick Smith, and
put forward. And what's worse, Governor of
don't forget Joe Knollenberg and John
Arkansas agrees with him.
Pappageorge. Get them in there. In this dis-
Audience members. Boo-o-o!
trict, replace that leader that talks one way
and votes another. Send Bob Geake to Wash-
The President. Want parents to have real
ington, and get this country moving.
choice in where to send their kids to school?
The Governor and Congressman Ford say
You know, the other day we were in Ala-
no. I say yes.
bama, a crowd of about 20,000 people in the
rain. Lee Greenwood, you know, that great
You want to stand up to a Baghdad bully
singer, was with us. And as he started to sing,
like Saddam Hussein? Governor Clinton waf-
"I'm Proud To Be an American," I looked
fled. Congressman Ford said, "No way." I
out in the crowd and saw a little girl, couldn't
say yes.
be more than 4 or 5, perched on her dad's
You want a balanced budget amendment
shoulders waving a little American flag and
that disciplines both the Congress and the
singing. This election is about that little girl,
executive branch? Governor Clinton and
and all the kids in this crowd, all the kids
Congressman Ford say no. And I say yes.
across America.
Do you want to limit the terms of Con-
Do we want them to grow up in an Amer-
gressmen? Governor Clinton and Congress-
ica that is stronger, safer, and secure, more
man Ford say no. And I say yes. It's about
secure? You bet we do. With my ideas and
rge Bush, 1992
Administration of George Bush, 1992 / Aug. 25
1509
limited. Let's
a new Congress, we can make it happen. We
20 hours each week. These efforts can in-
S and get them
are the United States of America. We are
clude working, job training, education, or
going to make it happen.
participation in community service.
House! You're
ou want to try
May God bless Michigan, and may God
These and other reforms will allow Michi-
give Americans
bless our great country.
gan to change their welfare program to give
Vell, Governor
all those Americans in need a chance to dis-
ord, linked to-
card long-term dependency for a life of re-
newed purpose and dignity.
to himself as
Note: The President spoke at 2:40 p.m. in
ou something.
Canton Township Heritage Park. In his re-
playing an old
marks, he referred to Susan Heintz, master
to Sender," re-
of ceremonies for the rally.
at done in No-
in November,
Memorandum on Assistance for
and others like
Refugees of the Former Yugoslavia
;, vote different
adership of the
lo what those
Statement on Michigan Welfare
August 25, 1992
Reform
Presidential Determination No. 92-42
an the House!
August 25, 1992
Memorandum for the Secretary of State
ouse!
I am pleased we are approving today
Subject: Determination Pursuant to Section
ut of there. We
Michigan's request for welfare waivers. This
2(c)(1) of the Migration and Refugee
to move this
will allow Michigan to initiate a system of
Assistance Act of 1962, as Amended
this gridlocked
incentives for welfare recipients that
strengthens families and encourages greater
Pursuant to section 2(c)(1) of the Migra-
di Charles Vin-
self-sufficiency.
tion and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962, as
O'Neill, John
Families will be strengthened by encour-
amended, 22 U.S.C. 2601(c)(1), I hereby de-
ick Smith, and
aging employment and stability. Two-parent
termine that it is important to the national
erg and John
families will receive assistance as long as they
interest that up to $12,000,000 be made
ere. In this dis-
meet a financial needs test. Currently one
available from the U.S. Emergency Refugee
talks one way
parent must have worked for a limited time
and Migration Assistance Fund (the Fund)
Geake to Wash-
in order for the family to receive welfare.
to meet the unexpected and urgent needs
oving.
Additional amounts of earnings will also be
of refugees, conflict victims, and displaced
ve were in Ala-
allowed before welfare payments are re-
persons from the former Yugoslavia. These
0 people in the
duced, and the earnings of children will not
funds will provide U.S. contributions to the
now, that great
be counted in determining whether the fam-
United Nations High Commissioner for Ref-
started to sing,
ily can receive welfare.
ugees (UNHCR), the International Commit-
ican," I looked
tee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and the United
Child support collections will be pursued
-le girl, couldn't
Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in sup-
aggressively. Noncustodial parents who are
d on her dad's
port of their emergency assistance efforts.
not fulfilling their financial responsibility may
erican flag and
t that little girl,
participate in activities leading to self-suffi-
You are directed to inform the appropriate
d, all the kids
ciency such as completing high school, being
committees of the Congress of this deter-
involved in job training, or participating in
mination and the obligation of funds under
community services.
this authority and to publish this memoran-
up in an Amer-
Self-sufficiency will also be encouraged by
dum in the Federal Register.
d secure, more
h my ideas and
requiring all welfare recipients to participate
in some type of productive effort for at least
George Bush
Provost
Presidential Remarks
Canton, Michigan
25 August 1992
Thank you and good afternoon everyone.
It's great to be in Canton -- a booming town, a dynamic town
-- a town that has faced challenges and overcome them.
Canton proves what we all know in our hearts -- America's
best days are ahead of us.
Last Thursday at the Republican convention in Houston, I
laid out a central challenge to our nation -- to win the global
economic competition -- to win the peace.
America must be a military superpower -- an economic
superpower -- and an export superpower.
In this election, you'll hear two versions 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, to prepare
our people to compete, to restore our social fabric, to save and
invest as a nation -- so that we can win. //
Look at one issue -- how to balance the demands of our
economy with the demands of our environment? See what both
candidates have to offer.
In Arkansas, Governor Clinton's record on the environment is
-- to be charitable -- a little less than stellar. Listen to his
3
counterparts. And as a result, companies will pull up stakes,
and take their factories and their jobs overseas.
According to the Auto Manufacturers Association -- in
Michigan alone -- 40,000 workers would go from the assembly line
-- to the unemployment line. //
These workers will have someone to talk to while they wait.
Because they'll be joined by the more than two and a half million
Americans put out of work by the Governor's new economic plan,
including 700,000 workers put there by the payroll tax to pay for
his backdoor government takeover of our health care system.
The Governor likes to say he "puts people" first. He
doesn't mention that it's first on the unemployment line.
But it's even worse than it sounds. In that same Drexel
speech -- Governor Clinton had effusive praise for a certain book
-- by Senator Al Gore. Since then, of course, Senator Gore has
gone on to take a prominent role in the Clinton campaign.
Now, what does Senator Gore say in his book that Governor
Clinton loves so much?
Well, on page 325, he makes an interesting comparison -- he
says that the automobile industry -- and I quote -- "poses a
mortal threat to the security of every nation, that is more
deadly than that of any military enemy we are ever again likely
to confront."
Think he's kidding? One page later, he calls for the
"elimination of the internal combustion engine."
4
Now I'm not making this up. Stephen King once wrote a best-
selling novel -- called Christine. In this book, a car becomes
inhabitated by evil spirits -- and devours a town. The Clinton-
Gore team appear to look at every car as a haunted threat to
humanity.
This would be funny, if it weren't so serious. If one out
of six jobs in America today weren't in someway tied to the car
industry. If this philosophy -- of tax and spend, regulate and
regulate -- wasn't going to make it impossible for us to win the
economic competition.
We have a sound and positive environmental record. As
President I fought for and won revision of the Clean Air Act -
- so that our children can breathe easier.
I've expanded our parks and wildlife refugees -- curtailed
drilling off the coast of California and New England -- enforced
our environmental laws so we've collected record amounts of
fines.
I've been criticized by big business -- and by
environmentalists. But I believe I found the middle that works.
The Clinton-Gore team may claim they are in the middle of
the road -- but their bus is careening toward the left shoulder.
I'm not going to let this happen to America.
I stand for something different. For a program that begins
with a freeze on all unnecessary federal regulations -- so that
businesses can create jobs and get this economy moving again.
The
The federal deficit is threatory ouchildras futur-
5
I think the federal government spends too much of your
money. So I'm fighting for a line-item veto -- and a balanced
budget amendment to the Constitution. And I've submitted
proposal after proposals to cut federal spending, only to have
Congress say -- "no."
So last week, I unveiled a new idea -- to give you the right
to check your tax return -- to use up to 10 percent of your
income tax for just one purpose -- to reduce the budget deficit.
Congress won't like it. The editorial writers might call it
a "gimmick." But I think the American people want the power to
say to Congress -- if you won't cut the deficit, we'll do the job
for you //
Our economy is in transition -- I know many workers in
Michigan and other places are concerned about whether they will
have a job next year. They want to learn new skills, but they
can't afford the cost of training.
Just yesterday, I unveiled a new program -- called Skill
Grants -- which would give workers in certain industries $3,000 -
- to go out and buy training on their own. The philosophy here
X
isn't to empower bureaucracies -- but empower people -- so they you
can stay ahead of economic change.
And speaking of empowering people, we must reform our
welfare system -- to give people a chance in life. Later today I
will sign a welfare waiver -- giving Michigan the authority to
experiment with welfare programs that will keep families together
-- and reward work, not welfare.
get peop 6 of the dole ibs
6
Lets make learning and work key ingredients in welfare.
The federal deficit is threatening our children's future --
we must get it down!
And let's put a rid on all these reckless lawsuits that are
choking our economy and souring our nation.
I have put many of these reforms before the Congress and
that's exactly where they've stayed. Because the U.S. Congress
has become the "Gridlock Congress." The House of Representatives
has been controlled by the same party for 38 years -- and it is
blocking the change that can move this country forward.
Let me give you just one example.
We know our schools have to improve -- if our kids are going
to compete with the Japanese, the Germans and the British.
I believe competition can be a force for good in education,
just as it has been a force for greatness in American industry.
Earlier this year, I sent a proposal to Capitol Hill -- my
GI Bill for Kids -- to give states and localities the flexibility
to allow parents, not the government, to choose the schools their
kids attend -- whether public, private or religious.
A couple of weeks ago, this proposal came before Congress,
and they killed it.
Why did this noble idea fail? It failed, according to news
reports, because the Democratic leadership didn't want to give me
credit for a new idea in education.
One of those Democratic leaders represents this District --
his name is Congressman Bill Ford.
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Congressman Ford has stood against school choice -- and just
about every education reform I have put forward -- what's worse -
- Bill Clinton agrees with him.
Want parents to have real choice in where to send their kids
to school? Governor Clinton and Congressman Ford say no -- I say
yes.
dullier
Want to stand up to viscious aggression like Saddam Hussein.
Governor Clinton and Congressman Ford said no -- I say yes.
Want a balanced budget amendment? Governor Clinton and
Congressman Ford say no -- I say yes.
Want to limit the terms of Congress. Governor Clinton and
Congressman Ford say no -- I say yes.
And most important, if you want to cut federal spending, and
give Americans relief from higher taxes.
Governor Clinton and Congressman Ford say no -- I say yes.
May
We know what we need to do. Get Governor Clinton humming an
old Elvis Presley song "Return To Sender," Return to Arkansas.
And then it's time to take Bill Ford and the whole
leadership of the Gridlock Congress: and do what those brooms say
-- Clean The House!
Send Bob Geake [GEEK] to Washington, and get this country
moving again.
And while we're at it -- let's send Charles Vincent, Dick
Chrysler, Megan O'Neill, and John Gordon, and Frank Beaumont, and
don't forget Joe Knollenberg and John Pappageorge [Pappa George].
8
Give me. some members of Congress who share our faith in progress,
not politics. Clean House.
This election is about choices, but ultimately it is about
the future.
The other day -- we were in Alabama -- a crowd of about
20,000 people waiting in the rain. My friend Lee Greenwood was
with us. And as Lee started to sing -- "I'm proud to be an
American" -- I looked out in the crowd -- and saw a little girl -
- couldn't be more than four or five -- perched on her dad's
shoulders, waving a little American flag and singing.
This election is about that little girl, and all the kids in
this crowd, and all the kids across America.
Do we want them to grow up in an America that is stronger,
safer, and more secure. You bet we do. And with my ideas, and a
new Congress, we can make it happen.
God bless Michigan and God bless the United States of
America.
WHITE HOUSE COMMCTR
TUE 25 AUG 92 16:06
PG.02
August 25, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR CHRISTINA MARTIN
FROM:
MICHELE NIX
SUBJECT:
LATEST MICHIGAN ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and FACT CHANGE
Acknowledgements for Michigan as of 8/25 (11:30 a.m.)
Governor Engler and wife, Michelle
Susie Heinz, Director of Southeast Region for Governor
Engler's office. She will emcee, taking the place of Brooks
Patterson, the Oakland County Executive, who broke his
ankle. Brooks is not expected to come.
Betsy DeVos -- new National Committee Woman
Local Candidates (blanket acknowledgement)
We single out some individual candidates later in the draft.
ADD Nick Smith in that litany of names. (Smith is a
congressional candidate, running unopposed -- so he will be
in.) Joe Knollenberg has cancelled. Charles Vincent will
be a greeter at the airport, but now doesn't think he'll
make it to the event. You probably should mention these
guys anyway, even if they won't be there.
Catholic Central HS Band -- will play as POTUS walks in.
MoTown Band called "22." Will perform before POTUS arrives
and as he leaves.
Canton VFW Color Guard.
Pom pom girls and baton twirlers from local area schools.
FACT CHANGE
Change welfare language to:
"Later today, I will approve welfare waivers (note the "s") --
giving Governor Engler the authority to improve welfare programs
by rewarding work, increasing responsibility and strengthening
families -- historic reforms that change welfare from a handout
to a helping hand."
Photocopy-Preservation
He is not signing just one waiver. This change is per Engler's
office and Gail Wilensky.
Document No. 346587ss
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE:
8/24/92
---
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: BUSH-QUAYLE RALLY
SUBJECT:
TUES. 8/25 - 3:10 p.m. -- CANTON, MICHIGAN
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MOORE
BAKER
MULLINS
SCOWCROFT
PETERSMEYER
DARMAN
PORTER
BRADY
PROVOST
BROMLEY
ROSS
CALIO
SMITH
DEMAREST
TUTWILER
FITZWATER
ZOELLICK
GRAY
KAUFMAN
HOLIDAY
MCGROARTY
HORNER
MCBRIDE
REMARKS:
The attached has been forwarded to the President.
RESPONSE:
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
2 AUG 24 P6: 54
August 24, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
SP
FROM:
STEVE PROVOST
SUBJECT:
CANTON, MICHIGAN RALLY
I. Summary
On Tuesday, August 25, at 3:10 p.m., you will deliver
remarks before a crowd of approximately 500 Canton residents at
Township Heritage Park. You will be introduced by Governor
Engler.
II. Discussion
Your remarks (14 minutes, on cards) follow the themes of
your acceptance speech. Additionally, you outline your
opposition to raising CAFE standards, noting that Governor
Clinton's position on CAFE would mean the loss of an estimated
40,000 jobs in Michigan alone.
Provost
Presidential Remarks
Canton, Michigan
25 August 1992
Thank you and good afternoon everyone.
It's great to be in Canton -- a booming town, a dynamic town
-- à town that has faced challenges and overcome them.
Canton proves what we all know in our hearts -- America's
best days are ahead of us.
Last Thursday at the Republican convention in Houston, I
laid out a central challenge to our nation -- to win the global
economic competition -- to win the peace.
America must be a military superpower -- an economic
superpower -- and an export superpower.
In this election, you'll hear two versions 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, to prepare
our people to compete, to restore our social fabric, to save and
invest as a nation -- so that we can win. //
Look at one issue -- how to balance the demands of our
economy with the demands of our environment? See what both
candidates have to offer.
In Arkansas, Governor Clinton's record on the environment is
-- to be charitable -- a little less than stellar. Listen to his
own Chairman of the Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology
2
Commission -- who said that the Arkansas laws are so lenient.
that: "if California was operating on the laws of Arkansas, you'd
probably have to wear a gas mask."
Is it any wonder -- that Arkansas ranks 50th -- dead last -
- in the nation in environmental policy -- according to a study
by the Institute For Southern Studies?
But in his zeal to capture his party's nomination, Governor
Clinton has gone all the way to the other extreme -- he has
turned green. But if Governor Clinton has his way, green could
soon be the color of many Michigan auto workers.
In a speech at Drexel University on April 22, Governor
Clinton talked about a more ambitious federal regulation he
supports, involving fuel standards for cars. He said: "in my
administration
we'll accelerate our progress toward fuel
efficient cars and seek to raise the average goal for auto-
makers to 40 miles per gallon by the year 2,000, 45 miles by the
year 2020."
Remember, this is not George Bush paraphrasing. This is
Bill Clinton -- exact quotes.
What will happen if we raise these so-called CAFE standards
this high? Well, a couple things. There will be more highway
fatalities. Foreign car companies will gain a competitive edge
on their U.S. counterparts. And as a result, companies will pull
up stakes, and take their factories and their jobs overseas.
3
According to the Auto Manufacturers Association -- in
Michigan alone -- 40,000 workers would go from the assembly line
-- to the unemployment line.//
These workers will have someone to talk to while they wait.
Because they'll be joined by the more than two and a half million
Americans put out of work by the Governor's new economic plan,
including 700,000 workers put there by the payroll tax to pay for
his backdoor government takeover of our health care system.
Governor Clinton calls this orgy of new taxes and spending -
- "moderation." I say that if this is moderation -- I'm Daniel
Webster.
The Governor likes to say he "puts people" first. He
doesn't mention that it's first on the unemployment line.
But it's even worse than it sounds. In that same Drexel
speech -- Governor Clinton had effusive praise for a certain book
-- by Senator Al Gore. Since then, of course, Senator Gore has
gone on to take a prominent role in the Clinton campaign.
Now, what does Senator Gore say in his book that Governor
Clinton loves so much?
Well, on page 325, he makes an interesting comparison -- he
says that the car industry -- and I quote -- "poses a mortal
threat to the security of every nation, that is more deadly than
that of any military enemy we are ever again likely to confront."
Now I'm not making this up. Remember the old Stephen King
novel -- Christine? The one in which a car becomes inhabitated
4
by evil spirits -- and devours a town? The Clinton-Gore team
appear to look at every car as a naunted threat to humanity.
This would be funny, if it weren't so serious. If one out
of six jobs in America today weren't in someway tied to the car
industry. If this philosophy -- of tax and spend, regulate and
regulate -- weren't going to make it impossible for us to win the
economic competition.
I've been an environmentalist all my life. As President --
I fought for and won revision of the Clean Air Act -- so that our
children can breathe easier.
I was criticized by big business -- and by
environmentalists. But I believe I found the middle that works.
The Clinton-Gore team may claim they are in the middle of
the road -- but their bus is careening toward the left shoulder.
I'm not going to let this happen to America.
I stand for something different. For a program that begins
with a freeze on all unnecessary federal regulations -- so that
businesses can create jobs and get this economy moving again.
I think the federal government spends too much of your
money. So I'm fighting for a line-item veto -- and a balanced
budget amendment to the Constitution. And I've submitted
proposal after proposals to cut federal spending, only to have
Congress say -- "no."
So last week, I unveiled a new idea -- to give you the right
to check your tax return -- to use up to 10 percent of your
income tax for just one purpose -- to reduce the budget deficit.
5
Congress won't like it. The editorial writers might call it
a "gimmick." But I think the American people want the power to
say to Congress -- if you won't cut the deficit, we'll do the job
for you. / /
Our economy is in transition -- I know many workers in
Michigan and other places are concerned about whether they will
have a job next year. They want to learn new skills, but they
can't afford the cost of training.
Just yesterday, I unveiled a new program -- called Skill
Grants -- which would give workers in certain industries $3,000 -
- to go out and buy training on their own. The philosophy here
isn't to empower bureaucracies -- but empower people -- so they
can stay ahead of economic change.
And speaking of empowering people, we must reform our
welfare system -- to give people a chance in life. Later today I
will sign a welfare waiver -- giving Governor John Engler the
authority to experiment with welfare programs that will keep
families together -- and reward work, not welfare.
We need to make these reforms -- if we are going to be able
to count on the talents of every American in the new economic
competition.
A balanced budget amendment. A line-item veto. Legal
reform. I have put many of these reforms before the Congress --
and that's exactly where they've stayed. Because the U.S.
Congress has become the "Gridlock Congress." The House of
Representatives has been controlled by the same party for 38
6
years -- and it is blocking the change that can move this country
forward.
Let me give you just one example.
We know our schools have to improve -- if our kids are going
to compete with the Japanese, the Germans and the British.
I believe competition can be a force for good in education,
just as it has been a force for greatness in American industry.
Last year I sent a proposal to Capitol Hill, which would
give local school districts flexibility to allow parents to
choose the schools their kids attend.
A couple weeks ago, this whole issue came before Congress,
and they killed it.
Why did this noble idea fail? It failed, according to news
reports, because the Democratic leadership didn't want to give me
credit for a new idea in education.
One of those Democratic leaders represents this District
his name is Bill Ford.
Bill Ford has stood against school choice -- and just
about every education reform I have put forth.
Bill Ford has been in Congress for 27 years. When Bill Ford
first entered Congress, Gilligan's Island was a new TV show.
Gilligan was just starting out on his "three hour tour." " Bill
Ford has been on a 27-year-voyage -- I think it's time he found
land. It's time to take the whole U.S. Congress: and do what
those brooms say -- Clean The House!
7
I never thought I would say this publicly, but America needs
a "geek" in Congress. Sö sena BOD Geake [GEEK] to Washington,
and get this country moving again.
And while we're at it -- let's send Charles Vincent, Dick
Chrysler, Megan O'Neill, and John Gordon, and Frank Beaumont, and
don't forget Joe Knollenberg and John Pappageorge. (Papa George)
Give me some members of Congress who share our faith in progress,
not politics.
This election is about choices, but ultimately it is about
the future.
The other day -- we were in Alabama -- a crowd of about
20,000 people waiting in the rain. My friend Lee Greenwood was
with us. And as Lee started to sing -- "I'm proud to be an
American" -- I looked out in the crowd -- and saw a little girl -
- couldn't be more than four or five -- perched on her dad's
shoulders, waving a little American flag and singing.
This election is about that little girl, and all the kids in
this crowd, and all the kids across America.
Do we want them to grow up in an America that is stronger,
safer, and more secure. You bet we do. And with my ideas, and a
new Congress, we can make it happen.
God bless Michigan and God bless the United States of
America.
Document No. 346587ss
6455
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
92 AUG 24 P8: 42
DATE:
8/24/92
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: TODAY, 8/24 3:00 p.m.
PRESIDENTIAL REMAKRS: BUSH/QUAYLE RALLY
SUBJECT:
TUES. 8/25 - CANTON, MICHIGAN
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MOORE
>
BAKER
MULLINS
\
SCOWCROFT
PETERSMEYER
1
DARMAN
PORTER
BRADY
PROVOST
BROMLEY
ROSS
N
CALIO
SMITH
S
DEMAREST
TUTWILER
A
FITZWATER
ZOELLICK
GRAY
KAUFMAN
\
HOLIDAY
MCGROARTY
HORNER
MCBRIDE
REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Dan McGroarty, Rm. 122,
x2930, no later than 3:00 p.m., TODAY, MON. 8/24, with a copy
to this office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
August 24, 1992
TO:
DAN MCGROARTY
PHILLIP D. BRADY
The NSC staff concurs with the presidential remarks
Assistant to the President
as amended.
and Staff Secretary
Brent Scowcroft
Ext. 2702
CC: Phillip D. Brady
BusH, H/Quayle 25 Rolly Provost
Presidential Remarks
Tues. aug
Canton, Michigan
An 48
25 August 1992
Canton, mI
Thank you and good afternoon everyone.
It's great to be back in Canton -- a booming town, a dynamic
town -- a town that has faced challenges and overcome them.
Canton proves what we all know in our hearts -- America's
best days are ahead of us.
Last Thursday at the Republican convention in Houston, I
laid out a central challenge to our nation -- to win the global
economic competition -- to win the peace.
America must be a military superpower -- an economic
superpower -- and an export superpower.
In this election, you'll hear two versions 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, to prepare
our people to compete, to restore our social fabric, to save and
invest as a nation -- so that we can win. //
Look at one issue -- how to balance the demands of our
economy with the demands of our environment? See what both
candidates have to offer.
In Arkansas, Governor Clinton's record on the environment is
-- to be charitable -- a little less than stellar. Listen to his
own Chairman of Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission
-- who said that the Arkansas laws are so lenient, "that if
2
California was operating on the laws of Arkansas, you'd probably
have to wear a gas mask."
Is it any wonder -- that Arkansas ranks 50th in the nation
in environmental protection -- according to the Institute For
Southern Studies?
But in his zeal to capture his party's nomination, Governor
green with
Clinton has turned green - which, if he has his way, green could
this make sense
soon be the color of many Michigan auto workers.
red
ved w/
anger?
In a speech at Drexel University on April 22, Governor
Clinton talked about a new federal regulatory effort, to insure
fuel standards for cars. He said: "in my administration, we'll
accelerate our progress toward fuel efficient cars and seek to
raise the average goal for auto-makers to 40 miles per gallon by
the year 2,000, 45 miles by the year 2020."
Remember, this is not George Bush paraphrasing. This is
Bill Clinton -- exact quotes.
What will happen if we raise so-called CAFE standards this
high? Well, you know what will happen. Car companies will pull
up stakes, and take their factories overseas.
According to independent economists -- in Michigan alone --
30,000 workers will go from the assembly line -- to the
unemployment line. //
The only consolation -- is that these workers will have
someone to talk to while they wait. Because they'll be joined by
the nearly 3 million people put out of work by the Governor's new
income tax increases, and the 700,000 others put there by the
3
payroll tax to pay for his backdoor government takeover of our
health care system.
Governor Clinton calls this orgy of new taxes and spending
-
- "moderation." I say that if this is moderation -- I'm Daniel
?
Webster.
The Governor likes to say he "puts people" first. He
doesn't mention that it's first on the unemployment line.
But it's even worse than it sounds. In that same Drexel
speech -- Governor Clinton had effusive praise for a certain book
-- by then-Senator Al Gore. Since then, of course, Senator Gore
has gone on to take a rather prominent role in the Clinton
campaign.
Now, what does Senator Gore say in his book that Governor
Clinton loves so much?
Well, on page 325, he makes an interesting comparison -- he
says that the car industry -- and I quote -- "poses a mortal
threat to the security of every nation, that is more deadly than
that of any military enemy we are ever again likely to confront." "
Now I'm not making this up. Remember the old Stephen King
novel -- Christine? The one in which a car becomes inhabitated
by evil spirits -- and devours a town? The Clinton-Gore team
appear to look at every car as a haunted threat to humanity.
This would be funny, if it weren't so serious. If one out
of six jobs in America today weren't in someway tied to the car
industry. If this philosophy -- of tax and spend, regulate and
4
regulate -- weren't going to will 1 make it impossible for us to win the
economic competition.
I've been an environmentalist all my life. As President --
I fought for revision of the Clean Air Act -- SO that our
children can breathe better.
My effort was criticized by big business -- and by
environmentalists. But I believe I found the falance middle that works.
The Clinton-Gore team isn't in the middle -- their bus has
left the highway -- and is traveling down the left breakdown
lane.
I'm not going let this happen to America.
I stand for a program that begins with a freeze on all
unnecessary federal regulations -- so that businesses can create
jobs and get this economy moving again.
I think the federal government spends too much of your
money. So I'm fighting for a line-item veto -- and a balanced
budget amendment to the Constitution. Last week, I unveiled a
new idea -- to give you the right to check your tax return -- to
use up to 10 percent of your income tax for one purpose -- to
reduce the budget deficit.
Congress won't like it. The editorial writers might call it
a "gimmick." But I think the American people want the power to
say to Congress -- if you won't cut the deficit, we will. //
Here's something else I'm fighting for -- reform our legal
system. Take an ax to the system that allows so many crazy
5
lawsuits. As a nation, we must sue each other less -- and care
for each other more.
I have many of these reforms up before the Congress -- and
that's exactly where they've stayed. Because the U.S. Congress
has become the "Gridlock Congress." It's been controlled by the
same party for 38 years -- and it is blocking the change that can
move this country forward.
Let me give you just one example.
We know our schools have to improve -- if our kids are going
to compete with the Japanese, the Germans and the British.
I believe competition can be a force for good in education,
just as it has been a force for good in American industry.
Last year, I sent a proposal to Capitol Hill, which would
give local school districts flexibility in determine ing whether they
their
want to allow parents to choose the schools they're kids attend.
A couple weeks ago, this whole issue came before Congress,
and they killed it.
Why did this noble idea fail? It failed, according to news
reports, because the Democratic leadership didn't want to give me
credit for a new idea in education.
Certain members of Congress put politics ahead of our
students. One of those members happens to represent Michigan in
the U.S. Congress. His name is Bill Ford.
Bill Ford is phe school pet of the National Education Association.
He has stood against every education reform I have put forth.
6
Again and again -- he has stalled and delayed -- procrastinated
and pontificated.
Bill Ford has been in Congress for (
)
years
--
way
to
long. It's time to grab a broom, and sweep up Congressman Ford
and all the other Gridlockers. It's time to: Clean House.
demare
I never thought I would say this publicly, but America needs
American need
a "geek" in Congress. So send Bob Geake (Geek) to Washington,
and get this country moving again.
This election is about choices, but ultimately it is about
the future.
The other day -- we were in Alabama -- a crowd of about
20,000 people waiting in the rain. My friend Lee Greenwood was
with us. And as Lee started to sing -- "I'm proud to be an
American" -- I looked out in the crowd -- and saw a little girl -
- couldn't be more than for or five -- perched on her dad's
shoulders, waving a little American flag and singing.
This election is about that little girl, and all the kids in
this crowd, and all the kids across America.
Do we want them to grow up in an America that is stronger,
safe, and more secure. You bet we do And with my ideas, and a
new Congress, we can make it happen.
God bless Michigan and God bless the United States of
America.
Document No. 346587ss
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE:
8/24/92
92 AUG 25 A8:20
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: TODAY, 8/24 3:00 p.m.
PRESIDENTIAL REMAKRS: BUSH/QUAYLE RALLY
SUBJECT:
TUES. 8/25 - CANTON, MICHIGAN
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MOORE
BAKER
MULLINS
\
SCOWCROFT
PETERSMEYER
1
DARMAN
PORTER
>
BRADY
PROVOST
BROMLEY
ROSS
N
CALIO
SMITH
DEMAREST
TUTWILER
FITZWATER
ZOELLICK
GRAY
KAUFMAN
\
HOLIDAY
MCGROARTY
HORNER
MCBRIDE
REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Dan McGroarty, Rm. 122,
x2930, no later than 3:00 p.m., TODAY, MON. 8/24, with a copy
to this office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
no comments
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
(R.Grady may respond at a later time)
Ext. 2702
BasH/Guayle 25 Rolly Provost
Presidential Remarks
Tues. aug
Canton, Michigan
All: 48
25 August 1992
Canton, MI
Thank you and good afternoon everyone.
It's great to be back in Canton -- a booming town, a dynamic
town -- a town that has faced challenges and overcome them.
Canton proves what we all know in our hearts -- America's
best days are ahead of us.
Last Thursday at the Republican convention in Houston, I
laid out a central challenge to our nation -- to win the global
economic competition -- to win the peace.
America must be a military superpower -- an economic
superpower -- and an export superpower.
In this election, you'll hear two versions 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, to prepare
our people to compete, to restore our social fabric, to save and
invest as a nation -- so that we can win. //
Look at one issue -- how to balance the demands of our
economy with the demands of our environment? See what both
candidates have to offer.
In Arkansas, Governor Clinton's record on the environment is
-- to be charitable -- a little less than stellar. Listen to his
own Chairman of Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission
-- who said that the Arkansas laws are so lenient, "that if
2
California was operating on the laws of Arkansas, you'd probably
have to wear a gas mask. If
Is it any wonder -- that Arkansas ranks 50th in the nation
in environmental protection -- according to the Institute For
Southern Studies?
But in his zeal to capture his party's nomination, Governor
Clinton has turned green - which, if he has his way, green could
soon be the color of many Michigan auto workers.
In a speech at Drexel University on April 22, Governor
Clinton talked about a new federal regulatory effort, to insure
fuel standards for cars. He said: "in my administration, we'll
accelerate our progress toward fuel efficient cars and seek to
raise the average goal for auto-makers to 40 miles per gallon by
the year 2,000, 45 miles by the year 2020. "
Remember, this is not George Bush paraphrasing. This is
Bill Clinton -- exact quotes.
What will happen if we raise so-called CAFE standards this
high? Well, you know what will happen. Car companies will pull
up stakes, and take their factories overseas.
According to independent economists -- in Michigan alone --
30,000 workers will go from the assembly line -- to the
unemployment line. //
The only consolation -- is that these workers will have
someone to talk to while they wait. Because they'll be joined by
the nearly 3 million people put out of work by the Governor's new
income tax increases, and the 700,000 others put there by the
3
payroll tax to pay for his backdoor government takeover of our
health care system.
Governor Clinton calls this orgy of new taxes and spending -
- "moderation." I say that if this is moderation -- I'm Daniel
Webster.
The Governor likes to say he "puts people" first. He
doesn't mention that it's first on the unemployment line.
But it's even worse than it sounds. In that same Drexel
speech -- Governor Clinton had effusive praise for a certain book
-- by then-Senator Al Gore. Since then, of course, Senator Gore
has gone on to take a rather prominent role in the Clinton
campaign.
Now, what does Senator Gore say in his book that Governor
Clinton loves so much?
Well, on page 325, he makes an interesting comparison -- he
says that the car industry -- and I quote -- "poses a mortal
threat to the security of every nation, that is more deadly than
that of any military enemy we are ever again likely to confront."
Now I'm not making this up. Remember the old Stephen King
novel -- Christine? The one in which a car becomes inhabitated
by evil spirits -- and devours a town? The Clinton-Gore team
appear to look at every car as a haunted threat to humanity.
This would be funny, if it weren't so serious. If one out
of six jobs in America today weren't in someway tied to the car
industry. If this philosophy -- of tax and spend, regulate and
4
regulate -- weren't going to make it impossible for us to win the
economic competition.
I've been an environmentalist all my life. As President --
I fought for revision of the Clean Air Act -- so that our
children can breathe better.
My effort was criticized by big business -- and by
environmentalists. But I believe I found the middle that works.
The Clinton-Gore team isn't in the middle -- their bus has
left the highway -- and is traveling down the left breakdown
lane.
I'm not going let this happen to America.
I stand for a program that begins with a freeze on all
unnecessary federal regulations -- so that businesses can create
jobs and get this economy moving again.
I think the federal government spends too much of your
money. So I'm fighting for a line-item veto -- and a balanced
budget amendment to the Constitution. Last week, I unveiled a
new idea -- to give you the right to check your tax return -- to
use up to 10 percent of your income tax for one purpose -- to
reduce the budget deficit.
Congress won't like it. The editorial writers might call it
a "gimmick." But I think the American people want the power to
say to Congress -- if you won't cut the deficit, we will. //
Here's something else I'm fighting for -- reform our legal
system. Take an ax to the system that allows so many crazy
5
lawsuits. As a nation, we must sue each other less -- and care
for each other more.
I have many of these reforms up before the Congress -- and
that's exactly where they've stayed. Because the U.S. Congress
has become the "Gridlock Congress." It's been controlled by the
same party for 38 years -- and it is blocking the change that can
move this country forward.
Let me give you just one example.
We know our schools have to improve -- if our kids are going
to compete with the Japanese, the Germans and the British.
I believe competition can be a force for good in education,
just as it has been a force for good in American industry.
Last year, I sent a proposal to Capitol Hill, which would
give local school districts flexibility in determine whether they
want to allow parents to choose the schools they're kids attend.
A couple weeks ago, this whole issue came before Congress,
and they killed it.
Why did this noble idea fail? It failed, according to news
reports, because the Democratic leadership didn't want to give me
credit for a new idea in education.
Certain members of Congress put politics ahead of our
students. One of those members happens to represent Michigan in
the U.S. Congress. His name is Bill Ford.
Bill Ford is a pet of the National Education Association.
He has stood against every education reform I have put forth.
6
Again and again -- he has stalled and delayed -- procrastinated
and pontificated.
Bill Ford has been in Congress for ( ) years -- way to
long. It's time to grab a broom, and sweep up Congressman Ford
and all the other Gridlockers. It's time to: Clean House.
I never thought I would say this publicly, but America needs
a "geek" in Congress. So send Bob Geake (Geek) to Washington,
and get this country moving again.
This election is about choices, but ultimately it is about
the future.
The other day -- we were in Alabama -- a crowd of about
20,000 people waiting in the rain. My friend Lee Greenwood was
with us. And as Lee started to sing -- "I'm proud to be an
American" -- I looked out in the crowd -- and saw a little girl -
- couldn't be more than for or five -- perched on her dad's
shoulders, waving a little American flag and singing.
This election is about that little girl, and all the kids in
this crowd, and all the kids across America.
Do we want them to grow up in an America that is stronger,
safe, and more secure. You bet we do? And with my ideas, and a
new Congress, we can make it happen.
God bless Michigan and God bless the United States of
America.
Document No. 346587ss
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE:
8/24/92
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: TODAY, 8/24 3:00 p.m.
PRESIDENTIAL REMAKRS: BUSH/QUAYLE RALLY
SUBJECT:
TUES. 8/25 - CANTON, MICHIGAN
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
X MOORE
BAKER
- MULLINS
i
SCOWCROFT
PETERSMEYER
DARMAN N/C
PORTER
>
BRADY
X
PROVOST
BROMLEY
- ROSS
R
CALIO
N/C
>
SMITH N/C
DEMAREST
- TUTWILER
\
FITZWATER
ZOELLICK
GRAY
N/C
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PHILLIP D. BRADY
2:30
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and Staff Secretary
3:30
Ext. 2702
BusH, /Quayle 25 Rally Provost
Presidential Remarks
Tues. aug
Canton, Michigan
2,AUG24 2 All: : 48
25 August 1992
Canton, MI
Thank you and good afternoon everyone.
It's great to be back in Canton -- a booming town, a dynamic
town -- a town that has faced challenges and overcome them.
Canton proves what we all know in our hearts -- America's
best days are ahead of us.
Last Thursday at the Republican convention in Houston, I
laid out a central challenge to our nation -- to win the global
economic competition -- to win the peace.
America must be a military superpower -- an economic
superpower -- and an export superpower.
In this election, you'll hear two versions 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, to prepare
our people to compete, to restore our social fabric, to save and
invest as a nation -- so that we can win. //
Look at one issue -- how to balance the demands of our
economy with the demands of our environment? See what both
candidates have to offer.
In Arkansas, Governor Clinton's record on the environment is
-- to be charitable -- a little less than stellar. Listen to his
own Chairman of Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission
-- who said that the Arkansas laws are so lenient, "that if
2
California was operating on the laws of Arkansas, you'd probably
have to wear a gas mask. "
Is it any wonder -- that Arkansas ranks 50th in the nation
in environmental protection -- according to the Institute For
Southern Studies?
But in his zeal to capture his party's nomination, Governor
Clinton has turned green - which, if he has his way, green could
soon be the color of many Michigan auto workers.
In a speech at Drexel University on April 22, Governor
Clinton talked about a new federal regulatory effort, to insure
fuel standards for cars. He said: "in my administration, we'll
accelerate our progress toward fuel efficient cars and seek to
raise the average goal for auto-makers to 40 miles per gallon by
the year 2,000, 45 miles by the year 2020. If
Remember, this is not George Bush paraphrasing. This is
Bill Clinton -- exact quotes.
What will happen if we raise so-called CAFE standards this
high? Well, you know what will happen. Car companies will pull
up stakes, and take their factories overseas.
According to independent economists -- in Michigan alone --
30,000 workers will go from the assembly line -- to the
unemployment line. //
The only consolation -- is that these workers will have
someone to talk to while they wait. Because they'll be joined by
the nearly 3 million people put out of work by the Governor's new
income tax increases, and the 700,000 others put there by the
3
payroll tax to pay for his backdoor government takeover of our
health care system.
Governor Clinton calls this orgy of new taxes and spending -
- "moderation." I say that if this is moderation -- I'm Daniel
Webster.
The Governor likes to say he "puts people" first. He
doesn't mention that it's first on the unemployment line.
But it's even worse than it sounds. In that same Drexel
speech -- Governor Clinton had effusive praise for a certain book
-- by then-Senator Al Gore. Since then, of course, Senator Gore
has gone on to take a rather prominent role in the Clinton
campaign.
Now, what does Senator Gore say in his book that Governor
Clinton loves so much?
Well, on page 325, he makes an interesting comparison -- he
says that the car industry -- and I quote -- "poses a mortal
threat to the security of every nation, that is more deadly than
that of any military enemy we are ever again likely to confront."
Now I'm not making this up. Remember the old Stephen King
novel -- Christine? The one in which a car becomes inhabitated
by evil spirits -- and devours a town? The Clinton-Gore team
appear to look at every car as a haunted threat to humanity.
This would be funny, if it weren't so serious. If one out
of six jobs in America today weren't in someway tied to the car
industry. If this philosophy -- of tax and spend, regulate and
4
regulate -- weren't going to make it impossible for us to win the
economic competition.
I've been an environmentalist all my life. As President ---
I fought for revision of the Clean Air Act -- so that our
children can breathe better.
My effort was criticized by big business -- and by
environmentalists. But I believe I found the middle that works.
The Clinton-Gore team isn't in the middle -- their bus has
left the highway -- and is traveling down the left breakdown
lane.
I'm not going let this happen to America.
I stand for a program that begins with a freeze on all
unnecessary federal regulations -- so that businesses can create
jobs and get this economy moving again.
I think the federal government spends too much of your
money. So I'm fighting for a line-item veto -- and a balanced
budget amendment to the Constitution. Last week, I unveiled a
new idea -- to give you the right to check your tax return -- to
use up to 10 percent of your income tax for one purpose -- to
reduce the budget deficit.
Congress won't like it. The editorial writers might call it
a "gimmick." But I think the American people want the power to
say to Congress -- if you won't cut the deficit, we will. //
Here's something else I'm fighting for -- reform our legal
system. Take an ax to the system that allows so many crazy
6
Again and again -- he has stalled and delayed -- procrastinated
and pontificated.
Bill Ford has been in Congress for ( ) years -- way to
long. It's time to grab a broom, and sweep up Congressman Ford
and all the other Gridlockers. It's time to: Clean House.
I never thought I would say this publicly, but America needs
a "geek" in Congress. So send Bob Geake (Geek) to Washington,
and get this country moving again.
This election is about choices, but ultimately it is about
the future.
The other day -- we were in Alabama -- a crowd of about
20,000 people waiting in the rain. My friend Lee Greenwood was
with us. And as Lee started to sing -- "I'm proud to be an
American" -- I looked out in the crowd -- and saw a little girl -
- couldn't be more than for or five -- perched on her dad's
shoulders, waving a little American flag and singing.
This election is about that little girl, and all the kids in
this crowd, and all the kids across America.
Do we want them to grow up in an America that is stronger,
safe, and more secure. You bet we do? And with my ideas, and a
new Congress, we can make it happen.
God bless Michigan and God bless the United States of
America.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
August 24, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR DAN McGROARTY
FROM:
ROGER B. PORTER JH FOR
SUBJECT:
Presidential Remarks: Bush-Quayle Rally
We have reviewed the attached presidential remarks and
have noted a few suggested changes on the draft.
If you have any questions or we can be of further
assistance, please let us know.
CC: Phillip D. Brady
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DATE:
8/24/92
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: TODAY, 8/24 3:00 p.m.
PRESIDENTIAL REMAKRS: BUSH/QUAYLE RALLY
SUBJECT:
TUES. 8/25 - CANTON, MICHIGAN
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MOORE
BAKER
MULLINS
SCOWCROFT
PETERSMEYER
DARMAN
PORTER
BRADY
PROVOST
BROMLEY
ROSS
CALIO
SMITH
DEMAREST
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and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
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Bastt/Guayle 25 Rally Provost
Presidential Remarks
Tues. aug
Canton, Michigan
2,15624 An: 48
25 August 1992
Canton, mI
Thank you and good afternoon everyone.
It's great to be back in Canton -- a booming town, a dynamic
town -- a town that has faced challenges and overcome them.
Canton proves what we all know in our hearts -- America's
best days are ahead of us.
Last Thursday at the Republican convention in Houston, I
laid out a central challenge to our nation -- to win the global
economic competition -- to win the peace.
America must be a military superpower -- an economic
superpower -- and an export superpower.
In this election, you'll hear two versions 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, to prepare
our people to compete, to restore our social fabric, to save and
invest as a nation -- so that we can win. 11
Look at one issue -- how to balance the demands of our
economy with the demands of our environment? See what both
candidates have to offer.
In Arkansas, Governor Clinton's record on the environment is
-- to be charitable -- a little less than stellar. Listen to his
own Chairman of Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission
-- who said that the Arkansas laws are so lenient, "that if
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2
California was operating on the laws of Arkansas, you'd probably
have to wear a gas mask."
Is it any wonder -- that Arkansas ranks 50th in the nation
in environmental protection -- according to the Institute For
Southern Studies?
But in his zeal to capture his party's nomination, Governor
Clinton has turned greeng which, if he has his way, green sould
soon be the solor of many Michigan auto workers
In a speech at Drexel University on April 22, Governor
Clinton talked about a new federal regulatory effort, to insure
fuel standards for cars. He said: "in my administration, we'll
accelerate our progress toward fuel efficient cars and seek to
raise the average goal for auto-makers to 40 miles per gallon by
the year 2,000, 45 miles by the year 2020."
Remember, this is not George Bush paraphrasing. This is
Bill Clinton -- exact quotes.
What will happen if we raise so-called CAFE standards this
high? Well, you know what will happen. Car companies will pull
up stakes, and take their factories overseas.
According to independent economists -- in Michigan alone
--
30,000 workers will go from the assembly line -- to the
unemployment line. 11
The only consolation -- is that these workers will have
someone to talk to while they wait. Because they'll be joined by
the nearly 3 million people put out of work by the Governor's new
income tax increases, and the 700,000 others put there by the
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3
payroll tax to pay for his backdoor government takeover of our
health care system.
Governor Clinton calls this orgy of new taxes and spending -
- "moderation." I say that if this is moderation -- I'm Daniel
Webster.
The Governor likes to say he "puts people" first. He
doesn't mention that it's first on the unemployment line.
But it's even worse than it sounds. In that same Drexel
speech -- Governor Clinton had effusive praise for a certain book
Iby then-Senator Al Gore. Since then, of course, Senator Gore
has gone on to take a rather prominent role in the Clinton
campaign.
Now, what does Senator Gore say in his book that Governor
Clinton loves so much?
Well, on page 325, he makes an interesting comparison -- he
says that the car industry -- and I quote --- "poses a mortal
threat to the security of every nation, that is more deadly than
that of any military enemy we are ever again likely to confront."
Now I'm not making this up. Remember the old Stephen King
novel -- Christine? The one in which a car becomes inhabitated
by evil spirits -- and devours a town? The Clinton-Gore team
appear to look at every car as a haunted threat to humanity.
This would be funny, if it weren't 80 (#) serious) If one out
of six jobs in America today weren't in someway tied to the car
industry. If this philosophy -- of tax and spend, regulate I and
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regulate -- weren't going to make it impossible for us to win the
economic competition.
I've been an environmentalist all my life. As President
--
I fought for revision of the Clean Air Act -- so that our
children can breathe better.
My effort was criticized by big business -- and by
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environmentalists. But I believe I found the middle that works.
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I'm not going let this happen to America.
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I stand for a program that begins with a freeze on all
unnecessary federal regulations -- so that businesses can create
jobs and get this economy moving again.
I think the federal government spends too much of your
money. So I'm fighting for a line-item vato -- and a balanced
budget amendment to the Constitution. Last week, I unveiled a
new idea -- to give you the right to check your tax return -- to
use up to 10 percent of your income tax for one purpose -- to
reduce the budget deficit.
Congress won't like it. The editorial writers might call it
a "gimmick." But I think the American people want the power to
say to Congress -- if you won't cut the deficit, we will.//
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Here's something else I'm fighting for -- reform our legal
system. Take an ax to the system that allows so many crazy
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lawsuits. As a nation, we must sue each other less -- and care
for each other more.
I have many of these reforms up before the Congress -- and
that's exactly where they've stayed. Because the U.S. Congress
has become the "Gridlock Congress." It's been controlled by the
same party for 38 years -- and it is blocking the change that can
move this country forward.
Let me give you just one example.
We know our schools have to improve -- if our kids are going
to compete with the Japanese, the Germans and the British.
I believe competition can be a force for good in education,
just as it has been a force for good in American industry.
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Certain members of Congress put politics ahead of our FAMILIES
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He has stood against every education reform I have put forth.
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Again and again -- he has stalled and delayed -- procrastinated
and pontificated.
Bill Ford has been in Congress for ( ) years -- way too
long. It's time to grab a broom, and sweep up Congressman Ford
and all the other Gridlockers. It's time to: Clean House.
I never thought I would say this publicly, but America needs
a "geek" in Congress. so send Bob Geake (Geek) to Washington,
and get this country moving again.
This election is about choices, but ultimately it is about
the future.
The other day -- we were in Alabama -- a crowd of about
20,000 people waiting in the rain. My friend Lee Greenwood was
with us. And as Lee started to sing -- "I'm proud to be an
American" -- I looked out in the crowd -- and saw a little girl -
FOUR
- couldn't be more than for or five -- perched on her dad's
shoulders, waving a little American flag and singing.
This election is about that little girl, and all the kids in
this crowd, and all the kids across America.
Do we want them to grow up in an America that is stronger,
safe, and more secure. You bet we do? And with my ideas, and a
new Congress, we can make it happen.
God bless Michigan and God bless the United States of
America.
me Grath edits
Document No. 346587ss
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE:
8/24/92
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: TODAY, 8/24 3:00 p.m.
PRESIDENTIAL REMAKRS: BUSH/QUAYLE RALLY
SUBJECT:
TUES. 8/25 - CANTON, MICHIGAN
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MOORE
BAKER
MULLINS
\
SCOWCROFT
PETERSMEYER
DARMAN
PORTER
P
BRADY
PROVOST
R
BROMLEY
ROSS
R
CALIO
SMITH
S
DEMAREST
TUTWILER
\
FITZWATER
ZOELLICK
GRAY
KAUFMAN
HOLIDAY
MCGROARTY
HORNER
MCBRIDE
REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Dan McGroarty, Rm. 122,
x2930, no later than 3:00 p.m., TODAY, MON. 8/24, with a copy
to this office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
Bast/ H/ Quayle 25 Rally Provost
Presidential Remarks
Tues. aug
Canton, Michigan
2.25624 All: 48
25 August 1992
Canton, MI
Thank you and good afternoon everyone.
It's great to be back in Canton -- a booming town, a dynamic
town -- a town that has faced challenges and overcome them.
Canton proves what we all know in our hearts -- America's
best days are ahead of us.
Last Thursday at the Republican convention in Houston, I
laid out a central challenge to our nation -- to win the global
economic competition -- to win the peace.
America must be a military superpower -- an economic
superpower -- and an export superpower.
In this election, you'll hear two versions 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, to prepare
our people to compete, to restore our social fabric, to save and
invest as a nation -- so that we can win. 11
Look at one issue -- how to balance the demands of our
economy with the demands of our environment? See what both
candidates have to offer.
In Arkansas, Governor Clinton's record on the environment is
-- to be charitable -- a little less than stellar. Listen to his
own Chairman of Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission
-- who said that the Arkansas laws are so lenient, " "that if
2
California was operating on the laws of Arkansas, you'd probably
have to wear a gas mask. "
Is it any wonder -- that Arkansas ranks 50th in the nation
in environmental protection 2 E according to the Institute For
Southern Studies?
But in his zeal to capture his party's nomination, Governor
Clinton has turned green - which, if he has his way, green could
soon be the color of many Michigan auto workers.
In a speech at Drexel University on April 22, Governor
Clinton talked about a new federal regulatory effort, to insure
fuel standards for cars. He said: "in my administration, we'll
clincom
accelerate our progress toward fuel efficient cars and seek to
raise the average goal for auto-makers to 40 miles per gallon by
the year 2,000, 45 miles by the year 2020. "
Remember, this is not George Bush paraphrasing. This is
Bill Clinton -- exact quotes.
What will happen if we raise so-called CAFE standards this
high? Well, you know what will happen. Car companies will pull
up stakes, and take their factories overseas.
According to independent economists -- in Michigan alone
30,000 workers will go from the assembly line -- to the
unemployment line. //
The only consolation -- is that these workers will have
someone to talk to while they wait. Because they'll be joined by
the nearly 3 million people put out of work by the Governor's new
income tax increases, and the 700,000 others put there by the
3
payroll tax to pay for his backdoor government takeover of our
health care system.
Governor Clinton calls this orgy of new taxes and spending -
- "moderation." I say that if this is moderation -- I'm Daniel
Webster.
The Governor likes to say he "puts people" first. He
doesn't mention that it's first on the unemployment line.
But it's even worse than it sounds. In that same Drexel
speech -- Governor Clinton had effusive praise for a certain book
-- by then-Senator Al Gore. Since then, of course, Senator Gore
has gone on to take a rather prominent role in the Clinton
campaign.
Now, what does Senator Gore say in his book that Governor
Clinton loves so much?
Well, on page 325, he makes an interesting comparison -- he
says that the car industry -- and I quote -- "poses a mortal
threat to the security of every nation, that is more deadly than
that of any military enemy we are ever again likely to confront." "
Now I'm not making this up. Remember the old Stephen King
novel -- Christine? The one in which a car becomes inhabitated
by evil spirits -- and devours a town? The Clinton-Gore team
appear to look at every car as a haunted threat to humanity.
This would be funny, if it weren't so serious. If one out
of six jobs in America today weren't in someway tied to the car
industry. If this philosophy -- of tax and spend, regulate and
4
regulate -- weren't going to make it impossible for us to win the
economic competition.
I've been an environmentalist all my life. As President
I fought for revision of the Clean Air Act -- so that our
children can breathe better.
My effort was criticized by big business -- and by
environmentalists. But I believe I found the middle that works.
The Clinton-Gore team isn't in the middle -- their bus has
left the highway -- and is traveling down the left breakdown
lane.
I'm not going let this happen to America.
I stand for a program that begins with a freeze on all
unnecessary federal regulations -- so that businesses can create
jobs and get this economy moving again.
I think the federal government spends too much of your
money. So I'm fighting for a line-item veto -- and a balanced
budget amendment to the Constitution. Last week, I unveiled a
new idea -- to give you the right to check your tax return -- to
use up to 10 percent of your income tax for one purpose -- to
reduce the budget deficit.
Congress won't like it. The editorial writers might call it
a "gimmick." But I think the American people want the power to
say to Congress -- if you won't cut the deficit, we will.//
Here's something else I'm fighting for -- reform our legal
system. Take an ax to the system that allows so many crazy
5
lawsuits. As a nation, we must sue each other less -- and care
for each other more.
I have many of these reforms up before the Congress -- and
that's exactly where they've stayed. Because the U.S. Congress
has become the "Gridlock Congress." It's been controlled by the
same party for 38 years -- and it is blocking the change that can
move this country forward.
Let me give you just one example.
We know our schools have to improve -- if our kids are going
to compete with the Japanese, the Germans and the British.
I believe competition can be a force for good in education,
just as it has been a force for good in American industry.
Last year, I sent a proposal to Capitol Hill, which would
ing
give local school districts flexibility in determine whether they
their
want to allow parents to choose the schools they're kids attend.
A couple weeks ago, this whole issue came before Congress,
and they killed it.
Why did this noble idea fail? It failed, according to news
reports, because the Democratic leadership didn't want to give me
credit for a new idea in education.
Certain members of Congress put politics ahead of our
students. One of those members happens to represent Michigan in
the U.S. Congress. His name is Bill Ford.
Bill Ford is a pet of the National Education Association.
He has stood against every education reform I have put forth.
6
Again and again -- he has stalled and delayed -- procrastinated
and pontificated.
Bill Ford has been in Congress for (
) years -- way to
out
long. It's time to grab a broom, and sweep up Congressman Ford
and all the other Gridlockers. It's time to: Clean House.
I never thought I would say this publicly, but America needs
a "geek" in Congress. So send Bob Geake (Geek) to Washington,
and get this country moving again.
This election is about choices, but ultimately it is about
the future.
The other day -- we were in Alabama -- a crowd of about
20,000 people waiting in the rain. My friend Lee Greenwood was
with us. And as Lee started to sing -- "I'm proud to be an
American" -- I looked out in the crowd -- and saw a little girl -
- couldn't be more than for or five -- perched on her dad's
shoulders, waving a little American flag and singing.
This election is about that little girl, and all the kids in
this crowd, and all the kids across America.
Do we want them to grow up in an America that is stronger,
Y
safe! and more secure. You bet we do? And with my ideas, and a
new Congress, we can make it happen.
God bless Michigan and God bless the United States of
America.
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crisis, Franklin Roosevelt said this. "This country needs, and
unless I mistake its temper, this country demands bold, persistent
experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it,
and if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But, above all,
try something." President Roosevelt defined the ultimate test of
economic leadership in an exciting and dynamic time, the willingness
to take bold action to improve the lives of the people you serve.
Six decades later, this administration's worst failure is not
the devastating recession that has occurred on Mr. Bush's watch. It
is
(MORE)
that we have had this recession and he has done nothing but watch.
He has failed to meet the standard - (applause) he has failed to
meet the standard he himself set the day he took office to use the
power of the presidency to help people. As Roger Johnson, the
chairman of Western Digital Corporation and a Republican supporter
of mine, said on national television ten days ago, "J think we've
got some serious problems in our country, we have had them for some
time. President Bush has had over 3-1/2 years to address them and
just hasn't shown the leadership to take us out of them. He spent a
good bit of that 3-1/2 years telling us there wasn't a recession -
as recently as a few weeks ago. Then we found out there was A
recession."
I offer a vision of millions of jobs and thousands of new
companies and dozens of new industries; a vision of economic growth
that starts by investing in our people, their health, their
education, and their skills; and a vision of presidential leadership
that challenges every student and every worker and every business
person to do their best so that we can compete and win again in the
world marketplace of the 21st century.
Together, if we put our people first, we can fulfill the
historic obligation of Americans to always be prepared to recreate
the strength of the American community and to reaffirm our belief
that tomorrow can be better than today. We do not have a person to
waste, and as my wife never tires of saying, life is not a dress
rehearsal. We are letting too many opportunities and too many lives
and too many futures go. We must have the courage in this election
to change course.
Thank you very much.
(Applause.)
GOV. CLINTON: Thank you. Now I think we're supposed to take
a few questions.
GOV. BLANCHARD: I've got them right here.
GOV. CLINTON: Governor?
GOV. BLANCHARD: Yes. We have an enormous number of questions
here, and Jerry Warren (sp) mentions we'll only have time for three
or four. Let me start out with the first one. What is your
position on the North American Free Trade Agreement?
GOV. CLINTON: Well, I am reviewing the proposed agreement
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now, and carefully, as 1 think I should. In principle, T think we
would be better off with the right kind of agreement with Mexico.
If we have no agreement, we will continue to have manufacturing jobs
go on a last track to Mexico because too many manufacturers believe
the only way to make money is through having lower wagcs, and
because some people actually want to be closer to the market there.
What we need to do is to make sure that this agreement takes
proper account, as we were promised it would, of labor standards, of
actual environmental investments, and provides for real
opportunities for retraining and repositioning the workers who may
be disadvantaged by it. If we had the right kind of agreement, we
could begin to integrate the American and the Mexican economics in a
way that would benefit both sides and raise wages and increase jobs
in America. But it has to be the right kind of agreement.
I'm reviewing it carefully, and when T have a definitive
opinion 1 will say so. It's a very long and complex document, it
was negotiated over a long period of time, and 1 think we have to go
through it and check it all off. But in principle I'm for it, I
just want to make sure -- I'm worried that this administration was
more interested in liberalizing financial services than in
protecting labor standards and the environment, and I want to make
sure that the right things have been done.
(Applause.)
GOV. BLANCHARD: What is your position on the CAFE standards,
the Corporate Average Fuel Economy? Do you believe you understand
the implications of higher standards for the auto industry, and do
you understand the competitive effects of the CAFE program?
GOV. CLINTON: Well, as I said in April, on April the 22nd
when I gave an environmental speech in Philadelphia, I support the
goal of the proposed Bryan bill, which is 40 miles a gallon. But I
also have reviewed the National Academy of Sciences study, the
Office of Technology Assessment report. There is an indication that
the technologies may be in the pipeline that those standards can be
achieved. There are other indications that they may not be. I want
to observe two things.
Number one, 1 think wc should be very flexible about imposing
standards on the overall fleet as opposed to different sized
vehicles. I think Americans can compete in cars that are the same
size as those which foreign cars -- which are being produced by
foreign firms, whether they're small- or medium-sized firms. And I
am flexible about that, and I think the American government should
be.
I still think we ought to have a goal to try to keep
increasing those standards because that reduces fuel use in America,
cleans up the environment, and moves us forward. But I think there
are ways to do that: retiring old cars, being -- having separate
goals for different sized cars, giving incentives of different kinds
to achieve higher fuel standards. So I want to stick with what I
said. I think it is a good goal, and 1 think we have to continue to
raise mileage standards, but I don't think it's fair to impose a
burden on an American fleet that has bigger cars in it than foreign
competitors do, and T certainly don't think that you can ask anybody
to do anything that's technologically impossible.
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In terms of the cost, again I would say that America ought to
have a healthy investment tax credit to make sure that manufacturers
can afford to make whatever costs are required of anything like
this, and that would give us a relative competitive advantage over
our opponents in other countries if they had to make the same sort
of changes.
So I'm looking forward to discussing this, I strongy believe
we have to raise the mileage standards. But I have never said that
I didn't think there were more than one way to do it or that we
shouldn't be flexible in the way we approach it. T thought that the
goal was a good goal. That's what I said in April, and that's what
I still believe. (Applause.)
GOV. BLANCHARD: Based on economic forecasts of future
employment growth, most of the new jobs created in the next ten
years will come from small- and medium-sized companies. How would
your administration help this market segment become globally
competitive?
GOV. CLINTON: T think small- and medium-sized companies need
access to development capital, which is why I favor the venture
capitalist proposal for a long-term capital gains tax. I think they
need access to banking capital, which is why I'm very concerned that
there are too places in the United States today where there has been
an overreaction of government regulators to the problems in the S&L
crisis, so they're not making loans to good people in their own
neighborhoods. These financial institutions did not go broke
loaning money to their neighbors. And I think we need to emphasize
that. I think something has got to be done to help small businesses
cope with the strangling costs of workmen's compensation and health
care, and the two are closely related.
And finally, I think the United States government has to do
what I know the Germans do a very good job of, which is helping
small- and medium-sized businesses to pool their resources to
engage in exporting, which T would very much like to do.
So, those are some of the things that I would try to do for
the small business community. (Applause.)
GOV. BLANCHARD: One last brief question. I guess the
schedule requires you to go. Given the fact that 70 percent of the
high school graduates do not go on to college, how can we better
prepare these future workers for the highly technical manufacturing
jobs of the 21st century?
GOV. CLINTON: Well, the actual figures is 70 percent of the
high school graduates don't finish college. About 55 percent of our
high school graduates actually go on to college, but must of them do
not finish four-year colleges.
So, what we should do, in my judgment, is to organize on a
state-by-state basis, working with the employer groups, and maybe in
regions within states, four-year training and education programs.
We need to break down the wall between what is considered academic
education and what is vocational education. The two things are
blurred today. And we need to start in our high schools all over
America in the junior year giving people who aren't gaing to go on
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to four-year colleges the beginnings of apprenticeship training and
then continuing that for two years afterwards in community college
and vocational institutions and on the job. We could organize that
flexibly state by state, region by region, with the federal
government providing the framework, the adequate tax incentives, and
some educational investments.
It would be the best money we ever spent. We are the only
advanced country that just forgets about the 50 percent of the kids
who don't go to college or the 70 percent who don't finish with
four-year college degrees. And that would do more in the long run,
I think, to upgrade the skills of the American workforce and our
competitive position than nearly anything else we could do in
education.
Thank you very much for your time. Thank you. (Applause.)
END
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
92 AUG August : 24 8 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR DAN McGROARTY
FROM:
ROGER B. PORTER JH FOR
SUBJECT:
Presidential Remarks: Bush-Quayle Rally
We have reviewed the attached presidential remarks and
have noted a few suggested changes on the draft.
If you have any questions or we can be of further
assistance, please let us know.
CC: Phillip D. Brady
Document No. 346587ss
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BA
DATE:
8/24/92
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE'BY: TODAY, 8/24 3:00 p.m.
PRESIDENTIAL REMAKRS: BUSH/QUAYLE RALLY
SUBJECT:
TUES. 8/25 - CANTON, MICHIGAN
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MOORE
BAKER
MULLINS
SCOWCROFT
PETERSMEYER
DARMAN
PORTER
BRADY
PROVOST
BROMLEY
ROSS
CALIO
SMITH
DEMAREST
TUTWILER
FITZWATER
ZOELLICK
GRAY
KAUFMAN
HOLIDAY
MCGROARTY
HORNER
MCBRIDE
REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Dan McGroarty, Rm. 122,
x2930, no later than 3:00 p.m., TODAY, MON. 8/24, with a copy
to this office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
BasH/ / Cunyle 25 Rally Provost
Presidential Remarks
Tues. aug
Canton, Michigan
2.10624 All: 48
25 August 1992
Canton, MI
Thank you and good afternoon everyone.
It's great to be back in Canton -- a booming town, a dynamic
town -- a town that has faced challenges and overcome them.
Canton proves what we all know in our hearts -- America's
best days are ahead of us.
Last Thursday at the Republican convention in Houston, I
laid out a central challenge to our nation -- to win the global
economic competition -- to win the peace.
America must be a military superpower -- an economic
superpower -- and an export superpower.
In this election, you'll hear two versions 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, to prepare
our people to compete, to restore our social fabric, to save and
invest as a nation -- so that we can win. //
Look at one issue -- how to balance the demands of our
economy with the demands of our environment See what both
candidates have to offer.
In Arkansas, Governor Clinton's record on the environment is
-- to be charitable -- a little less than stellar. Listen to his
own Chairman of Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission
-- who said that the Arkansas laws are so lenient, "that if
2
California was operating on the laws of Arkansas, you'd probably
have to wear a gas mask."
Is it any wonder -- that Arkansas ranks 50th in the nation
in environmental protection -- according to the Institute For
Southern Studies?
But in his zeal to capture his party's nomination, Governor
Clinton has turned green which, if he has his way, green could
soon be the color of many Michigan auto workers
In a speech at Drexel University on April 22, Governor
Clinton talked about a new federal regulatory effort, to insure
fuel standards for cars. He said: "in my administration, we'll
accelerate our progress toward fuel efficient cars and seek to
raise the average goal for auto-makers to 40 miles per gallon by
the year 2,000, 45 miles by the year 2020. "
Remember, this is not George Bush paraphrasing. This is
Bill Clinton -- exact quotes.
What will happen if we raise so-called CAFE standards this
high? Well, you know what will happen. Car companies will pull
up stakes, and take their factories overseas.
According to independent economists -- in Michigan alone --
30,000 workers will go from the assembly line -- to the
unemployment line. //
The only consolation -- is that these workers will have
someone to talk to while they wait. Because they'll be joined by
the nearly 3 million people put out of work by the Governor's new
income tax increases, and the 700,000 others put there by the
3
payroll tax to pay for his backdoor government takeover of our
health care system.
Governor Clinton calls this orgy of new taxes and spending -
- "moderation." I say that if this is moderation -- I'm Daniel
Webster.
The Governor likes to say he "puts people" first. He
doesn't mention that it's first on the unemployment line.
But it's even worse than it sounds. In that same Drexel
speech -- Governor Clinton had effusive praise for a certain book
by then-Senator Al Gore. Since then, of course, Senator Gore
has gone on to take a rather prominent role in the Clinton
campaign.
Now, what does Senator Gore say in his book that Governor
Clinton loves so much?
Well, on page 325, he makes an interesting comparison -- he
says that the car industry -- and I quote -- "poses a mortal
threat to the security of every nation, that is more deadly than
that of any military enemy we are ever again likely to confront."
Now I'm not making this up. Remember the old Stephen King
novel -- Christine? The one in which a car becomes inhabitated
by evil spirits -- and devours a town? The Clinton-Gore team
appear to look at every car as a haunted threat to humanity.
This would be funny, if it weren't so serious If one out
(#)
of six jobs in America today weren't in someway tied to the car
industry. If this philosophy -- of tax and spend, regulate and
4
regulate -- weren't going to make it impossible for us to win the
economic competition.
I've been an environmentalist all my life. As President --
I fought for revision of the Clean Air Act -- so that our
children can breathe better.
My effort was criticized by big business -- and by
CROUND
environmentalists. But I believe I found the middleY that works.
MAY CLAIM THEY ARE
OF THE ROAD
The Clinton-Gore team isn't in the middle! their bus has
IS CAREENING TOWARD THE LEFT SHOULDER
BUT
left the highway -- and is traveling down the left breakdown
DANCEROUSLY CLOSE TO RUNNING COMPLETELY off
lane
THE
I'm not going let this happen to America.
ROADO
I stand for a program that begins with a freeze on all
unnecessary federal regulations -- so that businesses can create
jobs and get this economy moving again.
I think the federal government spends too much of your
money. So I'm fighting for a line-item veto -- and a balanced
budget amendment to the Constitution. Last week, I unveiled a
new idea -- to give you the right to check your tax return -- to
use up to 10 percent of your income tax for one purpose -- to
reduce the budget deficit.
Congress won't like it. The editorial writers might call it
a "gimmick." But I think the American people want the power to
say to Congress -- if you won't cut the deficit, we will. 11
ING
Here's something else I'm fighting for -- reform our legal
system. Take an ax to the system that allows so many crazy
5
lawsuits. As a nation, we must sue each other less -- and care
for each other more.
I have many of these reforms up before the Congress -- and
that's exactly where they've stayed. Because the U.S. Congress
has become the "Gridlock Congress." It's been controlled by the
same party for 38 years -- and it is blocking the change that can
move this country forward.
Let me give you just one example.
We know our schools have to improve -- if our kids are going
to compete with the Japanese, the Germans and the British.
I believe competition can be a force for good in education,
just as it has been a force for good in American industry.
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my
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FOR
CHILDREN--
EARLIER THIS Last year, I sent a proposal to Capitol Hilly which would
TO ENCOURAGE STATES AND LOCALITIES TO Allow PARENTS, NOT THE GOVERNMENT,
give local school districts flexibility in determine whether they
PUBLIC PRIVATE OR RELICIOUS
want to allow parents to choose theY schools they re kids attend.
WHEN THIS PROPOSAL
THEIR
A couple weeks ago, this whole issue came before Congress,
and I they killed it.
ONCE AEAIN BLOCKED
BECAUSE
Why did WAS this noble idea fail? It failed, according to news
reports, because the Democratic leadership didn't want to give me
credit for a new idea in education.
Certain members of Congress put politics ahead of our FAMILIES
AND CHILDREN
students. One of those members happens to represent Michigan in
the U.S. Congress. His name is Bill Ford. HE IS CHAIRMAN of THE HOUSE
Bill Ford is a pet of the National Education Association.
He has stood against every education reform I have put forth.
COMMITTEE, AND
EDUCATION AND LABOR
6
Again and again -- he has stalled and delayed -- procrastinated
and pontificated.
Bill Ford has been in Congress for ( ) years -- way to o
long. It's time to grab a broom, and sweep up Congressman Ford
and all the other Gridlockers. It's time to: Clean House.
I never thought I would say this publicly, but America needs
a "geek" in Congress. So send Bob Geake (Geek) to Washington,
and get this country moving again.
This election is about choices, but ultimately it is about
the future.
The other day -- we were in Alabama -- a crowd of about
20,000 people waiting in the rain. My friend Lee Greenwood was
with us. And as Lee started to sing -- "I'm proud to be an
American" -- I looked out in the crowd -- and saw a little girl -
FOUR
- couldn't be more than for or five -- perched on her dad's
shoulders, waving a little American flag and singing.
This election is about that little girl, and all the kids in
this crowd, and all the kids across America.
Do we want them to grow up in an America that is stronger,
safe, and more secure. You bet we do? And with my ideas, and a
new Congress, we can make it happen.
God bless Michigan and God bless the United States of
America.
Document No. 346587ss
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE:
8/24/92
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT BRENDE DUE BY: TODAY, 8/24 3:00 p.m.
32 AUG24
PRESIDENTIAL REMAKRS: BUSH/QUAYLE RALLY
SUBJECT:
TUES. 8/25 - CANTON, MICHIGAN
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MOORE
BAKER
MULLINS
\
SCOWCROFT
PETERSMEYER
P
DARMAN
PORTER
P
BRADY
PROVOST
\
BROMLEY
ROSS
R
CALIO
SMITH
DEMAREST
TUTWILER
\
FITZWATER
ZOELLICK
GRAY
KAUFMAN
HOLIDAY
MCGROARTY
HORNER
MCBRIDE
REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Dan McGroarty, Rm. 122,
x2930, no later than 3:00 p.m., TODAY, MON. 8/24, with a copy
to this office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
See Comments
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
BrusH / Quayle 25 Rolly Provost
Presidential Remarks
Tues. aug
Canton, Michigan
All: 48
25 August 1992
Canton, MI
Thank you and good afternoon everyone.
It's great to be back in Canton -- a booming town, a dynamic
town -- a town that has faced challenges and overcome them.
Canton proves what we all know in our hearts -- America's
best days are ahead of us.
Last Thursday at the Republican convention in Houston, I
laid out a central challenge to our nation -- to win the global
economic competition -- to win the peace.
America must be a military superpower -- an economic
superpower -- and an export superpower.
In this election, you'll hear two versions 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, to prepare
our people to compete, to restore our social fabric, to save and
invest as a nation -- so that we can win. //
Look at one issue -- how to balance the demands of our
economy with the demands of our environment? See what both
candidates have to offer.
In Arkansas, Governor Clinton's record on the environment is
-- to be charitable -- a little less than stellar. Listen to his
own Chairman of Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission
-- who said that the Arkansas laws are so lenient, that if
2
California was operating on the laws of Arkansas, you'd probably
have to wear a gas mask. "
Is it any wonder -- that Arkansas ranks 50th in the nation
policy
in environmental protection according to the Institute For
Southern Studies?
But in his zeal to capture his party's nomination, Governor
Clinton has turned green - which, if he has his way, green could
soon be the color of many Michigan auto workers.
In a speech at Drexel University on April 22, Governor
Clinton talked about a new federal regulatory effort, to insure
fuel standards for cars. He said: "in my administration, we'll
accelerate our progress toward fuel efficient cars and seek to
raise the average goal for auto-makers to 40 miles per gallon by
the year 2,000, 45 miles by the year 2020. "
Remember, this is not George Bush paraphrasing. This is
Bill Clinton exact quotes.
What will happen if we raise so-called CAFE standards this
high? Well, you know what will happen. Car companies will pull
up stakes, and take their factories overseas.
According to independent economists -- in Michigan alone --
?
30,000 workers will go from the assembly line -- to the
unemployment line. //
The only consolation -- is that these workers will have
someone to talk to while they wait. Because they'll be joined by
the nearly 3 million people put out of work by the Governor's new
income tax increases, and the 700,000 others put there by the
check inaccorat MT #15
3
payroll tax to pay for his backdoor government takeover of our
health care system.
Governor Clinton calls this orgy of new taxes and spending -
- "moderation." I say that if this is moderation -- I'm Daniel
Webster.
The Governor likes to say he "puts people" first. He
doesn't mention that it's first on the unemployment line.
But it's even worse than it sounds. In that same Drexel
speech -- Governor Clinton had effusive praise for a certain book
-- by then-Senator Al Gore. Since then, of course, Senator Gore
has gone on to take a rather prominent role in the Clinton
campaign.
Now, what does Senator Gore say in his book that Governor
Clinton loves so much?
Well, on page 325, he makes an interesting comparison -- he
says that the car industry -- and I quote -- "poses a mortal
threat to the security of every nation, that is more deadly than
that of any military enemy we are ever again likely to confront."
Now I'm not making this up. Remember the old Stephen King
novel -- Christine? The one in which a car becomes inhabitated
by evil spirits -- and devours a town? The Clinton-Gore team
appear to look at every car as a haunted threat to humanity.
This would be funny, if it weren't so serious. If one out
of six jobs in America today weren't in someway tied to the car
industry. If this philosophy -- of tax and spend, regulate and
4
regulate -- weren't going to make it impossible for us to win the
economic competition.
I've been an environmentalist all my life. As President --
I fought for revision of the Clean Air Act -- so that our
children can breathe better.
My effort was criticized by big business -- and by
environmentalists. But I believe I found the middle that works.
The Clinton-Gore team isn't in the middle -- their bus has
left the highway -- and is traveling down the left breakdown
lane.
I'm not going let this happen to America.
I stand for a program that begins with a freeze on all
unnecessary federal regulations -- so that businesses can create
jobs and get this economy moving again.
I think the federal government spends too much of your
money. So I'm fighting for a line-item veto -- and a balanced
budget amendment to the Constitution. Last week, I unveiled a
new idea -- to give you the right to check your tax return -- to
use up to 10 percent of your income tax for one purpose -- to
reduce the budget deficit.
Congress won't like it. The editorial writers might call it
a "gimmick." But I think the American people want the power to
say to Congress -- if you won't cut the deficit, we will. //
Here's something else I'm fighting for -- reform our legal
system. Take an ax to the system that allows so many crazy
5
lawsuits. As a nation, we must sue each other less -- and care
for each other more.
I have many of these reforms up before the Congress -- and
that's exactly where they've stayed. Because the U.S. Congress
has become the "Gridlock Congress." It's been controlled by the
same party for 38 years -- and it is blocking the change that can
move this country forward.
Let me give you just one example.
We know our schools have to improve -- if our kids are going
to compete with the Japanese, the Germans and the British.
I believe competition can be a force for good in education,
just as it has been a force for good in American industry.
Last year, I sent a proposal to Capitol Hill, which would
give local school districts flexibility in determine whether they
want to allow parents to choose the schools they're kids attend.
A couple weeks ago, this whole issue came before Congress,
and they killed it.
Why did this noble idea fail? It failed, according to news
reports, because the Democratic leadership didn't want to give me
credit for a new idea in education.
Certain members of Congress put politics ahead of our
students. One of those members happens to represent Michigan in
the U.S. Congress. His name is Bill Ford.
Bill Ford is a pet of the National Education Association.
He has stood against every education reform I have put forth.
6
Again and again -- he has stalled and delayed -- procrastinated
and pontificated.
Bill Ford has been in Congress for ( ) years -- way
to
long. It's time to grab a broom, and sweep up Congressman Ford
and all the other Gridlockers. It's time to: Clean House.
I never thought I would say this publicly, but America needs
a "geek" in Congress. So send Bob Geake (Geek) to Washington,
and get this country moving again.
This election is about choices, but ultimately it is about
the future.
The other day -- we were in Alabama -- a crowd of about
20,000 people waiting in the rain. My friend Lee Greenwood was
with us. And as Lee started to sing -- "I'm proud to be an
American" -- I looked out in the crowd -- and saw a little girl -
- couldn't be more than for or five -- perched on her dad's
shoulders, waving a little American flag and singing.
This election is about that little girl, and all the kids in
this crowd, and all the kids across America.
Do we want them to grow up in an America that is stronger,
safe, and more secure. You bet we do? And with my ideas, and
a
new Congress, we can make it happen.
God bless Michigan and God bless the United States of
America.
Document No. 346587ss
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
92
AUG24
DATE:
8/24/92
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE P4: BY: TODAY, 8/24 3:00 p.m.
PRESIDENTIAL REMAKRS: BUSH/QUAYLE RALLY
SUBJECT:
TUES. 8/25 - CANTON, MICHIGAN
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MOORE
BAKER
MULLINS
i
SCOWCROFT
PETERSMEYER
\
DARMAN
PORTER
BRADY
PROVOST
\
BROMLEY
ROSS
N
CALIO
SMITH
S
DEMAREST
TUTWILER
\
FITZWATER
ZOELLICK
GRAY
KAUFMAN
HOLIDAY
MCGROARTY
HORNER
MCBRIDE
REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Dan McGroarty, Rm. 122,
x2930, no later than 3:00 p.m., TODAY, MON. 8/24, with a copy
to this office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
See comments. Thanks.
PHILLIP D. BRADY
PK
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
08/24
Ext. 2702
BasH/ Quayle 25 Rally Provost
Presidential Remarks
Tues. aug
Canton, Michigan
2 AUG24 All: 48
25 August 1992
Canton, MI
Thank you and good afternoon everyone.
It's great to be back in Canton -- a booming town, a dynamic
town -- a town that has faced challenges and overcome them.
Canton proves what we all know in our hearts -- America's
best days are ahead of us.
Last Thursday at the Republican convention in Houston, I
laid out a central challenge to our nation -- to win the global
economic competition -- to win the peace.
America must be a military superpower -- an economic
superpower -- and an export superpower.
In this election, you'll hear two versions 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, to prepare
our people to compete, to restore our social fabric, to save and
invest as a nation -- so that we can win. //
Look at one issue -- how to balance the demands of our
economy with the demands of our environment? See what both
candidates have to offer.
In Arkansas, Governor Clinton's record on the environment is
-- to be charitable -- a little less than stellar. Listen to his
own Chairman of Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission
-- who said that the Arkansas laws are so lenient, "that if
2
California was operating on the laws of Arkansas, you'd probably
have to wear a gas mask."
Is it any wonder -- that Arkansas ranks 50th in the nation
in environmental protection -- according to the Institute For
Southern Studies?
But in his zeal to capture his party's nomination, Governor
Clinton has turned green - which, if he has his way, green could
clarity
soon be the color of many Michigan auto workers.
This ad! is
In a speech at Drexel University on April 22, Governor
Clinton talked about a new federal regulatory effort, to insure
fuel standards for cars. He said: "in my administration, we'll
accelerate our progress toward fuel efficient cars and seek to
raise the average goal for auto-makers to 40 miles per gallon by
the year 2,000, 45 miles by the year 2020. "
Remember, this is not George Bush paraphrasing. This is
Bill Clinton -- exact quotes.
This will
What will happen if we raise so-called CAFE standards this
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high? Well, you know what will happen. Car companies will pull
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up stakes, and take their factories overseas.
be work
According to independent economists -- in Michigan alone --
safe na fe
30,000 workers will go from the assembly line -- to the
unemployment line. //
The only consolation -- is that these workers will have
someone to talk to while they wait. Because they'll be joined by
the nearly 3 million people put out of work by the Governor's new
income tax increases, and the 700,000 others put there by the
3
payroll tax to pay for his backdoor government takeover of our
health care system.
Governor Clinton calls this orgy of new taxes and spending -
they unds
"moderation." I say that if this is moderation -- I'm Daniel
unders this?
Webster.
this
The Governor likes to say he "puts people" first. He
doesn't mention that it's first on the unemployment line.
But it's even worse than it sounds. In that same Drexel
speech -- Governor Clinton had effusive praise for a certain book
-- by
Senator Al Gore. Since then, of course, Senator Gore
has gone on to take a rather prominent role in the Clinton
campaign.
Now, what does Senator Gore say in his book that Governor
Clinton loves so much?
Well, on page 325, he makes an interesting comparison -- he
says that the car industry -- and I quote -- "poses a mortal
threat to the security of every nation, that is more deadly than
that of any military enemy we are ever again likely to confront."
Now I'm not making this up. Remember the old Stephen King
novel -- Christine? The one in which a car becomes inhabitated
by evil spirits -- and devours a town? The Clinton-Gore team
appear to look at every car as a haunted threat to humanity.
This would be funny, if it weren't so serious. If one out
of six jobs in America today weren't in someway tied to the car
industry. If this philosophy -- of tax and spend, regulate and
4
regulate -- weren't going to make it impossible for us to win the
economic competition.
I've been an environmentalist all my life. As President --
I fought for revision of the Clean Air Act -- so that our
children can breathe better.
My effort was criticized by big business -- and by
environmentalists. But I believe I found the middle that works.
The Clinton-Gore team isn't in the middle -- their bus has
left the highway -- and is traveling down the left breakdown
lane.
I'm not going let this happen to America.
I stand for a program that begins with a freeze on all
unnecessary federal regulations -- so that businesses can create
jobs and get this economy moving again.
I think the federal government spends too much of your
money. So I'm fighting for a line-item veto -- and a balanced
budget amendment to the Constitution. Last week, I unveiled a
new idea -- to give you the right to check your tax return -- to
use up to 10 percent of your income tax for one purpose -- to
reduce the budget deficit.
Congress won't like it. The editorial writers might call it
a "gimmick." But I think the American people want the power to
say to Congress -- if you won't cut the deficit, we will. //
Here's something else I'm fighting for -- reform our legal
system. Take an ax to the system that allows so many crazy
5
lawsuits. As a nation, we must sue each other less -- and care
for each other more.
I have many of these reforms up before the Congress -- and
that's exactly where they've stayed. Because the U.S. Congress
has become the "Gridlock Congress." It's been controlled by the
same party for 38 years -- and it is blocking the change that can
move this country forward.
Let me give you just one example.
We know our schools have to improve -- if our kids are going
to compete with the Japanese, the Germans and the British.
I believe competition can be a force for good in education,
just as it has been a force for good in American industry.
Last year, I sent a proposal to Capitol Hill, which would
give local school districts flexibility in determine whether they
want to allow parents to choose the schools they're kids attend.
A couple weeks ago, this whole issue came before Congress,
and they killed it.
Why did this noble idea fail? It failed, according to news
reports, because the Democratic leadership didn't want to give me
credit for a new idea in education.
Certain members of Congress put politics ahead of our
students. One of those members happens to represent Michigan in
the U.S. Congress. His name is Bill Ford.
Bill Ford is a pet of the National Education Association.
He has stood against every education reform I have put forth.
6
Again and again -- he has stalled and delayed -- procrastinated
and pontificated.
Bill Ford has been in Congress for ( (28) years -- way too
out
long. It's time to grab a broom, and sweep Congressman Ford
and all the other Gridlockers. It's time to: Clean House.
I never thought I would say this publicly, but America needs
a "geek" in Congress. So send Bob Geake (Geek) to Washington,
and get this country moving again.
This election is about choices, but ultimately it is about
the future.
The other day -- we were in Alabama -- a crowd of about
20,000 people waiting in the rain. My friend Lee Greenwood was
with us. And as Lee started to sing -- "I'm proud to be an
American" -- I looked out in the crowd -- and saw a little girl -
- couldn't be more than for or five -- perched on her dad's
shoulders, waving a little American flag and singing.
This election is about that little girl, and all the kids in
this crowd, and all the kids across America.
Do we want them to grow up in an America that is stronger,
safe and more secure. You bet we do? And with my ideas, and a
new Congress, we can make it happen.
God bless Michigan and God bless the United States of
America.
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Presidential Remarks
Tues. aug
Canton, Michigan
2,200.24 2 All: 48
25 August 1992
Canton, MI
Thank you and good afternoon everyone.
It's great to be back in Canton -- a booming town, a dynamic
town -- a town that has faced challenges and overcome them.
Canton proves what we all know in our hearts -- America's
best days are ahead of us.
Last Thursday at the Republican convention in Houston, I
laid out a central challenge to our nation -- to win the global
economic competition -- to win the peace.
America must be a military superpower -- an economic
superpower -- and an export superpower.
In this election, you'll hear two versions 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, to prepare
our people to compete, to restore our social fabric, to save and
invest as a nation -- so that we can win. //
Look at one issue -- how to balance the demands of our
economy with the demands of our environment? See what both
candidates have to offer.
In Arkansas, Governor Clinton's record on the environment is
-- to be charitable -- a little less than stellar. Listen to his
own Chairman of Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission
-- who said that the Arkansas laws are so lenient, "that if
2
California was operating on the laws of Arkansas, you'd probably
have to wear a gas mask."
Is it any wonder -- that Arkansas ranks 50th in the nation
in environmental protection -- according to the Institute For
Southern Studies?
But in his zeal to capture his party's nomination, Governor
gone
all
The Clinton has turned green - which, and if he has his way, green could
way TO
the other
soon be the color of many Michigan auto workers.
extreme.
In a speech at Drexel University on April 22, Governor
He has
Clinton talked about a new federal regulatory effort, to insure
fuel standards for cars. He said: "in my administration, we'll
accelerate our progress toward fuel efficient cars and seek to
raise the average goal for auto-makers to 40 miles per gallon by
the year 2,000, 45 miles by the year 2020. "
Remember, this is not George Bush paraphrasing. This is
Bill Clinton -- exact quotes.
What will happen if we raise so-called CAFE standards this
high? Well, you know what will happen. Car companies will pull
up stakes, and take their factories overseas.
According to independent economists -- in Michigan alone --
30,000 workers will go from the assembly line -- to the
unemployment line. //
The only consolation -- is that these workers will have
someone to talk to while they wait. Because they'll be joined by
the nearly 3 million people put out of work by the Governor's new
income tax increases, and the 700,000 others put there by the
3
payroll tax to pay for his backdoor government takeover of our
health care system.
Governor Clinton calls this orgy of new taxes and spending -
- "moderation." I say There that was if this plenty is of That moderation kind of in The I'm old Daniel East Germany.
Webster.
The Governor likes to say he "puts people" first. He
doesn't mention that it's first on the unemployment line.
But it's even worse than it sounds. In that same Drexel
speech -- Governor Clinton had effusive praise for a certain book
-- by then-Senator Al Gore. Since then, of course, Senator Gore
has gone on to take a rather prominent role in the Clinton
campaign.
Now, what does Senator Gore say in his book that Governor
Clinton loves so much?
Well, on page 325, he makes an interesting comparison -- he
says that the car industry -- and I quote -- "poses a mortal
threat to the security of every nation, that is more deadly than
that of any military enemy we are ever again likely to confront."
Now I'm not making this up. Remember the old Stephen King
novel -- Christine? The one in which a car becomes inhabitated
by evil spirits -- and devours a town? The Clinton-Gore team
appear to look at every car as a haunted threat to humanity.
This would be funny, if it weren't so serious. If one out
of six jobs in America today weren't in someway tied to the car
industry. If this philosophy -- of tax and spend, regulate and
4
regulate -- weren't going to make it impossible for us to win the
economic competition.
I've been an environmentalist all my life. As President --
and won
I fought for revision of the Clean Air Act -- SO that our
children can breathe better.
My effort was criticized by big business -- and by
environmentalists. But I believe I found the middle that works.
The Clinton-Gore team isn't in the middle -- their bus has
left the highway -- and is traveling down the left breakdown
lane.
I'm not going let this happen to America.
I stand for a program that begins with a freeze on all
unnecessary federal regulations -- so that businesses can create
jobs and get this economy moving again.
I think the federal government spends too much of your
money. So I'm fighting for a line-item veto -- and a balanced
budget amendment to the Constitution. Last week, I unveiled a
new idea -- to give you the right to check your tax return -- to
use up to 10 percent of your income tax for one purpose -- to
reduce the budget deficit.
Congress won't like it. The editorial writers might call it
a "gimmick." But I think the American people want the power to
say to Congress -- if you won't cut the deficit, we will. //
Here's something else I'm fighting for -- reform our legal
system. Take an ax to the system that allows so many crazy
from providing some
parents
Lawsuits health That from care ward off coaching 5 Little League.
lawsuits. ^ As a nation, we must sue each other less -- and care
for each other more.
put
I have many of these reforms up before the Congress -- and
that's exactly where they've stayed. Because the U.S. Congress
has become the "Gridlock Congress." It's been controlled by the
same party for 38 years -- and it is blocking the change that can
move this country forward.
Let me give you just one example.
We know our schools have to improve -- if our kids are going
to compete with the Japanese, the Germans and the British.
I believe competition can be a force for good in education,
just as it has been a force for good in American industry.
Last year, I sent a proposal to Capitol Hill, which would
give local school districts flexibility in determine whether they
want to allow parents to choose the schools they're kids attend.
A couple weeks ago, this whole issue came before Congress,
and they killed it.
Why did this noble idea fail? It failed, according to news
reports, because the Democratic leadership didn't want to give me
credit for a new idea in education.
Certain members of Congress put politics ahead of our
students. One of those members happens to represent Michigan in
the U.S. Congress. His name is Bill Ford.
owned wholly
Bill Ford is a pet of the National Education Association.
subsidiary He has stood against every education reform I have put forth.
6
Again and again -- he has stalled and delayed -- procrastinated
and pontificated.
Bill Ford has been in Congress for ( ) years -- way to
long. It's time to grab a broom, and sweep up Congressman Ford
and all the other Gridlockers. It's time to: Clean House.
I never thought I would say this publicly, but America needs
a "geek" in Congress. So send Bob Geake (Geek) to Washington,
and get this country moving again.
This election is about choices, but ultimately it is about
the future.
The other day -- we were in Alabama -- a crowd of about
20,000 people waiting in the rain. My friend Lee Greenwood was
with us. And as Lee started to sing -- "I'm proud to be an
American" -- I looked out in the crowd -- and saw a little girl -
- couldn't be more than for or five -- perched on her dad's
shoulders, waving a little American flag and singing.
This election is about that little girl, and all the kids in
this crowd, and all the kids across America.
Do we want them to grow up in an America that is stronger,
safe, and more secure. 7 You bet we do And with my ideas, and a
new Congress, we can make it happen.
God bless Michigan and God bless the United States of
America.
WHITE HOUSE COMMCTR
MON 24 AUG 92 23:14
PG.02
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
2 AUG 24 2 P6:54
August 24, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM:
STEVE PROVOST
SP
SUBJECT:
CANTON, MICHIGAN RALLY
I. Summary
On Tuesday, August 25, at 3:10 p.m., you will deliver
remarks before a crowd of approximately 500 Canton residents at
Township Engler. Heritage Park. You will be introduced by Governor
II. Discussion
Your remarks (14 minutes, on cards) follow the themes of
your acceptance speech. Additionally, you outline your
opposition to raising CAFE standards, noting that Governor
Clinton's position on CAFE would mean the loss of an estimated
40,000 jobs in Michigan alone.
WHITE HOUSE COMMCTR
MON 24 AUG 92 23:16
PG.02
2
Commission -- who said that the Arkansas laws are so lenient
that: "if California was operating on the laws of Arkansas, you'd
probably have to wear a gas mask."
Is it any wonder -- that Arkansas ranks 50th -- dead last -
- in the nation in environmental policy -- according to a study
by the Institute For Southern Studies?
But in his zeal to capture his party's nomination, Governor
Clinton has gone all the way to the other extreme -- he has
turned green. But if Governor Clinton has his way, green could
soon be the color of many Michigan auto workers.
In a speech at Drexel University on April 22, Governor
Clinton talked about a more ambitious federal regulation he
supports, involving fuel standards for cars. He said: "in my
administration
we'll accelerate our progress toward fuel
efficient cars and seek to raise the average goal for auto-
makers to 40 miles per gallon by the year 2,000, 45 miles by the
year 2020.'
Remember, this is not George Bush paraphrasing. This is
Bill Clinton -- exact quotes.
What will happen if we raise these so-called CAFE standards
this high? Well, a couple things. There will be more highway
fatalities. Foreign car companies will gain a competitive edge
on their U.S. counterparts. And as a result, companies will pull
up stakes, and take their factories and their jobs overseas.
WHITE HOUSE COMMCTR
MON 24 AUG 92 23:17
PG.01
3
According to the Auto Manufacturers Association -- in
Michigan alone -- 40,000 workers would go from the assembly line
-- to the unemployment line. /
These workers will have someone to talk to while they wait.
Because they'll be joined by the more than two and a half million
Americans put out of work by the Governor's new economic plan,
including 700,000 workers put there by the payroll tax to pay for
his backdoor government takeover of our health care system.
Governor Clinton calls this orgy of new taxes and spending -
- "moderation." I say that if this is moderation -- I'm Daniel
Webster.
The Governor likes to say he "puts people" first. He
doesn't mention that it's first on the unemployment line.
But it's even worse than it sounds. In that same Drexel
speech -- Governor Clinton had effusive praise for a certain book
-- by Senator Al Gore. Since then, of course, Senator Gore has
on
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in
Wes
Now, what does Senator Gore say in his book that Governor
Clinton loves so much?
Well, on page 325, ho makes an interesting comparison -- he
says that the car industry -- and I quote -- "poses a mortal
threat to the security of every nation, that is more deadly than
that of any military enemy we are ever again likely to confront."
Now I'm not making this up. Remember the old Stephen King
nevel
Christine? The one in which a car bocomes inhabitatod
WHITE HOUSE COMMCTR
MON 24 AUG 92 23:17
PG.02
4
by evil spirits -- and devours a town? The Clinton-Gore team
appear to look at every car as a haunted threat to humanity.
This would be funny, if it weren't so serious. If one out
of cix jobs in America today weren't in someway Lied to the car
industry. If this philosophy -- of tax and spend, regulate and
regulate -- weren't going to make it impossible for us to win the
economic competition.
I've been an envirommentalist all my life. AS President --
I fought for and won revision of the Clean Air Act. -- so that our
children can breathe easier.
I was criticized by big business -- and by
environmentalists. But I believe I found the middle that works.
The Clinton-Gore team may claim they are in the middle of
the road -- but their bus is careening toward the left shoulder.
I'm not going to let this happen to America.
I stand for something different. For a program that begins
with a freeze on all unnecessary federal regulations -- so that
businesses can create jobs and get this economy moving again.
I think the federal government spends too much of your
money. So I'm fighting for a line-item veto -- and a balanced
budgot amendment to the Constitution. And I've submitted
proposal after proposals to cut federal spending, only to have
Congress say -- "no."
So last week, T unveiled a new idea -- to give you the right
to check your tax return -- to use up to 10 percent of your
income tax for just one purpose -- to reduce the budget deficit.
WHITE HOUSE COMMCTR
MON 24 AUG 92 23:18
PG.03
5
Congress won't like it. The editorial writers might call it
a "gimmick." But I think the American people want the power to
say to Congress -- if you won't cut the deficit, we'll do the job
for you. / /
Our economy is in transition -- I know many workers in
Michigan and other places are concerned about whether they will
have a job next year. They want to learn new skills, but they
can't afford the cost of training.
Just yesterday, I unveiled a new program -- called Skill
Grants -- which would give workers in certain industries $3,000 -
- to go out and buy training on their own. The philosophy here
isn't to empower bureaucracies -- but empower people -- so they
can stay ahead of economic change.
And speaking of empowering people, we must reform our
welfare system -- to give people a chance in life. Later today I
will sign a welfare waiver -- giving Governor John Engler the
authority to experiment with welfare programs that will keep
families together -- and reward work, not welfare.
We need to make these reforms -- if we are going to be able
to count on the talents of every American in the new economic
competition.
A balanced budget amendment. A line-item veto. Legal
reform. I have put many of these reforms before the Congress --
and that's exactly where they've stayed. Because the U.S.
Congress has become the "Gridlock Congress." The House of
Representatives has been controlled by the same party for 38
WHITE HOUSE COMMCTR
MON 24 AUG 92 23:22
PG.01
6
years -- and it is blocking the change that can move this country
forward.
Let me give you just one example.
We know our schools have to improve -- if our kids are going
to compete with the Japanese, the Germans and the British.
I believe competition can be a force for good in education,
just as it has been a force for greatness in American industry.
Last year, I sent a proposal to Capitol Hill, which would
give local school districts flexibility to allow parents to
choose the schools their kids attend.
A couple weeks ago, this whole issue came before Congress,
and they killed it.
Why did this noble idea fail? It failed, according to news
reports, because the Democratic leadership didn't want to give me
credit for a new idea in education.
One of those Democratic leaders represents this District --
his name is Bill Ford.
Bill Ford has stood against school choice -- and just
about every education reform I have put forth.
Bill Ford has been in Congress for 27 years. When Bill Ford
first entered Congress, Gilligan's Island was a new TV show.
Gilligan was just starting out on his "three hour tour." Bill
Ford has been on a 27-year-voyage -- I think it's time he found
land. It's time to take the whole U.S. Congress: and do what
those brooms say -- Clean The House!
WHITE. HOUSE COMMCTR
MON 24 AUG 92 23:22
PG.02
7
I never thought I would say this publicly, but America needs
a "geek" in Congress. so send Bob Geake [GEEK] to Washington,
and get this country moving again.
And while we're at it - let's send Charles Vincent, Dick
Chrysler, Megan O'Neill, and John Gordon, and Frank Beaumont, and
don't forget Joe Knollenberg and John Pappageorge. (Papa George)
Give me some members of Congress who share our faith in progress,
not politics.
This election is about choices, but ultimately it is about
the future.
The other day -- we were in Alabama -- a crowd of about
20,000 people waiting in the rain. My friend Lee Greenwood was
with us. And as Lee started to sing -- "I'm proud to be an
American" -- I looked out in the crowd -- and saw a little girl -
- couldn't be more than four or five -- perched on her dad's
shoulders, waving a little American flag and singing.
This election is about that little girl, and all the kids in
this crowd, and all the kids across America.
Do we want them to grow up in an America that is stronger,
safer, and more secure. You bet we do. And with my ideas, and a
new Congress, we can make it happen.
God bless Michigan and God bless the United States of
America.
BUSH\QUAYLE RALLY \ CANTON, MI
TUESDAY, AUG. 25, 1992 \ 3:00 P.M.
THANK YOU AND GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE. Gov. ENGLER
THANK YOU FOR THAT KIND INTRODUCTION. I'M PLEASED TO
SEE MICHIGAN SENATE MAJORITY LEADER, DICK POSTHUMUS,
AND I HOPE SOON TO BE HOUSE MAJORITY LEADER, PAUL
HILLEGONDS. THE REPRESENTATIVES FROM YOUR NATIONAL
COMMITTEE: CHAIRMAN DAVE Doyle, BETSY DEVOS AND CHUCK
Үов. AND LET ME CONGRATULATE KEITH BUTLER ON HIS SUPER
CONVENTION ADDRESS. LAST BUT NOT LEAST, CONGRESSMAN
CARL PURCELL.
- 2 -
IT'S GREAT TO BE IN CANTON -- A BOOMING TOWN, A
DYNAMIC TOWN -- A TOWN THAT HAS FACED CHALLENGES AND
OVERCOME THEM.
CANTON PROVES WHAT WE ALL KNOW IN OUR HEARTS --
AMERICA'S BEST DAYS ARE AHEAD OF US.
LAST THURSDAY AT THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION IN
HOUSTON, I LAID OUT A CENTRAL CHALLENGE TO OUR NATION
-- TO WIN THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC COMPETITION -- TO WIN THE
PEACE.
- 3 -
AMERICA MUST BE A MILITARY SUPERPOWER -- AN
ECONOMIC SUPERPOWER -- AND AN EXPORT SUPERPOWER.
IN THIS ELECTION, YOU' LL HEAR TWO VERSIONS 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, TO PREPARE OUR PEOPLE TO COMPETE, TO
RESTORE OUR SOCIAL FABRIC, TO SAVE AND INVEST AS A
NATION -- so THAT WE CAN WIN.
- 4 -
LOOK AT ONE ISSUE -- HOW TO BALANCE THE DEMANDS OF
OUR ECONOMY WITH THE DEMANDS OF OUR ENVIRONMENT? SEE
WHAT BOTH CANDIDATES HAVE TO OFFER.
IN ARKANSAS, GOVERNOR CLINTON'S RECORD ON THE
ENVIRONMENT IS -- TO BE CHARITABLE -- A LITTLE LESS
THAN STELLAR. LISTEN To HIS OWN CHAIRMAN OF THE
ARKANSAS POLLUTION CONTROL AND ECOLOGY COMMISSION --
WHO SAID THAT THE ARKANSAS LAWS ARE so LENIENT THAT:
- 5 -
"IF CALIFORNIA WAS OPERATING ON THE LAWS OF ARKANSAS,
YOU'D PROBABLY HAVE TO HAVE A GAS MASK."
Is IT ANY WONDER -- THAT ARKANSAS RANKS 50TH --
DEAD LAST -- IN THE NATION IN POLICIES TO PROTECT THE
ENVIRONMENT -- ACCORDING TO A STUDY BY THE INSTITUTE
FOR SOUTHERN STUDIES?
BUT IN HIS ZEAL TO CAPTURE HIS PARTY'S NOMINATION,
GOVERNOR CLINTON HAS GONE ALL THE WAY TO THE OTHER
EXTREME -- HE HAS TURNED A BRIGHT SHADE OF GREEN.
- 6 -
BUT IF GOVERNOR CLINTON HAS HIS WAY, MICHIGAN AUTO
WORKERS WILL BE TURNING GREEN WITH ILLNESS.
IN A SPEECH AT DREXEL UNIVERSITY ON APRIL 22,
GOVERNOR CLINTON TALKED ABOUT A MORE AMBITIOUS FEDERAL
REGULATION HE SUPPORTS, INVOLVING FUEL STANDARDS FOR
CARS. HE SAID: "IN MY ADMINISTRATION ... WE'LL
ACCELERATE OUR PROGRESS TOWARD FUEL EFFICIENT CARS AND
SEEK TO RAISE THE AVERAGE GOAL FOR AUTO-MAKERS TO 40
MILES PER GALLON BY THE YEAR 2,000, 45 MILES BY THE
YEAR 2020."
- 7 -
REMEMBER, THIS IS NOT GEORGE BUSH PARAPHRASING.
THIS IS BILL CLINTON -- EXACT QUOTES.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF WE RAISE THESE SO-CALLED CAFE
STANDARDS THIS HIGH? WELL, A COUPLE THINGS. ACCORDING
TO THE NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION,
FATALITIES AND SERIOUS INJURIES WILL INCREASE, AS
MANUFACTURERS MOVE TO MAKE SMALLER AND LIGHTER CARS.
FOREIGN CAR COMPANIES -- WHO DON'T FACE THESE STIFF
REGULATIONS -- WILL GAIN A COMPETITIVE EDGE ON THEIR
U.S. COUNTERPARTS.
- 8 -
AND AS A RESULT, COMPANIES WILL PULL UP STAKES, AND
TAKE THEIR FACTORIES AND THEIR JOBS OVERSEAS.
ACCORDING TO THE AUTO MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION --
IN MICHIGAN ALONE -- 40,000 WORKERS WOULD GO FROM THE
ASSEMBLY LINE -- TO THE UNEMPLOYMENT LINE. //
THESE WORKERS WILL HAVE SOMEONE TO TALK TO WHILE
THEY WAIT.
- 9 -
BECAUSE THEY'LL BE JOINED BY THE MORE THAN TWO AND A
HALF MILLION AMERICANS PUT OUT OF WORK BY THE
GOVERNOR'S NEW ECONOMIC PLAN, INCLUDING 700,000 WORKERS
PUT THERE BY THE PAYROLL TAX TO PAY FOR HIS BACKDOOR
GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER OF OUR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM.
THE GOVERNOR LIKES TO SAY HE "PUTS PEOPLE" FIRST.
HE DOESN'T MENTION THAT IT'S FIRST ON THE UNEMPLOYMENT
LINE.
- 10 -
BUT IT'S EVEN WORSE THAN IT SOUNDS. IN THAT SAME
DREXEL SPEECH -- GOVERNOR CLINTON HAD EFFUSIVE PRAISE
FOR A CERTAIN BOOK -- BY SENATOR AL GORE. SINCE THEN,
OF COURSE, SENATOR GORE HAS GONE ON TO TAKE A PROMINENT
ROLE IN THE CLINTON CAMPAIGN.
Now, WHAT DOES SENATOR GORE SAY IN HIS BOOK THAT
GOVERNOR CLINTON LOVES so MUCH?
- 11 -
WELL, ON PAGE 325, HE MAKES AN INTERESTING
COMPARISON -- HE SAYS THAT THE AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY --
AND I QUOTE -- "POSES A MORTAL THREAT TO THE SECURITY
OF EVERY NATION, THAT IS MORE DEADLY THAN THAT OF ANY
MILITARY ENEMY WE ARE EVER AGAIN LIKELY TO CONFRONT."
THINK HE'S KIDDING? ONE PAGE LATER, HE CALLS FOR
THE "ELIMINATION OF THE INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE."
Now I'M NOT MAKING THIS UP. STEPHEN KING ONCE WROTE
A BEST-SELLING NOVEL -- CALLED CHRISTINE.
- 12 -
IN THIS BOOK, A CAR BECOMES INHABITATED BY EVIL SPIRITS
-- AND DEVOURS A TOWN. THE CLINTON-GORE TEAM APPEAR TO
LOOK AT EVERY CAR AS A HAUNTED THREAT TO HUMANITY.
THIS WOULD BE FUNNY, IF IT WEREN'T so SERIOUS. IF
ONE OUT OF SIX JOBS IN AMERICA TODAY WEREN'T IN SOMEWAY
TIED TO THE CAR INDUSTRY. IF THIS PHILOSOPHY -- OF TAX
AND SPEND, REGULATE AND REGULATE -- WASN'T GOING TO
MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR US TO WIN THE ECONOMIC
COMPETITION.
- 13 -
WE HAVE A SOUND AND POSITIVE ENVIRONMENTAL RECORD.
As PRESIDENT --I FOUGHT FOR AND WON REVISION OF THE
CLEAN AIR AcT -- so THAT OUR CHILDREN CAN BREATHE
EASIER.
I'VE EXPANDED OUR PARKS AND WILDLIFE REFUGEES --
CURTAILED DRILLING OFF THE COAST OF CALIFORNIA AND NEW
ENGLAND -- ENFORCED OUR ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS so WE'VE
COLLECTED RECORD AMOUNTS OF FINES.
- 14 -
I'VE BEEN CRITICIZED BY BIG BUSINESS -- AND BY
ENVIRONMENTALISTS. BUT I BELIEVE I FOUND THE MIDDLE
THAT WORKS.
THE CLINTON-GORE TEAM MAY CLAIM THEY ARE IN THE
MIDDLE OF THE ROAD -- BUT THEIR BUS IS CAREENING TOWARD
THE LEFT SHOULDER.
I'M NOT GOING TO LET THIS HAPPEN TO AMERICA.
I STAND FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
- 15 -
FOR A PROGRAM THAT BEGINS WITH A FREEZE ON ALL
UNNECESSARY FEDERAL REGULATIONS - -- so THAT BUSINESSES
CAN CREATE JOBS AND GET THIS ECONOMY MOVING AGAIN.
THE FEDERAL DEFICIT IS THREATENING OUR CHILDREN'S
FUTURE -- WE MUST GET IT DOWN. So I'M FIGHTING FOR A
LINE-ITEM VETO -- AND A BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT TO
THE CONSTITUTION. AND I'VE SUBMITTED PROPOSAL AFTER
PROPOSAL TO CUT FEDERAL SPENDING, ONLY TO HAVE CONGRESS
SAY -- "NO."
- 16 -
So LAST WEEK, I UNVEILED A NEW IDEA -- TO GIVE YOU
THE RIGHT TO CHECK YOUR TAX RETURN -- TO USE UP TO 10
PERCENT OF YOUR INCOME TAX FOR JUST ONE PURPOSE -- TO
REDUCE THE BUDGET DEFICIT.
CONGRESS WON'T LIKE IT. THE EDITORIAL WRITERS
MIGHT CALL IT A "GIMMICK." BUT I THINK THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE WANT THE POWER TO SAY TO CONGRESS -- IF YOU
WON'T CUT THE DEFICIT, WE'LL DO THE JOB FOR YOU. //
- 17 -
OUR ECONOMY IS IN TRANSITION -- I KNOW MANY WORKERS
IN MICHIGAN AND OTHER PLACES ARE CONCERNED ABOUT
WHETHER THEY WILL HAVE A JOB NEXT YEAR. THEY WANT TO
LEARN NEW SKILLS, BUT THEY CAN'T AFFORD THE COST OF
TRAINING.
JUST YESTERDAY, I UNVEILED A NEW PROGRAM -- CALLED
SKILL GRANTS -- WHICH WOULD GIVE WORKERS IN CERTAIN
INDUSTRIES $3,000 -- To GO OUT AND BUY TRAINING ON
THEIR OWN.
- 18 -
THE PHILOSOPHY HERE ISN'T TO EMPOWER BUREAUCRACIES --
BUT EMPOWER PEOPLE -- so YOU CAN STAY AHEAD OF ECONOMIC
CHANGE.
AND SPEAKING OF EMPOWERING PEOPLE, WE MUST REFORM
OUR WELFARE SYSTEM -- TO GIVE PEOPLE A CHANCE IN LIFE.
LATER TODAY WE WILL SIGN A WELFARE WAIVER -- GIVING
MICHIGAN THE AUTHORITY TO EXPERIMENT WITH WELFARE
PROGRAMS THAT WILL KEEP FAMILIES TOGETHER -- AND GET
PEOPLE OFF THE DOLE -- AND INTO JOBS.
- 19 -
AND LET'S GET RID ON ALL THESE RECKLESS LAWSUITS
THAT ARE CHOKING OUR ECONOMY AND SOURING OUR NATION.
I HAVE PUT MANY OF THESE REFORMS BEFORE THE
CONGRESS --AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHERE THEY'VE STAYED.
BECAUSE THE U.S. CONGRESS HAS BECOME THE "GRIDLOCK
CONGRESS."
- 20 -
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HAS BEEN CONTROLLED BY THE
SAME PARTY FOR 38 YEARS -- AND IT IS BLOCKING THE
CHANGE THAT CAN MOVE THIS COUNTRY FORWARD.
LET ME GIVE YOU JUST ONE EXAMPLE.
WE KNOW OUR SCHOOLS HAVE TO IMPROVE -- IF OUR KIDS
ARE GOING TO COMPETE WITH THE JAPANESE, THE GERMANS AND
THE BRITISH.
- 21 -
I BELIEVE COMPETITION CAN BE A FORCE FOR GOOD IN
EDUCATION, JUST AS IT HAS BEEN A FORCE FOR GREATNESS IN
AMERICAN INDUSTRY.
EARLIER THIS YEAR, I SENT A PROPOSAL TO CAPITOL
HILL -- MY GI BILL FOR KIDS -- TO GIVE STATES AND
LOCALITIES THE FLEXIBILITY TO ALLOW PARENTS, NOT THE
GOVERNMENT, TO CHOOSE THE SCHOOLS THEIR KIDS ATTEND --
WHETHER PUBLIC, PRIVATE OR RELIGIOUS.
- 22 -
A FEW OF WEEKS AGO, THIS PROPOSAL CAME BEFORE
CONGRESS, AND THEY KILLED IT.
WHY DID THIS NOBLE IDEA FAIL? IT FAILED, ACCORDING
TO NEWS REPORTS, BECAUSE THE DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP
DIDN'T WANT TO GIVE ME CREDIT FOR A NEW IDEA IN
EDUCATION.
ONE OF THOSE DEMOCRATIC LEADERS REPRESENTS THIS
DISTRICT -- HIS NAME IS CONGRESSMAN BILL FORD.
- 23 - -
CONGRESSMAN FORD HAS STOOD AGAINST SCHOOL CHOICE
-- AND JUST ABOUT EVERY EDUCATION REFORM I HAVE PUT
FORWARD -- WHAT'S WORSE -- BILL CLINTON AGREES WITH
HIM.
WANT PARENTS TO HAVE REAL CHOICE IN WHERE TO SEND
THEIR KIDS TO SCHOOL? GOVERNOR CLINTON AND CONGRESSMAN
FORD SAY NO -- I SAY YES.
- 24 -
WANT TO STAND UP TO A BAGDAD BULLY LIKE SADDAM
HUSSEIN. GOVERNOR CLINTON AND CONGRESSMAN FORD SAID NO
-- I SAY YES.
WANT A BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT? GOVERNOR CLINTON
AND CONGRESSMAN FORD SAY NO -- I SAY YES.
WANT TO LIMIT THE TERMS OF CONGRESS? GOVERNOR
CLINTON AND CONGRESSMAN FORD SAY NO -- I SAY YES.
AND MOST IMPORTANT, DO YOU WANT TO CUT FEDERAL
SPENDING, AND GIVE AMERICANS RELIEF FROM HIGHER TAXES?
- 25 -
GOVERNOR CLINTON AND CONGRESSMAN FORD SAY NO -- I
SAY YES.
WE KNOW WHAT WE NEED TO DO. GET GOVERNOR CLINTON
PLAYING AN OLD ELVIS PRESLEY SONG -- "RETURN To
SENDER," RETURN TO ARKANSAS.
AND THEN IT'S TIME TO
TAKE BILL FORD AND THE WHOLE LEADERSHIP OF THE GRIDLOCK
CONGRESS: AND DO WHAT THOSE BROOMS SAY -- CLEAN THE
HOUSE!
- 26 -
SEND BoB GEAKE [GEEK] TO WASHINGTON, AND GET THIS
COUNTRY MOVING AGAIN.
AND WHILE WE'RE AT IT -- LET'S SEND CHARLES
VINCENT, DICK CHRYSLER, MEGAN O'NEILL, AND JOHN GORDON,
AND FRANK BEAUMONT, AND DON'T FORGET JOE KNOLLENBERG
AND JOHN PAPPAGEORGE [PAPPA GEORGE]. GIVE ME SOME
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WHO SHARE OUR FAITH IN PROGRESS,
NOT POLITICS. CLEAN HOUSE.
- 27 -
THIS ELECTION IS ABOUT CHOICES, BUT ULTIMATELY IT
IS ABOUT THE FUTURE.
THE OTHER DAY -- WE WERE IN ALABAMA -- A CROWD OF
ABOUT 20,000 PEOPLE WAITING IN THE RAIN. MY FRIEND LEE
GREENWOOD WAS WITH US. AND AS LEE STARTED TO SING --
"I'm PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN" -- I LOOKED OUT IN THE
CROWD -- AND SAW A LITTLE GIRL -- COULDN'T BE MORE THAN
FOUR OR FIVE -- PERCHED ON HER DAD'S SHOULDERS, WAVING
A LITTLE AMERICAN FLAG AND SINGING.
- 28 -
THIS ELECTION IS ABOUT THAT LITTLE GIRL, AND ALL
THE KIDS IN THIS CROWD, AND ALL THE KIDS ACROSS
AMERICA.
Do WE WANT THEM TO GROW UP IN AN AMERICA THAT IS
STRONGER, SAFER, AND MORE SECURE. You BET WE DO. AND
WITH MY IDEAS, AND A NEW CONGRESS, WE CAN MAKE IT
HAPPEN.
GOD BLESS MICHIGAN AND GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA.
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BUSH\QUAYLE RALLY \ CANTON, MI
TUESDAY, AUG. 25, 1992 \ 3:00 P.M.
THANK YOU AND GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE. Gov. ENGLER
THANK YOU FOR THAT KIND INTRODUCTION. I'M PLEASED TO
SEE MICHIGAN SENATE MAJORITY LEADER, DICK POSTHUMUS,
AND I HOPE SOON TO BE HOUSE MAJORITY LEADER, PAUL
HILLEGONDS. THE REPRESENTATIVES FROM YOUR NATIONAL
COMMITTEE: CHAIRMAN DAVE DOYLE, BETSY DEVOS AND CHUCK
Үов. AND LET ME CONGRATULATE KEITH BUTLER ON HIS SUPER
CONVENTION ADDRESS. LAST BUT NOT LEAST, CONGRESSMAN
CARL PURCELL.
- 2 -
IT'S GREAT TO BE IN CANTON -- A BOOMING TOWN, A
DYNAMIC TOWN -- A TOWN THAT HAS FACED CHALLENGES AND
OVERCOME THEM.
CANTON PROVES WHAT WE ALL KNOW IN OUR HEARTS --
AMERICA'S BEST DAYS ARE AHEAD OF US.
LAST THURSDAY AT THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION IN
HOUSTON, I LAID OUT A CENTRAL CHALLENGE TO OUR NATION
-- TO WIN THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC COMPETITION -- TO WIN THE
PEACE.
- 3 -
AMERICA MUST BE A MILITARY SUPERPOWER -- AN
ECONOMIC SUPERPOWER -- AND AN EXPORT SUPERPOWER.
IN THIS ELECTION, YOU' LL HEAR TWO VERSIONS 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, TO PREPARE OUR PEOPLE TO COMPETE, TO
RESTORE OUR SOCIAL FABRIC, TO SAVE AND INVEST AS A
NATION -- so THAT WE CAN WIN.//
- 4 -
Look AT ONE ISSUE -- HOW TO BALANCE THE DEMANDS OF
OUR ECONOMY WITH THE DEMANDS OF OUR ENVIRONMENT? SEE
WHAT BOTH CANDIDATES HAVE TO OFFER.
IN ARKANSAS, GOVERNOR CLINTON'S RECORD ON THE
ENVIRONMENT IS -- To BE CHARITABLE -- A LITTLE LESS
THAN STELLAR. LISTEN TO HIS OWN CHAIRMAN OF THE
ARKANSAS POLLUTION CONTROL AND ECOLOGY COMMISSION --
WHO SAID THAT THE ARKANSAS LAWS ARE so LENIENT THAT:
- 5 -
"IF CALIFORNIA WAS OPERATING ON THE LAWS OF ARKANSAS,
YOU'D PROBABLY HAVE TO HAVE A GAS MASK."
Is IT ANY WONDER -- THAT ARKANSAS RANKS 50TH --
DEAD LAST -- IN THE NATION IN POLICIES TO PROTECT THE
ENVIRONMENT -- ACCORDING TO A STUDY BY THE INSTITUTE
FOR SOUTHERN STUDIES?
BUT IN HIS ZEAL TO CAPTURE HIS PARTY'S NOMINATION,
GOVERNOR CLINTON HAS GONE ALL THE WAY TO THE OTHER
EXTREME -- HE HAS TURNED A BRIGHT SHADE OF GREEN.
- 6 -
BUT IF GOVERNOR CLINTON HAS HIS WAY, MICHIGAN AUTO
WORKERS WILL BE TURNING GREEN WITH ILLNESS.
IN A SPEECH AT DREXEL UNIVERSITY ON APRIL 22,
GOVERNOR CLINTON TALKED ABOUT A MORE AMBITIOUS FEDERAL
REGULATION HE SUPPORTS, INVOLVING FUEL STANDARDS FOR
CARS. HE SAID: "IN MY ADMINISTRATION ... WE'LL
ACCELERATE OUR PROGRESS TOWARD FUEL EFFICIENT CARS AND
SEEK TO RAISE THE AVERAGE GOAL FOR AUTO-MAKERS TO 40
MILES PER GALLON BY THE YEAR 2,000, 45 MILES BY THE
YEAR 2020."
- 7 -
REMEMBER, THIS IS NOT GEORGE BUSH PARAPHRASING.
THIS IS BILL CLINTON -- EXACT QUOTES.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF WE RAISE THESE SO-CALLED CAFE
STANDARDS THIS HIGH? WELL, A COUPLE THINGS. ACCORDING
TO THE NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION,
FATALITIES AND SERIOUS INJURIES WILL INCREASE, AS
MANUFACTURERS MOVE TO MAKE SMALLER AND LIGHTER CARS.
FOREIGN CAR COMPANIES -- WHO DON'T FACE THESE STIFF
REGULATIONS -- WILL GAIN A COMPETITIVE EDGE ON THEIR
U.S. COUNTERPARTS.
- 8 -
AND AS A RESULT, COMPANIES WILL PULL UP STAKES, AND
TAKE THEIR FACTORIES AND THEIR JOBS OVERSEAS.
ACCORDING TO THE AUTO MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION --
MotorVehicle
IN MICHIGAN ALONE -- 40,000 WORKERS WOULD GO FROM THE
ASSEMBLY LINE -- TO THE UNEMPLOYMENT LINE. //
THESE WORKERS WILL HAVE SOMEONE TO TALK TO WHILE
THEY WAIT.
- 9 -
BECAUSE THEY' LL BE JOINED BY THE MORE THAN TWO AND A
HALF MILLION AMERICANS PUT OUT OF WORK BY THE
GOVERNOR'S NEW ECONOMIC PLAN, INCLUDING 700,000 WORKERS
PUT THERE BY THE PAYROLL TAX TO PAY FOR HIS BACKDOOR
GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER OF OUR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM.
THE GOVERNOR LIKES TO SAY HE "PUTS PEOPLE" FIRST.
HE DOESN'T MENTION THAT IT'S FIRST ON THE UNEMPLOYMENT
LINE.
- 10 -
BUT IT'S EVEN WORSE THAN IT SOUNDS. IN THAT SAME
DREXEL SPEECH -- GOVERNOR CLINTON HAD EFFUSIVE PRAISE
FOR A CERTAIN BOOK -- BY SENATOR AL GORE. SINCE THEN,
OF COURSE, SENATOR GORE HAS GONE ON TO TAKE A PROMINENT
ROLE IN THE CLINTON CAMPAIGN.
Now, WHAT DOES SENATOR GORE SAY IN HIS BOOK THAT
GOVERNOR CLINTON LOVES so MUCH?
- 11 -
WELL, ON PAGE 325, HE MAKES AN INTERESTING
COMPARISON -- HE SAYS THAT THE AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY --
AND I QUOTE -- "POSES A MORTAL THREAT TO THE SECURITY
OF EVERY NATION, THAT IS MORE DEADLY THAN THAT OF ANY
MILITARY ENEMY WE ARE EVER AGAIN LIKELY TO CONFRONT."
THINK HE'S KIDDING? ONE PAGE LATER, HE CALLS FOR
THE "ELIMINATION OF THE INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE."
Now I'M NOT MAKING THIS UP. STEPHEN KING ONCE WROTE
A BEST-SELLING NOVEL -- CALLED CHRISTINE.
- 12 -
IN THIS BOOK, A CAR BECOMES INHABITATED BY EVIL SPIRITS
-- AND DEVOURS A TOWN. THE CLINTON-GORE TEAM APPEAR TO
LOOK AT EVERY CAR AS A HAUNTED THREAT TO HUMANITY.
THIS WOULD BE FUNNY, IF IT WEREN'T so SERIOUS. IF
ONE OUT OF SIX JOBS IN AMERICA TODAY WEREN'T IN SOMEWAY
TIED TO THE CAR INDUSTRY. IF THIS PHILOSOPHY -- OF TAX
AND SPEND, REGULATE AND REGULATE -- WASN'T GOING TO
MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR US TO WIN THE ECONOMIC
COMPETITION.
- 13 -
WE HAVE A SOUND AND POSITIVE ENVIRONMENTAL RECORD.
As PRESIDENT --I FOUGHT FOR AND WON REVISION OF THE
CLEAN AIR Act -- so THAT OUR CHILDREN CAN BREATHE
EASIER.
I'VE EXPANDED OUR PARKS AND WILDLIFE REFUGEES --
CURTAILED DRILLING OFF THE COAST OF CALIFORNIA AND NEW
ENGLAND -- ENFORCED OUR ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS so WE'VE
COLLECTED RECORD AMOUNTS OF FINES.
- 14 -
I'VE BEEN CRITICIZED BY BIG BUSINESS -- AND BY
ENVIRONMENTALISTS. BUT I BELIEVE I FOUND THE MIDDLE
THAT WORKS.
THE CLINTON-GORE TEAM MAY CLAIM THEY ARE IN THE
MIDDLE OF THE ROAD -- BUT THEIR BUS IS CAREENING TOWARD
THE LEFT SHOULDER.
I'M NOT GOING TO LET THIS HAPPEN TO AMERICA.
I STAND FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
- 15 -
FOR A PROGRAM THAT BEGINS WITH A FREEZE ON ALL
UNNECESSARY FEDERAL REGULATIONS - -- so THAT BUSINESSES
CAN CREATE JOBS AND GET THIS ECONOMY MOVING AGAIN.
THE FEDERAL DEFICIT IS THREATENING OUR CHILDREN'S
FUTURE -- WE MUST GET IT DOWN. So I'M FIGHTING FOR A
LINE-ITEM VETO -- AND A BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT TO
THE CONSTITUTION. AND I'VE SUBMITTED PROPOSAL AFTER
PROPOSAL TO CUT FEDERAL SPENDING, ONLY TO HAVE CONGRESS
SAY -- "NO."
- 16 -
So LAST WEEK, I UNVEILED A NEW IDEA -- TO GIVE YOU
THE RIGHT TO CHECK YOUR TAX RETURN -- TO USE UP TO 10
PERCENT OF YOUR INCOME TAX FOR JUST ONE PURPOSE -- TO
REDUCE THE BUDGET DEFICIT.
CONGRESS WON'T LIKE IT. THE EDITORIAL WRITERS
MIGHT CALL IT A "GIMMICK." BUT I THINK THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE WANT THE POWER TO SAY TO CONGRESS -- IF YOU
WON'T CUT THE DEFICIT, WE'LL DO THE JOB FOR YOU. //
- 17 -
OUR ECONOMY IS IN TRANSITION -- I KNOW MANY WORKERS
IN MICHIGAN AND OTHER PLACES ARE CONCERNED ABOUT
WHETHER THEY WILL HAVE A JOB NEXT YEAR. THEY WANT TO
LEARN NEW SKILLS, BUT THEY CAN'T AFFORD THE COST OF
TRAINING.
JUST YESTERDAY, I UNVEILED A NEW PROGRAM -- CALLED
SKILL GRANTS -- WHICH WOULD GIVE WORKERS IN CERTAIN
INDUSTRIES $3,000 -- TO GO OUT AND BUY TRAINING ON
THEIR OWN.
- 18 -
THE PHILOSOPHY HERE ISN'T TO EMPOWER BUREAUCRACIES --
BUT EMPOWER PEOPLE -- so YOU CAN STAY AHEAD OF ECONOMIC
CHANGE.
AND SPEAKING OF EMPOWERING PEOPLE, WE MUST REFORM
OUR WELFARE SYSTEM -- TO GIVE PEOPLE A CHANCE IN LIFE.
LATER TODAY WE WILL SIGN A WELFARE WAIVER -- GIVING
MICHIGAN THE AUTHORITY TO EXPERIMENT WITH WELFARE
PROGRAMS THAT WILL KEEP FAMILIES TOGETHER -- AND GET
PEOPLE OFF THE DOLE -- AND INTO JOBS.
- 19 -
AND LET'S GET RID ON ALL THESE RECKLESS LAWSUITS
THAT ARE CHOKING OUR ECONOMY AND SOURING OUR NATION.
I HAVE PUT MANY OF THESE REFORMS BEFORE THE
CONGRESS --AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHERE THEY'VE STAYED.
BECAUSE THE U.S. CONGRESS HAS BECOME THE "GRIDLOCK
CONGRESS."
- 20 -
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HAS BEEN CONTROLLED BY THE
SAME PARTY FOR 38 YEARS -- AND IT IS BLOCKING THE
CHANGE THAT CAN MOVE THIS COUNTRY FORWARD.
LET ME GIVE YOU JUST ONE EXAMPLE.
WE KNOW OUR SCHOOLS HAVE TO IMPROVE -- IF OUR KIDS
ARE GOING TO COMPETE WITH THE JAPANESE, THE GERMANS AND
THE BRITISH.
- 21 -
I BELIEVE COMPETITION CAN BE A FORCE FOR GOOD IN
EDUCATION, JUST AS IT HAS BEEN A FORCE FOR GREATNESS IN
AMERICAN INDUSTRY.
EARLIER THIS YEAR, I SENT A PROPOSAL TO CAPITOL
HILL -- MY GI BILL FOR KIDS -- TO GIVE STATES AND
LOCALITIES THE FLEXIBILITY TO ALLOW PARENTS, NOT THE
GOVERNMENT, TO CHOOSE THE SCHOOLS THEIR KIDS ATTEND --
WHETHER PUBLIC, PRIVATE OR RELIGIOUS.
- 22 -
A FEW OF WEEKS AGO, THIS PROPOSAL CAME BEFORE
CONGRESS, AND THEY KILLED IT.
WHY DID THIS NOBLE IDEA FAIL? IT FAILED, ACCORDING
TO NEWS REPORTS, BECAUSE THE DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP
DIDN'T WANT TO GIVE ME CREDIT FOR A NEW IDEA IN
EDUCATION.
ONE OF THOSE DEMOCRATIC LEADERS REPRESENTS THIS
DISTRICT -- HIS NAME IS CONGRESSMAN BILL FORD.
- 23 -
CONGRESSMAN FORD HAS STOOD AGAINST SCHOOL CHOICE
-- AND JUST ABOUT EVERY EDUCATION REFORM I HAVE PUT
FORWARD -- WHAT'S WORSE -- BILL CLINTON AGREES WITH
HIM.
WANT PARENTS TO HAVE REAL CHOICE IN WHERE TO SEND
THEIR KIDS TO SCHOOL? GOVERNOR CLINTON AND CONGRESSMAN
FORD SAY NO -- I SAY YES.
- 24 - -
WANT TO STAND UP TO A BAGDAD BULLY LIKE SADDAM
HUSSEIN. GOVERNOR CLINTON AND CONGRESSMAN FORD SAID NO
-- I SAY YES.
WANT A BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT? GOVERNOR CLINTON
AND CONGRESSMAN FORD SAY NO -- I SAY YES.
WANT TO LIMIT THE TERMS OF CONGRESS? GOVERNOR
CLINTON AND CONGRESSMAN FORD SAY NO -- I SAY YES.
AND MOST IMPORTANT, DO YOU WANT TO CUT FEDERAL
SPENDING, AND GIVE AMERICANS RELIEF FROM HIGHER TAXES?
- 25 -
GOVERNOR CLINTON AND CONGRESSMAN FORD SAY NO -- I
SAY YES.
WE KNOW WHAT WE NEED TO DO. GET GOVERNOR CLINTON
PLAYING AN OLD ELVIS PRESLEY SONG -- "RETURN To
SENDER," RETURN TO ARKANSAS.
AND THEN IT'S TIME TO
TAKE BILL FORD AND THE WHOLE LEADERSHIP OF THE GRIDLOCK
CONGRESS: AND DO WHAT THOSE BROOMS SAY -- CLEAN THE
HOUSE!
- 26 -
SEND BoB GEAKE [GEEK] TO WASHINGTON, AND GET THIS
COUNTRY MOVING AGAIN.
AND WHILE WE'RE AT IT -- LET'S SEND CHARLES
VINCENT, DICK CHRYSLER, MEGAN O'NEILL, AND JOHN GORDON,
AND FRANK BEAUMONT, AND DON'T FORGET JOE KNOLLENBERG
AND JOHN PAPPAGEORGE [PAPPA GEORGE]. GIVE ME SOME
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WHO SHARE OUR FAITH IN PROGRESS,
NOT POLITICS. CLEAN HOUSE.
- 27 -
THIS ELECTION IS ABOUT CHOICES, BUT ULTIMATELY IT
IS ABOUT THE FUTURE.
THE OTHER DAY -- WE WERE IN ALABAMA -- A CROWD OF
ABOUT 20,000 PEOPLE WAITING IN THE RAIN. My FRIEND LEE
GREENWOOD WAS WITH US. AND AS LEE STARTED TO SING --
"I'm PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN" -- I LOOKED OUT IN THE
CROWD -- AND SAW A LITTLE GIRL -- COULDN'T BE MORE THAN
FOUR OR FIVE -- PERCHED ON HER DAD'S SHOULDERS, WAVING
A LITTLE AMERICAN FLAG AND SINGING.
- 28 -
THIS ELECTION IS ABOUT THAT LITTLE GIRL, AND ALL
THE KIDS IN THIS CROWD, AND ALL THE KIDS ACROSS
AMERICA.
Do WE WANT THEM TO GROW UP IN AN AMERICA THAT IS
STRONGER, SAFER, AND MORE SECURE. You BET WE DO. AND
WITH MY IDEAS, AND A NEW CONGRESS, WE CAN MAKE IT
HAPPEN.
GOD BLESS MICHIGAN AND GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA.
# # #