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Originally Processed With FOIA(s): FOIA Number: S S FOIA MARKER This is not a textual record. This is used as an administrative marker by the George Bush Presidential Library Staff. Record Group/Collection: George H.W. Bush Presidential Records Collection/Office of Origin: Speechwriting, White House Office of Series: Speech File Draft Files Subseries: Chron File, 1989-1993 OA/ID Number: 13637 Folder ID Number: 13637-006 Folder Title: Findlay Machine & Tool 8/27/92 [OA 5811] Stack: Row: Section: Shelf: Position: G 26 18 4 3 - 5 - I WANT TO GIVE YOU -- THE TAXPAYER -- THE POWER TO TAKE UP TO 10 PERCENT OF YOUR TAX RETURN -- AND EARMARK IT FOR ONE PURPOSE ONLY -- TO REDUCE THE DANGEROUS FEDERAL BUDGET DEFICIT. IF YOU CAN CHECK-OFF FOR AMERICA, I BELIEVE WE WILL FINALLY GET THE BIG SPENDERS IN CHECK.// - 6 - How DO WE CREATE JOBS IN AMERICA? WELL, UNLIKE MY OPPONENT, I SPENT HALF MY LIFE IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR -- TRYING TO MEET A PAYROLL. I HAPPEN TO BELIEVE THAT'S A PRETTY GOOD QUALIFICATION TO BE PRESIDENT. I KNOW THAT TAXES STIFLE GROWTH -- AND STOP JOB CREATION. So WITH A NEW CONGRESS WE WILL CUT SPENDING, AND THEN WE WILL CUT YOUR TAXES - ACROSS-THE-BOARD.// - 7 - I ALSO WANT TO GET RID OF ALL THOSE CRAZY LAWSUITS. IF YOU FALL OFF A STEP LADDER TODAY, A LAWYER WILL BE THERE TO CATCH YOU -- BEFORE YOU HIT THE GROUND. My OPPONENT DOESN'T BELIEVE THIS IS A PROBLEM. EARLIER THIS YEAR, THE HEAD OF THE ARKANSAS TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION -- A GUY NAMED DAVID H. WILLIAMS -- WROTE A LETTER OF ENDORSEMENT FOR GOVERNOR CLINTON. - 8 - HE SAID -- AND I QUOTE DIRECTLY -- "I CAN NEVER REMEMBER AN OCCASION WHEN HE FAILED TO DO THE RIGHT THING WHERE WE TRIAL LAWYERS ARE CONCERNED." I DON'T WANT TO "DO THE RIGHT THING" FOR THE TRIAL LAWYERS AND THEIR SUPPORTERS IN CONGRESS. I WANT TO "DO THE RIGHT THING" FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. As A NATION, WE MUST SUE EACH OTHER LESS -- AND CARE FOR EACH OTHER MORE.// - 9 - MY OPPONENT PROPOSES A BACKDOOR GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER OF OUR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM. I BELIEVE WE CAN CONTROL COSTS -- AND EXTEND COVERAGE TO THE POOREST OF THE POOR -- WITHOUT PUTTING YOUR HEALTH CARE UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE SAME PEOPLE WHO BROUGHT YOU THE HOUSE BANK AND THE HOUSE POST OFFICE.// - 10 - GOVERNOR CLINTON'S PLAN WOULD LEAD TO A NEW HEALTH CARE TAX ON SMALL BUSINESS. I BELIEVE SMALL BUSINESS NEEDS CAPITAL, NEEDS INCENTIVES AND NEEDS RELIEF FROM REGULATION. WHAT SMALL BUSINESS DOESN'T NEED IS THE EXEDRIN HEADACHE OF GOVERNOR CLINTON'S NEW TAXES. HERE'S SOME OTHER THINGS I'M FIGHTING FOR. JOB TRAINING TO LEND A HELPING HAND To WORKERS CAUGHT IN THE TRANSITION OF OUR ECONOMY.// - 11 - I WANT TO REVOLUTIONIZE THE WAY WE TEACH OUR CHILDREN -- GIVING MANY AMERICAN PARENTS A NEW FREEDOM -- THE FREEDOM TO CHOOSE WHERE YOUR KIDS SHOULD GO TO SCHOOL. GREAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS, AND GREAT PRIVATE SCHOOLS LIKE ST. XAVIER'S. AND I WANT TO REFORM OUR WELFARE SYSTEM, TO ENCOURAGE FAMILIES TO STICK TOGETHER, AND FATHERS TO STICK AROUND. - 12 - SOME PEOPLE DON'T LIKE IT WHEN I TALK ABOUT FAMILY VALUES. LET ME TELL THEM SOMETHING YOU KNOW HERE IN CINCINATTI. THE FAMILY IS THE FOUNDATION OF AMERICA. ALL OUR OTHER SUCCESSES ARE WORTHLESS, IF WE FAIL IN THE HOME. WE NEED TO STRENGTHEN THE AMERICAN FAMILY -- IF WE ARE GOING MAKE AMERICA STRONGER AND MORE SECURE. // - 13 - WHERE DOES MY OPPONENT STAND ON THE ISSUES? GOOD QUESTION. As THIS CAMPAIGN GETS UNDERWAY, IT'S GETTING HARDER AND HARDER TO TELL. HE'S BEGINNING TO TURN UP IN MORE PLACES THAN ELVIS PRESLEY. TAKE THE QUESTION OF WHETHER TO STAND UP TO SADDAM HUSSEIN -- THE MOST IMPORTANT FOREIGN POLICY DECISION OF THE PAST FOUR YEARS. - 14 - Two DAYS AFTER CONGRESS FOLLOWED MY LEAD, MY OPPONENT SAID THIS, AND I QUOTE DIRECTLY: "I GUESS I WOULD HAVE VOTED WITH THE MAJORITY IF IT WAS A CLOSE VOTE. BUT I AGREE WITH THE ARGUMENTS THE MINORITY MADE." IN THE OVAL OFFICE, WHEN YOU HAVE TO MAKE LIFE AND DEATH DECISIONS -- YOU CAN'T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS -- NOT WHEN PEOPLE'S LIVES ARE STAKE.// - 15 - You HAVE TO EARN THE TRUST OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. I BELIEVE -- I HAVE EARNED YOUR TRUST. How ABOUT THE ECONOMY? IN HIS ACCEPTANCE SPEECH, GOVERNOR CLINTON INSISTS THAT GOVERNMENT TAKES TOO MUCH, AND GIVES TOO LITTLE IN RETURN. BUT THEN HE PROPOSES $220 BILLION IN NEW SPENDING -- PLUS THE LARGEST TAX INCREASE IN HISTORY -- $150 BILLION DOLLARS. - 16 - I SAY -- LETS GO THE OTHER WAY -- CUT SPENDING, AND CUT TAXES. ONE MORE EXAMPLE. A FEW MONTHS AGO, GOVERNOR CLINTON SAID HE WANTED TO RAISE FUEL EFFICIENCY STANDARDS FOR CARS TO 45 MILES PER GALLON. IT SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD IDEA, BUT SCIENTISTS WILL TELL YOU IT IS IMPRACTICAL, IT WILL COST LIVES AND MOST IMPORTANT, IT WILL THROW 30,000 OHIOANS OUT OF WORK. - 17 - GOVERNOR CLINTON FINALLY FIGURED THIS OUT, so LAST FRIDAY, HE SANG A DIFFERENT TUNE. HE SAID -- AND I QUOTE -- "I NEVER SAID THAT I DIDN'T THINK THERE WAS MORE THAN ONE WAY TO DO IT, OR THAT WE SHOULDN'T BE FLEXIBLE IN THE WAY WE APPROACH IT." TALK ABOUT BACKPEDALLING? THE BENGALS COULD USE GOVERNOR CLINTON IN THEIR SECONDARY.// - 18 - Is THERE A PATTERN GOING ON HERE? WILL GOVERNOR CLINTON SAY ANYTHING TO ANYBODY? AMERICA CAN'T AFFORD DOUBLESPEAK, DOUBLETALK, DOUBLETIME!// WATCHING MY OPPONENT ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL, I'M REMINDED OF THE STORY ABOUT THE FARMER AND A CERTAIN FARM ANIMAL. THE ANIMAL WAS so SLIPPERY -- THAT IT KEPT SLIPPING OUT OF IT'S PEN. ONE DAY, THE FARMER WENT LOOKING FOR IT, AND FOLLOWED THE ANIMALS TRACKS ALL OVER CREATION. - 19 - WHEN THE FARMER RETURNED, HIS WIFE ASKED IF HE KNEW WHERE IT WAS. THE FARMER SAID, "YES MAM, I FOUND HIM. HE'S ON BOTH SIDES OF THE FENCE." IN THIS CAMPAIGN, YOU' LL FIND ME ONE JUST ONE SIDE -- THE SIDE OF THE AMERICAN FAMILY, THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER. BUT I NEED SOME HELP. THE GRIDLOCK CONGRESS HAS BEEN RUN BY THE SAME ENTRENCHED, OSSIFIED, CHANGE ALLERGIC LEADERSHIP FOR 38 YEARS. - 20 - It's TIME TO TAKE A BROOM AND CLEAN HOUSE. You CAN START, BY GIVING ME MIKE DEWINE IN THE U.S. SENATE. MIKE IS THE KIND OF SENATOR I NEED IN WASHINGTON. AND WHILE YOU'RE AT IT --ELECT STEVE GROTE (GROW - DEE) TO THE FIRST DISTRICT SEAT IN WASHINGTON. SEND MIKE AND STEVE TO WASHINGTON. FIGHTING SIDE- BY-SIDE WITH CONGRESSMAN BILL GRADDISON, JOHN BOEHNER [BAY-NER], AND BoB MCEWEN, WE WILL BREAK THE GRIDLOCK CONGRESS -- AND GET THIS COUNTRY MOVING AGAIN. - 21 - WE WILL FIGHT FOR LOWER GOVERNMENT SPENDING AND LOWER TAXES. FIGHT TO CURB THESE CRAZY LAWSUITS. FIGHT FOR YOU -- so THAT TOGETHER WE CAN BUILD A STRONGER AND MORE SECURE AMERICA. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR LISTENING. GOD BLESS CINCINNATI, AND GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. # # # - 5 - I WANT To GIVE YOU -- THE TAXPAYER -- THE POWER TO TAKE UP To 10 PERCENT OF YOUR TAX RETURN -- AND EARMARK IT FOR ONE PURPOSE ONLY -- TO REDUCE THE DANGEROUS FEDERAL BUDGET DEFICIT. IF YOU CAN CHECK-OFF FOR AMERICA, I BELIEVE WE WILL FINALLY GET THE BIG SPENDERS IN CHECK.// - 6 - How DO WE CREATE JOBS IN AMERICA? WELL, UNLIKE MY OPPONENT, I SPENT HALF MY LIFE IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR -- TRYING TO MEET A PAYROLL. I HAPPEN TO BELIEVE THAT'S A PRETTY GOOD QUALIFICATION TO BE PRESIDENT. I KNOW THAT TAXES STIFLE GROWTH -- AND STOP JOB CREATION. So WITH A NEW CONGRESS WE WILL CUT SPENDING, AND THEN WE WILL CUT YOUR TAXES -- ACROSS-THE-BOARD.// - 7 - I ALSO WANT TO GET RID OF ALL THOSE CRAZY LAWSUITS. IF YOU FALL OFF A STEP LADDER TODAY, A LAWYER WILL BE THERE TO CATCH YOU -- BEFORE YOU HIT THE GROUND. MY OPPONENT DOESN'T BELIEVE THIS IS A PROBLEM. EARLIER THIS YEAR, THE HEAD OF THE ARKANSAS TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION -- A GUY NAMED DAVID H. WILLIAMS -- WROTE A LETTER OF ENDORSEMENT FOR GOVERNOR CLINTON. - 8 - HE SAID -- AND I QUOTE DIRECTLY -- "I CAN NEVER REMEMBER AN OCCASION WHEN HE FAILED TO DO THE RIGHT THING WHERE WE TRIAL LAWYERS ARE CONCERNED." I DON'T WANT TO "DO THE RIGHT THING" FOR THE TRIAL LAWYERS AND THEIR SUPPORTERS IN CONGRESS. I WANT TO "DO THE RIGHT THING" FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. As A NATION, WE MUST SUE EACH OTHER LESS -- AND CARE FOR EACH OTHER MORE.// - 9 - MY OPPONENT PROPOSES A BACKDOOR GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER OF OUR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM. I BELIEVE WE CAN CONTROL COSTS -- AND EXTEND COVERAGE TO THE POOREST OF THE POOR -- WITHOUT PUTTING YOUR HEALTH CARE UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE SAME PEOPLE WHO BROUGHT YOU THE HOUSE BANK AND THE HOUSE POST OFFICE.// - 10 - GOVERNOR CLINTON'S PLAN WOULD LEAD TO A NEW HEALTH CARE TAX ON SMALL BUSINESS. I BELIEVE SMALL BUSINESS NEEDS CAPITAL, NEEDS INCENTIVES AND NEEDS RELIEF FROM REGULATION. WHAT SMALL BUSINESS DOESN'T NEED IS THE EXEDRIN HEADACHE OF GOVERNOR CLINTON'S NEW TAXES. HERE'S SOME OTHER THINGS I'M FIGHTING FOR. JOB TRAINING TO LEND A HELPING HAND TO WORKERS CAUGHT IN THE TRANSITION OF OUR ECONOMY.// - 11 - I WANT TO REVOLUTIONIZE THE WAY WE TEACH OUR CHILDREN -- GIVING MANY AMERICAN PARENTS A NEW FREEDOM -- THE FREEDOM TO CHOOSE WHERE YOUR KIDS SHOULD GO TO SCHOOL. GREAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS, AND GREAT PRIVATE SCHOOLS LIKE ST. XAVIER'S. AND I WANT To REFORM OUR WELFARE SYSTEM, TO ENCOURAGE FAMILIES TO STICK TOGETHER, AND FATHERS TO STICK AROUND. - 12 - SOME PEOPLE DON'T LIKE IT WHEN I TALK ABOUT FAMILY VALUES. LET ME TELL THEM SOMETHING YOU KNOW HERE IN CINCINATTI. THE FAMILY IS THE FOUNDATION OF AMERICA. ALL OUR OTHER SUCCESSES ARE WORTHLESS, IF WE FAIL IN THE HOME. WE NEED TO STRENGTHEN THE AMERICAN FAMILY -- IF WE ARE GOING MAKE AMERICA STRONGER AND MORE SECURE. // - 13 - WHERE DOES MY OPPONENT STAND ON THE ISSUES? GOOD QUESTION. As THIS CAMPAIGN GETS UNDERWAY, IT'S GETTING HARDER AND HARDER TO TELL. HE'S BEGINNING TO TURN UP IN MORE PLACES THAN ELVIS PRESLEY. TAKE THE QUESTION OF WHETHER TO STAND UP TO SADDAM HUSSEIN -- THE MOST IMPORTANT FOREIGN POLICY DECISION OF THE PAST FOUR YEARS. 14 I I Two DAYS AFTER CONGRESS FOLLOWED MY LEAD, MY OPPONENT SAID THIS, AND I QUOTE DIRECTLY: "I GUESS I WOULD HAVE VOTED WITH THE MAJORITY IF IT WAS A CLOSE VOTE. BUT I AGREE WITH THE ARGUMENTS THE MINORITY MADE." IN THE OVAL OFFICE, WHEN YOU HAVE TO MAKE LIFE AND DEATH DECISIONS -- YOU CAN'T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS -- NOT WHEN PEOPLE'S LIVES ARE STAKE.// - 15 - You HAVE TO EARN THE TRUST OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. I BELIEVE -- I HAVE EARNED YOUR TRUST. How ABOUT THE ECONOMY? IN HIS ACCEPTANCE SPEECH, GOVERNOR CLINTON INSISTS THAT GOVERNMENT TAKES TOO MUCH, AND GIVES T00 LITTLE IN RETURN. BUT THEN HE PROPOSES $220 BILLION IN NEW SPENDING -- PLUS THE LARGEST TAX INCREASE IN HISTORY -- $150 BILLION DOLLARS. - 16 - I SAY -- LETS GO THE OTHER WAY -- CUT SPENDING, AND CUT TAXES. ONE MORE EXAMPLE. A FEW MONTHS AGO, GOVERNOR CLINTON SAID HE WANTED TO RAISE FUEL EFFICIENCY STANDARDS FOR CARS TO 45 MILES PER GALLON. IT SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD IDEA, BUT SCIENTISTS WILL TELL YOU IT IS IMPRACTICAL, IT WILL COST LIVES AND MOST IMPORTANT, IT WILL THROW 30,000 OHIOANS OUT OF WORK. - 17 - GOVERNOR CLINTON FINALLY FIGURED THIS OUT, so LAST FRIDAY, HE SANG A DIFFERENT TUNE. HE SAID -- AND I QUOTE -- "I NEVER SAID THAT I DIDN'T THINK THERE WAS MORE THAN ONE WAY TO DO IT, OR THAT WE SHOULDN'T BE FLEXIBLE IN THE WAY WE APPROACH IT." TALK ABOUT BACKPEDALLING? THE BENGALS COULD USE GOVERNOR CLINTON IN THEIR SECONDARY. // - 18 - Is THERE A PATTERN GOING ON HERE? WILL GOVERNOR CLINTON SAY ANYTHING TO ANYBODY? AMERICA CAN'T AFFORD DOUBLESPEAK, DOUBLETALK, DOUBLETIME!// WATCHING MY OPPONENT ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL, I'M REMINDED OF THE STORY ABOUT THE FARMER AND A CERTAIN FARM ANIMAL. THE ANIMAL WAS so SLIPPERY -- THAT IT KEPT SLIPPING OUT OF IT'S PEN. ONE DAY, THE FARMER WENT LOOKING FOR IT, AND FOLLOWED THE ANIMALS TRACKS ALL OVER CREATION. - 19 - WHEN THE FARMER RETURNED, HIS WIFE ASKED IF HE KNEW WHERE IT WAS. THE FARMER SAID, "YES MAM, I FOUND HIM. HE'S ON BOTH SIDES OF THE FENCE." IN THIS CAMPAIGN, YOU'LL FIND ME ONE JUST ONE SIDE -- THE SIDE OF THE AMERICAN FAMILY, THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER. BUT I NEED SOME HELP. THE GRIDLOCK CONGRESS HAS BEEN RUN BY THE SAME ENTRENCHED, OSSIFIED, CHANGE ALLERGIC LEADERSHIP FOR 38 YEARS. - 20 - IT'S TIME TO TAKE A BROOM AND CLEAN HOUSE. You CAN START, BY GIVING ME MIKE DEWINE IN THE U.S. SENATE. MIKE IS THE KIND OF SENATOR I NEED IN WASHINGTON. AND WHILE YOU'RE AT IT --ELECT STEVE GROTE (GROW - DEE) TO THE FIRST DISTRICT SEAT IN WASHINGTON. SEND MIKE AND STEVE TO WASHINGTON. FIGHTING SIDE- BY-SIDE WITH CONGRESSMAN BILL GRADDISON, JOHN BOEHNER [BAY-NER], AND BoB MCEWEN, WE WILL BREAK THE GRIDLOCK CONGRESS -- AND GET THIS COUNTRY MOVING AGAIN. - 21 - WE WILL FIGHT FOR LOWER GOVERNMENT SPENDING AND LOWER TAXES. FIGHT TO CURB THESE CRAZY LAWSUITS. FIGHT FOR YOU -- so THAT TOGETHER WE CAN BUILD A STRONGER AND MORE SECURE AMERICA. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR LISTENING. GOD BLESS CINCINNATI, AND GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. # # # 347029 Document No. WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM DATE: 08/26/92 ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: ---- SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: FINDLAY MACHINE AND TOOL, FINDLAY, OH - 08/27 ACTION FYI ACTION FYI VICE PRESIDENT MOORE BAKER MULLINS SCOWCROFT PETERSMEYER DARMAN PORTER BRADY PROVOST BROMLEY ROSS CALIO SMITH DEMAREST TUTWILER FITZWATER ZOELLICK KAUFMAN GRAY BOSKIN 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 August 26, 1992 02:AUG26 P8: 24 MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT THROUGH: STEVE PROVOST SP FROM: DAN McGROARTY Duch SUBJECT: FINDLAY MACHINE AND TOOL REMARKS Tomorrow, at approximately 5:00 p.m. you will deliver remarks (15 mins./teleprompted) to a crowd of 1,500 employees at Findlay Machine and Tool in Findlay, Ohio. Your remarks play off of the themes of your acceptance speech and stressing the importance of economic preparedness for global competition. They also highlight the Clinton tax agenda - - focusing on his "transaction tax" on foreign investment. Note re. local color: following your acknowledgements, you salute Jim Woodward -- a local barber who inspects all town flags to make sure they're in good shape. McGroarty/Grossman August 26, 1992 8:00 p.m. PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: FINDLAY MACHINE AND TOOL FINDLAY, OHIO AUGUST 27, 1992 5:10 P.M. Thank you [Gov. Voinovich] for those kind words -- and thanks, alloof you, for that warm welcome. Mr. Mayor [Kieth Romick]. Home-town Representative Mike Oxley -- [and his colleagues Paul Gillmore and Dave Hobson]. It's great to be here in Findlay -- Flag City, U.S.A. Couldn't count every one of the 319 flags I'm told you've got flying -- but let me assure Jim Woodward, every flag I did see looked great to me. // I know Findlay takes its patriotism seriously. I heard that a few years back, some rascals came into town with the idea of making a show by burning the flag. Well, they came to the wrong town. Actually, they were lucky -- they got arrested. // It's a time of great pride for our flag -- and for the freedoms it represents. Now that the Cold War is over, the defining challenge of the 90's is to win the peace -- to win the competition of the new global economy. // Our goal is simple and straightforward: In the 21st Century, America must be not only a military superpower, but an economic superpower -- an export superpower. In this election, you'll hear two versions of how to do this: My opponent's answer is to look inward -- to pretend we can protect what we already have. Ours is to look forward -- open new markets, prepare our people to compete, restore the 2 social fabric, to save and invest -- so that, when it comes to the global competition -- America will win. 11 Already, Findlay is rising to the challenge. When I visited here four years ago, this spot where we're standing was a forest. Today, Tall Timbers is a testament to the transforming power of the international economy -- a living, working blueprint for how America can compete, and take the gold medal in the global economic Olympics. // There's a lot at stake for Ohio. Right now 1 in every 7 jobs -- 1 in 7 jobs across this state -- is tied to foreign trade. 11 Whether it's toothpaste from Proctor and Gamble -- or the 465 M1A2 tanks built in Lima [LIE-muh] for sale to Saudi Arabia: exports equal paychecks for the people of Ohio. That's why I want to talk today about a dangerous idea embraced by my opponent -- a new tax he's taken to heart. No I'm not talking about the $150 billion dollars my opponent wants in new taxes. No I'm not talking about the new payroll tax he wants to carve out of your paychecks to pay for a government take-over of health care. or the training tax he wants to chain to our economy or the carbon tax he wants to put on your cars. I'm talking about a new idea he calls the "transaction tax" -- a tax on foreign companies doing business in the U.S. Now, maybe you'll say: What's wrong with that -- at least this is one tax Bill Clinton won't make us pay for. // 3 Well, you should care -- and I'll tell you why. You'll feel the effect up and down these loading docks -- starting with seven companies right here in Tall Timbers. Because these companies may be foreign-owned -- but the jobs are American jobs. Those jobs put a paycheck in your pocket / put the food on your table / put you on track for a better future. // My opponent's "transaction tax" is really a chain reaction tax -- one that triggers an economic domino effect that ends by costing workers like you your jobs. Look at FMT: an American-owned company, selling what it makes here in the U.S. But Joe Kirk tells me FMT sells to a number of companies that are American-based but foreign-owned. If my opponent had his way, and your customers get hit by his tax, when they start to cut back -- when they cancel orders -- who gets hurt? You do. // We need to do better by the American worker. We need a policy that creates jobs -- not a tax machine that spits out pink slips. // We need what I offer: A coherent plan -- one that sees that in today's world -- foreign policy, domestic policy and economic policy are three sides of a single issue. A strategy that reaches out to the world in a way that makes a difference right here in Findlay -- in your neighborhoods, in your lives. We must build on the fundamentals of lower tax rates, limits on government spending, less red tape and regulation -- and more 4 trade, more competition, to generate the growth that means more opportunity more jobs. And I think that in the 90's, government can add to this growth program by building opportunity and hope for individuals, empowering families and communities. This afternoon, let me lay out the cornerstones of my plan -- let me tell you what it takes to play hard and win in this international economy: It begins with an aggressive strategy to open new markets the world over for American goods. I'm fighting for free and fair trade So that "Made in America" is understood in any language from Lima, [LIE-muh], Ohio to Lima, [LEE-muh] Peru and beyond. // Free trade is key to my plan. But we have to understand: if we're going to promote long-term growth in this country, we have to discipline federal spending and drive down the federal deficit. // Did you know the federal government is using your money -- to find out whether it's true that elephants really never forget? If that bothers you, I'm sure you'll be crazy about the study you're funding on the mating habits of minks. These are little things -- but they're part of a larger syndrome. I've put forward a specific plan to do away with over 4000 wasteful federal projects -- to freeze discretionary spending -- and get a handle on mandatory federal programs. So far, Congress has resisted my efforts to cut the budget, so I have a new idea. / Why not give you -- the taxpayer -- the 5 right to earmark up to 10 percent of your tax return, and have it go for one purpose alone: to reduce the budget deficit? When I hear some editorialists and economists sneer at my idea to let people dedicate 10 percent of their taxes to the deficit -- then I know we're onto something. My idea has roots in a serious tradition that's been used to discipline government in the past. Remember the referendum / the recall / term limits? It's all part of the great American tradition of bringing government closer to the people. // So I say: let's give the American people the power to make the choice -- to pay down the deficit, instead of giving Congress more money to burn. I think it's a powerful message to the men and women America sends to Washington to represent not only us, but our children and grandchildren. // Once we have runaway spending under control, we need to cut taxes -- give businesses incentives to grow. // That takes a clear commitment to tax relief. You know, we Republicans have sometimes been accused of thinking every day is the Fourth of July -- well, that's a lot better than my opponent. Bill Clinton thinks every day is April 15. It's time to take the bullseye off the back of the American taxpayer. // Tuesday, I was in Western Michigan, talking to a group of small business leaders. I talked to a guy who runs an asphalt paving company. He said, "Mr. President, government regulations are killing us." He made the point that when a regulation doesn't make sense, it's the worker who pays -- with his job. 6 I have put a freeze on all new federal regulation -- to give businesses like yours a chance to breathe. And I'm going to push for our plan to reform health care -- one that makes medical care affordable and secure for all -- without a backdoor government take-over. And I'm going to keep working to put an end to the sky's-the-limit lawsuits that strain our economy and sap our patience. It's time we started caring for each other more -- and suing each other less. // These are some of the reforms we must make to create a climate in which our businesses can grow -- and create jobs. But the jobs of the future also require workers with better skills and with a lifetime commitment to learning and training. This week, I unveiled a new plan to train kids from tough backgrounds looking for that first job -- as well as older, experienced workers who have lost their jobs, or are caught in industries that are going through transition. The old philosophy was for government to spend a lot of money on training centers - - an expensive entitlement, run by bureaucrats. My new plan is to provide $3000 vouchers to workers in certain industries -- vouchers they could use to go out and buy training for themselves. // Improving our schools also requires a willingness to do things differently. It starts with a clear recognition that America can't be a first-class economy with second class schools. I have a program -- America 2000 -- that will bring a revolution in American education. We've got to bring competition to 7 education -- give parents, not the government, power to choose their children's schools: public, private or religious. // Today, let me enlist you -- let me tell you what you can do to help me make this reform agenda a reality. / Come November 3rd, you can send me a Congress I can work with. And if you say: Give me one good reason you'll get Congress to act -I'll give you 150. That's the number of new faces we'll see next year in the Congress. Now -- I'll be candid. I want every last one of them to be Republican. / But whatever party they come from -- even if they were first elected before you were born -- they'll come back with a new appreciation for what you want: a complete set of instructions from the American people that it's time for Congress to change. // Ask the candidates who are asking you for your vote: Are you for free and fair trade -- are you for the North American Free Trade Agreement? Are you against the kind of foreign business tax that will cost American jobs? And don't send any candidate to the House or Senate unless you're sure they're going to help me move this economy forward. // If we get the answers -- the commitment to action -- that we're looking for, when that new Congress comes to town -- I'll be ready. Ready to act ready to do the will of the American people. Ready to move on my aggressive agenda for economic growth -- an agenda that builds a more secure America, a stronger America -- at home and abroad. // 8 Thank you once again for this warm welcome -- for all your support -- and may God bless the United States of America. # # # Document No. 347029ss WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM DATE: 8/26/92 ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: TODAY, 8/26 6:30 pm PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: FINDLAY MACHINE AND TOOL SUBJECT: FINDLAY, OHIO - 8/27/92 - 5:10 p.m. ACTION FYI ACTION FYI VICE PRESIDENT X MOORE BAKER MULLINS N/C SCOWCROFT PETERSMEYER DARMAN PORTER BRADY X PROVOST BROMLEY ROSS CALIO SMITH DEMAREST TUTWILER FITZWATER X ZOELLICK GRAY KAUFMAN HOLIDAY MCGROARTY HORNER BOSKIN By MCBRIDE REMARKS: Please forward your comments directly to Dan McGroarty, Rm. 122, x2930, no later than 6:30 p.m., TODAY, WED. AUGUST 26, with a copy to this office. Thank you. RESPONSE: called 5:30 PHILLIP D. BRADY Assistant to the President and Staff Secretary Ext. 2702 McGroarty/Walters August 26, 1992 02 AUG 26 P3: 07 2:45 p.m. [findlay] PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: FINDLAY MACHINE AND TOOL FINDLAY, OHIO AUGUST 27, 1992 5:10 P.M. Thank you all for that warm welcome. It's great to be here in Findlay -- Flag city, U.S.A. // [Acknowledgements.] Now that the Cold War is over, the defining challenge of the 90's is to win the peace -- to win the competition of the new global economy. // Our goal is simple and straightforward: In the 21st Century, America must be not only a military superpower, but an economic superpower -- an export superpower. In this election, you'll hear two versions of how to do this: My opponent's answer is to look inward -- to pretend we can protect what we already have. Ours is to look forward -- open new markets, prepare our people to compete, restore the social fabric, to save and invest -- so that, when it comes to the global competition -- America will win. // Already, Findlay is rising to the challenge. When I visited here four years ago, this spot where we're standing was a forest. Today, Tall Timbers is a testament to the transforming power of the international economy -- a living, working blueprint for how America can compete, and take the gold medal in the global economic Olympics. // There's a lot at stake for Ohio. Right now 1 in every 7 jobs -- 1 in 7 jobs from Findlay to [Freemont] - - is tied to foreign trade. // 2 Whether it's toothpaste from Proctor and Gamble -- or the 465 M1A2 tanks built in Lima for sale to Saudi Arabia: exports equal paychecks for the people of Ohio. That's why I want to talk today about a dangerous idea embraced by my opponent -- a new tax he's taken to heart. No I'm not talking about the $150 billion dollars my opponent wants in new taxes. that kills sb when we No I'm not talking about the new payroll tax he wants to need carve out of your paychecks to pay for a government take-over of take be health care. promotry or the worker re-training tax he wants to shake out of your wallets or the carbon tax he wants to put on your cars. I'm talking about a new idea he calls the "transaction tax" -- a tax on foreign countries doing business in the U.S. Now, maybe you'll say: What's wrong with that -- at least this is one tax Bill Clinton won't make us pay for. // Well, you should care -- and I'll tell you why. You'll feel the impact up and down these loading docks -- starting with seven companies right here in Tall Timbers. Because these companies may be foreign owned -- but the jobs are American jobs. Those jobs put a paycheck in your pocket / put the food on your table / put you on track for a better future. // My opponent's "transaction tax" is really a chain reaction tax -- one that triggers an economic domino effect that ends by costing workers like you your jobs. 3 Look at Findlay -- even here: an American owned company, selling what it makes here in the U.S. But [Joe Kirk] tells me FMT sells to a number of companies that are American-based but foreign-owned. If my opponent had his way, and your customers (cutbach) retrench R get hit by his tax, when they start to when they cancel orders -- who gets hurt? You do. // We need to do better by the American worker. We need a policy that creates jobs -- not a tax machine that spits out pink slips. Not a program that takes a shot at the foreign competition, and hits the American worker on the ricochet. // We need what I offer: A coherent strategy -- one that sees that in today's world -- foreign policy, domestic policy and economic policy are three sides of a single issue. A strategy that reaches out to the world in a way that makes a difference right here in Findlay -- in your neighborhoods, in your lives. We must build on the fundamentals of lower tax rates, limits on government spending, less red tape and regulation -- and more trade, more competition, to generate the growth that means more opportunity ... more jobs. And I think that in the 90's, government can add to this growth program by building opportunity and hope for individuals, empowering families and communities. This afternoon, let me lay out the cornerstones -- let me tell you what it takes to play hard and win in this international economy: It begins with an aggressive strategy to open new markets the world over for American goods. I'm fighting for free and 4 fair trade So that "Made in America" is understood in any language from Lima, [LIE-muh], Ohio to Lima, [LEE-muh] Peru. // Then we have to understand, that if we're going to promote long-term growth in this country, we have to discipline federal spending and drive down the federal deficit. // Did you know the federal government is using your money -- to find out whether it's true that elephants really never forget? If that bothers you, I'm sure you'll be crazy about the study you're funding into the mating habits of minks. These are little things -- but they're part of a larger syndrome. I've put forward a specific plan to do away with over 4000 wasteful federal projects -- to freeze discretionary spending -- and get a handle on mandatory federal programs. So far, Congress has resisted my efforts to cut the budget, so I have a new idea. / Why not give you -- the taxpayer -- the right to earmark up to 10 percent of your tax return, and have it go for one purpose alone: to reduce the budget deficit? Economists and editorial writers call the idea a gimmick -- but the American people seem to think it makes sense. When it comes to spending your money, Congress seems to take the philosophy of that Doritos ad -- crunch all you want, we take more. I say if Congress can't control its appetite for your money, let's just take the bag away. // Once we have runaway spending under control, we need to cut taxes -- give businesses incentives to grow. // 5 That takes a clear commitment to tax relief. You know, we Republicans have sometimes been accused of thinking every day is the Fourth of July -- well, that's a lot better than my opponent. Ron He thinks every day is April 15. It's time to take the bullseye target off the back of the American taxpayer. // Tuesday, I was in Western Michigan, talking to a group of small business leaders. I talked to a guy who runs an asphalt paving company. He said, "Mr. President, government regulations are killing us." He made the point that when a regulation doesn't make sense, it's the worker who pays -- with his job. I propose a freeze on all new federal regulation -- to give businesses like yours a chance to breathe. Ross And I'm going to push for our plan to reform health care -- one without that a increases backdoor the government apportabity take-over of security of health of med care. care And for I'm all; going to keep working to put an end to the sky's-the-limit lawsuits that strain our economy and sap our patience. It's time we started caring for each other more -- and suing each other less. // These are some of the reforms we must make to create a climate in which our businesses can grow -- and create jobs. But the jobs of the future require workers with better skills and with a lifetime commitment to learning and training. 10million This week, I unveiled a new plan to train American workers who've displaced was has lost now caught in industries that are going through transition. The their gobs 5.7 old philosophy was for government to spend a lot of money on lost training centers which meant government bureaucrats were 1.2 1.2 m. will alterrals,atc. 6 guaranteed employment, but not anyone else. My new plan is to provide $3000 vouchers to workers in certain industries -- Ross vouchers they could use to go out and buy training for They choose themselves. It's a much more efficient use of tax dollars, and Borha and adapts it helps workers plan ahead -- against the day that pink slip may arrive in the mail. Changing Luproing our schools also requires a willingness to do to the changes of the world. mu things differently. It starts with a clear recognition that America can't be a first-class economy with second class schools. I have a program -- America 2000 -- that will bring a revolution in American education. We've got to bring competition to education -- give parents, not the government, power to choose their children's schools: public, private or religious. // Today, let me enlist you -- let me tell you what you can do to help me make this reform agenda a reality. / Come November 3rd, you can send me a Congress I can work with. And if you say: Give me one good reason you'll get Congress to act --I'll give you 150. That's the number of new faces we'll see next year in the Congress. Now -- I'll be candid. I want every last one of them to be Republican. / But whatever party they come from -- even if they were first elected before you were born -- they'll come back with a new appreciation for what you want: a complete set of instructions from the American people that it's time for Congress to change. // with the cutainty And when that new Congress comes to town -- I'll be ready. Ready to act ready to do the will of the American people. 7 Ready to move on my aggressive agenda for economic growth -- an agenda that builds a more secure America, a stronger America -- at home and abroad. // Thank you once again for this warm welcome -- for all your support -- and may God bless the United States of America. # # # Document No. 347029ss 6532 WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM 92 AUG 26 P8: 27 DATE: 8/26/92 ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: TODAY, 8/26 6:30 pm PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: FINDLAY MACHINE AND TOOL SUBJECT: FINDLAY, OHIO - 8/27/92 5:10 p.m. 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 BOSKIN MCBRIDE REMARKS: Please forward your comments directly to Dan McGroarty, Rm. 122, x2930, no later than 6:30 p.m., TODAY, WED. AUGUST 26, with a copy to this office. Thank you. RESPONSE: TO: DAN MCGROARTY August 26, 1992 PHILLIP D. BRADY The NSC staff concurs with the presidential Assistant to the President remarks. See comment on page 2. Brent Scowcroft A and Staff Secretary Ext. 2702 CC: Phillip D. Brady McGroarty/Walters August 26, 1992 02 AUG26 P3: 07 2:45 p.m. [findlay] PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: FINDLAY MACHINE AND TOOL FINDLAY, OHIO AUGUST 27, 1992 5:10 P.M. Thank you all for that warm welcome. It's great to be here in Findlay -- Flag City, U.S.A. // [Acknowledgements.] Now that the Cold War is over, the defining challenge of the 90's is to win the peace -- to win the competition of the new global economy. // Our goal is simple and straightforward: In the 21st Century, America must be not only a military superpower, but an economic superpower -- an export superpower. In this election, you'll hear two versions of how to do this: My opponent's answer is to look inward -- to pretend we can protect what we already have. Ours is to look forward -- open new markets, prepare our people to compete, restore the social fabric, to save and invest -- so that, when it comes to the global competition -- America will win. // Already, Findlay is rising to the challenge. When I visited here four years ago, this spot where we're standing was a forest. Today, Tall Timbers is a testament to the transforming power of the international economy -- a living, working blueprint for how America can compete, and take the gold medal in the global economic Olympics. // There's a lot at stake for Ohio. Right now 1 in every 7 jobs -- 1 in 7 jobs from Findlay to [Freemont] - - is tied to foreign trade. // 2 Whether it's toothpaste from Proctor and Gamble -- or the 465 M1A2 tanks built in Lima for sale to Saudi Arabia: exports equal paychecks for the people of Ohio. That's why I want to talk today about a dangerous idea embraced by my opponent -- a new tax he's taken to heart. No I'm not talking about the $150 billion dollars my opponent wants in new taxes. What kind of taxes? No I'm not talking about the new payroll tax he wants to carve out of your paychecks to pay for a government take-over of health care. or the worker re-training tax he wants to shake out of your wallets or the carbon tax he wants to put on your cars. I'm talking about a new idea he calls the "transaction tax" -- a tax on foreign countries doing business in the U.S. Now, maybe you'll say: What's wrong with that -- at least this is one tax Bill Clinton won't make us pay for. // Well, you should care -- and I'll tell you why. You'll feel the impact up and down these loading docks -- starting with seven companies right here in Tall Timbers. Because these companies may be foreign owned -- but the jobs are American jobs. Those jobs put a paycheck in your pocket / put the food on your table / put you on track for a better future. // My opponent's "transaction tax" is really a chain reaction tax -- one that triggers an economic domino effect that ends by costing workers like you your jobs. 3 Look at Findlay -- even here: an American owned company, selling what it makes here in the U.S. But [Joe Kirk] tells me FMT sells to a number of companies that are American-based but foreign-owned. If my opponent had his way, and your customers get hit by his tax, when they start to retrench -- when they cancel orders -- who gets hurt? You do. 11 We need to do better by the American worker. We need a policy that creates jobs -- not a tax machine that spits out pink slips. Not a program that takes a shot at the foreign competition, and hits the American worker on the ricochet. // We need what I offer: A coherent strategy -- one that sees that in today's world -- foreign policy, domestic policy and economic policy are three sides of a single issue. A strategy that reaches out to the world in a way that makes a difference right here in Findlay -- in your neighborhoods, in your lives. We must build on the fundamentals of lower tax rates, limits on government spending, less red tape and regulation -- and more trade, more competition, to generate the growth that means more opportunity more jobs. And I think that in the 90's, government can add to this growth program by building opportunity and hope for individuals, empowering families and communities. This afternoon, let me lay out the cornerstones -- let me tell you what it takes to play hard and win in this international economy: It begins with an aggressive strategy to open new markets the world over for American goods. I'm fighting for free and 4 fair trade So that "Made in America" is understood in any language from Lima, [LIE-muh], Ohio to Lima, [LEE-muh] Peru. // Then we have to understand, that if we're going to promote long-term growth in this country, we have to discipline federal spending and drive down the federal deficit. // Did you know the federal government is using your money -- to find out whether it's true that elephants really never forget? If that bothers you, I'm sure you'll be crazy about the study you're funding into the mating habits of minks. These are little things -- but they're part of a larger syndrome. I've put forward a specific plan to do away with over 4000 wasteful federal projects -- to freeze discretionary spending -- and get a handle on mandatory federal programs. So far, Congress has resisted my efforts to cut the budget, so I have a new idea. / Why not give you -- the taxpayer -- the right to earmark up to 10 percent of your tax return, and have it go for one purpose alone: to reduce the budget deficit? Economists and editorial writers call the idea a gimmick -- but the American people seem to think it makes sense. When it comes to spending your money, Congress seems to take the philosophy of that Doritos ad -- crunch all you want, we take more. I say if Congress can't control its appetite for your money, let's just take the bag away. // Once we have runaway spending under control, we need to cut taxes -- give businesses incentives to grow. // 5 That takes a clear commitment to tax relief. You know, we Republicans have sometimes been accused of thinking every day is the Fourth of July -- well, that's a lot better than my opponent. He thinks every day is April 15. It's time to take the target off the back of the American taxpayer. // Tuesday, I was in Western Michigan, talking to a group of small business leaders. I talked to a guy who runs an asphalt paving company. He said, "Mr. President, government regulations are killing us." He made the point that when a regulation doesn't make sense, it's the worker who pays -- with his job. I propose a freeze on all new federal regulation -- to give businesses like yours a chance to breathe. And I'm going to push for our plan to reform health care -- without a backdoor government take-over of health care. And I'm going to keep working to put an end to the sky's-the-limit lawsuits that strain our economy and sap our patience. It's time we started caring for each other more -- and suing each other less. // These are some of the reforms we must make to create a climate in which our businesses can grow -- and create jobs. But the jobs of the future require workers with better skills and with a lifetime commitment to learning and training. This week, I unveiled a new plan to train American workers now caught in industries that are going through transition. The old philosophy was for government to spend a lot of money on training centers -- which meant government bureaucrats were 6 guaranteed employment, but not anyone else. My new plan is to provide $3000 vouchers to workers in certain industries -- vouchers they could use to go out and buy training for themselves. It's a much more efficient use of tax dollars, and it helps workers plan ahead -- against the day that pink slip may arrive in the mail. Changing our schools also requires a willingness to do things differently. It starts with a clear recognition that America can't be a first-class economy with second class schools. I have a program -- America 2000 -- that will bring a revolution in American education. We've got to bring competition to education -- give parents, not the government, power to choose their children's schools: public, private or religious. // Today, let me enlist you -- let me tell you what you can do to help me make this reform agenda a reality. / Come November 3rd, you can send me a Congress I can work with. And if you say: Give me one good reason you'll get Congress to act -I'll give you 150. That's the number of new faces we'll see next year in the Congress. Now -- I'll be candid. I want every last one of them to be Republican. / But whatever party they come from -- even if they were first elected before you were born -- they'll come back with a new appreciation for what you want: a complete set of instructions from the American people that it's time for Congress to change. // And when that new Congress comes to town -- I'll be ready. Ready to act ready to do the will of the American people. 7 Ready to move on my aggressive agenda for economic growth -- an agenda that builds a more secure America, a stronger America -- at home and abroad. // Thank you once again for this warm welcome -- for all your support -- and may God bless the United States of America. # # # THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON August 26, 1992 MEMORANDUM FOR DAN MCGROARTY SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR COMMUNICATION FROM: misfer ASSISTANT ROBERT T. COUNSEL SWANSON TO THE PRESIDENT SUBJECT: Presidential Remarks: Findlay Machine and Tool At your request, Counsel's office has reviewed the above- referenced matter. Comments as indicated. Attachment cc: Phillip D. Brady 92 AUG 26 P6: 24 Document No. 347029ss WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM DATE: 8/26/92 ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMEN DUE BY: TODAY, 8/26 6:30pm PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: FINDLAY MACHINE AND TOOL FINDLAY, OHIO - 8/27/92 - 5:10 p.m. SUBJECT: 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 BOSKIN MCBRIDE REMARKS: Please forward your comments directly to Dan McGroarty, Rm. 122, x2930, no later than 6:30 p.m., TODAY, WED. AUGUST 26, with a copy to this office. Thank you. RESPONSE: PHILLIP D. BRADY Assistant to the President and Staff Secretary Ext. 2702 McGroarty/Walters August 26, 1992 02 AUG 26 P3: 07 2:45 p.m. [findlay] PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: FINDLAY MACHINE AND TOOL FINDLAY, OHIO AUGUST 27, 1992 5:10 P.M. Thank you all for that warm welcome. It's great to be here in Findlay -- Flag City, U.S.A. // [Acknowledgements.] Now that the Cold War is over, the defining challenge of the 90's is to win the peace -- to win the competition of the new global economy. // Our goal is simple and straightforward: In the 21st Century, America must be not only a military superpower, but an economic superpower -- an export superpower. In this election, you'll hear two versions of how to do this: My opponent's answer is to look inward -- to pretend we can protect what we already have. Ours is to look forward -- open new markets, prepare our people to compete, restore the social fabric, to save and invest -- so that, when it comes to the global competition -- America will win. // Already Findlay is rising to the challenge. When I visited here four years ago, this spot where we're standing was a forest. Today, Tall Timbers is a testament to the transforming power of the international economy -- a living, working blueprint for how America can compete, and take the gold medal in the global economic Olympics. // There's a lot at stake for Ohio. Right now 1 in every 7 jobs -- 1 in 7 jobs from Findlay to [Freemont] - - is tied to foreign trade. // 2 Whether it's toothpaste from Proctor and Gamble -- or the 465 M1A2 tanks built in Lima for sale to Saudi Arabia: exports equal paychecks for the people of Ohio. That's why I want to talk today about a dangerous idea embraced by my opponent -- a new tax he's taken to heart. No I'm not talking about the $150 billion dollars my opponent wants in new taxes. No I'm not talking about the new payroll tax he wants to carve out of your paychecks to pay for a government take-over of health care. or the worker re-training tax he wants to shake out of your wallets or the carbon tax he wants to put on your cars. I'm talking about a new idea he calls the "transaction tax" -- a tax on foreign countries doing business in the U.S. Now, maybe you'll say: What's wrong with that -- at least this is one tax Bill Clinton won't make us pay for. // Well, you should care -- and I'll tell you why. You'll feel the impact up and down these loading docks -- starting with seven companies right here in Tall Timbers. Because these companies may be foreign owned -- but the jobs are American jobs. Those jobs put a paycheck in your pocket / put the food on your table / put you on track for a better future. // My opponent's "transaction tax" is really a chain reaction tax -- one that triggers an economic domino effect that ends by costing workers like you your jobs. 3 Look at Findlay -- even here: an American owned company, selling what it makes here in the U.S. But [Joe Kirk] tells me FMT sells to a number of companies that are American-based but foreign-owned. If my opponent had his way, and your customers get hit by his tax, when they start to retrench -- when they cancel orders -- who gets hurt? You do. // We need to do better by the American worker. We need a policy that creates jobs -- not a tax machine that spits out pink slips. Not a program that takes a shot at the foreign competition, and hits the American worker on the ricochet. // We need what I offer: A coherent strategy -- one that sees that in today's world -- foreign policy, domestic policy and economic policy are three sides of a single issue. A strategy that reaches out to the world in a way that makes a difference right here in Findlay -- in your neighborhoods, in your lives. We must build on the fundamentals of lower tax rates, limits on government spending, less red tape and regulation -- and more trade, more competition, to generate the growth that means more opportunity more jobs. And I think that in the 90's, government can add to this growth program by building opportunity and hope for individuals, empowering families and communities. This afternoon, let me lay out the cornerstones -- let me tell you what it takes to play hard and win in this international economy: It begins with an aggressive strategy to open new markets the world over for American goods. I'm fighting for free and 4 fair trade So that "Made in America" is understood in any language from Lima, [LIE-muh], Ohio to Lima, [LEE-muh] Peru. // Then we have to understand, that if we're going to promote long-term growth in this country, we have to discipline federal spending and drive down the federal deficit. // Did you know the federal government is using your money -- to find out whether it's true that elephants really never forget? If that bothers you, I'm sure you'll be crazy about the study you're funding into the mating habits of minks. These are little things -- but they're part of a larger problem Congress syndrome. I've put forward a specific plan to do away with over 4000 wasteful federal projects -- to freeze discretionary spending -- and get a handle on mandatory federal programs. So far, Congress has resisted my efforts to cut the budget, so I have a new idea. / Why not give you -- the taxpayer -- the right to earmark up to 10 percent of your tax return, and have it go for one purpose alone: to reduce the budget deficit? Economists and editorial writers call the idea a gimmick -- but the American people seem to think it makes sense. When it comes to spending your money, Congress seems to take the philosophy of that Doritos ad -- crunch all you want, we take more. I say if Congress can't control its appetite for your money, let's just take the bag away. // Once we have runaway spending under control, we need to cut taxes -- give businesses incentives to grow. // 5 That takes a clear commitment to tax relief. You know, we Republicans have sometimes been accused of thinking every day is the Fourth of July -- well, that's a lot better than my opponent. He thinks every day is April 15. It's time to take the target off the back of the American taxpayer. // Tuesday, I was in Western Michigan, talking to a group of small business leaders. I talked to a guy who runs an asphalt paving company. He said, "Mr. President, government regulations are killing us." He made the point that when a regulation doesn't make sense, it's the worker who pays -- with his job. have frozen put a freeze an I propose a freeze on all new federal regulation -- to give businesses like yours a chance to breathe. And I'm going to push for our plan to reform health care -- without a backdoor government take-over of health care. And I'm going to keep working to put an end to the sky's-the-limit lawsuits that strain our economy and sap our patience. It's time we started caring for each other more -- and suing each other less. // These are some of the reforms we must make to create a climate in which our businesses can grow -- and create jobs. But the jobs of the future require workers with better skills and with a lifetime commitment to learning and training. This week, I unveiled a new plan to train American workers now caught in industries that are going through transition. The old philosophy was for government to spend a lot of money on training centers -- which meant government bureaucrats were 6 guaranteed employment, but not anyone else. My new plan is to provide $3000 vouchers to workers in certain industries -- vouchers they could use to go out and buy training for themselves. It's a much more efficient use of tax dollars, and it helps workers plan ahead -- against the day that pink slip may arrive in the mail. Changing our schools also requires a willingness to do things differently. It starts with a clear recognition that America can't be a first-class economy with second class schools. I have a program -- America 2000 -- that will bring a revolution in American education. We've got to bring competition to education -- give parents, not the government, power to choose their children's schools: public, private or religious. // Today, let me enlist you -- let me tell you what you can do to help me make this reform agenda a reality. / Come November 3rd, you can send me a Congress I can work with. And if you say: Give me one good reason you'll get Congress to act I'll give you 150. That's the number of new faces we'll see next year in the Congress. Now -- I'll be candid. I want every last one of them to be Republican. / But whatever party they come from -- even if they were first elected before you were born -- they'll come back with a new appreciation for what you want: a complete set of instructions from the American people that it's time for Congress to change. // And when that new Congress comes to town -- I'll be ready. Ready to act ready to do the will of the American people. 7 Ready to move on my aggressive agenda for economic growth -- an agenda that builds a more secure America, a stronger America -- at home and abroad. // Thank you once again for this warm welcome -- for all your support -- and may God bless the United States of America. # # # reeds we'll to have check a on problem whether machine with tool McGroarty/Walters August Man VRA. 2:45 [findlay] 26, Admin p.m. 1992 position PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: FINDLAY MACHINE AND TOOL FINDLAY, OHIO AUGUST 27, 1992 5:10 P.M. Thank you all for that warm welcome. 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I say if Congress can't control its appetite for your money, let's just take the bag away. // Once we have runaway spending under control, we need to cut taxes -- give businesses incentives to grow. // My worry is that were selling wht trying to make the "gimmick" serious serious. point: So we cant use a joke to personate. Id prefer we make He claims travilition behind this tune 1 suggesters (growin out of the Congress isnt working like it should. So we need special discipline. Lapal Therisa 5 That takes a clear commitment to tax relief. You know, we Republicans have sometimes been accused of thinking every day is the Fourth of July -- well, that's a lot better than my opponent. He thinks every day is April 15. It's time to take the target off the back of the American taxpayer. // Tuesday, I was in Western Michigan, talking to a group of small business leaders. I talked to a guy who runs an asphalt paving company. He said, "Mr. President, government regulations are killing us." He made the point that when a regulation doesn't make sense, it's the worker who pays -- with his job. I propose a freeze on all new federal regulation -- to give businesses like yours a chance to breathe. And I'm going to push for our plan to reform health care -- without a backdoor government take-over of health care. And I'm going to keep working to put an end to the sky's-the-limit lawsuits that strain our economy and sap our patience. It's time we started caring for each other more -- and suing each other less. // These are some of the reforms we must make to create a climate in which our businesses can grow -- and create jobs. But the jobs of the future require workers with better skills and with a lifetime commitment to learning and training. This week, I unveiled a new plan to train American workers now caught in industries that are going through transition. The old philosophy was for government to spend a lot of money on an experie training centers -- which meant government bureaucrats were attlemt Mou than Hem: Vils too burdenly rundy 6 guaranteed employment, but not anyone else. My new plan is to provide $3000 vouchers to workers in certain industries -- vouchers they could use to go out and buy training for themselves. It's a much more efficient use of tax dollars, and it helps workers plan ahead -- against the day that pink slip may arrive in the mail. Changing our schools also requires a willingness to do things differently. It starts with a clear recognition that America can't be a first-class economy with second class schools. I have a program -- America 2000 -- that will bring a revolution in American education. We've got to bring competition to education -- give parents, not the government, power to choose their children's schools: public, private or religious. // Today, let me enlist you -- let me tell you what you can do to help me make this reform agenda a reality. / Come November 3rd, you can send me a Congress I can work with. And if you say: Give me one good reason you'll get Congress to act --I'll give you 150. That's the number of new faces we'll see next year in the Congress. Now -- I'll be candid. I want every last one of them to be Republican. / But whatever party they come from -- even if they were first elected before you were born -- they'll come back with a new appreciation for what you want: a complete set of instructions from the American people that it's time for Congress to change. // And when that new Congress comes to town -- I'll be ready. Ready to act ready to do the will of the American people. 7 Ready to move on my aggressive agenda for economic growth -- an agenda that builds a more secure America, a stronger America -- at home and abroad. // Thank you once again for this warm welcome -- for all your support -- and may God bless the United States of America. # # # yr Ash your of his Crusen. for Nafta - whe against Foreign fax that costs and fils. McGroarty/Grossman August 26, 1992 8:00 p.m. PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: FINDLAY MACHINE AND TOOL FINDLAY, OHIO AUGUST 27, 1992 5:10 P.M. Thank you [Gov. Voinovich] for those kind words -- and thanks, all of you, for that warm welcome. Mr. Mayor [Kieth Romick]. Home-town Representative Mike Oxley -- [and his colleagues Paul Gillmore and Dave Hobson]. It's great to be here in Findlay -- Flag City, U.S.A. Couldn't count every one of the 319 flags I'm told you've got flying -- but let me assure Jim Woodward, every flag I did see looked great to me. // I know Findlay takes its patriotism seriously. I heard that a few years back, some rascals came into town with the idea of making a show by burning the flag. Well, they came to the wrong town. Actually, they were lucky -- they got arrested. // It's a time of great pride for our flag -- and for the freedoms it represents. Now that the Cold War is over, the defining challenge of the 90's is to win the peace -- to win the competition of the new global- economy. // Our goal is simple and straightforward: In the 21st Century, America must be not only a military superpower, but an economic superpower -- an export superpower. In this election, you'll hear two versions of how to do this: My opponent's answer is to look inward -- to pretend we can protect what we already have. Ours is to look forward -- open new markets, prepare our people to compete, restore the 2 social fabric, to save and invest -- so that, when it comes to the global competition -- America will win. // Already, Findlay is rising to the challenge. When I visited here four years ago, this spot where we're standing was a forest. Today, Tall Timbers is a testament to the transforming power of the international economy -- a living, working blueprint for how America can compete, and take the gold medal in the global economic Olympics. // There's a lot at stake for Ohio. Right now 1 in every 7 jobs -- 1 in 7 jobs across this state -- is tied to foreign trade. // Whether it's toothpaste from Proctor and Gamble -- or the 465 M1A2 tanks built in Lima [LIE-muh] for sale to Saudi Arabia: exports equal paychecks for the people of Ohio. That's why I want to talk today about a dangerous idea embraced by my opponent -- a new tax he's taken to heart. No I'm not talking about the $150 billion dollars my opponent wants in new taxes. No I'm not talking about the new payroll tax he wants to carve out of your paychecks to pay for a government take-over of health care. Or the training tax he wants to chain to our economy Or the carbon tax he wants to put on your cars. I'm talking about a new idea he calls the "transaction tax" -- a tax on foreign companies doing business in the U.S. Now, maybe you'll say: What's wrong with that -- at least this is one tax Bill Clinton won't make us pay for. // Public liaror AUG 26 P6: 57 P.1 last $ "was a forest"- - may have prob. ul media about envitor. P.2 465 MIAZ - just say tanks ; specific would be hard to say THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON August 26, 1992 MEMORANDUM FOR DAN McGROARTY FROM: ROGER B. PORTER RBP SUBJECT: Presidential Remarks: Findlay Machine and Tool 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 92 AUG 26 P7:32 Document No. 347029ss WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM DATE: 8/26/92 ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: TODAY, 8/26 6:30pm PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: FINDLAY MACHINE AND SUBJECT: FINDLAY, OHIO - 8/27/92 - 5:10 p.m. 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 BOSKIN MCBRIDE REMARKS: Please forward your comments directly to Dan McGroarty, Rm. 122, x2930, no later than 6:30 p.m., TODAY, WED. AUGUST 26, with a copy to this office. Thank you. RESPONSE: PHILLIP D. BRADY Assistant to the President and Staff Secretary Ext. 2702 McGroarty/Walters August 26, 1992 02,AUG 28 P3: 07 2:45 p.m. [findlay] PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: FINDLAY MACHINE AND TOOL FINDLAY, OHIO AUGUST 27, 1992 5:10 P.M. Thank you all for that warm welcome. It's great to be here in Findlay -- Flag City, U.S.A. // [Acknowledgements.] Now that the Cold War is over, the defining challenge of the TAKE FULL ADVANTAGE OF THE OPPORTUNITIES PRESENTED By 90's is to win the peace -- to win the competition of the new global economy. // Our goal is simple and straightforward: In the 21st Century, America must be not only a military superpower, but an AND economic superpower Van export superpower. ACCOMPLISH In this election, you'll hear two versions of how to do this: My opponent's answer is to look inward -- to pretend wed can I protect what we already have. Ours is to look forward -- MINE open new markets, prepare our people to compete, restore the PROMOTE INE MENT social fabric, toVsave and invest -- so that, when it comes to the global competition -- America will win. // Already, Findlay is rising to the challenge. When I visited here four years ago, this spot where we're standing was a forest. Today, Tall Timbers is a testament to the transforming power of the international economy -- a living, working blueprint for how America can compete, and take the gold medal in the global economic Olympics. // There's a lot at stake for Ohio. Right now 1 in every 7 jobs -- 1 in 7 jobs from Findlay to [Freemont] - - is tied to foreign trade. // 2 Whether it's toothpaste from Proctor and Gamble -- or the 465 M1A2 tanks built in Lima for sale to Saudi Arabia: exports equal paychecks for the people of Ohio. That's why I want to talk today about a dangerous idea embraced by my opponent -- a new tax he's taken to heart. No I'm not talking about the $150 billion dollars my opponent wants in new taxes. No I'm not talking about the new payroll tax he wants to carve out of your paychecks to pay for a government take-over of OUR SYSTEMO health carel or the worker re-training tax he wants to shake out of your wallets Or the carbon tax he wants to put on your cars. I'm talking about a new idea he calls the "transaction tax" -- a tax on foreign countries doing business in the U.S. Now, maybe you'll say: What's wrong with that -- at least this is one tax Bill Clinton won't make us pay for. // Well, you should care -- and I'll tell you why. You'll feel the impact up and down these loading docks -- starting with seven companies right here in Tall Timbers. Because these companies may be foreign owned -- but the jobs are American jobs. Those jobs put a paycheck in your pocket / put the food on your table / put you on track for a better future. // My opponent's "transaction tax" is really a chain reaction tax -- one that triggers an economic domino effect that ends by costing workers like you your jobs. 3 Look at Findlay -- even here: an American owned company, selling what it makes here in the U.S. But [Joe Kirk] tells me FMT sells to a number of companies that are American-based but foreign-owned. If my opponent had his way, and your customers get hit by his tax, when they start to retrench -- when they cancel orders -- who gets hurt? You do. // We need to do better by the American worker. We need a policy that creates jobs -- not a tax machine that spits out pink slips. Not a program that takes a shot at the foreign competition, and hits the American workeroen the ricochet 11 We need what I offer: A coherent strategy -- one that sees that in today's world -- foreign policy, domestic policy and economic policy are three sides of a single issue. A strategy that reaches out to the world in a way that makes a difference right here in Findlay -- in your neighborhoods, in your lives. We must build on the fundamentals of lower tax rates, limits on government spending, less red tape and regulation -- and more trade, more competition, to generate the growth that means more AND opportunity -V more jobs. And I think that in the 90's, government can add to this growth program by building opportunity and hope for individuals, empowering families and communities. This afternoon, let me lay out the cornerstones -- let me tell you what it takes to play hard and win in this international economy: It begins with an aggressive strategy to open new markets the world over for American goods. I'm fighting for free and 4 fair trade So that "Made in America" is understood in any language from Lima, [LIE-muh], Ohio to Lima, [LEE-muh] Peru. // Then we have to understand, that if we're going to promote long-term growth in this country, we have to discipline federal spending and drive down the federal deficit. // Did you know the federal government is using your money -- to find out whether it's true that elephants really never forget? If that bothers you, I'm sure you'll be crazy about the study you're funding into the mating habits of minks. These are little things -- but they're part of a larger syndrome. I've put forward a specific plan to do away with over 4000 wasteful federal projects -- to freeze discretionary spending -- and get a handle on mandatory federal programs. So far, Congress has resisted my efforts to cut the budget, so I have a new idea. / Why not give you -- the taxpayer -- the right to earmark up to 10 percent of your tax return, and have it FEDERAL go for one purpose alone: to reduce the Vbudget deficit? Economists and editorial writers call the idea a gimmick -- but the American people seem to think it makes sense. When it comes to spending your money, Congress seems to take the philosophy of that Doritos ad -- crunch all you want, we take more. I say if Congress can't control its appetite for your money, let's just take the bag away. // Once we have runaway spending under control, we need to cut taxes -- give businesses incentives to grow. // 5 That takes a clear commitment to tax relief. You know, we Republicans have sometimes been accused of thinking every day is the Fourth of July -- well, that's a lot better than my opponent. He thinks every day is April 15. It's time to take the target off the back of the American taxpayer. // Tuesday, I was in Western Michigan, talking to a group of small business leaders. I talked to a guy who runs an asphalt paving company. He said, "Mr. President, government regulations are killing us." He made the point that when a regulation doesn't make sense, it's the worker who pays -- with his job. I propose a freeze on all new federal regulation -- to give businesses like yours a chance to breathe. And I'm going to push for our plan to reform health care -- without a backdoor government take-over of health care. And I'm going to keep working to put an end to the sky's-the-limit lawsuits that strain our economy and sap our patience. It's time we started caring for each other more -- and suing each other less. // These are some of the reforms we must make to create a climate in which our businesses can grow -- and create jobs. But the jobs of the future require workers with better skills and with a lifetime commitment to learning and training. This week, I unveiled a new plan to train American workers now caught in industries that are going through transition. The old philosophy was for government to spend a lot of money on EVARANTEED training centers -- which meant government bureaucrats were 6 quaranteed I employment, but not anyone else. My new plan is to WORTH UP TO $ 3000 DISPLACED provide $3000 vouchers to workers in certain industries HELP PAY FOR vouchers they could use to go out and buy training themselves. It's a much more efficient use of tax dollars, and it helps workers plan ahead against the day that pink slip may arrive in the mail. Changing our schools also requires a willingness to do things differently. It starts with a clear recognition that America can't be a first-class economy with second class schools. I have a program -- America 2000 -- that will bring a revolution/ American education. We've got to bring competition to is SCHOOLS education -- give parents, not the government, power to choose their children's schools: public, private or religious. // Today, let me enlist you -- let me tell you what you can do to help me make this reform agenda a reality. / Come November 3rd, you can send me a Congress I can work with. And if you say: Give me one good reason you'll get Congress to act I'll give you 150. That's the number of new faces we'll see next year in the Congress. Now -- I'll be candid. I want every last one of them to be Republican. / But whatever party they come from -- even if they were first elected before you were born -- they'll come back with a new appreciation for what you MESSAGE LOUD AND CLEAR - - want: a complete set of instructions from the American people that it's time for Congress to change. // And when that new Congress comes to town -- I'll be ready. Ready to act ready to do the will of the American people. 7 Ready to move on my aggressive agenda for economic growth -- an agenda that builds a more secure America, a stronger America -- at home and abroad. // Thank you once again for this warm welcome -- for all your support -- and may God bless the United States of America. # # # EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET WASHINGTON, D.C. 20503 8.26.92 92 AUG 26 P6: 40 NOTICE: Enclosed are comments from staff members of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Such comments do not necessarily represent the official position of the Director of OMB or of the Office of Management and Budget. If you wish to have the Director's personal comments, please let me know -- and contact me if you have any questions. James UCM C. Mufr Associate Director for Legislative Reference and Administration Document No. 347029ss WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM DATE: 8/26/92 ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: TODAY, 8/26 6:30pm PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: FINDLAY MACHINE AND TOOL SUBJECT: FINDLAY, OHIO - 8/27/92 - 5:10 p.m. ACTION FYI ACTION FYI VICE PRESIDENT MOORE BAKER MULLINS SCOWCROFT PETERSMEYER DARMA PORTER BRADY PROVOST BROMLEY ROSS CALIO SMITH DEMAREST TUTWILER FITZWATER ZOELLICK GRAY KAUFMAN HOLIDAY MCGROARTY HORNER BOSKIN MCBRIDE REMARKS: Please forward your comments directly to Dan McGroarty, Rm. 122, x2930, no later than 6:30 p.m., TODAY, WED. AUGUST 26, with a copy to this office. Thank you. RESPONSE: See comments PHILLIP D. BRADY Assistant to the President (R. Grady may respondent a later and Staff Secretary Ext. 2702 time) McGroarty/Walters August 26, 1992 02 AUG 26 P3: 07 2:45 p.m. [findlay] PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: FINDLAY MACHINE AND TOOL FINDLAY, OHIO AUGUST 27, 1992 5:10 P.M. Thank you all for that warm welcome. It's great to be here in Findlay -- Flag City, U.S.A. // [Acknowledgements.] Now that the Cold War is over, the defining challenge of the 90's is to win the peace -- to win the competition of the new global economy. // Our goal is simple and straightforward: In the 21st Century, America must be not only a military superpower, but an economic superpower -- an export superpower. In this election, you'll hear two versions of how to do this: My opponent's answer is to look inward -- to pretend we can protect what we already have. Ours is to look forward -- open new markets, prepare our people to compete, restore the social fabric, to save and invest -- so that, when it comes to the global competition -- America will win. // Already, Findlay is rising to the challenge. When I visited here four years ago, this spot where we're standing was a forest. Today, Tall Timbers is a testament to the transforming power of the international economy -- a living, working blueprint for how America can compete, and take the gold medal in the global economic Olympics. // There's a lot at stake for Ohio. Right now 1 in every 7 jobs -- 1 in 7 jobs from Findlay to [Freemont] - - is tied to foreign trade. // 2 Whether it's toothpaste from Proctor and Gamble -- or the 465 M1A2 tanks built in Lima for sale to Saudi Arabia: exports equal paychecks for the people of Ohio. That's why I want to talk today about a dangerous idea embraced by my opponent -- a new tax he's taken to heart. No I'm not talking about the $150 billion dollars my opponent wants in new taxes. No I'm not talking about the new payroll tax he wants to carve out of your paychecks to pay for a government take-over of health care. or the worker re-training tax he wants to shake out of your wallets Or the carbon tax he wants to put on your cars. I'm talking about a new idea he calls the "transaction tax" companies Damus 5044) -- a tax on foreign countries doing business in the U.S. Now, maybe you'll say: What's wrong with that -- at least this is one tax Bill Clinton won't make us pay for. // Well, you should care -- and I'll tell you why. You'll feel the impact up and down these loading docks -- starting with seven companies right here in Tall Timbers. Because these companies may be foreign owned -- but the jobs are American jobs. Those jobs put a paycheck in your pocket / put the food on your table / put you on track for a better future. // My opponent's "transaction tax" is really a chain reaction tax -- one that triggers an economic domino effect that ends by costing workers like you your jobs. 3 Look at Findlay -- even here: an American owned company, selling what it makes here in the U.S. But [Joe Kirk] tells me FMT sells to a number of companies that are American-based but foreign-owned. If my opponent had his way, and your customers get hit by his tax, when they start to retrench -- when they cancel orders -- who gets hurt? You do. // We need to do better by the American worker. We need a policy that creates jobs -- not a tax machine that spits out pink slips. Not a program that takes a shot at the foreign competition, and hits the American worker on the ricochet. // We need what I offer: A coherent strategy -- one that sees that in today's world -- foreign policy, domestic policy and economic policy are three sides of a single issue. A strategy that reaches out to the world in a way that makes a difference right here in Findlay -- in your neighborhoods, in your lives. We must build on the fundamentals of lower tax rates, limits on government spending, less red tape and regulation -- and more trade, more competition, to generate the growth that means more opportunity more jobs. And I think that in the 90's, government can add to this growth program by building opportunity and hope for individuals, empowering families and communities. This afternoon, let me lay out the cornerstones -- let me tell you what it takes to play hard and win in this international economy: It begins with an aggressive strategy to open new markets the world over for American goods. I'm fighting for free and 4 fair trade So that "Made in America" is understood in any language from Lima, [LIE-muh], Ohio to Lima, [LEE-muh] Peru. // Then we have to understand, that if we're going to promote long-term growth in this country, we have to discipline federal spending and drive down the federal deficit. // Did you know the federal government is using your money -- to find out whether it's true that elephants really never forget? If that bothers you, I'm sure you'll be crazy about the study you're funding into the mating habits of minks. These are little things -- but they're part of a larger syndrome. I've put forward a specific plan to do away with over domestic (Damas 5044) 4000 wasteful federal projects -- to freeze discretionary spending -- and get a handle on mandatory federal programs. So far, Congress has resisted my efforts to cut the budget, so I have a new idea. / Why not give you -- the taxpayer -- the right to earmark up to 10 percent of your tax return, and have it of what you pay in taxes( DAMUS 5044) go for one purpose alone: to reduce the budget deficit? Economists and editorial writers call the idea a gimmick -- but the American people seem to think it makes sense. When it comes to spending your money, Congress seems to take the philosophy of that Doritos ad -- crunch all you want, we take more. I say if Congress can't control its appetite for your money, let's just take the bag away. // Once we have runaway spending under control, we need to cut taxes -- give businesses incentives to grow. // 5 That takes a clear commitment to tax relief. You know, we Republicans have sometimes been accused of thinking every day is the Fourth of July -- well, that's a lot better than my opponent. He thinks every day is April 15. It's time to take the target off the back of the American taxpayer. // Tuesday, I was in Western Michigan, talking to a group of small business leaders. I talked to a guy who runs an asphalt paving company. He said, "Mr. President, government regulations are killing us." He made the point that when a regulation doesn't make sense, it's the worker who pays -- with his job. have monitorium (DAMUS 5044) I proposed a freeze on all new federal regulations to give businesses like yours a chance to breathe. And I'm going to push for our plan to reform health care -- without a backdoor government take-over of health care. And I'm going to keep working to put an end to the sky's-the-limit lawsuits that strain our economy and sap our patience. It's time we started caring for each other more -- and suing each other less. // These are some of the reforms we must make to create a climate in which our businesses can grow -- and create jobs. But the jobs of the future require workers with better skills and with a lifetime commitment to learning and training. This week, I unveiled a new plan to train American workers now caught in industries that are going through transition. The old philosophy was for government to spend a lot of money on programs that (Morin 3844) training centers -- which meant government bureaucrats were setup. 6 noin3844 guaranteed employment, but not anyone else. My new plan is to provide $3000 vouchers to workers in certain industries -- vouchers they could use to go out and buy training for themselves. It's a much more efficient use of tax dollars, and it helps workers plan ahead -- against the day that pink slip may arrive in the mail. Changing our schools also requires a willingness to do things differently. It starts with a clear recognition that America can't be a first-class economy with second class schools. I have a program -- America 2000 -- that will bring a revolution in American education. We've got to bring competition to education -- give parents, not the government, power to choose their children's schools: public, private or religious. // Today, let me enlist you -- let me tell you what you can do to help me make this reform agenda a reality. / Come November 3rd, you can send me a Congress I can work with. And if you say: Give me one good reason you'll get Congress to act -I'll give you 150. That's the number of new faces we'll see next year in the Congress. Now -- I'll be candid. I want every last one of them to be Republican. / But whatever party they come from -- even if they were first elected before you were born -- they'll come back with a new appreciation for what you want: a complete set of instructions from the American people that it's time for Congress to change. // And when that new Congress comes to town -- I'll be ready. Ready to act ... ready to do the will of the American people. 7 Ready to move on my aggressive agenda for economic growth -- an agenda that builds a more secure America, a stronger America -- at home and abroad. // Thank you once again for this warm welcome -- for all your support -- and may God bless the United States of America. # # # <<<<<< mm mmm <<<<<<<< <<<<<<<< <<<<<<<< XXXXXXXX num <<<<<<<< OFFICE OF PRESIDENTIAL SPEECHWRITING FACSIMILE TRANSMITTAL SHEET Number of Pages (Including Cover) 2 To BOB ZOELLICK Fax Number 1121 Date AUG 26, 92 From DAN Mc GROARTY Office Number 92 AUG AUG 26 P6: 14 ****** COMMENTS ****** 92 THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON AUG 26 P6: 14 August 26, 1992 MEMORANDUM FOR ROBERT ZOELLICK FROM: DAN McGROARTY Mir SUBJECT: FINDLAY MACHINE AND TOOL I spoke to Dave Morrisey over at USTR. He assures me that Findlay Machine and Tool is not covered by a voluntary restraint agreement. (FYI: The company is not a member of the Association of Manufacturing Technology, most of whom do benefit from the machine tool VRA.) Document No. 347029ss WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM 92 AUG 26 P5: DATE: 8/26/92 ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: TODAY, 8/26 6:30pm PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: FINDLAY MACHINE AND TOOL SUBJECT: FINDLAY, OHIO - - 8/27/92 5:10 p.m. 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 BOSKIN MCBRIDE REMARKS: Please forward your comments directly to Dan McGroarty, Rm. 122, x2930, no later than 6:30 p.m., TODAY, WED. AUGUST 26, with a copy to this office. Thank you. RESPONSE: No comments. PHILLIP D. BRADY Thank you. Assistant to the President and Staff Secretary Ext. 2702 McGroarty/Walters August 26, 1992 02 AUG 26 P3: 07 2:45 p.m. [findlay] PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: FINDLAY MACHINE AND TOOL FINDLAY, OHIO AUGUST 27, 1992 5:10 P.M. Thank you all for that warm welcome. It's great to be here in Findlay -- Flag City, U.S.A. // [Acknowledgements.] Now that the Cold War is over, the defining challenge of the 90's is to win the peace -- to win the competition of the new global economy. // Our goal is simple and straightforward: In the 21st Century, America must be not only a military superpower, but an economic superpower -- an export superpower. In this election, you'll hear two versions of how to do this: My opponent's answer is to look inward -- to pretend we can protect what we already have. Ours is to look forward -- open new markets, prepare our people to compete, restore the social fabric, to save and invest -- so that, when it comes to the global competition -- America will win. // Already, Findlay is rising to the challenge. When I visited here four years ago, this spot where we're standing was a forest. Today, Tall Timbers is a testament to the transforming power of the international economy -- a living, working blueprint for how America can compete, and take the gold medal in the global economic Olympics. // There's a lot at stake for Ohio. Right now 1 in every 7 jobs -- 1 in 7 jobs from Findlay to [Freemont] - - is tied to foreign trade. // 2 Whether it's toothpaste from Proctor and Gamble -- or the 465 M1A2 tanks built in Lima for sale to Saudi Arabia: exports equal paychecks for the people of Ohio. That's why I want to talk today about a dangerous idea embraced by my opponent -- a new tax he's taken to heart. No I'm not talking about the $150 billion dollars my opponent wants in new taxes. No I'm not talking about the new payroll tax he wants to carve out of your paychecks to pay for a government take-over of health care. Or the worker re-training tax he wants to shake out of your wallets or the carbon tax he wants to put on your cars. I'm talking about a new idea he calls the "transaction tax" -- a tax on foreign countries doing business in the U.S. Now, maybe you'll say: What's wrong with that -- at least this is one tax Bill Clinton won't make us pay for. // Well, you should care -- and I'll tell you why. You'll feel the impact up and down these loading docks -- starting with seven companies right here in Tall Timbers. Because these companies may be foreign owned -- but the jobs are American jobs. Those jobs put a paycheck in your pocket / put the food on your table / put you on track for a better future. // My opponent's "transaction tax" is really a chain reaction tax -- one that triggers an economic domino effect that ends by costing workers like you your jobs. 3 Look at Findlay -- even here: an American owned company, selling what it makes here in the U.S. But [Joe Kirk] tells me FMT sells to a number of companies that are American-based but foreign-owned. If my opponent had his way, and your customers get hit by his tax, when they start to retrench -- when they cancel orders -- who gets hurt? You do. // We need to do better by the American worker. We need a policy that creates jobs -- not a tax machine that spits out pink slips. Not a program that takes a shot at the foreign competition, and hits the American worker on the ricochet. // We need what I offer: A coherent strategy -- one that sees that in today's world -- foreign policy, domestic policy and economic policy are three sides of a single issue. A strategy that reaches out to the world in a way that makes a difference right here in Findlay -- in your neighborhoods, in your lives. We must build on the fundamentals of lower tax rates, limits on government spending, less red tape and regulation -- and more trade, more competition, to generate the growth that means more opportunity more jobs. And I think that in the 90's, government can add to this growth program by building opportunity and hope for individuals, empowering families and communities. This afternoon, let me lay out the cornerstones -- let me tell you what it takes to play hard and win in this international economy: It begins with an aggressive strategy to open new markets the world over for American goods. I'm fighting for free and 4 fair trade So that "Made in America" is understood in any language from Lima, [LIE-muh], Ohio to Lima, [LEE-muh] Peru. // Then we have to understand, that if we're going to promote long-term growth in this country, we have to discipline federal spending and drive down the federal deficit. // Did you know the federal government is using your money -- to find out whether it's true that elephants really never forget? If that bothers you, I'm sure you'll be crazy about the study you're funding into the mating habits of minks. These are little things -- but they're part of a larger syndrome. I've put forward a specific plan to do away with over 4000 wasteful federal projects -- to freeze discretionary spending -- and get a handle on mandatory federal programs. So far, Congress has resisted my efforts to cut the budget, so I have a new idea. / Why not give you -- the taxpayer -- the right to earmark up to 10 percent of your tax return, and have it go for one purpose alone: to reduce the budget deficit? Economists and editorial writers call the idea a gimmick -- but the American people seem to think it makes sense. When it comes to spending your money, Congress seems to take the philosophy of that Doritos ad -- crunch all you want, we take more. I say if Congress can't control its appetite for your money, let's just take the bag away. // Once we have runaway spending under control, we need to cut taxes -- give businesses incentives to grow. // 5 That takes a clear commitment to tax relief. You know, we Republicans have sometimes been accused of thinking every day is the Fourth of July -- well, that's a lot better than my opponent. He thinks every day is April 15. It's time to take the target off the back of the American taxpayer. // Tuesday, I was in Western Michigan, talking to a group of small business leaders. I talked to a guy who runs an asphalt paving company. He said, "Mr. President, government regulations are killing us." He made the point that when a regulation doesn't make sense, it's the worker who pays -- with his job. I propose a freeze on all new federal regulation -- to give businesses like yours a chance to breathe. And I'm going to push for our plan to reform health care -- without a backdoor government take-over of health care. And I'm going to keep working to put an end to the sky's-the-limit lawsuits that strain our economy and sap our patience. It's time we started caring for each other more -- and suing each other less. // These are some of the reforms we must make to create a climate in which our businesses can grow -- and create jobs. But the jobs of the future require workers with better skills and with a lifetime commitment to learning and training. This week, I unveiled a new plan to train American workers now caught in industries that are going through transition. The old philosophy was for government to spend a lot of money on training centers -- which meant government bureaucrats were 6 guaranteed employment, but not anyone else. My new plan is to provide $3000 vouchers to workers in certain industries -- vouchers they could use to go out and buy training for themselves. It's a much more efficient use of tax dollars, and it helps workers plan ahead -- against the day that pink slip may arrive in the mail. Changing our schools also requires a willingness to do things differently. It starts with a clear recognition that America can't be a first-class economy with second class schools. I have a program -- America 2000 -- that will bring a revolution in American education. We've got to bring competition to education -- give parents, not the government, power to choose their children's schools: public, private or religious. // Today, let me enlist you -- let me tell you what you can do to help me make this reform agenda a reality. / Come November 3rd, you can send me a Congress I can work with. And if you say: Give me one good reason you'll get Congress to act I'll give you 150. That's the number of new faces we'll see next year in the Congress. Now -- I'll be candid. I want every last one of them to be Republican. / But whatever party they come from -- even if they were first elected before you were born -- they'll come back with a new appreciation for what you want: a complete set of instructions from the American people that it's time for Congress to change. // And when that new Congress comes to town -- I'll be ready. Ready to act ready to do the will of the American people. 7 Ready to move on my aggressive agenda for economic growth -- an agenda that builds a more secure America, a stronger America -- at home and abroad. // Thank you once again for this warm welcome -- for all your support -- and may God bless the United States of America. # # # FINDLAY MACHINE AND TOOL FINDLAY, OHIO AUGUST 27, 1992 5:10 P.M. THANK YOU [LT. GOV. MIKE DEWINE] FOR THOSE KIND WORDS -- AND THANKS, ALL OF YOU, FOR THAT WARM WELCOME. MR. MAYOR [KIETH ROMICK]. HOME-TOWN REPRESENTATIVE MIKE OXLEY -- AND HIS COLLEAGUES PAUL GILLMORE AND DAVE HOBSON. LET ME ALSO THANK MY HOST: JOE KIRK AS WELL AS THE LOCAL CELEBS PROVIDING THE MUSIC: THE FINDLAY HIGH SCHOOL BAND. LAST BUT NOT LEAST, I'M ALSO PLEASED THAT TWO MEN WHO SERVED IN CONGRESS WITH ME COULD JOIN US TODAY: JACK BETTS AND DEL LATTA. IT'S GREAT TO BE HERE IN FINDLAY -- FLAG CITY, U.S.A. I COULDN'T COUNT EVERY ONE OF THE 319 FLAGS I'M TOLD YOU FLY AROUND HERE -- BUT LET ME ASSURE JIM WOODWARD, EVERY FLAG I DID SEE LOOKED GREAT TO ME. // IT'S A TIME OF GREAT PRIDE FOR OUR FLAG -- AND FOR THE FREEDOMS IT REPRESENTS. THE COLD WAR IS OVER -- AND FREEDOM FINISHED FIRST.// NOW, THE DEFINING CHALLENGE OF THE 90'S IS TO WIN THE COMPETITION OF THE NEW GLOBAL ECONOMY. // - 2 - OUR GOAL IS SIMPLE AND STRAIGHTFORWARD: IN THE 21ST CENTURY, AMERICA MUST BE NOT ONLY A MILITARY SUPERPOWER, BUT AN ECONOMIC SUPERPOWER -- AN EXPORT SUPERPOWER. IN THIS ELECTION, YOU'LL HEAR TWO VERSIONS OF HOW TO DO THIS: MY OPPONENT'S ANSWER IS TO LOOK INWARD -- TO PRETEND WE CAN PROTECT WHAT WE ALREADY HAVE. OURS IS TO LOOK FORWARD -- TO OPEN NEW MARKETS, PREPARE OUR PEOPLE TO COMPETE, RESTORE THE SOCIAL FABRIC, TO SAVE AND INVEST -- SO THAT WE CAN WIN. ALREADY, FINDLAY IS RISING TO THE CHALLENGE. WHEN I VISITED HERE FOUR YEARS AGO, THIS SPOT WHERE WE'RE STANDING WAS A FOREST. TODAY, TALL TIMBERS IS A TESTAMENT TO THE TRANSFORMING POWER OF THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY -- A LIVING, WORKING BLUEPRINT FOR HOW AMERICA CAN COMPETE. YOU'RE SHOWING THE REST OF AMERICA, THAT IN THE NEW GLOBAL ECONOMY -- AMERICA CAN EARN A GOLD MEDAL. // - 3 - WHAT DO THE ECONOMIST SAY ABOUT THIS NEW ECONOMY? WELL, I REALIZE THAT ECONOMISTS ARE NOT ALWAYS THE MOST-ADMIRED PROFESSION. MY OWN ECONOMIC ADVISORS TELL THE STORY ABOUT THE BUSINESS LEADER, WHO TRAVELED TO NEW YORK CITY FOR A CONFERENCE. IN GRAND CENTRAL STATION, HE WAS CONFRONTED BY A BUM, IN TATTERED CLOTHES. THE BUM SAID --"HEY, CAN YOU GIVE ME TEN BUCKS FOR A CUP OF COFFEE?" THE BUSINESSMAN SAID -- "TEN BUCKS! THAT SOUNDS A LITTLE STEEP." AND THE BUM REPLIED: "HAVEN'T YOU HEARD, THE DOLLAR IS WEAKENING, THE M1 MONEY SUPPLY HAS BEEN LOOSENED TOO QUICKLY, AND THAT COULD SET OFF AN INFLATIONARY SPIRAL -- DRIVING UP THE COST OF ALL CONSUMER GOODS." THE BUSINESSMAN LOOKED AT THE BUM AND SAID: "YOU'RE PRETTY SMART, WHY AREN'T AN ECONOMIST?" AND THE BUM GLARED BACK: "BUDDY, I STILL HAVE SOME PRIDE. "// (SOMEONE IS GOING TO TELL ME THAT THE SHOP NEXT DOOR IS THE AMERICAN ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION. //) - 4 - NOW, I KNOW THAT ECONOMISTS CAN BE CONFUSING SOMETIMES. BUT WHEN IT COMES TO THE VALUE OF FOREIGN TRADE, THEY ALL AGREE. FOREIGN TRADE CREATES JOBS. RIGHT NOW, ONE OUT OF EVERY 7 OHIO MANUFACTURING JOBS IS TIED TO FOREIGN TRADE. WHETHER IT'S TOOTHPASTE FROM PROCTOR AND GAMBLE -- OR THE M1A2 TANKS BUILT IN LIMA [LIE-MUH] FOR SALE TO SAUDI ARABIA: EXPORTS EQUAL PAYCHECKS FOR THE PEOPLE OF OHIO./ THAT'S WHY I WANT TO TALK TODAY ABOUT A DANGEROUS IDEA EMBRACED BY MY OPPONENT -- A NEW TAX INCREASE HE'S TAKEN TO HEART. I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT THE $150 BILLION DOLLARS MY OPPONENT WANTS IN NEW INCOME TAXES. I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT THE NEW PAYROLL TAX HE WILL NEED TO PAY FOR A GOVERNMENT TAKE-OVER OF HEALTH CARE. OR THE TRAINING TAX HE WANTS TO CHAIN TO OUR ECONOMY. OR THE CARBON TAX HE WANTS TO PUT ON YOUR CARS. - 5 - I'M TALKING ABOUT A NEW IDEA -- A TAX ON FOREIGN COMPANIES DOING BUSINESS IN THE U.S. // NOW, SOME MIGHT SAY: WHAT'S WRONG WITH THAT -- AT LEAST THIS IS ONE TAX THAT AMERICAN WORKERS WON'T HAVE TO PAY? // WELL, YOU SHOULD CARE -- AND I'LL TELL YOU WHY. YOU'LL FEEL THE EFFECT UP AND DOWN THESE LOADING DOCKS -- STARTING WITH SEVEN COMPANIES RIGHT HERE IN TALL TIMBERS. BECAUSE THESE COMPANIES MAY BE FOREIGN-OWNED -- BUT THE JOBS ARE AMERICAN JOBS. I KNOW OUR ECONOMY IS STRUGGLING TO ACCELERATE RIGHT NOW -- AND I DON'T WANT TO SEE ANYONE TAKE THESE JOBS AWAY FROM YOU. 11 LOOK AT FMT: AN AMERICAN-OWNED COMPANY, SELLING WHAT IT MAKES HERE IN THE U.S. BUT JOE KIRK TELLS ME FMT SELLS TO A NUMBER OF COMPANIES THAT ARE AMERICAN- BASED BUT FOREIGN-OWNED. IF MY OPPONENT HAD HIS WAY, AND YOUR CUSTOMERS GET HIT BY HIS TAX, WHEN THEY START TO CUT BACK -- WHEN THEY CANCEL ORDERS -- YOU'LL GET HURT. // - 6 - WE NEED TO DO BETTER BY THE AMERICAN WORKER. WE NEED A POLICY THAT CREATES JOBS -- NOT A TAX MACHINE THAT SPITS OUT PINK SLIPS. // HERE'S WHAT I HAVE TO OFFER. A COHERENT PLAN -- ONE THAT SEES THAT IN TODAY'S WORLD -- FOREIGN POLICY, DOMESTIC POLICY AND ECONOMIC POLICY ARE THREE SIDES OF A SINGLE ISSUE. A STRATEGY THAT REACHES OUT TO THE WORLD IN A WAY THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE RIGHT HERE IN FINDLAY -- IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOODS, IN YOUR LIVES. WE MUST BUILD ON THE FUNDAMENTALS OF LOWER TAX RATES, LIMITS ON GOVERNMENT SPENDING, LESS RED TAPE AND REGULATION -- AND MORE TRADE, MORE COMPETITION, TO GENERATE THE GROWTH THAT MEANS MORE OPPORTUNITY ... MORE JOBS. IT BEGINS WITH AN AGGRESSIVE STRATEGY TO OPEN NEW MARKETS -- SO THAT "MADE IN AMERICA" IS UNDERSTOOD IN ANY LANGUAGE FROM LIMA, [LIE-MUH], OHIO TO LIMA, CLEE- MUH] PERU AND BEYOND. // - 7 - SOME WILL SAY THAT THE AMERICAN WORKER ISN'T UP TO IT. I SAY: GIVE OUR WORKERS A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD -- AND THEY'LL OUTPERFORM EVERY ANY WORKER IN THE WORLD - - ANYPLACE, ANYWHERE, ANYTIME. I ALSO BELIEVE IN A VERY SIMPLE PHILOSOPHY -- GOVERNMENT IS TOO BIG, AND SPENDS TOO MUCH OF YOUR MONEY. 11 SO FAR, CONGRESS HAS RESISTED MANY OF MY ATTEMPTS TO CUT THE BUDGET DEFICIT. SO LAST WEEK I UNVEILED A NEW IDEA. WHY NOT GIVE YOU -- THE TAXPAYER -- THE RIGHT TO EARMARK UP TO 10 PERCENT OF YOUR TAX RETURN, AND HAVE IT GO FOR ONE PURPOSE ALONE: TO REDUCE THE BUDGET DEFICIT? LET'S GET THE DEFICIT DOWN, AND LIFT THE BURDEN OF DEBT FROM OUR CHILDREN'S SHOULDERS./ / - 8 - ONCE WE HAVE RUNAWAY SPENDING UNDER CONTROL, WE NEED TO CUT TAXES ACROSS THE BOARD -- TO GIVE BUSINESSES INCENTIVES TO GROW AND CREATE NEW JOBS FOR AMERICA. I'VE BEEN ACCUSED OF BEING ON OF THOSE WHO THINKS EVERY DAY IS THE FOURTH OF JULY -- WELL, THAT'S A LOT BETTER THAN MY OPPONENT. HE THINKS EVERY DAY IS APRIL 15. IT'S TIME TO TAKE THE BULLSEYE OFF THE BACK OF THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER. 11 AND I HAVE A SPECIAL CONCERN ABOUT SMALL BUSINESS - - THEY CREATE 2/3RDS OF THE NEW JOBS IN OUR ECONOMY. I HAVE A PLAN TO GIVE SMALL BUSINESSES RELIEF -- FROM TAXATION, REGULATION, AND LITIGATION. // YOU MAY HAVE READ THE STORY, ABOUT THE FELLA UP IN NEW YORK, WHO THREW HIMSELF IN FRONT OF A SUBWAY, THEN SUED FOR DAMAGES. HE WAS AWARDED $650,000! DOCTORS ARE AFRAID TO PRACTICE MEDICINE, AND SOME MOMS AND DADS WON'T EVEN COACH LITTLE LEAGUE. - 9 - MY OPPONENT AND THE TRIAL LAWYERS OF AMERICA EYE EACH OTHER WITH "GOO-GOO EYES," LIKE BORIS AND NATASHA IN THOSE OLD BULLWINKLE CARTOONS. I WANT TO STAND UP TO THE TRIAL BAR, AND REFORM OUR LEGAL SYSTEM. AS A NATION -- WE MUST SUE EACH OTHER LESS, AND CARE FOR EACH OTHER MORE. I HAVE OTHER PRIORITIES. TO CONTROL HEALTH CARE COSTS, WITHOUT A BACKDOOR GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER. MORE JOB TRAINING, FOR WORKERS CAUGHT IN THE TRANSITION OF OUR ECONOMY. AND I HAVE A PLAN TO CREATE NEW SCHOOLS FOR A NEW CENTURY, WITH NEW IDEAS LIKE USING COMPETITION TO MAKE SCHOOLS MORE ACCOUNTABLE TO YOU -- THE TAXPAYERS AND THE PARENTS. 11 IF YOU AGREE WITH THESE IDEAS, THEN I ASK YOU A FAVOR. HELP ME MAKE THIS REFORM AGENDA A REALITY. / COME NOVEMBER 3RD, SEND ME A CONGRESS I CAN WORK WITH. - 10 - CONGRESS TODAY HAS BECOME THE GRIDLOCK CONGRESS, THEY SPEND THEIR TIME DEBATING INCREDIBLE ISSUES LIKE VANNA WHITE AND THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE, WHILE NEGLECTING THE BUSINESS OF THE NATION. NEXT YEAR, AN ESTIMATED 150 NEW MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WILL COME TO WASHINGTON -- A REAL OPPORTUNITY TO BREAK THE GRIDLOCK. AS YOU EVALUATE VARIOUS CANDIDATES, ASK THEM THE TOUGH QUESTIONS. ARE YOU FOR FREE AND FAIR TRADE. ARE YOU AGAINST THE KIND OF FOREIGN BUSINESS TAX THAT WILL COST AMERICAN JOBS? DO YOU WANT TO GET THE DEFICIT DOWN, AND THE ECONOMY MOVING? SEND ME A CONGRESS THAT'LL DO WHAT'S RIGHT FOR AMERICA. // SINCE THIS IS FLAG CITY, I'LL CLOSE WITH A FLAG STORY. DURING THE GULF WAR, I RECEIVED A LETTER FROM THE MAYOR OF STANTONSBURG, NORTH CAROLINA. HE TOLD ME ABOUT WATCHING TWO GIRLS, ABOUT TEN-YEARS-OLD, WALKING ACROSS THE SCHOOL YARD ONE DAY, PULLING THEIR MOM'S LAUNDRY ON A WAGON. - 11 - AS THE GIRLS PASSED THE POLE IN FRONT OF THE TOWN HALL, THEY LOOKED UP AND SAW THE U.S. FLAG FLAPPING IN THE WIND. UNAWARE THAT ANYONE WAS WATCHING, THESE TWO LITTLE GIRLS STOPPED, PLACED THEIR HANDS OVER THEIR HEARTS, AND PLEDGED ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG. ONE LITTLE GIRL SAID SIMPLY -- "IT'S IMPORTANT TO DO THIS, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE OF THE WAR AND ALL." THIS ELECTION, LIKE ALL ELECTIONS, IS ABOUT THAT LITTLE GIRL, AND ALL THE KIDS IN LIMA (LIE-MUH), AND ALL THE KIDS IN AMERICA. IF WE DO WHAT IS RIGHT TODAY, WE CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE OPPORTUNITY OF OUR GLOBAL VICTORY. WE CAN BUILD A LAND WHERE THEY WILL BE SAFE, AND STRONG AND SECURE, WHERE THEY CAN CLIMB THE FLAGPOLE OF OPPORTUNITY - -- AND PUT THEIR HANDS OVER THEIR HEARTS WITH PRIDE -- KNOWING THAT IN THEIR LAND, THE SUN IS ALWAYS JUST PEEKING OVER THE HORIZON.// THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN FOR THIS WARM WELCOME -- AND MAY GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. ### - 11 - AS THE GIRLS PASSED THE POLE IN FRONT OF THE TOWN HALL, THEY LOOKED UP AND SAW THE U.S. FLAG FLAPPING IN THE WIND. UNAWARE THAT ANYONE WAS WATCHING, THESE TWO LITTLE GIRLS STOPPED, PLACED THEIR HANDS OVER THEIR HEARTS, AND PLEDGED ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG. ONE LITTLE GIRL SAID SIMPLY -- "IT'S IMPORTANT TO DO THIS, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE OF THE WAR AND ALL." THIS ELECTION, LIKE ALL ELECTIONS, IS ABOUT THAT LITTLE GIRL, AND ALL THE KIDS IN LIMA (LIE-MUH), AND ALL THE KIDS IN AMERICA. IF WE DO WHAT IS RIGHT TODAY, WE CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE OPPORTUNITY OF OUR GLOBAL VICTORY. WE CAN BUILD A LAND WHERE THEY WILL BE SAFE, AND STRONG AND SECURE, WHERE THEY CAN CLIMB THE FLAGPOLE OF OPPORTUNITY -- AND PUT THEIR HANDS OVER THEIR HEARTS WITH PRIDE -- KNOWING THAT IN THEIR LAND, THE SUN IS ALWAYS JUST PEEKING OVER THE HORIZON.// THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN FOR THIS WARM WELCOME -- AND MAY GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. ### 1524 Aug. 27 / Administration of George Bush, 199 Governor Clinton said he wanted to raise fuel Mike DeWine to the Senate. We need efficiency standards, they're called CAFE clean the House, so give me Steve Grote standards, for cars to 45 miles per gallon. It the first district seat right here in Washin sounds like a great idea, but scientists will ton; send him up there from the first distric tell you it is impractical. It will cost lives, and most important, it will throw 30,000 Sending Mike and Steve to Washington Ohioans out of work. and then fighting side-by-side with BR Governor Clinton finally figured this out. Gradison and John Boehner and Bob So last Friday he sang a different tune, keeps McEwen, we will break the gridlocked Con- shifting ground. He said, and I quote, "I gress, and we will get this country moving never said that I didn't think there was more again. We will fight for a balanced budget than one way to do it, or that we shouldn't amendment and a line-item veto and for this be flexible in the way we approach it." Now, tax check-off. If you change the Congress, you talk about back-pedaling. The Bengals we can get that job done for the American could use him in their secondary, for heaven people. We will fight to lower spending and sakes. This is crazy. It is strange. taxes. We will fight to stop these crazy law- So I ask the American people, is there a suits. We will fight for you so that, together, pattern going on here? Will Governor Clin- we can build a stronger and a more secure America. ton say anything to anybody? America cannot afford in a President double-speak, double- The last point is this: We've been through talk, double-time. Please elect me to keep a lot in the world. These young people here the integrity and honor of that White House. go to sleep at night with a lot less fear of I see some of these signs out here. Hey, nuclear war. That is something good. That this is great. I see some of these signs out is something wonderful for every family. But here; I'm reminded of a story, reminded of make no question about it, when you hear a story about the farmer and the certain farm the other side talking about that we're ridi- animal. The animal was so slippery that it culed abroad, don't believe it. We are the kept slipping out of its pen. One day the most respected Nation on the face of the farmer went looking for it, followed the ani- Earth, and we're there because we made the mal's track all over creation. When the farm- tough decisions. We stood up against what er returned, his wife asked if he knew where was wrong and fought for what was right. the animal was. The farmer said, "Yes, Now I ask you to help me and give me 4 ma'am, I found him. He's on both sides of more years to continue to lead this country. the fence." [Laughter] May God bless the United States of Amer- Now, in this campaign, you're going to find ica. Thank you all very, very much. Thank me on just one just side, the side of the you. American family, the American taxpayer. But it's not just enough electing a President; I Note: The President spoke at 1:42 p.m. in need some help. The gridlock Congress has Fountain Square. In his remarks, he referred been run by the same entrenched, ossified, to George Voinovich, Governor of Ohio; change-allergic leadership for 38 years. The Mike McMurray, Cincinnati disc jockey; and one institution that hasn't changed in this Johnny Bench, former Cincinnati Reds base- country is the Democrat-controlled House of ball player. Representatives. And it is time. Audience members. Clean the House! Clean the House! Clean the House! Remarks to Findlay Machine and The President. It is time to take a broom Tool Employees in Findlay, Ohio and clean the House. You can start right here August 27, 1992 by giving me Mike DeWine for the U.S. Sen- ate. Change the Senate; get him elected. Do The President. Thank you very, very what the people of Ohio want done: Have much. Thank you, Mike. If we had more somebody in Washington that will vote the Congressmen like Mike Oxley and had Mike same way there that he talks in Ohio. Send DeWine in the Senate, everybody wouldn't George Bush, 1992 Administration of George Bush, 1992 / Aug. 27 1525 nate. We need to ne Steve Grote to be yelling at me, "Clean House!" everyplace not always the most admired profession. My here in Washing- I go. own economic advisers tell the story about And thanks to all of you especially for that a business leader who traveled to New York m the first district. warm welcome. I salute our Lieutenant Gov- City for a conference. In the Grand Central ve to Washington ernor, Mike DeWine. Thanks to the Mayor, y-side with Bill Station, he was confronted by a bum in tat- Mayor Keith Romick. And let me also thank ehner and Bob tered clothes. And the bum said, "Hey, can our hosts, Joe Kirk-[applause]-you better gridlocked Con- you give me 10 bucks for a cup of coffee?" clap for Joe Kirk. [Laughter] Now, as well The businessman said, "Ten bucks! That country moving as the local celebrities providing the music; sounds a little steep." And the bum replied, balanced budget band was fantastic, that Findlay High School "Haven't you heard? The dollar is weakening. veto and for this Band over there. I'm also pleased that two The M1 money supply has been loosened too ge the Congress, men with whom I served in Congress, who quickly, and that could set off an inflationary for the American no longer are there-Del Latta is here and spiral, driving up the cost of consumer ver spending and Jack Betts, both outstanding Members of the goods." The businessman looked at the guy, these crazy law- United States Congress. and he said, "You're pretty smart. Why aren't so that, together, And as Mike Oxley said, this is a return you an economist?" And the bum glared d a more secure engagement. It's great to be here in Findlay, back, "Buddy, I still have some pride." Flag City, U.S.A. I couldn't count every one [Laughter] ve been through of the 319 flags that I'm told you fly around Someone will probably tell me that the ung people here here, but let me assure Jim Woodward, every shop next door is the American Economics lot less fear of flag I did see looked great to me. Association. But nevertheless, I know that hing good. That It is a time of great pride for our flag and economists can be confusing sometimes. But every family. But for the freedoms that it represents. And yes, when it comes to the value of foreign trade, when you hear the cold war is over, and freedom finished they all agree: Foreign trade creates Amer- that we're ridi- first. Now, the defining challenge of the nine- ican jobs. Right now, one out of every seven it. We are the ties is to win the competition of the new glob- Ohio manufacturing jobs is tied to foreign the face of the al economy. Our goal is simple; it is straight- trade. Whether it's toothpaste from Procter use we made the forward: In the 21st century, America must and Gamble or the M-1A2 tank built in Lima up against what be not only a military superpower but an eco- for sale to Saudi Arabia, exports equal pay- what was right. nomic superpower and particularly an export checks for the people of Ohio. and give me 4 superpower. That's why I want to talk today about a ad this country. In this election, you'll hear two versions dangerous idea embraced by my opponent, States of Amer- of how to do this. My opponent's answer is a new tax increase that he's taken to heart. y much. Thank to look inward, to pretend we can protect And I'm not talking about the $150 billion what we already have. And ours is to look tax increase that he wants in new income forward, to open new markets, prepare our taxes. I'm not talking about the new payroll It 1:42 p.m. in people to compete, restore the social fabric, tax that he will need to pay for a Government rks, he referred to save and invest so that we can win for takeover of health care or the training tax mor of Ohio; everybody in the United States of America. he wants to chain to our economy or the car- tisc jockey; and You know, already Findlay is rising to the bon tax he wants to put on your cars. I'm nati Reds base- challenge. When I was here 4 years ago, this talking about a new idea, a tax on foreign spot where we're standing was a forest. companies doing business in the United Today, Tall Timbers is a testament to the States. transforming power of the international Some might say, "What's wrong with that? nine and economy, a living, working blueprint for how At least that's one tax that American workers ay, Ohio America can compete. And you are showing won't have to pay." Well, you should care, the rest of our country, you're showing the and here's why. You'll feel the effect up and rest of America, that in the new global econ- down these loading docks, starting with the omy America can earn a gold medal. And ou very, very seven companies right here in Tall Timbers. we had more that's exactly what we're doing right here in Because these companies may be foreign and had Mike Findlay today. owned, but the jobs are American jobs. I body wouldn't What do the economists say about this new know that our economy is struggling right economy? Well, I realize that economists are now, and a lot of people are hurting in this 1526 Aug. 27 / Administration of George Bush, 1992 country. The economy's struggling to accel- rest of the world. And I learned that when erate right now. And I don't want to see any- we export, we really help the American econ- one take these jobs away from you, the Amer- omy. That is firsthand experience that a ican worker. young businessman learned, and as President Look at this one, look at FMT, an Amer- I feel even more strongly about it. We cannot ican-owned company, selling what it makes go to protection and higher taxes. We must here in the U.S. But Joe here, Joe Kirk, tells go to more exports and more competition. me FMT sells to a number of companies that I also believe in a very simple philosophy: are American based but foreign owned, sells The Government is too big, and it spends to those. And if my opponent had his way too much of your money. So far, this and your customers get hit by his tax, when gridlocked Congress has resisted many of my they start to cut back, when they cancel or- attempts to cut the budget deficit. So last ders, you'll get hurt. We need to do better week I unveiled at Houston there a new idea: by the American worker. We need a policy Why not give you, the taxpayer, the right to that creates jobs, not a tax machine that spits earmark up to 10 percent of your tax return out pink slips. and have it go for one purpose alone, to re- Now, here's what I have to offer: a coher- duce the budget deficit? Let's get the deficit ent plan, one that sees that in today's world down and lift the burden of debt from the foreign policy, domestic policy, and eco- children's shoulders around here. Lift that nomic policy are three sides of a single issue; burden of debt by getting the deficit down. a strategy that reaches out to the world in a way that makes a difference right here in Once we have runaway spending under control, we need to cut taxes across the board Findlay, in your neighborhoods and in your lives. We must build on the fundamentals of to give businesses incentives to grow and cre- lower tax rates, limits on Government spend- ate new jobs for America. I've been accused ing, less redtape and regulation, and more of being one of those who thinks every day trade, more competition to generate the is the Fourth of July. Well, that's a lot better growth that means more opportunity and than my opponent. He thinks every day is thus more jobs. April 15th. That's going to be the big issue It begins with an aggressive strategy to in this campaign. That's going to be the big open new markets, so that "Made in Amer- issue. It's time to take the bull's eye off the ica" is understood in any language from back of the American taxpayer. Lima, Ohio, to Lima, Peru, and beyond. I have a small concern about small busi- Some will say that the American worker isn't ness, a special concern about that They cre- up to it. And I say: Look, give our workers ate two-thirds of the new jobs in our econ- a level playing field, and they will outperform omy, small businesses. And I have a plan to any other worker in the world, anyplace, any- give small businesses relief from taxation, where, anytime. regulation, and litigation. I learned this myself. Thank God I spent You may have read the story, and this is some time in the private sector. Half my true, about the fellow up in New York who adult life was in the private sector, and half threw himself in front of a subway train and in public service. But I learned this part in then sued for damages, and he was awarded a very personal way 35 years ago when I start- $650,000. Doctors are afraid to practice med- ed and headed a small drilling company, icine; some moms and dads won't even coach service company, a tiny company. But we Little League. And my opponent and the trial sold our services in Japan, in Brunei, in the lawyers of America eye each other with goo- South Pacific, sold them over in the Middle goo eyes" like Boris and Natasha in those East, sold them in Venezuela and Trinidad. old Bullwinkle cartoons. And want to stand And I learned something from all that. I up to the trial bar and reform our legal sys- learned you don't have to be a big company tem. As a Nation, here it is, we ought to sue to export. I learned that our crews, our work- each other less, and we ought to care for each ers could compete, hold their own with work- other more. And we've got to do something ers, do better than workers anywhere in the about these lawsuits. George Bush, 1992 Administration of George Bush, 1992 / Aug. 27 1527 earned that when Audience members. Four more years! I want a balanced budget amendment for this e American econ- Four more years! Four more years! Constitution. xperience that a The President. Time and again, I have Don't you believe for one minute what the and as President sent proposals up to that gridlocked Congress opponents say when they say we are a Nation out it. We cannot to do something to put some caps on these in decline; we are a Nation not respected r taxes. We must lawsuits. And time and again, the gridlocked around the world. I've been to many places .ore competition. Congress has said no because they are in the around the world, and if one thing is clear, mple philosophy: pocket of the trial lawyers association. Give it is we are the undisputed, respected leader g, and it spends me new Members of Congress, and let us not just of the free world but of other coun- ey. So far, this change that for the American people. tries that are striving for the freedom and isted many of my I have other priorities, and they're your democracy we sometimes take for granted. t deficit. So last priorities: To control health care costs, with- Since this is Flag City, let me close with there a new idea: out a backdoor Government takeover. More a flag story. During the Gulf war, I received ayer, the right to job training for workers caught in the transi- a letter from the Mayor of Stantonsburg, f your tax return tion of our economy. And I have a plan, a North Carolina. He told me about watching ose alone, to re- good one, to create new schools for a new two little girls, about 10 years old, walking t's get the deficit century-we call it America 2000-and with across the school yard. One day, they went of debt from the new ideas like using competition to make across. He was watching, and they were pull- here. Lift that schools more accountable to you, the tax- ing their mom's laundry on a wagon. As the he deficit down. payers and the parents. Give the parents a girls passed the pole in front of the town hall, spending under choice as to whether to send this kid to pri- they looked up and saw the United States across the board vate, public, or religious school. flag flapping in the wind. Unaware that any- to grow and cre- If you agree with these ideas, then I ask one was watching, these two little girls ve been accused you a favor. Help me make this reform agen- stopped, placed their hands over their hearts, thinks every day da a reality. Come November 3d, send me and pledged allegiance to the flag. One little hat's a lot better a Congress I can work with, and give the girl said simply, "It's important to do this, aks every day is existing Democratic leadership a pink slip to you know, because of the war and all." be the big issue get on home and go about their business. Well, this election, like all elections, is ng to be the big Congress today has become a gridlocked about that little girl, and all the kids in Find- 'ull's-eye off the Congress, the only institution that has not lay, in Lima, and all the kids in America. If r. changed in 38 years. Presidents come and we do what is right today, we can take advan- tage of the opportunity of our global victory. out small busi- go; Senators come and go. The Senate has We can build a land where they will be safe that. They cre- changed control. The House of Representa- and strong and secure, where they can climb bs in our econ- tives has not changed control in 38 years, and the flagpole of opportunity and put their I have a plan to they spend their time debating, incredibly, hands over their hearts with pride, knowing from taxation, issues like Vanna White and the "Wheel of that in their land the sun is always just peek- Fortune"-|laughter]-while neglecting the ing out over the horizon. ory, and this is business of the Nation. I'm delighted to have been back in Find- New York who Now, next year, there are going to be an lay. Thank you once again for this warm wel- ibway train and estimated 150 new Members of Congress, at come, and may God bless the United States he was awarded least, and they're going to come to Washing- of America. Thank you very much. 0 practice med- ton. We then have a real opportunity to break on't even coach the gridlock. As you look at the various can- Note: The President spoke at 5:15 p.m. at ent and the trial didates, ask them the tough questions: Are Findlay Machine and Tool, Inc., in Tall Tim- ther with "goo- you for free and fair trade? Are you against bers Industrial Park. In his remarks, he re- tasha in those the kind of business tax that will cost Amer- ferred to Joe Kirk, president, Findlay Ma- I want to stand ican jobs? Do you want to get the deficit chine and Tool, Inc., and Jim Woodward, 1 our legal sys- down and the economy moving? And send chairman, Adopt a Flag Committee in Find- e ought to sue me a Congress that will do what's right for lay, OH. A tape was not available for verifica- to care for each America. I want to see the line-item veto. tion of the content of these remarks. o do something FINDLAY MACHINE AND TOOL FINDLAY, OHIO AUGUST 27, 1992 5:10 P.M. THANK YOU [LT. GOV. BOB DEWINE] FOR THOSE KIND WORDS -- AND THANKS, ALL OF YOU, FOR THAT WARM WELCOME. MR. MAYOR [KIETH ROMICK]. HOME-TOWN REPRESENTATIVE MIKE OXLEY -- CAND HIS COLLEAGUES PAUL GILLMORE AND DAVE HOBSONJ. IT'S GREAT TO BE HERE IN FINDLAY -- FLAG CITY, U.S.A. I COULDN'T COUNT EVERY ONE OF THE 319 FLAGS I'M TOLD YOU FLY AROUND HERE -- BUT LET ME ASSURE JIM WOODWARD, EVERY FLAG I DID SEE LOOKED GREAT TO ME. 11 IT'S A TIME OF GREAT PRIDE FOR OUR FLAG -- AND FOR THE FREEDOMS IT REPRESENTS. THE COLD WAR IS OVER -- AND FREEDOM FINISHED FIRST.// NOW, THE DEFINING CHALLENGE OF THE 90'S IS TO WIN THE COMPETITION OF THE NEW GLOBAL ECONOMY. 11 - 2 - OUR GOAL IS SIMPLE AND STRAIGHTFORWARD: IN THE 21ST CENTURY, AMERICA MUST BE NOT ONLY A MILITARY SUPERPOWER, BUT AN ECONOMIC SUPERPOWER -- AN EXPORT SUPERPOWER. IN THIS ELECTION, YOU'LL HEAR TWO VERSIONS OF HOW TO DO THIS: MY OPPONENT'S ANSWER IS TO LOOK INWARD -- TO PRETEND WE CAN PROTECT WHAT WE ALREADY HAVE. OURS IS TO LOOK FORWARD -- TO OPEN NEW MARKETS, PREPARE OUR PEOPLE TO COMPETE, RESTORE THE SOCIAL FABRIC, TO SAVE AND INVEST -- SO THAT WE CAN WIN. ALREADY, FINDLAY IS RISING TO THE CHALLENGE. WHEN I VISITED HERE FOUR YEARS AGO, THIS SPOT WHERE WE'RE STANDING WAS A FOREST. TODAY, TALL TIMBERS IS A TESTAMENT TO THE TRANSFORMING POWER OF THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY -- A LIVING, WORKING BLUEPRINT FOR HOW AMERICA CAN COMPETE. YOU'RE SHOWING THE REST OF AMERICA, THAT IN THE NEW GLOBAL ECONOMY -- AMERICA CAN EARN A GOLD MEDAL. // - 3 - WHAT DO THE ECONOMIST SAY ABOUT THIS NEW ECONOMY? WELL, I REALIZE THAT ECONOMISTS ARE NOT ALWAYS THE MOST-ADMIRED PROFESSION. MY OWN ECONOMIC ADVISORS TELL THE STORY ABOUT THE BUSINESS LEADER, WHO TRAVELED TO NEW YORK CITY FOR A CONFERENCE. IN GRAND CENTRAL STATION, HE WAS CONFRONTED BY A BUM, IN TATTERED CLOTHES. THE BUM SAID --"HEY, CAN YOU GIVE ME TEN BUCKS FOR A CUP OF COFFEE?" THE BUSINESSMAN SAID -- "TEN BUCKS! THAT SOUNDS A LITTLE STEEP." AND THE BUM REPLIED: "HAVEN'T YOU HEARD, THE DOLLAR IS WEAKENING, THE M1 MONEY SUPPLY HAS BEEN LOOSENED TO QUICKLY, AND THAT COULD SET OFF AN INFLATIONARY SPIRAL -- DRIVING UP THE COST OF ALL CONSUMER GOODS." THE BUSINESSMAN LOOKED AT THE BUM AND SAID: "YOU'RE PRETTY SMART, WHY AREN'T AN ECONOMIST?" AND THE BUM GLARED BACK: "BUDDY, I STILL HAVE SOME PRIDE. "// (SOMEONE IS GOING TO TELL ME THAT THE SHOP NEXT DOOR IS THE AMERICAN ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION.//) - 4 - NOW, I KNOW THAT ECONOMISTS CAN BE CONFUSING SOMETIME. BUT WHEN IT COMES TO THE VALUE OF FOREIGN TRADE, THEY ALL AGREE. FOREIGN TRADE CREATES JOBS. RIGHT NOW, ONE OUT OF EVERY 1 IN 7 OHIO JOBS IS TIED TO FOREIGN TRADE. WHETHER IT'S TOOTHPASTE FROM PROCTOR AND GAMBLE - -- OR THE M1A2 TANKS BUILT IN LIMA [LIE-MUH] FOR SALE TO SAUDI ARABIA: EXPORTS EQUAL PAYCHECKS FOR THE PEOPLE OF OHIO. 11 THAT'S WHY I WANT TO TALK TODAY ABOUT A DANGEROUS IDEA EMBRACED BY MY OPPONENT - -- A NEW TAX INCREASE HE'S TAKEN TO HEART. I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT THE $150 BILLION DOLLARS MY OPPONENT WANTS IN NEW INCOME TAXES. I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT THE NEW PAYROLL TAX HE WILL NEED TO PAY FOR A GOVERNMENT TAKE-OVER OF HEALTH CARE. OR THE TRAINING TAX HE WANTS TO CHAIN TO OUR ECONOMY. OR THE CARBON TAX HE WANTS TO PUT ON YOUR CARS. - 5 - I'M TALKING ABOUT A NEW IDEA -- A TAX ON FOREIGN COMPANIES DOING BUSINESS IN THE U.S. // NOW, SOME MIGHT SAY: WHAT'S WRONG WITH THAT -- AT LEAST THIS IS ONE TAX THAT AMERICAN WORKERS WON'T HAVE TO PAY? 11 WELL, YOU SHOULD CARE -- AND I'LL TELL YOU WHY. YOU'LL FEEL THE EFFECT UP AND DOWN THESE LOADING DOCKS -- STARTING WITH SEVEN COMPANIES RIGHT HERE IN TALL TIMBERS. BECAUSE THESE COMPANIES MAY BE FOREIGN-OWNED -- BUT THE JOBS ARE AMERICAN JOBS. I KNOW OUR ECONOMY IS STRUGGLING TO ACCELERATE RIGHT NOW -- AND I DON'T WANT TO SEE ANYONE TAKE THESE JOBS AWAY FROM YOU. // LOOK AT FMT: AN AMERICAN-OWNED COMPANY, SELLING WHAT IT MAKES HERE IN THE U.S. BUT JOE KIRK TELLS ME FMT SELLS TO A NUMBER OF COMPANIES THAT ARE AMERICAN- BASED BUT FOREIGN-OWNED. IF MY OPPONENT HAD HIS WAY, AND YOUR CUSTOMERS GET HIT BY HIS TAX, WHEN THEY START TO CUT BACK -- WHEN THEY CANCEL ORDERS -- YOU'LL GET HURT. // - 6 - WE NEED TO DO BETTER BY THE AMERICAN WORKER. WE NEED A POLICY THAT CREATES JOBS -- NOT A TAX MACHINE THAT SPITS OUT PINK SLIPS. // HERE'S WHAT I HAVE TO OFFER. A COHERENT PLAN -- ONE THAT SEES THAT IN TODAY'S WORLD -- FOREIGN POLICY, DOMESTIC POLICY AND ECONOMIC POLICY ARE THREE SIDES OF A SINGLE ISSUE. A STRATEGY THAT REACHES OUT TO THE WORLD IN A WAY THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE RIGHT HERE IN FINDLAY -- IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOODS, IN YOUR LIVES. WE MUST BUILD ON THE FUNDAMENTALS OF LOWER TAX RATES, LIMITS ON GOVERNMENT SPENDING, LESS RED TAPE AND REGULATION -- AND MORE TRADE, MORE COMPETITION, TO GENERATE THE GROWTH THAT MEANS MORE OPPORTUNITY MORE JOBS. IT BEGINS WITH AN AGGRESSIVE STRATEGY TO OPEN NEW MARKETS -- SO THAT "MADE IN AMERICA" IS UNDERSTOOD IN ANY LANGUAGE FROM LIMA, [LIE-MUH], OHIO TO LIMA, CLEE- MUH] PERU AND BEYOND. // - 7 - SOME WILL SAY THAT THE AMERICAN WORKER ISN'T UP TO IT. I SAY: GIVE OUR WORKERS A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD -- AND THEY'LL OUTPERFORM EVERY OTHER WORKERS IN THE WORLD -- ANYPLACE, ANYWHERE, ANYTIME. // I ALSO BELIEVE IN A VERY SIMPLE PHILOSOPHY -- GOVERNMENT IS TOO BIG, AND SPENDS TOO MUCH OF YOUR MONEY. 11 SO FAR, CONGRESS HAS RESISTED MANY OF MY ATTEMPTS TO CUT THE BUDGET DEFICIT. SO LAST WEEK I UNVEILED A NEW IDEA. WHY NOT GIVE YOU -- THE TAXPAYER -- THE RIGHT TO EARMARK UP TO 10 PERCENT OF YOUR TAX RETURN, AND HAVE IT GO FOR ONE PURPOSE ALONE: TO REDUCE THE BUDGET DEFICIT? LET'S GET THE DEFICIT DOWN, AND LIFT THE BURDEN OF DEBT FROM OUR CHILDREN'S SHOULDERS./ - 8 - ONCE WE HAVE RUNAWAY SPENDING UNDER CONTROL, WE NEED TO CUT TAXES ACROSS THE BOARD -- TO GIVE BUSINESSES INCENTIVES TO GROW AND CREATE NEW JOBS FOR AMERICA. I'VE BEEN ACCUSED OF THINKING EVERY DAY IS THE FOURTH OF JULY -- WELL, THAT'S A LOT BETTER THAN MY OPPONENT. HE THINKS EVERY DAY IS APRIL 15. IT'S TIME TO TAKE THE BULLSEYE OFF THE BACK OF THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER. 11 AND I HAVE A SPECIAL CONCERN ABOUT SMALL BUSINESS - - THEY CREATE 2/3RDS OF THE NEW JOBS IN OUR ECONOMY. I HAVE A PLAN TO GIVE SMALL BUSINESSES RELIEF -- FROM TAXATION, REGULATION, AND LITIGATION. // YOU MAY HAVE READ THE STORY, ABOUT THE FELLA UP IN NEW YORK, WHO THREW HIMSELF IN FRONT OF A SUBWAY, THEN SUED FOR DAMAGES. HE WAS AWARDED $650,000! OR THE PARENTS IN MARYLAND, WHO SUED A HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL COACH, BECAUSE THEIR CHILD WAS SLIGHTLY INJURED, AND HADN'T BEEN WARNED THAT FOOTBALL WAS A "ROUGH SPORT." - 9 - MY OPPONENT AND THE TRIAL LAWYERS OF AMERICA EYE EACH OTHER WITH "G00-G00 EYES," LIKE BORIS AND NATASHA IN THOSE OLD BULLWINKLE CARTOONS. I WANT TO STAND UP TO THE TRIAL BAR, AND REFORM OUR LEGAL SYSTEM. AS A NATION -- WE MUST SUE EACH OTHER LESS, AND CARE FOR EACH OTHER MORE. I HAVE OTHER PRIORITIES. TO CONTROL HEALTH CARE COSTS, WITHOUT A BACKDOOR GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER. MORE JOB TRAINING, FOR WORKERS CAUGHT IN THE TRANSITION OF OUR ECONOMY. AND I HAVE A PLAN TO CREATE NEW SCHOOLS FOR A NEW CENTURY, WITH NEW IDEAS LIKE USING COMPETITION TO MAKE SCHOOLS MORE ACCOUNTABLE TO YOU -- THE TAXPAYERS AND THE PARENTS. // IF YOU AGREE WITH THESE IDEAS, THAN I ASK YOU A FAVOR. HELP ME MAKE THIS REFORM AGENDA A REALITY. / COME NOVEMBER 3RD, SEND ME A CONGRESS I CAN WORK WITH. - 10 - CONGRESS TODAY HAS BECOME THE GRIDLOCK CONGRESS, THEY SPEND THEIR TIME DEBATING INCREDIBLE ISSUES LIKE VANNA WHITE AND THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE, WHILE NEGLECTING THE BUSINESS OF THE NATION. NEXT YEAR, AT LEAST 150 NEW MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WILL COME TO WASHINGTON -- A REAL OPPORTUNITY TO BREAK THE GRIDLOCK. AS YOU EVALUATE VARIOUS CANDIDATES, ASK THEM THE TOUGH QUESTIONS. ARE YOU FOR FREE AND FAIR TRADE. ARE YOU AGAINST THE KIND OF FOREIGN BUSINESS TAX THAT WILL COST AMERICAN JOBS? DO YOU WANT TO GET THE DEFICIT DOWN, AND THE ECONOMY MOVING? SEND ME A CONGRESS WHO WILL DO WHAT'S RIGHT FOR AMERICA. // SINCE THIS IS FLAG CITY, I'LL CLOSE WITH A FLAG STORY. DURING THE GULF WAR, I RECEIVED A LETTER FROM THE MAYOR OF STANTONSBURG, NORTH CAROLINA. HE TOLD ME ABOUT WATCHING TWO GIRLS, ABOUT TEN-YEARS-OLD, WALKING ACROSS THE SCHOOL YARD ONE DAY, PULLING THEIR MOM'S LAUNDRY ON A WAGON. - 11 - AS THE GIRLS PASSED THE POLE IN FRONT OF THE TOWN HALL, THEY LOOKED UP AND SAW THE U.S. FLAG FLAPPING IN THE WIND. UNAWARE THAT ANYONE WAS WATCHING, THESE TWO LITTLE GIRLS STOPPED, PLACED THEIR HANDS OVER THEIR HEARTS, AND PLEDGED ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG. ONE LITTLE GIRL SAID SIMPLY - -- "IT'S IMPORTANT TO DO THIS, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE OF THE WAR AND ALL." THIS ELECTION, LIKE ALL ELECTIONS, IS ABOUT THAT LITTLE GIRL, AND ALL THE KIDS IN LIMA (LIE-MUH), AND ALL THE KIDS IN AMERICA. IF WE DO WHAT IS RIGHT TODAY, WE CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE OPPORTUNITY OF OUR GLOBAL VICTORY. WE CAN BUILD A LAND WHERE THEY WILL BE SAFE, AND STRONG AND SECURE, WHERE THEY CAN CLIMB THE FLAGPOLE OF OPPORTUNITY - -- AND PUT THEIR HANDS OVER THEIR HEARTS WITH PRIDE - -- KNOWING THAT IN THEIR LAND, THE SUN IS ALWAYS JUST PEEKING OVER THE HORIZON. 11 THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN FOR THIS WARM WELCOME -- AND MAY GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. ###

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