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(Askew/Nix)
September 8, 1992
10:00 P.M.
JERSEY
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: VFW
HALL
EVENT
MIDDLETOWN, NEW JERSEY
SEPTEMBER 9, 1992
2:35 P.M.
Thank you, Tom ((Kean)) and hello, everyone. I'm delighted
to be back in the Garden State.
I was not far from here almost exactly four years ago to the
day. I was campaigning for the Presidency, and our world was a
very different place
largely because of one undeniable fact:
A nuclear Sword of Damocles hung over our children's heads.
Well, today, I return to this beautiful Garden State to say
something no President could ever say before: The Cold War is
over. And freedom finished first. //
Thanks to the sustained effort of brave men and women like
the veterans here today
now our kids can go to sleep without
nuclear holocaust haunting their dreams.
Thanks to folks like veteran Bill Dennisson, who's 82 and
came here tonight just to hear a young whippersnapper like me.
Does our children's peace of mind mean anything?
You bet it does. We should be proud to have made it happen.
Now, America's challenge is straightforward.
In the 21st Century, America must be a military superpower,
an export superpower and an economic superpower. //
In this election, you'll hear two versions of how to do
that. Theirs is to look inward, and try to protect what we
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By 1995, u.s. exports to Mexico
could will support one million American
jobs.
already have. Ours is to look outward -- to open new markets, to
prepare our people to compete, to strengthen our social fabric - Peter
- to save and invest -- so we can win.
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My agenda starts with a commitment to trade, by opening
world markets to the fruits of American labor. No matter what my
opponent says, American workers can still outwork and out-think
and out-create anybody in the world. //
And New Jersey knows what that's worth -- better than just
Sue MacGuia
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about anyone. In this state alone, more than thousands a quarter-million
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jobs are tied to foreign investment and millions more to exports.
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Understanding the reality of the global economy led me to
negotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement.
NAFTA will create the world's largest free-trade zone -- a
U.S. exports somexico
$6 trillion market, from the Yukon to the Yucatan -- and will
alone
would
create 300,000 American jobs -- that's just in the short term. //
My opponent used to support it. Now he says, "I'm reviewing
it carefully; when I have a definitive opinion I will say so."
Well, Walter Lippmann said leadership means guarding, and I
quote, "a nation's ideals." And Peter Drucker said, quote,
"Leadership is action. "
But you know
nowhere have I seen leadership defined as -
- "Hey -- I'll get back to you later. //
There's a clear choice when it comes to getting the economy
going again, too.
I spent half my career in the public sector, and half in the
private sector
running a small business -- and I had the
2
ulcers to prove it. Well, I think meeting a payroll is a pretty
good qualification for being President. //
And what I learned as a businessman is that it's as plain as
day that higher taxes don't create jobs. They destroy jobs.
I believe that government is already too big -- and spends
too much of your money. //
That's why I've proposed freezing discretionary spending,
and a plan to cap the growth of mandatory spending without
touching Social Security. That cap would save almost $300
billion over five years.
So far; Congress has balked at making these tough choices.
I want to give you -- the taxpayer -- the option of taking ten
percent of your income tax -- and using it for one purpose
alone
to reduce the budget deficit. // Let's get the crushing
weight of debt off our kids' backs. //
And then I'll take the savings and cut taxes -- across the
board. I've already vetoed one Democratic tax increase, and I'll
veto another if I have to. (I've got my pen right here. ) //
Now
what about my opponent?
Well, he's been in the public sector practically all his
professional life. He caught the bug during his work on the
McGovern campaign, and he's been at it ever since.
In fact, he's either been in public office -- or trying to
get into public office -- ever since he was 27 years old.
And just yesterday, Governor Clinton said, "No government
can ever replace the marketplace." He sounds like he respects
3
and understands the small businessperson. Well that's like a
guy saying he loves to sail, but he's never seen the water. 11
And it's reflected in his policies.
Last week when Tom Brokaw interviewed him, the first words
out of my opponent's mouth were "I advocate a tax increase."
Specifically, he means $150 billion -- just for starters.
And he proposes $220 billion in new government spending --
although Newsweek magazine says it might cost three times as much
as he claims. They called Clinton's plan an "economic fantasy."
of course, he says he only wants to tax the rich. But you
know, there aren't enough rich folks to pay for his programs.
And he endorsed the $100 billion tax increase passed by the
Congressional Democrats this year. He's for it. I'm against it.
Who do you think is right?//
I ask New Jersey -- does this saxophone song sound familiar?
I wish I could bring every American voter to New Jersey to
see first-hand what a liberal governor and a liberal legislature
can do to wreck an economy. When Governor Florio was in cahoots
with the Democratic legislature last session, they acted like
every day was April 15.//
Remember Governor Kean's motto for this state? Well, today,
every New Jerseyan knows all too well: a rubber-check legislature
and a rubber-stamp executive are -- "NOT perfect together. "//
(Tom -- sorry I can't say it like you do. Must be all that
time I spent in Texas. ) //
4
We need tax incentives to get this economy moving. And by
the way, if you'd send me Joe Kyrillos (kuh-RULL-us) and a few
more like him, I'd be using my pen not to veto tax hikes, but to
sign tax cuts into law.
The solution to our economic challenge isn't raising taxes.
It's creating more jobs.
I know that tourism is a big part of New Jersey's economy.
And I know it creates thousands of jobs.
So I came to Belmar in '88 and promised to help clean up
your beautiful beaches. And I meant it.
First, I promised to end ocean dumping of sewage sludge.
Well, the last barge to ever dump sludge in your ocean sailed
from New York Harbor last June. / /
Ocean dumping is no more. When tourists look out over the
shore, they won't see sludge barges. They'll see sailboats. / /
Second, I wanted to clean up the sewage coming from New York
City and points beyond. We're going to force New York to build
those sewage plants, so you don't have to put up with their
sewage washing up on your shores and ruining your vacations. //
And we're finally getting the garbage out of the water.
That's what government can do when it confronts real
problems
with real policies
based on real ideas -- not old
formulas from the past.
Now, while my administration's helping deliver results on
the Jersey shore, my opponent's talking a good game. But look at
his record on the environment back in his home state.
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for
According to the Institute of Southern Studies, Arkansas
ranked dead last for environmental initiatives.
In the amount of toxics they dump into surface water, per
capita, they were 47th.
But they did better in the amount they dump into the air --
they jumped all the way up to 42nd. //
And they were way up there at 42 in the percentage of rivers
and streams that are polluted, too.
(And there's the rumor that night-fishing's getting more and
more popular in Arkansas these days
because it's so easy to
spot the fish -- they glow in the dark. ) //
What if he does to America what he did to Arkansas? Why
would you want to let him? / /
You know
my opponent reminds me of a tired old fellow
who's looking in his medicine cabinet, trying to choose among a
bunch of dusty old prescriptions that expired years ago.
Well, folks
old medicine won't cure our ills. Tax-and-
spend won't solve our problems. But it might kill the patient. //
Let's not retreat into the past, with tired, expired
remedies. Let's press forward into a new century of global
economics
where America can compete with the best
and win a
secure and good life at home.
Thank you
God bless New Jersey
and God bless the
United States of America.
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Arkansas Rankings
CHILDREN
The Center for the Study of Social Policy ranks Arkansas at or near the bottom of nearly every category:
45th out of 51 in the well-being of children (down from 43rd in the last year alone);
45th in low-weight babies;
49th in child death rates;
47th in teen violent death rate;
45th in single teen births;
47th in children in poverty; and,
42nd in percent of children in single-parent families.
CRIME
Clinton's Arkansas ranks at or near the bottom of state dollars spent on its justice system, according to the U.S.
Department of Justice (FY88 figures):
50th in total state and local justice system per capita expenditures;
50th in per capita spending on police protection; and,
48th in per capita corrections spending.
A 1991 state study found that Arkansas state inmates serve, on average, between six and 18 months in prison,
regardless of their original sentence. Almost no inmate serves a full sentence. A second report released in 1991
(by the Arkansas Crime Information Center) showed the state's violent crime increased by 95% since 1981.
EDUCATION
Statistics compiled by the University of Arkansas indicate the state ranks:
47th in the nation in per capita state & local spending for education;
5th highest in the nation in adults considered illiterate;
43rd in the nation on per capita spending for higher education; and,
49th in teacher pay.
Other statistics tell the same story:
In 1979, the state ranked 20th of 28 states that primarily use the ACT college entrance test. Ten years later,
the state fell to 25th.
Three out of every four high school graduates must take remedial courses as college freshman, twice the
national average.
Clinton blames persistent low standing nationally on decreases in federal funding. But between 1983 and 1992,
federal spending for Arkansas education increased 34.5 percent.
ENVIRONMENT
The Institute for Southern Studies ranks Arkansas 50th, worst in the country, for the quality of state
environmental initiatives. Other relevant rankings:
50th in miles per gallon of gas consumed;
42nd in percentage of polluted rivers and streams;
47th in per capita toxic chemical releases to surface water;
42nd in per capita toxic chemical releases to air;
41st in ozone depleting emissions;
43rd in per capita spending on air pollution.
HEALTH CARE
The New York Times (4/2/92) described Clinton's attention to state health care issues as "occasional." Statistics
support this assertion:
One in four Arkansans has no health insurance, compared to one in seven nationwide.
Between 1980 and 1988, the percentage of low birth weight babies increased by more than 7.8%; nationally,
the increase was only 1.4%.
IIE PREDICTS MAJOR JOB AND TRADE GAINS WITH MEXICO BY 1995
On July 27, 1992, the Institute for International Economics
released its own projections. Building on the over 600,000
jobs now tied to exports to Mexico, IIE projected that over
one million Americans would be employed in jobs related to
export trade with Mexico by 1995.
-- IIE predicted 175,000 net new jobs to be created in the
U.S. by 1995 as a result of NAFTA and Mexican reforms.
ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE (EPI) JOBS-LOSS ESTIMATE BADLY FLAWED
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Last year, labor-affiliated EPI funded work by academics
McCleery and Hinojosa-Ojeda on NAFTA's effects. The AFL-CIO
and others have used their results to argue incorrectly that
NAFTA will cost 550,000 U.S. jobs.
--
The "job losses" in the academics' study in fact
reflect a reduction in immigration of Mexican workers
to the U.S. They predicted that a better performing
Mexican economy would offer more job opportunities in
Mexico; the U.S. labor pool (and thus, jobs) would
shrink through reduced Mexican immigration.
O
Because of certain extreme assumptions that EPI asked the
academics to make in their study, the results found a
decline in wages for U.S. workers. However, most academics
consider the assumptions seriously flawed, and the authors
themselves subsequently disassociated themselves from EPI's
characterizations of their study.
-- In a similar study by Robinson and Hinojosa-Ojeda but
using more realistic assumptions, contrary results were
found. Reduced immigration of Mexican workers was
found to increase by 5.7% the real wages of U.S. rural
and urban unskilled workers, the groups with which much
Mexican immigrant labor competes.
USTR 7-28 4:00
(Askew/Nix)
September 8, 1992
2:45 P.M.
JERSEY
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: VFW HALL EVENT
MIDDLETOWN, NEW JERSEY
SEPTEMBER 9, 1992
((Acknowledgements, humor. ))
Four years ago, almost to the day, I was here in New Jersey,
campaigning for the Presidency.
At the time, our world was much different. A nuclear Sword
of Damocles hung over our children's heads.
Today, I return to this beautiful Garden State to say
something no President could ever say before: The Cold War is
over. And freedom finished first.
Now our kids can go to sleep now without the specter of
nuclear holocaust in their dreams. Does that mean anything? You
bet it does.
Now America's challenge is straightforward. In the 21st
century, America must remain a military superpower, an export
superpower and an economic superpower.
In this election, you'll hear two versions of how to do
that. Theirs is to look inward, and protect what we already
have. Ours is to look outward -- to open new markets, prepare
our people to compete, to strengthen the American family -- to
save and invest -- so we can win.
It starts with a commitment to trade, by opening world
markets to the fruits of American labor.
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1990
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225,500 people foreign firms
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18. 4 billion foreign investment inNJ
New Jersey knows what that means -- better than just about
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anyone, in fact. This state understands that job growth is tied
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directly to foreign trade and foreign investment -- to the tune
Chief
of ((X jobs and X dollars as result of foreign investment in
NJ)).
&
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New Jersey is home to ((biggest foreign companies)) because
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you went out and fought to bring them here. You understand that
the world's economies are rapidly becoming one global economy.
stats
Understanding that simple, profound fact led my
Agreement
administration to negotiate the North American Free Trade Act.
NAFTA would create one of the world's largest free-trade zones -
- a $6 trillion market, from the Yukon to the Yucatan -- and
would create 300,000 American jobs just in the short term.
When my opponent was asked about the treaty, he said, "I'm
reviewing it carefully, and when I have a definitive opinion I
will say so."
Well, ((Thomas Jefferson said, "Leadership is
...
")). And
Peter Drucker said, "Leadership is action."
But you know
nowhere do I see leadership defined as --
"I'll get back to you later."
And by the way, when Governor Clinton did get back to
America on the issue of a global economy, he said he wanted to
tax foreign investment. It sounds politically appealing, but it
would endanger every one of those New Jersey jobs provided by a
foreign company.
2
So there's one choice, America. I stand for trade. Strong,
free international trade. Governor Clinton stands for
protectionism -- when he takes a stand at all.
There's a clear choice when it comes to getting the economy
going again, too.
I spent half my career in the public sector, and half in the
private sector
creating jobs and meeting a payroll
and I
have the ulcers to prove it. I think that's a pretty good
qualification for being President.
And what I learned as a businessman is that it's as plain as
day that higher taxes don't create jobs. They destroy jobs.
So I believe that government is already too big -- and
spends too much of your money.
That's why I've put forward a freeze on federal
discretionary spending, plus a plan to control the growth of
mandatory federal spending without ever touching Social Security.
It would save $300 billion over five years.
So far, Congress has balked at making these tough choices.
So now I have a new idea. I want to give you -- the taxpayer --
the option of taking ten percent of your income tax -- and using
it for one purpose alone
to reduce the budget deficit.
And then -- I'll cut taxes -- across the board.
Now
what about my opponent?
Well, he's been in the public sector all of his professional
life
except for four years he spent as a lawyer. Get this
--
3
Good evening "Well I have advocated tax
increase for the upper 2% of
the population Am people who's
every day during those four years, he was running for office so
taxes went down in the 1980s while
their
he could get back on the public payroll.
incomes
And now Governor Clinton says he respects the small
wentup"
businessman. That's like the guy who says he loves to sail, but
has never seen a boat.
And it's reflected in his politics.
Last week when Tom Brokaw interviewed him, the first words
out of the Governor's mouth were, "I advocate a tax increase." "
29
Specifically, he means $150 billion -- for starters. And he
proposes $220 billion in new government spending, although the
experts admit it may be three times as high as that.
Now, he says he only wants to tax the rich more. Except
there aren't enough rich people in America to cough up the cash
he wants to spend.
You tell me what's going to happen.
I ask New Jersey -- does this sound familiar?
( (Remember a candidate for Governor of this state, who said
want
he would never raise taxes? Well, guess who BIll Clinton made a
to say
beeline toward after his convention. Like a moth to the flame -
- he went to see Governor Jim Florio.) )
I wish I could bring every American voter to New Jersey to
see first-hand what a governor and legislature in collusion can
do to wreck an economy.
what is it?
Remember Governor Kean's motto for this state? Well
every New Jerseyite knows all too well
that a rubber-check
4
legislature and a rubber-stamp executive are not -- "perfect
together."
Of course the answer isn't more taxes. It's more jobs.
I know that tourism is a big part of New Jersey's economy.
And I know it creates thousands of jobs. And I also that people
don't come to New Jersey to see sludge and medical waste.
insulting
(If they want to see those things they can go to Arkansas.
indepted
And if they want to breathe air that meets California's
environmental standards while they're there, they'll have to wear
gas masks.)
Well, I meant it when I came to the Jersey shore in '88 and
promised to change the attitude of neglect that had polluted your
beautiful beaches.
First, we promised to end ocean dumping of sewage sludge.
We went right to work on it, and last June, the last barge that
will ever dump sludge in this ocean sailed from New York Harbor.
Ocean dumping is no more, and now, when tourists look out over
the Jersey shore, they won't see sludge barges. They'll see
sailboats.
Second, we wanted to clean up the sewage coming from New
York City and points beyond. We've invested two billion dollars
a year at the Federal level to build new sewage treatment plants,
and Tom Kean's Wastewater Treatment Trust has made great progress
here in New Jersey.
New York has been less responsive, so I put $70 million in
the Federal budget, both last year and this year, to get them
5
moving so you don't have to put up with the City's sewage washing
up on your shores anymore. And when people look out over the
Jersey shore
they won't see sewage. They'll see swimmers.
And third, we're finally getting the garbage out of the
water. We've given the EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
the resources to collect the refuse from Fresh Kills landfill in
New York
and floatables from careless boaters
that end up
on New Jersey's beaches. And when New Jerseyites look out over
the Jersey shore
they won't see trash. They'll see tourists.
That's what government can do when it confronts real
problems
with real policies
based on real ideas -- not old
formulas from the past.
My opponent reminds me of a tired old fellow who's looking
in his medicine cabinet at a bunch of prescriptions that expired
years ago.
Well, folks
old medicine won't cure our ills. Tax-and-
spend won't solve our problems. It has no potency.
America today needs realism in its government above all
else. And then we need bold resolve. I believe that you tell
the American people the hard facts, and then we'll all get to
work and do something about changing them for the better.
I've seen it happen so many times before.
I know four years can change things. For the better
and
for the worse.
We've had some challenging times
but let's not retreat
into the past, with tired, expired remedies.
6
Let's press forward
into a new century of global
economics
where America can compete with the best
world-
class goods and services abroad and a secure and good life at
home.
God bless New Jersey
and God bless the United States of
America.
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6:00 P.M.
JERSEY
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: VFW HALL EVENT
MIDDLETOWN, NEW JERSEY
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SEPTEMBER 9, 1992
2:35 P.M.
Thank you, Tom ((Kean) ) for that kind introduction.
You know, Tom
I've never asked, but every time I hear you
talk, I always wonder
are you sure you're not really from
Texas? //
I'm delighted to be back in the warm hospitality of the
Garden State.
Sept 2
You know, I was not far from here four years ago, almost to
Pointana
the day. I was campaigning for the Presidency
and at the
time, our world was a much-different place, largely because of
one undeniable fact:
A nuclear Sword of Damocles hung over our children's heads.
Well, today, I return to this beautiful Garden State to say
something no President could ever say before: The Cold War is
over. And freedom finished first. //
Thanks to the sustained effort of brave men and women like
the veterans here today
now our kids can go to sleep without
the spectre of nuclear holocaust in their dreams.
Thanks to folks like Bill Dennisson, who's 82 and here
Christine
tonight. //
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(908)245.
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And thanks to folks like Desert Storm veteran Mike Ivanko
Christine
(family
on his own
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who's not here tonight, because he's volunteering with the
(same)
Hurricane Andrew relief efforts near Miami
Does our children's peace of mind mean anything?
You bet it does. And I'm proud to have contributed to it.
And now America's challenge is straightforward.
In the 21st Century, America must be a military superpower,
an export superpower and an economic superpower.
In this election, you'll hear two versions of how to do
that. Theirs is to look inward, and try to protect what we
already have. Ours is to look outward -- to open new markets, to
prepare our people to compete, to strengthen our social fabric -
- to save and invest -- so we can win.
It starts with a commitment to trade, by opening world
markets to the fruits of American labor. No matter what my
opponent says, American workers can still outwork and out-think
anybody in the world.
And New Jersey knows what that's worth -- better than just
about anyone, in fact, this state understands that job growth is
tied directly to foreign trade and foreign investment.
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To the tune of almost a quarter-million jobs and nearly 19
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377-3727 billion dollars, in fact, thanks to foreign companies doing
225,500 business here in your state.
employed
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know that national economies are rapidly becoming one global
economy.
Understanding that simple, profound fact led my
administration to negotiate the North American Free Trade
Agreement.
David
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NAFTA will create the world's largest free-trade zone -- a
$6 trillion market, from the Yukon to the Yucatan -- and will
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create 300,000 American jobs, just in the short term.
When my opponent was asked about the agreement -- I believe
he was the moderate Bill Clinton at the time -- he said it
sounded pretty good. Then along came big Labor, and the liberal
Bill Clinton reconsidered and said, well, maybe it doesn't sound
so good after all.//
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The current Bill Clinton says, "I m reviewing it carefully,
Aug 21,1992
club
and when I have a definitive opinion I will say so.
Well, Walter Lippman said leadership means guarding a
nation's ideals. And Peter Drucker said leadership is action.
But you know
nowhere have I seen leadership defined as -
- "Hey -- I'll get back to you later. "//
And by the way, when Governor Clinton did get back to
America on the issue of a global economy, he said he wanted to
tax foreign investment. It sounds politically appealing, but it
would endanger every one of those New Jersey jobs provided by
foreign companies.
3
So there's one choice, America. When he takes a stand at
all, Governor Clinton stands for high trade walls around our
borders -- keeping out high-wage jobs. //
And I stand for trade. Strong, free, fair trade.
There's a clear choice when it comes to getting the economy
going again, too.
Past
I spent half my career in the public sector, and half in the
private sector
creating jobs and meeting a payroll
and I
had the ulcers to prove it. / /
I think that's a pretty good qualification for being
President.
And what I learned as a businessman is that it's as plain as
day that higher taxes don't create jobs. They destroy jobs.
I believe that government is already too big -- and spends
too much of your money. //
That's why I've proposed freezing federal discretionary
spending, and a plan to cap the growth of mandatory federal
spending Л without ever I touching Social Security. It would save almost
$300 billion over five years.
So far, Congress has balked at making these tough choices.
So now I have a new idea. I want to give you -- the taxpayer --
the option of taking ten percent of your income tax -- and using
Bob
it for one purpose alone to reduce the budget deficit. //
And I'll cut taxes -- across the board. I've already vetoed
Grady
one Democratic tax increase, and I'll veto another if I have
to.// //
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campaign, he ran for office in his tender youth
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And he proposes $220 billion in new government spending --
although Newsweek magazine says it might cost three times as much
as he claims.
Of course, he says he only wants to tax the rich more. But
you know, there aren't enough rich people in America to cough up
the cash he wants to spend.
I ask New Jersey -- does this sound familiar?
I wish I could bring every American voter to New Jersey to
see first-hand what a liberal governor and a liberal legislature
in collusion can do to wreck an economy. When Governor Florio
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was in cahoots with the Democratic legislature last session,
together they drove this state into the ground. //
You know the drill all too well. They sound one way when
they campaign. But it's tax and spend, tax and spend more...
as
soon as the votes are in the coffer. //
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The solution to our economic challenge isn't raising taxes.
It's creating more jobs.
I know that tourism is a big part of New Jersey's economy.
And I know it creates thousands of jobs. And I also know that
people don't come to New Jersey to see sludge and medical waste.
(If they want to see those things they can go to Arkansas.)
Well, I meant it when I came to the Jersey shore S in '88 and
Belmar
Bob
Grady
promised to help clean up your beautiful beaches.
First, I promised to end ocean dumping of sewage sludge. We
went right to work on it, and last June, the last barge that will
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ever dump sludge in this ocean sailed from New York Harbor.
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Ocean dumping is no more, and now, when tourists look out
over the Jersey shore, they won't see sludge barges. They 11 see
sailboats. //
Second, I wanted to clean up the sewage coming from New York
City and points beyond. We've invested two billion dollars a
year to build new sewage treatment plants, and Tom Kean's
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Wastewater Treatment Trust has made great progress here in New
Jersey.
New York has been less responsive, so I put $70 million in
Grady
the Federal budget, both last year and this year, to get them
moving. We're going to force them to build those plants so you
don't have to put up with the City's sewage washing up on your
shores anymore. And now, when people look out over the Jersey
shore
they won't see sewage. They'll see swimmers. //
And we're finally getting the garbage out of the water.
We've given the EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers the
Grady
resources to collect the refuse from Fresh Kills landfill in New
York
and floatables from careless boaters that end up on
New Jersey's beaches. And when New Jerseyites look out over the
Jersey shore
they won't see trash. They'll see tourists,
spending money and having a ball on the beautiful New Jersey
shore. //
That's what government can do when it confronts real
problems
with real policies
based on real ideas -- not old
formulas from the past.
Now, while my administration's helping deliver results on
the Jersey shore, my opponent's talking a good game. But look at
his record on the environment back in his home state.
Arkansas ranked a big five-oh -- dead last among the states
-- for the quality of state environmental initiatives.
That's not all.
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It ranked fourth-from-last per-capita in the toxic chemicals
it releases into surface water and in the bottom ten in
chemicals released to the air
It easily ranked in the bottom ten in its percentage of
polluted rivers and streams
And in the bottom ten in per-capita spending on cleaning the
air.
That's the record, according to the Institute of Southern
Studies in Durham, North Carolina
And then there's the rumor that night-fishing's getting more
and more popular in Arkansas these days
because it's so easy
to spot the fish --- they glow in the dark. //
You know
my opponent reminds me of a tired old fellow
who's looking in his medicine cabinet, trying to choose among a
bunch of dusty old prescriptions that expired years ago.
Well, folks
old medicine won't cure our ills. Tax-and-
spend won't solve our problems. It has no potency at all.//
I've seen it happen so many times before.
We've had some challenging times
but let's not retreat
into the past, with tired, expired remedies.
Let's press forward
into a new century of global
economics
where America can compete with the best
world-
class goods and services abroad and a secure and good life at
home.
God bless New Jersey
and God bless the United States of
America.
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Re: President's speech in Middletown, NJ
September 9, 1992
I realize that the President's speech will not be geared towards
veterans, yet the location warrants some mention to the veterans
and the key vets that will be in attendance. Attached is a copy of
a fact sheet about the VFW and also our NJ vets for Bush/Quayle.
In attendance will be the Nottingham Allstars Little League
Champions from Hamilton, NJ. They are the Eastern Regional Champs
and went on to the "World Series" finals at Williamsport a few
weeks ago. They first beat the Lake Charles, LA LL, then the LL
from Holland, IN, but lost in the final to the Long Beach, CA.
Also in attendance will be Elliott Vernon, Republican Eagles,
Presidential trust & Team 100 member. He is also a Viet Nam Vet
who is very active in raising money for the New Jersey Viet Nam
Veterans Memorial which should be completed in October of 1993.
Withdrawal/Redaction Sheet
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Cristyne Lategano to Carol, re: POTUS trip to Middletown
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P-6, (b)(6)
Township [Veterans of Foreign Wars] Post 2179; contains
personal address and telephone information. (3 pp.)
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The New York Times
June 29, 1992, Monday, Late Edition - Final
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HEADLINE: Ocean Dumping Is Ending, but Not Problems;
New York Can't Ship, Bury or Burn Its Sludge, but No One Wants a Processing
Plant
BYLINE: By MICHAEL SPECTER
Late this afternoon the ocean barge Spring Brook will slip quietly into the
East River and head to sea, carrying for the last time one of America's
deadline set for tomorrow, New York is the only city that still does it.
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Public Papers of the Presidents
Remarks to the American Legion in Phoenix, Arizona
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May 28, 1992
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... prays for peace, for he must bear the deepest wounds and scars of war."
You've all been soldiers in the crusade of freedom, and this year I ask you
to reenlist and help keep America what Lincoln called "the last best hope of
Earth." For 200 years our veterans have fought for what is right and what is
good, and I ask you to help me defend those values. And I thank you from the
bottom of my heart.
I am very happy that the young kids now ...
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Copyright 1992 Federal Information Sytems Corporation
Federal News Service
SEPTEMBER 8, 1992, TUESDAY
SECTION: WHITE HOUSE BRIEFING
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HEADLINE: REMARKS OF DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
GOVERNOR BILL CLINTON OF ARKANSAS
TO EMPLOYEE OWNERS OF
STANDARD KNAPP, INC
PORTLAND, CONNECTICUT
KEYWORD:
CLINHTON CONNECTICUT
BODY:
GOV. CLINTON: (In Progress) -- overwhelming obstacles which all of you face
and you know as much about as I do, the kinds of competition you've faced, how
difficult it is to capitalize companies like this in tough times, the struggle
to maintain markets and increase productivity.
Anyway, I have enjoyed that work and we've done a lot of it. And I wanted to
come here because I was so impressed with the story of how this company was
revitalized with a partnership between labor and management, with employee
ownership, with the kind of spirit that our country needs to compete and win in
the 21st century.
For more than a decade, as all of you know better than I do, we've been subject
to very stiff competition in manufacturing. In the face of it productivity in
manufacturing rose very sharply in the 1980s, thanks to people like you, at
about four percent a year, helping us to compete with both the hard work, low
wage countries, and the high skilled, high wage countries. In our state we
adopted a manufacturing strategy that was specifically designed to help generate
expansions in our state and maintain the job base. We provided an investment
tax credit for anybody who invested $5 million or more in expanding the
manufacturing base, intensified our retraining programs, did a lot of work to
support infrastructure --- roads and sewer and water systems needed for
manufacturing; provide quality management services and other training programs
to smaller manufacturers who couldn't get it on their own. And in the course of
that I learned a lot about what it takes to maintain a manufacturing work force.
In spite of all the productivity gains the percentage of our workers employed in
manufacturing has continued to decline in America, and now rest at just a little
over 16 percent of the work force. Slightly less than one in six Americans
works in manufacturing. The comparative percentages for Japan and Germany are
28 and 32 percent.
Now just in the last four years we've lost 1.3 million manufacturing jobs and
had a real decline in manufacturing wages of five percent. For the first time
in American history in the last four years, employment in government has
exceeded employment in manufacturing.
Unlike our competitors this nation has no national strategy, no comprehensive
partnership between business and workers, and
education and government to create the kinds of high wage, high growth jobs in
manufacturing that I think are critical to our future not just because of the
people like you who work in factories, but because of all those who depend on
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it. And when we lose manufacturing jobs, if people don't go to work in other
manufacturing jobs, as all of you know they tend to get jobs that pay lower
wages with fewer benefits in ways that weaken the fabric of the communities in
which they live.
What we've had in America is a series of unconnected piecemeal efforts and
trickle-down economics. We do have a manufacturing strategy for example in
defense, because we want to make most of our defense products here, for obvious
reasons. We have had a partnership between government and business. You've
seen it in Connecticut, where an enormous percentage of your work force has
worked in defense industries. But you also see the down side of that, that if
there is a defense cut and no corresponding effort to increase that investment
somewhere else, then those manufacturing jobs are lost.
Under the theory that we have, I think it's pretty clear that we haven't
supported manufacturing. The theory of trickle-down economics is that if taxes
are made low enough on the highest-income individuals and the highest-income
companies and the government does nothing else, all the right investment
decisions will be made and manufacturing jobs will grow. That's our theory.
Our competitor's theory is quite different. They believe that government has to
support the free market with real incentives to always modernize plant and
equipment, with intense support for constant retraining of the workforce, and
with aggressive trade programs not just for larger companies, but for small- and
medium- sized companies as well. One of the most interesting examples is what
you find in the nation of Germany where medium- and small-sized manufacturers
work together to support export markets that most small companies could never
enter. And as a consequence of that, that country, which has about a third our
population, has almost the same volume of exports that we do every year, because
they're working together hand in glove: workers and management, business and
education, and government.
Fifteen years ago, for example, we made 80 percent of the world's television
sets and almost all of our telephones. Today we're down to 25 percent of our
telephones and 10 percent of our TVs. We've seen industry after industry lose
market share. And most Americans today are working longer work weeks for lower
wages than they were making ten years ago. That is in no small measure caused
by the decline of the percentage of our workforce in manufacturing. Just
yesterday, President Bush had a great photo op walking across the wonderful
bridge that connects Mackinac Island to the mainland in Michigan, a bridge that
was built with steel from a mill that has closed in the last four years.
We have to decide as a country whether we want more people like you, whether we
want to help people like you to do things like purchase your plants when they're
in trouble, give you incentives to do that, clean out the legal barriers to do
that, whether we want to help companies like this that are smaller manufacturers
to constantly modernize their plant and equipment, have access to the latest
research and development, and have incentives and support to retrain their
workforce. I want to make one thing very clear: no person running for office
can reasonably promise to make the American economy the way it used to be.
You are a far more typical factory, for example, than these factories with four
or five thousand employees. The average American factory now maxes out at 300
employees, and most people think it's good for productivity so that people like
Art and Mike who know everybody that works in the plant, know the names of their
spouses, know how many children they have, know when they're having troubles, to
increase the kind of personal connections that lead to productivity.
No one can repeal the laws of change, which now dictate that the average
18-year-old American going into the workforce will change work eight times in a
lifetime. And no government can ever replace the marketplace. The issue is
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whether America will have the kind of partnership between government and the
private sector that will give us a high-wage, high-growth vital manufacturing
society, one that will help us to win in the face of change instead of lose in
the face of it. Now let me just give you one example, if I might, that doesn't
have anything to do with your manufacturing sector.
Everybody knows we've lost a lot of auto jobs in the last ten years, and we've
lost a lot of steel jobs in the last ten years. But if you look at the Germans
and the Japanese, they still don't use any more people to make automobiles than
we do. But when they move people out of automobiles, they moved into other
manufacturing technologies with a future in manufacturing. When our people
moved out of automobiles, they moved into the unemployment lines, and then, by
and large, out of manufacturing because we did not have a strategy to maintain a
constant effort to turn new ideas into new manufacturing jobs in the United
States.
So I want to make it clear what I propose to do won't make it the way it used to
be -- nobody can promise that, no one can promise to stop the laws of change.
What we've got to do is decide how to make change our friend instead of our
enemy. That is what you have done so well in this plant.
Building a new American manufacturing base is not going to be easy. It's going
to take hard work and new solutions and constant effort. It's going to take
continuous productivity increases, meaning fewer people will do the same work,
and at the same time,
opening up new areas of work for Americans who want to be part of the productive
workforce. We have simply got to become as able as other nations are at finding
new manufacturing technologies and turning ideas into jobs in America.
Let me just give you one other idea. A lot of you may have at home, or your
children may have at home a lap-top computer with a very thin screen. That thin
screen is an American invention. The patent on it was held by an American small
business person for years. Then Westinghouse bought it, then finally those
screens were produced. There are now eight companies in the world that produce
those screens. They are all in Japan. They are all providing high- wage,
high-growth jobs in Japan. We're not talking about Mexico, we're not talking
about low-wage competition. We're talking about a country that had a better
system than we did for taking a good idea, giving the private sector patient
capital for the time to develop an idea that would put people like you to work
-- thousands and thousands of people like you to work. That idea should have
been working in America. There ought to be eight factories in this country
producing that American idea. And that's the sort of change that we have to
make if WE really want to move forward.
The kind of things we have to do, frankly, don't fall very well within political
categories. They're not Democratic or Republican, or conservative or liberal.
For example, when you had the employee buy-out here of the plant, was that a
liberal or a conservative thing to do? It was liberal in the sense that it was
change and different; it was conservative in the sense that it was the only way
you could save your jobs. You were conserving what you had, right? Who cares,
it worked. That's the point I -- what we've got to do is to look at the new
world we're living in, with new ideas,
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and find out what works. My plan is called, just for lack of a better term,
Manufacturing for the 21st Century. It has a simple goal, to turn ideas that
work into jobs that work in manufacturing, jobs for the last years of this
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It is based on four simple, but proven, ideas: Give incentives for people to
always modernize plant and equipment here, and fewer incentives to shut plants
down and move them overseas. Extend the technologies that work in America to
other companies that may not have access to them, especially small and
medium-size companies that can't afford large research and development budgets
on their own. Innovate. Constantly, constantly, constantly have the government
spending the kind of money that our competitors do in supporting private
research into new commercial technologies. And export. Involve not just big
companies but small and medium-size companies in exporting and making sure that
our country gets a fair shake.
My plan centers on helping the smaller and medium-size manufacturers, companies
like this company, caught between the pressure of international competition
against government-backed conglomerates and the demands of bigger clients.
Today we don't really have a national policy or a strategy or a commitment to
help our manufacturers adjust to global change.
What we need to do is to go beyond what now seems to be the alternatives that
you hear debated. Some people say do nothing and let's just see what happens.
What that will mean is what's going on now. Companies like you get more
productive and you survive, but overall, every year the percentage of the
workforce in manufacturing goes down. So, some do well, but overall as a nation
we're not continuing to maintain our manufacturing base.
Others say what we need to do is just have a protectionist policy and try to
have America take care of itself. That doesn't work either. One in five of our
jobs today is tied, directly or indirectly, to global trade. We can't put a
wall around America. If we did, it would just slow the world's economic growth
further and hurt us even more. What we've got to do is to have a new
partnership. It makes sense to help people who are committed to being
productive workers compete and win in the global economy.
First of all, let's talk about the incentives, and let's just take any company.
I've been all over the - like I said, I've spent a lot of time in manufacturing
companies. I've had a lot of plants in my state shut down and move to Mexico.
Let me tell you how the tax system works today. Suppose you're running a small
American company and you need to buy a $5 million piece of equipment or a $10
million piece of equipment to modernize and increase productivity so you can
stay in a place like Connecticut, where the cost of living is fairly high. And
you have three choices. You can not buy the
equipment, stay in Connecticut and go broke, you can buy the equipment, or you
can shut the plant down and move it to a country like Mexico, where thbe labor
costs are lower.
Now, here's how the tax system works today. If you buy the new piece of
equipment you don't get an investment tax credit for a quicker write-off, but if
you shut the plant down you get a deduction for the cost of shutting the plant
down. Then when you start the plant up in another country you get loss carry
forwards on your income tax for the years when you lose money. Then when you
start to make money in the other country, as long as you keep the money in a
separate bank, you never pay a penny of American income tax on it.
So I don't - believe me, I don't think there was any evil spirit which designed
this tax system. But our tax system was designed with no thought to the fact
that we're in a global economy where we've got to fight for every last job we
get. So I say we ought to copy our competitors and give more incentives for
reinvesting in modern plant and equipment here, and fewer incentives for
shutting the plants down and moving them abroad. If people want to invest
abroad. If people want to invest abroad because that's good economics, that's
one thing. But the tax system in America should work to benefit Americans
without being protectionist. And that's what I call for by saying we ought to
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have a permanent investment tax credit. (Applause.)
I also think we have got to encourage not only in a negative sense, in a.
positive sense, the continuous production of productive equipment. Senator
Lieberman has been very outspoken on this issue, but we spend a great deal of
money coming up with new products in the defense area. We do all this basic
research and people come up with great ideas, and then they turn them into
things like the Patriot missiles which will go through doors or down chimneys.
We all saw that on television. And that is critical to our future national
defense. We don't want the Patriot missiles manufactured anyplace else, but the
VCR was an American idea, it's manufactured somewhere else. The flat screen for
computers was an American idea, as I said, manufactured somewhere else.
We now have a list, the same list all the other advanced countries have, of the
20 to 25 technologies that will produce much of the high wage work of the 21st
century. Everybody's got the same list. The issue is are WE going to have all
this work done in our laboratories, have our people come up with these ideas,
and have then the jobs somewhere else? I don't think it has to be that way.
So the second thing we have to do is to figure out how to turn these ideas into
American jobs here at home with incentives and with extension work. and that
leads me to the second point I want to make.
Over the next five years I think we ought to create 150 manufacturing extension
centers and technology alliances throughout
this country. Japan has 172 such centers right now. We can move ahead of them
if we move aggressively. These centers serve as incubators for new ideas, and
they give an access to new ideas to small- and medium-sized manufacturers,
things like what WE did in Arkansas by taking in to all the manufacturing
companies that wanted it ideas for new energy efficiency, ideas for total
quality management. We've got plants in our state where 100 percent of their
profit now over last year is due not to increased sales but to reduced energy
usage because of the kinds of extension work that we've done.
Now, I'm very partial to this idea because I grew up in an agricultural state.
And when I was a boy, the agricultural extension service in America played a
major, major role in increasing the productivity of farmers all across the
country. They didn't get in the way of private agriculture; they simply
supported private agriculture with the best ideas. Today we're still spending
over a billion dollars a year in agricultural extension and only $18 million in
manufacturing extension, which is 20 percent of our gross national product.
There is no way in the world that a company with 200 employees will ever be able
to afford to do some of the things on its own that with just a little bit of
money you could provide services for through manufacturing extension networks
modelled on the agricultural extension service. There are now seven of them in
this country, thanks to Senator Ernest Hollings of South Carolina. If we can
prevail in this election, we can put another 170 out there. These kinds of
extension centers can fill the technological gaps that companies have.
And they can also serve another very valuable purpose, and that is to help to
retrain the scientists and engineers who won the Cold War who are now being laid
off to do work to rebuild the American economy here at home. There are 200,
unemployed defense workers, technicians, scientists, and engineers in California
alone today. And these people have all this incredible potential to add to our
national wealth, but we don't have a system for moving them from the defense
sector into the non-defense sector. The extension centers will help to do this.
Let me just tell you that some people say, "Well, how much money are you going
to spend on this?" I propose to spend up to $500 million a year five years from
now. You may think that's a lot of money, but let me tell you today Germany
spends seventy times more on research and development to help private industry
than we do per capita. That's the kind of competition we're up against. The
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overall research and development budget for Japan is twice ours even though
they've got half our population. We have got to do these things if we want to
catch up and compete.
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even though they've got half our population. We have got to do these things if
we want to catch up and compete. In the post Cold War world the people who work
in partnership are going to win as nations just like you win in this plant
because you've worked in partnership.
The last thing I want to say is we've got to launch a national export campaign
to benefit small and medium-sized producers. We've got mounting trade deficits
which we can do something about if we'd just quit importing as much foreign oil.
And I've talked about that on other occasions. But we've got to understand that
our future economic security and national security rests on our ability to
compete in a global marketplace. Our government, listen to this, spends more
today promoting the exports of almonds and walnuts than promoting all
manufacturing exports to Japan, just to Japan, a big market for us.
Now there's something wrong with that. I mean I'm all for exporting almonds and
walnuts. I don't want to get in trouble with the people that raise them, but
there is something wrong with that when you realize the enormous potential we
have for exports for small and medium-size manufacturers. We ought to
strengthen the export sections of our foreign embassies and help American
manufacturers sell abroad just like all of our competitors do. We ought to
strip away unnecessary export controls and reduce the incredible bureaucratic
mess that surrounds a lot of them. When certain technologies are already
available throughout the world, Americans ought to be able to sell them just
like other countries, but they can't today.
We've got to strip away - I'll say this again - we've got to strip away our
ideological blinders. A lot of what we have to do does not fit neatly into
somebody's notion of a political party platform of 10 or 15 years ago. We've
got to look at the world we're facing today and go after it. We've got to get
rid of regulations that don't make sense, and we've got to permit our companies
to join together and do common research and development in global competition as
long as it doesn't affect their competitive pricing here at home. For too many
years we have just sat by while other nations have moved swiftly beyond us.
We've got to have a new strategy and it's got to be based on the proposition
that since Americans are working harder than most countries, we ought to be able
to be more productive and we ought to be able to make more money, and that when
there is American teamwork and American ingenuity and American sense of can-do
spirit and a sense of competitiveness we ought to be winning. We should not be
punished by having manufacturing productivity grow and then having a percentage
of our work force in manufacturing drop. We shouldn't be punished by seeing our
productivity go up and our wages go down.
For 89 years this plant has seen thousands of men and women come through its
doors to earn a living. It has supported the dreams of countless families. It
would be a real tragedy if future American families didn't have those same ideas
and those same opportunities.
Mike was telling me back here when we were talking, when Art was making his
remarks, that his niece Carlene works here on the same shop floor doing the job
that her uncle used to do. That's the sort of commitment we ought to make to
America, that generation after generation should have the opportunity to make
things.
My granddaddy used to tell me that in the Great Depression in Arkansas people
were 50 poor that they took in one another's washing for a living. (Laughter.)
Now that is what would happen to America if nobody made anything. There are
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people who really believe it doesn't matter if we have manufacturing jobs in
America. There are people who seriously say we could have 100 percent service
economy. They have not examined the economic realities in which we live.
We need a manufacturing base. We need more companies like this one. I have
done my best in this election to offer a responsible strategy for manufacturing,
one which we're releasing in greater detail today, and one which is also
contained in this little book that Senator Gore and I put together of our
various positions in this campaign, called "Putting People First".
I hope every one of you for the next 56 days, whatever your political party,
will think about this. I want you to think about what it took to put this plant
back together in the tough years of the 1980s and the kind of things you have to
do today to stay ahead of the curve. And I want you to think about what we
should do to make sure that people who do what you do are rewarded for their
work and their effort, and that this country does not become a second-rate
economic power after we won the Cold War because we simply didn't have the
vision and the will to do what it takes to maintain our manufacturing base. I
am determined to see that WE do. Thank you very much. (Cheers and applause.)
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irrelevant. Churchill was never irrelevant."
The third step, and the crucial one that many would-be leaders fail to take,
is commitment. Donald H. McGannon, a corporation executive, put it this way:
" Leadership is action, not position."
You not only have to have something to say, but you also have to commit
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Public Papers of the Presidents
Statement on House of Representatives Action on Tax
Legislation
28 Weekly Comp. Pres. Doc. 366
February 27, 1992
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down a familiar path; they voted to raise taxes. They voted against
creating jobs and stimulating the economy. Instead of voting to provide greater
opportunities for all Americans, they voted to saddle the economy with a $ 100
billion tax increase.
In my State of the Union Address I asked Congress to put politics aside and
pass my economic growth plan by March 20th. It's a plan that will create jobs
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Remarks to Federal Express Employees in Memphis, Tennessee
Weekly Comp. Pres. Doc. 409
March 5, 1992
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per taxpayer, they will raise another $ 100 billion in taxes. And they
call that $ 100 billion new revenues. And I have another word for it: your
money. [Laughter]
No matter how the the Democrats try to dress it up, any economist can tell
you the last thing WE need right now is a $ 100 billion tax hike. So if the
Democrats in Congress want to send that bill to me, I've got a message for
them: I will veto it, absolutely, positively, overnight.
No, the American people have had enough of the old tax-and-spend, and they
want to
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... cents a day in temporary tax relief for 2 years, for individuals, paid
for, typically, by a large, permanent tax increase. And over in the Senate, the
bill the Democrats are working on is not much better than the one in the
House. Its centerpiece is a huge tax increase. And the last thing our economy
needs now is a $ 100 billion tax hike.
And we drew a line in the sand in the Persian Gulf and kept our word. And
I'll draw another line in the sand right now. If the Democrats send me a
monstrosity like the bill that passed through the House, I will send it right
back, vetoing it the day that I get it. We are not going to let that happen to
the taxpayer
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... 25 cents a day in temporary tax relief for 2 years, paid for, typical of
them, by a large permanent tax increase. Now, over in the Senate, the bill the
Democrats are working on is not much better than the one that's in the House.
And its centerpiece is a huge tax increase. The last thing our economy needs
now is a $ 100 billion tax hike, and they are not going to get it.
Zach alluded to this, we drew a line in the sand in the Persian Gulf, and we
kept our word. So I'll draw another line in the sand right
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HEADLINE: Markets Rally As Bush's Popularity Sinks
BYLINE: By Virginia Munger Kahn, Investor's Daily, In New York
... Carter, and the tax burden on Americans is now heavier than anytime since
World War II, Melcher wrote.
But Clinton will be even worse, according to Melcher. Not only has he said
he would pass several of the bills Bush has vetoed, but his economic plan
entails close to $ 100 billion in tax increases and $ 80 billion in spending
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JERSEY
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: VFW HALL EVENT
MIDDLETOWN, NEW JERSEY
SEPTEMBER 9, 1992
2:35 P.M.
Thank you, Tom ((Kean) and hello, everyone. I'm delighted
to be back in the warm hospitality of the Garden State.
I was not far from here almost exactly four years ago.
I was campaigning for the Presidency, and at the time, our world
was a very different place, largely because of one huge factor:
A nuclear Sword of Damocles hung over our children's heads.
Well, today, I return to this beautiful Garden State to say
something no President could ever say before: The Cold War is
over. And freedom finished first. //
Thanks to the sustained effort of brave men and women like
the veterans here today now our kids can go to sleep without
nuclear holocaust haunting their dreams.
Veteran
Thanks to folks like Bill Dennisson, who's 82 and came here
^
tonight just to flirt with the girls. //
Does our children's peace of mind mean anything?
You bet it does. We should be proud to have made it happen.
Now, America's challenge is straightforward.
In the 21st Century, America must be a military superpower,
an export superpower and an economic superpower. //
In this election, you'll hear two versions of how to do
that. Theirs is to look inward, and try to protect what we
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already have. Ours is to look outward -- to open new markets, to
prepare our people to compete, to strengthen our social fabric -
- to save and invest -- so we can win.
My agenda starts with a commitment to trade, by opening
world markets to the fruits of American labor. No matter what my
opponent says, American workers can still outwork and out-think
and out-create anybody in the world. //
And New Jersey knows what that's worth -- better than just
about anyone. In this state alone, more than a quarter-million
jobs are tied to foreign investment and millions more to exports.
Understanding the reality of the global economy led me to
negotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement.
NAFTA will create the world's largest free-trade zone -- a
$6 trillion market, from the Yukon to the Yucatan -- and will
create 300,000 American jobs -- that's just in the short term.//
My opponent used to support it. Now he says, "I'm reviewing
it carefully; when I have a definitive opinion I will say so."
Westinghouse
Well, Walter Lippmann said leadership means guarding, and I
It's also been said that
quote, "a nation's ideals."
And Peter Drucker said, quote,
McGannon)
Leadership is action.
And Donald MeGannon said, quote,
Don died
But you know
nowhere have I seen leadership defined as -
1984
- "Hey -- I'll get back to you later. "//
There's a clear choice when it comes to getting the economy
going again, too.
Ceble
I spent half my career in the public sector, and half in the
private sector
running a small business -- and I had the
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ulcers to prove it. Well, I think meeting a payroll is a pretty
good qualification for being President. //
And what I learned as a businessman is that it's as plain as
day that higher taxes don't create jobs. They destroy jobs.
I believe that government is already too big -- and spends
too much of your money. //
That's why I've proposed freezing discretionary spending,
and a plan to cap the growth of mandatory spending without
touching Social Security. That cap would save almost $300
billion over five years.
So far, Congress has balked at making these tough choices.
I want to give you -- the taxpayer -- the option of taking ten
percent of your income tax -- and using it for one purpose
alone
to reduce the budget deficit. // Let's get the crushing
weight of debt off our kids' backs. //
And then I'll take the savings and cut taxes -- across the
board. I've already vetoed one Democratic tax increase, and I'll
veto another if I have to. (I've got my pen right here. //
Now
what about my opponent?
Well, he's been in the public sector practically all his
professional life. He caught the bug during his work on the
McGovern campaign, and he's been at it ever since.
In fact, he's either been in public office -- or trying to
get into public office -- ever since he was 27 years old.
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And just yesterday, Governor Clinton said, "No government
can never replace the marketplace." He sounds like he respects
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and understands the small businessperson. Well that's like
a
guy saying he loves to sail, but he's never seen the water. //
And it's reflected in his policies.
Last week when Tom Brokaw interviewed him, the first words
out of my opponent's mouth were "I advocate a tax increase."
Specifically, he means $150 billion -- just for starters.
And he proposes $220 billion in new government spending --
although Newsweek magazine says it might cost three times as much
as he claims. They called Clinton's plan an "economic fantasy."
Of course, he says he only wants to tax the rich. But you
know, there aren't enough rich folks to pay for his programs.
And he endorsed the $100 billion tax increase passed by the
Congressional Democrats this year. He's for it. I'm against it.
Who do you think is right?//
I ask New Jersey -- does this saxophone song sound familiar?
I wish I could bring every American voter to New Jersey to
see first-hand what a liberal governor and a liberal legislature
can do to wreck an economy. When Governor Florio was in cahoots
with the Democratic legislature last session, they acted like
every day was April 15.//
Remember Governor Kean's motto for this state? Well, today,
every New Jerseyan knows all too well: a rubber-check legislature
and a rubber-stamp executive are -- "NOT perfect together "//
(Tom -- sorry I can't say it like you do. Must be all that
time I spent in Texas. ) / /
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We need tax incentives to get this economy moving. And by
the way, if you'd send me Joe Kyrillos (kuh-RULL-us) and a few
more like him, I'd be using my pen not to veto tax hikes, but to
sign tax cuts into law.
The solution to our economic challenge isn't raising taxes.
It's creating more jobs.
I know that tourism is a big part of New Jersey's economy.
And I know it creates thousands of jobs.
Belman
So I came to the Jersey shore in '88 and promised to help
clean up your beautiful beaches. And I meant it.
First, I promised to end ocean dumping of sewage sludge.
Last June, the last barge that will ever dump sludge in this
ocean sailed from New York Harbor. //
Ocean dumping is no more. When tourists look out over the
shore, they won't see sludge barges. They'll see sailboats. //
Second, I wanted to clean up the sewage coming from New York
City and points beyond. We're we're going to force New York to
build those sewage plants so you don't have to put up with their
sewage washing up on your shores and ruining your vacations. //
And we're finally getting the garbage out of the water.
That's what government can do when it confronts real
problems
with real policies
based on real ideas -- not old
formulas from the past.
Now, while my administration's helping deliver results on
the Jersey shore, my opponent's talking a good game. But look at
his record on the environment back in his home state.
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According to the Institute of Southern Studies, Arkansas
ranked dead last for environmental initiatives.
In the amount of toxics they dump into surface water, per
capita, they were 47th.
But they did better in the amount they dump into the air --
they jumped all the way up to 42nd. //
And they were way up there at 42 in the percentage of rivers
and streams that are polluted, too.
(And there's the rumor that night-fishing's getting more and
more popular in Arkansas these days
because it's so easy to
spot the fish --- they glow in the dark. ) //
What if he does to America what he did to Arkansas? Why
would you want to let him?/ /
You know
my opponent reminds me of a tired old fellow
who's looking in his medicine cabinet, trying to choose among a
bunch of dusty old prescriptions that expired years ago.
Well, folks
old medicine won't cure our ills. Tax-and-
spend won't solve our problems. But it might kill the patient. //
Let's not retreat into the past, with tired, expired
remedies. Let's press forward
into a new century of global
economics
where America can compete with the best
and win a
secure and good life at home.
Thank you
God bless New Jersey
and God bless the
United States of America.
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Chris,
The Nottingham Little League Team from Hamilton, New Jersey, won
the 1992 New Jersey State Little League Championship. They travelled to
Connecticut where they participated in the Eastern Regionals and became
Eastern Regional Champions.
The Eastern, Southern, Central and Western Champions competed in
the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa. - August #92.
The Nottingham Team defeated the Southern Regional Champions,
Lake Ill. Charles, La. and defeated the Central Regional Champions, Holland,
The final game was held between Nottingham from Hamilton, New
Jersey, and Long Beach, from Long Beach, California.
The games are 6 inning games. The Nottingham pitcher, Adam
Formosa had a no-hitter going into the top of the 6th inning when he gave
up his first hit, a homerun!! Long Beach defeated Hamilton, 1-0 and the
rest is history.
Cock
NJIPA
September 4, 1992
MEMORANDUM TO: GARY FOSTER
FROM:
DOUG DUVALL
SUBJECT:
SURVEY REPORT FOR MIDDLETOWN, NEW JERSEY
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1992
EVENT SCENARIO:
The President will fly via Marine One from Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania to Middletown, New Jersey. Marine One could land at
Earle Naval Weapons Station and motorcade 5 minutes to the
Middletown Township VFW Hall in Port Monmouth, New Jersey. The
President will attend an outdoor rally of 5,000 + people and give
a speech on the economy and the environment. After the event, the
President will motorcade back to the landing zone, helicopter to
Philadelphia and fly via Air Force One to Washington.
PROPOSED EVENT SITE:
Bill Palatucci, New Jersey Bush Quayle E.D., wanted to have
the rally in Middletown or Red Bank, N.J. so the President could
emphasize in his speech the successful cleanup of the Jersey shore.
The rally site in Red Bank, the parking lot of the Molly Pitcher
Inn, had too many security concerns (open marina, hotels,
apartments and the highway). Therefore, we opted for having the
rally in township of Middletown which has a population of
approximately 50,000 and is close to the shore.
The VFW hall, located on 1 Veterans Lane in Port Monmouth, NJ,
is the most accessible and familiar location. I propose we have
the event in the back parking lot of the VFW Post. The President
could arrive at a side entrance and enter the hall for a brief
hold. He could then be brought to the rear of the hall for an off
stage announce. The dais could be set up with its back to the hall
facing the large parking lot.
The parking lot is quite large and could hold a crowd of
15,000. Bill Palatucci expects to be able to raise a crowd of over
5,000. The event can easily be framed with bleachers, refreshment
trucks, entertainment stages, school buses, etc. With the VFW hall
behind the stage there is no natural backdrop. Bunting, flags and
a banner should give off a rally atmosphere.
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head-on position if desired. Inside the VFW hall itself there is
ample room for a filing center and holding rooms.
The event would be open to the public. Tickets could be given
out for a VIP section, but the event should be open for families,
VFW members, Rotary clubs, businessmen and women, and citizens of
Monmouth County.
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TIM MCBRIDE
DAVID BATES
FROM:
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SUBJECT: SITE SURVEYS
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New Jersey. Also, I have attached a copy of the old site survey
for Washington and Oregon.
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... nothing for the economy, it won't create jobs, it will do almost nothing
now, and it will probably be dangerous and harmful for the longer term. It's a
move toward more government micro management of the economy. Every time
there's a statement in here the government's going to target this, some border
commission is going to decide this and replace the marketplace. There's a
statement of principle In here from Governor Clinton, he believes in the market,
but every chance he has to move away from the market, he does. That's number
one. Number two, I think it's pretty naive, Juan, ...
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always happens.
Not to decide is to decide.
-Harvey Cox
-Laurence J. Peter
Leaders are the custodians of a nation's ideals, of the beliefs it
to a jaundiced eye.
cherishes, of its permanent hopes, of the faith which makes a nation
-Alexander Pope
out of a mere aggregation of individuals.
-Walter Lippmann
way of doing something, someone
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
at always to the swift, nor the battle
-Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
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bet.
-Damon Runyon
There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can
convince them, confuse them.
lead them.
-Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1807-1874)
-Harry S Truman
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weakness in the seat of power,
seals
and bribes and compromising
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
-Barbara Tuchman
-Tacitus (55?-130?)
Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.
-Eric Hoffer
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bess!" is like asking "Who ought
Cerrectly, the man who can sing
He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.
-Sydney Smith (1771-1845)
shall fall into the ditch.
-The Bible (Matthew 15:14)
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life
=5c keeps his ear to the ground.
is to keep your mind young.
-Henry Ford
-James H. Boren
Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find
rennd- He found it less exciting./But
someone else to do it for you.
-Mark Twain
His place was at the fore, O.
-W. S. Gilbert
Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom.
For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are
exition.
necessities.
-Alfred North Whitehead
-Donald H. McGannon
He learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery,/And how to scale
he types the number composing
a fortress-or a nunnery.
the MAT. who will in fact direct their
-George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
Harmar. (1757-1804)
Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like
0 have 75) crilliant men in charge of
being taught.
-Winston Churchill
if ordinary men.
Trucydides (471?-401 B.C.)
The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.
-Don Herold
you Wilerm time lead your own generation,
Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads.
-James Northcote (1746-1831)
ifi compling the state of mind that is
We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more
durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: VFW HALL EVENT
MIDDLETOWN, NEW JERSEY
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Four years ago, almost to the day, I was here in New Jersey,
you
campaigning for the Presidency.
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At the time, our world was much different. A nuclear Sword
Ark
tax date
of Damocles hung over our children's heads.
(not 128)
Today, I return to this beautiful Garden State to say Carsay Heroll
something no President could ever say before: The Cold War is
that complaining
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over. And freedom finished first.
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it annome was
Now our kids can go to sleep now without the specter of
127,
nuclear holocaust in their dreams. Does that mean anything? You
not 128
bet it does.
Now America's challenge is straightforward. In the 21st
RBZ
century, America must remain be a military superpower, an export
superpower and an economic superpower.
In this election, you'll hear two versions of how to do
that. Theirs is to look inward, and protect what we already
have. Ours is to look outward -- to open new markets, prepare
pls
on social febric
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our people to compete, to strengthen the American family -- to
the
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save and invest -- so we can win.
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It starts with a commitment to trade, by opening world
markets to the fruits of American labor.
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New Jersey knows what that means -- better than just about
anyone, in fact. This state understands that job growth is tied
directly to foreign trade and foreign investment -- to the tune
of ((X jobs and X dollars as result of foreign investment in
NJ) )
New Jersey is home to ((biggest foreign companies)) because
you went out and fought to bring them here. You understand that
the world's economies are rapidly becoming one global economy.
Understanding that simple, profound fact led my
administration to negotiate the North American Free Trade Act.
NAFTA would create one of I the world's largest free-trade zones
-
- a $6 trillion market, from the Yukon to the Yucatan -- and
would create 300,000 American jobs just in the short term.
When my opponent was asked about the treaty, agreement he said, "I'm
reviewing it carefully, and when I have a definitive opinion I
will say so."
Well, ((Thomas Jefferson said, "Leadership is ... ")). And
Peter Drucker said, "Leadership is action."
But you know nowhere do I see leadership defined as --
"I'll get back to you later."
And by the way, when Governor Clinton did get back to
America on the issue of a global economy, he said he wanted to
tax foreign investment. It sounds politically appealing, but it
would endanger every one of those New Jersey jobs provided by a
foreign company.
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So there's one choice, America. I stand for trade. Strong,
tfair
free international trade. Governor Clinton stands for
protectionism -- when he takes a stand at all.
There's a clear choice when it comes to getting the economy
going again, too.
I spent half my career in the public sector, and half in the
private sector
creating jobs and meeting a payroll
and I
have the ulcers to prove it. I think that's a pretty good
qualification for being President.
And what I learned as a businessman is that it's as plain as
day that higher taxes don't create jobs. They destroy jobs.
So I believe that government is already too big -- and
spends too much of your money.
That's why I've put forward a freeze on federal
Cap
discretionary spending, plus a plan to control the growth of
mandatory federal spending without ever touching Social Security.
It would save $300 billion over five years.
So far, Congress has balked at making these tough choices.
So now I have a new idea. I want to give you -- the taxpayer --
the option of taking ten percent of your income tax -- and using
it for one purpose alone
to reduce the budget deficit.
And then -- I'll cut taxes -- across the board.
use the
Now
what about my opponent?
savings to
Well, he's been in the public sector all of his professional
life
except for four years he spent as a lawyer. Get this --
Regal Nitlory after his work 2 the Mcbov Campanyn my opponent first ran for office
at
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every day during those four years, he was running for office so
he could get back on the public payroll.
And now Governor Clinton says he respects the small
businessman. That's like the guy who says he loves to sail, but
has never seen a boat.
And it's reflected in his politics.
Last week when Tom Brokaw interviewed him, the first words
out of the Governor's mouth were, "I advocate a tax increase."
Specifically, he means $150 billion -- for starters. And he
proposes $220 billion in new government spending, although the
nse
experts admit it may be three times as high as that.
Newsweek
Now, he says he only wants to tax the rich more. Except
(unlies quotes
there aren't enough rich people in America to cough up the cash
stomp divernt
he wants to spend.
think itured
You tell me what's going to happen.
I ask New Jersey -- does this sound familiar?
((Remember a candidate for Governor of this state, who said
he would never raise taxes? Well, guess who BIll Clinton made a
beeline toward after his convention. Like a moth to the flame -
ght
- he went to see Governor Jim Florio.))
the
handy
I
wish I could bring every American voter to New Jersey to
see first-hand what a governor and legislature in collusion can
do to wreck an economy.
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Remember Governor Kean's motto for this state? Well
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every New Jerseyite knows all too well
that a rubber-check
you know these guys well. They sound 4 one way when they campargin,
int its tax t spend, t tax tspend more an sam as the vites arein
legislature and a rubber-stamp executive are not -- "perfect
together."
of course the answer isn't more taxes. It's more jobs.
I know that tourism is a big part of New Jersey's economy.
And I know it creates thousands of jobs. And I also that people
don't come to New Jersey to see sludge and medical waste.
(If they want to see those things
they can go to Arkansas.
And if they want to breathe air that meets California's
environmental standards while they're there, they'll have to wear
include
gas masks.)
the
Well, I meant it when I came to the Jersey shore in '88 and
promised to change the attitude of neglect that had polluted your
beautiful beaches.
First, we promised to end ocean dumping of sewage sludge.
We went right to work on it, and last June, the last barge that
will ever dump sludge in this ocean sailed from New York Harbor.
Ocean dumping is no more, and now, when tourists look out over
the Jersey shore, they won't see sludge barges. They'll see
sailboats.
Second, we wanted to clean up the sewage coming from New
York City and points beyond. We've invested two billion dollars
Need?
a year at the Federal level to build new sewage treatment plants,
and Tom Kean's Wastewater Treatment Trust has made great progress
here in New Jersey.
New York has been less responsive, so I put $70 million in
the Federal budget, both last year and this year, to get them
5
moving so you don't have to put up with the City's sewage washing
up on your shores anymore. And when people look out over the
Jersey shore they won't see sewage. They'll see swimmers.
And third, we're finally getting the garbage out of the
water. We've given the EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
the resources to collect the refuse from Fresh Kills landfill in
New York
and floatables from careless boaters
that end up
on New Jersey's beaches. And when New Jerseyites look out over
the Jersey shore
they won't see trash. They'll see tourists.
That's what government can do when it confronts real
problems
with real policies based on real ideas -- not old
formulas from the past.
My opponent reminds me of a tired old fellow who's looking
in his medicine cabinet at a bunch of prescriptions that expired
years ago.
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America.
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9/8
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(Askew/Nix)
of
September 8, 1992
2:45 P.M.
JERSEY
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: VFW HALL EVENT
MIDDLETOWN, NEW JERSEY
TO Provast/Arven
SEPTEMBER 9, 1992
((TIME??)
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New Jersey knows what that means -- better than just about
anyone, in fact. This state understands that job growth is tied
directly to foreign trade and foreign investment -- to the tune
of ( (X jobs and X dollars as result of foreign investment in
NJ)).
New Jersey is home to ((biggest foreign companies)) because
you went out and fought to bring them here. You understand that
the world's economies are rapidly becoming one global economy.
Understanding that simple, profound fact led my
administration to negotiate the North American Free Trade Act.
Agreement
NAFTA would create one of of the world's largest free-trade zones -
- a $6 trillion market, from the Yukon to the Yucatan -- and
would create 300,000 American jobs just in the short term.
When my opponent was asked about the treaty, agreement he said, "I'm
reviewing it carefully, and when I have a definitive opinion I
will say so."
Well, ((Thomas Jefferson said, "Leadership is ... ")). And
Peter Drucker said, "Leadership is action."
But you know nowhere do I see leadership defined as --
"I'll get back to you later."
And by the way, when Governor Clinton did get back to
America on the issue of a global economy, he said he wanted to
tax foreign investment. It sounds politically appealing, but it
would endanger every one of those New Jersey jobs provided by a
foreign company.
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So there's one choice, America. I stand for trade. Strong,
t fair
free international trade. Governor Clinton stands for
protectionism -- when he takes a stand at all.
There's a clear choice when it comes to getting the economy
going again, too.
I spent half my career in the public sector, and half in the
private sector
creating jobs and meeting a payroll
and I
have the ulcers to prove it. I think that's a pretty good
qualification for being President.
And what I learned as a businessman is that it's as plain as
day that higher taxes don't create jobs. They destroy jobs.
So I believe that government is already too big -- and
spends too much of your money.
That's why I've put forward a freeze on federal
discretionary spending, plus a plan to control Cap the growth of
mandatory federal spending without ever touching Social Security.
It would save $300 billion over five years.
So far, Congress has balked at making these tough choices.
So now I have a new idea. I want to give you -- the taxpayer --
the option of taking ten percent of your income tax -- and using
it for one purpose alone
to reduce the budget deficit.
And then -- I'll cut taxes -- across the board.
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every day during those four years, he was running for office so
he could get back on the public payroll.
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businessman. That's like the guy who says he loves to sail, but
has never seen a boat.
And it's reflected in his politics.
Last week when Tom Brokaw interviewed him, the first words
out of the Governor's mouth were, "I advocate a tax increase."
Specifically, he means $150 billion -- for starters. And he
proposes $220 billion in new government spending, although the
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he would never raise taxes? Well, guess who BIll Clinton made a
beeline toward after his convention. Like a moth to the flame -
ght
- he went to see Governor Jim Florio.))
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see first-hand what a governor and legislature in collusion can
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I know that tourism is a big part of New Jersey's economy.
And I know it creates thousands of jobs. And I also that people
don't come to New Jersey to see sludge and medical waste.
(If they want to see those things they can go to Arkansas.
And if they want to breathe air that meets California's
environmental standards while they're there, they'll have to wear
include
gas masks.)
the
Well, I meant it when I came to the Jersey shore in '88 and
promised to change the attitude of neglect that had polluted your
beautiful beaches.
First, we promised to end ocean dumping of sewage sludge.
We went right to work on it, and last June, the last barge that
will ever dump sludge in this ocean sailed from New York Harbor.
Ocean dumping is no more, and now, when tourists look out over
the Jersey shore, they won't see sludge barges. They'll see
sailboats.
Second, we wanted to clean up the sewage coming from New
York City and points beyond. We've invested two billion dollars
Need?
a year at the Federal level to build new sewage treatment plants,
and Tom Kean's Wastewater Treatment Trust has made great progress
here in New Jersey.
New York has been less responsive, so I put $70 million in
the Federal budget, both last year and this year, to get them
5
moving so you don't have to put up with the City's sewage washing
up on your shores anymore. And when people look out over the
Jersey shore
they won't see sewage. They'll see swimmers.
And third, we're finally getting the garbage out of the
water. We've given the EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
the resources to collect the refuse from Fresh Kills landfill in
New York
and floatables from careless boaters
that end up
on New Jersey's beaches. And when New Jerseyites look out over
the Jersey shore
they won't see trash. They'll see tourists.
That's what government can do when it confronts real
problems
with real policies
based on real ideas -- not old
formulas from the past.
My opponent reminds me of a tired old fellow who's looking
in his medicine cabinet at a bunch of prescriptions that expired
years ago.
Not gree was
Well, folks
old medicine won't cure our ills. Tax-and-
spend won't solve our problems. It has no potency.
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else. And then we need bold resolve. I believe that you tell
the American people the hard facts, and then we'll all get to
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and a secure and good life at
home.
God bless New Jersey and God bless the United States of
America.
7
1
FOR 9/9/92: NEW JERSEY OCEAN POLLUTION INSERT
An important part of New Jersey's economy is tourism -- and
specially that associated with your beautiful New Jersey shore.
For too many years, your shore was put at risk by pollution from
New York that leaders there were afraid to take on, from the short-
sighted dumping of sewage sludge in the ocean, and from garbage
that floated on the water as a constant reminder of too much
neglect of our environment. You had a clear message -- we want our
ocean back.
I came to the New Jersey shore in 1988 and promised to change
that attitude of neglect -- to help you win your ocean back -- and
I want to report to you what I've done.
First, we promised to end ocean dumping of sewage sludge. We
went right to work on it. Agreements were signed to get the sludge
out of the ocean with everyone who was dumping it there. And on
June of this year, the last barge that will ever dump sludge in
this ocean sailed from New York harbor. Ocean dumping is no more. /
We're going to take our ocean back.
Second, we wanted to clean up the sewage, coming from New York
City and cities to the north, that was polluting our ocean. So we
proposed to put the program to treat sewage back on sound footing -
- we've invested two billion dollars a year at the Federal level to
help the states get these plants built. And in New Jersey, your
Wastewater Treatment Trust, created by Tom Kean, has made progress
-- plants, from
-
to Asbury Park, have moved to secondary
treatment.
2
Frankly, New York has been less responsible. And since I know
that you here in New Jersey were getting tired of waiting, I asked
New York to stop the foot dragging -- and I put $70 million in the
Federal budget, both last year and this year, to kick start
progress on New York City building the secondary sewage treatment
plants they need for cleaner water. Now, that's a grant to New
York -- but the benefit will show up right here in the form of a
cleaner ocean for the New Jersey Shore. We're going to take our
ocean back.
Finally, we've expanded a program to get the garbage out of
the water. We've given the resources to our EPA and to the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers to expand the so-called "floatables"
program. The EPA and Corps collect the refuse from Fresh Kills
landfill in New York or from careless boaters that finds its way
into the ocean --- and this prevents it from showing up on New
Jersey's beaches. We're going to take our ocean back.
You know, I'm a fisherman and an outdoorsman. I know how much
the people of New Jersey love their ocean. The waves. The
beaches. The bluefish and flounder, and sweet Jersey summer corn
to go with it. We've made some progress in preserving that
treasure for New Jerseyans to come. Even Governor Florio noted
that a few weeks ago. But I want you to know that we're not
finished. We're going to keep working -- to finish the job on
sewage treatment, to end dumping of any pollutants, to give the
shore the protection it deserves -- because we want our ocean back.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
9/3/92
TO:
KEN ASKEW
FROM: BOB GRADY
The first two pages of this
would be useful fodder for
inclusion in the NJ speech
for Wednesday.
cc: Steve Provost
P.S. I am sending under
separate cover a few
paragraphs on ocean
pollution to you.
INSERT FOR NEW JERSEY JOB TRAINING EVENT SPEECH
by NJ 8/24/92 Jas Train
It's great to be here in New Jersey with my good friend and
our New Jersey campaign chairman -- Tom Kean.
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You know, Tom used to have a saying: "New Jersey and You:
Mn
Perfect Together."
Well, speaking of perfect together, did you notice who was
the very first person ---- the very first Governor -- that my
opponent visited at the end of the other party's convention in
New York City. You guessed it, the greatest tax raiser in New
Jersey history -- Governor Jim Florio. (What a bus trip --
first stop Florio's office -- they went straight from Gotham City
to Cape Fear. ))
Let me tell you, that was no mistake.
You may have heard my acceptance speech in Houston the other
night. I made a few simple proposals there.
We all know that the government is too big and spends too
much. / So I said that I would veto any approprations bill that
spent more than my budget. / I said I would put a cap on
mandatory spending. I asked for a balanced budget amendment and
a line item veto./ And I made a proposal that will let you --
the people of New Jersey, and people all across America -- help
reduce the national debt and cut spending with a checkoff on your
tax return. We're going to put a line on your tax return next
M
year: it will say, "check here to stop the spenders." If
Congress won't cut spending, let the people do it./
2
On taxes, I made a new proposal. I said we should cut taxes
across the board -- and pay for those cuts by reducing spending
so that we don't increase the deficit. And I asked for an in
crease in the personal exemption to help families save, and a cut
in capital gains taxes to help create jobs.
Now, my opponent's reaction has been very interesting. On
the subject of spending restraint, he hasn't had much at all to
say. In fact, his idea of restraint is to spend $220 billion
more. ( (No wonder they call it Elvis Economics. Sounds like if
he was in the stamp contest he'd be the older Elvis, not the
young one. It's just that I don'tt want our economy to look like
that when the gorging is done!))
On taxes, however, the good Governor of Arkansas has had
plenty to say. He's already proposed a $150 billion tax
increase, and new payroll taxes for government health care and
government training. But look at last week. On Wednesday, he
endorsed the $100 billion tax increase passed by the Congress
earlier this year. He's for it, I vetoed it./ On Thursday, he
said tax cuts were a "cynical ploy. And on Friday, he said that
cutting taxes was "fool's gold."
Folks, it's this simple. If he thinks it is foolish to cut
taxes, and that it will help America to raise taxes, then there
is only one thing to say about the good Governor of Arkansas:
Bill Clinton and Jim Florio, you're perfect together.
Perhaps nowhere is difference between my opponent and me
more clear than on the subject of job training.
Let's put the importance of training in perspecttive. One
in every six jobs in New Jersey is trade related. So in this
state you know this: if we are going to win the peace -- as I
said the other night -- we've got to be an export superpower.
To be such a superpower, we must tap the talents of every
individual in America. We must prepare our workforce -- all of
our workforce -- to compete. And we must expand the work force
itself by putting skills in the hands of people who now face
barriers to work -- young people, disabled Americans, workers in
industries that are changing as America and the world change.
What all this meansis that workers both young and old need to
have the skills that the 21st century economy will require.
Now my opponent's approach is this -- we should tax small
businesses around the country 1.5 percent -- that's 1.5 percent
that will come right out of every worker's paycheck, to pay for
a new government-run training program. Remember, small business
have created over two-thirds of the new jobs in America during
the last decade -- my opponent would smother them with this and
other new taxes. Let me say this to Governor Clinton: there is
no point in training people for jobs if your plan is going to
destroy them.
I would like to announce today an alternative approach to
job training. My plan is different in many ways. It rests on
the proposition that we should empower people with skills,
instead of empowering bureaucracies with people. It will be
implemented by streamlining job training programs under one roof
-- something we call Job Training 2000. That way, someone who
4
needs training can get what he or she needs with one stop
shopping, instead of having to deal with a maze of government
bureaucracy that makes you want to stop shopping altogether.
Finally, the plans I will announce today can be funded and
implemented without raising taxes on the job creators of
America.
The first part of my plan is targeted at the the young
people of America.
First, I propose that we create a new Youth Training Corps.
This will take young people off the mean streets and put them on
the road to success. Through seven months of intense training,
we can give at-risk youth the skills, the discipline and the hope
they need to be part of America's winning team. The program I am
proposing today can serve 43,000 more kids next year. And we
will add 25 new centers to do it.
Second, we've got to give kids in high school the apprentice
training they need to get jobs. I have established a Youth
Apprenticeship Training program that is training kids in six
states today. It's working. [In Maryland, John Doe
]
So today, I propose to expand this program to all 50 states --
and make it a National Youth Apprenticeship Program.
Third, we must rescue the skills of those who have fallen
victim to the scourge of drugs, but are now ready to contribute.
So today I am announcing the creation of a new program, "Treat
and Train", which will help 28,000 young people get intensive
drug treatment and training through the Youth Training Corps.
Drug use in America is coming down, and my aim is to drive it to
zero. But the story cannot end there. We need to take the minds
we've rescued and put them to work in building a better America.
Fourth, I am announcing today a program to take advantage
of one of the most effective job training organzations anywhere
on earth -- the U.S. Armed Forces. Our Defense Department now
runs a junior ROTC program at about 1500 high schools across
America. Today, I would like to announce that I will double the
number of high schools involved. With this expansion, more
than 220,000 additional high school students will have the
benefit of junior ROTC training. That's a quarter of a million
more students that we can help "be all that they can be"
But job training isn't and shouldn't be only for young
adults. In our fast moving economy, many of us can expect to
change jobs several times in our adult lives. We've got to help
make this transition more smooth for people of all ages by
providing the training the need to get the jobs of tomorrow.
The retraining programs we have today simply don't work all
that well. So we are going to change them. There are two
existing worker retraining and trade adjustment assistance
programs -- we are combine them into one, more effective skills
training program. But the most important twist is this: we are
going put power in the hands of people, by providing skills grant
vouchers -- worth up to $3,000 per person -- so that a worker who
needs training can go to the training program of his or her
choice. Giving people a choice -- and empowering them to make
that choice -- is the heart of our program. It will work
better than giving them a government make work job. And it
will work better than just expanding the bureaucracy that runs
the same old program. We are so confident that our choice-
based strategy is best that I will propose to triple the funding
for training conjunction with scrapping the old system and
bringing in the new. That way, every worker who now needs
Federal help for job training skills can get it.
Giving people the power to be their best. That is what has
made America the greatest country the world has ever known. That
is what helped make the 20th century the American century. And
that is what can help us win the economic competition -- win the
peace -- and ensure that the 21st century is another American
century.
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Hoffman-LaRoche (pharmaceutical)
Lever Brothers
Hoescht (pronounced [HERKTS])
Siemens
Phillips (electrical)
Also in NJ, American headquarters for Mercedes-Benz, Volvo and
Subaru (but they only employ a limited number of people -- e.g.,
400 at Mercedes-Benz)
(Askew/Nix)
September 8, 1992
2:45 P.M.
JERSEY
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: VFW HALL EVENT
MIDDLETOWN, NEW JERSEY
SEPTEMBER 9, 1992
((TIME??)
((Acknowledgements, humor.) )
Four years ago, almost to the day, I was here in New Jersey,
campaigning for the Presidency.
At the time, our world was much different. A nuclear Sword
of Damocles hung over our children's heads.
Today, I return to this beautiful Garden State to say
something no President could ever say before: The Cold War is
over. And freedom finished first.
Now our kids can go to sleep now without the specter of
nuclear holocaust in their dreams. Does that mean anything? You
bet it does.
Now America's challenge is straightforward. In the 21st
century, America must remain a military superpower, an export
superpower and an economic superpower.
In this election, you'll hear two versions of how to do
that. Theirs is to look inward, and protect what we already
have. Ours is to look outward -- to open new markets, prepare
our people to compete, to strengthen the American family -- to
save and invest -- so we can win.
It starts with a commitment to trade, by opening world
markets to the fruits of American labor.
1
New Jersey knows what that means -- better than just about
anyone, in fact. This state understands that job growth is tied
directly to foreign trade and foreign investment -- to the tune
of ((X jobs and X dollars as result of foreign investment in
NJ) )
New Jersey is home to ((biggest foreign companies) because
you went out and fought to bring them here. You understand that
the world's economies are rapidly becoming one global economy.
Understanding that simple, profound fact led my
administration to negotiate the North American Free Trade Act.
NAFTA would create one of the world's largest free-trade zones -
- a $6 trillion market, from the Yukon to the Yucatan -- and
would create 300,000 American jobs just in the short term.
When my opponent was asked about the treaty, he said, "I'm
reviewing it carefully, and when I have a definitive opinion I
will say so."
Well, ((Thomas Jefferson said, "Leadership is
...
")). And
Peter Drucker said, "Leadership is action."
But you know nowhere do I see leadership defined as --
"I'll get back to you later."
And by the way, when Governor Clinton did get back to
America on the issue of a global economy, he said he wanted to
tax foreign investment. It sounds politically appealing, but it
would endanger every one of those New Jersey jobs provided by a
foreign company.
2
So there's one choice, America. I stand for trade. Strong,
free international trade. Governor Clinton stands for
protectionism -- when he takes a stand at all.
There's a clear choice when it comes to getting the economy
going again, too.
I spent half my career in the public sector, and half in the
private sector
creating jobs and meeting a payroll
and I
have the ulcers to prove it. I think that's a pretty good
qualification for being President.
And what I learned as a businessman is that it's as plain as
day that higher taxes don't create jobs. They destroy jobs.
So I believe that government is already too big -- and
spends too much of your money.
That's why I've put forward a freeze on federal
discretionary spending, plus a plan to control the growth of
mandatory federal spending without ever touching Social Security.
It would save $300 billion over five years.
So far, Congress has balked at making these tough choices.
So now I have a new idea. I want to give you -- the taxpayer --
the option of taking ten percent of your income tax -- and using
it for one purpose alone to reduce the budget deficit.
And then -- I'll cut taxes -- across the board.
Now
what about my opponent?
Well, he's been in the public sector all of his professional
life
except for four years he spent as a lawyer. Get this --
3
every day during those four years, he was running for office so
he could get back on the public payroll.
And now Governor Clinton says he respects the small
businessman. That's like the guy who says he loves to sail, but
has never seen a boat.
And it's reflected in his politics.
Last week when Tom Brokaw interviewed him, the first words
out of the Governor's mouth were, "I advocate a tax increase."
Specifically, he means $150 billion -- for starters. And he
proposes $220 billion in new government spending, although the
experts admit it may be three times as high as that.
Now, he says he only wants to tax the rich more. Except
there aren't enough rich people in America to cough up the cash
he wants to spend.
You tell me what's going to happen.
I ask New Jersey -- does this sound familiar?
( (Remember a candidate for Governor of this state, who said
he would never raise taxes? Well, guess who BIll Clinton made a
beeline toward after his convention. Like a moth to the flame -
- he went to see Governor Jim Florio.) )
I wish I could bring every American voter to New Jersey to
see first-hand what a governor and legislature in collusion can
do to wreck an economy.
Remember Governor Kean's motto for this state? Well
every New Jerseyite knows all too well
that a rubber-check
4
legislature and a rubber-stamp executive are not -- "perfect
together."
of course the answer isn't more taxes. It's more jobs.
I know that tourism is a big part of New Jersey's economy.
And I know it creates thousands of jobs. And I also that people
don't come to New Jersey to see sludge and medical waste.
(If they want to see those things they can go to Arkansas.
And if they want to breathe air that meets California's
environmental standards while they're there, they'll have to wear
gas masks.)
Well, I meant it when I came to the Jersey shore in '88 and
promised to change the attitude of neglect that had polluted your
beautiful beaches.
First, we promised to end ocean dumping of sewage sludge.
We went right to work on it, and last June, the last barge that
will ever dump sludge in this ocean sailed from New York Harbor.
Ocean dumping is no more, and now, when tourists look out over
the Jersey shore, they won't see sludge barges. They'll see
sailboats.
Second, we wanted to clean up the sewage coming from New
York City and points beyond. We've invested two billion dollars
a year at the Federal level to build new sewage treatment plants,
and Tom Kean's Wastewater Treatment Trust has made great progress
here in New Jersey.
New York has been less responsive, so I put $70 million in
(
the Federal budget, both last year and this year, to get them
5
moving so you don't have to put up with the City's sewage washing
up on your shores anymore. And when people look out over the
Jersey shore
they won't see sewage. They'll see swimmers.
And third, we're finally getting the garbage out of the
water. We've given the EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
the resources to collect the refuse from Fresh Kills landfill in
New York and floatables from careless boaters that end up
on New Jersey's beaches. And when New Jerseyites look out over
the Jersey shore
they won't see trash. They'll see tourists.
That's what government can do when it confronts real
problems
with real policies
based on real ideas -- not old
formulas from the past.
My opponent reminds me of a tired old fellow who's looking
in his medicine cabinet at a bunch of prescriptions that expired
years ago.
Well, folks
old medicine won't cure our ills. Tax-and-
spend won't solve our problems. It has no potency.
America today needs realism in its government above all
else. And then we need bold resolve. I believe that you tell
the American people the hard facts, and then we'll all get to
work and do something about changing them for the better.
I've seen it happen so many times before.
I know four years can change things. For the better
and
for the worse.
We've had some challenging times
but let's not retreat
into the past, with tired, expired remedies.
6
Let's press forward
into a new century of global
economics
where America can compete with the best
world-
class goods and services abroad and a secure and good life at
home.
God bless New Jersey
and God bless the United States of
America.
7
(Askew/Nix)
September 8, 1992
2:45 P.M.
JERSEY
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: VFW HALL EVENT
MIDDLETOWN, NEW JERSEY
SEPTEMBER 9, 1992
((TIME??)
((Acknowledgements, humor.))
Four years ago, almost to the day, I was here in New Jersey,
campaigning for the Presidency.
At the time, our world was much different. A nuclear Sword
of Damocles hung over our children's heads.
Today, I return to this beautiful Garden State to say
something no President could ever say before: The Cold War is
over. And freedom finished first.
Now our kids can go to sleep now without the specter of
nuclear holocaust in their dreams. Does that mean anything? You
bet it does.
Now America's challenge is straightforward. In the 21st
century, America must remain a military superpower, an export
superpower and an economic superpower.
In this election, you'll hear two versions of how to do
that. Theirs is to look inward, and protect what we already
have. Ours is to look outward -- to open new markets, prepare
our people to compete, to strengthen the American family -- to
save and invest -- so we can win.
It starts with a commitment to trade, by opening world
markets to the fruits of American labor.
1
New Jersey knows what that means -- better than just about
anyone, in fact. This state understands that job growth is tied
directly to foreign trade and foreign investment -- to the tune
of ((X jobs and X dollars as result of foreign investment in
NJ)).
New Jersey is home to ((biggest foreign companies)) because
you went out and fought to bring them here. You understand that
the world's economies are rapidly becoming one global economy.
Understanding that simple, profound fact led my
administration to negotiate the North American Free Trade Act.
NAFTA would create one of the world's largest free-trade zones -
- a $6 trillion market, from the Yukon to the Yucatan -- and
would create 300,000 American jobs just in the short term.
When my opponent was asked about the treaty, he said, "I'm
reviewing it carefully, and when I have a definitive opinion I
will say so."
Well, ((Thomas Jefferson said, "Leadership is
...
")). And
Peter Drucker said, "Leadership is action."
But you know nowhere do I see leadership defined as --
"I'll get back to you later."
And by the way, when Governor Clinton did get back to
America on the issue of a global economy, he said he wanted to
tax foreign investment. It sounds politically appealing, but it
would endanger every one of those New Jersey jobs provided by a
foreign company.
2
So there's one choice, America. I stand for trade. Strong,
free international trade. Governor Clinton stands for
protectionism -- when he takes a stand at all.
There's a clear choice when it comes to getting the economy
going again, too.
I spent half my career in the public sector, and half in the
private sector
creating jobs and meeting a payroll
and I
have the ulcers to prove it. I think that's a pretty good
qualification for being President.
And what I learned as a businessman is that it's as plain as
day that higher taxes don't create jobs. They destroy jobs.
So I believe that government is already too big -- and
spends too much of your money.
That's why I've put forward a freeze on federal
discretionary spending, plus a plan to control the growth of
mandatory federal spending without ever touching Social Security.
It would save $300 billion over five years.
So far, Congress has balked at making these tough choices.
So now I have a new idea. I want to give you -- the taxpayer --
the option of taking ten percent of your income tax -- and using
it for one purpose alone
to reduce the budget deficit.
And then -- I'll cut taxes -- across the board.
Now
what about my opponent?
Well, he's been in the public sector all of his professional
life
except for four years he spent as a lawyer. Get this --
3
every day during those four years, he was running for office so
he could get back on the public payroll.
And now Governor Clinton says he respects the small
businessman. That's like the guy who says he loves to sail, but
has never seen a boat.
And it's reflected in his politics.
Last week when Tom Brokaw interviewed him, the first words
out of the Governor's mouth were, "I advocate a tax increase."
Specifically, he means $150 billion -- for starters. And he
proposes $220 billion in new government spending, although the
experts admit it may be three times as high as that.
Now, he says he only wants to tax the rich more. Except
there aren't enough rich people in America to cough up the cash
he wants to spend.
You tell me what's going to happen.
I ask New Jersey -- does this sound familiar?
((Remember a candidate for Governor of this state, who said
he would never raise taxes? Well, guess who BIll Clinton made a
beeline toward after his convention. Like a moth to the flame -
- he went to see Governor Jim Florio.))
I wish I could bring every American voter to New Jersey to
see first-hand what a governor and legislature in collusion can
do to wreck an economy.
Remember Governor Kean's motto for this state? Well
every New Jerseyite knows all too well
that a rubber-check
4
legislature and a rubber-stamp executive are not -- "perfect
together."
of course the answer isn't more taxes. It's more jobs.
I know that tourism is a big part of New Jersey's economy.
And I know it creates thousands of jobs. And I also that people
don't come to New Jersey to see sludge and medical waste.
(If they want to see those things they can go to Arkansas.
And if they want to breathe air that meets California's
environmental standards while they're there, they'll have to wear
gas masks.)
Well, I meant it when I came to the Jersey shore in '88 and
promised to change the attitude of neglect that had polluted your
beautiful beaches.
First, we promised to end ocean dumping of sewage sludge.
We went right to work on it, and last June, the last barge that
will ever dump sludge in this ocean sailed from New York Harbor.
Ocean dumping is no more, and now, when tourists look out over
the Jersey shore, they won't see sludge barges. They'll see
sailboats.
Second, we wanted to clean up the sewage coming from New
York City and points beyond. We've invested two billion dollars
a year at the Federal level to build new sewage treatment plants,
and Tom Kean's Wastewater Treatment Trust has made great progress
here in New Jersey.
New York has been less responsive, so I put $70 million in
the Federal budget, both last year and this year, to get them
5
moving so you don't have to put up with the City's sewage washing
up on your shores anymore. And when people look out over the
Jersey shore they won't see sewage. They'll see swimmers.
And third, we're finally getting the garbage out of the
water. We've given the EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
the resources to collect the refuse from Fresh Kills landfill in
New York and floatables from careless boaters that end up
on New Jersey's beaches. And when New Jerseyites look out over
the Jersey shore
they won't see trash. They'll see tourists.
That's what government can do when it confronts real
problems
with real policies
based on real ideas -- not old
formulas from the past.
My opponent reminds me of a tired old fellow who's looking
in his medicine cabinet at a bunch of prescriptions that expired
years ago.
Well, folks
old medicine won't cure our ills. Tax-and-
spend won't solve our problems. It has no potency.
America today needs realism in its government above all
else. And then we need bold resolve. I believe that you tell
the American people the hard facts, and then we'll all get to
work and do something about changing them for the better.
I've seen it happen so many times before.
I know four years can change things. For the better
and
for the worse.
We've had some challenging times
but let's not retreat
into the past, with tired, expired remedies.
6
Let's press forward
into a new century of global
economics
where America can compete with the best
world-
class goods and services abroad and a secure and good life at
home.
God bless New Jersey
and God bless the United States of
America.
7
(Askew/Nix)
September 8, 1992
2:45 P.M.
JERSEY
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: VFW HALL EVENT
MIDDLETOWN, NEW JERSEY
SEPTEMBER 9, 1992
((TIME??)
((Acknowledgements, humor.))
Four years ago, almost to the day, I was here in New Jersey,
campaigning for the Presidency.
At the time, our world was much different. A nuclear Sword
of Damocles hung over our children's heads.
Today, I return to this beautiful Garden State to say
something no President could ever say before: The Cold War is
over. And freedom finished first.
Now our kids can go to sleep now without the specter of
nuclear holocaust in their dreams. Does that mean anything? You
bet it does.
Now America's challenge is straightforward. In the 21st
century, America must remain a military superpower, an export
superpower and an economic superpower.
In this election, you'll hear two versions of how to do
that. Theirs is to look inward, and protect what we already
have. Ours is to look outward -- to open new markets, prepare
our people to compete, to strengthen the American family -- to
save and invest -- so we can win.
It starts with a commitment to trade, by opening world
markets to the fruits of American labor.
1
New Jersey knows what that means -- better than just about
anyone, in fact. This state understands that job growth is tied
directly to foreign trade and foreign investment -- to the tune
of ((X jobs and X dollars as result of foreign investment in
NJ)).
New Jersey is home to ((biggest foreign companies)) because
you went out and fought to bring them here. You understand that
the world's economies are rapidly becoming one global economy.
Understanding that simple, profound fact led my
administration to negotiate the North American Free Trade Act.
NAFTA would create one of the world's largest free-trade zones -
- a $6 trillion market, from the Yukon to the Yucatan -- and
would create 300,000 American jobs just in the short term.
When my opponent was asked about the treaty, he said, "I'm
reviewing it carefully, and when I have a definitive opinion I
will say so."
Well, ((Thomas Jefferson said, "Leadership is
...
")). And
Peter Drucker said, "Leadership is action."
But you know. nowhere do I see leadership defined as --
"I'll get back to you later."
And by the way, when Governor Clinton did get back to
America on the issue of a global economy, he said he wanted to
tax foreign investment. It sounds politically appealing, but it
would endanger every one of those New Jersey jobs provided by a
foreign company.
2
So there's one choice, America. I stand for trade. Strong,
free international trade. Governor Clinton stands for
protectionism -- when he takes a stand at all.
There's a clear choice when it comes to getting the economy
going again, too.
I spent half my career in the public sector, and half in the
private sector
creating jobs and meeting a payroll
and I
have the ulcers to prove it. I think that's a pretty good
qualification for being President.
And what I learned as a businessman is that it's as plain as
day that higher taxes don't create jobs. They destroy jobs.
So I believe that government is already too big, -- and
spends too much of your money.
That's why I've put forward a freeze on federal
discretionary spending, plus a plan to control the growth of
mandatory federal spending without ever touching Social Security.
It would save $300 billion over five years.
So far, Congress has balked at making these tough choices.
So now I have a new idea. I want to give you -- the taxpayer --
the option of taking ten percent of your income tax -- and using
it for one purpose alone to reduce the budget deficit.
And then --- I'll cut taxes -- across the board.
Now
what about my opponent?
Well, he's been in the public sector all of his professional
life.
except for four years he spent as a lawyer. Get this --
3
every day during those four years, he was running for office so
he could get back on the public payroll.
And now Governor Clinton says he respects the small
businessman. That's like the guy who says he loves to sail, but
has never seen a boat.
And it's reflected in his politics.
Last week when Tom Brokaw interviewed him, the first words
out of the Governor's mouth were, "I advocate a tax increase."
Specifically, he means $150 billion -- for starters. And he
proposes $220 billion in new government spending, although the
experts admit it may be three times as high as that.
Now, he says he only wants to tax the rich more. Except
there aren't enough rich people in America to cough up the cash
he wants to spend.
You tell me what's going to happen.
I ask New Jersey -- does this sound familiar?
( (Remember a candidate for Governor of this state, who said
he would never raise taxes? Well, guess who BIll Clinton made a
beeline toward after his convention. Like a moth to the flame -
- he went to see Governor Jim Florio.))
I wish I could bring every American voter to New Jersey to
see first-hand what a governor and legislature in collusion can
do to wreck an economy.
Remember Governor Kean's motto for this state? Well
every New Jerseyite knows all too well
that a rubber-check
4
legislature and a rubber-stamp executive are not -- "perfect
together."
of course the answer isn't more taxes. It's more jobs.
I know that tourism is a big part of New Jersey's economy.
And I know it creates thousands of jobs. And I also that people
don't come to New Jersey to see sludge and medical waste.
(If they want to see those things they can go to Arkansas.
And if they want to breathe air that meets California's
environmental standards while they're there, they'll have to wear
gas masks.)
Well, I meant it when I came to the Jersey shore in '88 and
promised to change the attitude of neglect that had polluted your
beautiful beaches.
First, we promised to end ocean dumping of sewage sludge.
We went right to work on it, and last June, the last barge that
will ever dump sludge in this ocean sailed from New York Harbor.
Ocean dumping is no more, and now, when tourists look out over
the Jersey shore, they won't see sludge barges. They'll see
sailboats.
Second, we wanted to clean up the sewage coming from New
York City and points beyond. We've invested two billion dollars
a year at the Federal level to build new sewage treatment plants,
and Tom Kean's Wastewater Treatment Trust has made great progress
here in New Jersey.
New York has been less responsive, so I put $70 million in
the Federal budget, both last year and this year, to get them
5
moving so you don't have to put up with the City's sewage washing
up on your shores anymore. And when people look out over the
Jersey shore they won't see sewage. They'll see swimmers.
And third, we're finally getting the garbage out of the
water. We've given the EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
the resources to collect the refuse from Fresh Kills landfill in
New York
and floatables from careless boaters that end up
on New Jersey's beaches. And when New Jerseyites look out over
the Jersey shore
they won't (see trash. They'll see tourists.
That's what government can do when it confronts real
problems
with real policies
based on real ideas -- not old
formulas from the past.
My opponent reminds me of a tired old fellow who's looking
in his medicine cabinet at a bunch of prescriptions that expired
years ago.
Well, folks
old medicine won't cure our ills. Tax-and-
spend won't solve our problems. It has no potency.
America today needs realism in its government above all
else. And then we need bold resolve. I believe that you tell
the American people the hard facts, and then we'll all get to
work and do something about changing them for the better.
I've seen it happen so many times before.
I know four years can change things. For the better
and
for the worse.
We've had some challenging times
but let's not retreat
into the past, with tired, expired remedies.
6
Let's press forward
into a new century of global
economics
where America can compete with the best
world-
class goods and services abroad and a secure and good life at
home.
God bless New Jersey
and God bless the United States of
America.
7
"Sometimes people call me an idealist
that is why I know I am an
American. "
--Woodrow Wilson
"Just what is it America stands for? If she stands for one thing
more than another, it is for the sovereignty of self-governing
people. "
--Woodrow Wilson, Jan. 27, 1916
"America was a beginning
not a consumation. "
-- Woodrow Wilson
"Look well to the hearthstone, for therein all hope for America
lies. "
-- Calvin Coolidge, suggests context of family,
neighbors, friends America's brightest hope in these
difficult moments
"Paths are made by walking."
-- old Spanish proverb, suggest contexts of America
forging its way toward better days by pulling
together, uniting and moving forward.
When asked his secret, Wayne Gretsky replied: "I skate to where
the puck is going to be, not where it has been.' "
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