That's why President Bush, General Colin Powell, former Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros will join the Vice President and me to lead the President's Summit of Service in Philadelphia in April.
Increasing health costs are of deep concern to all and a powerful force pushing up the cost of living.
In a democratic system like ours, foreign policy decisions must be able to stand the test of public examination and public debate.
safety awards have been initiated, and a national construction safety program has been developed.
The War and Navy Departments are expected to spend 13 billion dollars; expenditures of other agencies, such as the United States Maritime Commission, the War Shipping Administration, and the Office of Price Administration, and payments to the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration are estimated at 3 billion dollars.
But it points us in the right direction--allowing taxpayers rather than the Government to spend their pay.
In the administration of the Government, no problem takes more of the President's time, year in and year out, than fashioning the Budget, and the related problem of managing the public debt.
Towering over this volatile, changing world, like a thundercloud on a summer day, looms the awesome power of nuclear weapons.
One hundred sixty million of our fellow citizens are in managed care plans.
America is a nation with a mission, and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs.
And I know out of my own experience, that we can do what must be done.
In other words, the Federal Government will hold the line on real spending.
Last January, and again last September, I recommended fiscal and moderate tax measures to try to restrain the unbalanced pace of economic expansion.
Cutting taxes now is essential if we are to turn the economy around.
We've got to ask our community leaders and all kinds of organizations to help us stop our most serious social problem: the epidemic of teen pregnancies and births where there is no marriage.
On some domestic issues we may, and probably shall, disagree.
We understand that other Summit countries plan similar responses.
Today marks the official retirement of a very special American.
Last January, most things were rapidly getting worse.
They can cut off your benefits when you need your coverage the most.
Our industry was growing, and we had new interests in the Far East and in the Caribbean, but we were primarily concerned with the development of vast areas of our own continental territory.
We will pay off our national debt for the first time since 1835.
A budget's impact is counted in dollars, but measured in lives.
Such a war is not a possible policy for rational men.
We have long recognized that in an era of interdependence, our own security and prosperity depend upon a larger common effort with friends and allies throughout the world.
For America, this is a nightmare scenario.
To keep our economy growing, we also need reliable supplies of affordable, environmentally responsible energy.
I also request you to give us funds to add immediately 100 assistant United States attorneys throughout the land to help prosecute our criminal laws.
Our allies from time to time develop differing ideas on how to proceed.
Last March, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, a mastermind of September the 11th, awoke to find himself in the custody of U.S.and Pakistani authorities.
ENHANCING NATIONAL SECURITY, AMERICAN MILITARY STRENGTH: The maintenance of national security is my first concern, as it has been for every president before me.
Where others fear trade and economic growth, we see opportunities for creating new wealth and undreamed-of opportunities for millions in our own land and beyond.
expedite clean and safe nuclear power production;
I have often and strongly urged that this condition demands a national health program.
the recession was deeper than most inside and out of government had predicted.
But, looking back over 10 years' experience and ahead to the future, we cannot fail to see defects and serious inadequacies in our system as it now exists.
GLOBAL ECONOMICS:  As we enter the 21st century, the global economy requires us to seek opportunity not just at home, but in all the markets of the world.
Thanks to the courage of the people who were here then, many of whom didn't return, we did cut the deficit.
It was here, surrounded by such friends, that the distinguished Chief Justice swore me in as Vice President on December 6, 1973.
Now, I know that some in my own party will argue that we can't address the deficit or freeze Government spending when so many are still hurting.
To achieve that goal, we must first face realistically the need to maintain our defense.
We know that our continuing racial problems are aggravated, as the Presidential Initiative said, by opportunity gaps.
They are now ready to use this strength in helping to build a strong combined defense against aggression.
There are millions like her all across America.
This year, I recommend a five-year commitment in the new system so that we can provide, over the next five years, appropriate training opportunities for all Americans who lose their jobs, and expand rapid response teams to help all towns which have been really hurt when businesses close.
We know we must connect all our classrooms to the Internet, and we're getting there.
Lower interest rates will eventually help, but we cannot assume they will do the job all by themselves.
In this respect, 1951 was a year of great achievement.
In the end, I chose this course of action because it provides the best chance for success.
Military expenditures in the current fiscal year include 650 million dollars for civilian supplies for the prevention of starvation and disease in occupied areas.
There must be a real incentive for the Soviets to take these talks seriously.
We must gradually reduce certain tariff obstacles to trade.
Now, I didn't have any simple answers for all these problems.
During the past four years we have regained a strong, dynamic and flexible posture for the United States in this vital region.
The great question of the seventies is, shall we surrender to our surroundings, or shall we make our peace with nature and begin to make reparations for the damage we have done to our air, to our land, and to our water?
That's at the heart of this New Covenant -- responsibility, opportunity and citizenship.
I have discussed these in the extensive written message that I have presented to the Congress today.
Well, if there are, let's talk about them and let's do them.
So I want to work with you to give our economy an important jump-start by making tax relief retroactive.
The Nation's commitment in the field of civil rights began with the Declaration of Independence.
If we were to continue to expand the Federal Government at the rate of the past several decades, it soon would consume us entirely.
The cost of our government has been reduced and its work proceeds with some 183,000 fewer employees; thus the discouraging trend of modern governments toward their own limitless expansion has in our case been reversed.
Together, we build the foundation for a government that works, and works for people.
In the Western Hemisphere we shall continue to develop harmonious and mutually beneficial cooperation with our neighbors.
Until such efforts succeed, or until the infiltration ceases, or until the conflict subsides, I think the course of wisdom for this country is that we just must firmly pursue our present course.
And tonight, I ask you to give me what 43 Governors have--give me a line-item veto this year.
We cannot solve them without effort and sacrifice.
Let us have the will and the patience to do this job together.
That's why the international community is more united and the Islamic Republic of Iran is more isolated.
We have made progress in trade negotiations and avoided protectionism during recession.
The economic outlook for this year is one of steady growth-if we are vigilant.
Many people in the United States -- some people in this chamber -- and lots of folks around the world still believe you cannot cut greenhouse gas emissions without slowing economic growth.
But we must do more than break up trusts and monopolies after they have begun to strangle competition.
Government should not fund religious activities.
In a country such as ours there is no reason why decent homes should not be within the reach of all.
But all these recommendations, however, will be rooted in one fundamental principle with which there can be no compromise: Local school boards must have control over local schools.
I hope we can all agree that public service should never impose an unreasonable financial sacrifice on able men and women who want to serve their country.
This week I will send you our detailed proposals;
Hunger and disease could increasingly be driven from the earth.
Using unobligated ship-building funds now (to let contracts originally scheduled for the next fiscal year) will build and place on station--at least nine months earlier than planned--substantially more units of a crucial deterrent--a fleet that will never attack first, but possess sufficient powers of retaliation, concealed beneath the seas, to discourage any aggressor from launching an attack upon our security.
Measures toward this end will be proposed later, including a re-examination of our own relation to the International Court of Justice.
We shall not be aggressors, but we and our allies have and will maintain a massive capability to strike back.
The most basic tool of all is a decent income.
Federally-funded research helped lead to the ideas and inventions behind Google and smartphones.
And she is using her success to help others, producing child safety videos with John Walsh of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
I am hopeful that preliminary recommendations of this Committee will be available in time to assist in shaping the Mutual Security program for the coming fiscal year.
But we will give our fighting men what they must have: every gun, and every dollar, and every decision-whatever the cost or whatever the challenge.
Last year, of the 13 appropriations bills due by October 1st, none of them made it.
My Administration has sought to reverse a decade-long decline in funding.
We also have to make needed investments to expand access to mental health care.
expenditures account for a further 30 percent of the total.
We seek only to uphold the principles of international justice which have been embodied in the Charter of the United Nations.
A government that helps each and every one of us to get an education, and to have the opportunity to renew our skills.
Although intermittent declines in economic activity persist as a problem in our enterprise system, recent downturns have been moderate and of short duration.
Our weapons are the principles and ideas embodied in our historic traditions, applied with the same vigor that in the past made America a living promise of freedom for all mankind.
in the imaginations of our entrepreneurs and the pride of the hardest-working people on Earth.
These nations aren't playing for second place.
Tonight, there is every sign that the state of our Union is sound.
The Congress must give early attention to a number of important bills which remain.
The wisdom of our bipartisan cooperation was seen in the work of the Scowcroft commission, which strengthened our ability to deter war and protect peace.
If we value strong families, we can't perpetuate a system that actually penalizes those who stay together.
Let me make clear what I mean by the region's stability and security.
They will enhance our health, the environment, the economy in ways we can't even imagine today.
The nation can ill afford to abandon a national policy which provides for a fully adequate and steady level of effort, designed for the long pull;
These remarkable ships and weapons, ranging the oceans, will be capable of accurate fire on targets virtually anywhere on earth.
The aspirations of all peoples are one--peace with justice in freedom.
Our Nation is blessed with recovery programs that do amazing work.
As its common undertakings grow at an ever-increasing pace, we are, and increasingly will be, partners in aid, trade, defense, diplomacy, and monetary affairs.
The new NATO force will allow reconstruction and reconciliation to accelerate.
My plan has four broad features: attention to urgent priorities, investment in the future, an attack on the deficit, and no new taxes.
For all the many tasks that require our attention, one calls on us to focus, unite, and act.
But we can do even better -- in building a 21st century economy that embraces all Americans.
I know there are differences among us -- [laughter] -- about the impact and the effects of a capital gains incentive.
OUR INTELLIGENCE POSTURE:Our national interests are critically dependent on a strong and effective intelligence capability.
The major responsibility for development in these fields rests in the localities, even though the Federal Government will continue to do its proper part in meeting the genuine needs of a burgeoning population.
So far as the Federal share of responsibility is concerned, I urge that the Congress move promptly to enact an effective program of Federal assistance to help erase the existing deficit of school classrooms.
And that is what I have come here to ask of you tonight.
None of us can be satisfied when two-thirds of the American citizens chose not to vote last year in a national election.
In those other constitutions, the government tells the people of those countries what they are allowed to do.
It is a tribute to the fiber of our servicemen and to the flexibility of our economy that these adjustments have been made so rapidly and so successfully.
And, despite the large shipments we have already made, and despite what we shall send, there remain great needs abroad.
We have no objective which need clash with the peaceful aims of any other nation.
The outcome of the armistice negotiation still remains uncertain.
I will propose: A program to insure that no American family will be prevented from obtaining basic medical care by inability to pay.
Of course, there are still dangers in the world --rampant arms proliferation, bitter regional conflicts, ethnic and nationalist tensions in many new democracies, severe environmental degradation the world over, and fanatics who seek to cripple the world's cities with terror.
For the first time in 9 years, there are no Americans fighting in Iraq.
This spring I will send you a comprehensive welfare reform bill that builds on the Family Support Act of 1988 and restores the basic values of responsibility.
You know, it's kind of an American tradition to show a certain skepticism toward our democratic institutions.
I am always an optimist, but we must make up for lost time.
What I have just said applies to our strength as a single country.
If contract settlement costs continue in line with recent experience, it is likely that part of the 6 billion dollars will remain unspent.
Working with the Congressional leadership, my Administration spotlighted the importance of education by creating a new Department of Education.
The defining issue of our time is how to keep that promise alive.
The American flag stands for more than our power and our interests.
corruption has permeated virtually every area of the Medicare and Medicaid health care industry.
We will never rest until every one of the American hostages are released.
In challenge, we rediscovered the courage and daring of a free people.
The economy grows when Americans have more money to spend and invest, and the best and fairest way to make sure Americans have that money is not to tax it away in the first place.
I hope to reshape it and to reorganize it to meet more effectively the tasks of the 20th century.
It must be won in the field, in every private home, in every public office, from the courthouse to the White House.
Farm price supports are an essential part of our program to achieve these ends.
AXIS OF EVIL:  Our second goal is to prevent regimes that sponsor terror from threatening America or our friends and allies with weapons of mass destruction.
Since 9/11, we have taken the fight to these terrorists and extremists.
For the past 5 years those earnings have been up over 65 percent, and last year alone they had a rise of 20 percent.
There will be further setbacks before the tide is turned.
And I am determined to protect American industry and American workers against foreign trade practices which are unfair or illegal.
We can take on the burden of leadership in the fight for world peace because, for nearly 20 years, the Government and the people have been working together for the general welfare.
We must bring costs under control, preserve quality, preserve choice, and reduce the people's nagging daily worry about health insurance.
So, I ask your help in assisting more communities to break the bondage of dependency.
We could do much more if we were free to concentrate on its peaceful uses exclusively.
This Nation belongs among the first to explore it, and among the first--if not the first--we shall be.
The Soviet rulers have made it clear that we must have strength as well as right on our side.
I want to say something about this issue.
Wholesale prices have gone up at an annual rate of 18 percent.
Why, then, this restlessness? Because when a great ship cuts through the sea, the waters are always stirred and troubled.
We must make our decisions in the conviction that all men are created equal, that they are equally entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and that the duty of government is to serve these ends.
The United States has contributed actively to a series of U.N. conferences on the environment, population, and resour
Until inflation has been stopped there should be no cut in taxes that is not offset by additions at another point in our tax structure.
the nation of Edison and the Wright brothers, of Google and Facebook.
If the Afghan government signs a security agreement that we have negotiated, a small force of Americans could remain in Afghanistan with NATO allies to carry out two narrow missions: training and assisting Afghan forces, and counterterrorism operations to pursue any remnants of al Qaeda.
This shortage is of immediate concern to all of our people.
And I will propose these measures to the 90th Congress.
Nor must we lose the chance to pass our youth employment opportunity wage proposal.
It was guided by the belief that successful problemsolving requires more than Federal action alone, that it involves a full partnership among all branches and all levels of government and public policies which nurture and promote the creative energies of private enterprises, institutions, and individual citizens.
Within days, I will ask the Senate for its advice and consent to make Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic the newest members of NATO.
It now faces an annual deficit of one-half billion dollars.
Citizen service is an American responsibility which all Americans should embrace, and I ask your support for that endeavor.
I will continue to nominate men and women who understand that judges must be servants of the law, and not legislate from the bench.
The accidental gun rate -- the accidental gun death rate of children under 15 in the United States is nine times higher than in the other 25 industrialized countries combined.
For decades, we have been voting ever-increasing levels of Government benefits, and now the bill has come due.
and The other side must not take advantage of our restraint as they have in The past.
It was 27 years ago that John F. Kennedy and I sat in this Chamber, as freshmen Congressmen, hearing our first State of the Union address delivered by Harry Truman.
This means high taxes over the next few years.
If we ensure that America's children succeed in life, they will ensure that America succeeds in the world.
Non-proliferation is not and can not be a unilateral U.S. policy, nor should it be an issue of contention between the industrialized and developing states.
My fellow Americans, men and women like Cory remind us that America has never come easy.
and the collection of internal revenue in the Treasury Department.
In the next few weeks I will spell out in greater detail the way I propose that we achieve these six great goals.
For the first time in history the legal culpability of war makers is being determined.
Free nations are collectively stronger than at any time in recent years.
Our objective is to have a well-equipped active defense force large enough--in concert with the forces of our allies--to deter aggression and to inflict punishing losses on the enemy immediately if we should be attacked.
We cannot realistically afford federally dictated national health insurance providing full coverage for all 215 million Americans.
In this special category I list eight items requiring action.
Yet the tax relief is set to expire in the next few years.
It is time to nurture them and see which ones can catch fire and become guiding lights.
We will have all of our combat troops out of Iraq by the end of this August.
The need for a program that will give everyone opportunity for medical care is obvious.
Lincoln could have accepted peace at the cost of disunity and continued slavery.
In the past three years, responding to what our people want their Government to do, the Congress and the Executive have done much in building a stronger, better America.
In addition to these meetings, and in accordance with the agreement at Yalta, the Foreign Ministers of Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States conferred together in San Francisco last spring, in Potsdam in July, in London in September, and in Moscow in December.
We are at peace, and I will do all in my power to keep it that way.
So dedicated, and with faith in the Almighty, humanity shall one day achieve the unity in freedom to which all men have aspired from the dawn of time.
There's no such thing as an effective and a noncontroversial reorganization and reform.
Working for peace in East Timor and Africa.
ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES:  Our communities are only as healthy as the air our children breathe, the water they drink, the Earth they will inherit.
In these and other ways, we have demonstrated, up to now, that our democracy has not forgotten how to use the powers of the Government to promote the people's welfare and security.
I refuse to give up on any child -- and the No Child Left Behind Act is opening the door of opportunity to all of America's children.
The Alliance for Progress moved dramatically forward under President Kennedy.
We are not building an active force adequate to carry on full scale war, but we are putting ourselves in a position to mobilize very rapidly if we have to.
Recent agreement to increase quotas by fifty percent will ensure the IMF has sufficient resources to perform its central role in promoting adjustment and financing payments imbalances.
Both labor and management have a special interest.
Although the struggle for progressive change is continuous, there are times when a watershed is reached-when there is-if not really a break with the past-at least the fulfillment of many of its oldest hopes, and a stepping forth into a new environment, to seek new goals.
At the same time, it has the potential of damage and disaster.
There is nothing that shows more clearly what we stand for, and what we want to achieve.
And we saw the heroism of one of our young Government employees, Lenny Skutnik, who, when he saw a woman lose her grip on the helicopter line, dived into the water and dragged her to safety.
And I intend, in the months and years to come, to give you what friends deserve: frankness, respect, and my best judgment about ways to improve America's future.
The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed in the 1990s that Saddam Hussein had an advanced nuclear weapons development program, had a design for a nuclear weapon, and was working on five different methods of enriching uranium for a bomb.
Now, I believe there is basis for such an agreement, one that could reduce the deficits by about a hundred billion dollars over the next 3 years.
And, my friends, we must involve ourselves, each and every one of us in this concern.
We have adjusted our military tactics and changed our approach to reconstruction.
And our citizens suffer from breathing that air.
And we are discussing with a number of our area friends further ways we can help to improve their security and ours, both for the short and the longer term.
I am requesting the Congress for immediate approval of our share of these increases.
In this period we have relentlessly pursued our advances toward the conquest of space.
Our Republic continues to increase in the enjoyment of freedom within its borders, and to offer strength and encouragement to all those who love freedom throughout the world.
As long as I'm President, at home and around the world America's examples and America's influence will be marshaled to advance the cause of human rights.
Early in this century, being old meant being poor.
We just want to help them perform the good works they choose, and help others to profit by their example.
Families stand at the center of our society.
They must be goals that stand high, and so inspire every citizen to climb always toward mounting levels of moral, intellectual and material strength.
One hundred forty-one projects are now being constructed under the Watershed Protection Program.
A program of cooperation and partnership in resource development was begun.
A future lived at the mercy of terrible threats is no peace at all.
Second, Presidential standby authority, upon a given rise in the rate of unemployment, to accelerate Federal and federally-aided capital improvement programs;
And I thank the Democrats for passing the largest deficit reduction plan in history in 1993, which has already cut the deficit nearly in half in three years
The situation will be much clearer in a few weeks, when the results of the campaign for volunteers are known.
Such conditions mean severe hardship for thousands of people as the slow process of adaptation to new circumstances goes on.
It is 10 times our expenditures for defense before the war; it amounts to about 10 percent of our expected national income.
Quietly, but with gathering force, the ground has shifted beneath our feet as we have moved into an Information Age, a global economy, a truly new world.
We should apply the lessons of our Tennessee Valley experience to our other great river basins.
Two of the most important of these causes are the wage-price spiral and continued deficit financing.
I am glad to hear that home rule for the District of Columbia will be the first item of business before the Senate.
The most important action government can take to meet America's housing needs is to restore stability to the economy and bring down the rate of inflation.
Certainly, the savings of Americans must remain secure.
They understood they were part of something larger, that they were contributing to a story of success that every American had a chance to share, the basic American promise that if you worked hard, you could do well enough to raise a family, own a home, send your kids to college, and put a little away for retirement.
We respect your right to choose your own future and win your own freedom.
Tonight I will not infringe on that responsibility, but rather wish him the very best in all that is good for our country.
Second, the time has come to assess and reform all of our institutions of government at the Federal, State, and local level.
I know that the 82d Congress will meet this challenge in a way worthy of our great heritage.
These actions should help our Nation's cities and counties to continue the progress they have made in the last three years.
Moreover, the Secretary of Labor is making available to the states studies and recommendations in the fields of weekly benefits, periods of protection and extension of coverage.
I urge this Congress to complete the work begun last year and to enact the most important recommendation of the program-to provide adequate medical care to all who need it, not as charity but on the basis of payments made by the beneficiaries of the program.
a blanket adjustment would destroy the system by which their wages are kept aligned with prevailing rates in particular localities.
We are witnessing landmark events in the history of liberty.
But I want to ask the sportsmen and others who lawfully own guns to join us in this campaign to reduce gun violence.
I ask you to continue funding our efforts to fight HIV/AIDS, and I ask you to provide $1 billion over 5 years so we can combat malaria in 15 African countries.
A cut in the capital gains tax increases jobs and helps just about everyone in our country.
Virtually every other revolution in history has just exchanged one set of rulers for another set of rulers.
The first part of this proposal was the five year, $24.7 billion Urban Mass Transportation Administration reauthorization legislation I sent to the Congress in March, 1980.
These nations are-they're not standing still.
This objective must not ignore legitimate safeguarding of domestic industries, agriculture, and labor standards.
The budget I send you will propose almost $6 billion to quickly make available effective vaccines and treatments against agents like anthrax, botulinum toxin, Ebola, and plague.
In the sixth year since our Nation was attacked, I wish I could report to you that the dangers had ended.
Reform of the budget process--including the line-item veto and balanced budget amendment--will, together with real restraint on government spending, prevent the federal budget from ever again ravaging the family budget.
That's why instead of just pouring money into a system that's not working, we launched a competition called Race to the Top.
That means more toxic chemicals in our water, more smog in our air, more pesticides in our food
We cannot shrink the Government to prewar dimensions unless we slough off these new responsibilities--and we cannot do that without paying an excessive price in terms of our national welfare.
Americans living longer than ever simply must save more than ever.
But today, were I to offer--after little more than a week in office --detailed legislation to remedy every national ill, the Congress would rightly wonder whether the desire for speed had replaced the duty of responsibility.
Our recent budget agreement, designed to reduce federal deficits by $76 billion over the next two years, builds on this consensus.
We will confront them with focus and clarity and courage.
We can no longer afford to deny reality.
We cannot afford to have one of our most essential security programs shot down with a slogan!
The Revenue Act of 1945 was a major tax-reduction measure.
The United States now controls almost two-thirds of the world's merchant shipping, most of it Government-owned, compared with little more than one-seventh of the world's tonnage in 1939.
I shall discuss in detail the new concepts and programs designed to achieve this goal in a separate report on foreign policy, which I will submit to the Congress at a later date.
This unity may not be immediately obvious unless we examine link by link the chain of relationships that binds us to every area and to every nation.
This is a decent and honorable country, and resilient, too.
But their interdependence extends also into the field of security.
to those in other lands that are seeking the promise of America, through an immigration law based on the work a man can do and not where he was born or how he spells his name.
Support strong, active National Endowments for the Arts;
Imagine what we could accomplish if we followed their example.
Through lower taxes and smaller government, government has its ways of freeing people's spirits.
For 38 years- since I worked on that gallery as a doorkeeper in the House of Representatives-I have known these halls, and I have known most of the men pretty well who walked them.
The violent and decayed central cities of our great metropolitan complexes are the most conspicuous area of failure in American life today.
And it will not require additional taxes.
And I would say to you, all of you, my fellow public servants, this is another issue where the people are way ahead of the politicians.
Neither party has been blameless in these tactics.
The net reduction in authority to obligate will be 5.0 billion dollars, because, of the appropriations, 1.2 billion dollars will have to be restored in subsequent years to liquidate contract authorizations still on the books.
This Congress banned gifts and meals from lobbyists
Each of these questions I have discussed with you tonight is a question of policy for our people.
We've got to have a government that can be a real partner in making this new economy work for all of our people.
There is one certain way by which we can cut costs and at the same time enhance our national security.
legislation to achieve excellence in education, building on the partnership forged with the 50 Governors at the education summit, enabling parents to choose their children's schools and helping to make America number one in math and science;
We will not gamble with our national survival.
A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship , and you know what, a father does, too.
I do not underestimate the difficulties that we face in this mutual effort among our close neighbors, but the free states of this hemisphere, working in close collaboration, have begun to make this alliance a living reality.
We have learned only too well that heavy taxation and excessive Government spending are not a cure-all.
With our European allies, we revitalized NATO and increased our cooperation on everything from counterterrorism to missile defense.
Religious charities of every creed are doing some of the most vital work in our country -- mentoring children, feeding the hungry, taking the hand of the lonely.
They know that broad-based economic growth requires a balanced approach to deficit reduction, with spending cuts and revenue and with everybody doing their fair share.
With all the other pressures on their finances, American families should not have to worry about their federal government taking a bigger bite out of their paychecks.
But let's not go back on the things that we did last year that we know work.
And we should limit the burden of government on this economy by acting as good stewards of taxpayers' dollars.
In other areas of the Far East--in Indo-China, Malaya, and the Philippines--our assistance has helped sustain a staunch resistance against communist insurrectionary attacks.
With your help, I will pursue these efforts with vigor and with determination.
It needs to be dealt with, not as a separate nation, but as part of an overall growth policy for America.
The dockets are full of cases because we don't have assistant district attorneys to go before the Federal judge and handle them.
I can report to you tonight that it's working.
To encourage more trained servicemen to remain in uniform, I shall, on the thirteenth of this month, propose a number of measures to increase the attractions of a military career.
Third, the Federal Government must shoulder its own partnership obligations by undertaking projects of such complexity and size that their success requires Federal development.
We will support policies that lead to strong and stable democracies and open markets, because tyranny is no match for liberty.
And in this day, everybody has a responsibility to do more of that.
Much of our job growth will be found in high-skilled fields like health care and biotechnology.
The international and defense policies which I have outlined will enable us to negotiate from a position of strength as we hold our resolute course toward a peaceful world.
For the United States, this means that, as a matter of common sense and national interest, we shall give help to other nations in the measure that they strive earnestly to do their full share of the common task.
And maybe for a moment it's good to remember what, in the dailiness of our lives, we forget: We are still and ever the freest nation on Earth, the kindest nation on Earth, the strongest nation on Earth.
It builds on what works today in the private sector -- to expand employer-based coverage, to guarantee private insurance for every American.
I strongly urge, therefore, a more generous use of other benefits important to service morale.
As individuals and as families, few of us can produce energy by ourselves.
Meanwhile, from behind the iron curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.
We ask only that there be safeguards sufficient to insure that no nation will be able to use this power for military purposes.
A decisive step forward was taken in the Vladivostok Accord which I negotiated with General Secretary Brezhnev--joint recognition that an equal ceiling should be placed on the number of strategic weapons on each side.
But we can take satisfaction in knowing that our policies encourage and perhaps influence them.
Or we can restore an economy where everyone gets a fair shot and everyone does their fair share and everyone plays by the same set of rules.
We are just now restoring, through the essential modernization of our conventional and strategic forces, our capability to meet our present and future security needs.
The failure to define in law the duties and responsibilities of these agencies has made possible some of the abuses which have occurred in recent years;
The present authorized Government-debt limit is 275 billion dollars.
This will be not only a just acknowledgment of the loyalty of the people of the Philippines, but it will help to avoid the economic chaos which otherwise will he their heritage from our common war.
America has always been greatest when we dared to be great.
We should rely on government as a partner to help us to do more for ourselves and for each other.
The Congress has renewed the Trade Agreements Act which provides the necessary framework within which to negotiate a reduction of trade barriers on a reciprocal basis.
To bring our economy out of recession, we delivered the largest tax relief in a generation.
In much of the world the ferment of change is working strongly; but grave injustices are still uncorrected.
In particular, nothing in our policy contemplates that nuclear warfare could ever be a deliberate instrument for achieving our own goals of peace and freedom.
There are those who say that the old Spirit of '76 is dead--that we no longer have the strength of character, the idealism, the faith in our founding purposes that that spirit represents.
It will require of every American, for many generations, both faith in the destination and the fortitude to make the journey.
Provide grants for the arts in low-income neighborhoods.
As we take the fight to Al Qaida, we are responsibly leaving Iraq to its people.
And there is a good reason: The remaining federal work force is composed of Americans who are now working harder and working smarter than ever before, to make sure the quality of our services does not decline
Hadiya's parents, Nate and Cleo, are in this Chamber tonight, along with more than two dozen Americans whose lives have been torn apart by gun violence.
But far too many are still trapped in poverty and idleness and fear.
The interest policies followed in the refinancing operations will have a major impact not only on the provision for interest payments in future budgets, but also on the level of interest rates prevailing in private financing.
It's time to put strict limits on the contributions that lobbyists give to candidates for Federal office.
Ten years ago, the United States and the Soviet Union made the historic decision to open the strategic arms limitations talks, or SALT.
The crude oil fee level will be increased $1 per barrel on February 1, by $2 per barrel on March 1, and by $3 per barrel on April 1.
Our nation also needs a clear strategy to confront the threats of the 21st century -- threats that are more widespread and less certain.
Since V-J day Federal expenditures have been sharply reduced.
Finally, we renew our commitment to the continued growth and the effectiveness of the United Nations.
Now we have become a land of great responsibilities to all the people of all the world.
At home I am encouraged by the Nation's recovery from the recession and our steady return to sound economic growth.
As quickly as possible, we are bringing about the reduction of our armed services to the size required for these tasks of occupation and disarmament.
It is a realistic budget with wholly attainable objectives.
This year the combined force levels planned under our new Defense budget--including nearly three hundred additional Polaris and Minuteman missiles--have been precisely calculated to insure the continuing strength of our nuclear deterrent.
As a result of these shared commitments and the dedicated efforts of many members of the Congress and my Administration, we have achieved several historic accomplishments.
This is a hard road to follow, but the events of the last year show that it is the right road to peace.
In order to meet our longstanding commitment to make government as efficient as possible, I believe that we should reorganize our postal system along the lines of the Kappel report.
And by setting up a completely modern, functional system of government at the national level, we in Washington will at last be able to provide government that is truly for the people.
Converting it into reality will require a spirit of cooperation and shared commitment on the part of all branches of the Government, for the goals we seek are not those of any single party or faction, they are goals for the betterment of all Americans.
We have great differences with both powers.
yet the rising cost of entitlements is a problem that is not going away.
And I've made good on that commitment by proposing a record increase in funds -- an extra half-a-billion dollars -- for something near and dear to all of us: Head Start.
We will make sure that every dollar is spent with the thrift and with the commonsense which recognizes how hard the taxpayer worked in order to earn it.
But, so far as I am concerned, I do not think we can give up the things that are vital to our national strength.
We have a long way to go, but thanks to the courage, patience, and strength of our people, America is on the mend.
There are trouble spots throughout the world, and 52 American hostages are being held in Iran against international law and against every precept of human affairs.
Tonight I shall present to the Congress six great goals.
And the welfare rolls are at their lowest levels in 27 years.
Now, we must rise to a new test of leadership: ratifying the Chemical Weapons Convention.
Civilian production and employment can be expected to increase throughout the next year.
It's not fair to tax the same earnings twice -- once when you earn them, and again when you die -- so we must repeal the death tax.
To date, we've arrested or otherwise dealt with many key commanders of Al Qaida.
when thousands of Burmese lined the streets, waving American flags, including a man who said: "There is justice and law in the United States.
The 1960 deficit, on the other hand, was more the result of an increase in private capital outflow seeking new opportunity, higher return or speculative advantage abroad.
We are all very grateful to General Schwarzkopf and to all those serving with him.
And when the vote comes tomorrow, the Senate should restore the pay-as-you-go law that was a big reason for why we had record surpluses in the 1990s.
Action along these lines can create an economic environment that will invite vital help from us.
For we cannot for long lead the cause of peace and freedom, if we ever cease to set the pace here at home.
We have one of the highest high school dropout rates of any industrialized nation.
This same fact inspires us to work all the more effectively with other nations for the well-being, the freedom, the dignity, of every human on earth.
Indeed, beyond a wise and reasonable level, which is always changing and is under constant study, money spent on arms may be money wasted on sterile metal or inflated costs, thereby weakening the very security and strength we seek.
As individuals, joined in a common hunger for freedom, men and women and even children pit their spirit against guns and tanks.
FOREIGN POLICY: On January 20, 1953, when I took office, the United States was at war.
When I came to this rostrum on September the 20th, 2001, I brought the police shield of a fallen officer, my reminder of lives that ended, and a task that does not end.
Our fourth objective is prosperity, to keep our economy moving ahead, moving ahead steadily and safely.
Workers' incomes should increase at a rate consistent with the maintenance of sound price, profit, and wage relationships and with increase of productivity.
There, too, we are helping to shape an Asian Pacific community of cooperation, not conflict.
We do not intend to live in the midst of abundance, isolated from neighbors and nature, confined by blighted cities and bleak suburbs, stunted by a poverty of learning and an emptiness of leisure.
Security can also be enhanced by agreements with potential adversaries which reduce the threat of nuclear disaster while maintaining our own relative strategic capability.
This reserve makes it possible for the United States to stand behind its food aid commitment to food deficit nations, even during periods of short supplies and high prices.
Serious differences still remain between us, yet in these relations, we have made some progress since Vienna, the Berlin Wall, and the Cuban missile crisis.
Our economy offers greater prosperity for more of our people than ever before.
Full contributory coverage under old-age and survivors' insurance should be made available to all Federal personnel, just as in private industry.
Maintaining our alliance with Japan, with Korea, without our other Asian allies.
The missing of deadlines and the nightmare of monstrous continuing resolutions packing hundreds of billions of dollars of spending into one bill must be stopped.
It is not enough merely to prepare to weather a recession if it comes.
An even more valuable national asset is our reservoir of dedicated men and women--not only on our college campuses but in every age group--who have indicated their desire to contribute their skills, their efforts, and a part of their lives to the fight for world order.
We would have to fight in one land, and then we would have to fight in another-or abandon much of Asia to the domination of Communists.
A year ago, Americans' faith in their governmental process was steadily declining.
I speak of the startling hope of giving our children a future free of both totalitarianism and nuclear terror.
What Andra and her employees experienced is how it should be for every employer , and every job seeker.
and helps to keep our schools open after hours, on weekends, and in the summer, so our young people will have someplace to go and something to say yes to.
This program will include: Modernization of the home mortgage insurance program of the Federal Government;
High prices must not be our means of rationing.
And those who commit repeated, violent crimes should be told, when you commit a third violent crime, you will be put away, and put away for good.
This creates uncertainty, which makes it easier to feed people's fears.
In meeting these, we must, if we value our historic freedoms, keep within the traditional framework of our Federal system with powers divided between the national and state governments.
You know, it's time we rediscovered a home truth the American people have never forgotten: This Government is too big and spends too much.
You ask anybody that lives in an unlivable community, and they'll tell you.
With the growing responsibility of modern government to foster economic expansion and to promote conditions that assure full and steady employment opportunities, it has become necessary to formulate and determine the Government program in the light of national economic conditions as a whole.
This year, with 53 million children in our schools, Congress must not miss that opportunity again.
Close wartime cooperation between the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve System has made it possible to finance the most expensive war in history at low and stable rates of interest.
But in the meantime, thirty states have raised pre-k funding on their own.
I'd like to take just a minute to honor her.
The path of arms control, backed by a strong defense, the path our Nation and every President has walked for 30 years, can lead to a world of law and of international negotiation and consultation in which all peoples might live in peace.
But America is too great for small dreams.
And if we do--if we come together and lift this Nation from the depths of this crisis;
In the past four years, we provided tax relief to every person who pays income taxes, overcome a recession, opened up new markets abroad, prosecuted corporate criminals, raised homeownership to its highest level in history, and in the last year alone, the United States has added 2.3 million new jobs.
That is why this Administration is moving swiftly and aggressively to break this destructive cycle, restore confidence, and re-start lending.
There is, in world affairs, a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly.
The United States will not yield to blackmail.
Properly used, it is an instrumentality for human betterment.
There is hope for a free, independent, and sovereign Lebanon.
Our military defenses are strong and growing stronger.
The public service they use impose burdens on our taxpayers.
Our aim is not only to relieve the symptom of poverty, but to cure it and, above all, to prevent it.
The European nations with the capability to do so are improving their own forces in the region and providing greater economic and political support to the residents of the area.
The first step in winning the future is encouraging American innovation.
Here in the Congress you can demonstrate effective legislative leadership by discharging the public business with clarity and dispatch, voting each important proposal up, or voting it down, but at least bringing it to a fair and a final vote.
Our democratic ideals, as well as our best interests, require that we do our fair share in providing homes for the unfortunate victims of war and tyranny.
Whatever slogans they chant, when they slaughter the innocent, they have the same wicked purposes.
Experts believe this will support more than 600,000 jobs by the end of the decade.
And this pledge, given by one, has been kept by many.
And we go forward with confidence, because this call of history has come to the right country.
We appointed the National Crime Commission to study crime in America and to recommend the best ways to carry that attack forward.
There are certain things that a President can do without Congress, and I'm going to do them.
Let us reject the narrow visions of those who would tell us that we are evil because we are not yet perfect, that we are corrupt because we are not yet pure, that all the sweat and toil and sacrifice that have gone into the building of America were for naught because the building is not yet done.
We must and do have compassion for all the victims of this economic crisis.
We must facilitate the flow of capital and continue technical assistance, both directly and through the United Nations, to less developed countries to strengthen their independence and raise their living standards.
This year, we must begin the effort to reform our regulatory processes for the railroad, bus, and the trucking industries.
Now, as then, there are those who say it can't be done.
Today, she's a dispatcher with the a van company.
It is up to us to see they aren't without hope.
SDI funding is money wisely appropriated and money well spent.
Too often, it's inefficient, outdated, and remote.
We will act as we must to help protect the independence of the valiant people of South Vietnam.
We are eliminating programs that are no longer needed, such as nuclear power research and development.
All that I have said about maintaining a sound and prosperous economy and improving the welfare of our people has greater meaning because of the world leadership of the United States.
But States and localities, many of which enjoy surpluses from the recovery, must not permit their tax and regulatory policies to stand as barriers to growth.
Important new agencies have been established, such as the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Federal Aviation Agency, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Responsive to this growth, Federal grants and long term loans to assist 14 major types of capital improvements in our cities will total over 2 billion dollars in 1960--double the expenditure of two years ago.
We shall have much to do together; I am sure that we shall get it done--and, that we shall do it in harmony and good will.
The thrust of the federal solar program is to help industry develop solar energy sources by emphasizing basic research and development of solar technologies which are not currently economic, such as photovoltaics, which generate energy directly from the sun.
The whole power and will and wisdom of our Government and of our people should be focused to contribute to and to influence international action.
And it would make it easier for pension plans to purchase real estate.
Now it can offer its people a better future by pressing forward with those efforts.
It's the worry you wake up with and the source of sleepless nights.
These policies are discussed in greater detail in the accompanying Fifth Quarterly Report of the Director of War Mobilization and Reconversion.
I will also ask for an appropriation of an extra $100 million to launch an intensive campaign to find a cure for cancer, and I will ask later for whatever additional funds can effectively be used.
We must continue to deepen our ties to the Americas and the Caribbean.
The purpose of these laws was to permit an orderly transition from war to peace.
For fiscal 1968, we estimate budget expenditures of $135 billion.
I wish, of course, that we could do all that should be done-and that we could do it now.
Now is not the time to gut these job-creating investments in science and innovation, now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the space race.
New laser techniques could revolutionize heart bypass surgery, cut diagnosis time for viruses linked to cancer from weeks to minutes, reduce hospital costs dramatically, and hold out new promise for saving human lives.
LABOR AND MANAGEMENT: The year just past-like the year after the First World War-was marred by labor management strife.
The January 5, 1979, Executive Order directing U.S. government agencies to consider the effects of their major actions abroad, is another example of this leadership.
This can best be accomplished through universal training.
To advance these ends I will propose the International Education Act of 1966.
Too many of our children don't even have parents and grandparents who can give them those experiences that they need to build their own character and their sense of identity.
Welfare is a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit.
Second, what of the developing and nonaligned nations?
The destruction of the independence of the Afghanistan government and the occupation by the Soviet Union have altered the strategic situation in that part of the world in a very ominous fashion.
Both of these programs have provided essential community and economic development assistance to our Nation's cities and counties.
Yet our basic goal remains the same: a peaceful world community of free and independent states--free to choose their own future and their own system, so long as it does not threaten the freedom of others.
That is the biggest percentage increase in nearly 20 years.
Federal capital outlays for transportation facilities are expected to approximate 519 million dollars in the fiscal year 1947.
A public office is, indeed, a public trust.
But if we do not act by April the 29th -- when this Convention goes into force, with or without us -- we will lose the chance to have Americans leading and enforcing this effort.
It has not yet fully mobilized its resources nor fully achieved a common outlook.
In 1983 we seek four major education goals: a quality education initiative to encourage a substantial upgrading of math and science instruction through block grants to the States;
advanced biofuels, clean coal, and more fuel-efficient cars and trucks built right here in America.
This is not a partisan program concentrating on our weaknesses--it is, I hope, a national program to realize our national strength.
the supply shortages of several years ago have been eliminated;
For fiscal 1967, we estimate the budget expenditures to be $126.7 billion and revenues of $117 billion.
REINVENTING AMERICA:  As always, the real credit belongs to the American people.
The United Nations has imposed sanctions on Iran and made it clear that the world will not allow the regime in Tehran to acquire nuclear weapons.
I've launched this national initiative on race to help us recognize our common interests and to bridge the opportunity gaps that are keeping us from becoming one America.
This does not mean, however, that continuing full employment is assured.
In addition to economic prosperity, this means that we need social security in the fullest sense of the term;
We are acting to prevent nuclear materials from falling into the wrong hands and to rid the world of land mines.
And with our allies and partners, we're engaged in negotiations to see if we can peacefully achieve a goal we all share: preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
To speak from this same historic rostrum is a sobering experience.
We shall continue to give our wholehearted support to the United Nations.
Caterpillar is bringing jobs back from Japan.
We must now work together with increased urgency to wipe out this balance of payments deficit altogether in the next year.
Our program of military assistance extends to the nations in the Near East and the Far East which are trying to defend their freedom.
MUTUAL TRADE:Both in our national interest, and in the interest of world peace, we must have a five-year extension of the Trade Agreements Act with broadened authority to negotiate.
The Administration proposed on numerous occasions a broad new five-year program of Federal aid to help overcome the classroom shortage in public elementary and secondary schools.
We must make it easier for people to invest money and create new products, new industries, and new jobs.
It is too important for politics as usual.
the procurement of fast sealift ships to move large quantities of men and material quickly from the U.S. to overseas areas of deployment;
And the whole world now knows that a small group of extremists will not overturn the will of the Iraqi people.
And the test of a plan isn't whether it's called new or dazzling.
They could provide these arms to terrorists, giving them the means to match their hatred.
That is more than in all the preceding 12 years.
Often, State reform requires waiving certain Federal regulations.
So let me say to you tonight, I reach out my hand to all of you in both Houses, in both parties, and ask that we join together in saying to the American people: We will save Social Security now.
Last year, I called on my fellow citizens to participate in the USA Freedom Corps, which is enlisting tens of thousands of new volunteers across America.
We mean to continue that momentum and to increase it.
I am proud of a program that has helped to arm and feed and clothe millions of people who live on the front lines of freedom.
It invites recurrent recessions, depresses our Federal revenues, and causes chronic budget deficits.
Work was suspended on a number of flood control and reclamation projects and on the development of our national forests and parks.
To insure against such possibilities we must of course depend primarily upon the good commonsense of the responsible individuals.
We have as a guide and inspiration the success of our Atoms-for-Peace proposal, which in only a few years, under United Nations auspices, became a reality in the International Atomic Energy Agency.
The War Department has billions of dollars worth of equipment and supplies.
Would we continue the strong conservation movement of the 1930's, or would we, as we did after the First World War, slip back into the practices of monopoly, exploitation, and waste?
It is based on a new military program unanimously recommended by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and approved by me following consideration by the National Security Council.
where ``Made in the USA'' is recognized around the world as the symbol of quality and progress;
Even more than the programs I have described today, what this Nation needs is an example from its elected leaders in providing the spiritual and moral leadership which no programs for material progress can satisfy.
Its purpose would be to join all the American Republics in a common institution which would promote and finance development in Latin America, and make more effective the use of capital from the World Bank, the Export-Import Bank, and private sources.
Tonight, almost half a century later, our peril may be less immediate, but the need for perseverance and clear-sighted fortitude is just as great.
But we'll only move forward if all our fellow citizens -- including every one of you at home watching tonight -- is also committed to this cause.
Our Nation is better able than ever before to meet the needs of the American people, and to give them their fair chance in the pursuit of happiness.
We, therefore, want to explore a variety of paratransit modes, various types of buses, modern rapid transit, regional rail systems and light rail systems.
Our goal always has been to add to the spiritual, moral, and material strength of our nation.
that inspiration often comes not from those with the most power or celebrity, but from the dreams and aspirations of Americans who are anything but ordinary.
To this concept we have made a national commitment as profound as anything in history.
to discover the causes of crime and better ways to prevent it.
To bolster business and industry and to create new jobs, I propose a 1-year tax reduction of $16 billion.
Families who choose these options should remain eligible for help.
It came from a debate in Washington over whether the United States would pay its bills or not.
Over the years we-and others-have invested very heavily in capital and food for the economic development of India and Pakistan.
BUILDING STRONGER COMMUNITIES:  To prepare America for the 21st century, we must build stronger communities.
We are doing far less than we know how to do to make use of our resources without destroying them.
And in 2005, the Iraqi people held three national elections, choosing a transitional government, adopting the most progressive, democratic constitution in the Arab world, and then electing a government under that constitution.
For leading our Millennium Project, for all she's done for our children, for all she has done in her historic role to serve our nation and our best ideals at home and abroad, I honor her.
This year I am asking for adequate funds for economic assistance in the hope that we can further peace throughout the world.
These fiscal and related actions will help create an environment of price stability for economic growth.
Inflation has been halted; the cost of living stabilized.
The Nassau agreement recognizes that the security of the West is indivisible, and so must be our defense.
Such related matters as the national debt ceiling and tax revenues will be dealt with in later messages.
However, in order to preserve the fine work of the Congress on the rescissions, I asked the Director of the Bureau of the Budget to place the exact amounts indicated for repeal in a nonexpendable reserve, and to advise the departments and agencies accordingly.
These pressures and attractions can be sustained at will, or quickly shifted from place to place.
The middle period of a great national effort like this is a very difficult time.
For success, Government's efforts must be paralleled by the attitudes and actions of individual citizens.
New nations asked to choose between two competing systems need only compare conditions in East and West Germany, Eastern and Western Europe, North and South Vietnam.
We are moving toward our goal of world peace in many ways.
Their hostile policies have awakened stern resistance among free men throughout the world.
Now, let us take a look at the things we have to do.
We all know the sorry story of the 60s and 70s--soaring spending, plummeting test scores--and that hopeful trend of the 80s, when we replaced an obsession with dollars with a commitment to quality, and test scores started back up.
Our infrastructure used to be the best, but our lead has slipped.
But all these problems pale when placed beside those which confront us around the world.
That a new Inter-Departmental Task Force be established under the leadership of the Department of State, to coordinate at the highest level all policies and programs of concern to the Americas.
But even more important than programs is what we are as a Nation--what we mean as a Nation, to ourselves and to the world.
But the most important efforts which we are now making are those which support world economic reconstruction.
And every month of delay dilutes its benefits in 1964 for consumption, for investment, and for employment.
One of the first steps we can take together is to add to the ranks of our military, so that the American Armed Forces are ready for all the challenges ahead.
All civilized nations are agreed on the urgency of the problem, and have shown their willingness to agree on effective measures of control--all save the Soviet Union and its satellites.
We advance the promise of opportunity every time we speak out on behalf of lower tax rates, freer markets, sound currencies around the world.
Man has opened the secrets of nature and mastered new powers.
If enacted, it will ensure a steady decline in deficits, aiming toward a balanced budget by the end of the decade.
I come now finally to Southeast Asia- and to Vietnam in particular.
We have carried our quest for peace to many nations and peoples because we share this planet with others whose future, in large measure, is tied to our own action, and whose counsel is necessary to our own hopes.
great plants, institutions, and other facilities;
We have no plans for aggression against any other state, large or small.
Unless you act, Americans face a tax increase.
Continued control of consumer credit will help to reduce the pressure on prices of durable goods and will also prolong the period during which the backlog demand will be effective.
The unity of NATO has been weakened by economic rivalry and partially eroded by national interest.
I recognize that 2018 and 2042 may seem a long way off.
Those strengths are available to sustain a President of either party-to support his progressive efforts both at home and overseas.
This sense of unity cannot be expressed in programs or in legislation or in dollars.
Slowly, but surely, confidence will return, and our economy will recover.
Together, we will meet these threats to peace.
Just yesterday, our food safety plan took effect, using new science to protect consumers from dangers like E. coli and salmonella.
And so, tonight I'm going to ask something of every one of you.
But there's a difference of opinion as to whether taxes should be increased, spending cut, or some of both.
We must go on, working with our free associates, building an international structure for military defense, and for economic, social, and political progress.
Deep down, the Soviets must know it's in their interest as well as ours to prevent a wasteful arms race.
Involved are the solvency of the whole security system;
They demand, also, efficient and logical organization, true to constitutional principles.
Our system of regional pacts, developed within the Charter of the United Nations, serves to increase both our own security and the security of other nations.
Thirty-seven days later, Plan B succeeded, and the miners were rescued.
We must never be lulled into believing that either power has yielded its ambitions for world domination-- ambitions which they forcefully restated only a short time ago.
It provides employment for four and one-half million American workers.
Our seventh challenge is really America's challenge to those of us in this hallowed hall tonight: to reinvent our government and make our democracy work for them
Right now, complicated tax rules punish hard work.
Patients will be denied the care they need.
Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans: Tonight I want to begin by congratulating the men and women of the 112th Congress, as well as your new Speaker, John Boehner.
So far as I know, it is still the best way.
Housing starts for the fourth quarter of 1982 were up 45 percent from a year ago, and housing permits, a sure indicator of future growth, were up a whopping 60 percent.
Life will be a little better here for my children than for me.
A year ago in Poland, Lech Walesa declared that he was ready to open a dialog with the Communist rulers of that country;
The   fruits of growth must be widely shared.
We must sustain and fortify our Mutual Security Program.
III. THE BUDGET FOR THE FEDERAL PROGRAM FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 1947/ RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SPECIFIC FEDERAL ACIVITIES./ 7. RESEARCH AND EDUCATION:  The Budget provides for continuation and desirable expansion of the research activities that are carried on throughout the Federal establishment and through previously authorized grants to the States.
Last year, they created the most jobs since 2005.
We can achieve peace only if we maintain our productive energy, our democratic institutions, and our firm belief in individual freedom.
Many are known to take direction from the regime in Iran, which is funding and arming terrorists like Hezbollah, a group second only to al Qaeda in the American lives it has taken.
A major, long-term objective, therefore, is to maintain capabilities to deal with, and thereby deter, conventional challenges and crises, particularly in Europe.
Now, after 30 months as your President, I can say that while we still have a way to go, I am proud of the long way we have come together.
But it is a contest just as important for this country and for all men, as the desperate struggle that George Washington fought through to victory.
Our ultimate aim must be a comprehensive insurance system to protect all our people equally against insecurity and ill health.
And let's remember our deadline is October 1st, not Christmas;
Every action you take here in Congress, and every action that I take as President, must be measured against the test of whether it helps to meet that danger.
The Germans and the Japanese cannot be left in doubt and fear as to their future; they must know their national boundaries, their resources, and what reparations they must pay.
We had one Pearl Harbor--let's not get caught off guard again.
From Pakistan to Yemen, the Al Qaida operatives who remain are scrambling, knowing that they can't escape the reach of the United States of America.
We'll make sure a personal account cannot be emptied out all at once, but rather paid out over time, as an addition to traditional Social Security benefits.
Law-abiding adults should always be free to own guns to protect their homes.
A fourth aim of our program is: TO FOSTER A STRONG ECONOMY.
Our consumers will lack a wider choice of goods at lower prices.
Worse yet, it's sowing further division among our citizens, further distrust in our Government.
This is a grand achievement, the sum of many acts of individual courage, persistence and hope.
A strong economy and an effective government will restore confidence in America.
But let us make certain that the family is always at the center of the public policy process, not just in this administration but in future--all future administrations.
China by the illusion that it can buy stability at the expense of freedom.
We share important strategic interests with both of these countries.
This is the America we have begun to build.
Our shared responsibilities extend beyond matters of taxes and spending.
We must begin to scrutinize the overall effect of regulation in our economy.
Yet, it's not growing fast enough or strongly enough.
There is ample precedent, in this election year, for me to present you with a huge list of new proposals, knowing full well that there would not be any possibility of your passing them if you worked night and day.
We have the industry, the skills, the basic economic strength.
And I ask the American people to let you know they want this action by March 20th.
the schools that aren't preparing our children and the mountain of debt they stand to inherit.
Our principal alliances with the industrial democracies of the Atlantic community and Japan have never been more solid.
And as Congress decides what it's going to do, I'm going to pull together a coalition of elected officials, business leaders, and philanthropists willing to help more kids access the high-quality pre-K they need.
It existed when the first settlers saw the coast of a new world, and when the first pioneers moved westward.
It is unrealistic and misleading to hold out the hope that the Federal Government can move into every neighborhood and clean up crime.
It is my hope this spirit of cooperation and record of accomplishment will be continued in the coming years.
This is about the fifth time I have recommended it.
I am busy, currently, reviewing the structure of the entire executive branch of this Government.
The Act provides that in 1985 the CAB itself will go out of existence.
and men of good will, working together, can smooth it out.
This additional incentive to participate will further strengthen the reserve.
We must make a maximum effort, because if we do not aim for the best, we are very likely to achieve little.
When I took office, there were approximately 500, costing nearly $100 billion 13 programs for energy, 36 for pollution control, 66 for social services, 90 for education.
Now the task is to build on this success, without watering down standards, without taking control from local communities, and without back sliding and calling it reform.
Mayor Street has encouraged faith-based and community organizations to make a significant difference in Philadelphia.
And I ask again that you pass, as 32 States have now called for, an amendment mandating the Federal Government spend no more than it takes in.
These measures will help reduce the dollar barrier between many Americans and the benefits of modern medical care.
The free nations of Asia know what they were not sure of at that time: that America cares about their freedom, and it also cares about America's own vital interests in Asia and throughout the Pacific.
We need long-term improvement in our economic position.
I am hopeful that as new negotiations begin, truth--not political opportunism--will be the guiding light of the deliberations.
Inflation threatens to bring on disagreement and strife between labor and management.
It will call for a substantial reduction in Federal employment, a feat accomplished only once before in the last 10 years.
But all of us can conserve energy--every one of us, every day of our lives.
And if we work together, we can prove that public service is noble.
Some in this Congress may choose to depart from this historic commitment, but I will not.
I hope we can get together with all the people with different ideas and do this.
I will not cede the wind or solar or battery industry to China or Germany because we refuse to make the same commitment here.
that none of them are turned away, but that fraud and waste are stamped out.
Proclaimed in the Constitution of the Nation and in many of our historic documents, and founded in devout religious convictions, these principles enunciate: A vigilant regard for human liberty.
I expect to transmit specific recommendations to the Congress on this subject at a very early date.
Another priority in my budget is to keep the vital promises of Medicare and Social Security, and together we will do so.
It's a message she is passionately advocating every day.
There are many other ways that Congress can help.
And I agree, which is why this freeze won't take effect until next year, when the economy is stronger.
We need to extend our horizon, commit to the long view.
I propose that we carry out a new program to develop regions of our country that are now suffering from distress and depression.
The only way this century will be another American century is if we confront at last the price of our dependence on oil and the high cost of health care;
SECURITY ABROAD:  Much of what the American people are thinking about tonight is what we've already talked about.
Another part of this foundation is, of course, our continental transport system.
We're working to redesign high schools and partner them with colleges and employers that offer the real-world education and hands-on training that can lead directly to a job and career.
Let there be no doubt: America is determined to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, and I will take no options off the table to achieve that goal.
The months of deadlock have demonstrated that the communists cannot achieve by persistence, or by diplomatic trickery, what they failed to achieve by sneak attack.
Anyone who tells you otherwise, anyone who tells you that America is in decline or that our influence has waned, doesn't know what they're talking about.
The Soviet Union, France, and China have joined us in the purpose of introducing in the General Assembly a resolution for the establishment of such a commission.
In those 90 days, major departments and agencies will carry out a top-to-bottom review of all regulations, old and new, to stop the ones that will hurt growth and speed up those that will help growth.
And my budget provides strong funding for leading-edge technology -- from hydrogen-fueled cars, to clean coal, to renewable sources such as ethanol.
We must choose the alternatives which will best measure up to our need for maintaining production and employment in the future.
Every dollar we invested to map the human genome returned $140 to our economy-every dollar.
Nowhere do we so effectively demonstrate our technological leadership and ability to make life better on Earth.
Now we must keep our economy the strongest in the world.
Our greatest challenge is still the world that lies beyond the Cold War--but the first great obstacle is still our relations with the Soviet Union and Communist China.
By definition deterrence requires that we shape Soviet assessments about the risks of war, assessments they will make using their doctrine, not ours.
Because HIV/AIDS brings suffering and fear into so many lives, I ask you to reauthorize the Ryan White Act to encourage prevention, and provide care and treatment to the victims of that disease.
Today, much of the world is in recession, with Asia hit especially hard.
Brazil continues its process of liberalization.
We will not, and we should not, assume that it is the task of Americans alone to settle all the conflicts of a torn and troubled world.
Every day we spend more than $120 million for foreign oil.
By strangling competition, monopolistic activity prevents or deters investment in new or expanded production facilities.
Let us make America once again and for centuries more to come what it has so long been--a stronghold and a beacon-light of liberty for the whole world.
I will forward shortly legislative proposals to help combat terrorism.
The aid we have given to people determined to act in defense of their freedom has often spelled the difference between success and failure.
The lesson of our history -- and the lesson of the last seven years -- is that great goals are reached step by step, always building on our progress, always gaining ground.
One of those brave soldiers is sitting with the First Lady tonight -- Army Sergeant Michael Tolbert.
Our national production has risen from about $50 billion, in terms of today's prices, to the staggering figure of $255 billion a year.
Now, if you want to vote no, that's your choice.
We need to prepare our children to read and succeed in school with improved Head Start and early childhood development programs.
In this pattern of control, the United States, with the full approval of its partners, has retained primary authority and primary responsibility.
Here are the fundamental challenges I believe America must meet to shape the 21st century world.
We must not ask government to do what we should do for ourselves.
Today, more than half the world's food aid comes from the United States.
In November, we witnessed a landmark achievement when scientists discovered a way to reprogram adult skin cells to act like embryonic stem cells.
By moving steadily toward the goal of greater freedom under law, for our own people, we shall be the better prepared to work for the cause of freedom under law throughout the world.
We must, and we will, keep up the fight there until we get the kind of armistice that will put an end to the aggression and protect the safety of our forces and the security of the Republic of Korea.
To build a prosperous future, we must trust people with their own money and empower them to grow our economy.
Values are important, so we've tripled funding for character education to teach our children not only reading and writing, but right from wrong.
Only one year remains in which to obtain ratification by three additional states.
They will mean increased production of goods they need and materials we need.
Revel in the life that I have died to give you.
And that means building a new generation of safe, clean nuclear powerplants in this country.
We see it today in the United States military, in the Peace Corps, in AmeriCorps.
I'm also working, along with the leaders of other nations, to provide additional military and economic aid for Pakistan.
Our country's uniform is being worn once again with pride.
These steps have already saved billions of dollars in regulatory costs and slashed thousands of outmoded regulations.
And it's time we show them that we do get it.
We will establish a new system that makes high-quality health care available to every American in a dignified manner and at a price he can afford.
And I should treasure nothing more than to have that partnership begin between the executive and the Congress.
I hope that pending legislation to improve the conservation and management of publicly-owned grazing lands in national forests will soon be approved by the Congress.
And so this, then, is our policy: We will maintain a nuclear deterrent adequate to meet any threat to the security of the United States or of our allies.
In recent years America's partners and friends in Western Europe and Japan have made great economic progress.
They extinguished, blotted out, the national independence of the countries that the military operations of World War II had left within their grasp.
The rate of expansion in construction has broken all records.
Obtaining additional air transport mobility--and obtaining it now-- will better assure the ability of our conventional forces to respond, with discrimination and speed, to any problem at any spot on the globe at any moment's notice.
Accordingly, I am asking the Congress to postpone until January 1, 1982, the personal tax reductions I had earlier proposed to take effect on January 1 of this year.
Once established I am certain that public opinion would compel steady progress toward its accomplishment.
American diplomacy has rallied more than fifty countries to prevent nuclear materials from falling into the wrong hands, and allowed us to reduce our own reliance on Cold War stockpiles.
My grandchildren don't have to do that and won't have the bad dreams children had once, in decades past.
We created an office on domestic violence within HHS to coordinate the 12 agencies that now have domestic violence relief programs, and to distribute information on the problem and the services available to victims.
This legislation renewing GRS will be the cornerstone of Federal-State-local government relations in the 1980's.
We were locked in confrontation with the Soviet Union.
So far the fight against inflation has been waged successfully.
But tonight I'll lay out additional proposals that are fully paid for and fully consistent with the budget framework both parties agreed to just 18 months ago.
That is to say, if we include all the money that your Government will take in and all the money that your Government will spend, your Government next year will collect one-half billion dollars more than it will spend in the year 1967.
If you have a five-year-old, you're already concerned about how you'll pay for college tuition 13 years down the road.
The beginning of the year 1946 finds the United States strong and deservedly confident.
You had three hours--yes, three hours--to consider each, and it took 300 people at my Office of Management and Budget just to read the bill so the government wouldn't shut down.
Most people now realize that our programs of military aid and defense support are an integral part of our own defense effort.
Our differences with a system that openly proclaims and practices an alleged right to command people's lives and to export its ideology by force are deep and abiding.
In this period we have taken more steps toward peace--including the test ban treaty--than at any time since the cold war began.
Such a study would update and supplement, in the light of continuous changes in our society and its economy, the monumental work of the Committee on Recent Social Trends which was appointed in 1931 by President Hoover.
But I took this office on a pledge that had no partisan tinge to keep our nation secure by remaining engaged in the rest of the world.
That's only fair to those who now have no vote: the generations to come.
If they choose peaceful competition, they shall have it.
For 20 years Scholastic Aptitude Test scores of our high school students went down, but now they have gone up 2 of the last 3 years.
If we believe in ourselves and the faith we profess, we will stick to that job until it is victoriously finished.
By the same token, and for the same reason, in today's world the price of peace is a strong defense as far as the United States is concerned.
Citizenship means standing up for the lives that gun violence steals from us each day.
This, very briefly, is the good side and the bad side of the picture.
I left here first to become Vice President, and then to become, in a moment of tragedy, the President of the United States.
We must continue our efforts to achieve the full realization of our democratic ideals.
Here, in spite of outside aid and support, the free government of China succumbed to the communist assault.
If we don't, the recovery will be too short, unemployment will remain too high, and we will leave an unconscionable burden of national debt for our children.
The Commission should give this its earliest attention.
But in debating the past --in debating the past, we must not deny ourselves the successes of the future.
Once again, Americans believe in themselves, in their leaders, and in the promise that tomorrow holds for their children.
Our administration's budget with all its cuts can paint a large increase in funding for drug treatment and drug education.
They were extended by the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments.
This surcharge will raise revenues by some $4.5 billion in the first year.
In 3 years, our partnership with the private sector has already positioned America to be the world's leading manufacturer of high-tech batteries.
All of us together--this Administration, this Congress, this nation-must forge those answers.
One or more Presidents will try to resolve them or try to contain them in the years that are ahead of us.
We should always remember: protectionism is destructionism.
At the very least, a total war has been averted, each day up to this hour.
The Soviets must know that if America reduces her defenses, it will be because of a reduced threat, not a reduced resolve.
But I know that the American people aren't interested in refighting old battles.
But we cannot finish the job when a third of all our schools are in serious disrepair.
And America needs citizens to extend the compassion of our country to every part of the world.
These special interest items are often slipped into bills at the last hour, when not even C-SPAN is watching.
Business is a public trust and must adhere to national standards in the conduct of its affairs.
As a nation we can successfully pursue these objectives only from a position of broadly based strength.
This great Republic is foremost among the nations of the world in the search for peace.
Well, I think that debate is missing an important point.
With the Cold War receding and global commerce at record levels, we are helping to win unrivaled peace and prosperity all across the world.
So, before we go any further, I ask you to join with me in saluting the members of the Commission who are here tonight and Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker and Speaker Tip O'Neill for a job well done.
That responsibility clearly rests with the President.
Without standards and competition, there can be no champions, no records broken, no excellence in education or any other walk of life.
The Space Age is barely a quarter of a century old.
With the approval of this Congress, we have undertaken in the past year a great new effort in outer space.
Our offensive against terror involves more than military action.
The military threat is but one menace to our freedom and security.
Now, there are some in our country who argue that with the Cold War, America should turn its back on the rest of the world.
Similarly, only overall estimates are provided for new programs recommended in this Message;
And sadly, Private Markwell's mother did receive this letter.
When the European economy is strengthened, the product of its industry will be of benefit to many other areas of economic distress.
There's no reason this can't happen in other towns.
Previous Presidents have used the same constitutional authority I have, and Federal courts have approved the use of that authority.
Would there be another depression here--a repetition of 1921 or 1929?
Since the birth of our nation, ``We the People'' has been the source of our strength.
It is a decisive ideological struggle, and the security of our Nation is in the balance.
I ask all Americans to support our project to restore all our treasures so that the generations of the 21st century can see for themselves the images and the words that are the old and continuing glory of America.
We must reinvent government to make it work again.
Shortly you will receive from me a message on further re forms we intend to install some new, but others long recommended by our own Congressional committees.
We intend to pursue this democratic initiative vigorously.
Change we can believe in, the slogan went.
To do less would be insensible to progress, but to do more would be ignorant of history.
Today 49 nuclear warships have been authorized.
Our nation's long journey towards civil rights for all our citizens once a source of discord, now a source of pride must continue with no back sliding or slowing down.
At long last, we must have a clear, comprehensive energy policy for the United States.
Most importantly, it involves human lives.
And 4 years ago, other countries dominated the clean energy market and the jobs that came with it.
The enemy is not easy to perceive, or to isolate, or to destroy.
In Latin America, the American chiefs of state will be meeting very shortly to give our hemispheric policies new direction.
GENERAL REVENUE SHARING: Last year Congress enacted legislation that extends the General Revenue Sharing program for three more years.
The paralyzing effects of a nationwide strike in such industries as transportation, coal, oil, steel, or communications can result in national disaster.
One of the most important factors in our continued growth is the construction of more good, up-to-date housing.
I am requesting funds to support 260,000 units of Section 8 and public housing, maintaining these programs at the level provided by Congress in Fiscal 1981.
A Social Security check often isn't enough on its own.
We make today only those commitments we are able and prepared to meet.
Moreover, we hold large assets abroad--the total owed this nation far exceed the claims upon our reserves--and our exports once again substantially exceed our imports.
Following the signing of these treaties next month in Paris, they will he submitted to the Senate for ratification.
What we needed was not just a central force that could strike back against aggression.
in certain instances the denial to some of our citizens of equal protection of the law.
Wholesale prices are lower tonight than they were in August.
More importantly, it can determine this Nation's place in history as we enter the third century of our independence.
How can we not believe in the greatness of America?
They're coaching Little League and helping their neighbors.
To the families of America watching tonight in your living rooms, hold fast to your dreams because ultimately America's future rests in your hands.
Mr. Speaker and Mr. President, distinguished Members of Congress, honored guests, and fellow citizens: Thank you very much for that warm reception.
So, we must look beyond the next election to the next generation.
But what we do here is really beginning to change lives.
When I took office, the Consumer Price Index was rising at 12.2 percent a year.
None of this -- none of it should be put at risk.
America and Afghanistan are now allies against terror.
The events of the year just ended, the Revolution of '89, have been a chain reaction, changes so striking that it marks the beginning of a new era in the world's affairs.
Our government, working in concert with the U.N.'s Food and agricultural Organization (FAO), helped to respond to that need.
But abroad, as at home, there is a greater risk in standing still.
Under the leadership of Vice President Gore, our initiatives have already saved taxpayers $63 billion.
Together with our allies, we will complete our mission there by the end of this year, and America's longest war will finally be over.
[Laughter] Now, throughout our history, no issue has united this country more than our security.
Let's limit any elected official from owning stocks in industries they impact.
Other nations look to us for a wise exercise of our economic and military strength, and for vigorous support of the ideals of representative government and a free society.
Another point I should like to make very briefly: Like every Member of the House and Senate assembled here tonight, I was elected to the office that I hold.
You have the right to keep your medical records confidential.
But the balance we are seeking cannot be accomplished without the continuing every-day effort of the Executive and Legislative Branches to keep expenditures under control.
We will seek legal power to prevent pollution of our air and water before it happens.
New ways should be found to help foster this new people's movement which is founded on the principle of self-reliance.
In some of our urban areas we must help rebuild entire sections and neighborhoods containing, in some cases, as many as 100,000 people.
I have come here tonight to report to you that this is a time of testing for our Nation.
It is affected also by regular notions on consumer credit and by the money market, which is strongly influenced by the rate of interest on Government securities.
When it's all said and done, it's pretty simple to me.
Our job is to make life better for our fellow Americans and help them to build a future of hope and opportunity, and this is the business before us tonight.
Let's go to work and get this done together.
Similar forces are included in our naval fleets.
We must keep faith with all who have risked life and limb so that we might live in freedom and peace.
Let me repeat that, because it matters to me, as I know it matters to you: This plan will not make new cuts in Medicare benefits for any beneficiary.
Almost 3 months ago, the United Nations Security Council gave Saddam Hussein his final chance to disarm.
Which fully funds the diplomacy that keeps our soldiers out of war.
Let us overcome their despair and replace it with hope.
It was a year of fears and alarms and of dire forecasts-- most of which never happened and won't happen.
And one of the main sources of reaction and opposition is radical Islam, the perversion by a few of a noble faith into an ideology of terror and death.
From that base a number of thorough investigations of specific topics continued.
I shall propose certain administrative changes suggested by the Congress-as well as some that we have learned from our own trial and error.
Last year we had the highest level of exports of farm products in the history of our country, $24 billion.
They have enshrined for us, a principle of government, the moral imperative to do justice, and the divine command to men to love one another.
The Soviets are, in short, waging total cold war.
Preventing Iraq from threatening its neighbors.
Once again, we are called to defend the safety of our people and the hopes of all mankind.
During this decade, highway investments will be needed to increase productivity, particularly in the elimination of bottlenecks, provide more efficient connections to ports and seek low-cost solutions to traffic demand.
Over the last 3 years, we've opened millions of new acres for oil and gas exploration, and tonight I'm directing my administration to open more than 75 percent of our potential offshore oil and gas resources.
The continuing goal is peace, liberty, and well-being--for others as well as ourselves.
These steps will maintain and enhance the B-52 fleet by improving its ability to deliver weapons against increasingly heavily defended targets.
My Administration has devoted particular attention to the issues of world hunger, agricultural land use, and the future structure of American agriculture.
In Indonesia and in Palestine the efforts of the United Nations have put a stop to bloodshed and pave d the way to peaceful settlements.
The further away government is from people, the stronger government becomes and the weaker people become.
As the first order of business this year, I urge the Senate to do the same, and I know they will.
In the Middle East, under the most difficult circumstances, we have sought to help ancient enemies lay aside deep-seated differences that have produced four bitter wars in our lifetime.
It was here that I stood 28 years ago with my freshman colleagues, as Speaker Sam Rayburn administered the oath.
an alert, resourceful, and able citizenry.
In our modern world, when the deaths of literally millions of people can result from a few terrifying seconds of destruction, the path of national strength and security is identical to the path of peace.
Only a brief time back, we were spending at the rate of only about one million dollars a year on long range ballistic missiles.
In New York Harbor stands one of the most famous statues in the world--the Statue of Liberty, the gift in 1886 of the people of France to the people of the United States.
America has a window of opportunity to extend and secure our present peace by promoting a distinctly American internationalism.
Recession and inflation are eroding the money of millions more.
This is a gift we should give to our children and our grandchildren for all time, across party lines.
The expenditures of 15 billion dollars for national defense and war liquidation in the fiscal year 1947 will be partly for payment of contractual obligations incurred in the past, and partly for the payment of new obligations.
Let's do more to help Americans save for retirement.
We last met in an hour of shock and suffering.
Like many before us, we can work through our differences and achieve big things for the American people.
It means connecting companies to community colleges that can help design training to fill their specific needs.
Its rulers saw in the weakened condition of the world not an obligation to assist in the great work of reconstruction, but an opportunity to exploit misery and suffering for the extension of their power.
A few days after the war began, I received a telegram from Joanne Speicher, the wife of the first pilot killed in the Gulf, Lieutenant Commander Scott Speicher.
to open for all Americans the opportunity that is now enjoyed by most Americans;
Then and only then can we have a government that is efficient, open, and truly worthy of our people's understanding and respect.
But one of the things I'm grateful for is the opportunity that the Vice President and I have had to finally put to rest the bogus idea that you cannot grow the economy and protect the environment at the same time.
Fifty years ago we were a country devoted largely to our own internal affairs.
As to our strength, I have repeatedly voiced this conviction: We now have a broadly based and efficient defensive strength, including a great deterrent power, which is, for the present, our main guarantee against war;
And I want you to know that this nation is grateful for your service.
Now, some insist that any further budget savings must be obtained by reducing the portion spent on defense.
With shared values and meaningful opportunities and honest communication and citizen service, we can unite a diverse people in freedom and mutual respect.
The Federal budget is both a symptom and a cause of our economic problems.
Our very able representative, Mr.Cyrus Vance, and others helped to ease this tension.
Ours has become -- as it continues to be, and should remain -- a society of large expectation.
They are the birthright of every American.
Of this amount, 2.3 billion dollars have been disposed of, in sales yielding 600 million dollars.
During the war, the Smaller War Plants Corporation assisted small concerns to make a maximum contribution to victory.
None of this will come without cost, nor will it be easy.
More than nine million Americans have signed up for private health insurance or Medicaid coverage.
But I say again that America's best is still ahead.
New homebuilding starts this past year reached the highest level ever.
We have a diplomatic strategy that is rallying the world to join in the fight against extremism.
Now he's got a good job and he supports his little boy.
It is also a strengthening and stabilizing influence for our whole economy.
To ensure that the necessary economic development goes forward, the Congress must continue to provide strong support for the UDAG program and the programs for the Economic Development Administration.
So let there be no doubt: health care reform cannot wait, it must not wait, and it will not wait another year.
I doubt if the tasks of the future are more difficult.
Neither state nor Federal solutions imposed from on high will suffice.
Determined to give our people the tools they need to make the most of their own lives in the 21st century -- a 21st century government for 21st century America.
I shall recommend programs for new air safety measures.
Starting in fiscal 1984, the Federal Government will assume full responsibility for the cost of the rapidly growing Medicaid program to go along with its existing responsibility for Medicare.
We will vigorously pursue existing proposals-and seek new ones-to control arms and to stop the spread of nuclear weapons
In 30 days, I will send back to you those items as rescissions,which if I had the authority to line them out, I would do so.
And we can make sure our children are prepared for the jobs of the future, and our country is more competitive, by strengthening math and science skills.
To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past.
States also need to do their part by making higher education a higher priority in their budgets.
I'd like to share just one of them with you.
Legislatively and administratively we took several billions out of the economy.
We also hear doubts that democracy is a realistic goal for the greater Middle East, where freedom is rare.
They also include a sweeping reorganization of the executive branch of the Federal Government so that it will be more efficient, more responsive, and able to meet the challenges of the decades ahead.
We'll eliminate the no-bid contracts that have wasted billions in Iraq, and reform our defense budget so that we're not paying for Cold War-era weapons systems we don't use.
Let's also make sure that a high school diploma puts our kids on a path to a good job.
In these and all areas the Federal Government should withdraw from the control of rents as soon as practicable.
The Congress has made it possible to offer valuable inducements to those who are eligible for enlistment.
In the early twenties the Nation failed to maintain outlets for the new productive capacity of our agricultural plant.
I urge quick action on the necessary legislation to allow commercial production at the Elk Hills, California, Naval Petroleum Reserve.
We live in a world in which strength on the part of peace loving nations is still the greatest deterrent to aggression.
A CALL FOR PERMANENT TAX CREDITS:  There's more to do.
BUILDING UP THE DEFENSE BUDGET:  It is time to reverse the decline in defense spending that began in 1985.
As technology has advanced in America, it has increasingly encroached on one of those liberties--what I term the right of personal privacy.
So this time, if you send me an appropriations bill that does not cut the number and cost of earmarks in half, I'll send it back to you with my veto.
The number of Community Health Centers providing services in high priority underserved areas has doubled during my Administration, and will serve an estimated six million people in 1981.
II. THE FEDERAL PROGRAM DOMESTIC AFFAIRS. / 3. LEGISLATION HERETOFORE RECOMMENDED AND STILL PENDING: To attain some of these objectives and to meet the other needs of the United States in the reconversion and postwar period, I have from time to time made various recommendations to the Congress.
It is a threat not only to Israel and to all the Arab States, but it is a threat to every one of us and to the entire world as well.
To do this will require much wisdom and patience and firmness.
Since 1971 no general federal coal lease sales were suspended.
Now, last year, we almost came to blows over health care.
This would involve additional expenditures estimated at approximately 220 million dollars for the fiscal year.
To further strengthen the social security system and provide a greater degree of assurance to beneficiaries, given projected future economic uncertainties, additional action should be taken.
BOSNIA MISSION:  Next, I will ask Congress to continue its support for our troops and their mission in Bosnia.
And this is an alliance forged by the power of our ideals, not the pettiness of our differences.
In the midst of civil war, we laid railroad tracks from one coast to another that spurred commerce and industry.
CREATING A 'FREEDOM CORPS':  None of us would ever wish the evil that was done on September 11th, yet after America was attacked, it was as if our entire country looked into a mirror and saw our better selves.
Tonight, I'm especially pleased to join with the Speaker and the Senate majority leader in urging the Congress to enact this plan by Easter.
So let me start the discussion of Government spending by setting the record straight.
The Soviet imperialists have two ways of going about their destructive work.
Most of the remainder will arise from loss and excess-profits credit carry backs, recomputed amortization on war plants, and special relief from the excess profits tax.
Some have said we must not act until the threat is imminent.
A well-supported, well-balanced program of research, including basic research, can open new frontiers of knowledge, prevent and relieve suffering, and prolong life.
The Government needs to assure business, labor, and agriculture that Government policies will take due account of the requirements of a full employment economy.
And I will request a supplemental increase of 50 million.
This, of course, is merely world stalemate.
Tomorrow I'll visit Tampa, Florida, where workers will soon break ground on a new high-speed railroad funded by the Recovery Act.
Lincoln once said: I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition but to assist in ameliorating that of mankind.
Veterans' Administration: The internal reorganization of the Veterans Administration is proceeding with my full approval.
nonagricultural employment has increased by more than a million jobs;
I hope the Congress and the new Administration will take action to meet each of these challenges.
First, I extend cordial greetings to the 84th Congress.
New laboratories and centers will help our schools--help them lift their standards of excellence and explore new methods of teaching.
At home, we have learned that by working together we can create prosperity without fanning inflation; we can restore order without weakening freedom.
The leaders of both parties have pledged to make the enactment of fair housing legislation a top priority of the incoming Congress.
So, I believe that we should resume the talks with the Soviet Union about limiting offensive and defensive missile systems.
Four themes have shaped U.S. policy in international scientific and technological cooperation: pursuit of new international initiatives to advance our own research and development objectives;
In making this comparison account should be taken of the fact that, while prewar expenditures were affected by direct relief and work relief for the unemployed, the postwar budgets are affected by the considerable increase in pay rates and other increases in costs and prices.
Americans speak every language, know every county.
And together we must pledge tonight that we will use this empowerment approach -- including private sector tax incentives -- to renew our Capital City, so that Washington is a great place to work and live, and once again the proud face America shows to world.
I propose to help other communities follow Chicago's lead.
If we have a serious shortage, I will not hesitate to impose mandatory gasoline rationing immediately.
In May of that same year, the Nazis surrendered.
the design and procurement of a force of Maritime Propositioning Ships that will carry heavy equipment and supplies for three Marine Corps brigades;
And if we will work together this year, I believe we can give a future President and a future Congress the chance to make that prosperity, that peace, that freedom, not just the state of our Union, but the state of our world.
And for the first time ever, we have organized a massive national effort to protect the environment.
A terrorist underworld -- including groups like Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad and Jaish-i-Mohammed -- operates in remote jungles and deserts, and hides in the centers of large cities.
We cannot expect to complete the job overnight.
Among the bills now pending before you, on which the executive departments will comment in detail, are appropriate methods of strengthening these basic rights which have our full support.
In such a world, America's course is clear: We must tirelessly labor to make the peace more just and durable.
America is a great force for freedom and prosperity.
I didn't choose to tackle this issue to get some legislative victory under my belt.
For that is the world in which we will flourish and that is the world that we mean for all men to ultimately have.
This involves, as a serious and explicit purpose of our foreign policy, the encouragement of a hospitable climate for such investment in foreign nations.
We will achieve this first, by guaranteeing that government does everything possible to promote America's ability to compete.
We have accomplished what to earlier ages of mankind would have been a miracle-we work shorter hours, we produce more, and we live better.
If the free countries of Asia and Africa should fall to Soviet Russia, we would lose the sources of many of our most vital raw materials, including uranium, which is the basis of our atomic power.
Last year, this Congress took strong action to help the District of Columbia.
Each of us will measure within ourselves the value of this great struggle.
It brings that deficit down further and balances the budget by 1993 with no new taxes.
by opening our doors to foreign visitors and diplomats and students;
And on behalf of the American people, I want to salute you for your service to Congress and country.
Moreover, everyone should be aware that the development process is no short term phenomenon.
We could save time and improve efficiency by enacting 2-year budgets.
The world oil market is increasingly tight.
This compares with less than a third in 1975.
It provides for reduction of forces in certain categories and their expansion in others, to fit them to the military realities of our time.
We have enhanced our readiness and combat endurance by improving the Reserve Components.
The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable -- and it is not carried forward by our power alone.
Our health is far behind the progress of medical science.
But it is not a challenge to him alone, for in reality he cannot meet it alone.
The forces of freedom are together, united.
Because peace is the keystone of our national policy, our defense program emphasizes an effective flexible type of power calculated to deter or repulse any aggression and to preserve the peace.
It is time to turn our unemployment system into a reemployment system that puts people to work.
And on that score, we will be held to a high standard, indeed, because our chance to do good is so great.
Not everything has been made perfect in seven years--nor will it be made perfect in seven times 70 years--but before us, this year and beyond, are great prospects for the cause of peace and world freedom.
I do not doubt that the Congress will be beset by many groups who will urge that the legislation that I have proposed should either be eliminated or modified to the point where it is nearly useless.
The power of America rests in a stirring but simple idea, that people will do great things if only you set them free.
and we are on the threshold of incredible advances.
This is like being ahead in the 4th quarter of a football game.
But the United States will not recognize any such government.
Technology made businesses more efficient, but also made some jobs obsolete.
Recognizing this fact, I directed the implementation of an operational civil land satellite remote sensing system, with the operational management responsibility in Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
But inequality among the States will still remain, and Federal help will still be needed.
Meanwhile, we're working for reduction of arms and military activities.
That test has proved the wisdom of the system, but it has also made strikingly apparent the need for improving its operation and increasing its coverage and its benefits.
But time and again, Saddam Hussein flatly rejected the path of diplomacy and peace.
Major initiatives launched by this Administration helped bring about these accomplishments and have provided a solid foundation for employment and training policy in the 1980's.
Already, we have made an historic investment in education through the economic recovery plan.
But we know that our schools don't just need more resources.
Mr. President and Mr. Speaker and Members of the United States Congress: I come to this House of the people to speak to you and all Americans, certain that we stand at a defining hour.
But our goal must be to liberate people and lift them up, from dependence to independence, from welfare to work, from mere childbearing to responsible parenting.
On women's issues, I have sought the counsel of men and women in and out of government and from all regions of our country.
And tonight, the American auto industry is back.
Right now overlapping regulations keep responsible young families from buying their first home.
So tonight I'm announcing the launch of three more of these manufacturing hubs, where businesses will partner with the Department of Defense and Energy to turn regions left behind by globalization into global centers of high-tech jobs.
As the process of election becomes more complex and more costly, we must make it possible for those without personal wealth to enter public life without being obligated to a few large contributors.
We are now negotiating with representatives of the twenty Latin American Republics for the creation of an inter-American financial institution.
Today the Senate passed the "Violence Against Women's Act" that Joe Biden originally wrote almost 20 years ago.
My budget includes $110-million initiative to promote economic development in the Delta, and a billion dollars to increase economic opportunity, health care, education and law enforcement for our Native American communities.
And 5 years ago, American agriculture was practically a depressed industry with 100,000 farm families abandoning the farm every year.
We have to help those on welfare move to work as quickly as possible, to provide child care and teach them skills if that's what they need for up to two years.
All Americans, not only in the states most heavily affected, but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country.
The impact of large-scale migration is affecting many countries in the hemisphere.
Reinforced by these policies, our private enterprise system has reached new heights of production.
The American people have decided that poverty is just as wasteful and just as unnecessary as preventable disease.
This year, I will work with Congress and our military to finally repeal the law that denies gay Americans the right to serve the country they love because of who they are.
Our goals should he abundant farm production and parity income for agriculture.
No group is more fundamental to our national life than our farmers.
We have made a good start in the early grades with the No Child Left Behind Act, which is raising standards and lifting test scores across our country.
And so tonight we are pleased to welcome this talented business entrepreneur and generous social entrepreneur, Julie Aigner-Clark.
And there's something more we owe the generations of the future: stewardship, the safekeeping of America's precious environmental inheritance.
Every state and school must shape the curriculum to reflect these standards, and train teachers to lift students up to them.
It'll have its first impact on the 1978 crops.
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When we rescued our automakers, for example, we worked with them to set higher fuel efficiency standards for our cars.
Over more than three decades, even before the Great Recession hit, massive shifts in technology and global competition had eliminated a lot of good, middle-class jobs, and weakened the economic foundations that families depend on.
One last point about education: Today, there are hundreds of thousands of students excelling in our schools who are not American citizens.
To the generations that followed, America's was the open door that beckoned millions from the old world to the new in search of a better life, a freer life, a fuller life, and in which, by their own decisions, they could shape their own destinies.
The structure of industry sometimes requires unions, as a matter of self-preservation, to extend the conflict beyond a particular employer.
As I have said, War and Navy Department requirements indicate a strength of about 2 million in the armed forces a year from now.
And their vigilance is protecting America.
The leaders of American business and the leaders of American labor-those who really have power over wages and prices-must act responsibly, and in their Nation's interest by keeping increases in line with productivity.
Third, all states and school districts must be held responsible for the quality of their teachers.
Private capital and private management are entitled to adequate reward for efficiency, but business must recognize that its reward results from the employment of the resources of the Nation.
Families grossing $20,000 would receive a reduction of $210.
I also recommend that minimum wage protection be extended to several groups of workers not now covered.
Every state in this country already requires hunters and automobile drivers to have a license.
This alternative is contrary to the fundamental interests, not only of the farmer, but of the Nation as a whole.
To overcome extremism, we must also be vigilant in upholding the values our troops defend--because there is no force in the world more powerful than the example of America.
There are also persistent problems of poverty and economic stagnation in other parts of rural America.
Universal training is essential to the security of the United States.
These young men will give special attention to this drug abuse, too.
These gains cannot be achieved unless our businessmen maintain their spirit of initiative and enterprise and operate in a competitive economy.
The war against drugs is a war of individual battles, a crusade with many heroes--including America's young people, and also someone very special to me.
The problem has been given even greater urgency by four recent court decisions, which have held that the conventional method of financing schools through local property taxes is discriminatory and unconstitutional.
In today's health care system, insurance companies call the shots.
and to talk about the exchange of basic food crop materials.
After taxes and inflation, there was a healthy increase in workers' wages.
For businesses across the country, it would mean customers with more money in their pockets.
Our administration is already encouraging certain low-income public housing residents to own and manage their own dwellings.
The chief dependence of the farmer, however, as always, must be upon the buying power of our own people.
the Black Lung Benefit Reform Act was signed into law.
If we distribute these gains properly, we can go far toward stamping out poverty in our generation.
The Department has successfully combined nearly 150 Federal education programs into a cohesive, streamlined organization that is more responsive to the needs of educators and students.
Many leading businessmen have recognized the importance of such action both to themselves and to the economy as a whole.
I thank the Congress for passing equal access legislation giving religious groups the same right to use classrooms after school that other groups enjoy.
I hope the new tax incentives I have proposed will get all the rest of them to join us.
and strong cost controls and health system reforms would be implemented, including greater incentives for Health Maintenance Organizations
To avoid this danger, we must curb monopoly and provide aids to independent business so that it may have the credit and capital to compete in a system of free enterprise.
Later in the year, when both Commissions have completed their studies, I shall make my final recommendations for relieving the burden of property taxes and providing both fair and adequate financing for our children's education.
Over the last few years, both parties have worked together to reduce the deficit by more than $2.5 trillion, mostly through spending cuts, but also by raising tax rates on the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans.
If America sits on the sidelines while other nations sign trade deals, we will lose the chance to create jobs on our shores.
The children, born in withdrawal, are sometimes even dropped on her doorstep.
The Energy Security Act also provides significant incentives for the development of gasohol and biomass fuels, thereby enhancing the nation's supply of alternative energy sources.
Maybe you'd even have the pride of seeing your kids work at the same company.
Because I firmly believe when women succeed, America succeeds.
Livestock producers, in their fourth straight year of record losses, were liquidating breeding herds at an unparalleled rate.
So I look forward to coming to your city, to see your faith-based programs in action.
They are laboring under terrific handicaps--poverty, ill health, feudal systems of land ownership, and the threat of internal subversion or external attack.
The second kind of measure concerns the rapid turnover of our most experienced servicemen.
The program I have proposed will assure the ability of our Navy to operate in high threat areas, to maintain control of the seas and protect vital lines of communication, both military and economic and to provide the strong maritime component of our rapid deployment forces.
At a time when Americans owe more in tuition debt than credit card debt, this Congress needs to stop the interest rates on student loans from doubling in July.
Growth and vitality in our economy depend on vigorous private enterprise.
Business is good and there are still powerful forces working in the direction of inflation.
We're witnessing an upsurge of productivity and impressive evidence that American industry will once again become competitive in markets at home and abroad, ensuring more jobs and better incomes for the Nation's work force.
My Plan includes the following key features: nearly 15 million additional poor would receive fully-subsidized comprehensive coverage;    .
A year ago, less than 900 Peace Corps volunteers were on the job.
And since then, during 6 years of negotiation by both Republican and Democratic leaders, nearly all issues of SALT II have been resolved.
To do otherwise is simply unworthy of a great nation of immigrants.
The estimates also provide for the maintenance of our war-expanded naval and merchant fleets, military installations, and stocks of military equipment and supplies.
Nor, in the conduct of our international relations, during and since the war, have such partisan differences been material.
It will also be necessary to continue all of the present excise taxes without any reduction and the corporation income taxes at their present rates for another year beyond next April 1st.
To reach our long-range goal of adequate housing for all our people, comprehensive housing legislation is urgently required, similar to the non-partisan bill passed by the Senate last year.
And we'll reward schools that develop new partnerships with colleges and employers and create classes that focus on science, technology, engineering, and math: the skills today's employers are looking for to fill the jobs that are there right now and will be there in the future.
Now, I know Wall Street isn't keen on this idea.
I am confident in the skill and spirit of our military.
In addition, now is the time to start a sensible program of readjustment benefits for our veterans who have seen service since the fighting broke out in Korea.
And every penny should go towards lowering taxes for companies that choose to stay here and hire here in America.
In spite of supplying our armed forces and our allies during the war with a fifth to a fourth of our total food output, farmers were still able to provide our civilians with 8 percent more food per capita than the average for the five years preceding the war.
This achievement has been made possible by the patriotic voluntary cooperation of businessmen and bankers working with your Government.
every panel pounded into place by a worker whose job can't be outsourced.
Our concern for the well-being of farm families demands that we constantly search for new ways by which they can share more fully in our unprecedented prosperity.
That would be worse for our deficit, worse for business, worse for you, and worse for the next generation.
We should require lobbyists to tell the people for whom they work what they're spending, what they want.
As the new Congress opened its doors, lobbyists were still doing business as usual -- the gifts, the trips, all the things that people are concerned about haven't stopped.
(3) Legislation to supplement the unemployment insurance benefits for unemployed workers now provided by the different States--as recommended by me on May 28,1945.
Simple fairness dictates that government must not raise taxes on families struggling to pay their bills.
By executive order, I created the first national program to provide women business owners with technical assistance, grants, loans, and improved access to federal contracts.
People like the D.A.R.E. officers are making a real impression on grade schoolchildren that will give them the strength to say no when the time comes
Failure to face up to basic issues in areas other than those of labor-management can cause serious strains on the firm freedom supports of our society.
Another requirement of military organization is a clear subordination of the military services to duly constituted civilian authority.
Their leaders and operatives are being removed from the battlefield.
Now at schools like P-TECH in Brooklyn, a collaboration between New York Public Schools and City University of New York and IBM, students will graduate with a high school diploma and an associate's degree in computers or engineering.
We also can't reward work and family unless men and women get equal pay for equal work.
And if he thinks that by abusing the coalition prisoners of war he will benefit, he is dead wrong.
While meeting all these needs, we intend to plug unwarranted tax loopholes and strengthen the law which requires all large corporations to pay a minimum tax.
Let's raise the price of cigarettes by up to $1.50 a pack over the next 10 years, with penalties on the tobacco industry if it keeps marketing to our children.
To make our economy stronger and more competitive, America must reward, not punish, the efforts and dreams of entrepreneurs.
At the same time, this reform will level the playing field for those who do not get health insurance through their job.
I have listened carefully and I believe that the opposition is rooted in two fears: first, that our trading partners will have lower environmental and labor standards which will give them an unfair advantage in our market and do their own people no favors, even if there's more business.
Married couples with two children, with incomes up to $5,000 per year, will be exempt from this tax-as will single people with an income of up to $1,900 a year.
We can be certain of our capacity to produce food, but we have often failed to distribute it as well as we should and to see that our people can afford to buy it.
As all of you know, I was just there with a bipartisan congressional group, and I was so proud not only of what our troops were doing, but of the pride they evidenced in what they were doing
If you make more than a million dollars a year, you should not pay less than 30 percent in taxes.
That's why we must do more, and more quickly, to help workers who lose their jobs for whatever reason.
I intend to hold these banks fully accountable for the assistance they receive, and this time, they will have to clearly demonstrate how taxpayer dollars result in more lending for the American taxpayer.
He has given hope to 500,000 paralyzed Americans that some day they may walk again.
It only succeeded, he said, because every single member of that unit did their job: the pilot who landed the helicopter that spun out of control, the translator who kept others from entering the compound, the troops who separated the women and children from the fight, the SEALs who charged up the stairs.
Everyone who steps forward today -- to get one addict off drugs, to convince one troubled teenager not to give up on life, to comfort one AIDS patient, to help one hungry child.
I call on the Congress to enact the reforms recommended by Senator Bob Dole and Secretary Donna Shalala, so we can improve the system of care for our wounded warriors and help them build lives of hope and promise and dignity.
We need to give every American student opportunities like this.
that it encourages free enterprise, rewards individual initiative, and opens the doors of opportunity to every child across this great Nation.
That's why centuries of pioneers and immigrants have risked everything to come here.
A waitress supporting two children on $25,000 a year can lose nearly half of every additional dollar she earns above the $25,000.
With all the temptations young people face it sometimes seems the allure of the permissive society requires superhuman feats of self-control.
Investments in education and skills, in science and technology and transportation, to prepare our people for the new economy.
So, I will propose a broader strategy in the field of international trade-- one that increases the openness of our trading system and is fairer to America's farmers and workers in the world marketplace.
Tonight, I issue a challenge to the nation: Every state should adopt high national standards, and by 1999, every state should test every 4th grader in reading and every 8th grader in math to make sure these standards are met.
Our farm families, if we act wisely, imaginatively and promptly to strengthen our present farm programs, can also look forward to sharing equitably in the prosperity they have helped to create.
At last we have begun to find a way to reduce crime, forming community partnerships with local police forces to catch criminals and prevent crime
The same moral tradition that defines marriage also teaches that each individual has dignity and value in God's sight.
And we are going to make sure our schools' diplomas mean something.
Right now because of loopholes and shelters in the Tax Code, a quarter of all millionaires pay lower tax rates than millions of middle class households.
Lower interest rates have made it easier for businesses to borrow and to invest and to create new jobs
I shall recommend programs to help farmers bargain more effectively for fair prices.
Right now, three-quarters of the fastest-growing occupations require more than a high school diploma.
Our survival as a free and independent people requires, above all, strong military forces that are well equipped and highly trained to perform their assigned mission.
Three and one-half million Americans have already received treatment under Medicare since July.
RESTRICTION OF MONOPOLY AND PROMOTION OF PRIVATE ENTERPRISE: The second major policy I desire to lay before you has to do with the growing concentration of economic power and the threat to free competitive private enterprise.
As a result a $2 billion youth education and jobs initiative was introduced to provide unemployed youth with the basic education and work experience they need to compete in the labor market of the 1980's.
Fifth, I ask you tonight to fund our HOPE housing proposal and to pass my enterprise zone legislation which will get businesses into the inner city.
The governing factor now has become the requirement for troops in sufficient strength to carry out their missions.
Yet American workers want more than unemployment checks.
And we all cherish family and faith, freedom and responsibility.
And tonight, thanks to them, we are winning the war on terror.
These measures are based on a series of fundamental premises, grouped under four related headings: First, we need to strengthen our Nation by investing in our youth: 6.
And they won't have, as my children did, air raid drills in which they crawl under their desks and cover their heads in case of nuclear war.
I have learned a lot about the way both Republicans and Democrats view the debate before us
Tonight, I propose new tax incentives that would allow low- and middle-income citizens who don't itemize to get that deduction.
Since the boom year of 1929, while our population has increased by only 20 percent, our agricultural production has increased by 45 percent, and our industrial production has increased by 75 percent.
All fathers and mothers, in all societies, want their children to be educated and live free from poverty and violence.
I cannot repeat too strongly my desire for prompt Federal financial aid to the States to help them operate and maintain their school systems.
If we use this great asset wisely to meet the expanding demands of the world, we shall not only provide future opportunities for our own business, agriculture, and labor, but in the process strengthen our security posture and other prospects for a prosperous, harmonious world.
No doubt a reduction in either individual or corporation taxes alone would be of great help - but corporations need customers and job seekers need jobs.
Obviously, an employed worker is a better customer than an unemployed worker.
Proper care of our uniformed citizens and appreciation of the past service of our veterans are part of our accepted governmental responsibilities.
Tax credits for businesses that provide child care for their employees.
The mandate for both groups expired on December 31, but they have left behind a comprehensive review of the status of women in our society today.
Because of excessive litigation, everybody pays more for health care, and many parts of America are losing fine doctors.
When prices soar, the pensioner and the widow see their security undermined, the man of thrift sees his savings melt away; the white collar worker, the minister, and the teacher see their standards of living dragged down.
We've rebuilt our defenses, and, of all our accomplishments, none can give us more satisfaction than knowing that our young people are again proud to wear our country's uniform.
Many gaps exist in the private financial mechanism, especially in the provision of long-term funds for small and medium-sized enterprises.
When people put their party's fortunes, whatever the party, whatever side of this aisle, before the public good, they court defeat not only for their country but for themselves.
You and I know that if the playing field is level, America's workers and farmers can out-work, out-produce anyone, anytime, anywhere.
We must expand that middle class, and shrink the underclass, even as we do everything we can to support the millions of Americans who are already successful in the new economy.
We start these young lawyers at $8,200 a year.
What's at stake aren't Democratic values or Republican values, but American values.
It's there for our housing initiative -- HOPE -- to help everyone from first-time homebuyers to the homeless.
And while the stock market has doubled over the last five years, that doesn't help folks who don't have 401ks.
This is a prescription for economic decline, because we know the countries that out-teach us today will out-compete us tomorrow.
A year from now they will number more than 9,000 - men and women, aged 18 to 79, willing to give 2 years of their lives to helping people in other lands.
One third of our most promising high school graduates are financially unable to continue the development of their talents.
Fourth, we will continue our progress in providing jobs for America, concentrating on a major new program to provide training and work for our young people, especially minority youth.
Through Education: We begin with learning.
But the most important thing we can do is to reaffirm that control of our schools belongs to the states, local communities and, most of all, to the parents and teachers.
We'll reduce taxpayer subsidies to prescription drug companies and ask more from the wealthiest seniors.
Using resources now available, I propose improving the Medicare and other Federal health programs to help those who really need protection-- older people and the poor.
We have already been able to increase our support for major social programs-although we have heard a lot about not being able to do anything on the home front because of Vietnam;
Despite this increase, there is still an acute shortage of housing for the lower and middle-income groups, especially in large metropolitan areas.
A Vietnam veteran, he has created groups to help inner-city children turn away from gangs and build futures they can believe in
So tonight I'm proposing that we take $30 billion of the money Wall Street banks have repaid and use it to help community banks give small businesses the credit they need to stay afloat.
But we shouldn't cut people off just because they're poor, they're young, or even because they're unmarried.
Our first obligation is to the most vulnerable -- infants, poor mothers, children living in poverty -- and my proposed budget recognizes this.
Finally, the overseas success of our Peace Corps volunteers, most of them young men and women carrying skills and ideas to needy people, suggests the merit of a similar corps serving our own community needs: in mental hospitals, on Indian reservations, in centers for the aged or for young delinquents, in schools for the illiterate or the handicapped.
Full partnership will only be achieved with the knowing participation of leaders of government, business, education and unions.