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The average 18-year-old today will change jobs seven tires in  have done a lot in this country on worker training in the last few years but the system is Loo fractured. We must develop a unified simplified sensible streamlined worker training program so that workers receive training they need regardless of Why they lost their jobs or whether icy simply need to learn something to keep them. We have got to do better on  finally i propose a program that got great response from the american people All across the country last year a program of National service to make College Loans available to All americans and to Challenge them at the same time to give something Back to their country As teachers or police officers or Community service workers to give them he option to pay the Loans Back by making their country stronger and making their country better and giving us the Benefit of their  generation ago when president Kennedy proposed and the . Congress embraced the peace corps it defined the character of a whole generation of americans committed to serving people around the world. In this National service program we will provide More than twice As Many slots for people before they go to College to be in National service than Ever served in the peace corps. This program could do for this generation of members of Congress what the land Grant College act did and what inc i Bill did for former  the future historians who Gol their education through the National service loan will look Back on you and thank you forgiving America a new lease on life if you meet his Challenge. If we believe in jobs and we believe in learning we must believe in rewarding work. If we believe in restoring the values that make America special we must believe there is dignity for All workers. To those who care for our sick who tend our children who do our most difficult and tiring jobs the new direction i propose will make this solemn simple commitment. By expanding the refundable earned income tax credit we will make  will Reward the work of millions of working poor americans by realizing the principle that if you work 40 hours a week and you be got a child in the House you will no longer be in  this year we will offer a plan to end welfare As we know it. I have worked on this Issue for inc better part of a decade. And i know from personal conversations with Many people that no one wants to change he welfare system As badly As i Host who Are rapped in it i want to offer the people on welfare he education the training the child care and the health care hey need to get Back on heir feet. By say after to years hey mus be Back to work Loo in private business if possible in Public service if necessary. We have to end welfare As a Way of life and make it a path to Independence and dignity. Our next great goal should be to strengthen our families. I compliment the Congress for passing the family and medical leave act As a Good first step. But it is time to do  plan will give this country the toughest child support enforcement system it has Ever had. It is time to demand hat people take More responsibility for the children hey bring into the world. And Well crack Down on Deadbeat parents who won t pay heir child support. And i ask you to help protect our families against the violent crime which terrorizes our people and cars our communities apart. We must pass a ouch crime Bill. I support not Only the Bill which did t a Quoc make it to the president s desk last year but also an initiative to put 100,000 More police on the Street to provide Boot Camps for first time nonviolent offenders and for More space for the hardened criminals in jail. And i support an initiative to do what we can o keep guns out of the hands of criminals. I la make you this bargain if you pass the Brady Bill i la sure sign  me say now we should move to the harder parts. I think it is Clear to every american including every member of Congress of Bolh parties that the Confidence of the people who pay our Bills and our institutions in Washington is no thigh. We must restore it. We must begin again to make government work for Ordinary taxpayers pot simply for organized interest groups. And that beginning must Start with real political  am asking the uni cd states Congress to pass a real Campaign finance Reform Bill this year.1 ask you to increase the participation of the american people by passing the motor voter Hill promptly. 1 ask you to deaf with Ine undue influence of special interests by passing a Bill to end the tax deduction for lobbying and to act quickly to require All the people who lobby you to Register As lobbyists by passing the lobbying registration Bill. Believe me they were applauding president Clinton before his address began arc from left Hillary Rodham Clinton the first lady Alan Greenspan the Federal Reserve Board chairman and Tipper Gore wife of the vice president. Cheering that last Section at Home. I believe lobby Reform and Campaign finance Reform arc a sure path to increased popularity for republicans and democrats alike because it says to the voters Back Home this is your House this is your Senate. We re your hired hands and every Penny we draw is your Money next to revolutionize government we have to ensure Hal we live within our Means and that s to Start at the top and with the White House. In the last few Days i have announced a Cut in the White House staff of 25 percent saving approximately $10 million. I have ordered administrative cuts in budgets of agencies and departments i have Cut the Federal bureaucracy or will Over the next four years by approximately 100,000 positions for combined savings of $9 billion. It is time for government to demonstrate in the condition we re in that we can be As frugal As any household in America. And that is Why i also want to congratulate the Congress i noticed the announcement of the leadership today mat the Congress is taking similar Steps to Cut its costs. 1 think thai is  think that will Send a very Clear signal to the american people. But if we really want to Cut spending we re going Mohave to do More. And some of it will be difficult tonight i Call for an across the Board freeze in Federal government salaries for one  thereafter during this four year period i recommend that salaries Rise at one Point lower than the Cost of living allowance normally involved in Federal pay increases. Next 1 recommend that we make 150 specific budget cuts As you know and that All those who say we should Cut More be As specific As i have been. Finally let me say to my friends on both sides of the aisle it is nol enough simply to Cut government we have to rethink the whole Way it works. When i became president i was amazed at just the Way the White House worked in ways that added lots of Money to what taxpayers had to pay outmoded ways that did t take maximum advantage of technology and did t do things that any business would have done years ago to save taxpayers  1 want to bring a new spirit of innovation into every government department. I want to push education Reform As 1 said nol just to spend More Money bul to really improve  things work and some things Don t. We ought to be subsidizing the things thai work and discouraging the thing that Don t. I d like to use that superfund to clean up pollution for a change and not just pay lawyers. In the aftermath of All the difficulties with the savings and Loans we must use Federal Bank regulators to protect he Security and safety of our financial institutions but they should not be used to continue he credit crunch and to Stop people from making sensible Loans i d like for us to not Only have welfare Reform but to re examine the whole focus of All of our programs that help people to shift them from entitlement programs to empowerment programs. In the end we want people nol to need us anymore. 1 think that s important. But in the end we have to get Back to the deficit. For years there has been a lol of talk about it bul few credible efforts to Deal with it. And now i understand Why having dealt with the real numbers for four weeks. Bul i believe this plan docs. H tackles the budget deficit seriously and Over the Long term. It puts in place one of the biggest deficit reductions and one of the biggest changes in Federal priority from consumption la investment in the history of this country at the same Lime Oer the next four years. Let me say to All the people watching us tonight who will ask me these que Lions beginning tomorrow As i go around inc country and who have asked in the past we re nol cutting the deficit just because experts say it s the thing to do or because it has some intrinsic Merit. We have to Cut the deficit because the More we spend paying off the debt inc less tax dollars we have to invest in jobs and education and the future of this country. And the More Money we take out of the Pool of available savings the harder it is for people in the private sector to borrow Money a affordable inter Cal rates for a College loan for heir children for a Home mortgage or to Start a new business. That s Why we have got to reduce the debt because it is crowding out other activities that we ought to be engaged in and that the american people ought to be engaged in. We Cut the deficit so that our children will be Able to buy a Home so that our companies can invest in the future and in retraining their workers so that our government can make the kinds of investments we need to be a stronger and smarter and safer nation. If we Don t act now you and 1 might nol even recognize this government 10 years from now. If we just stay Wilh inc same trend of the last four years by he end of the decade he a Cicil will be $635 billion a year almost 80 Percun of our Gross Domestic product and paying interest on that debt will be the Cost isl govern Mcnol program of All. Well still be the world s largest debtor. And when members of Congress come Here they la be devoting Over 20 cents on the Dollar o interest payments More than half of the budget o health cure and o other entitlements. And you will come Here and deliberate and argue Over six or seven cents on the Dollar no matter what America s problems arc we will not be Able to have inc Independence we need to Chart inc future hat we must and we will be terribly dependent on foreign funds for a Large portion of our investment this budget plan by contrast will by 1w7, Cut $140 billion in that year alone from inc deficit a real spending Cut a real Revenue increase a real deficit reduction using the Independent numbers of the congressional budget office. Well you can laugh my fellow republicans but i will Point out that the congressional budget office is normally More conservative on what was going o happen Ami closer to right than previous presidents i did this so thai we could argue about priorities with the same set of numbers. I did this m hut no one could say i was estimating my Way out of his difficulty. I did this because if we can agree together on he most prudent revenues we re Likely to gel it the i ceo very stays and we do right thing economically Llie ii it la turn Oul better for the american people than we Bay. In the last 12 years because there were differences Over the Revenue estimates you and i know Hal both parties were Given greater Elbow room for irresponsibility. This is tightening the ran on he Democrat As Well As the republicans. I Al s at least argue about the same Sel of numbers a the american people will think we re shooting straight with Ihnn. As i said earlier Rny recommendation makes More than 150 difficult reductions to Cut the Federal spending by a total of $246 billion. We re eliminating programs that Aie m longer needed Ruth As nuclear Power research and development we re blushing subsidies and cancelling wasteful projects. Many of Icse programs Weie justified in heir time and a lol of hem were Dilli Culi for me to Tecoma Merid reductions in continued on Pago 9 /