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Remarks in Lake Charles, Louisiana October 24, 1996 2164 Oct. 24 / Administration of William J. Clinton, 1996 wrong for our future. I was for the 100,000 The President. Thank you. Can you hear police, and he was opposed to it. I was for me over by the school buses? Somebody up the Family and Medical Leave Act, and he here can hear real well. [Laughter] led the fight against it. I'm for making college Ladies and gentlemen, I am delighted to education tax deductible, and he wants to be back in Lake Charles. I did not know until eliminate the Department of Education, so I came up on this platform that I'm the first that they'll be nobody to speak for education sitting President in history to visit your com- in the President's Cabinet as we stand on munity. All I can say is, if the others had the brink of the 21st century. seen what I see here today, they would have Our economic policies are working. Our been here a long time ago. Thank you very crime policies are working. And our partner- much. Thank you. ship with America for opportunity and re- I want to thank Senator Bennett Johnston sponsibility is working. So I want to say to for his career, for his service to Louisiana you, Alabama has to decide. Go home to- and to the country. I will miss him very night, ask yourself, what do I want my coun- much. But you know, he was having a good try to look like when we cross that bridge time up here. I think he's enjoying this retire- to the 21st century? I know what the answer ment. Thank you, John Breaux, for being my will be. Will you help us build that bridge? friend and supporter and for a great leader [Applause] Will you help us build it wide for Louisiana. Thank you, Congressman Cleo enough and strong enough for everybody to Fields and Congressman Bill Jefferson, for walk across? [Applause] Are you proud to be being here. Thank you, Lieutenant Governor an American on the brink of America's great- Kathleen Blanco, Treasurer Ken Duncan, In- est days? Do you believe we can make Amer- surance Commissioner Jim Brown, Agri- ica even greater? Then you be there on No- culture Commissioner Bob Odom. Thank vember 5th, and we'll do it. you all. Thank you, Police Jury President Thank you, and God bless you all. Thank Allen August. you. I know that there was speaking here earlier for the congressional candidates Hunter NOTE: The President spoke at 11:18 a.m. in the Lundy and Chris John. As a Democrat, I like Academic Quadrangle at Birmingham Southern this Louisiana system, finally because we College. In his remarks, he referred to Neal Berte, have two people in our Party running for the president, Birmingham Southern College; Johnnie congressional seat here. Congratulations to Johnson, Birmingham police chief; Mary Lynn the voters here in this parish. Bates, candidate for Alabama's 6th congressional I want to say a special word of thanks to district; Bob Gaines, candidate for Alabama's 2d Mayor Willie Mount for her leadership of congressional district; Kenneth F. Ingram, can- didate for reelection on the Alabama Supreme this community and for what she said about Court; and Elizabeth Ann ``Mike'' Heflin, wife of Lake Charles and your motto, ``moving for- Senator Howell Heflin. A portion of these remarks ward together.'' I want to say a little more could not be verified because the tape was incom- about that in a minute. But you made us feel plete. very welcome here today, Mayor, and we thank you. I want to thank my good friend Mary Remarks in Lake Charles, Louisiana Landrieu for running for the Senate and October 24, 1996 thank her for embracing and sharing the ideals that we're trying to create for America in the 21st century. And I hope every one of you will help her to help you in the United The President. Hello. Hello, Louisiana; States Senate in January. hello, Lake Charles. Thank you. Let's give Let me thank Kent Kresea, the CEO of a hand to the bands over here. [Applause] Northrup Grumman, and Jami Lowe. And Thank you for the music. Thank you. Can also I'd like to thank Stanley Leger, the direc- you hear me way in the back, back there? tor of the SOWELA Tech College, for giving Audience members. Yes! Jami the education, the opportunity and so VerDate 28-OCT-97 09:51 Nov 07, 1997 Jkt 010199 PO 00000 Frm 00058 Fmt 1244 Sfmt 1244 W:\DISC\P43OC4.025 p43oc4 Administration of William J. Clinton, 1996 / Oct. 24 2165 many others the opportunity to learn the America who get on welfare do not want to skills they need to get good jobs for the 21st stay on it forever. They want to get off and century. Let's thank all three of them. [Ap- go to work. They want to succeed at home plause] and at work, the same thing most families Let me sayÐI want to ask you to do one want in America. We have worked hard with other thing. I asked Jami LoweÐevery place States to reduce the welfare rolls. And I I go I ask a citizen to introduce me. And signed a new welfare reform bill which re- the reason we do that is because I want the quires every State and every community to American people, the young people here in turn the welfare check of every able-bodied this audience, those of you who are reg- person in America into a paycheck within 2 istered voters, to understand every day that years. That's exactly what we're going to do there is a connection between what we do with more people like Jami Lowe. a long way away in Washington and how you One thing we've done is to make more ab- live in Lake Charles and the decisions we sent parents pay their child support. We've make together shape the future we have to- increased by 50 percent the child support gether. But that's the first speech Jami Lowe collections in only 4 years. Think of it, we've ever made, and she had to make it to over gone from $8 to $12 billion a year in just 20,000 people to introduce the President. 4 years, and we're going to do better in the Let's give her another hand. I think she did next 4. We can move 800,000 people off wel- a remarkable job. [Applause] fare tomorrow if people would just pay the I want to thank all of you here at Northrup child support they owe and they're legally Grumman who work on the J±STAR's pro- bound to pay, and we intend to see that it gram. I did see it in action in Bosnia. Last is done. month, our Department of Defense decided But we also know that we have to create to acquire 19 more J±STAR's for the United jobs if we want people to take them. That States Air Force, and we are trying to per- means where there are jobs available, like suade our NATO allies to buy them for those here at Northrop Grumman for people NATO. This morning, the NATO Military like Jami, there must be education and train- Committee agreed that we needed an air sur- ing. That's why the tech college here de- veillance system; now it's my job to tell them serves a lot of support. We intend to continue what air surveillance system we need, the J± to support people with more investments in STAR's, and I'll do my best. the education of the American work force. In 1992, I came here to Lake Charles and I want to make it easier for people to go back had a town meeting, and I told you if you to work and get the education and training would give me a chance to create more op- they need. portunity, create more responsibility among I have asked Congress to pass a new ``GI the American people, and bring us together bill'' for America's workers, to create a skills more, we would be better off in 4 years. grant worth over $2,000 a year to every un- There were 100 people working at Northrup employed and grossly underemployed person Grumman in 1992; there are 1,400 people in the country so everybody can go back and working here today. And that story is re- get the kind of training that Jami had. And peated all across America as 101¤2 million I hope you will support me in that as we more Americans are at work, more than half try to build our bridge to the 21st century. of them in higher-wage jobs. America's on I have offered the American people a spe- the right track to the 21st century. We've got cific plan to move another million folks from a 15-year high in homeownership, a 20-year welfare to work by giving special tax credits, low in child poverty. We've got drops in the bonuses to businesses to place people in crime rate and 2 million fewer people on wel- work, by allowing local communities to actu- fare. This country is moving in the right di- ally give the welfare check to employers for rection. a while as a job supplement to train people I want to talk to you a little bit today about on the job.
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