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Remarks to the Community in Las Vegas June 9, 1996 Administration of William J. Clinton, 1996 / June 9 This is a very urgent problem for our country, Thank you, and God bless you all. and we can only change it in two ways. One is, like Shane said, when people decide they are going to make a difference in their own NOTE: The President spoke at 11:05 a.m. in the lives, and secondly, when adults like you take student union ballroom at the University of Ne- responsibility in every community. We will keep vada at Las Vegas. In his remarks, he referred trying to do our part, but remember, we need to Yvonne Atkinson-Gates, chairwoman, Clark you. And if you liked this today, when you go County Commission; Mayor Jan Laverty Jones of out of here, make sure you're going to do some- Las Vegas, NV; and Carol Harter, president, Uni- thing to turn this situation around. versity of Nevada at Las Vegas. Remarks to the Community in Las Vegas June 9, 1996 Thank you. Thank you for being outside. All my mother's favorite place on Earth. I've had those people in the heat out there, thank you a wonderful day already. I went out and visited very much. I want to thank the Green Valley one of your juvenile justice programs, where High School band. Thank you for playing; you young people were doing community service and did a great job. I thank those who were here making restitution for mistakes they've made. before: Thank you, Mayor Jones; thank you, And I met with some of the young people in County Commission Chair Yvonne Gates; thank the program and some of the adults who were you, Senator Titus; thank you, Representative working with them and some of the parents. Perkins. And most of all, thank you, ladies and And I want to compliment you for that. gentlemen, for being here. I want to thank your And I want to ask everybody in this room fine Senators, Harry Reid and Dick Bryan, for to support people who are out there working representing you, standing up for you, and with these young kids, trying to get them out standing up for America in the United States of trouble, keep them out of trouble, give them Senate. They do a wonderful job. something to do with their lives. We cannotÐ And I want to thank Governor Bob Miller. we cannotÐtolerate the situation which now ex- You know, he has been the best sort of friend ists in the United States where the crime rate to me because he always tells me when he is going down overall but going up among peo- thinks I'm wrong. [Laughter] And he's been the ple under 18. And it's because we don't have best sort of Governor for you because even enough adults that are out there helping these though he's my friend, he's first and foremost kids to build good lives for themselves. And somebody who's always fighting for Nevada's in- you've got some good programs here. I want terests. And every time he hears anything that you to support the people that are out there might be even potentially bad for Nevada, I on the front lines in Las Vegas and Nevada know the first call I'm going to get is from working with those kids. Bob Miller. He's made a lot of calls in the Four years ago when I came here and asked last 31¤2 years for you, and I thank him for you to support me, I had an idea about what that. I wanted our country to look like as we move I also met someone earlier today, and I think into this new centuryÐa very different world. he's in the crowd todayÐhe's supposed to be The world I grew up in was dominated by heavy up here with usÐState Senator Bob Coffin, industry and mass production. The world these who's running for Congress here. I don't know children will grow up in will be dominated by if he's here, but I thought I wouldÐis he back computers, technology, and information. The there? Thank you. world I grew up in had an America that was Ladies and gentlemen, I'm glad to be back totally self-contained. We didn't sell much over- in Nevada. I like it here. I'm glad to be back seas; we didn't buy much from overseas. The in Las Vegas, which as all of you know was cold war was the most important thing and the 881 VerDate 06-OCT-99 14:02 Oct 11, 1999 Jkt 010199 PO 00001 Frm 00881 Fmt 1240 Sfmt 1240 C:\96PUBP~1\PAP_TEXT txed01 PsN: txed01 June 9 / Administration of William J. Clinton, 1996 fight we were having with the communists. The than half of what it was. When we came into world these kids will grow up in will be domi- office, we had the slowest job growth rate since nated by a global society in which children will the Great Depression. Three and a half years actually get on computers and do research in later, we have 9.7 million new jobs for the libraries in other countries, in which people will American people. We are better off than we be able to move across the world as easily as were 4 years ago. they used to go across town, and in which we We also passed a crime bill to put more police will have to fight those who will seek to take officers on the street, some of them right here advantage of that through drug running, orga- in Las Vegas to prevent crime. We began to nized crime, the proliferation of weapons of work with States to reform welfare and move mass destruction, terrorism, preying on open so- people from welfare to work. Today there are cieties and free people. This is a different world. 1.3 million fewer families on welfare than there And I had three simple objectives. I wanted were the day I became President of the United America in the 21st century more than anything States. We made efforts to help families strug- else still to be a place where every child has gling to make the most of their own livesÐ the opportunity to make the most of his or the family and medical leave law that says you her own life, no matter what racial or ethnic don't lose your job if you have to take a little or income background they come from. Sec- time off when there's a baby born or somebody ondly, I wanted America to be a community in your family who's sick. of responsible citizens, where we are coming I was just out at UNLV today. We've re- together instead of drifting apart. I am tired formed the college loan program so that people of seeing people at election time try to find could borrow their money directly from the ways to get us to look down our noses at one United States Government, get it quicker, less another and be divided. When we are together, hassle, better repayment terms, and that no one when we reach across the lines that divide us, would ever have to not go to college because when we say our diversity is a great and good they couldn't afford to borrow the money, be- thing that makes us stronger in the global soci- cause now they can pay it back as a percentage ety of the 21st century, that's when America's of their income so the loans will never bankrupt strong; when we're working together, not being anybody. We passed the national service pro- driven apart. And finally, I wanted to make sure gram, AmeriCorps, to give young people a that when I left office, our country would still chance to work in their communities and solve be the world's strongest force for peace and problems and help people and work their way freedom and prosperity. And I can tell you that through college. That is what we have done. on all three fronts we still have a lot of chal- And then when the Congress changed hands lenges, but this country is in better shape than in the last 2 years and the Republicans said, it was 4 years ago, and we're moving in the ``We want to balance the budget,'' I said, ``So right direction. do I. We cut the deficit in half already. We've Harry Reid and Dick Bryan will tell you, done half the job, and you wouldn't help us; when I presented my economic plan to the Con- we'll help you. We won't do you the way you gress and I said, ``We've got to do something did us; we'll help you. But I will not balance about this terrible deficit; we've got to bring the budget by cutting education, by destroying it down, but we cannotÐwe cannotÐdo it in the environment, by undermining our commit- a way that undermines our commitment to edu- ment to Medicare and Medicaid. I won't do cation or to the environment or protecting the that.'' Because that gets into that second issue health care of the elderly, the Americans with I was telling you about. We need to come to- disabilities, the poorest children in this country,'' gether, not come apart.
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