 I understand the tips having a garage sale. One just having gotten back yesterday would be an out-of-the-trail a little bit. There are a lot of signs, you know, and people holding up those placards and all, but there was one that was pretty unusual, Corpus Christi, at the airport gravity. All that crowd jammed out there and all standing, and I could never see a lady that was doing this. There's just what's holding up out there in the crowd, but every once in a while, there was two bear-found-and-mattered raises, and the sign said, All my husband wants for Christmas is to shake the president's hand. So when I finished, I grabbed the pedal that was ever seen in a place and he hadn't seen it, and I pointed it out to him. I thought, we've got to do something about that. So he stepped up and said, Yes, if you will come up here, please. He did, and I shook his hand. He was shopping early. Glad we had a chance to be together before you go off to battle. I thank you for all that you've done. I think thanks to you Americans are working again, and America is working again, and I know that many of you bear the wounds of hand-to-hand combat with Mr. O'Neill and his allies, and I truly admire your young work. Our opponents haven't had an easy time with our success, and now all of our struggles are beginning to pay off. It wasn't just a coincidence four years ago that problems of inflation interest rates, taxes, jobs, crime, morale in the military, and America's security were all getting worse, and the future looked black. Nor is it just a coincidence that today our economy is better, crime is down, our achievement in schools is higher, and America is stronger, morale is higher, America is at peace, and the future looks bright again. There's one basic difference between four years ago and today. In 1980, Washington was calling the plays, and all they ever did was fumble, and today the people are backing charts when America's scoring touched out again. The economy is as powerful as an idea of whose time has come, and that's why when we said millions joined us under a new banner for opportunity, growth, and progress, and our ranks have continued to swell. Now for the first time in 50 years the majority of young Americans are identifying themselves not as Democrats, but as Republicans. I know you've been out there already and you're really going at it for real now, but you surely must have seen the difference. I remember when I became a Republican, wasn't too many years ago, and I did a few party events and fundraisers, and I was going to tell Nancy, but the only young people there looked like they couldn't join anything else. But even today, I tell you, it's the most thrilling and exciting thing in the world. Every rally, no matter where, there's literally thousands of young people that are there on hand and enthusiastic. They're not just there out of curiosity. They're down the route and we have, and I think we have because we came up with the right ideas. We're on the edge of historic political transformation that can change the landscape of our nation for generations to come. You know, I've come to realize that the age issue may play a serious part in this election. Our opponents' ideas are so damn old. I'm looking to understand that despite all the propaganda from the other side and the media that our Republican Party truly is the party of the future, the party of growth and progress, and yes, the party that is fighting for greater opportunity for every American. But the leaders of the Democratic Party, people who once fought for the lower tax rates under John Kennedy and who once stood proudly for the cause of freedom in the world alongside FDR, Harry Truman. Now we can throw in Kennedy and Justin. Those people have abandoned millions of rank and file Democrats and the principles they believe in. And I've said this to some of those rallies whether there are numbers of Democrats present and that the first down their feet cheer you on when they hear that. Today we can all ask these forgotten Americans to come walk with us down the path of hope and opportunity and let the Democratic Party be the party that promises millions to special interests. If it seeks tax increases the equivalent of more than $1,800 per household. More than $150 each and every month. Let them run a plan to tax and tax and spend and spend because we can be proud that Republicans will be the only ones fighting for growth and growth and more jobs and jobs. We'll debate on the issues because those issues belong to us. The issues of bringing down inflation, interest rates and taxes, building up jobs and opportunity, those are our issues. And we're the ones who want to simplify the tax system to bring everybody's income tax rates further down, not up. Extend the full benefits of IRAs to spouses working in the home. Pass enterprise zone to restore distressed areas and couple enterprise zones with a youth opportunity ways to help teenagers learn skills escape dependency and start a new life go forward with initiatives to help public housing residents purchase their dwellings and assume responsibility for home ownership. It's all right for us to help with the providing of the housing in the first place but why shouldn't we start a program that would get us out of the landlord business and make out of those people that had our help in the first place property owners in their own right. We're to Singapore to work here and we're the ones who want to make America's educational system a great center for leadership for excellence by raising standards ensuring discipline and emphasis on basics and pushing for merit pay for teachers and encouraging greater parental involvement. And we're supporting initiatives like tuition tax credits and education savings accounts to help those working families. We're going to push back the frontiers of science and technology and yes we're going to say without embarrassment that we seek to honor our traditions and we believe our fellow citizens are good and decent people whose values deserve to be respected not patronized. For us, words like faith in God family, work and neighborhood are not slogans to be dragged out of the closet every four years. They're values to respect and live by every day. You know the last time a Republican said his own persuasion to help them do the things that he told the people he wanted to do was in the first two years to the Eisenhower administration. And through 1980 the Democrats controlled both houses of the Congress since 81 we at least controlled one Senate I guess they're still working out there. We couldn't have accomplished what we had without that one house but oh how far we can march if we have both houses of the Congress subscribing to our philosophy we have more freedom and opportunity for the people. Now we've seen that some Democrats will occasionally vote the right way a few weeks before election day maybe one of our messages should be vote for our candidates and you'll be represented more than two weeks every two years. We're working for them every week of the year if we stick together and tell our story just like in 1980 we can make history a better one the story I'd like to hear that night will be millions of young Americans voting for the first time and millions of grand confide Democrats and independents joining together to give birth to a new party a great opportunity party and that will be America's party so God bless you all as we go forth to battle I'm told now we're going to meet with the press so it sounds like they're doing something again and over again don't worry I wouldn't mind with it if we applaud anyway we'll all start moving out there and down there the President of the United States and the Vice President of the United States have to build bigger stairs well I'm glad that our team is all here together today to remember an important commitment that we made to America's future four years ago our country faced the gravest economic crisis since the Great Depression and many in this town were ready to throw in the towel and count America out but not the Republican Party not our team we said there's nothing wrong with America that our people can't and won't make right if government just will stand aside and get out of the way so we reached out to the people we asked them to join with us to rescue our beloved nation make a new beginning and help America be strong and successful again specifically we pledged to work for cuts in growth of spending to reduce waste fraud and abuse to a minimum and dampen the fires of inflation while protecting those in need for an across the board individual income tax cut and increased incentives for saving investment and capital recovery to put America back on the road to prosperity for more private investment and permanent jobs especially in our inner cities and for strengthened defenses so America could have a credible foreign policy again and assure peace through strength here at home and greater stability in the world well with the support of the people all of us have made some important changes federal spending growth which reached a 17% annual rate in 1980 has been cut by nearly two thirds tax rates have been cut for every working American with new incentives for business to modernize and for entrepreneurs to start up new businesses next year tax brackets will be indexed because we believe government must never again profit from inflation at the people's expense unlike four years ago today we're building a defensive strength and today we're giving those brave young men and women who put their lives on the line for us the moral support the weapons and the equipment they need we've also worked hard to strengthen the good and decent values of faith, family, work, neighborhood and freedom those values have never failed America when we've lived up to them we've made a new beginning and America today is a very different place than four years ago it wasn't a coincidence in 1980 that the problems of inflation interest rates, taxes, jobs crime and morale in the military were all getting worse and it looked bleak and believe me it's not a coincidence today that every one of those problems is being turned around and our future looks bright again no army is as powerful as an idea whose time has come in 1980 we said it's time to give this government back to the people when Washington was calling the plays all we did was fumble today the people are back in charge and we're scoring touchdowns again the other side said it couldn't be done but inflation, taxes and interest rates are down jobs, investment and growth are all up the morale of our enlisted men and women is up and their readiness and ability to protect freedom and preserve peace are better than ever before since 1980 not one square inch of territory has been lost to communist aggression today we're telling the people the Republican party will not rest until every American who wants a job can find a job from Brownsville to Buffalo to San Francisco Bay and that's why the and that's why the choice in 84 is so clear there comes a time when we must firmly choose the course we'll follow on November 6th the American people must decide whether we will go forward with the courage the common sense and new spirit that are making America strong again giving us new opportunities and offering the best hope for all the policies of high taxing and spending that weakened our economy reduced opportunities and brought hardship to so many I believe young Americans independents and rank and file Democrats are making that choice they're joining our team in larger and larger numbers because they can see that we offer the surest vehicle to progress the one movement that's saying to every man and woman without exception America can only be great when each of you can reach for greatness when you can reach for the stars and climb up to the ultimate in individual freedom to achieve your full God-given potential so we're urging all Americans come walk with us down this new path of hope and opportunity add your strength to ours and together we'll become the most powerful force for progress that America has ever known all of us together can build in the progress we've made we can lower everybody's tax rates further and create more jobs rising take-home pay and greater opportunities for all we can extend the full benefits of IRAs to spouses working in the home pass enterprise zones to restore distressed areas and give hope to those who are left out could enterprise zones couple those with a youth opportunity wage to help teenagers learn skills and escape dependency start a new life and go forward with initiatives to help public housing residents purchase their dwellings and assume responsibility for home ownership we can push forward new frontiers in science, space, and technology and we can strengthen the great grassroots movement we've helped lead to make America's educational system a great center of leadership for excellence everything we've done everything that we mean to do is to give every American the opportunity to make this great free nation still our opponents policies would take us off the new path of an opportunity society put us back in the old path of defeatism, decline, and despair they propose a tax increase equivalent to more than $1,800 per household that's more than $150 each and every month of the year it's a ball and chain around the neck of America's families and America's future their idea of compassion which always begins with every family sending more to Washington and ultimately leads to more suffering for those who need help the most we're building a new party a grassroots opportunity party that seeks genuine compassion through new opportunities new ideas and new solutions that will mean a better life for all come November 6th Americans will choose between two different teams they can vote for the tax increase team that picked off its campaign with a plan to take the equivalent of more than $150 a month as I've said from each household a plan that will destroy growth jobs and bring back inflation or they can vote for the team that wants to lower personal income tax rates give every family more hope so all of us can go forward together to build a better future for America we don't want to see the American people drag back to that unhappy past we're asking them to stick with us and we're going to tell the world you ain't seen nothing yet thank you all God bless you all and now go get them we'll see you out on the trail Sam normally I would this has been typical of what has happened ever since we've been here and you can lay this right on the majority party in the House of Representatives just once it would be great to have a budget on time what am I doing to just reminding myself of all that we've done