 Shevta? No. My son was born here. Likewise. I'm from New Jersey. I'm from New Jersey. I'm from Charlotte, North Carolina. Wow. I'm from Minnesota. I'm from Minnesota. I'm from Washington. I'm here in Manara, which presents the Festival of Lights with greetings from the spirituals every day. I'm the Babacha-Leather-Rossy-Jewerson, who wishes you health and success in all your endeavors. It's a message from the spiritual leader to the leader of the World Democracy. And it's an exchange of hopes that we all enjoy the symbol of Manara, which is peace for all mankind, and uplift from darkness into light. I wish the President and the First Lady all the best and good health. Well, thank you very much. I'm glad you're here to receive this. I know it's so most appreciative of the fact that once again, you are responsible for the national minorities, and I think it's a simple, great basis of your daily Christian education. Thank you very much. Thank you. Good health. We'll test everything. Thank you very much. Got a question? Thank you very much. All of you are on the other side. Good morning. Good morning. Here we go. There is a very good circulation of this. They had jobs, is there? Yeah. It's what you do. It's the size of a second year and something that might be the same as we do. I mean, as you know, the Joni-Wonno-MD helped one of the adds and, dude, we really know The public has full employment, but now it stands for unemployment at 6.9%. It is my understanding that the old tradition that 4% of unemployed represented full employment, there would always be that many people between jobs are just coming in. But as I understand it, there was never any actual verification of that. They just grabbed a figure out of the egg. So whether we have full employment or not, people have just sent me this because I've been inquired about these ads. The College Board's Help Wanted Advertising Index measures the volume of classified advertising in 51 major newspapers across the country. And according to this survey, the nationwide Help Wanted Index, these are Help Wanted Ads, has nearly doubled since September of 1982. In New England, the Help Wanted Index stood at an all time high in October. In Northern Virginia, the volume of Help Wanted Ads in 20 suburban newspapers over the past six months is up nearly 50% from last year. This Sunday's Washington Post carried 48 pages of Help Wanted Ads, more than the sports and business sections combined. Of these 48 pages of Help Wanted Ads, about one half were for entry level or fairly attainable jobs. Three pages of ads for sales workers, many at entry level. 40 advertisements for openings for retail workers, 26 for roofers, 24 for plumbers, 51 for carpenters, and 16 for painters. A number of ads in Sunday Post bore urgent message to prospective employees including, work your way to the top, get started with us, learn what you earn, we will train you, and it's your choice. The Alley Times carried 57 pages of Help Wanted Ads this Sunday. Long Island employees say there's a growing shortage of young people to fill entry level jobs and fast food restaurants and other types of businesses. The Woodward and Lothrop store at Tyson's Corner, Virginia has from 50 to 75 standing vacancies for loading dock workers, sales clerks, merchandise handlers, all in multiple positions. Other retail chains face similar problems. The current unemployment rate in the district economy is 8.7%. Officials at the University of Virginia who have several hundred part-time jobs available say they can't have students to take the jobs, despite aggressive advertising. At Virginia Tarr, the service is the biggest employer of students. About one billion part-time jobs are open. In Richmond, Safeway stores incorporate and recruit senior citizens to take the hard to fill entry level posts of courtesy clerks. I'm glad of that, but I have something to do. In San Francisco, Safeway works with local school systems to train physically and not only disabled students to fill these positions. In Atlanta, New York, and a growing number of cities around the country, Burger King offers educational scholarships to lure teenagers to work in the fast food chain. Last May, a northern Virginia parking lot paving company had jobs worth $500,000 to do, but no one to take them. In Fairfax County, the lack of workers has slowed home and swimming pool construction and has left department stores seriously understaffed. I think we ought to be able to claim we have fully employed them. Not quite. We're getting there, but it's not quite. I think another percentage and a half down there. It becomes very difficult to pull those numbers down, Mr. President, when we pay people a lot and not to work. It's not as difficult as it seems. Why don't you go around that way? That's time. What are you doing? Running for next time? They told me it's your request. How do the people who are supposed to come? That's deciding the point. All I'm running for now is my life. I'm bouncing back, and I think she called me. She said, after 60 years, ruin and all. I appreciate you all coming up. It really made an exciting time for the state. That was a morale booster for me. A lot of support up there. This is that long-time Christmas schedule. I'll be shooting 450 or 500 hands soon. I looked at the papers, and I've been listening to the news. The last couple of days, everything has come up to a decision point, I think, today. Yeah, I'm afraid of this tax rate. We're trying to work it out. We can't get it without it. Now that you won't compromise the important things to push it through, the cutting expenses are important. You have to push that through and do it whatever way you can. But if you hang on to their program for the taxes, darn well, somebody is going to find a little old widow whose taxes will be high. Thank you very much for what you've done and what you continue to do to help us sell safety funds. I'm kind of proud to have this job in a country that's so unique as this one. I can turn to the private sector. Things done will make a difference. We are unique in that. Today is National Directorate of Saving the Boundaries. Let me tell you that you have a terrific team in the success of the annual bomb campaign that really depends on all of you. Bob Mercer, your National Ad in the day's paper, sets the pace for 1986. We've got the lead on the smart investment, and you have a team that can set the pace for a record-breaking 1986 campaign. I've got to say, though, that Bob Mercer has a bit of an advantage. After all, he's got a lighter-than-air force. There are similar disaffords on the ground, and Jim Verray, your 1985 theme, Celebrate America, was a real winner, both in philosophy and in health. When Jim Verray took over in Roger Smith last year, he pledged to exceed Roger's record, 125% of goal. And I understand that you achieved 126% of your goal. And I know Roger won't begrudge you that. Not at all. I'd sell for 100% from the Congress. But I salute you all. In particular, your retiring chairman, Jim Verray, and all the national chairmen who served for the night in the position. And I wish you Bob Mercer and the members of your committee all possible success with that. I'll shut up. Well, thank you very much for your kind remarks, Mr. President. We were here last year about this time, and you had told us that there was a great spirit out in the country, and I had the privilege of seeing that in the togetherness. So for that, thank you very much. I also appreciate your great cooperation, as well as Secretary Regan in the beginning, and now Secretary Baker. And particularly Secretary Baker was with us today with all the things happening today, and for that we're very grateful. And I would like to present to you our final report of our campaign. We stated, Roger said he encouraged me to run him off the road, and we did. And we've also, when I were encouraging Bob Mercer to do as well. And so with that, we thank you very much for your help. Thank you. I look forward to looking at this. I'm picking up the challenge, Mr. President, and I had a great team going for me already. We had to know that Kay was already in Akron and has me shaved up, so we're off and running. I'd like to present to you the campaign for this year saving bonds, a great deal. We've got these three little characters on there. Somebody told me they looked like Graham Rudman and Ross Nankowski. It's a great program, and I'm very confident that we'll approach and maybe you'll see the $2 million mark. Well, that's wonderful. Again, I thank all of you here for what you're doing, and I understand now that there's someone else to be heard from you. Well, then I have an opportunity to go up to the door. They're going to give me a chance to meet each one of you and we can have our pictures taken. And then I can assure you, you think the picture with me will get you in trouble just like that. All right. Thank you very much.