 It's the second biggest race we have of the year and it's a good race. It's life televised and things like that. It's a big race. I wanted to tell you that was metal and it's grand prix in the summertime. I had won that race and it was the same time that the hostages had come home and you came over and told everybody that the hostages were released and so on and so forth and that was right when I was giving my talk for the TV to make the video. Only when I was the president. I was doing the color work on the television. That's great. Thank you, sir. It's been an honor. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you. It's really been an honor for you. Listen, I'm pleased to have had you and I thank you for everything but I'm not going to say goodbye to you. That's right. I go across the street and I'm really pleased about it. Working with Jim Miller. It's going to be great. Thank you very much. It's been an honor. Thank you. How are you? Nice to see you. I want to see all these kids here. This is Dr. Musidi. He represents the African American. He's a brother of Steve. He's a principal. Put it in again? Yes. He worked in the bit with the third one. You got it from a doctor? No. We lost one of his YouTube amaels. If it's shy, do it with a six. If they're shy, touch it. His hand from the capital of Kalim is noted on YouTube amaels. This is the father of Ranga, of Hindus, and this is the son of one of the Afghan Christians which they have brought for years in memory, from the northern area. Thank you. Hello, good children. Let me get them on the van. I have even signed here. Can you get in the center here? This please you better. This is the other medical staff that I've got. This is Denise Todd, Ms. President. She's from the Shriners Burning Institute in Baltimore, and they've been reconstructing this little girl's case. She's a chief nurse there. And I'd like to meet one of our members. Sharon Wilcox, who takes these children in her home and takes care of them. Charles Bracunier, he's the very great president. Thank you. He's the real boss of our organization. He goes into Afghanistan on a regular basis. If he doesn't get shot, he'll put you down on two occasions. And reports to the center for hundreds of times. So, as I say, follow us together. This stops. That's what we need to know when we can. I'm glad to thank you on behalf of my people in the Afghan Missing Relations Fund. They've given us this opportunity to meet you here. And it's given you a valuable time to see these victims of Russians in Afghanistan, these small children. We are pleased of this time. And I would like to mention that to convey the message of our people, without that spectrum, I think it's very much essential to send us to defense against air attack of Russians. To send us messes. To stop these Godship helicopters and demolishing our villages, civilians and these children. So, also, I would like to convey that we need the food. We need to have medical supplies and as well as other political supports in our affairs. I would like to thank the freedom allies that have arranged this program. That they have brought these children. And they have especially brought them to you that you have seen. And to the people of the United States. And we hope you could, by the help of your excellency. And when you come into here, you could extend this program. Mr. Bakulia, I think you should tell me the magnitude of the children problem. Even as we eat here in the Oval Office, children in Afghanistan are dying as a result of Soviet air attacks and artillery bomb violence on their villages. The Soviets are waging a war against the Afghan civilian population. Here are five children burned without arms, without legs. They represent, they symbolize more than 100,000 children in Afghanistan who have either been killed or have been badly maimed by the Soviet attacks. And so we appeal actually to President Gorbachev as well. If he is a man of peace, if he is a man that we can do business with, if he will never start a war, let him show by his example in 1986 in Afghanistan, let him end the Soviet-Afghan war and stop killing and maiming these children. Thank you Mr. President. All right. So once again, just going to break this down a little bit. This is about the expense to the people of Afghanistan. Also, I also want to thank Mr. President, Mr. President, Mr. President, Mr. President, Mr. President, Mr. President, Mr. President, Mr. President, Mr. President. My wife's sitting on the chair talking to the camera. Okay, all right. I said, you have a present. No. He gives a lot of pictures that I can't understand. I think we're suddenly... Okay, he has a present. Thank you. Very good. Oh, no. Jim, no, Robert, you all sit. I'm ready for the practice this morning. I'm ready. I don't know who I was. Hello, David. Robert and Mr. President, face just a mask. Hi, Mr. President. Hello, Robert. Let me ask you a very specific question. I want to give you more time. You could be with me this weekend. The other morning at breakfast, I asked you about value-added taxes. Consumption taxes, and you said, no, that's fine. Why did you position that? It gives me a lot of strong backbone. I wouldn't be financially without it. I couldn't have it with my pocket. You were a little more indefinite. A minute you asked about oil import fees. And I don't want to put words into one way or the other, but I need to know how much wiggle room I've got. And that was something that was in your budget a couple of years ago, 10 to 11. Robert, here's why I had that. It was out of the spot. Oh, I know. Listen, I feel that to give in in advance, well then, that reduces any leverage that we would have or that you would have with regard to getting back some of the things that House Ways and Means Committee put in, that we find offensive, that we want changed, and the other things we're going to have to find revenue from something else. I saw, I think, that it's a case of fighting as hard as we can to get those changes made. And then the end result to get those principal things if it takes a tax that's consistent, however, with tax neutrality. Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. That would be pretty awesome. We're basically going into capital formation. Then, but to open in advance, say yes, I want to agree with this. Well, then we won't start our own leverage. We're not going to get the things changed. I'll tell you what, I'm going to try to do it. Dick and Jim estimate that we need about $100 billion to undo the things. At least I hope that you try that the house is done. I'm going to try to put together concerning interest in the budget and what we're doing about federal budget deficits. I hope I'm not going to plow any ground here in the next two minutes. I just would like to, I'll be briefed in detail on that 87 budget proposal. I'd like to add to the discussion. 86 is a year of decision. It's the year to decide whether we have the will to last bring federal spending under control. We're going to move the last remaining amount to go to a future of growth and prosperity. It's the year to decide whether we can make the tough decisions that we agreed to last year when the ground went up and the Hollins-Legends-Legends became law. It's the year to make clear to the world that our commitment, will not be compromised. And it's the year to maintain our continued opposition to raising taxes which would harm the economy and take money away from Americans in order to protect government programs that we don't need and can't afford. Today deficit reduction is the law of the land. Grand Reverend Hollins mandates a declining deficit path leading to a balanced budget in the fiscal year 1991. As I just told some other people that he'll be a little while ago and that's the dream moment at which point there should be no effect on amendment that says the federal government can't borrow anymore but it's going to have to stay within its income. So the deficit will be cut and the big question is how the automatic spending cuts in that legislation are triggered only if Congress advocates its constitutional responsibility and fails to pass a budget that meets the deficit targets. In other words, Congress still has a choice. It can be responsible by making those careful and sometimes difficult spending decisions or it can simply drop the ball and let the across-the-board cuts take over which I don't think is any way to run a ball game. The budget that will soon be submitted in Congress was carefully prepared taking into account our defense needs, proper role of government and the deficit targets that will meet the fiscal year 1987 deficit target of $144 billion without harming the economy to a tax increase in compromise around national security. It'll preserve the safety net for those truly in need and it will not penalize older Americans by reducing the social security benefits. Now, as I'm sure Cap and Jim probably mentioned, our budget will include a modest increase in defense and improvements in capability. Some will say that's too much for defense but the proposed funding levels for national security in our budget are consistent with the real growth path that was agreed to by myself in the Congress last year. Higher taxes are no cure for the deficit. Reducing the deficit through tax hikes would impose substantial new tax burdens on American households and as experience has proved would reduce incentives for Americans to work and save and invest and thus choking off the creation of new jobs. Experiences also shown that higher taxes don't necessarily go to reduce the deficit. More often they are used to justify increased government spending. The current economic expansion is whether it's fourth year over 9 million new jobs have been brought on our way to rising prosperity. So the budget we were sending to Congress in February 4th will put us on the right track to a balanced budget by 1991. It will reduce the deficit promoting economic growth and meeting our national security requirements. We've made the tough decisions around this table so now it's time to see if Congress is up to the challenge of passing a responsible budget. It all comes down to what I'm talking about is I'll need your help and I'll encourage you to make your views known. I know it's going to be a tough battle but I think together we can reduce the deficit and set America on a path to promote prosperity. That's enough from me. I'd like to hear from you now. What are you going to say? Mr. President, my name is Bob Gilpatrick. It's awful hard to express the view that's different than yours because I think the business