 United States. Thank you very much. Well, thank you very much. And good morning. It's a pleasure to welcome the leadership of the U.S.J.C.'s and your president, Andy Tobin, to Washington. I know you've come here from all over this country, leaving your husbands and wives and children in your beautiful home. So let me say welcome, and now I'd like to give you a little piece of advice. Go home soon. Because if you stay here, strange things may start happening to you. For example, liberal Washington opinion makers actually want to raise taxes. Really, they do. It would actually make them happy to raise taxes. Hard to believe, isn't it? I don't know, but maybe it's something in the air. Come to think of it, I don't know how I've visited it myself. So my advice is, see the sites, meet and talk with the wonderful native Washingtonians, and then get back home as fast as your feet can carry them. And I'll be following you when I get done here in January. I was happy to hear that you were coming in today because I wanted to salute you and all 250,000 J.C.'s nationwide for all you've done for America. I think it's safe to say that these exemplifies the values and goals of what some folks who flatter me call the Reagan Revolution. Young, enthusiastic, excited by the promise of America, you brim with optimism for the future. Indeed, you are the future. Many of you are managers and entrepreneurs, and you know that we have to have our house in order if the future is going to be bright. You know the truth of a principle too often forgotten by the liberal opinion makers, which is that you run a good shop, you have to keep your accountries, your accounts in balance. You also know something the liberals try to make the public forget. It's Congress that appropriates and spends federal funds. The president doesn't have control over one dime of tax money. And you know that Congress's method of collecting and spending is out of whack. That's why you've been leaders in explaining to the American people that the president of the United States needs the line item veto, the same veto that 43 governors have. I used it 943 times when I was governor. Well, to make sure those people up on Capitol Hill don't play games and hide costs in the mammoth bills they're addicted to and that I refuse to sign, that's why we need it. I told Congress in the State of the Union address that I was never again going to sign another one of their thousand page catch all spending monstrosities. You probably remember when I slammed that bill down on the table. Well, if you happen to be watching television and seeing it there and you saw me do this and a lot of people thought I was just being funny. No, I caught my finger under it when it went down, all 14 pounds of it and it was sore for three days. Now they're working on what I asked for. 13 separate spending bills. But I have to tell you it looks like they may have lost their new found fiscal responsibility. The new fiscal year begins in 11 days and seven of these 13 bills are still under negotiation between the House and Senate. I've mentioned this a few times over the last week and I'm going to keep on mentioning it until they get the idea. I want those seven bills on my desk and in shape to sign October 1st. And if we do that, it will be the first time it's happened since 1948. And I particularly want defense legislation I can sign. You probably remember I vetoed it the last time. I did so because that bill would have weakened the nation. I want defense legislation that will continue the policies of the last eight years. The policies that brought the Soviets to be begin pulling out of Afghanistan. The same policies that led to the restoration of our national pride and the liberation of Grenada. I want defense legislation that will expand our national security, not sacrifice it on the altar of the congressional pork barrel. Your understanding of the need for genuine fiscal responsibility is the main reason why the JCs have led the fight for a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget. We're not there here but you keep plugging away at that amendment because one day pretty soon the American people are going to start pointing some fingers and a whole lot of big spenders are going to try to look innocent and say who me and come January I'll be out of the mashed potato circuit helping you plug for it. And at that moment when they say who me, a balanced budget amendment will be the very first amendment. Now there's something I've been waiting for the establishment economic gurus to say and I haven't heard a word out of them. There's an economic idea they preach called the Phillips curve which says that unemployment and inflation go together. That when unemployment goes up inflation goes down and vice versa. Now this notion has caused a lot of people to worry. This is the kind of bizarre thinking that makes people of common sense shake their heads in wonder. Well I have news for the gloom and doomers who get good news and say it's bad news. The unemployment rate has been in steep decline during that time. We've had six years of low inflation. And during that same time our experience has proven one thing this Phillips curve is just plain wrong. We've had six years of low inflation going on. The house is in sterling order but the nation's house is in need of further repair. Spirit will repair. I'm talking a course about the scourge of drugs that threaten our present and our future. George Bush and I have fought this scourge with every ounce of our beings since coming into office and contrary to what you've been hearing lately we've had real problems. In 1987 we seized some 140,000 pounds of cocaine and more than 2 million pounds of marijuana. And as for the monsters who purvey these pernicious poisons we've nailed them. Since 1983 drug enforcement administration arrests have nearly doubled. There's legislation before congress to permit the death penalty for a drug related murder and I say it's over. His mission is not yet complete. Well the Lord knows there's more, much more, very much more to be done. Some people are now saying we might as well just legalize the use of drugs. With my last breath in my body I will oppose this perverse and inhuman notion. The federal government must do everything it can to stem the tide of drugs coming in from drug crisis is not just a supply problem. It's mainly a demand problem. And that's where the JCs and a certain lovely lady I'm proud to call my wife have come in. You have literally changed the way Americans think about drug abuse with three simple words. Just say no. And I'm aware the JCs have been vital participants in the just say no efforts. And I'm proud to say that the JCs have been vital participants in the just say no efforts. Across this nation you sponsored counseling centers, clubs in elementary schools, rallies against drugs and hundreds of other programs. The words just say no may be simple but they're mighty. They're mighty because they reflect the profound ethic of personal responsibilities that hallmark of civilization. That we will defeat this scourge because as a nation we have hope and faith. Hope for a brighter future and faith in the values that keep us strong. And with that I'm going to close up and go back to work and say thank you and God bless you all. They've all signed our fiscal responsibility resolution. We're here to give this and put this in your hands to tell you that we're on your team. Thank you. The United States JCs were Americans in action. It's our thing this year. From an organization of Americans in action to a great president of American of Action. Thank you very much. They said they'll deliver that one. I'll take this one with me.