 You can just leave me down here, okay? Okay. I'm gonna hit any trees right here. All right. You're with me? Yeah. Put your hand on me. You're okay. I got it. Put your hand on me. Okay. There you go. Let's put you over to the camera. Okay. Let's just start doing that. Okay. Do you mind if I put this down? Yeah. Thanks. I always hope that we get much applause at the end this week. I want you to know how much I appreciate all you've done on behalf of this administration and our programs. We do really have something in common. I've been on the mashed potato circuit for half my life. And I've said many times, perhaps you've heard me, that in Hollywood, if you didn't sing or dance, you wound up as an after-dinner speaker. So that's why I was there. And I think I should, this won't be a long speech and I will warn you that I learned many years ago and for whatever use it might be to you. I learned a lesson about the importance of brevity in a speech that was told to me by a minister, Bill Alexander. He, some years ago, was killed in an airplane crash, but he used to, most of the time, he would be the chaplain of the blessing at the Republican National Conventions. He didn't look clerical. He was a robust, red-headed, rugged guy. But he told me about his first sermon. And he said that he had worked long and hard. He was invited to speak or to preach at an evening service at a little country church in Oklahoma. And he worked long and hard on that sermon, one of his first time out to the Ismaes. And then stood up in the pulpit and looked at a church that was empty except for one lone little man sitting down there. So, after the opening music, he went down and he said, my friend, you seem to be the only member of the congregation that showed up. And he said, I'm just a young creature getting started. And he said, what do you think? And the old boy said, well, I'm just a little little copbook out here in Oklahoma. He said, I don't know much about that sort of thing, but I do know this. If I loaded up a truckload of hay, took it out on my prairie and only one carl showed up. I'd feed her. He built up that as a cube, got back up and looked at an hour and a half later. He went down and he said, well, my friend, like I told you, I'm a young creature getting started. What did you think? And he said, well, I got told you, I don't know much about that sort of thing, but I do know this. If I loaded up a truckload of hay, took it out on my prairie and only one carl showed up. I sure as hell wouldn't give her the whole load. On the front lines of our effort to reshape this government into an accountable and manageable servant of the people. And you are our voices in the great debate that we have begun. Thank you for getting across the clear and steady call for progress that we've sounded. Your help is essential in explaining to the press and the people of this country what it is we stand for and why. I know it's not an always an easy job. Some of you have been traveling across the country, sometimes a last minute notice. And just to spread the word, others face challenging briefings and interviews day after day. Now I know it's not always an easy job and sometimes it gets a little rough out there. I found out on the trail that nine times out of ten you don't get a dessert and I'm a dessert man. My fellow starts introducing you just as the dessert arrives. But as long as you keep faith in our cause and as long as you hang tough, I'll hang tough with you. You don't have to worry about any surprises. The days of policy by polling were over when we took office. You don't have to wonder where we really stand or what we'll propose tomorrow. We made it very clear. We believe in cutting taxes, cutting spending, cutting the size of this monstrous bureaucracy. We believe in giving our government and the economy back to the people where it's always belonged. We'll work with the Congress to achieve the bipartisan success that was our hallmark last year. But there are certain principles on which we will not yield. We were not set here to raise the people's taxes. We will not abide any tampering with the tax cut that is waiting to go into effect. We will not sit idly by quiddling our thumbs as the Soviet Union continues its most massive military build-up in history. We will not balance the budget on the backs of Social Security recipients and working Americans or the cost of our freedom. Don't be fooled by the sleight of hand proposals to balance the budget that are being unveiled all over Washington these days. They're the same old tricks we've lived with and regretted for decades and proposed by the same people. They haven't been able to balance the budget but once in 20 years. They doubled our taxes between 1976 and 1981 and still had the biggest string of deficits in our history. Hearing some of these born-again budget balancers suddenly crying out against deficits. It's a little like hearing a mugger in Central Park complain about crime in the streets. Even a better line on that is like hearing Casanova discuss virtue. Now, do any of you have any doubt where I stand? I think a way to put it is that I stand with the American people on the side of less taxing, less spending and less government. And if people ask you why, tell them because I believe in the American people. I believe in their ability to produce, to save and to invest. And I believe we can work ourselves out of this recession if the government will just give the people a chance. Thank you for standing with us during this difficult year that's just passed. I still count on your help, your energy and your staying power. We're moving into an even more trying year, but our victories will have even more meaning for the American people. And I hope that you feel free anytime before you go out there to check and find out if there are any examples. I've always believed that specificity is the soul of credibility. And some sharp examples now and then can do a lot better than a whole couple of paragraphs of explaining. I remember once years ago when I was talking about the long before I ever thought I'd be in this business, when I was talking about the ridiculousness of some of the facets of the farm program. Now you could have gone on about farm subsidies and crop limitations and all of that and told an awful lot. But I had a figure there that if I remember it correctly, did it all in just one sentence. But the federal government had several programs that were telling poultry raisers how to increase egg production. And the same government had another program that was paying farmers not to raise eggs. So there are so many examples of that kind as a matter of fact. It just happened to happen here. We have a program and a new budget. I've already begun to hear among some of the bleeding out there about in the time of recession and unemployment, what are we doing cutting the budget for job training? Well I'll tell you what we're doing cutting the budget for job training. This has to do with CEDA. In 1980, CEDA's budget was $3.2 billion and only $592 million of that went for job training. The rest was all out there in the bureaucracy someplace. Well our budget now for job training and we're not going to call it CEDA is $1.8 billion. Now $3.2, almost a cut in half. But out of that $1.8 billion, $350 million will go directly to job training. Any time you need any more of those goodies, just let us know and we'll provide them for you. But again, having traveled that circuit with a pocket full of roll aids for the years. Again, God bless you and thank you all for what you're doing in addition to your regular full-time work. Most grateful.