 introduction. I have known the hospitality of the mayor before here at Gracie Mansion and senators from New York, Monahan and Domado, members of the House of Representatives representing this great state, the state and city officials and representatives of organized labor who are here, members of my cabinet, secretaries Donovan, Pierce and Lewis, Secretary of Interior Jim Watt would have been here, but he's working on a lease for strip mining of the Rose Garden. It's always a pleasure to be here in the company of another chief executive. There's a difficult thing about cutting expenses. The expenses can vote. We also have learned, I know, because I've watched him in the magnificent job he's done in restoring fiscal stability here to this city, that if you always do what you believe in your heart is right, you'll please some of the people and astound the rest. Moments in the past months when I, looking at thee, that he was a little bit like the Quaker who was milking his cow and the cow kept kicking the bucket over and he finally stood up and faced the cow and he said, thou knowest I cannot beat thee. Thou knowest I cannot even curse thee. But dost thou know I can sell thee to someone who will? I used to say, find when I was governor myself sometimes that I'd go home and make very eloquent speeches in the shower. And there were days like this Labor Day here in New York City when there's nothing like it in all the world. Control their government. Cut through the red tape, kept our promises as the mayor so graciously said. The Westway project begins today. Now people tell me that the name Westway has become a code word for a bureaucracy strangling in its own regulations. From this day forward, let Westway symbolize opportunity and enterprise and let it remind each of us as we watch Westway become a reality that our government works for us, not the other way around. Some of us here have come from another Labor Day celebration. Some have not. But what was done here today? Tens of thousands of working people who are out of jobs will be working again. It was first proposed. Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers needed work. This city's unemployment rate is more than 20 percent higher than the national average. One month ago, as the mayor said, when I campaigned in New York City, I pledged my support. And today, because of the leadership of Mayor Koch, members of the Congress, because of the close cooperation between New York City and New York State, and because of the persistent efforts of people like Frank Hanley and Tom McGuire, Bill Fenner, who have worked so hard, Westway is going to be a reality. The project will, as the mayor said, create parkland and new areas for commerce and industry. It'll save millions by easing the flow of people and goods, but most important, it will create jobs. And today, as we begin a new season of work, we begin what I hope will be a new age for the American workers. The key to everything we're trying to accomplish is jobs, as I said yesterday, jobs, jobs, and more jobs. Promises and programs, subsidies and studies, welfare and make work have all been tried by well-meaning individuals. But any worker knows a job is the best social program there is. More jobs in this country by 1986, in addition to the 10 men you that are already normally expected in our growth. I see an era in which wage earners will be taking home more money in real dollars, and an era in which fewer of us will be looking for work. Our policy has been, and will continue to be, what is good for the American worker is good for America. There's a new spirit sweeping this country, a spirit born from the values, energies and dreams of our working people. It is the dynamic result of millions of individuals coming together, committed to preserving a society where we can each seek our own goals, assured of freedom to climb as high and as far as our own drive and ambition and talent can take us. We've placed trust in regulations and government dictates. Well, I think it's about time we place trust in ourselves and in each other. But we have to give ourselves a chance. We have to have jobs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt said, when he spoke to a nation that was gripped by the economic woes of the Great Depression, for more than three centuries we've been building on this continent, a free society, a society in which the promise of the human spirit may find fulfillment, commingled here, he said, a blood and genius of all the people of the world who have sought this promise. We have every right to be proud of what we've accomplished and have confidence in what lies ahead. There's no crisis. Our people can't rise above. No problem we can't solve and no challenge too great. The people of New York have turned this city around proving that she can live within her means. The Westway Project is another step of the revitalization of this great American city. So as I present this check for 85 million dollars for the purchase of the right of way, the first installment of a $1.3 billion federal commitment. Let us all take heart in this country from New York's example and from this victory over the inertia of bureaucracy. And on this let each of us commit ourselves again to the renewal. It's represented here today by a