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�INSERT BAT PAGE 25: TEENAGE PREGNANCY
We must halt the· epidemic of teen pregnancies and
births where there is no marriage.
The dimensions of this problem are clear. One million
girls between the ages of 15 and 19 become pregnant
every year.
This is bad for the girls. It is bad for the fathers who
are not ready for a family. But it is even worse for
their children. Children born to teenagers are more
·likely to have serious health problems.
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�They are more likely to be poor than children born to
other parents. About 80 percent of children born to
teen-agers who dropped out of school live in poverty.
In the last two years, we have worked hard to halt the
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epidemic of children from having children. The welfare
reform measures I have proposed send a clear signal to
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young people. If you are thinking about getting
pregnaqt or fathering a child: Don't do it.
But government alone can only do so much to solve this
problem. W<e must join together to solve it as a nation.
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�That's why I have called on leaders -- in the media, in
education, in religion, in medicine _.;. to marshal their
resources to build a strategy to halt teen pregnancy.
That's why I nominated Dr. Henry Foster to be my
Surgeon General nominee. Dr. Foster has devoted his
life to preventing teen pregnancy. His "I Have a Dream·
Program" has a proven record of helping teenagers
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learn that they are simply too young to be parents. I am
saddened that Dr. Foster won't be able to carry on this
work as Surgeon General, but I can assure you that he
will be working closely with me in coming days.
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�PRESIDENT WILLIAM J. CLINTON
REMARKS TO THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
WASHINGTON, D.C.
JULY 28, 1995
Acknowledgments: Al Shanker [AFT President]; Ed McElroy [AFT
Secretary Treasurer] ; Sandy Feldman [Head of conference and
President of the United Federation of Teachers -- the New York
affiliate of the AFT], Secretary Riley. [Note: Attached is the
AFT Bill of Rights, which will be presented to you. Reference to
it is made toward the end of your remarks.]
I have always thought that if you want to know America, you
should go to a classroom. You understand better than anyone that
the classroom is a window onto our country.
In any classroom, you can see the infinite promise of America,
whether it's expressed in a beautiful essay, a perfect math
score, or an act of kindness from one child to another. You can
also come face-to-face with the challenges that confront us all:
children old-beyond their years, children too tired or hurt or
closed off to the world and each other to learn.
You also know that what happens with your students in the
classroom depends in large measure on what happens to them in
their lives outside school. How you do your job hinges on how
parents and communities do 1 theirs.
It is with that in mind that I want to speak to you today -- not
only as your President, but as a son, a brother, a husband, a
father. I want to talk to you this afterndon about what I believe
are the real family values of Americans, and what we as a nation
can do to strengthen those values.
Many Americans, especially in politics, talk a great deal about
the challenges to American families. Too often, though, the
solutions they have proposed reflect personal and political
interests
not the greater and pressing needs of real American
families.
There are those who focus primarily on matters of morality and
behavior. Their contributions are very important, and I have
built on their work. In recent weeks, for example, I have clearly
defined the role of religion in our schools, and supported the
use of the V-chip.
On the other end of the political spectrum, there are those who
see family problems as primarily about economics and incomes.
They have made important contributions, too. I have built on
their work by promoting measures that see to it that our people
get the tools they need to make the most of their God-given
potential, and by making work pay.
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�All of these solutions are right, but they are also incomplete.
Our own real experience tells us that no single ideological
agenda alone is enough to build strong and secure families.
In our hearts and in our lives, we know that moral problems can
become economic problems. In the case of teen pregnancy, for
example, society has to help an unprepared parent care for a
child. Economic problems can just as easily become moral
concerns. Parents who have to work day and night aren't going to
be able to spend enough time at home to help their children
develop moral bearings.
Today I want to speak with you about joining together to move
beyond these limiting ideologies. I want to articulate the broad
constellation of values that constitutes the true core of a
family values agenda.
As any hardworking parent knows, the families of America -- rich
or poor, urban or rural, liberal or conservative, white or black
all share some basic common needs, and those needs are
shifting dramatically as our world changes. Too often, people 1n
Washington talk about family values, but don't act as if they
value families. The time has come for us to step back from
ideological politicking and step up to the high ground of our
·_shared values,_ where we can see how to get America's families
those things that are basic to their well-being.
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Think for a moment about the challenges our families face today:
A young mother and father bring a newborn baby home from the
hospital. They are proud and exhausted, and they dearly wish that
the mother at least •could take just a little time to recover and
tend this small baby. But they know that she might lose her job
if she did, so every day they put their newborn into the hands of
strangers.
Another mother looks out a window at a playground. Her kids -good kids -- have to run around in circles inside the house
because she's not certain that it is safe enough for them to play
outside alone.
A father tries to cook a balanced dinner for his kids in 15
minutes because he has to run off to his second minimum-wage job
of the day. Trading off shifts with his wife, he knows that he
will have to sleep while the kids are awake, though that means
he can't supervise their homework or monitor what they watch on
TV or even meet their friends to make sure they are not bad
influences. He has no choice.
A mother, after much hard work and years of balancing family and
job responsibilities, is offered a big promotion. Her decision to
accept the job is governed by whether or not someone will be
there to pick up her child after school.
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�A teacher -- like, perhaps, one of you here today -- encounters a
student of exceptional promise. She wants to encourage him to
apply to a fine college, but is half-afraid he'll be accepted -his parents can't afford tuition because they are caring for an
elderly parent alone, and for the student to know he's good
enough to go, but not going, would break his heart.
Let us never forget, regardless of our political point of view:
families don't eat and breathe political slogans -- rather, they
sink or swim because of moments such as these, and because of the
help they do or don't get in handling these challenges.
For years now, I have said we must meet our new challenges with
what I call the New Covenant: providing more opportunity while
demanding more responsibility. This approach stems from a basic
vision: America is a family. We go up or down together.
What I believe grows out of my personal history. I grew up in a
small town in a poor state. I lived in a family where everybody
worked hard and where kids were expected to study hard. But I
also had a lot of opportunity that was given to me by my
community. I had good teachers and good schools. And when I
needed them, I got scholarships and jobs. I saw what happened to
good people who had no opportunity because they happened to be
black, or because they happened to be poor and white and isolated
in the hills and hollows of 'my state.
I saw what happened in my own family to good people who didn't·
behave responsibly. My stepfather was very responsible toward me,
but not very responsible toward himself. Anybody who's ever lived
in a family with an alcoholic knows that there is nothing you can
do for someone that they are not prepared to do for themselves.
My brother struggled with drug addiction. But he fought to
overcome it, and he now has a family, a son, and a life -- not
because of the love and support we gave him, but because of what
he did for himself.
These are basic family values that have worked so well for such a
long time.
But we all know that
world today is being
our history. The new
information age have
we live in a time of tremendous change. The
transformed to a degree seldom seen in all
global economy and the dawn of the
placed tremendous stresses on our families.
I believe our role working together is to build an agenda for our
families that helps .them do in this new time what they have
always done: to help them care for one another; to help them keep
each other safe; to help parents gain the economic opportunity
necessary to pass better lives and brighter futures on to their
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�children.
There are ten points that form our real family values agenda:
1. Caring for elderly parents.
2. Family and Medical leave.
3. Health insurance reform.
4. Child support enforcement.
5. Prevention of teen pregnancy.
6. Drug abuse prevention.
7. Prevention of teen smoking.
8. Handgun and assault rifle control.
9. Raising the minimum wage.
10. Education.
1. Caring for elderly parents. Parents care for their children,
and in time, those children care for their parents. That is the
age-old compact between the generations. It was for this reason
that exactly 30 years ago we decided to protect our elderly
against the cost of illness with Medicare. We did this as an
extension of the compassion we feel in our families for our own
parents.
It's e~sy to forget that before Medicare, half the elde~ly in
this country had no ·health insurance. Now 97 percent do. Medicare
provides peace of mind. It lets young parents raise their
children in the knowledge that their aging parents will be cared
for.
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This fundamental security is at risk. Congress wants to cut $270
billion from Medicare. This could mean that America's seniors -maybe your grandparents -- would have to pay thousands that they
may not have in out-of-pocket expenses. This could mean that the
money you've been sqving for your child's education might have to
go to pay for medical bills .. Certainly we have to reduce the rate
at which Medicare costs are growing. But we can do this by
refo~ming Medicare, not ruining it~
We have launched a number of other initiatives to help families
care for elderly parents. Anyone who has nursed a relative with
Alzheimer's knows how hard it is. That's why we want to provide
respite benefits for families of Alzheimer's patients. We want to
expand home care, too. People feel and heal better when they're
sleeping in their own bed; helping them stay there also reduces
costs and the burden on our health care system.
2. Family and Medical Leave. We know in our hearts that to be a
good parent you must form a real bond with your child. It's not
enough merely to be a breadwinner. That is why Family and Medical
Leave is a big part of helping families care for each other. No
social program can ever hope to have the effect of the bonding
that goes on between a mother and a child. If the first 12 weeks
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�of a babies life go right, it can mean the difference between a
lifetime of security or a lifetime of anger.
The Family Leave Act gives people the chance to be good workers
and good parents. I am proud that it was. the first major bill I
signed into law and that it has been up and running for two
years. It has given ailing husbands and wives the support a
spouse at their bedside; it has given babies a parent to tend to
them instead of a stranger. If those aren't family values, I
don't know what is.
Yet Congress wants to cut funds that go toward enforcing Family
and Medical Leave, putting families back where they were when
caring for their loved ones wasn't always an option.
3. Health Insurance Reform. The health insurance reforms I have
proposed respond to the real needs of American families.
First, health insurance has to be portable -- parents change jobs
more than ever, families move around, and its basic common sense
that their insurance should go with them.
Second, coverage should not be tied to preexisting conditions.
Sickness in your family is enough of a weight on your shoulders
without it threatening your insurance as well: you should be able
to get covered even if someone in your family falls ill.
Third, we must establish voluntary purchasing pools, which allow
small businesses and self-employed people to buy health insurance
on the same terms as those of us who work for government or big
corporations. Americans should be able to work together to take
care of themselves and not go broke doing so.
Finally, we must see to it that if a parent loses a job, the
family gets to keep its coverage -- even if the parent is
unemployed for an extended period of time. Losing your job is
stressful enough without it meaning you lose your coverage too.
4. Child support enforcement. Anyone who brings a child into this
world must take responsibility for it. And nobody should get
pregnant or father a child who isn't prepared to raise that
child, love that child, take responsibility for that child's
future. That's why my administration has worked so hard to
enforce child support collection. Governments don't raise
children, people do. But government should use its power to make
sure those words are real.
The welfare reform plan we sent Congress last year includes five
key provisions to ensure the toughest possible child support
enforcement: employer reporting of new hires to catch deadbeat
dads who move from job to job; uniform interstate child support
laws; computerized statewide collection of speed up payments;
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�streamlined efforts to identify the father in every case; and
tough ne~ penalties like license revocation.
This fifth step is crucial. Our plan calls on states who refuse
tordeny drivers and ,professional licenses to people who refuse to
pay the money they owe to support their children.
Earlier this year I signed an Executive Order to make the
government a model employer in the area of child support
enforcement. It will make it easier for us to' find federal
employees who don't meet their obligations to their children. It
will speed up our ability to garnish their paychecks and force
them to pay the child support they owe.
I expect that any welfare reform Congress sends me will have the
toughest child support enforcement possible. And I will speak
further about welfare reform in the days to come.
5. Prevention of Teen Pregnancy. TK
6. Drug Abuse Prevention. Of all the threats to America's longterm health and strength, perhaps nothing is as dangerous as the
scourge of drugs. Drug abuse can lead only to sickness and
despair.
We've expanded our efforts to fight the War on Drugs. With the
help of the ·Crime Bill, this year's drug control budget is the
largest in the history of the federal government.
Our drug control strategy is based on a four-step approach. It
will work with foreign governments to cut drugs off at the
source. It will work to break the cycle of drugs and crime by
providing treatment to the hard-core drug users who consume most
of the drugs and cause much of the crime and health problems we
have today. It will punish people who break the law. And, most
important, it will educate young people about the dangers and
penalties of drug use.
Despite the importance of this effort, a Senate committee voted
this week to the funds [CHECK] used to fight the War on Drugs.
Congress would also push 23,000 kids out of our Safe and Drug
Free Schools initiative. I am not going to stand still while
political infighting threatens to sacrifice precious members of
this generation to the lure of a cheap high. Our children need a
constant drum beat reminding them that: drugs are not safe; drugs
are illegal; drugs will put you in jail; drugs may cost you your
life.
7. Prevention of teenage smoking. We would stop a kid from using
drugs; we would stop a kid from drinking alcohol; we must apply
the same vigilance to preventing teenage smoking.
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�Too many of our kids have access to one of the worst killers in
the country -- ordinary tobacco products. Underage smoking is
wrong, it's bad for our children, and it's against the law. The
costs of smoking will be with our children well into their
adulthood -- in the form of cancer, lung disease, heart attacks.
For too long now, the issue of our children smoking has fallen
through the cracks -~ since it's not on the agenda of most
politicians. But it's on the minds of most parents and teachers.
We must stop tobacco companies from blatantly marketing
cigarettes to our kids. The efforts of cigarette-makers to
insinuate the likes of Joe Camel into the minds of our kids is
irresponsible and dangerous.
Soon, I will have more to say about the'steps my administration
will take to get cigarettes out of the mouths of our children.
8. Handgun and Assault Rifle Control. Like cigarettes, guns kill
only faster. And it's our kids who pay the price when we fail
to stand up to the home-grown arms dealers in our towns and
cities. In our grandparents' day, organized crime was responsible
for violence, which left most folks untouched. Today, gangs of
children are the ones creating the mayhem in our streets, and so
all families feel at risk.
There was a profoundly moving story in one of our newspapers the
other day about a 16-year-old boy who shot a 12-year-old boy dead
because he thought he's been treated with disrespect. And this
happened just
few days after a national survey in which twothirds of young gang members said they thought it was acceptable
to shoot someone just because they treated you with disrespect.
Kids used to work out their differences with their fists. It
wasn't ideal, but it happened. Now, too often, they settle their
scores with guns.
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We're doing everything in our power to stop this. I am proud that
my administration stood up to those who would let a~sault weapons
proliferate in the streets where our children walk to school. I
am proud that we passed the Brady Bill and that our Justice
Department is facing down street gangs on every mean street in
this country.
We are on our way to putting 100,000 more cops on the street. And
we passed the Three Strikes -- You're Out punishment for the kind
of violent criminals a parent fears most. I'll say this: anyone
who wants to ease up on the fight against crime can't possibly
know what it's like to have a child on the frontlines of
violence. I won't ease up.
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�9. Raising the Minimum Wage. Families need an economically secure
foundation on which'to build better lives for themselves and
their children. That is why we fought so hard to expand the
Earned Income Tax Credit, so that no parent who works full-time
and is raising a child will have to live in poverty. And that is
why I want to raise the minimum wage to from $4.25 to $5.15.
Raising the minimum wage not only rewards hard work, it also
makes sure that fewer kids come home to an empty house while a
single mother is working as many jobs as she can. Increasing the
minimum wage is the best thing we can do to give that single
mother the time she needs to instill in her children the
wholesome values that will make them productive adults.
Some of our leaders don't want to raise the minimum wage. They're
willing to let minimum wage workers fall to their lowest real
incomes in 40 years. Not only has the minimum wage not been
raised in [tk] years, it's actually dropped because it hasn't
been able to keep pace with inflation. I can't imagine many
Americans think that is the legacy we want for working people in
the aftermath of the Cold War.
10. Education. I've saved education -- the subject you are here
to discuss -- for last for a very simple reason:· it touches on
everything our families need to make themselves stronger.
It crosses generations. Education is the way one generation keeps
faith with the next. It is crucial to our ability to pass our
values and beliefs -- all that is important to us -- onto our
children.
Education is about keeping our children safe. It puts children in
touch with the worlq around them. It gives them the ability to
use their heads -- not violence -- to solve problems. More than
anything, education gives them the confidence that they can build
a better life for themselves.
And, of course, more than ever before, education is the key to
meeting the challenges of the global economy. You know better
than anyone that education is now the fault-line that divides
those who make it from those who. don't. Incomes are rising for
one group of Americans -- and one group alone -- people with more
than two years of post-high school education. [CHECK]
And we know how important it is for children to get a good
beginning. Head Start grew out of a societal consensus that we
need to teach our children early. A head start in learning can
mean all the difference in a child's life -- just like the first
12 weeks of bonding with its mother.
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Until now there's been bipartisan support for Head Start. My
administration has expanded the age at which children are
eligible, improved quality, and increased the number of kids in
Head Start.
The beginning is important -- but it's no good without followthrough. For this reason, I have worked hard to raise standards
in all our schools. ·Goals 2000 carries out this mission -- it
helps families and teachers come together to make sure our
schools do the best job they can.
I know that you have done great work to raise standards, starting
with your Bill of Rights and Responsibilities for Learning. I
also know you're as concerned as I am with the cuts Congress is
proposing in education: 50,000 kids taken away from Head Start;
Goals 2000 eliminated altogether.
Together, we won't let this happen. America won't let it happen.
If you need convincing, just look across the Potomac. Earlier
this week, a group of business leaders in Virginia -- Republicans
and Democrats alike.-- joined together to protest cuts in state
higher education. In ideology and outlook, the members of this
group couldn't have been more different. But on one subject they
shared common ground: education is a necessity that strengthens
us all.
So I want both parties to consider what real needs of real
families involve. To those who say government has no role -- go
down to a blue-collar neighborhood and tell a hardworking truck
driver that no matter how diligently he saves for his daughter's
education, his nation won't back him when he needs a college
loan.
And to those who think only more money can solve family crises
I say go up to the neighborhood on a hill where some kids are
alone in houses that may have cost millions of dollars, but have
no heart.
I urge my colleagues in Washington to look beyond labels and to
remember that the common ground we share is as open as our land
itself. Even on the most sensitive issues of our time, we should
never be fooled into thinking that our disagreements are greater
than the real family values that unite us.
It always amazes me the way we let our debates become so defined.
Just look at our lives. They defy categorization. They don't fit
into neatly packaged ideologies.
Our policies should match our lives. The agenda I've talked about
reflects the experiences of America's families. I bet it reflect
the experiences of many of you here. I know it reflects mine.
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�Medicare: Helped me care for my mother as she got older.
Smoking: My mother's health was harmed by smoking.
Drugs:
In my brother, I've seen the danger of drugs.
Education: I will always stand up for education. In my life, it
has meant nothing less than the difference between the impossible
and the possible.
Good families, good kids, don't just happen; they take the
hardest work there is. Each good kid represents a whole community
of adults, from parents to teachers to volunteers, who took that
extra half hour over homework, or noticed that a child had not
had breakfast, or put their own gratification second for a while.
We have the choice/to make policy that rewards and helps
families, or that leaves them alone to sink or swim. I say we
choose to do what is necessary to help adults help kids grow
right. Let's call these policies a simple "Thank You" to parents
and teachers for doing what it takes to raise the next generation
in a way that makes all Americans proud.
Thank you and God bless you.
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For Immediate Release
July 28, 1995
REMARKS.BY THE PRESIDENT
·To THE
QUEST-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
.Sheraton Washington Hotel
_Washihgton, D~C.
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THE PRESIDENT: I rr\us,t say I enjoyed the class being a little
·rowdy this afternoon.
(Laughter.). I thank you for your weicome.
I, thank you for. your support.
Most important of all, . I thank you
for the work. you do every· day.
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Thank you, Al Shanker; for the introductiori and for being here
and. for being a consistent ·and clear voice 'for opportunity and
excellence in education. (Applause.) Thank you, Ed McElroy; thank
you, Sandy Feldman; :thanks to all of my friends in. 'the AFT.
And
thanJt you for bringing these childr~n up on the stage today to
reminq us what th,is is all ·about.
(Applause.)
You know, if you go in ·any classroom in 'America you see· the
infinite promise of_ou~ country in a beautiful essay·oi a ~ifficult
math problem solved, or j·ust an act of kindness from one child to
another.· And you come face to face with the terrible challenges·
confronting this country, in children , who are old beyond their
years because of what.· they've had to endure, to tired or hurt or
closed oft trom·each. 6ther and the world to learri.
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You. also . kriow that what happens. to your students in the
classroom depends a .lot on what happens to. them before they get
there and after they leave.
(Applause.)
And I must say in that.
connection,. I '·ve .often thought it ironic that some of the people
that bewail the loss of_ family values in our bountry are all too
eag~r to critici~~ teachers· for the problems in. our schools, when
the truth is. that oftentimes the school is. the only coherent,
consistent dire~tion, family-oriented, value tim~ that all of our
kids. ge.t.
(Applause, )
It is true ehat this administratioh has worked hard to be a
friend to education.
Secretary Riley, Deputy ~ecretary Kunih and
all the fine people at the Department of Edu~ation I think have
done an exc~llen~ job in working with you and in broadening their
reachj working witW Secretary Reich arid the. people-in the Labor
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Department; working with_the private sector all·over the-country,
trying to builp. a grass-roots consensus for what is best· about
educatiori in our country, trying to build this c6untry up instead
of using education as yet one more . issue to divide the American·
people and to distract us from our real problems.
·. Today I want to talk to yqu really. seriou·sly about what
· happens. to the kids in this country, mostly before and after school
in the context. of ~~is big family values debate we're having again
·this year.
I don't regret the.fact that we're hav,i!}g it, and I
believe the·i debate has· been too polarized between the opposite
. sides that I believe have a lot to say to each other.
And if you
want any evidenc~ of that, read ·your . own Bill of Rights and
Responsibilities.
I just got-a great copy of it. It's two sides of the debat~
raging' t_oday ab.out family values.
There are those ·who see family problems and
children's problems ·as primarily matters of personal ·and
social morality.
And they believe that all the government
has to do is to encourage good behavior like prayirig in
sch6ol or sexual ab~~inence, or to punish bad behavior like
criminal conduct or the unwillingness to move from welfare
to work even ~hen a job's avail~ble.
Then there are others who .see family problems
primarily as a r.esul t of the unbelievable economic and
social difficulties . facing Americans today.
And they
believeth~ role of ~overnment is to· develop policies that
help all of us, make the 'most of our own abi:lities and to
reward people who are working hard and playing by the rules.
But on. a' lot of' issues
these ·two . sides really
as far apart as they may seem~
Again, I say, read
your owri Bill oE Rights and Responsibilities and you'see
both sides of that argument coming at you. ·
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aren'~
A moral problem can quickly become an economic
· 'problem.
The epiaemic rates of teen. pregnancy iri our
country, f·or exampl,e, mean that an .awful, lot of· kids who are
·born into poverty and never escape i,t, ·and an awful lot of
parents who dori't escape it because they don't ·have·
education and child care.
On the other hand·, an' economic
problem can rapidly become a.moral problem.
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Parepts, on the whole, are working harder today
than they were 25 years ago ~- literally, more hours at work
for about the same ,or lower. wages than ·they were making is
. years ago. ·That means. you don't have mt.].ch time for your
kids to teach them the things that they can only learn from
their families.
So ~conpmic problems can s~ill over into
the. family area as w~ll and have .a moral dimension.
So I
argue to you. that ·what we really need is an American family
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v~lues agenda, ·kind of like the Bill of Rights
Responsibilities you've articulated for the scho~ls.·
and
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T~at basic~lly takes the best of both of these
approaches, and more importantly, lifts this debate up -gets it beyond partis'an strategies that divide the American
people for short-term ··gain because, 1too often, these issues
are raised in that w~y.
If we really wantc family values,
we've really got to value families.
(Applause.)
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Think·'-' about the bewildering
. array of problems
faced · by families . today.
Young couples, both of . them
workin~, they have a child, they desperately want one of the.
parents to stay home for just a few weeks with the child
good solid family values. Will they lose one 'of the jobs if
· that happens?
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·You've got people who lobk out their windows at
~laygro~nds and wonder if they c~n let their children piay
dn them because they'll be violating family values if their
kid.aren't safe.
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you have fathers cooking din'ners for ch1ldren right before
they go' to· work all night. And then they have to·sleep all
. day while mothe~ goes to work.
So it never quite gets
·worked out that both th~ family parents get to work with the
childien the way they wish. This happeris all·the time.
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I never will.f6rget, I ~sed to-- every election
in,Arkansas when I was governor, I used to make· the earliest·
factory gate in my state
t_he Campbell ·Soup plant in
Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Feople started going to work at
4: 3 0 a. 'm. in the morning.
And I f igu·red that I'd get some
.·votes jtist for being_fool ~noug~ to showing up at 4:30 ~.m.
(Laughter.)
And, sure 1enough, I did.
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I never will forget, one day~nd I'd go there
--·I'd stay there from 4:30 a.m. to 5:30 a.m., and shake
hands with everybod~ that showed u~. · I n~ver will forget
it; at a quarter to five one day, a pickup pulled up and the
door opens, the light c;ame on inside the pickup, and there
was a fine looking young man and his fine looking young wife
and three little babies sitting between them in the' picku'p.
And she had to· be 'at work; _pul"),ched in at 5:00 a,m. every
morning.
T~en he had to be at. work at 7:00 a.m.
And they
had to figure out somebody that had day care by a quarter to
s,even in the morning so• that he could drop those kids off
and ge.t there.
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Npw, we talk about·family values
that is the
typical experieric.es -- is earlier .in. the morning. But most
families in this country are working their fingers to the
bone doing the best they cari ~p against very diffic4lt odds.
And we need to' talk about this in terms of the real
experience of real people.
-There are a whole , lot of families that are
spending their money trying to take care of. their elderly
_parents and k~ep them out~of nursing homes and so they don~t
thirik they'll be .able to sehd their kids to college.
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There are a lot of children who .are losi~g hope.
And a re_cent study·was published on rising rates of casual
drug use among-you~g people, pointing out that the ones who
tend to get into drugs early . are young peop'le who have
either no strong' religious values, or no rea:l hope for their
own p~rsonal future~ or no ~trorig relationship with their
own parents.
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need to see it in the real world.
How many teachers do we
know who 'have stud~nts of exceptional promise. that they~re
afraid will never live up to the promise because of the
economic
handicaps
on
the . family
of
the
student.
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. So I ·say this to make the following point~
Families-do not eat arid breathe and sleep political slogans
(applause) -- they do not.
Most-families couldn't tell
you for the life of them whether I'm up or down in the polls_
this week I . and they couldn I t care less.
They just know
whether they're up or down in their real· lif~ struggle this
week. And ,that's what we ought to think about.
(Applause.)
-If you add all these family sto~ies togeth~r, you
see t.hat America is kind of a gooq hews-bad news story.
This .is remarkable -- ·in the last two and a half years -_.when I came here and I campaigned to you for P~esideht,. I·
said if you v9te for me, I will do my best to- revive the
middle class in this country, to give poor p~ople a chatice
to get into the middle class and· to pave the way for a
brighter· future for all of our· people; I· will emphasize
creating
more
opportunity;
I
will
insist
on ~·more
responsibility to the American people; and I'll try to bring.
the people, together without regard to race or region or
r~~igion or other ~hing~ that di~ide us.
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.And in the last. two atid half years .we've p1.:1t into
effect an aggressive economic pro,gram,
an aggressive
education
program,
an
aggressive
trade
program,
an
aggressive anticrime program.
We h~ve today seven million
more j cbs,, a, lower unemployment· rate, a low~r inflation
rate. The crime rate is down iri virtually every major urban
'area of· the co_untry.
we are moving -·on our problems.
But
with a r~cord business profits, a record stock market, a
record number of . new ousinesses, a record number of new ..
millionaires, 'most Americans are working harder for the same;
amount of money they wer~fuaking tw6 and a half-years ago,
feeling somewhat· more insecure on the job,- a little bit
uncertain about their retirement and their family's health
care, ·and worried sick they won't be able to educate. -their
kids.
How did this happen?
We're moving into a glob~l
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A smaller percentage of
the work force are prot~cted by organization~ like yours.
And there is more uncertainty out there. So I believe we do
need to ask burselves if we believe that the stability of
our society and the strength of our country and the future
of our children depend upon 6u:t; families, ·then what .are ou~
family values? And how are we going. to reward good family
conduct?
How are we going to siab~lize life for families
who are wil~ing to do the right thin~? How ~re we going to
attack the real problems? How are we going to avoid this
kind bf phony debate?
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just give you a short agenda here.
And I'll
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going to give a test .on this at· the end of this.
Here are 14 things we could .do to· help .
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One, he~p people care for their elderly parents
for sure, don't _make i t harder.
(Applause>)
Two,
refoi~ th~ health insurance system ~o that at l~ast people
don't lose their he~lth insurance if the~ ~hange'jobs or if
somebody' s sick in their family.
(Applause.)
T,hree, keep
the Family and Medical Lea~e Law arid.make sur~ everybody in
America. knows wha·t it is and knows how to:. take advantage of
it.
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support enforcement.
(Applause.)
Five, figure out who'.s
been succ~ssful in preventing teen pregnancy and organize a
national campaign to do the same thing in every community in
the country.
(Applause.)
Six·,· build on what works to
prevent drug abuse and drug use, and do it. Dori't just talk
abo~t
invest money, time artd eff6rt irt consistent
commitment· to drug abuse prevention.
(Applause.)
Seven, if yeti want to cut health care cbsts an~
increase life expectancy, do. something to stop all these
kids who are beginning to smoke at earlyages. It's killing
them.
(Applause. )
Eight, · expose our children to less
violence by enforcing the Br~dy law and keeping, the ban.on
assault weapons and passing the ban on cop-killer bullets.·
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Nine, 'if you're concerned · about violence and
children: and the ·role the media. is contributing·. to it,
inste~d of giving a speech about it, do s~mething about i~.
When Congress passes a telecommunications law that'~ going
to make a bunch of money for a bunch of peopler and it will
be all right if it creates a lot of jobs and helps us get
more information, tell them to put in the law the simple
provision to' give everybody that's got a cable hook-up a
V-chip ~o that the parents can decid~ what comes ~cross to
the television· to . the kids.
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And by the way,~
don't get rid 'of .public broadcasting. At least parents h.ave
an alternative. (Applause.)
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Ten, ~o something abciut family incomes for people
whO are doing the right. 1thing.
Raise the minimum wage to
$5.00 an hour.
(Applause.) '·Eleven, i f you want to give a
ta~ cut, give a family-oriented tax cut to help people raise
their children and educate their children. That's the kind
of tax cut we ought to have in this country.
(Applause.)
Twelve, remember that adults need education, too;
And take all these governm~nt progr~ms that w~re ~nacted
with the' best df int~ntions over a long period o~· ti~e and
consolidate them, and insteaq, when somebody loses their job
or they're working for a minimum wage and they want to get
a new training program, send them a check to take to the
-local community college so ·they can ,get a decent-education
that will lead them to a jc)b. · (Applau~e.)
Thirteen -- don't get nervous,,, I'm saving you for
last.
(Laughter.) · Thirtee!l, every list of civic values
ev~r gi~en to kids in school·that I have ever seen says,
teach young
people respect
for themselves,
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environm~nt.
Thireeen, do no ha~m; stop this craz¥ effoit
· t·o dismantle· all. the environmental and public· health
protection in the United St.ates Congress today.
(Applause.)
Fourteen, education
don't·cut it; don't cut
Head Start; don't take a million kids out qf Chapter 1 ~
(Applause.)
Don't get .rid of Goals 2000, which gives
teachers the chance' to 'really. do some.thing sign~ficant .
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Do not increase the cost of ~ college loan
that . is the dumbest thing I ever heard of in my 'life .
. (Applause.) ·It is not necessary. to cut education to balance
the ·budget,
It is only necessary to cut education to
b~lance the budget if you're determined to· do it in seven
years ins~ead of 10, with a tax cut nobody can justify with
a deficit t~is.high and an education d~ficit .at the same
time.
Put the. moriey into educatiol} and into our future.
Tl;le wealthiest· Americans.support .this approach; they know
it's the right thing to do.
(Applause.)
So I want . to amplify .on a cmipl'e of these, not
all 14, but I w~nt td say them again: Help people care for
their elderly parents.
Reform the health insurance system
so fathers arid mothers don't lose the health insurance for
themselves and their kids if somebody ~n·the family haS been
sick or -they change jobs.
Keep, the enforcef!1ent of the
-Family and Medical Leave L~w; don't support the CongreSs
taking out all the funds for enforGement. More people need
to know about it, not fewer. Not a ~ingle business has gone
broke since we. protected family and medica,l leave in '1993.
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Tougher child support enforc~ment; prevent teen
pregnancy; reduce drug abuse among young people; . prev,ent
teens from starting smoking; handgun and assault _weapons,
keep those bills in there on the Brady bill and the assault
weapons bill, and pass the cop-killer bullet ban; raise the.
minimum wage; have a reform of the family tax system.so we
give the tax breaks to people raising their· kids and
educating them; put the v-chip iri the cable TV if y6u want
to do something about culture. and violence; pass the GI Bill
for America's · workers; give people who are unemployed . a
check, not· a list _of 70 programs, they'll find the local
community college; prote.<;::t ~he environment; and do not cut.
education. · Now. tha.t is an a'genda we can live with -- I
think I· left out the minimum. wage, but I won't forget it
when we . get to the budget.
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·Now, let me tell you, . Sunday
Saturd.ay or
~unday; sometime over.the weekend, will be fhe e~act day of
the 30th anniversary of ·Medicare.
We. need to reform
Med{care.
We' ca~'f have medical costs going u~·at two and·
th~ee and' four times the rate of inflation.
Bu't. let's not.
·forget
before Medicare, fewer than half the elderly
people in this cquntry had any health ·insurance and 97
percent ·of them do.
And ·if any of you ha~~ been th~ough what I, have
and I imagine most of you have beeri.
If you had/ as. I
had, your mother and your father-in-law desperately ill for
long periods of time _you think, my, goodness what would we
do without .Medicare? And I realize how much better off I am
t'han most Americans, and ·it wouldhav~ bankrupted me. What
would most.Americaris.do? What would the elderly do?
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can. But to ~ick an arbitrary number just because we'v~ got
tQ balance the budget in seven' years instead of 10 ~nd have
thi~ huge tax cut that, by the way, is abo~t.the amount of
money we're gping to save out' of Medicare.
That's wrong.
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And we
could save money over ·the long run by taking a little of
that 'money and helpipi states to set up opportunities for
people like you to help your. parents stay Out. of nursing
homes as well as to pay for them when they go. ip.
That is
th~ Setter way to approach that problem~
And I'd like to
see us do it.
I mentioned family and medical leave.
I couldn ,·t
beli~ve it when •I saw there were people in the ~ongress who
wanted to st~ip th~ government of the ability to enforce the
law. Nobody has gone broke doing this. Nobody has. I want
to tell you -- the most moving personal encounters I think
I've had, ex~ept with children, since I've been president,
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and Medical Leave law.
Here is a letter my wife got this· week.
I warit
to read this t'o you.
This is a law some people in Congress
. say we shouldn't enforce anymore.
Dear Mrs. Clinton, I . am writing to. le't you· know
that two months ago my husband- died of congestive heart
failure after a prolonged period of several years of
illn~ss.
Because your husband sign~d.into law the Family
and Medical Leave Act; I was able to tiansport hi~ io doctor
appointments and hospital visits.
:The Act enabled me . to.
keep 'rr\y job and, bring him comfort at .the e!ld of his life·.
I will be. eternally'grat~ful. ,Signed, Lynn Wade Tomko of
·Highland Ranch, Colorado.
There's a lot of people out there like
•every ~rie of you deserves
it.:
Every one
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you.
Now,
there is a bipartisan bill on health
insurance, reform. Tnere' s ·a bipartisan bill in the Congress
right now.-- a bipartisan bill --· saying at least if we •
can't give everybody health insurance, if we can't do that,
at least we ought to be able t~ say when parents change .jcibs
they and their children don't lose their health care,
coverage · shouldn't be tied to whether. somebody in their
family's been sick once or twice.
And people who work for
small·business~s qught t6 be able to g~t -- in every state
in the country, they ought to be,able to go into a pool that
is big so . they can ·buy insur~nce on the same rates that
people like us who ~ork for g6vernment or big units do·~·
Simple, basic things. And there ought to be a longe.r .period
of time where pedple keep their health insurance if they
lose their jobs. :
On the child ·suppo~t enf6rcement; ~11
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governors,· even the. most pro-state's rights governo·rs,··have
understood and su~ported our efforts to have national
standards of child.support enforce~ent. Why? Because over
a .third o( all the child'support orders that ar~ ~elinquent•
' are for people who have . cr.ossed· state lines.
So we need a,
national approach to this.. Tpe welfare reform bill I have
sent' to Congress has that.
We have to have this.
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Here are the things that it has, and ask yourself
if you think it's reasonable.
Employer reporting .of new
hires to catch ·deadbeat· dads who move· . from· j.ob to job;.
uniform
interstate
child
support
laws;
computeiized
cbll~ction of ~peeding up p~yments; ~treamlined efforts to
identify the father .in every case when the child is born;
and
tough
new
penal ties,
'like 'professional
license
revocation for people . who .repe,atedly refuse to pay their
child support -- or driver's license.
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Let me tell you, I don't think most Americans -estimate that if everybody paid the- child support·:~hey.
owe, there would_ be 800,000 fewer'people in this country off'
of welfare.
You have no idea how much money you're paying
as taxpayers to support children that their parents ·could.
legally ·be:supporting and have the ·money·to suppqrt.' yo~
don't have any idea.
It's a lot of money -- money . that
could, be going into' Head Start; money that could be ·going
into Goals 2000; money that could be going into college
loans~
It's not right.
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I cpuld go on and on.
I'm going, to have more to
say about the drug abu~e preverition and the teen ~regn~ncy
issues· later on. · I will say . this. -:- we'd be down the road
a little bit if the Seriat~ hadn't played.politics with Dr.
Henry Foster's nomination. ·(Applause.)
But I'·m going to
bring him back.in some wai and get him.to .h~lp_ us on this
.be~ause it's so important, it's a big issue.
On, the drug issue, everybody talks about. being
on drugs.
But you've got· to. do four things if/ you
want to make .a· difference.
You have got .to work with
foreign governments t6 cut drugs off at 'the source. We are
busting a lot of big gangs, and we're making . some real
progress.
.And we're getting· more· help· froin foreign
governments .than: the United States has enjoyed· in many
years.
We'vew·orked hard at it, and_a lot of people in
other "coun'tries risk their lives every day to keep your ·kids
free.of cocaine and crack. And you need to know.that.
~tough
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We sa~, 0hy don't they do more?
~·lot of them
put their lives on the line every day to do it.
And more
than ever before, we're making pro~ress ~nit. ~e also have
to break .the cycle of drugs and crime by providing treatment
to p~ople who ne~d it,.· It works; it does·work.
(Applause.)·
It doesn't· always work, but two-thirds of the time, the
treatment works. Now, would you ~ather spend a l'ittle money
,to have it,work.two-thirds of th~ time, .or put 100 percent
of those pe9ple behind bars at a. greater· cost to you?
It
does work.
We ~lso have to pupish people properly who break.
the law.
But finally, we've got to do s6methipg to try to
keep our kids off of· drugs in .the first 'Place.
And
therefore
I think it is a. mistake. for the Congress to
eliminate the money we Ire giving to your schools to promote
safe and drug-f~ee schools. Those are ~cod prog~ams,and we
shouldn' i: get rid of it. · (Applause.)
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I'm·going to say more in the next several days
about this· issue of · teenage smoking.
But you just think.
about the number of people every year in America we lose
because of smoking related illnesses·. And you realif:e that
having a whole lot qf young kids get into that pipeline is
pretty·significant . . And all the evidence is that if people
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'don It start smoking until they're adults 1 that even if they'
smoke a littl~, the~ don't b~come ~eally.hooked. They aon't
do it a lot. They quit after a little while, and they go on
and live normal lives. This is a big peal.
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Most people .who have serious problems with
smoking started when they were children. It is now illegal
to sell children ci~arettes, but it h~ppens all the time.
'·And we have to. do more to stop it. That's a family values
issue· --. cuts the cost of ·health 'care, helps us meet ·our
budget targets, keeps people healthier l6nger, and make for.
more alerti eifective students in your classrooms.
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I just want to menti~n one or two other issue~:
Let me just say, abo~t the minimum wage, you ~11 clapped and
I realize you agree ·with me -- (laughter)· -- but a lot of
AmE::;r-icans·, · every time we raise the minimum wage, there's
this gr~at ~~e and cry abo~t how we're going to lose jobs;
and. it has never happened. And 4 0 percent of the ,people on
minimum wag~ are women who are the sole support of their
kids.
(Applause.)
And :Lf we don't· raise the minimum wage
next year, it will reach in real dollar terms a 40-year low.
That's the problem ·in America.
We should be having a
high-opportunity,
smart-work,
high-wage future,
not. a
hard-work, low-wage future.· There is no percentage in it
for us to support· those kind 'of .low wages.
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Let· me just ·say a couple of words about some·
specific things in the education area.
T wouldn; t ·be up
here if people hadn't. helped me get an education.
I had
6ollege loansJ ·I had scholarships, I had six jobs -- never
more than three at one~.
(Laughter.) · All of tha:t was
opportunity and responsibility.· ·The. same kinds -of things
that are in y~ur Bill of Rights .and Resporisibility.~ ·
We-know now ther~ is a gr~ater difference in the
·ability of people to e~rn ~o~e ~uccessively and to'li~e out
the . American Dream based· on their level. of education than
ever in- the entire, history of. the· country.
We know that.
We kn6w, too, that in the:l980s the 6nly ~tern in a family's
budget that went' up faster than the cost· of health care was
the cost of college ·~ducat ion.
We . know ·that.
Now, our
administrati6n has done two things t~at I'm real proud.of.
·First of all, we started. the Americorpsprogram,
which gives people a_chance to serve their lo~al' communities
and earn money to go to college.
(Applause.)
I thought it
was soit of a Republican-like program, you know -- it was a
grass~roots
pro9ram;
there's no 'bureau~racy;
we fund
preex1sting local P'roj ects in a highly ·competitive way.
It's an empowerment program. ·You can't even get any money
from the ·government unless you work yourself to death for
trying to help pe6~l$ solve their problems. ·so~nds to me
like· the kin~ of thing they're alwaYs ~alking about.
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(Laughter.), Sometimes I wonder if a Republican president
had proposed. it, I don't think it would. be a target in this
budget cycle. , (Applause.)
But why would you get' rid of
that?
(Applause.)
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More importantly, we found -- I found before I
became President -- when I was Gov~rnor I m~t yoting pe6ple
who were droppingcout of college because th~y thought that
the careers for whi~h they were being trained, including
. many of tJ;lem ·who wanted to be . school teachers ·
they
thought they would not be able to earn eno~gh tb ~e~t theii
college __ loan repayment obligations .
.And so, we ~id something'remarkable ~-Secretary
Riley, Deputy Secretary Kunin, the Education Department -we discovered that if we set up a system for the. f~deral
govern.me11t to make direct loans, ·that we could loan , the
money at lower cost to the students· and give them· four
different options to repay the loans so that you could :-- if
you chose one option, you wo~ld always repay it at a certain
percen.tage of your salary, whatever it was. So there would
never be.a time wh~n-repaying a loan would be a deterreht to
taking it out in thefirst place, or finishing your co).lege
educatioh, o~ ~erving the public as a teacher or a police
·officer br nuise, or doihg something else that might not pay
all the money in th.e world but was immensely. rewarding· and
.immensely important ·to the rest of society.
This direct loan progra~ is reduci~g the cost. to
the government, reducing .the deficit, .l.ncreasing the number
of· people who can. have college loans and improving their
repayment terms. It's also much less hassle for the. college
administrators.
Who doesn't .like it?
The middle·men who
were cut out.
What are they doing?
They're up . in the
Congress right now· trying to get rid of it. ·Who wants to.
get rid of it?
Not the kids who .have got them; not the
college administrators who administer thSm; not the people
.who are worried about the budget, but the,special interest~
that have too much influence in this ,Congress say, we lost
our ~o~ey, we want it back. We doh't car~ what happens t6
these kids.
'That is wrong
and you ought to stand up
against it.
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fight about family values'.
And we don't. have to argue
whether we need improvements in personal conduct or
political policies and econqmic policies. The truth is, we
need a whole bunch of both.· And nobody is smart enough to
do everything we need to do ~olitically and economically,
and nobody will ever be good enough so that. they won't. be
able to stand a· little improvement.
So this is a·· bogus
debat·e ..
What we mtist not do lS let one group take one.
side of this debate and use it as ~n ekcu~e to di~ide the
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American people and walk away from/our real responsibilities·
to the real families that are working their hearts out to do ,
the best they can by their children in this country. That's·
what we must not do.
(Applause.)
·.So, let us stand together in fighting for the
cause of education, the right kind of' education, your ·kind
of education
~ oppdrtunity
and_ high standards of
excellence and acco~ntability -- th~:things you· have .stood··
for for years and.years and years. That is a very important
part of our nation's family values agenda:·
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And let us stand together' to do things about the
that the kids have to spend before they come to yo~ and
after they leave you.
This does not have to be a big
divide. All we have to do -is to find/the commoh ground that.
is already · out there in every neighborhood, in every
community, in every city, town and rural a'rea in,this
country.
AlL-we haye to dci i~ bring wh~t people know iri
their hearts to b~ true in the- heartland here to the halls
of go~ernment.
If we do that we can really have a
f~mily~values ag~nda~
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Thi:ul.k you. -· Ahd God bless. you all.
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Terry Edmonds
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Office of Speechwriting
James (Terry) Edmonds
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1995-2001
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2006-0462-F
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Terry Edmonds worked as a speechwriter from 1995-2001. He became the Assistant to the President and Director of Speechwriting in 1999. His speechwriting focused on domestic topics such as race relations, veterans issues, education, paralympics, gun control, youth, and senior citizens. He also contributed to the President’s State of the Union speeches, radio addresses, commencement speeches, and special dinners and events. The records include speeches, letters, memorandum, schedules, reports, articles, and clippings.
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Clinton Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files
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William J. Clinton Presidential Library & Museum
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635 folders in 52 boxes
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AFT [American Federation of Teachers] – Values
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Office of Speechwriting
James (Terry) Edmonds
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2006-0462-F
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Box 9
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Clinton Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files
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William J. Clinton Presidential Library & Museum
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12/9/2014
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