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Subject: Radio Address of 9/4/93

                           THE WHITE HOUSE

                    Office of the Press Secretary

_____________________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release                               September 4, 1993

	     
            RADIO ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT TO THE NATION
	     
                           The Oval Office

10:06 A.M. EDT

	     THE PRESIDENT:  Good morning.  On this Labor Day 
weekend, we honor the working men and women who are the strength and 
the soul of America.  For people who work hard all year, this weekend 
offers the opportunity to relax with our families at a picnic, a 
barbecue, a beach or just in our own homes.  
	     
	     In the calm and the quite of these last days of summer, 
there will be a moment when most of us think about our families and 
our future.  Maybe it will come during a walk on the beach, a stroll 
through a park, or when we watch a son or a daughter take as swing at 
a softball or build a castle in the sand.
	     
	     We'll think of the faith of our parents that was 
instilled in us here in America -- the idea that if  you work hard 
and play by the rules, you'll be rewarded with a good life for 
yourself and a better chance for your children.  
	     
	     Filled with that faith, generations of Americans have 
worked long hours on their jobs and passed along powerful dreams to 
their sons and daughters.  Many of us can remember our own parents 
working long hours on their jobs and then coming home and helping us 
with our homework.  The American Dream has always been a better life 
for people who are willing to work for it. 
	     
	     In seven months as your President, I've been deeply 
inspired by the people I've met who are working hard and studying 
hard, building their futures in a time of turbulence and change.  
I'll never forget a woman I met from Detroit who had to support her 
children after her husband died.  Determined not to be on welfare, 
she enrolled in a six-year advanced training program and found a job 
as a machinist.  I'll never forget the men and women I met at Van 
Nuys Community College in California, people who had lost their jobs 
as aerospace workers and auto workers and were learning new skills 
from film production to computer science.  And just yesterday in 
Delaware, I spoke with young people who are combining their high 
school education with specialized job training for highly skilled 
jobs in the aviation industry.
	     
	     Young and old, these people are the heroes we honor on 
Labor Day, people who take personal responsibility for making their 
lives better and making our nation stronger.  
	     
	     Every morning when I go to work in the Oval Office, I 
think about how we can offer our hard working Americans the 
opportunities they deserve, opportunities too many have been denied 
for too long.
	     
	     When Congress passed our economic plan last month, 
America took an important step toward building the high-wage, high-
skill, high-growth economy where hard work is rewarded.  We're 
beginning to pay down the deficit we inherited, get our economic 
house in order, cut wasteful spending and invest in education and 
training and new technologies.  We changed the tax laws to make sure 
that no one who works 40 hours a week with children at home will live 
in poverty.  That means tax cuts for millions of American families 
with incomes below $27,000 a year.  It's a pro-work, pro-family 
approach that's not about building bureaucracies but about 
encouraging people to keep doing the right things.
	     
	     We've also made it possible for over 90 percent of the 
small businesses in this country to reduce their taxes but only if 
they invest more in their businesses.  And we've opened the doors of 
college education to millions more Americans with lower interest 
loans and easier repayment terms, and the opportunity for tens of 
thousands of our young people to pay off their college loans or earn 
credit against college through the National Service Program and 
building their communities at the grass roots level.  These policies, 
too, are pro-work and pro-family.
	     
	     We're taking the values that are central to our own 
lives, values of work and family and putting them at the center of 
our public policies.  We've got to keep America moving and we've got 
to pull America back together.
	     
	     In just seven months we've done a lot.  But for 20 years 
because of the pressures of the global economy and problems here at 
home, Americans have been working harder for less.  And after 12 
years of trickle down economics, which worked for just a little while 
but then left us with no fundamental change except a huge, huge 
national debt and a massive annual deficit, we've still got a lot 
more to do.
	     
	     In the weeks ahead we'll be taking three new steps on 
the journey of change toward a new American economy and a stronger 
American community.  First, we'll reform the health care system to 
provide health care security to all Americans and affordable costs so 
that this health care system doesn't bankrupt the economy while 
failing to cover millions of Americans.  Second, we'll try to create 
more jobs through expanded trade, through the North American Free 
Trade Agreement and a general agreement with the other trading 
nations of the world.  And third, we'll try to give you more value 
for your tax dollar by reinventing government to make it more 
efficient and less expensive.
	     
	     These are the things we can do to give our people the 
tools they need to build a stronger economy.  Health security, 
expanded trade and reinventing government really aren't separate 
goals.  They're part of a comprehensive strategy to promote long-term 
growth, increased incomes, more jobs and a stronger American 
community -- part of our effort to make all these changes our friend 
and not our enemies.
	     
	     In our own lives we understand that we often have to do 
several things to reach one goal.  Think about the talk at your 
kitchen table when you discuss the challenges facing your own 
families.  You might be talking about whether you can afford to buy a 
home or send your youngest child to college, or whether to build a 
new business of your own or go to night school to learn a new skill.  
Of course, these are separate questions, but they all add up to one 
challenge -- building a better life for you and your family.
	     
	     It's the same with building our country's future.  These 
pieces must all fit together.  To control the deficit we have to 
reform health care and give families more security.  To create new 
jobs for our workers, we have to open new markets for our companies 
and our products.  And for government to be a help and not a 
hindrance in economic growth, we must make it less bureaucratic and 
more productive.  Business and labor and government must work 
together as partners to achieve these goals.
	     
	     This Labor Day weekend is a good time to remember that a 
free society needs a strong and a vibrant labor movement.  From the 
struggle against communism in Poland to the struggle against 
apartheid in South Africa, to the struggle for social justice in our 
nation, we have seen what working men and women can accomplish when 
they work together in the spirit of solidarity.
	     
	     Now more than ever America needs the spirit of 
solidarity and the courage to change -- the understanding that we're 
all in this together and that we have to move forward together.
	     
	     Together we can make the changes that our people deserve 
and our times demand.  And then on Labor Day weekends years from now 
our children and our children's children will look back on the work 
we did.  And they will say with gratitude and pride that we kept 
faith with the American Dream.
	     
	     Thanks for listening.

                                 END10:12 A.M. EDT

