Alexander on Jobs and the Economy
Excerpt from speech at Portsmouth, NH on 1/18/1996, recorded and
transcribed from audiotape by Michaleen Driscoll of UNH.

There are people changes jobs everyday who didn't expect to.  There are
lots of people in New Hampshire, I walked by the Burger King in Windham
and the-three of the ladies there told me their husbands had all lost
their jobs in the last month.  The economy may be good, but people are
changing jobs. 

And here's where I differ from the Senators who are running for President,
if they'd been where I'd been, trying to start a company, after I was
Governor, which is what I think every politician ought to be sentenced to
do, to live and work under the rules you set while you're in office.  They
would have already cut the capital gains tax because it would have created
a Niagra Falls of new jobs.  If they had walked across this state, or
they'd worked where I walked and seen the number of people changing jobs. 
Or if they would go and be where I'm going in a little while to Bottom
Line Technologies and see the growth of that company, they would be busy
supporting federal grants and loans for college students.  Because that
includes a lot of older people changing jobs.  You go to commencements
these days and, and you hear "Way to go, Mom!"  That's what you hear
coming out of the audience.  And they take the $20 billion in federal job
training programs that, that we now have and turn most of them into
vouchers for men and women changing jobs.  And, we, we would be looking
for ways in our tax code, to make it easier for pensions and health care
to follow people as they go from one job to the next.  That's the real
world, of America, that we need to be talking about.