Excerpt from Speech, Durham, NH. Feb 3, 1996
Question: Okay, well what would be the the assurances that you would be able to offer working people who are dependent on jobs. If that money would be reinvested in jobs for this country rather than for example in the merging markets, which is one of the problems that happened in Mexico and then US tax payers were forced to bail out Mexico, um would you have any assurances that money would be plugged back into our economy to give Americans jobs so that we can pay it back. Answer: The reason that the money, the reason that you would see a boom in America, is when the American people are unleashed and the opportunities that we'll have here at home, you will see not only money from America being invested in America, you will see that the other countries will catch on to what we have done to our tax code, a flood of foreign investment as well in America. We will be the investment mecca of the world. What they see now starting to happen, BMW putting up a facility in South Carolina, Mercedes putting a facility in Alabama, we will become a flood tide, we will be the mecca, we will be the center. Don't worry about money coming to America, in fact some will complain that too much will be coming in. We'll have an investment boom that will rival and exceed anything that we have seen in our history. This is very important to understand why we must have this rapid growth in America, we are at a time of significant change. There is no safe harbor left. Any one of us could wake up in a morning and suddenly find out that the rug has been pulled out from under us in terms of something happening in the work place. If we have the kind of slow growth, sluggish pace that we had in the recent years, we aren'tgoing to create the jobs that enable people to quickly get back on their feet for better opportunities if something happens in their current situation. We're right now like a patient that has walking pneumonia, not enough to put you in bed, but certainly not enough to run that marathon race. That's why we must removeŚs why we must remove these barriers, there is no reason for them anymore. The quicker we do it , the better all of us are going be and the more nights that we're going be able to sleep.