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For Immediate Release
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September vii, 2004

President'south Remarks at Ask President Bush Issue in Sedalia, Missouri
Missouri Land Fairgrounds
Sedalia, Missouri

12:06 P.K. CDT

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. Thank you for coming. (Applause.) Thank you all. Delight exist seated. It's such an honor to exist here. Thanks for coming. I don't know if you lot know it, simply we're on a coach tour. I'thou out request for the vote. (Applause.) I believe -- I similar coming directly to the people, and say, I want your vote, and here'due south the reason why I think you ought to vote for me. And that's what we're going to exercise today. (Applause.)

I thought we'd do it a niggling differently. I've got some things I want to share with you lot most what I'd like to accomplish during the next four years. And then we've asked some citizens to come up and share some of their stories with yous. I think that will help you lot understand why we have made decisions we accept made and why we'll continue making certain types of decisions.

Audition MEMBER: (Inaudible.)

THE PRESIDENT: You betcha. (Applause.) And so I'd like to respond some questions. Some of you may accept a question or ii on your mind, and I'd like to answer them for yous.

Before I brainstorm, I wish Laura were here. She is a wonderful lady. (Applause.) If I don't get also long winded, I'm going to have dinner with her tonight. (Laughter.) She was a -- she was raised in Midland, Texas. That'due south where I was raised. And she was a public school librarian when I married her. (Applause.) And she said, fine, I'll ally you, simply so long every bit I don't take to give any speeches. (Laughter.) Fortunately she didn't -- I said, fine, you don't ever have to requite whatsoever speeches.

And and then, fortunately, she didn't hold me to that hope that she wouldn't have to give any. She gave a magnificent speech in New York City the other night. (Applause.) I wasn't surprised, I wasn't surprised, considering she'south such a gentle soul, she's got a bully heart, she's a wonderful mom, a terrific wife. I'grand going to give y'all some reasons to put me back in there, but I recall probably the most of import one of all so is that Laura is your First Lady for iv more than years. (Applause.)

The other thing -- then I'm running with a adept man. We've got a great ticket. Dick Cheney has washed a heck of a task every bit the Vice President. (Applause.) I like to tease him, by proverb, well, you know, I admit information technology, he'south not the prettiest confront in the race. (Laughter.) Just I didn't option him because of his looks. I picked him because of his judgment, his experience, and the fact that he can go the job done. (Applause.) He's a bully Vice President. And I'm proud to be running with him. (Applause.) Proud to be running with him.

I want to thank my uncle, Bucky Bush-league, who is with us. He'due south a Missouri native, or citizen, right hither, from St. Louis. (Applause.) I desire to thank Charlie Kruse -- where is Charlie? Oh, Charlie, God anoint you, sir. Our prayers are with y'all. (Applause.) He'due south a proficient homo. I've known Charlie for quite a while. He said -- when I was candidature in 2000, he said, whatever you do, do not forget the Missouri farmer. (Applause.) He said, yous keep that river open for our products. (Applause.) And nosotros did. And I hadn't forgotten the Missouri farmer. The farm economic system is strong. And we intend to keep it that way. I'm going to talk a trivial bit about that equally we go on.

I appreciate the Mayor beingness here, Mayor Wasson. Thanks for coming. Where are yous, Mayor? I appreciate you. (Applause.) Glad you're hither. (Applause.) Thank you for your hospitality. Tell your fire and policemen -- firefighters and policemen how thankful nosotros are for their service to your community. (Applause.)

And thank all the people who are involved with politics, the grassroots activists. Those are the people who put upwards the signs and make the phone calls and register people to vote. I'one thousand here to ask y'all to -- (adulation.) At this stage of the campaign, I'm going around to your country today and around our country asking people to participate in the political process. In a free society, I believe people have a duty to vote. And that'southward what we're doing.

We're request people to vote, you know. And nosotros're -- in lodge to vote, y'all've got to register to vote. And I'd like you to annals your friends and neighbors and explain they have a duty. And when you lot're out registering them, don't overlook independents and discerning Democrats. You heard Zell Miller the other night. He said loud and clear, if you want a better America, a safer America, and a stronger America, vote for George Bush and Dick Cheney. (Applause.) Nosotros welcome everybody in this campaign.

Today, I met Neb Dugan. Where are you, Bill? There he is. Thanks for coming. Bill's a soldier in the ground forces of compassion, that'southward what he is. He's a fellow who has worked for Habitat for Humanity. He volunteered time out of his life to help people with a abode, and that'due south an important part of our society, when you call back most information technology. The strength of America is the hearts and souls of our citizens. Government is limited in its capacity. We tin can laissez passer laws and will, we tin can enforce justice and nosotros volition, but government can't make people love i some other. Love comes from something higher than government. (Adulation.) And when people like Bill are moved to help somebody, it makes gild a better place.

One of the most important initiatives of the previous 4 years, and it will be an important initiative for the adjacent four years, is the faith-based and community-based initiative, which will rally the armies of compassion. (Applause.)

People say, well, what exactly exercise you mean by that? What do you mean by that? I'll tell you what I mean by that. I mean this, that when it comes, for instance, to helping the -- to heal the addicted, that nosotros've got to recognize that sometimes regime programs work, simply sometimes, in order to help a swain get off drugs, you've got to -- or alcohol, you lot've got to have a change of center, and therefore, a faith-based program is the kind of program that could be effective at helping somebody change the heart, and therefore, change the addiction. (Adulation.) Nosotros ought to welcome programs which piece of work. We ought non to discriminate against organized religion-based programs. We ought to welcome faith-based programs to help Americans realize the full hope of our land.

I want to give thanks Beak for being here. I want to thank you for the example yous set. Thank you for loving a neighbor, just similar y'all'd like to be loved yourself. (Applause.)

I tell people I'k for a more hopeful America, and that means our job base has got to grow. We've overcome a lot, when information technology comes to our economy. When you're out there gathering upwards the vote, remind people about what this state has been through. Nosotros've been through a recession, we've been through corporate scandals. It's at present articulate, past the manner, because of the police force nosotros passed, that we'll not tolerate dishonesty in the boardrooms of America. (Applause.) We've been through a terrorist attack, and that hurt united states of america. We're overcoming these obstacles considering of the difficult work of the American people. We've got smashing workers, considering the small business sector is strong. The entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well in America. We've overcoming it because nosotros've got groovy farmers and ranchers.

And we're overcoming it because of tax relief. (Applause.) The revenue enhancement relief we passed is working. (Applause.) Do you realize the national unemployment rate is 5.four percent? That'due south lower than the averages of the -- average, national average of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. (Applause.) The question is, how do nosotros make sure jobs stay at dwelling and the economy continues to grow? I'll requite y'all some means to brand certain it continues to abound.

Get-go, this has got to be the best place in the world to do business organization, which means nosotros've got to do something about these junk lawsuits that are threatening these small employers. (Applause.) In order to make certain jobs stay in America, nosotros have to accept a national energy programme. Mind, I submitted one to the United states Congress. They need to get it to my desk. It's a plan that encourages conservation. That makes sense, doesn't it? We desire to encourage people to conserve more. It'due south a programme that encourages the utilize of renewable sources of free energy. I'yard talking well-nigh corn and soy beans, is what I'm talking almost. (Applause.) Meet, nosotros need to spend enquiry dollars and so that anytime, somebody is going to walk in and say, here'due south the crop study, Mr. President, and it looks similar corn is up. And the President will say, gosh, that means we're less dependent on foreign sources of free energy. (Applause.)

We need to use clean-coal engineering science. We need to explore in our own lands in sensitive ways. What I'm telling you is, to continue jobs in America, nosotros must be less dependent on energy from overseas. (Applause.)

To keep jobs hither -- to keep jobs hither, we've got to open upwardly markets to U.S. products. Listen, we open up our markets to goods from other countries, and that's practiced for the consumer. That's how the market works. If you lot've got more than things to choose from, you're more likely to get a product you want at a better price and higher quality. That'south how the economy works. (Adulation.)

So what this administration is proverb to places like China and elsewhere, you treat us the way we treat you. And that's why the toll of soybeans is doing pretty good because we're selling soybeans all around the earth. My job for the adjacent 4 years is to open up markets. We can compete with anybody, anyplace, someday if the rules are fair. (Applause.)

In lodge to make sure that nosotros've got jobs here at home, we need a health care system that functions well. That ways health care has got to exist available and affordable. Let'due south talk near health care right quick. Get-go, we started past strengthen -- my assistants started on wellness care by strengthening Medicare. I told the people when I was running, requite me a gamble, and I'll get to Washington and endeavour to brand sure Medicare worked well. You might remember those old Medicare debates. They chosen it, "Mediscare" for -- because people were scared to talk well-nigh it. I went up there for a reason. See, the Medicare organisation had done bang-up work for our seniors, only information technology was beginning to go antiquated. Medicine was irresolute, Medicare wasn't.

And the arrangement was designed that so that any new procedures has to exist approved by bureaucracies. We would pay, for case, for heart surgery, which would price mayhap $100,000, only nosotros wouldn't pay for the prescription drugs that would prevent the heart surgery from having to occur in the offset place. That didn't brand much sense to the seniors. It certainly didn't make much sense to the taxpayers, since the cost of prescription drugs is a heck of a lot less than the surgery.

And therefore, I worked with Congress. I said, why don't we make the system work improve. Right now, seniors can go prescription drug coverage, and if you're a low-income senior, you lot get your drugs paid for up to $600 a yr. Next year, seniors, when they enroll in Medicare, are going to get preventative screening for the first time e'er, which makes a lot of sense, doesn't it, for seniors to get -- (applause.) And in 2006, prescription drugs will be available in Medicare.

There's more to practise in health care. My philosophy is, is that the health care decisions need to be based between doctors and patients, should non exist made by bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. (Applause.) So a lot of what I'm talking nearly is to strengthen the ability for people to make decisions. Small business organisation owners are having trouble with their wellness intendance, because the cost is going up. We're going to talk to a small business owner who just told me that a while ago.

The way to assistance small businesses deal with rise wellness care costs is to allow them to pool together, pool the risk together, so that they can exist able to buy insurance at the discounts that big companies are able to do. Those are called clan wellness plans. We need to expand wellness savings accounts, which will allow workers and/or small-scale businesses to put money bated on a revenue enhancement-free basis, to earn money tax-free, to use your coin taxation-complimentary for health care needs. There'south all kinds of ways to make sure that health care is vibrant and live and well without nationalizing wellness intendance. (Adulation.)

Nosotros've got a medico here today with the states, and we're going to talk about medical liability reform, which is going to brand sure that we -- when we go it, it's going to help you on your costs, and the availability for medicine.

I desire to talk a footling bit about pensions. I told the people the other dark, nosotros have a changing world, and however the institutions, primal institutions of our regime haven't inverse with them. In other words, the pension plans were designed for the 19 -- in the 1930s. They haven't changed. The wellness care systems haven't changed. The tax code hasn't changed much since -- y'all know, we need to change these systems. Task preparation programs haven't inverse much to reflect the world in which we live in.

The next four years, we've going to alter these aspects of government to help people realize their dreams. It's another ane of my philosophies; government ought to help people, not dictate to people. (Applause.) And government ought to trust people.

One way to trust them is to make sure the Social Security system works well. If you're an older citizen, you lot but don't take to worry about Social Security. Information technology's not going to change. You're in good shape. There'southward ample coin in the trust fund to take care of you. If you're a baby boomer similar me, information technology'due south going to be okay. Only we demand to worry nearly our children and our grandchildren. That's who nosotros need to worry about when it comes to Social Security. (Applause.)

And I believe nosotros ought to allow younger workers to take some of their taxes and set them aside in a personal savings business relationship that they tin telephone call their own to help make sure Social Security is bachelor for a younger generation. (Adulation.)

I recollect you have to think differently. Let me talk nigh pedagogy right quick. We accept -- I went to Washington with the idea of -- of expanding the role of the local folks when it comes to schools, but at the same fourth dimension saying, in render for extra coin, why don't you show us whether or not your children tin read. Information technology doesn't seem like too tough a request to me. Information technology seemed like a reasonable request. (Applause.)

And the reason why I thought that was necessary is because y'all know what I know: Too many of our kids were just moving through school, grade after grade, yr later on twelvemonth, without learning the nuts. And that's not right. That's setting the bar as well low. I believe the role of all of usa is to challenge the soft discrimination of low expectations. I believe every kid can learn to read, and I expect every child to read, then should you. (Applause.)

And that's the philosophy backside the No Child Left Behind Act. It says, let us measure early on so we tin can correct issues early. See, you can't solve a trouble until you diagnose the trouble. And then we're now diagnosing problems in didactics and we're raising the standards. And the accomplishment gap in America is getting better. Y'all know how we know? Nosotros measure. We tin can bear witness you that more than and more than children are learning to read and write and add and subtract because we take time to mensurate. Nosotros use the measurement system to support our teachers and principals. We use the measurement organisation to make up one's mind whether or not the curriculum beingness used at the local level is working. Nosotros utilize our measurement organization to heap praise on those who are doing a fantastic job in the public schools, and there are thousands across our state who are. And we use the measurement system to right early before it's besides late. (Applause.)

There'south more than to practise. There'due south more than to do. We need early intervention -- or intervention programs in high schools. We need to make sure that children have got the basics. Nosotros need to emphasize math and science in our loftier schools. Practice you realize that virtually new jobs now require ii years of college, yet one in four students in America gets in that location? That's why we demand to expand access to our community higher systems. Nosotros demand to increment Pell grants, Pell grants to help depression- and middle-income families. (Applause.) We want more and more of our children starting their careers with a higher diploma.

There'southward more work to exist done in education, and I'thousand looking forward to standing to lead the state in that management. Let me talk to some of the folks with us. Perchance they'll aid me brand our points that I'm trying to make today. One of the things I love about our society is people own things, an ownership club. (Applause.) You know, nosotros want more than people owning their own home. Do yous realize the home ownership charge per unit is at an all-fourth dimension high during my administration? (Applause.) I recollect it's an incredibly hopeful statistic. I similar to put it this way. More and more people are opening upwards the door in the places in which they live and say, welcome to my abode; welcome to my piece of holding. (Applause.)

Ownership is a part of a hopeful America. When you hear me say "a more hopeful America," it ways I'm going to encourage ownership in our society. And one of the things we also -- I like near America and I recall one of the things that'south actually interesting about our land is more than and more people own their ain small business. (Applause.) Do yous realize lxx percentage of new jobs are created by small business organisation owners? Lxx percent of jobs. Therefore, all policy, or good policy, is aimed at helping the small business sector of America remain strong and vibrant. If seventy pct of all new jobs are created by small businesses, and we want to continue to aggrandize our job base, policy ought to focus on modest business owners. Today, nosotros've got one with usa. (Applause.)

Wayne Lamb is with united states of america. (Applause.) Sounds like some of them know you.

MR. LAMB: I guess so.

THE PRESIDENT: Okay. The name of your company?

MR. LAM: Sedalia Steel Supply.

THE PRESIDENT: Sedalia Steel Supply. And what do you do?

MR. LAM: We're a steel service center, and nosotros service the Midwest -- we service all the mid-office of Missouri with -- we discover steel from big mills, pause it into smaller quantities, have information technology to schools, manufacturing companies, maintenance fabricators. We process information technology. Just pass the savings on that way.

THE PRESIDENT: Yeah, good. And let me ask you lot, when did you start -- did you kickoff the business?

MR. LAMB: Started it in 1976, so nosotros're virtually 28 years old.

THE PRESIDENT: This wasn't one of those deals that started in your garage, was it?

MR. LAMB: No, it started just about similar that. I had a caste --

THE PRESIDENT: Kitchen table.

MR. LAMB: Yep, at that place you get. I had a degree in bookkeeping. In fact, it was in economics, and didn't know a piece of steel from a two-by-four.

THE PRESIDENT: Yeah.

MR. LAMB: That'due south how it started.

THE PRESIDENT: I'm glad you learned. (Adulation.) How many employees do y'all have now?

MR. LAMB: We soon have xl employees.

THE PRESIDENT: Twoscore, good.

MR. LAMB: We accept grown -- for 27 years, we have grown every year. Nosotros've had an increment in sales for 27 years, and we've increased our employees in that kind of management.

THE PRESIDENT: That'due south great. So did y'all add employees this year?

MR. LAM: We've added three new employers this year.

THE PRESIDENT: Here'due south what'southward happening in America: small businesses are adding employees all across the country. He'south put on three. I suspect some of y'all ought in that location who has got a small-scale business organization might have added some. This economy -- when you hear me say information technology's stiff and getting stronger, it'southward because the small business organisation sector is alive and well and it's vibrant.

Let me tell you something interesting virtually Wayne's concern. He is called a Subchapter South corporation. That is an accounting term, or legal term -- legal term.

MR. LAM: Yes, information technology'south a legal term.

THE PRESIDENT: Legal term. You and I aren't lawyers.

MR. LAM: No, sir. (Adulation.)

THE PRESIDENT: A Subchapter Due south corporation, like a sole proprietorship, pays taxes at the individual income tax level. So when we reduced all rates, individual income taxation rates, we're helping Subchapter S corporations similar Wayne's. (Applause.) Now, did it help you? The tax relief help at all? I'thou sure -- that'southward called, leading the witness. (Laughter.) Yes, information technology helped, Mr. President. (Laughter.)

MR. LAMB: Yes, it helped. (Laughter and adulation.)

THE PRESIDENT: Permit me tell you something. Listen to that rhetoric of this campaign. I'm running against a fellow who promised nearly $2 trillion -- well, I think maybe a little more than $2 trillion, thus far -- of new spending. So they said, how are y'all going to pay for it? He said, oh, we're merely going to tax the rich; nosotros're going to raise the pinnacle ii brackets. That's chosen, taxing the rich. And judge who he taxes? He taxes Wayne. By running upward the height two brackets, he's taxing nearly a 1000000, about 900,000, Subchapter South corporations and sole proprietorships. Merely equally our economic system is gaining strength, my opponent wants to run the taxes up on nigh a million pocket-size businesses, which is going to make it hard for this guy to add employees. If you lot're taking money out of his treasury, if he's sending money to Washington, not reinvesting in his company, it's less likely he'southward going to add people. Raising taxes is the incorrect matter to exercise right at present in America. (Applause.)

AUDIENCE: Iv-more than years! Four-more than years! Four-more years!

THE PRESIDENT: Okay, got a picayune work to do. Concur on here. We've got work to practice. Sorry, thanks. Thanks for the "four-more than years." We can do that at the end. (Laughter.)

One of the things nosotros did in the tax relief act was to encourage investment past modest businesses. Nosotros allowed for a bonus appreciation and actress expensing. Those, once again, are bookkeeping terms, which basically say to a beau like Wayne, if yous invest, there's going to be incentive for you to do and then.

Are you investing?

MR. LAMB: Yes. In the last three years, we have taken advantage of that $200,000 cap that we can take off immediately off the big pieces of equipment. And by doing that, we've really been able to purchase the next slice quicker. Plus, that has also improved our productivity so well, and also, it made our job safer for our employees.

THE PRESIDENT: Yes, what did you buy, for example?

MR. LAMB: Well, 3 years ago, we bought a Behringer saw treatment -- it saws materials. It'due south a complete handling system. Information technology was near $300,000. And what we used to do in a week on our other saw, which we thought was the cat'south meow, what it would practise then, this saw will do in less than a day.

THE PRESIDENT: Yes, so he buys a saw. The tax relief says, why don't you get think most buying new equipment. He makes the determination to go buy new equipment. Somebody has to brand the new equipment. See, when -- what we've done is nosotros've increased demand through good tax policy. So Wayne says, I need a piece of new equipment. He files an social club, and the guy who takes the order says, okay, I'one thousand going to go far for you. It may mean that he has to add an employee to make that equipment for Wayne. That'due south how the economic system works.

When you hear the word, investment, it means somebody is buying something, which ways somebody has to make it. And and so the taxation code encouraged conclusion-makers all across the land to increase demand for appurtenances and services. That'south what you're hearing in this give-and-take. That's what this is all nearly. And every bit a result, the economy is growing. And the fundamental question, are we going to keep the tax relief in place? I call back we should. I think we ought to encourage small concern growth. (Adulation.)

You done? You did proficient, Wayne. Cheers. (Adulation.) He hired Steve Platt. Steve, thank you for coming.

MR. PLATT: Cheers.

THE PRESIDENT: Steve's brother is coming dorsum from Republic of iraq in 2 days. (Adulation.) I told him when I saw him, after he gave him the hug, tell him we're all proud of him.

MR. PLATT: I will. I definitely volition. (Adulation.)

THE PRESIDENT: Steve'south with u.s.a. because he'southward working here for Wayne. And it's an interesting story. He had a task, and then you decided to --

MR. PLATT: I went back to higher.

THE PRESIDENT: Went back to higher. And where did you go showtime?

MR. PLATT: I went to State Fair -- got my acquaintance's degree at State Fair Community College. (Applause.)

THE PRESIDENT: You're the guy who's working. You were working for --

MR. PLATT: Duke Manufacturing.

THE PRESIDENT: Aye, and decided to go back to college. Why did you lot brand that determination?

MR. PLATT: Well, my children -- I'g on them nigh wanting to send them to college and the understanding of the importance of going back to school, and I didn't feel like -- if I didn't cease something I started, I couldn't very well express that that I wanted them to do it.

THE PRESIDENT: He made a tough option, when y'all think well-nigh information technology. And there's a lot of people in this society of ours and this changing world who are faced with the same choice, you know. Practice I -- exercise I make a decision to get back to a community college -- and he eventually went to a four-year college -- and upgrade my skills? And that'due south hard in a changing globe. I know it's hard in a changing world. I call up the function of government is to help. Information technology's to aid people, encourage people, to go dorsum and get an acquaintance'due south degree, in Steve's case, or -- and he went on to a iv-yr, right?

MR. PLATT: 4 yr at MidAmerican Nazarene Academy in Olathe.

THE PRESIDENT: At that place you get. (Adulation.) See, what he's done is he's upgraded his skills, which makes him a more productive worker. So when y'all hear -- yous hear the talk well-nigh productivity, it means people accept got additional skills, and our job base of operations is changing.

You know, I went down to -- I've been to Northward Carolina a lot, and went down at that place. The textile industry has been hurting down there. They've lost some jobs in the textile industry. But the health care manufacture is booming. So you lot've got one kind of job replacing some other. And the fundamental function of government, I think, is to brand college -- community colleges accessible to programs which will train people for the jobs which exist.

And then what Steve has done, is he went dorsum, got a piffling assistance from some loans --

MR. PLATT: Yep, definitely.

THE PRESIDENT: The government is loaning money. Information technology should. Government provides Pell grants, it will. Just as well -- like, you told me you're making a piddling more money in the new job?

MR. PLATT: Yes, I've earned more than money, the benefits are better, the company pays 100 percent of --

THE PRESIDENT: See, he upgraded his skills, he's making $10,000 more a year than he did before, by going back to higher -- (adulation) -- past going to the community college in his neighborhood. Community colleges piece of work well. They work well considering they accept people who take got one skill gear up and help them with a new skill fix. And people make more money when you lot become more productive in our club.

Tax relief helped him too. Come across, i of the things virtually the tax relief is that it helps people like Steve.

MR. PLATT: In 2003, we earned $1,800. In 2004, information technology volition be $2,200.

THE PRESIDENT: See, he saved $1,800. And in '04 he saved $2,200. Now, I know that doesn't sound like a lot to the budgeters in Washington, D.C. But here's a young man whose wife is working, and he's gone back to school, and I look that $4,000 came in handy over the last two years. Didn't it?

MR. PLATT: Yeah, definitely. (Applause.)

THE PRESIDENT: And the issue is -- and the upshot in this campaign is, and the result against Congress at present, is do we make this tax relief permanent, or does information technology go away? I'm for making it permanent, so people like him can keep their coin. (Applause.)

See, I believe government -- as a affair of fact, I know government -- if government is wise about how we spend your money, we tin set priorities and meet those priorities. Only I think once we meet those priorities, people like Steve can spend his money a lot better than the federal authorities can spend his money. That's part of my philosophy. (Applause.)

We've got another person who saved coin on her taxes: Ellyn Wilson, Thanks for coming, Ellyn. Tell us what you do, Ellyn. Interesting job she's got. Interesting jobs she'due south got.

MS. WILSON: Mr. President, I piece of work three jobs. I'm a single mom, which is a total-time job, anyway.

THE PRESIDENT: Is that your girl?

MS. WILSON: Yes, this is Hannah.

THE PRESIDENT: Listen to your mom. I'thou nonetheless listening to mine. (Applause.) Most of the fourth dimension. (Laughter.)

MS. WILSON: And this is my son, Caleb Wilson. He'south eight.

THE PRESIDENT: Fantastic. What practice you do, Mom?

MS. WILSON: I am a music teacher. This is my 14th yr starting. That's my full-fourth dimension position.

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you for teaching. (Applause.)

MS. WILSON: And I made a modify this yr, and I'chiliad presently at Pettis County R-12 Dresden School District, ane of the best schools in the state of Missouri.

THE PRESIDENT: That'south skilful. She's a marketer. (Laughter.)

MS. WILSON: And my part-time job is out of my dwelling. I'yard a Mary Kay consultant, and I'm working my way upwardly to a star recruiter, and working my manner up in the business.

THE PRESIDENT: Running her own business. She's a soul proprietor. Got her ain business concern -- kind of the American manner, isn't it? Started her business out of her own home. Go on going.

MS. WILSON: And I honey to serve the Lord at what I do, and I'k church pianist at First Baptist Church building, Sedalia, Missouri. (Applause.)

THE PRESIDENT: In that location you go. She saved $1,000 on tax relief. A single mom -- by the way, being a single

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