Increasingly, Americans Don't Own America.

Since President Bush Took Office, We Have Lost 3 Million More Good Jobs.

People Are Rapidly Losing Hope And Trust. They Believe Their Government Has Been Captured By Special Interests And No Longer Cares About Them, And They Are Right.

Without A Doubt, First Thing We Should Do Is Clean Up Our Fiscal House, And That Starts With Balancing Our Budgets And Digging Out Of This Red Ink. We Cannot Expect To Continue In This Fashion And Remain The Leader Of The Free World.

America Is Becoming More And More Dependent Upon Imports From Foreign Manufacturers Than We Are Exports From Our Country In All Fields: In Appliances, In Clothing, Even Food. This Year America May Become For The First Time In Its History A Net Food Importer.

I Grew Up In A Family Where Our Mother Made Our Clothing. We Didn't Have A Lot Of Money, So We Learned How To Scrimp, And We Learned How To Invent And To Create. And Those Are Learned Skills.