It will, in addition, encourage the initiative and risk-taking on which our free system depends--induce more investment, production, and capacity use--help provide the 2 million new jobs we need every year--and reinforce the American principle of additional reward for additional effort.
Kennedy emphasizes that his economic plan will foster investment and job creation, reinforcing American values.
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This Nation is the world's foremost manufacturer, farmer, banker, consumer, and exporter.
But there is no comfort or security for us in evasion, no solution in abdication, no relief in irresponsibility.
I shall neither shift the burden of executive decisions to the Congress, nor avoid responsibility for the outcome of those decisions.
For together we face a common challenge: to enlarge the prosperity of free men everywhere--to build in partnership a new trading community in which all free nations may gain from the productive energy of free competitive effort.