Ronald Reagan actually said...

Failure to enact all of the initiatives would be akin to sending the American worker into the international arena without the proper tools.

This could include extending the current R&D tax credit beyond its expiration at the end of 1988; making it permanent; increasing the credit...

We must provide training and adjustment opportunities to these workers early—before they exhaust unemployment benefits.

Protectionism will not save jobs; it will only redistribute them.