Gerald Ford actually said...

It is encouraging, certainly, that we have as of December some 85 million-plus Americans working in our economic system.

Remarks Upon Signing the Economic Report for 1976.

01/25/1976

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If it does insist on going ahead with this program, there will be no real winners but there will be real losers: the American people.

I AM keenly disappointed by the action of the Congress in enacting, over my veto, the so-called Public Works Employment Act of 1976.

My concern about our unemployed citizens is second to none.

The House can rectify the Senate action on Thursday and should, in the best interest of the Nation, sustain my veto.