Gilbert Gutknecht: “And frankly that is what many of our colleagues were talking about for a number of years before we came here. They were…”

“And frankly that is what many of our colleagues were talking about for a number of years before we came here. They were talking about moving away from the welfare state and to an opportunity society, and we are making real progress in that direction. In fact, in meeting with particularly small business employers in my district, the biggest problem that I hear at virtually every stop is we cannot find people. We have; in fact I have had a number of businesses say we turn away business, we simply do not have enough good people to get the product out the door or to get the job done so we are turning away business, and is that not a wonderful problem to have? And that people with modest amounts of skill now are able to get out there to become self-sufficient. And I have often said this, and I really believe this, that a job is more than the way you earn your living. A job helps to define your very life. It is about a sense of self worth. And what we are giving to over a million families today is something they did not have a year ago, and that is a job, a future, real hope and real opportunity.”