I thank you, lady. We've been talking about a broad range of different topics today; but in general, it is the condition of our economy. The thing I would like to be sure that we don't do is to leave with the impression that there aren't solutions to these problems, but the solutions include, one, we're going to have to back off our just giving away money to everybody. We're going to have to reduce Federal spending. What we're going to have to also do is to use the power of reducing taxes to increase government revenues. So we have to reduce taxes in order to get the economy back and going and to start creating jobs. Now, if we want to continue the formula of destroying jobs the way we have been, what's going to happen is that it's going to be harder and harder to get the economy back on track, but there is a solution. It's not complicated. It involves doing tax cuts selectively to allow those small businesses to start creating jobs again, and we have to get off their backs with regulations and red tape.
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The speaker addresses the state of the economy and proposes solutions to create jobs.
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