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Campaign Literature—1976 General Election
The President Ford Committee
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A PROGRAM
FOR YOUR FUTURE.
Jobs.
Today there are 88 million Americans working—more than ever before, and 4 million more than just a year and a half ago. But that's not good énough for President Ford.
So now he's set a goal: The creation of 2.5 million new jobs every year, with particular emphasis on jobs for America's young people.
They would not be demeaning makework jobs, run by the government, paid for by the taxpayers, and offering no future. They would be real jobs with real growth potential in private industry.
The President would accomplish this by cutting the personal income taxes of middle and lower income taxpayers. That gives people more to spend, which in turn improves business, which in turn creates jobs.
Then he would offer tax incentives to spur business expansion and produce morejobs.
Finally, he would carefully guide the growth of the economy, holding down federal spending to check inflation, while allowing America's free economy to do its thing. And that's the kind of growth that would automatically produce hundreds of thousands of new jobs each year.
Educational opportunities.
Quality education for every young American—that's President Ford's goal for the future.
So he has submitted to Congress a plan that calls for replacing 24 overlapping programs now in effect with one efficiently-managed program providing direct aid to elementary and secondary schools.
His program for the future insists on ensuring that every low-income student have access to a higher education, and it includes tax-credit measures to help middle-income working Americans send their children to college.
lt urges a job-training scholarship plan for young people who choose not to attend college, but do need to learn a trade or craft.
And it finally recognizes that major reforms are necessary in the relationship between national, state and local governments to enable teachers to spend more time teaching and less time filling out forms.
The more time teachers spend teaching, the more time students spend learning. And more learning for more young people is an integral part of President Ford's goal for the future in the field of education.
Home ownership.
President Ford's goal for the future is this: Every American family willing to work and save for a home should have that home.
So he intends to continue his policies of holding down federal spending in order to hold down inflation, reduce interest rates, cut taxes, and increase purchasing power. Ali this will make more funds available for home mortgages.
He has called for changes in the FHA law to reduce required down-payments on lower and middle-priced houses by up to 50 percent.
And he will direct the Department of Housing and Urban Development to put into action a new federal guarantee program to lower monthly mortgage payments in the early years of home ownership.
When a President is really determined, good things like this can happen. President Ford has pledged to see to it that they do.
Health care.
President Ford not only wants the best health care in the world for Americans, he wants it to be available and affordable to all.
So his program calls for protection of the aged and disabled against catastrophic or prolonged illness.
It insures them against ever having to pay more than $750 for medical costs in any given year.
And it calls on Congress to combine all 16 of the overlapping federal health programs now in operation into one that distributes funds to the states more equitably—and makes sure those funds get to those who need them most.
This is the program that will do the job—and it won't be a job done by government bureaucrats, raiding the federal treasury and the pockets of taxpayers, as some programs would.
President Ford's program puts the greatness of American medicine to work for one and all. It keeps the hands of government out of the pockets of people. It zeroes-in on the goal of providing the best health care in the world for everybody, whatever their financial means.
Recreation.
Americans are enjoying more and more leisure time. What President Ford wants to do is guarantee that there will always be recreational facilities for the fullest enjoyment of that leisure time by every single American.
He has made that his goal.
So he has outlined a 1.5 billion dollar program to expand and improve America's parks system over the next ten years.
That will mean more national parks, more urban parks, more wildlife sanctuaries, more historic sites, more areas for overall recreational activities.
In addition, he has ordered that sound, sensible conservation policies be pursued by every government agency whose work is in any way related to the environment.
Through careful planning that's ever-mindful of America's environment, the resources and facilities that Americans will want to use tomorrow will be there to use tomorrow.
THE PRESIDENT FORD COMMITTEE, JAMES A. BAKER, III, CHAIRMAN, ROYSTON C. HUGHES, TREASURER
[union bug]
Jobs.
Today there are 88 million Americans working—more than ever before, and 4 million more than just a year and a half ago. But that's not good énough for President Ford.
So now he's set a goal: The creation of 2.5 million new jobs every year, with particular emphasis on jobs for America's young people.
They would not be demeaning makework jobs, run by the government, paid for by the taxpayers, and offering no future. They would be real jobs with real growth potential in private industry.
The President would accomplish this by cutting the personal income taxes of middle and lower income taxpayers. That gives people more to spend, which in turn improves business, which in turn creates jobs.
Then he would offer tax incentives to spur business expansion and produce morejobs.
Finally, he would carefully guide the growth of the economy, holding down federal spending to check inflation, while allowing America's free economy to do its thing. And that's the kind of growth that would automatically produce hundreds of thousands of new jobs each year.
Educational opportunities.
Quality education for every young American—that's President Ford's goal for the future.
So he has submitted to Congress a plan that calls for replacing 24 overlapping programs now in effect with one efficiently-managed program providing direct aid to elementary and secondary schools.
His program for the future insists on ensuring that every low-income student have access to a higher education, and it includes tax-credit measures to help middle-income working Americans send their children to college.
lt urges a job-training scholarship plan for young people who choose not to attend college, but do need to learn a trade or craft.
And it finally recognizes that major reforms are necessary in the relationship between national, state and local governments to enable teachers to spend more time teaching and less time filling out forms.
The more time teachers spend teaching, the more time students spend learning. And more learning for more young people is an integral part of President Ford's goal for the future in the field of education.
Home ownership.
President Ford's goal for the future is this: Every American family willing to work and save for a home should have that home.
So he intends to continue his policies of holding down federal spending in order to hold down inflation, reduce interest rates, cut taxes, and increase purchasing power. Ali this will make more funds available for home mortgages.
He has called for changes in the FHA law to reduce required down-payments on lower and middle-priced houses by up to 50 percent.
And he will direct the Department of Housing and Urban Development to put into action a new federal guarantee program to lower monthly mortgage payments in the early years of home ownership.
When a President is really determined, good things like this can happen. President Ford has pledged to see to it that they do.
Health care.
President Ford not only wants the best health care in the world for Americans, he wants it to be available and affordable to all.
So his program calls for protection of the aged and disabled against catastrophic or prolonged illness.
It insures them against ever having to pay more than $750 for medical costs in any given year.
And it calls on Congress to combine all 16 of the overlapping federal health programs now in operation into one that distributes funds to the states more equitably—and makes sure those funds get to those who need them most.
This is the program that will do the job—and it won't be a job done by government bureaucrats, raiding the federal treasury and the pockets of taxpayers, as some programs would.
President Ford's program puts the greatness of American medicine to work for one and all. It keeps the hands of government out of the pockets of people. It zeroes-in on the goal of providing the best health care in the world for everybody, whatever their financial means.
Recreation.
Americans are enjoying more and more leisure time. What President Ford wants to do is guarantee that there will always be recreational facilities for the fullest enjoyment of that leisure time by every single American.
He has made that his goal.
So he has outlined a 1.5 billion dollar program to expand and improve America's parks system over the next ten years.
That will mean more national parks, more urban parks, more wildlife sanctuaries, more historic sites, more areas for overall recreational activities.
In addition, he has ordered that sound, sensible conservation policies be pursued by every government agency whose work is in any way related to the environment.
Through careful planning that's ever-mindful of America's environment, the resources and facilities that Americans will want to use tomorrow will be there to use tomorrow.
THE PRESIDENT FORD COMMITTEE, JAMES A. BAKER, III, CHAIRMAN, ROYSTON C. HUGHES, TREASURER
[union bug]
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