US Presidency
1984

Today a working family earning $ 25,000 has $ 1,100 more in purchasing power than if tax and inflation rates were still at the 1980 levels. Real after tax income increased 5 percent last year. And economic deregulation of key industries like transportation has offered more chances, or choices, I should say, to consumers and new changes, or chances for entrepreneurs and protecting safety. Tonight, we can report and be proud of one of the best recoveries in decades. Send away the handwringers and the doubting Thomases. Hope is reborn for couples dreaming of owning homes and for risktakers with vision to create tomorrow's opportunities. The spirit of enterprise is sparked by the sunrise industries of high-tech and by small business people with big ideas, people like Barbara Proctor, who rose from a ghetto to build a multimillion-dollar advertising agency in Chicago; Carlos Perez, a Cuban refugee, who turned $ 27 and a dream into a successful importing business in Coral Gables, Florida. People like these are heroes for the ' Medicare and or prescription.