I ve been blessed to come into a Coast Guard that will save a billion dollars in the next few years. Today, there are 12,000 fewer intersections, where a highway crosses a railroad than there were four years ago, and as a result collisions between trains and highway users are at their lowest level ever. And re-invention is how we ve increased the confidence the American people have in our government. Our economy is strong. We re not threatened by war.
Crime is down.
Our welfare rolls are down. I look forward to seeing former welfare recipients hold jobs at the DOT and help me figure out issues like how we ll provide transportation to a million former welfare recipients who are too poor to own cars, but now have jobs. The point the President makes is that there is a tendency when things are going well to lay back. To let things happen. To fight over small things that could divide us.