And we made sure that as we cut red tape and worked with states to develop innovative ways to finance infrastructure projects, Davis-Bacon rules would continue to apply for federal highway projects. I will stand with you. Last Thursday, I was at the Cabinet Meeting, when the President announced over the last four years, America s welfare rolls declined by 2.8 million people. They have now declined in four years, what they increased in the previous 25 years. But in the next four years, we have to move another 2 million from welfare to work.
Transportation is the to in that phrase welfare to work.
We must solve the obstacle of how to get poor people to jobs that are not easily reachable by public transportation. These are people who do not own cars, who could not afford insurance, and who live in neighborhoods where, if they had cars, they may be stolen. Tomorrow, I will be with the Vice President in Detroit, in the world s car capital. This is a city where earlier in this century thousands of people from my home state of Arkansas, who could not make a living farming, went to. This is a zone that Mayor Archer and the businesses of Detroit have brought so much good to.