My opponent wants to take my tax cuts for the rich and turn the money into tax credits for regular folks without increasing the deficit. Now hold on. This is America. You can't just take somebody's tax cut. You have to inherit your own tax cut. That's the American dream. (Applause.) And you can't have a deficit if you aren't willing to add to it. That's just simple accountability. That's stepping up to the treasury plate and taking ownership. Do you all own something? Well, you should try it.

Some of you think we don't hear your cries. Not true. We hear them just fine. (Applause.) We know if you have a child in your family that is a special challenge. Childs have needs, we know that. Good luck with that. (Applause.)

We helped a small business once. Remember that one in Ohio? I hear it has gone all the way to China now. That's called progress. (Applause.)

I understand there's still people looking for work here in America. So long as anybody wants to work and can't find a job, I know we've got more work to do in Washington, D.C. So that's me and a couple of number crunchers covered, and that should free up every man, woman and children to go out and look for work, too. Let me know how you make out. The rich hires accountants and lawyers, by the way. I'm just saying. Look, it shouldn't be that hard for millions of you to find one little job.

I'll be making sure taxes are low. And if your income is low or you don't have an income, don't worry, you can have high taxes instead. That's balance, and it comes with checks. You balance a check to the rich empowering the middle to give them good economic growth and maybe the rich will have someone on their staff create a job for you. (Applause.)

Be responsible for something. A responsibility society is one in which every CEO in corporate America understands he, she, or us is responsible for sharing the good news at shareholders and the bad news on top of employees.

You know, there's been a lot of talk about Medicare. Sick people don't want talk. It's bothering when you're trying to recover. They want protection from cheap foreign drugs that threaten the security of this country. They want to put their unpaid overtime into a health savings account. They want medical liability reform. Because people too poor to see a doctor get caught up in survival schemes, start thinking maybe they can sue a doctor some day for what's called malpractice of the possibility. It's a medical fact. Imagine if 44 million people suddenly got their hands on health care and felt staminafied enough to file a lawsuit?

Whereas when you're sick and you don't have a job you just stay in bed watching Court TV. And that's protected under the Constitution. But if you're all raring to go and lawyered up, who would be left to provide personal legal counsel for me and Dick? Who would help the rich prevent injury by taxation? Who's going to keep the legal system free and clear for celebrities and folks who might maybe have killed a spouse or two?

I want to thank our news posse for getting out those important legal briefs to the public, while respecting our privacy in Abu Grub. Go Rib. Gray -- the point is celebrities threaten the security of our country, and we need to monitor that.

And thank you for treating me and my opponent equal. Like when you treat a hard-hitting ad that gives facts the same as one with a pack of lies. Sure do 'preciate it, Wheezer. You too, Fluffy. (Applause.) Wheezer and Fluffy, everybody. (Applause.)

Or like when I went to Portland, Oregon, and we herded 2,300 pre-selected folks into a high school gym and my opponent just let 50,000 people wander out in the open -- "common ground" the liberals call it -- the reportificators kept things fair and balanced by saying we both "attracted crowds." A crowd is wherever two or more voters is gathered in my name, only I was careful to have fewer threats to the security of our country. I am the best candidate on security matters, but only if security protects me from the American people. (Applause.)

We've done a lot of hard work, but there's more to do to protect this country from the threats of the 21st century. The 21st century is probably the biggest threat there is, unless we stop it. That's why you've got to get Michigan and Pennsylvania and Ohio on a footing with Afghanistan and Iraq. Because a pre-emptive conservative democracy can be a great leveler. And we want everybody to feel that leveling. Then all you have left is the winds of peace blowing through and nobody's going to get ornery. Orneriness is the number one threat to the security of this country.

We want to replace being ornery with compassion. You can have compassion even if you are in prison, or out of work, or just some little kid out on the street heading for school because your mom is an evildoer who wants a job and your dad is a known voter, which in Florida is a felony. We need to bring that family together. And then you can take compassion and shove it into some sort of volunteer activity and pretty soon everybody is a volunteer, even in the workplace.

That's why when I travel this great country of mine telling you about its many threats, I want you to round up everybody who needs compassion. Because launching the compassion agenda comes right after finding weapons of mass destruction. Which a poll says we did, kinda. Poll says weapons of mass destruction now exist in the belief systems of our favorite voters. They're in our hearts, our minds.

Plus I will find out what happened to $8.8 billion in Iraqi funds that we gave to folks over there, including some to Halliburton, that nobody can rightly account for. Dick, have you seen it? No? Good enough. Now let's get out there and kick some major compassion. God bless America. And God bless the fear of threats to the security of this country -- without that, we're nothing.

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