evolved, whoso has should have access to those to receive federal funding? for those of you who know anything about general aviation, it is everything but commercial airlines. they are often seen as free riders in the system. they use air traffic control and theyaying for it want to use all airports in the country without paying the same kind of fees, so argued the commercial airlines, that they pay. asing the 1950's and 1960's, commercial airline travel in the united states was expanding at a thingsc rate, one of the people pointed to -- why can't we expand more? why do i have delays? why am i circling to get into the airport? these littlega, airplanes are clogging up the airport. there was a big fight to move ga off the big airports and give them their own. but they are saying, it is our tax dollars that are paying for this. there is a lot within the aviation community itself, who gets to use them? issue,ber one problem, facing airports, that explains a lot of what is going on is, airport noise. especially since the dawn of the jet age but going all the wa

so as long as we are proud of whoso we are -- and we are very proud of who we are -- and what we areighting for, we, as a country, will never, ever fail. we'll never fail. [cheers and applause] we have 3.4 million new jobs since election day. if i would have said during the campaign that i was going to create 3.4 million new jobs -- you have no idea what we are going through -- countries are trying to hold back their companies that used to be our companies from leaving andov moving back to the united states. we have companies, chrysler, so many companies coming back into the united states, they want to be where the action is. not only because of the tax cuts, but for a lot of other reason, including, frankly, the regulation cuts, but weave more jobs, we have higher stats. the manufacturers of the united states voted, they said, this is the single most optimism that manufacturers in this country have ever had. small business owners, the same thing. it's the most optimistic they have ever been. they have never been this optimistic. and i'll tell you something. i'd like to take the cred