State of the State 1988 - Dirty; Public Affairs; Tape 2

You're have to expand our efforts to help the homeless. The budget I submit to you will include major increases in funding for programs to prevent people from losing a pot to give them emergency assistance once they hit the streets and to build permanent shelters. But they made into will also begin a new program to hire a worker in each county office to help homeless people find a place to stay and to track them a bit to make sure they don't end up on the street again. William Wordsworth wrote homeless near a thousand homes. I stood and there are a thousand tables pined and wanted food. Too many of our brothers and sisters share that sentiment too many families wander the streets searching for a warm dry place to sleep. They need our help. They deserve our help that spend the money this year and help those families in their hour of need.

Thank you to. I am well we invest billions to train and educate our people to give US cities hope. It would be foolish to fritter away the priceless advantage. History and Geography confers upon us. In New Jersey shore is the anchor of what is now a 13 billion dollar industry rolling farmlands and proud mountains give us a serenity that you can't buy in Japan and you can't buy in Korea. Business leaders tell me often that they came to New Jersey because of the quality of the life they could find here. We must protect that life. The ocean is our first priority. Many of you I know shared my anger last August 14th as we watched a tide of garbage wash up on our beloved New Jersey beaches. And we vowed that day that it would never ever happen again. New Jersey will pay any price. We will

make any investment. We will take any action to protect our shores and to save the ocean. Thank you I'm. Him to be under pressure from Attorney General Kerry-Edwards in the court's New York City has finally agreed to start to clean up its act. This will reduce the chance of a repeat of the events of last summer but New York is only part of the problem. We have to put our own house in order. Today I renew my call for my 14 point action plan to save our oceans. I'm calling for a major state investment. Two hundred million dollars over the next five years. We will spend it so that our children can swim in clean water and lie on pristine beaches. But to make this kind of investment without managing the ocean and sure would be akin to buying a new convertible

and leaving the top down it would be foolish. Plain and simple. Assemblyman Dr. Lane and Senator Frank Pallone have put before you legislation to create the New Jersey coastal commission. The arguments for a Coastal Commission are more compelling than ever before. We need in New Jersey a full time advocate for a clean ocean this year past the Coastal Commission back. The the problems of the ocean know no geographic boundaries. I don't respect the political theories of federalism. So at this point I call on our congressional delegation to make saving the ocean the number one priority. Congressman Jim Saxton and Congressman Bill Hughes have taken the first step. Congress must ban ocean dumping. But

the we must say an equivocally as a point of national policy that the ocean is not a trash can NOT a sewer line not a cesspool. It is God's precious gift and we must create it accordingly. At the. The ocean protection is not the only environmental investment we will make. I also call on you to provide a stable source of funding for shore protection flood protection and park land acquisition by passing the go on leave alone. Bill. Thank you. Ocean space some people think has become New Jersey's endangered species. In July the state Planning Commission will release its findings. I asked you to give their recommendations serious consideration the next generation will not forgive us if and I lust for radicals we destroy the trees clog our roads and

choke off our prosperity. These then environmental priorities but quality of life means more than open space and clean beaches. It means the ability to insure your old Dodge Dart without having to take out a mortgage on your house. Auto insurance remains too high. We still do not have a verbal threshold without a verbal threshold this year. Insurance rates will continue to go up not come down your Jersey drivers still pay more for auto insurance than any other drivers in the country. So I ask you once again. You passed the verbal threshold. Thank the. I'm from the. Quality of Life also depends on the state government that is responsive to the people and New Jersey's guarantee of responsiveness is public financing.

I've heard from some of our legislative leadership even from a few members of our cabinet that 1989 as a gubernatorial election year. If we do not change the public financing law this year it may be obsolete by the next. And that would be unfortunate. I've given my recommendations for changes to Senate president John Russo and will work together. Assemblyman Zell Miller as a bill and has some very very sound ideas also. This is a year when we can revise that law strike a blow for democracy and reform again. Our campaign finance laws thank the. I'm. Through out this message I've told you about what we must do to prepare for the economic tremors that is shaking our state and our country once before America experienced a similar of people when a

sleepy agrarian nation was transformed into a land of mighty cities and busy factories. Government's role was different than as the Industrial Revolution disrupted lives. Governments stood by idly cheering the merchant and ignoring the mendicant. Another transformation is underway. Some New Jerseyans are being again left behind. This time we will not ignore them this time. Government our government must be active and it must be compassionate. Every New Jersey family in Patterson as well as Princeton has a right to certain basic dignities. We have worked to give senior citizen security the disabled and disadvantaged productive lives and the poor hope through our reach program. As we rise to the economic challenges before us let us also rededicate ourselves to helping weaker brothers and sisters this year.

Lets start with better health care for poor New Jerseyans. The family doctor. How many of us have known someone like TV's Dr. Marcus Welby warm compassionate a reassuring face to turn to when we are sick or suffering in some way or other. There's a woman named Cindy who lives in no one and she doesn't know how that feels. Semi's twenty seven years old and she has four children ages 1 to 12 years. Cindy is single. She's poor and she's on Medicaid. So every time she or her children get sick Cindy takes them to the local hospital she takes him to the emergency ward and sometimes that's 10 to 15 times a year. And you go to that emergency ward and you wait for whatever doctor may be available on duty. Well something is dreadfully wrong with that kind

of situation. Since Cindy doesn't get regular check ups in the children either illnesses are discovered late and then they take more money to cure. An outpatient care and emergency room visits of 5 to 10 times more expensive than if this family visited a regular doctor. Doesn't make any sense. This year I want to give some Medicaid recipients a family doctor and save money as well. So I'm recommending that we set up the garden state health plan. The nation's first state run statewide health maintenance organization Medicaid recipients in this program. Well the same options that the New Jerseyans enjoy. They will choose from hundreds of private doctors and medical groups whose services will have been paid for in advance. People like Cindy Well they're going to get better care and the taxpayers they're going to save money as well. I ask Isn't this the kind

of health plan that makes everyone feel better. I mean of the. B B. One hundred forty years ago Ralph Waldo Emerson unwittingly wrote New Jersey's battle cry. Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door through civil and world wars depressions and recessions. New Jerseyans have steadfastly huge Emerson's advice from Seth Boyden and his patent leather and the eighteen twenties to the scientists at Bell Labs who invented the transistor 40 years ago. New Jerseyans have kept our state and nation ahead of the world. And they've done so with pluck and ingenuity. Now a nation struggles with a new challenge. Some say that the American century is over. Some say the American dream will become a quaint anachronism. I don't believe it. We

have paused merely paused to catch our breath to ready ourselves for the next round of revolutionary creations and inventions. Our day has not passed. It merely waits for us to reapply the lessons taught by Boyden Addison and Emerson. If we support an aggressive foreign trade policy expand our high tech centers rebuild our colleges and universities and make schools simply the very best in the world. We will not only compete. We will lead. But. Really it all comes down to this. There are two children out there out beyond highways and snow covered fields. I suspect at this minute they're probably sitting in their classrooms listening to the teachers and perhaps thinking of what they're going to do when the school bell rings. One's name is Philip shots of Rumson. He's 12 years old. The other's name is

Chrissy Byrd of Somerville and she's 10. These children are inventors by trade there is to the great New Jersey tradition last year Philip invented an easy clean birdcage that does exactly what it says. And Chrissie invented a device to let bus drivers know if schoolchildren fail to buckle a seat belt. Last year Philip and Christy were among only nine children nationwide to win awards in the inventer America contest and New Jersey by the way of course was the only state with two winners. Me of the. The bank today fell upon Chrissy's interests concerns pet birds and rides to school. Tomorrow it may be as broad as easing the flow of electricity through superconductivity or maybe eliminating the need for

electricity altogether through photonics. These children and so many more like them will determine New Jersey's future and America's. It's up to us to prepare the way. Will Spirit's be as noble as they is. Will we be wise enough to invest now in the schools. High tech centers and campuses but they're going to need to find the answers to their questions. Will we aggressively take our place in the world so their inventions have a market. Will New Jerseyans today pass a new a new jersey we're living in tomorrow. Obviously I like you believe that answer is yes because it's in the American grain to rise to the challenge they have but sure is the wrong American ingenuity is far from dead. It lives here. It lives here in New Jersey. It lives in the laboratories of Menlo Park in Princeton where Edison and Einstein invented the 20th century. It lives in the African brains of children like Philip and Kristin who have more

questions than answers they're busy trying to even off that equation and it lives on here. Right here this afternoon as we pledge never to permit any people anywhere out perform us as long as American ingenuity lives the American dream is alive and well as well. Thank the of the. And as we leave here today remember the words of New Jerseys Thomas Edison spoken shortly before he died. I have lived that Edison a long time and I have seen history repeat itself again and again or worse. America has come out stronger and more prosperous. Be as brave as your fathers before you have faith go forward. Thank you.

Of the. The. STATE OF THE STATE message in reference already says we have to look forward he says New Jersey now. Have to look beyond its own boundaries in the boundaries of this country and become an international competitor to that in the governor called for an international education center at Rutgers University to teach business leaders about. How to compete in a world wide market. He also called on the state to invest in the future to build high tech centers at the different colleges around the state. He also wants to give parents a plan in which they can send their children to the schools that they want to send them to. And he also called for rewarding the schools that do a good job of teaching children. He also wants to

invest 100 million dollars in a Housing Partnership. They're about to wrap up with a get a benediction down on the on the stage here at the governor's 1088 state of the statements which is a special presentation of New Jersey network news. I'm Larry stupid I go. All. The way.