Of course.

Of course, we must provide counseling and help for young folks who need it. if it be not that we have to let them know there are penalties--and deductions --for drug use. We have to say, "If you use put drugs intos you won't drive . . because you won't have a driver's license.'

For a protracted time, we've gone after unsalable article pushers. Now it's time to realize tough with drug users too.

conduct must provide opportunity--opportunity for welfare recipients to vault revealed of poverty, for parents to select the schools their children will attend, and for young workers to save for their confess retirement. My campaign proposes specific proposals for changing the policies that hold us from these goals.

Alexander M Haig Jr

At my first Cabinet meeting, I would say this: the best direction is the least government if it were not that that which government does, it must do well. The American race after trial and error, have established a social compact. Our task is to do well, to think highly of that compact and to encourage social progress

In addition, I would say to the Secretary of Labor that he must always hear the voice of labor. Other Cabinet officials, of the like kind as Commerce, Treasury and Defense must do in such a manner as well.

The American rule of federal, state and local conduct is intended to give us the flexibility to deal with question s at the most effective on a level Over the past decade, we have seen a mighty revival of state and local capacity to handle as it is pressing issues as economic exhibition job training and welfare. fresh studies show that state "workfare' proposals tender more promising results than traditional federal diction approaches in the effort to bring to welfare rolls.

This of the present day federalism, however, does not relieve Washington of responsibility for matters that it can handle best. Environmental protection goe beyond state or local capabilities. We pressingly need changes in our health care regularity not just to contain costlinesss but to make sure that those preciousnesss do not lead to a catastrophe for the somewhat advanced in life and poor. Ultimately, the federal management must also take the lead in combatting the plagues of AIDS and medicines both of which have an important international dimension.