  For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary February
9, 2004  President Meets with Workers and Small Business Owners
on Economy SRC Automotive Springfield, Missouri  video screen
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sheet en Español  12:25 P.M. CST  THE PRESIDENT: Jack, thanks
for having me. I want to thank the good folks who work here for
allowing us to disrupt your day to talk about our economy and
how it works. And hopefully out of this discussion, people will
learn better how people make decisions, decisions with their own
money or decisions with investor's money. I hope people come
away from this discussion with this great sense of optimism
about the future for our country. It's exactly what I believe. I
believe we ought to be -- (Applause).  President George W. Bush
acknowledges the audience shortly before participating in a
conversation on the econom