This is curtourtesyurtourtesy of public broadcasting. Lt. Governor cagle, speaker ralston, president pro tem shafer, speaker pro tem jones, members of the General Assembly, constitutional officers, members of the judiciary, members of the consular corps, my fellow georgians today marks the fifth year that i have reported to you, the peoples representatives, on the state of our state. This is our annual checkup exam on the body politic, where we measure our vitals, celebrate areas of great health and seek cures for what ails us. In each succeeding year, weve seen the green shoots of our economy grow a little taller. Each year, weve seen more georgians return to work or get their first job. Each year, weve seen hundreds of more businesses open or relocate here. Each year, steady Revenue Growth has allowed us to slowly mend the ravages wrought by the great recession. Now, our economy is seeing positive growth with thousands of new jobs added every month. Were seeing the telltale signs of
Revenue. Last year we based our budget on an anticipated Revenue Growth of 3. 4 percent. That was in keeping with our pattern of conservative budgeting. So when fiscal year 2014 ended, our actual revenue was 4. 8 percent. That differential between what we spent and what we collected is deposited into our Rainy Day Fund. Every budget cycle since i have been governor we have added to that fund so that it has increased by 643 percent since i took office. [applause] annual Revenue Growth, coupled with conservative spending and a growing Rainy Day Fund are positive evidence that georgia is better today than it was last year. Since i took office, over 319,000 new private sector jobs have been created in georgia with nearly 93,000 of those coming in the past twelve months. The announcement last week that mercedesbenz usa is moving its north american headquarters to georgia is further evidence that our state will continue to be a leader in job creation. [applause] with job growth comes populat
Representative lucille roybalallard from california, representative Nydia Velazquez of new york, representative barbara lee from california. Representative Andrew Carlson from carson from indiana. Representative Cedric Richmond from louisiana. Representative maccartwright of pennsylvania. Representative Hakeem Jeffries from new york. Representative Michelle Lujan grisham from new mexico. Representative greg demention and representative doyle also from pennsylvania. Let me close and yield to any questions you may have or any comment the member mace want to make. And say this, i have now seen the movie selma twice and i plan to see it again in this building next tuesday evening. The second time i watched it was last week and i watched it sitting with my justturned18yearold granddaughter. I didnt say anything to her about the movie i just told her that i was sponsoring the movie for members of my staff and others in the community. We rented out a theater of 120 seats, within two hours we
Three three times, twice to iraq and once to afghanistan. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, lets give one more nevada thank you for these nevada heros [applause] ladies and gentlemen nevada stands at a threshold. We live in a state that is transforming before our eyes, the 21st century companies, jobs and technologies that place us at the forefront of innovation and the new economy. Yet we still operate with decades old funding systems and an education structure that will eventually grind us to an inevitable halt. I know. I know that we have the ability, willingness and determination to do what is necessary. We all, i know, we all want to tell our grand children that we were the architects of the new nevada that we were here when nevada needed us most. Those before us rose to the challenges of their time and built a foundation of the state we all love. The centennial celebration highlighted those achievements. But tonight as we close the chapter on 150 years of history, this is our time
And the needs of our partners and it is iran that is to blame for not reaching an agreement you will have a much better chance of Holding Together the two National Coalition and being able to intensify the pressure on iran. In regard to your question about who is in charge, we have perfect knowledge of this. Hope we have what we have assessed, there are clearly Different Power Centers in iran. Have a tendency to look at iran as if it is the one country in the world that doesnt have politics. In fact, it does. The Supreme Leader is the first among equals for some time, but there are other critical constituencies that factor in. Of the most powerful things that happened in iran was actually the election of president rouhani. In our judgment, that was a reaction to the desire of the iranian people to improve the economy, to get out from the isolation they are under, and to move iran in a different correction. Within the confines of the system, that was what president rouhani was trying to