you probably are seeing that very much. a lot of people we re talking about the tax cuts. a lot of the companies are saying that the cutting of regulation is more important to them even than these massive tax cuts that all of the employees have gotten and everybody. it just means jobs, projects that were stopped for 15 years and now under construction. great projects. projects that should have been approved rapidly now under construction. i want to thank you, dennis and thank everybody for the great statements. you know, make america great again. it s very simple. make america great again. that s what we re going to do and that s what we re doing. it s happening faster than anybody thought possible. thanks. appreciate it. thank you. [applause] charles: that s president trump wrapping up at a boeing plant in st. louis. talking up phase two for tax cuts. reaction from bill bennett,
in its veterans, like me, its people and the community. thank you. thank you. [applause] i ll skip dennis for a second. come on. i m kevin baker. i m the chief credit officer of great southern bank head quartered in springfield, missouri. the bank has 1,200 employees serving 325,000 clients. nine midwestern states from minnesota to texas. the tax reform gave us the unique opportunity to reward our associates with $1,000 for all full-time employees and $500 for part time employees. the bonus, as you can imagine, created a lot of excitement throughout our company and we have heard countless stories how it was used from one-time family trips to needed repairs on automobiles, homes and one associate needed it to pay her monthly rent. we believe your 2016 election
innovations, new products. that includes the most advanced super hornet, the most advanced f-15 behind us here, includes investments in prototype aircrafts, some of which you saw earlier and our commercial airplane business like the 777 x wide body area plane with the folding wing top is built here in st. louis. we built a new $300 million fabrication facility in st. louis. real manufacturing jobs. not only benefitting boeing but in our u.s. supply chain, we have another 13,000 companies, small and medium sized businesses representing about 1.5 million u.s. manufacturing jobs that are all benefitting as a result. so those are just a few examples. we re going to continue to put tax reform to work and we appreciate your leadership and congress leadership on getting that passed. thank you. thank you, dennis.
nation. listen, i think again, this is something that will resonate well for the republicans that were able to leverage it, articulating a message is one thick. madison, before president trump launches to his speech, can i get one more word of wisdom from you? sure. he s in missouri. this lieutenant governor spoke about how tax cuts are affecting people there. let s listen to president trump. i know you flew from a different direction. even for treasury it s very important. and then president and ceo of the missouri chamber of commerce, thanks very much. doing a great job. missouri is doing a great job. an incredible place. i also want to thank my friend, dennis. we ve been friends a long time. i keep telling these countries, no. you have to buy american. i want you to buy american.
you look at what is behind us, a government can t do that. they can do certain things but they can t do that. partnerships make good sense. having industry involved is important. we know the end point. we can do training that is very practical and can lead to jobs. fantastic, dennis. i want to thank you, thank everybody. this has been truly inspirational to see all of you and what has happened. there s a lot more going to happen. the companies that we have in this country have never been fundamentally strong. i can say that about boeing also. i see what is going on with boeing. but we ve never had a time when we ve had companies at this level of readiness, preparedness and stability. so i think you re going to see tremendous things over the next fairly long period of time. i don t see any downward movement. i see up. we ve taken off regulations.