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I would argue that doing work in the community, to try to create jobs, to bring people together, to rejeuvenate communities that have fallen on hard times, to set up job training programs in areas that have been hard-hit when the steel plants close, that that's relevant only in understanding where I'm coming from, who I believe in, who I'm fighting for, and why I'm in this race. And the question I have for them is, why would that kind of work be ridiculous? Who are they fighting for? What are they advocating for? Do they think that the lives of those folks who are struggling each and every day, that working with them to try to improve their lives is somehow not relevant to the Presidency? I think maybe that's the problem. That's part of why they're out of touch and they don't get it, because they haven't spent much time working on behalf of those folks.
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JP, thanks for the video.
nashvegasdawg -- My pleasure -- I saw it yesterday on MSNBC... a clip, anyway, and I went on a hunt for it. It's perfect in its logic, and in its spirit.
What he is saying is this: "I'm trying to help people when the government wants to tell me it's not the job of government to do the job I am doing. What the fuck is the problem?"
Hope to see you soon, some Thursday night at the Fly!
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I've seriously spent my working life fighting "it's not my job" people.
Hey -- do you have the skills and capacity to make this happen? Do it. Your reward is work that makes a difference in people's lives.
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