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jobs There's not anything that you can do in this day and time without
having some type of talent, degree, whatever.
And so, we find that so many of the people, that I dealt with at Some
Other Place, that were just not able to find employment. It wasn't if they
didn't want to work. And then you talked about oh, I am getting into a
little bit about labor you talk about wages; does it not bother you that
the person that provides the hamburger that you get at McDonald's can't
live on the wages that they make? But then you look at their financial
statement, the financial statement of McDonald's and, you know, whoo-
pity doo dah.
I got so upset about the gas prices, you know, I mean the fact that we're
paying and I'm blessed, we're rich, remember we're the rich people be-
cause we have the money to pay for the gas but I look at the fact that
there are people had a home health lady that did home health services
that said that she had to quit her job and draw unemployment and that
her company allowed her to do that because she couldn't afford the
gasoline to make the home visits that she had to make to do her job.
But then you look at the profits and I'm not an economist, and so I
don't know why it happens this way but you look at the profits that
ExxonMobil and these big companies and I'm not knocking them. My
father worked for an oil company, and like they say, it put bread and milk
and all of that on the table, and I would never knock them. But we've got
to get out of thinking how it affects me.
I told this story, and Abdul told me I could use it today. Many of you that
are from this area, the name "Ben Rogers," his painting, his portrait is up
here in the middle over there. I used to use this, whenever Mr. Ben was
alive and when I would speak, and I would say, "What was good for Mr.
Rogers was good for the man who slept on the park bench outside the
Julie Rogers Theater, and what was good for the man that slept on the
bench outside the Julie Rogers Theater which by the way was named
after Miss Julie, Mr. Ben's wife is good for Ben Rogers."
Until we get to the point where we can stop and think about, "Is what
I'm doing, is how I'm voting, is how I'm spending my time, my money,64
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