everybody here comes from somewhere and everybody here is on some mission. i come from a part of the world where we're used to working as far back as i can remember, i was working. my staff was asking me the other day, on november 1st, you're not going to have a job. when was the last time you didn't have a job? i thought about it and thought about it and thought about it. i thought, well, hi to be 8 or 9 years old because i was throwing newspapers back then and working in my dad's bar. i used to work from 5:00 a.m. saturday morning until 2:00 p.m. for $2. not $2 an hour. $2. i never thought about growing up as the easy way or the hard way. it was just the cincinnati way. and you know, our city, it takes its name from a great general, he answered the call of his nation to lead and then surrendered his power to go back