Money or no formal education cahow purple and they struggled. They did not immediately hit it big and they were discouraged the first few years but they persevered. They never became rich. Never became famous that working as a bartender and of vapor, another had a lot of jobs for she worked as a cashier then made at the imperial palace i lived here six years growing up. Them back to miami my dad primarily was a bartender working their jobs at the Bowling Alley here is what they achieved they owned a home in a neighborhood to raise four children and left all of them better with a life better than what they knew to retire with dignity and security. The neck cemetery the American Dream is to leave, as many make it is not true so people all over the world have the dream. The desire not just to be better off so why they call that the American Dream with so many can achieve it here. That is the real American Dream. So it has a very profound Statement Read every human being in north america b
Jordan . If they do become democratic countries like egypt did briefly would that be better for us . Guest the question is not whether this is better for us or not. The ideal and the goal is a good one. The question is how do you get there and how long do you take it or what measures do you take . You mentioned egypt. Egypt was ready. Look at the United States. Were rewriting for an an election when the United States was formed to have everybody in the United States boat . Our founders didnt think so. They limited the people who could vote in an election. You say its horrible and terrible. Maybe it was maybe it wasnt that it was a decision that was made to make sure there was continuity and stability within government that was consistent with the values the government was founded upon. We cant go out and say the objective is a free election. I shouldve never been the objective. We have to work with individual situations to ultimately even though may take 100 years to get there but the
By the age of 14, she was off on her out, working as a housekeeper or, nanny. Thankfully the woman who hired her allowing her to take time during the middle of the day to try to complete high school. And she always talked about the kindness desert people showed occurred during the course of what was a very difficult childhood that gave her the confidence to keep going forward, they really derived from a community that was caring and willing to support the weakest and most marginalized among them. And of course, she and my father gave us a middleclass life with opportunities she never couldve imagined or herself, which she always believed could be possible for her children and that was a great gift that i will be forever grateful for an bill and i of course worked hard to pass on those values to our daughter. And its been a great reward to watch her grow into an accomplished, purposeful young woman. I think about what it mustve been like those two have very difficult circumstances durin
Give you the readers a bit of a peek behind the curtain because the headlines certainly tell some of the story but not all of the story. Its more difficult to even get information about the socalled trendlines. I wanted to combine both in the hardest part for me about writing this book was that it was believe it or not three times longer when i first finished it. I wanted to put every funny story, every bizarre meal i mean whatever i could remember and wanted to share and the publisher did say you have got to cut twothirds of this book. And so i worked hard to keep the combination of seriousness because obviously theres a lot of that but also the human side. Not just me but what i saw and learned as i traveled around the world. You have never been shy about your opinions but it does seem to me you are free to speak your mind these days. I think thats true from some of their reactions that ive had over the last few days. [laughter] i say in the book that maybe its just the wonderful wea
When you look at the details and they have details in the report. Every category and level of experience within that category is the salary paid to somebody in the local government is higher than people in private industries. Thank you, sir. We have time for one more question. I am just barely old enough to remember word sentinual. There was one word never brought up. Madden, public enemy number one. The reason i dont share your optmism is the Redistricting Initiative and i would like to know what you think about that and the implications. I think we both feel strongly the redistricting issue should be on the ballot. We recommend it in the book. I think it is number 97 or 98 in the book. It is one of the proposals we make in the corruption chapter. We support an independent Redistricting Commission and it needs to be done to have better accountability and more competition. With more competition you will have greater voter interest because people will debate different points of view and