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Speaker 1: Best they can. You know, one thing you got to understand.

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Speaker 1: You've got to have a sharp clash of ideas. And

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Speaker 1: if you've never been exposed to that, you don't understand.

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Speaker 1: You watch on the sideline winning teams coaches and Belichick

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Speaker 2: Everybody was on edge at all time.

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Speaker 1: Nick Saban doesn't walk along the sideline saying, boys, y'all

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Speaker 1: by forty points. I don't care you, mister Block. Nine

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Speaker 1: Fair ISD Superintendent Mark Henry at five hundred and thirty

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Speaker 1: seven thousand dollars. Maybe Mark Henry should take a pay

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Speaker 1: he writes, sorry to disagree with you, but they have

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Speaker 2: The district was forced a force remark.

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Speaker 1: To cut across the board, including teachers, counselors, transportation, which

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Speaker 1: CFISD has always exceeded the state minimum distance.

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Speaker 2: Well there, Well you're the tallest madget. Be proud of that.

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Speaker 1: Para professionals, substitute teachers, et cetera. All school districts are

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Speaker 1: dealing with this due to drunk Day not getting school

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Speaker 1: funding passed through the House. Also, CFISD is over eighty

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Speaker 1: million dollars budget shortfall this year. Okay, that is not

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Speaker 1: against it. See if in my household we have a

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Speaker 1: and you go your kids starve to death a budget shortfall.

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Speaker 2: Okay, y, that's fine, But.

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Speaker 1: You also went on vacation, Michael, Yeah, yeah, still went

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Speaker 1: I know you've fallen in love. You always have to

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Speaker 1: put the doctor with doctor Mark Henry. It's a PhD

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Speaker 1: Henry is here of you? One all rise, Doctor Henry.

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Speaker 1: all the nonsense. You started hiring these people and worshiping them.

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Speaker 1: I've seen the school board members hiring lunch with doctor

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Speaker 2: Okay, well, doctor Henry.

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Speaker 1: You know he's a leading authority on educational theory.

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Speaker 1: You hear yourselves? Do you hear yourselves? Anywhere in this

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Speaker 1: Realistically, that's an expectation, a reasonable one. But see these

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Speaker 1: superintendents then want three people to delegate to.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's brilliant.

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Speaker 2: Oh it's doctor Douglas Killian. Well how much is he making.

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Speaker 1: So then the assistant superintendents hire their people, and then

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Speaker 2: I was working in DC at a law firm and

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Speaker 2: The law school. No debt bulletin boards out there. You

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Speaker 1: You want another reason the school districts are low on cash,

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Speaker 1: Foolish spending is one reason. Another is that more parents

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Speaker 1: Why are test scores getting lower and lower when the

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Speaker 1: numerous reports on hospitals saying they're out of money to

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Speaker 1: Why illegals coming over handouts? Same with the public school system.

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Speaker 1: Check reports on how much schools are having to spend

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Speaker 1: Also check the increase in low income housing developments in

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Speaker 1: It's so true, She's so right, Valerie Rights. Sci fi

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Speaker 1: ISD ran themselves into this budget crisis. This started years

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Speaker 1: is a joke. Why do you think doctor Henry up

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Speaker 1: while ye may ramon because a budget crisis is a coming. Ooh,

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Speaker 1: these parents are hot, man, They are mad about this.

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Speaker 1: All I keep hearing about is this administration building. Apparently

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Speaker 1: a doozy, A doozy, I tell you it's something else.

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Speaker 1: It costs too much. Michael barrischow Seffer. No, nothing good's

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Speaker 2: She didn't have a PhD.

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Speaker 1: That position seems to be open right now at BENCED

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Speaker 2: Now we're just down to the district director.

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Speaker 1: We haven't even really gotten down to the people that

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Speaker 8: My name in the Ojibwe language is gezi weiwudam Ukwai

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Speaker 8: I'm a member of the White Earth Nation and my

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Speaker 8: My name, my name in the Ojibwe language is eazy

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Speaker 1: that's old name. Talk loud, not shut up? Very ugly

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Speaker 2: Somebody said that, you know, stop talking. We name her

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Speaker 1: I can't be a Zeta anymore. I'm now ig way Kenobi.

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Speaker 2: Peggy Flannagan eedy welcome. You know it's comical, it really is.

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Speaker 2: If we could get people to understand these are they

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Speaker 1: This is what Peggy Flannagan couldn't be Peggy Flannagan because

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Speaker 1: People always existed, the person that wanted a lot of attention,

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Speaker 1: It is outside the laws of nature, It is perverse,

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Speaker 5: Let's not forget our fellow creatures, those that stand, those

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Speaker 2: When we all come together, all of us, salamander, at

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Speaker 5: I made the words, go here here, sink in to

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Speaker 2: The flee the ant.

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Speaker 10: A.

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Speaker 2: This sound like the lineup of the red hot chili peppers.

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Speaker 2: We are all here in prayer.

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Speaker 2: Windshield washer.

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Speaker 10: Let us not forget a foul the preacher.

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Speaker 5: On mother's side, I am Mexican, the child of descendants

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Speaker 10: Is this the prayer from Mexico? It came into eighteen hundred,

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Speaker 5: I'm YACKI refugees from Mexico.

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Speaker 10: From escaped the genocide.

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Speaker 2: If you say, if you say, wait, the genocide of

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Speaker 1: Wait are you telling me the Indians we're killing other

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Speaker 1: There's some oppressive Indians that owe you some money, but

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Speaker 3: Got se Michael Berry, it's not your.

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Speaker 10: God cherokey people.

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Speaker 8: My name, my name in the Ojibwe language is easy

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Speaker 8: White Earth Nation and my family is the Wolf Clan,

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Speaker 8: and the role of our plan is to ensure that

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Speaker 8: Kamala Harris and Tim Walls to be the next President

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Speaker 8: and Vice President of the United States.

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Speaker 5: Let us not forget our fellow creatures, those that stand,

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Speaker 5: and state me, those that crawl on the earth, those

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Speaker 5: Let us remember and bless the wigged ones, those that

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Speaker 5: are two legates that walk.

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Speaker 10: Throughout this world.

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Speaker 5: When we all come together at this time, I made

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Speaker 5: the words that people here here sink in to their

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Speaker 10: Is my story.

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Speaker 2: So many of you don't want to run.

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Speaker 1: Fuck people away here from Orda Mansua.

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Speaker 10: After Carlosadras.

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Speaker 5: On my mother's side, I am Mexican, the child of

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Speaker 10: It came in the eighteen hundred. On my father's side, I'm.

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Speaker 5: Yaqui refugees from Mexico that escaped to genocide and the

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Speaker 5: Rio Yaki in the eighteen hundred. We have been here

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Speaker 5: sick for myself, I am fifth generation in the valleys

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Speaker 2: You won't know how dangerous these people are. This is

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Speaker 2: real funny until it's not.

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Speaker 1: The first page of the Democrat National Convention, their platform.

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Speaker 1: This is what we stand for, the very first page,

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Speaker 2: The first thing on there.

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Speaker 1: They began their convention with a quote land acknowledgment.

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Speaker 2: Do you know what the land acknowledgment was? That they're

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Speaker 2: holding this convention on stolen land.

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Speaker 4: Please welcome Prairie Band Podawa, Tommy Nation Tribal Council Vice

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Speaker 4: Chair Zach Palmami and Secretary Lori Melchior.

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Speaker 11: Here we are together on our ancestral homelands of the

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Speaker 11: Prairie Band Pada Nation and our sister potawatominations. We also

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Speaker 11: honor the spirit of the other tribal nations who traveled

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Speaker 11: westward through this beautiful area. Welcome twenty twenty four Democratic

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Speaker 11: National Convention to our homelands.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, thank you for letting us.

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Speaker 2: The paw Plan.

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Speaker 11: Has and always will carry enormous importance to its original stewards,

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Speaker 11: our ancestors, and our present day communities. I am Vice

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Speaker 11: Chairman of the Praie Band Potawat Domination, joined by Secretary

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Speaker 11: of Laurie melk Here.

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Speaker 2: He's a big chief, hey lad, Lurie milk here looks.

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Speaker 11: And our nation's Tribal Council, who are also with.

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Speaker 2: Us in the audience.

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Speaker 11: From time immemorial, our ancestors lived in the Great Lakes region. However,

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Speaker 11: in eighteen forty nine and illegal auction by the US

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Speaker 11: government forcibly removed our tribe from our homeland. Since then,

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Speaker 11: we have been working to reclaim it.

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Speaker 2: But we're going to settle for a couple of casinos.

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Speaker 11: The Department of the Interior placed some of our ancestral

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Speaker 11: lands west of Chicago into a trust.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they put it in the trust. Get casinos wrong.

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Speaker 11: Thanks thanks to the resolve of our tribal community and

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Speaker 11: the Biden Harris administration.

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Speaker 2: Oh yes, we reclaimed a piece of our home.

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Speaker 11: We became the only federally recognized tribal nation in Illinois

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Speaker 11: in one hundred and seventy five years.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you deserve it. It's yours blood.

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Speaker 11: Together in our homelands. Let's have a joyful historic convention.

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Speaker 2: Blessings to you all. Migwitch.

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Speaker 1: So imagine this. You're sitting at home. You just got

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Speaker 1: home at nine thirty. You got to get the kids

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Speaker 1: fed and in bed, and you hope they did their homework.

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Speaker 1: The school has canceled the bus service, but you're not

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Speaker 1: about to let your little nine year old daughter walk

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Speaker 1: to the school with all the perverts and awful human beings,

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Speaker 1: including all the illegal aliens and Democrats have let in

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Speaker 1: patrolling the streets in front of the school waiting for

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Speaker 1: a kid to be walking alone. You are exhausted, and

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Speaker 1: you say, maybe my government, here's my crist Is this

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Speaker 1: ever going to get any better. Here we are in

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Speaker 1: this little apartment.

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Speaker 2: I'm working.

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Speaker 1: Everybody tells me I should quit and take welfare. But

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Speaker 1: I don't want my kids to see their mom on welfare.

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Speaker 1: That's not what I want from my children. I want

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Speaker 1: them to see, if nothing else, I want them to

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Speaker 1: see that mom might have struggled, but.

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Speaker 2: She did it with dignity. She worked hard. Mom was

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Speaker 2: a good person. But you're tired, you're exhausted.

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Speaker 1: No food ready, so you heat up some ramen noodles

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Speaker 1: or a frozen pizza and you sit down and say, well,

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Speaker 1: maybe the government's going to figure out a way to

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Speaker 1: make things better for me, because this is my struggle

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Speaker 1: and this is where I am in America today. Let's see,

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Speaker 1: let's see what this party wants to do to win

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Speaker 1: my vote. And you got some dude from the pot

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Speaker 1: of Watames telling you about his tribe wants some cash

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Speaker 1: because one hundred and seventy five years ago they killed

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Speaker 1: another tribe and they owned this land. And you're thinking

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Speaker 1: to yourself, this in America. This is the very first

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Speaker 1: thing they present as to who they are. The grocery

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Speaker 1: stores are price gouging. We're told at one point six

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Speaker 1: percent profit, but they take thirty percent of my income

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Speaker 1: in taxes, and you're

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Speaker 2: Giving it to the pot of Watames.