This Is What America Does Better Than Anyone Else

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The Michael Barry Show. If youhave a young person between the ages of
say twelve and eighteen living under yourroof, it's been on where you go
to school, you are days orweeks away from Let's call it a great

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opportunity. Let's not use the wordthat we've used since my grandparents were delighted
to get out of school for threemonths. You have in front of you
an incredible opportunity that you only getonce a year, and you only get

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for a few years, that youcan squander overlook, pass up, choose
not to explore. That's your businesstoo. You have an opportunity to expose
your kid to life changing experiences.And I'm not talking about your vacation.

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You can do that too. Ourkids spend a considerable amount of time,
most of their waking day and mostof their energy in school for most of
the year. And then here isbecause we're on an old agricultural system that

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we've never changed from, and hereis this period of time when they used
to be out in the fields keepingthe family farm going. But now they've
worked so hard, so hard duringthe year, it's so difficult. They
had to get up and get intothe air conditioned classroom and stay there for

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about six hours, seven hours includinglunch. Little fellows are tuckered out.
Then you have this opportunity where they'renot locked down, they're not committed,
and if you think big, it'sa great opportunity. And I'm not saying

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you have to go fly fighter jetsat fourteen. I am saying that most
kids will graduate high school having noconcept of how our economy works. I
meet a lot of adults who don'tunderstand we do not live in a socialist
country, and I don't want to. You do not exist because well,

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there's just food and air conditioning andautomobiles and electricity. It's just there.
It's just all there, and whereeverybody should get a little of it.
Exist because people figure out a wayto trade, in one form or another,

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their services for the other things youwant in life. That was barter
for a long time, but thenwe learned as a species that's very inefficient
because I've got a cow and you'vegot chickens, and if it's a bull,

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well if I sell it, I'mnot selling it for one egg,
and I don't need two thousand ofyour eggs today. So we had to
find a way that we could tradeunequal, disparate value items. And that's
where currency came in. That's wherethe seashell and have been a thousand of

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them have been more than a thousand. So trade that for that thing in
between. And many people think thatthing in between is where the value is.
It's just a piece of paper,doesn't matter how you weave it,
what you put into it. It'sjust a piece of paper. For that
matter. Gold is just gold.It's a storer of value. It's a

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holder of value, but only aslong as someone else sees value in it.
The moment someone doesn't see value inthat piece of green paper, or
that credit card or the gold,it is worthless. What's not worth worthless?

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A cow? You can eat ahog. You can butcherman. If
I butchered a hog right now,and I said, you can choose one
cut of meat off of this,what would it be tenderlin? That's stupid.
Why I've had portent? What kindof questions that have you? Ever?

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You never had portendoin. I'm notdisgusted, I'm surprised I would have
said poor. I like pork chopsmyself, pork chopman. I am a
port chopped man. But the pointis children need to learn and I work.

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You know, we talk a lotabout our kids don't know the pledge
of allegiance. Our kids don't knowto respect veterans. Let me tell you
what else our kids don't know.That ought to scare the hell out of
you. Our kids don't know thatcapitalism is why we are rich. We're
richer than the rest of the world. There's less of a difference than there
used to be. But we're notricher than the rest of the world because

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we all pledge allegiance. Everybody makesa pledge to their government that you are
the king. We will worship you, we will die for you, we
love you. Everybody has a flagthey're proud of. Everybody has a military
they support. Right, can weagree to all that? What we do

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better than anybody else is we arecapitalists. We trade things. We have
a We had a stable economy,a stable political environment. And when you
have stability, then people invest,They take a risk. Nobody builds a
plant in a country where they've hadeight civil wars in the last twelve years.

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You just don't do it because you'rescared to death that they'll end up
nationalizing your industry, and that's that'syou're not gonna You're not gonna, You're
not gonna bet at all. Butin this country you do. There is
an ease of transfer of goods andservices such that you can make money.
People leave countries all over the worldand come here and set up businesses,

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whether it's a gas station where theystart, or a taco shop or whatever
else. If I told you Ihave taco right now, what what would
it be? Eggs and bacon?Would you put potatoes in there? You
would cheese, corner flour, klipanosfresh. My problem is a lot of

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places. Now I think you're givingyou jlipenios out of out of a glass
jar. You lose a lot ofthe pico on that. It just becomes
kind of a saturated. So thinkabout what your kid's going to do this
summer. It doesn't have to befancy. You know, a guy that
owns a tire shop, puts yourkid to work there, offer to work
for free. They'll pay the kidmaybe less than it's a great experience.

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