yep one in three bank tellers are on public assistance and sister just bank
tellers
I why I had to go to Macys the
this jazz been but a year and a half ago two years ago I was invited to have
dinner with President Obama and his wife and 200 the best friends
it was the TV correspondents' dinner and I had to have a taxi to
and this was the second time I've been invited to all these things I figured I
live in Washington DC I get because I had have a taxi or for the
presidential inauguration and I rented one and
you it when you're at a tux it's like you know 1890 by
here night dollar something like that I mean it's it's not cheap to read a
a you know nice-looking tuxedo and
so what are a Macy's to see you know
baby ages by one acres if I'm gonna wear it more than three times I probably paid
for
you know and and that and there's a huge hassle associated with running a tux
you gotta go when you get if indeed you gotta come back here to return it you
gotta do you know all this stuff
now hand i rehabbed para black shoes they weren't the right kind but I
I don't care and I want to learn how to tie a bow tie
I'd never done that so so any I went over to Macy's and
Perry very very spartan young man very nice young man
a showed me the taxes and they actually had them on sale
and was like one other one other designer ones like ralph lauren or
something
and was a hundred and fifty bucks for talks
and you know thank God
a I have up you know
enough income I I realize that's a lotta money for a lot of people is a lot of
money for me frankly
but still I thought okayed you know all invest in a toxin that way you know if I
wear this thing three times I have won three times since then
I I've saved money on renting
as I'm buying the talks
I'm saying to this guy who's just striking me as one of the smartest
people
you know very thoughtful very considerate
just a gentleman a young man yeah I guess he was
25 are just a a sweet guy I said you know
a when you think about working at Macys
speaker to ask so I actually am a lawyer
but I can't get a job and I said you can't kill or you can get a job
in Washington DC and he said yeah he said its
he said I actually you know I graduated from law school with honors a passed the
bar
he said there are
a few opportunities occasionally pop up but they're not
necessarily things are gonna go anywhere
he was after American he said I'm I'm black I've got one strike against me
and you know which is tough to hear
and and I mean it's a tough reality in america
and a but a lawyer at Macy's
and then the cartoon yesterday this this cartoon no
are a few so the doonesbury cartoon in the in the newspaper where the
dot doonesbury his daughter or granddaughter whatever it is now
you know doonesbury slick an old man like me and
so the kid she'd our college graduate she's being
she's training she's working in a fast food restaurant with her
as she's working on a PhD and she's training in the the new girl whose
just been hired you know and she's explained to her yeah I again I got my
master's degree I got my PhD rag
you know I just couldn't couldn't find a job so here I am working at mcdonald's
arafat this fast food joint and she says what's your story in the in the young
woman who she's training says:
same story here my PhD is microbiology this is a lost generation
the peak above wealth in the United States has 1973
1973 Richard Nixon was president
any signed this he put together this very complex
deal that allowed countries to start exporting
textiles to each other including the United States
are a lot of quarters but there are ways around those quotas
and I will ok South Korean company in fact got into bed with a
Bangladeshi company so they you know they could double their quotas and put
up with other countries
a company's other countries in serve just pumping stuff in the united states
and we stop making things here we start making clothing your
richard
also help cut taxes on corporations you know I've been saying for years rate it
all began with the reagan
I'm increasingly thinking it all began to nixon and
reagan was wanna became naked because when Nixon traveled around the country
he gave speeches about how he was trying to help the textile industry
by putting quotas on what could be imported to the United States cuz we had
to pay respect that but he was gonna punch holes to those tariffs
in small quantities rad
we still makes action South Carolina do is to make blue jeans New Mexico
we still make ladies dresses and so in california
to historic mens suits in Manhattan no
there's a fancy tailor shop just up the street from our TV show
my TV studio and I was in there
shopping around the other day actions but a year ago
and I said can i buy a sports car from you made in the United States
and
I mean this is like this is a fancy place i mean everything is custom-made
you don't buy something off the rack your
and the guy said no sorry I can sell you stuff made in Canada
so it's been north america we have some very good men's
suits samuelson I think was the brand he said there are made in Canada but not
not United States they do sell shirts made in its
actually I'm wearing one of them right now
little bit of went on a anyway
it so i'd so I bought a shirt from them
but that was that was about it I was about it
this is what he's got a good on TV things
anyhow end of story it the
the point is that we just don't make things here anymore and there's no good
jobs anymore
and this little tailor shop I bought this shirt his
here in DC there's still a lot of small locally owned business family-owned shop
it's the father and son on the business I was talking to the Sun
these two guys from the store the Taylors
they may close it's pretty much gone
I mean that's pretty much gone now it's back to Macy's where lawyers are working
for
for so little that they're probably call fine for food stamps
this is the new american business model and you know here's the story by Bill
Moyers & Company
this is from the washington post actually
almost a third of the country's half-million bank tellers reliance some
for a public assistance
taxpayers are doling out nearly 90 million dollars a year supplement the
wages a bank tellers
which also raises the question
do you want to be giving your most confidential financial information
to somebody who's in financial distress
which raises the question: I love is
even raising that question really
a nasty from a bigotry because on the one hand you've got
you know it implies the people who are on the lower into the economic strata
are more likely to be criminal which is something I completely reject
and is an argument that has been used to support racism
and perpetuate poverty for millennia and on the other hand
somebody who's in economic distress
as you can find by checking out your jail populations
is actually somewhat more likely
to be a risk and I guess I'm contradicting myself from
you know it's like how do you do that and be politically correct I don't know