Welcome to politics by faith. Thanks for being here. We had someone calling to the series XM show today,

who I'm not sure if he was the owner or a manager, pretty high up guy, who said he can't find good work.

He can't find people with hard skills or soft skills. Hard skills. I asked him, it was like,

what, what do you mean? Like, what kind of hard skill? What are people, what are Americans not capable of doing?

He said, uh, operate and read a tape measure.

Or basic math.

And I don't, I think the soft skills are worse.

Like that's more concerning that people don't have soft skills of showing up on time

or caring just a little bit, taking a little initiative, a little ownership,

wanting to finish the job for the job's sake, just because it is good to finish.

Thinking that something, it's, you know, that's not my problem.

But that attitude, you know, after Zoran and a bunch of other Democrats won the election

a week or so ago, seems to be a common thought here that this next year,

Trump and everyone really needs to focus on the economy.

We got to get prices down, got to get the economy humming, got to get wages up,

things got to be good out there in the economy.

That's true.

But how much of the problems with our economy are so foundationally broken?

How much of the problems of our economy?

Just laziness.

And maybe not even late.

Whatever the sin is, whatever the vice is. And I'm know Letting the fat cats off the hook There's plenty of blame to go around Here's what I was What I was thinking about this I saw this podcast called Financial Audit And I watch these little shorts Every once in a while This guy He's broke, he's in debt. He does door dash. He's got two kids,

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