Hey, welcome back to Road to Midterms.

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It's called Politics by Faith.

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And the point is to take a story or something in the news that's giving you anxiety,

that's giving me anxiety, and give some historical perspective and some biblical peace so that we can make the anxiety go away.

We can think clearly, make good decisions.

So again, that podcast is available everywhere, politics by faith.

If you're listening this on the podcast, I sound different because it's a different microphone because this is the last segment of our TV show that airs on the first TV called Road to Midterm 7 o'clock every day.

I want to, however you're listening, thank you for taking the time. We were just talking with Carol Roth about how no one's working anymore. And it's like, what are they doing? Where is everyone who's not working?

I don't know. I see help wanted signs everywhere. You ask any employer what the hardest part of

staying in business today is, and they'll say finding good help, finding employees who will show up,

show up. It used to be finding

employees who aren't on drugs and who won't steal from you. That used to be the

standard. At least they'll show up. Now it's just finding anybody who will, anybody

who will even apply, anybody who wants to work at all. And I ask people why, this is the

case. Why is it so hard to find help? And they'll say,

oh, well, you know, unemployment from COVID. And I'm like, yeah, but that's over. Like,

no state is still giving out COVID relief money, are they? What are people doing who are not working?

People who were working and now are not working. What are they doing? How are people paying for food?

What's going on today with our culture of work?

Back in the day, it was unfathomable to not work. When a young Frederick Douglass, who was born a slave,

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