They are hard working people who only want to show up for their shift and take home a decent paycheck so they can pay the mortgage, buy food and maybe have a bit left over so their kids can have more opportunities than they were given when they were young.

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There are many hard-working and decent people who are no better off today than they were 20 years ago.

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"These are independent, hard-working people, who feel that they do not need to go to a shrink, " Picou says.

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Working hard, producing, and trading are what people do naturally when they are free.

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And I get letters from people who are really working hard, doing everything right, but they can barely afford to keep up, barely keep their families afloat.

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There are a lot of good people working hard over there and the big stage is what they crave.

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And everything we think about in terms of economic policy is how do we make sure that if people are out here working hard and taking responsibility for themselves and their families, that they are rewarded.

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