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and what are the direct results of these social ills that

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we have in our nation and I would suggest to the business

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community in this Stata that it can no longer afford to sit

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idly by and be influenced by those few among it who are

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so motivated that they would try to lead them further down

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a path which has been unsucessful.

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I tell you as I stand here that there is a

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collision course now between public employees and public

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officials. There is a collision course between those

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employees of charitable organizations and their boards and

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you already see the symptoms of some of these things. You

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have read about and maybe have witnessed the strikes of

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State employees and city employees, the transit strike in

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New York City, the teachers' strike up in Connecticut, and

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to those who would suggest that the way we are going to

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solve these problems is to keep these employees from

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organizaing in the first place, I say to them you have not

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studied the problem. You don't understand the society in

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which we live. You do not understand the temper of the time

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and what is going on in the minds of people because these

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problems will not be settled that way. They will