Word: talks
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...talk a lot about how the year of no impact actually improved the quality of your family's life. How? Michelle: Before the project started, I was really heavily into a diet of high-fructose corn syrup. My life was very much determined by having screens all around me, all the time. I was a major TIVO user, totally addicted to sugar and reality TV. I was just a high-consuming member of the high-consuming lifestyle. And I think that I was just asleep to the toll, in terms of my health, in terms of not being with...
...wondering, how do you feel about that? How do you both feel about that? And is there anything that the federal government can do - The President: Well, there are elements of that in our national service bill. Our national service bill provides additional opportunities for AmeriCorps, which Michelle can talk about; additional opportunities for the Peace Corps; additional opportunities for service for doctors who, rather than getting a specialty and making as much money as they can, that are willing to work in a rural community. So that's been one of the working premises behind national service...
...Right, right. No, in fact, there's a huge amount of support among Americans for it, and it actually speaks to this idea - one more question, I have to figure out what it is - this idea that there's a kind of - some corporations talk about now kind of a double dividend, where there's a profit motive, but it also does - gives back to the community. They use this phrase called, like, the triple bottom line, where there's profitability, it's good for the environment, and it's good for the community...
...wondering if you would talk just a little bit to that idea of that being this kind of new civic engagement that people have through what they buy, what they purchase, and the kind of choices, the consumer choices that they make. The President: Well, as I said, the - I do think that young people - this next generation is much more aware of the consequences of what they buy, what they use, what they drive. And that's a wonderful thing. And our - all our individual choices, when you aggregate them, end up having a huge effect. And I think...
Service does that. It puts you in a set of conversations with people that you otherwise wouldn't talk to. One of the things that I loved most about the campaign was going to Iowa and going door to door and sitting at people's kitchens talking to them in small settings about life and sharing dreams and our stories. That's what service does. It's, you know, that's the indirect but very important outcome of community service is that it forces us out of our comfort zones and into one another's lives in a series...