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...fact, the poll did show that where there has been an uptick is in the most - kind of the local volunteering, right around your home with your local school...
...last year it was a kind of great moment for us, and since then, the economy has gone down. I'm wondering what you make of that and what you think the significance of that is for national service. The President: Well, I think that people are understandably anxious right now and feeling insecure economically. They are worried about home payments; they're worried about bills; they're worried about losing their health care; they're worried about their 401(k)s and whether or not they're going to be able to afford to send their kids to college...
...greater, more people are hungry, more people are out of work, more people are falling through the cracks, but when I talk to young people, for example, I say to them now is the time to get experience - since you may not be able to find a job right away - get some experience doing some good for your country, and that will not only be in the interest of the people you help, but it's going to be in your self-interest. You'll get work experience, you'll make contacts, you'll network, you'll expand your community...
...Well, in fact, speaking of de Tocqueville, there was that Putnam study from a few years ago about bowling alone. I remember somebody rebutted that by saying, people aren't bowling alone, they're playing soccer in groups - you're not looking at the right kind of examples...
...Right. So how - talk about that a little bit - I mean, how you are both kind of cause and effect of this, and you're also in some ways the great champion of it, of these ideas and values that are changing the way civic society works. The President: Well, look, I think our campaign was an expression of people wanting to be engaged and involved in different ways. They didn't want to just be passive consumers of political television ads. They wanted to have their voices heard. They wanted to interact with their membership - or with their neighbor...