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I was unable to find a full transcript of the video clip or a full version any where on the internet. In addition, there is an undisclosed edit at time mark 0:39. This is what I did find combined with my transcription:

“Let's Start with the following two facts. Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works. So, they literally have no habit of showing up on Monday. They have no habit of staying all day. They have no habit of, ‘I do this and you give me cash,’ unless it’s illegal. Second. Every first generation successful person I know started work early. How many of you either did baby-sitting...[EDIT]...very inexpensive. And so I come around to this question. You have a very poor neighborhood. You have kids who are required under law to go to school. They have no money, they have no habit of work. What if you paid them part-time in the afternoon to sit at the clerical office and greet people when they came in. What if you paid them to work as the assistant librarian. And I'd pay them as early as is reasonable and practical. [unidentified] delude on the janitor thing. These letters are written that say 'Janitorial work is really hard and really dangerous and it's this and that.' Fine. So what if they became assistant janitors and their job was to mop the floor and clean the bathroom. And you paid them. And all of a sudden in their neighborhood. And, I did this. [END CLIP]

Nowhere in the clip did he say that government should be the one to employ these kids. Can anyone take issue with what he really said? This is the most insightful explanation I have seen for the disintegration of the inner-city and the collapse of the minority family. Please ping me if anyone finds a longer video or full transcript, I would really like to see it.