Prize-winning speech Feb 27 2014

I won ribbons for both impromptu speech (table topic) and evaluation in one evening.

My table topic
Based on the quotation by Carnegie

"He who dies rich is a disgrace."

Dying rich? I should be so lucky! Would you prefer to die rich or die poor?

   This comment is a disgrace. We'd all like to die rich.

    I’m worry dying poor and not having enough money to leave my son. Or dying rich and leaving it all to the government. Inheritance tax. 

   That’s my problem. Why should I leave it all to complete strangers? If I don’t want to give any money to my own son, I certainly won’t want to give it to the government. or millions of strangers starving in Africa. 

   How far is my pittance going to go? Millions of them. What's the population of Britain? 56 million. How many in Africa. Next year there will be twice as many millions. Waste of money. 

   As for Carnegie, all very well for him to talk. He had millions. Carnegie Hall. If I had his millions, I might leave money for a hall - and call it Angela Hall. I'd build one in America, one in England, one in Africa - if I had millions of millions, every country in Africa. 

   But I need the money to leave to my son. He can’t make money, and it’s all my fault. I gave birth to him.

   I didn’t give birth to millions of strangers. My problem is having enough money, even tupenny ha’pence to leave my son. Dying rich. I should be so lucky.

(See next blog for my evaluation of my own topic and others' topics.)
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