“To allow all U.S. workers to put part of their earnings into private investment accounts would definitely erode the Social Security system and cause uncertainty for new investors.” SocialCausesSecurityAccountsInvestmentWorkersUncertaintyInvestorsEarningSocial SecurityErodeSecurity Systems Author:Grace Napolitano
“As you know, in the 2000 campaign I articulated a point of view that we ought to have personal savings accounts for younger workers that would make sure those younger workers receive benefits equal to or greater than that which is expected, ... I still maintain the same position.” KnowsStillsViewsGreaterPositionOughtEqualBenefitsAccountsWorkersPoint Of ViewExpectedCampaignsSavingSavingsSavings Accounts Author:George H. W. Bush
“I believe that we should allow younger workers to contribute toward a personal account that they own, as long as it is coupled with deficit reduction measures that enhance the long-term condition of Social Security.” ShouldBelieveLongI BelieveSocialTermConditionsSecurityAccountsWorkersLong TermSocial SecurityDeficitReduction Author:Cliff Stearns
“Ireland still remains the Holy Isle whose aspirations must on no account be mixed with the profane class-struggles of the rest of the sinful world ... the Irish peasant must not on any account know that the Socialist workers are his sole allies in Europe.” KnowsWorldStillsClassStruggleHolyEuropeAccountsRemainsWorkersAspirationAlliesIrelandSoleSocialistPeasantsClass StruggleProfaneIsleSinful World Book:Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: selected correspondence, 1846-1895: with explanatory notes Source: Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: selected correspondence, 1846-1895: with explanatory notes
“Internationalism means that we can see into the dark corners of the world, and hold those companies to account when they are devastating forests or employing children as bonded labour. Globalization is the complete opposite, its rules pit country against country and workers against workers in the blinkered pursuit of international competitiveness.” WorldMeanChildrenCountryDarkCompanyOppositesAccountsWorkersInternationalCornersPursuitForestsLabourGlobalizationFree MarketPitsCompetitivenessEmployingCorners Of The WorldInternationalismComplete Opposites Author:Anita Roddick
“I did a lot of reading of first person accounts from Koreans and combatants and aid workers. And I spoke to relatives. A lot of wonderful photographs were made available to me from that period - 1950-1956 - and those were given to me by a Korean newspaper in Seoul. Ruined villages, refugees streaming through a river valley, GI's and orphans and orphanages, those tiny details that you can only see in a picture.” FirstsPersonsMadeReadingGivenWonderfulPeriodsRiversAccountsWorkersPhotographDetailsAvailableAidsTinyNewspapersSpokesVillageValleysRuinedRefugeeKoreanFirst PersonOrphanStreamingOrphanageGis Author:Chang-Rae Lee
“The ninety-nine cent price of a fast-food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost--to soil, oil, public health, the public purse, etc., costs which are never charged directly to the consumer but, indirectly and invisibly, to the taxpayer (in the form of subsidies), the health care system (in the form of food-borne illnesses and obesity), and the environment (in the form of pollution), not to mention the welfare of the workers in the feedlot and the slaughterhouse and the welfare of the animals themselves.” CareFormAnimalEnvironmentCostAccountsWorkersIllnessOilNineHealth CareConsumersWelfareMealsSoilEtcPollutionCentsNinetyTaxpayersPursesObesityPublic HealthFast FoodHamburgersSubsidiesNinety NineHealth Care SystemSlaughterhouses Author:Michael Pollan
“The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in a way that makes the outlook hazardous. The workers lose all sense of proportion in a maze of minutiae.” WayMayScienceLosesModernDevelopmentAccountsExtraordinaryWorkersProportionOutlookModern ScienceMazesFragmentedUndoingMinutiae Book:Osler's Source: Osler's