“It's critical - that the people that are benefiting today from Medicare and Social Security that they not see benefit reductions. It's awfully hard to tell someone who might be 82, that they've gotta go back to work, because their benefits are gonna be chopped. That's not gonna happen.” PeopleHardMightHappensTodaySocialSecurityBenefitsCriticalSocial SecurityReductionMedicareBack To Work Author:Fred Upton
“I was once a welfare recipient and am very aware of the successes and failures of this critical safety net. There are those that would have us believe that those receiving TANF benefits are lazy, shiftless, freeloaders who are just sitting around thinking of another way to suckle from the government teat.” ThinkingWayBelieveGovernmentBenefitsSittingSafetyCriticalWelfareLazyReceivingAnother WaySuccess And FailureSitting AroundSafety NetWelfare Recipients Author:Gwen Moore
“Women have always been more critical of marriage than men. The great mysterious irony of it is - at least it's the stereotype - that women want to get married and men are trying to avoid it. Marriage doesn't benefit women as much as men, and it never has. And women, once they are married, become very critical of marriages in a way that men don't.” MenWayWantTryingBenefitsMarriedCriticalMysteriousIronyStereotypeWomen Want Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“I'm much more concerned about what artists think. But as you get older you tend to get much more isolated; you're not out in the bar, having long drunken arguments on the benefits of your work vs. someone else's. It's hard to know how people are looking at it, and you don't get much feedback. The written critical stuff seems to be the feedback, but that's hard to interpret.” PeopleThinkingKnowsLongHardSeemsArtistStuffKnow HowWrittenBenefitsConcernedArgumentCriticalBarsIsolatedFeedback Author:Brice Marden
“The reduction in a number of pregnancies is - compensates for the cost of contraception. ... Providing contraception as a critical preventive health benefit for women and for their children reduces health care.” ChildrenCareNumbersCostBenefitsCriticalHealth CarePregnancyProvidingReductionContraceptionHealth Benefits Author:Kathleen Sebelius
“Attaching the word marriage to the association of same-sex individuals mistakenly presumes that marriage is principally a matter of adult benefits and adult rights. In fact, marriage is principally about the nurturing and development of children. And the successful development of children is critical to the preservation and success of our nation.” ChildrenMatterFactsIndividualNationsSexSuccessfulRightsDevelopmentBenefitsAdultsCriticalAssociationPreservationNurturing Author:Mitt Romney