“The fundamental fact in the lives of the poor in most parts of America is that the wages of common labor are far below the benefits of AFDC, Medicaid, food stamps, public housing, public defenders, leisure time and all the other goods and services of the welfare state.” StatesFactsAmericaPoorCommonBenefitsLaborFundamentalsWelfareGoodsLeisureWagesStampsHousingDefendersWelfare StateGoods And ServicesLeisure TimeFood StampsMedicaidPublic Housing Author:George Gilder
“All socialism involves slavery.... That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labors under coercion to satisfy another's desires. The relation admits of many gradations. Oppressive taxation is a form of slavery of the individual to the community as a whole. The essential question is -- How much is he compelled to labor for other benefit than his own, and how much can he labor for his own benefit?” WholeFormDesireIndividualCommunityResponsibilityEssentialsBenefitsLaborRelationSlaverySlaveSocialismOppressionCompelledTaxationCoercionEssential Questions Author:Herbert Spencer
“Emancipation of human labor from economic servitude and exploitation, i.e., from organizations of production in which the conditions of work are determined by a master class who own the means of production, and in which the fruits of work are alienated from workers to the benefit of masters.” HumansMeanWisdomPoliticsClassEconomyEconomicConditionsMastersBenefitsLaborOrganizationFruitWorkersProductionsDeterminedLiberalismExploitationEmancipationServitude Author:Mortimer Adler
“Capital, and the question of who owns it and therefore reaps the benefit of its productiveness, is an extremely important issue that is complementary to the issue of full employment... I see these as twin pillars of our economy: Full employment of our labor resources and widespread ownership of our capital resources. Such twin pillars would go a long way in providing a firm underlying support for future economic growth that would be equitably shared.” WayLongImportantWisdomWould BePoliticsGrowthSupportEconomyIssuesEconomicBenefitsResourcesLaborEmploymentFirmLiberalismProvidingOwnershipTwinsLong WayEconomic GrowthReapPillarsImportant IssuesComplementary Author:Hubert H. Humphrey
“That part of a work of one author found in another is not of itself piracy, or sufficient to support an action; a man may adopt part of the work of another; he may so make use of another’s labors for the promotion of science and the benefit of the public.” MenMayUseActionFoundSupportBenefitsLaborSufficientPromotionPiracy Author:Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough
“I find it remarkable that virtually all of the large difference in labor supply between France and the United States is due to differences in tax systems. I expected institutional constraints on the operation of labor markets and the nature of the unemployment benefit system to be more important. I was surprised that the welfare gain from reducing the intratemporal tax wedge is so large.” ImportantStatesDifferencesUnitedUnited StatesTaxesBenefitsGainsEconomicsLaborDuesExpectedFranceOperationsWelfareRemarkableUnemploymentReducingConstraintsWedgesTax SystemUnemployment Benefits Author:Edward C. Prescott
“Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment; for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; for no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could be tempted; but of all employments, bodily labor is the most useful, and of the greatest benefit for driving away the Devil.” IfsPersonsSoulBodyEasySpaceBenefitsDevilLaborDrivingLustEmploymentEaseEmptinessIdleSevereTemptedIdlenessCreepsUnemployedChasteDriving Away Author:Jeremy Taylor
“The current health care takeover proposals feature a crucial payoff to Big Labor - a golden exemption from any tax on union members' generous health care benefits. The friends and patrons of Obama may be making out like bandits. But for everyone else, the Democrats' ideological bankruptcy comes at a nauseatingly steep price.” MayBigsCareTaxesMembersBenefitsLaborUnionsDemocratCurrentsGoldenHealth CareFeaturesGenerousCrucialProposalIdeologicalBankruptcySteepPatronPayoffBanditsExemptionTakeovers Author:Michelle Malkin
“The president's attempted diktat takes money from bondholders and gives it a labor union that delivers money and votes for him.... Shaking down lenders for the benefit of political donors is recycled corruption and the abuse of power.” GivingPoliticalPresidentBenefitsLaborVoteAbuseUnionsCorruptionShakingAbuse Of PowerDonorsLabor UnionRecycledLenders Author:Cliff Asness
“The pioneer labor historian John Commons was not wrong when he wrote around World War One that exploiting and deepening such tensions as outpacing scientific management among U.S. innovations where bossing was concerned. Amidst the general miseries of proletarianization, workers also learned that one source of meager benefits and protections could lie in claiming a white skin.” WorldWarLyingWhiteSourceBenefitsConcernedLaborSkinsInnovationManagementMiseryWorkersProtectionWar Of The WorldsTensionHistorianPioneersWorld War OneWhite Skin Author:David Roediger
“I have little space from the suffering of elephants right now. I wake up with it and go to sleep with it. The plight of animals in shelters, of kids used for labor for the metals in our electronics and endless other things, the fate of our water supply to dye our blue jeans and water our lawns, the sad painful life of conventionally raised meat...For me, I am working to not contribute to this. I really don't want to hurt others for my benefit.” WantLittlesKidsUsedSufferingWaterHurtSleepSpaceAnimalFateRight NowBenefitsLaborWake UpBlueRaisedPainfulEndlessMeatMetalsShelterElephantsJeansGoing To SleepLawnsPlightElectronicsBlue JeansPainful Life Author:Kristin Bauer van Straten
“The financial benefits of prefabrication have never been as large as its advocates predicted, for although some labor costs can be reduced by machine manufacturing, on-site assembly of any building still depends to some extent on the handwork of skilled craftsmen.” StillsBuildingDependsCostBenefitsLaborMachinesFinancialSiteAssemblyManufacturingCraftsman Author:Martin Filler
“Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on.” WaySchoolJobsNumbersPlansBenefitsLaborToolsEncouragementInfiniteProfitCommittedCreditProtectionLawyerReliefProgressiveMinimumWagesTaxationPublic SchoolMinimum WagePlunderSubsidiesTariffsProgressive Taxation Book:The Law Source: The Law
“My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labor and sacrifices made. This is one of the reasons why I feel certain that of all my inventions, the Magnifying Transmitter will prove most important and valuable to future generations. I am prompted to this prediction not so much by thoughts of the commercial and industrial revolution which it will surely bring about, but of the humanitarian consequences of the many achievements it makes possible. Considerations of mere utility weigh little in the balance against the higher benefits of civilization.” FeelsLittlesMadeImportantReasonLawCertainBeliefGenerationsSacrificeHard WorkRevolutionBalanceHigherCivilizationProveAchievementBenefitsConsequenceLaborMereRewardsValuableHumanitarianInventionFirmReason WhyProportionConsiderationPredictionsCompensationFuture GenerationUtilityIndustrial RevolutionMagnifying Book:My Inventions: [Illustrated & Biography Added] Source: My Inventions: [Illustrated & Biography Added]