“While gambling addiction can be a social justice reason for some to ban gambling, the economic evidence suggests that the social and economic costs of gambling are $3 to the taxpayers for every $1 in benefits” ReasonSocialJusticeEconomicCostBenefitsEvidenceSocial JusticeAddictionGamblingTaxpayersBans Author:John Warren Kindt
“Marx's own illusion was to think that the working class movement, which he devoted his life to creating and strengthening, would both be socially and politically successful in the industrial nations of Western Europe, and that it would develop an entirely new way of human social life that would retain and even enhance the productive benefits of capitalism while overcoming the inhumanity and exploitation of capitalist social relations. Marx himself had no solutions to these problems. His object of study was capitalism itself.” ThinkingWayHumansProblemNationsSocialClassStudySuccessfulMovementObjectsBenefitsCreatingSolutionsIllusionCapitalismEuropeOvercomingRelationWesternProductiveCapitalistDevotedNew WaysExploitationWorking ClassSocial LifeStrengtheningInhumanityWestern EuropeSocial Relations Author:Allen W. Wood
“I don't see how being a faster runner, or a better mathematician makes you 'deserve' access to a better life, or more influence on policy, in the absence of a social decision to play that game in the way it's proposed to be organised for some set of benefits.” WayPlayGamesSocialDecisionInfluencePolicyBenefitsDeserveAbsenceAccessFasterMathematicianRunnersBetter LifeOrganised Author:Catherine Wilson
“I will not cut benefits. I want to enhance benefits for low-income workers and for women who have been disadvantaged by the current Social Security system.” WantHas BeensSocialCuttingSecurityBenefitsLowsWorkersCurrentsIncomeSocial SecurityLow IncomeDisadvantagedSecurity Systems Author:Hillary Clinton
“People expect those in authority to take on big problems and to solve them. We had an opportunity to reform Social Security in a way that would have protected people's benefits and created a solvent system. Younger workers would be confident that the money they were putting into the system would be available to them when they retired. It was a missed opportunity. I regret that.” PeopleWayProblemBigsWould BeOpportunitySocialSecurityRegretAuthorityBenefitsWorkersAvailableSolveReformProtectedSocial SecurityRetiredI RegretBig ProblemsBe ConfidentMissed Opportunity Author:George W. Bush
“The main thrust of the Social Security reform was to get the benefit structure in line with the realities of the Trust Funds.” RealitySocialLinesSecurityBenefitsStructureReformFundSocial SecurityThrustTrust Funds Author:George W. Bush
“If you're a poor worker - this is for new workers coming into the workplace - your benefits will increase at the current rate of increase. If you're a wealthier worker, your benefits would increase at the rate of inflation. And those changes would affect positively the unfunded liabilities inherent in Social Security.” IfsSocialPoorSecurityBenefitsIncreaseWorkersRateCurrentsInherentWorkplaceSocial SecurityInflationPositivelyLiability Author:George W. Bush
“We have had many wars with other countries and when a prisoner comes back they get many benefits, they get a house, they get a salary and I want the Iraqi government to do this for the Yazidi women so that they can have the social status that would allow a good future, a good family and a good status in society.” WantWarCountryGovernmentHouseSocialBenefitsPrisonerOther CountriesSalarySocial StatusGood FamilyGood Future Author:Yanar Mohammed
“The fact that refugees traveled through six other countries, like former Yugoslavia, Macedonia, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, France, Germany, Holland, is because they like our social benefits. They like our welfare state. They know which country to pick. They're not going to stay in Hungary or in Estonia. They come to Germany, to Holland. And people sense that those are not the real refugees. And our government has spent billions of euros on them, and the Dutch people know.” PeopleKnowsRealCountryStatesFactsGovernmentSocialSixBenefitsPicksBillionsFormerFranceWelfareGermanyOther CountriesTraveledRefugeeDutchEuroWelfare StateSwitzerlandHollandAustriaHungaryYugoslaviaEstoniaMacedonia Author:Geert Wilders
“Non-Western immigrants, often Muslims, are over-represented in statistics of crime, of dependency on social benefits, that we have honour killings, that we have genital mutilation, that we have streets where women with headscarves and burqas are not the exception any more. And that it's getting worse.” SocialStreetsCrimeBenefitsWesternKillingExceptionImmigrantsStatisticsHonourDependencyMutilationBurqaHeadscarves Author:Geert Wilders
“Any social movement that seeks to benefit only its own members I think is a shallow movement and probably doomed to failure.” ThinkingSocialMovementMembersBenefitsDoomedShallowSocial Movements Author:Cleve Jones
“I have argued tirelessly, nearly endlessly, in so many books, about the need for the social, the economic reconstruction of society. The demand that people be present themselves, that they contribute to the reorganization of society, that they own up to their own complicity in a system from which they derive benefit and advantage, often without acknowledgement, and the discomfort, the uncomfortable way in which that must be acknowledged.” PeopleWayNeedsBookSocialEconomicDemandBenefitsAdvantageUncomfortableDiscomfortReconstructionAcknowledgementComplicityReorganization Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“More young people believe they'll see a U.F.O. than that they'll see their own Social Security benefits.” PeopleBelieveYoungSocialSecurityBenefitsSocial Security Author:Mitch McConnell
“Social engineering is using manipulation, influence and deception to get a person, a trusted insider within an organization, to comply with a request, and the request is usually to release information or to perform some sort of action item that benefits that attacker.” PersonsActionSocialInfluenceInformationBenefitsOrganizationReleaseDeceptionManipulationEngineeringTrustedItemsRequestInsidersSocial Engineering Author:Kevin Mitnick
“Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.” MeanSocialPayRichSecurityBenefitsTestsSocial SecurityMedicare Author:Rand Paul
“Social Security has never failed to pay promised benefits, and Democrats will fight to make sure that Republicans do not turn a guaranteed benefit into a guaranteed gamble.” TurnsFightingSocialPaySecurityRepublicanBenefitsDemocratSocial SecurityGambleGamer Author:Nancy Pelosi
“But here's what I would tell people of my generation. I turn 40 this year. There isn't going to be a Social Security. There isn't going to be a Medicare when you retire. Forget about what your benefit is going to look like. There isn't going to be one if we don't make some reforms to save that program now.” PeopleIfsYearsLooksTurnsSocialForgetGenerationsSecurityBenefitsProgramReformRetiringSocial SecurityMy GenerationMedicare Author:Marco Rubio
“I don't believe there's a red state in America where people believe you should cut Medicare, Social Security and veterans' benefits rather than doing away with corporate tax loopholes.” PeopleShouldBelieveStatesAmericaSocialCuttingSecurityTaxesBenefitsRedDon't BelieveCorporateVeteranSocial SecurityMedicareLoopholes Author:Bernie Sanders
“I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. Yes, I'm a writer, but I live in this world, and my writing doesn't exist on a separate level. And if people know who I am and read my books, well, good; that way, if I have something more to say, then everyone benefits.” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldWayWritingWellsKindI CanBookPoliticalSocialLevelsImagineThis WorldBenefitsWho I AmInvolvementPolitical Involvement Author:Jose Saramago
“Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.” PeopleRealIndividualSocialNumbersEconomyRightsExerciseSpeechBenefitsFunctionPropertyFree SpeechFreedom Of SpeechProperty Rights Author:Thomas Sowell
“Unlike most government programs, Social Security and, in part, Medicare are funded by payroll taxes dedicated specifically to them. Some of the tax revenue pays for current benefits; anything that's left over goes into trust funds for the future. The programs were designed this way for political reasons.” WayReasonGovernmentPoliticalLeftSocialPaySecurityTaxesBenefitsProgramCurrentsFundDedicatedSocial SecurityRevenueMedicareGovernment ProgramsPayrollTrust FundsPayroll Tax Author:James Surowiecki
“It does kids no favors, and sets them up for a potential lifetime of poor health and social embarrassment, to excuse them from family meals of real food. Everyone benefits from healthy eating, but it is particularly crucial at the beginning of life.” DoeRealKidsSocialPoorHealthyBenefitsEatingLifetimeExcuseFavorsMealsCrucialEmbarrassmentHealthy EatingBeginning Of LifeReal FoodPoor Health Author:Andrew Weil
“The 1935 Social Security Act established 65 as the age of eligibility for payouts. But welfare state politics quickly becomes a bidding war, enriching the menu of benefits, so in 1956 Congress entitled women to collect benefits at 62, extending the entitlement to men in 1961.” MenWarStatesAgeSocialSecurityBenefitsCongressWelfareEntitledSocial SecurityEntitlementExtendingWelfare StateMenusEnrichingBiddingEligibility Author:George Will
“We human beings are social beings. We come into the world as the result of others’ actions. We survive here in dependence on others. Whether we like it or not, there is hardly a moment of our lives when we do not benefit from others’ activities. For this reason, it is hardly surprising that most of our happiness arises in the context of our relationships with others.” WorldHumansReasonMomentsActionHappinessSocialHuman BeingsResultsOur LivesActivityBenefitsAriseSurprisingOur RelationshipDependenceRelationships With OthersOthers HappinessDependence On OthersSocial Being Author:Dalai Lama
“Law and order is a social service. Crime and the fear which the threat of crime induces can paralyse whole communities, keep lonely and vulnerable elderly people shut up in their homes, scar young lives and raise to cult status the swaggering violent bully who achieves predatory control over the streets. I suspect that there would be more support and less criticism than today's political leaders imagine for a large shift of resources from Social Security benefits to law and order - as long as rhetoric about getting tough on crime was matched by practice.” PeopleLongWholeHomeWould BeTodayLawYoungPoliticalOrderSocialCommunityLeaderPracticeSupportImagineStreetsAchieveSecurityCrimeBenefitsToughResourcesCriticismLonelyRaisesThreatViolentVulnerableSuspectsScarRhetoricShut UpCultBullySocial SecurityElderlyLaw And OrderPolitical LeadersMatchedSocial ServicePredatoryYoung Life Author:Margaret Thatcher
“I've learned that the universe doesn't care what our motives are, only our actions. So we should do things that will bring about good, even if there is an element of selfishness involved. Like the kids at my school might join the Key Club or Future Buisness Leaders of America, because it's a social thing and looks good on their record, not because they really want to volunteer at the nursing home. But the people at the nursing home still benefit from it, so it's better that the kids do it than not do it. And if they never did it, then they wouldn't find out that they actually liked it.” PeopleIfsWantShouldLooksStillsHomeMightCareKidsActionSchoolAmericaUniverseSocialLeaderRecordsKeysInvolvedElementsBenefitsClubsSelfishnessMotiveI've LearnedVolunteerOur ActionsNursingBuisnessNursing Home Book:13 Gifts Source: 13 Gifts
“I mean by intellectual integrity the habit of deciding vexed questions in accordance with the evidence, or of leaving them undecided where the evidence is inconclusive. This virtue, though it is underestimated by almost all adherents of any system of dogma, is to my mind of the very greatest social importance and far more likely to benefit the world than Christianity or any other system of organized beliefs.” WorldMindMeanReligionBeliefSocialChristianityVirtueHabitIntegrityBenefitsIntellectualEvidenceImportanceLeavingOrganizedDogmaUnderestimatedUndecided Book:The basic writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959 Source: The basic writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959