“Our Hispanic community needs to understand how important the Social Security system is for not only its retired citizens, but also its disabled workers.” NeedsImportantSocialCommunitySecurityCitizensWorkersSocial SecurityRetiredDisabledHispanicSecurity Systems Author:Grace Napolitano
“Inflation is not a Robin Hood, taking from the rich to give to the poor. Rather, it deals most cruelly with those who can least protect themselves. It strikes hardest those millions of our citizens whose incomes do not quickly rise with the cost of living. When prices soar, the pensioner and the widow see their security undermined, the man of thrift sees his savings melt away; the white collar worker, the minister, and the teacher see their standards of living dragged down.” MenGivingWhitePoorDealsMillionsRichTeacherSecurityHe ManCitizensCostProtectStandardsWorkersStrikesIncomeHardestSavingMinistersSoarInflationSavingsHoodWidowsCollarsRobinsStandards Of LivingThriftRobin HoodWhite CollarCost Of Living Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“At first it was the incomes of corporations, then of rich citizens, then of well-provided widows and opulent workers, and finally the wealth of housemaids and the tips of waitresses. This is all in line with the ability to pay doctrine. The poor, simply because there are more of them, have more ability to pay than the rich.” FirstsWellsLinesWealthAbilityPoorPayRichCitizensWorkersIncomeDoctrineCorporationsWidowsWaitressHousemaids Book:Income Tax: Root of All Evil Source: Income Tax: Root of All Evil
“Sport carries on without deviation the mechanical tradition of furnishing relief and distraction to the worker after he has finished his work proper so that he is at no time independent of one technique or another. In sport the citizen of the technical society finds the same spirit, criteria, morality, actions and objectives in short, all the technical laws and customs which he encounters in office or factory.” ActionLawSpiritSportsCitizensMoralityOfficeTraditionIndependentWorkersFinishedTechniqueObjectivesEncountersReliefCarrieCustomsDistractionFactoriesCriteriaDeviation Author:Jacques Ellul
“Legal reform organizations are usually trying to portray their constituents as "hard workers," as "not criminals," as citizens, as part of normative family arrangements, and as conforming to white norms as much as possible. When these strategies are used, the most dangerous conditions and the people who are most vulnerable cannot be discussed or addressed.” PeopleTryingHardUsedWhiteConditionsDangerousHard WorkCitizensOrganizationStrategyWorkersCriminalsVulnerableReformArrangementsConformNormConstituentsHard Worker Author:Dean Spade
“The New Deal never rethought the draconian racist immigration restriction policies of the 20s, of course, but its electoral base rested significantly on "ethnic" voters, whose activism was both hemmed in and rewarded by the Democrats. Southern and Eastern Europeans were included as secondary leaders of the new industrial unions, and as entitled citizens qualified for social security, unemployment compensation, and fair labor standards protections, even as workers of color were largely left out of key areas of the welfare state.” StatesCoursesLeftSocialDealsLeaderSecurityPolicyColorKeysCitizensStandardsAreasFairsLaborUnionsDemocratWorkersProtectionActivismImmigrationWelfareRacistVotersSouthernEntitledUnemploymentEasternSocial SecurityQualifiedCompensationRestrictionLeft OutWelfare StateNew DealDraconian Author:David Roediger
“For years now, the fake European 'left' is trying to portray European citizens as victims of the US imperialism. It is even trying to make the world feel sorry for those European workers who do not get a fair deal from their governments! It is thoroughly absurd.” WorldFeelsTryingYearsGovernmentLeftDealsCitizensFairsVictimWorkersSorryAbsurdFakeImperialism Author:Andre Vltchek
“A good person is one who follows the Ten Commandments and the golden rule. There is plenty of precedent in history to guide us and we probably evolved to be sensitive to Bible-Golden Rule situations. But the dilemmas faced by a worker - a journalist, an architect, an auditor - or by a citizen (what position to take on stem cell research, whether to run for office, what is the proper balance between taxation and social nets) - are not questions that can be answered by traditional texts or precedents.” PersonsRunningSocialSituationPositionBalanceCitizensTenOfficeResearchWorkersGuidesTraditionalGoldenPlentyCellsJournalistSensitiveArchitectCommandmentsStemTaxationGood PersonDilemmaGolden RulePrecedentTen CommandmentsStem CellStem Cell ResearchAuditors Author:Howard Gardner
“The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.” DevelopmentCitizensHistoricalWorkersProducersConsumersTransformedClients Book:The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations Source: The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations
“Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America.” AmericaVoiceJusticeSupportCitizensFutureDemandLaborOrganizationUnionsWorkersInjusticePrivilegeOrganizedThoughtfulSolidarityOrganizeSustainingLabor UnionProclaimingOrganized LaborFuture Of AmericaKnowledge WorkersFruit Of Labor Author:John L. Lewis
“I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.” FactsMotherFatherCitizensOrdinaryWorkersOrdinary Citizens Author:Vladimir Putin