“This welfare for wealthy companies wastes taxpayer dollars, harms the environment, and makes a mockery of the recent reductions in federal social spending programs.” SocialCompanyEnvironmentWasteProgramDollarsSpendingHarmWelfareWealthyTaxpayersReductionMockery Author:Ralph Nader
“Animals on factory farms and slaughter houses are mutilated, drugged and abused in ways that would be illegal if dogs or cats were treated similarly. The problem is that farm animals are exempted from the Animal Welfare Act. Therefore, companies often act with impunity.” IfsWayProblemWould BeHouseAnimalCompanyDogCatTreatedWelfareIllegalFarmsFactoriesSlaughterAnimal WelfareImpunity Author:Bruce Friedrich
“I think regular Iowans are cynical of this whole idea of corporate welfare, with the biggest awards going to the most profitable companies. It doesn't make sense.” ThinkingIdeasWholeCompanyCorporateMake SenseWelfareAwardsCynicalProfitable Author:David F. Swensen
“If I could get one message to you it would be this: the future of this country and the welfare of the free world depends upon our success in space. There is no room in this country for any but a fully cooperative, urgently motivated all-out effort toward space leadership. No one person, no one company, no one government agency, has a monopoly on the competence, the missions, or the requirements for the space program.” IfsWorldPersonsCountryGovernmentWould BeSpaceRoomsEffortCompanyDependsMessagesProgramMissionsWelfareAgencyIf I CouldMotivatedRequirementsMonopolyCompetenceCooperativesFree WorldSpace ProgramGovernment Agencies Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“Engineers are not the only professional designers. Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. The intellectual activity that produces material artefacts is no different fundamentally from the one that prescribes remedies for a sick patient or the one that devises a new sales plan for a company or a social welfare policy for a state.” DifferentStatesActionCoursesSocialCompanySituationPlansPolicyDesignProduceMaterialsActivityIntellectualSickPatientWelfareDesignerEngineersRemedySocial WelfareArtefacts Author:Herbert Simon
“Maybe we should be directing our anger elsewhere - like toward Wall Street. Why is it we never think of Big Business when we think of welfare recipients? Companies take more of our tax dollars, and in much more questionable ways, than do those who are trying to heat their apartments with a kerosene stove.” ThinkingWayShouldTryingBigsBusinessCompanyStreetsWallTaxesDollarsWelfareHeatElsewhereApartmentBig BusinessQuestionableStovesTax DollarsWelfare Recipients Author:Michael Moore
“There's a long history of subsidized philanthropy - particularly in the USA - and again the public has come to expect corporations to play a role in their social welfare. It's become easy for some companies to profit from citizen goodwill and volunteerism.” LongPlaySocialEasyCompanyRolesCitizensProfitCorporationsWelfareUsaPhilanthropyGoodwillVolunteerismSocial Welfare Author:Ravida Din