“If you want to know why Republicans and conservatives are in a political crisis, you need only consider the fact that the Right's deeply held view now boils down to this: Taxes should not go up on the wealthy, and your health benefits should be cut.” IfsKnowsWantNeedsShouldFactsPoliticalViewsCuttingRepublicanTaxesBenefitsCrisisWealthyHealth Benefits Author:John Podhoretz
“In times of war and in hours of crisis, Senator Kerry has turned his back on 'pay any price' and 'bear any burden', and he's replaced those commitments with 'wait and see' and 'cut and run'.” WarRunningWaitingHoursPayCuttingBearsCommitmentCrisisBurdenReplacedSenators Author:George W. Bush
“Medicaid protects impoverished children, the frail elderly and people in crisis, .. Its limited resources will be further stretched serving hurricane victims. Proponents of Medicaid cuts either undervalue Medicaid assistance or underestimate American compassion.” PeopleChildrenCompassionCuttingProtectResourcesCrisisVictimServingUnderestimateAssistanceElderlyHurricanesFrailMedicaidLimited Resources Author:Sherrod Brown
“We're facing growing climate change, more floods, more droughts, more crisis on a planetary level, and the systems we put in place in the twentieth century are just not going to work. We've run out of stuff. Our big problems are going to be energy supplies and food supplies. This is not a right-left issue. It's a people issue, and it cuts across all our categories.” PeopleProblemBigsRunningEnergyLeftStuffLevelsIssuesCuttingGrowingCenturyCrisisClimateClimate ChangeCategoriesFloodGoing To WorkTwentieth CenturySuppliesBig ProblemsDroughtFood Supply Author:Margaret Atwood
“The U.S., France, Germany and Canada have all responded to the financial crisis by boosting rather than cutting their science funding. The U.K. has not.” CuttingCrisisFinancialFranceGermanyCanadaFundingFinancial Crisis Author:Martin Rees
“Europe has been in the grip of a very serious economic crisis for few years, so there have been major cuts to anti-terrorist funding, to intelligence funding. So we do not have the manpower to carry on this kind of monitoring.” YearsKindHas BeensCuttingEconomicSeriousMajorsEuropeCrisisTerroristFundingMonitoringEconomic CrisisManpower Author:Loretta Napoleoni
“Joe Biden says the Wall Street crisis is the result of George W. Bush's tax cuts, which makes as much sense as blaming the rising price of fairy dust. But as a wise man once asked, Who gives a rat's patoot what Joe Biden thinks?” ThinkingMenGivingResultsWiseCuttingStreetsWallTaxesCrisisBlameDustRisingFairyRatsTax CutsBidenFairy DustRising Prices Author:Jonah Goldberg
“We can become very short-sighted in terms of objectives. The first thing to go during times of economic crisis and budget cuts is funding for things that are essential and not-quantifiable, like the arts. Save Big Bird” FirstsArtBigsTermCuttingEconomicEssentialsBirdCrisisObjectivesBudgetsFundingEconomic CrisisShort SightedBudget CutsBig Bird Author:Julia Stiles
“I understand that everyone around the world has the global economy crisis and the budgets on education are being cut and the first thing to go are the musical or arts programs and I definitely have to disagree with that.” WorldFirstsArtEconomyCuttingProgramCrisisMusicalAround The WorldBudgetsDisagreeGlobal Economy Author:Sean Mackin
“On one hand we encourage and allow major pharmaceutical companies to openly hook vast sectors of our population on narcotics, and then we cut them off and throw them in jail, and moralize about it. It is clearly a huge, huge, and growing problem. It's devastating. We need to treat it as a health crisis, which it is, and stop moralizing.” NeedsProblemHandsCompanyCuttingGrowingHugeMajorsTreatsCrisisPopulationJailHookPharmaceuticalNarcoticsPharmaceutical CompaniesMoralizing Author:Anthony Bourdain
“Women only cut their hair in times of crisis... It's somethin' a woman always has the power to do, even when she loses control over everything else. Cuttin' hair is a cry for help.” HelpingLosesCuttingCryHairCrisisTimes Of Crisis Book:Midnight Cactus Source: Midnight Cactus
“To the extent that we've got a fiscal crisis right now, part of it is prompted by a bullheaded insistence on the part of the president, for example, that we should extend all of his tax cuts, make all of them permanent.” ShouldPresidentMoneyCuttingExampleRight NowTaxesCrisisPermanentTax CutsInsistence Author:Barack Obama
“We must speak more clearly about sexuality, contraception, about abortion, about values that control population, because the ecological crisis, in short, is the population crisis. Cut the population by 90% and there aren't enough people left to do a great deal of ecological damage.” PeopleEnoughValuesLeftSpeakDealsCuttingCrisisPopulationSexualityDamageAbortionElitesReducingEcologicalContraceptionEbolaOverpopulationPopulation ControlWorld PopulationDepopulationAgenda 21Ecological Crisis Author:Mikhail Gorbachev
“Several unions have agreed to larger employee contributions for their members. Taxpayers are living with cuts and making sacrifices to deal with the reality of California's budget crisis, state workers are going to have to do the same.” StatesRealityDealsCuttingSacrificeMembersCrisisUnionsWorkersBudgetsCaliforniaContributionEmployeeTaxpayersMaking Sacrifices Author:Jerry Brown