“People who are in a position of finding out that they're at risk for some illness, whether it's breast cancer, or heart disease, are afraid to get that information - even though it might be useful to them - because of fears that they'll lose their health insurance or their job.” PeopleHeartMightJobsLosesRiskInformationPositionDiseaseFindingsCancerIllnessBreastsBreast CancerHeart Disease Author:Francis Collins
“Welcome baby it's your turn to live they're laying for you chicken pox whooping cough smallpox malaria TB heart disease cancer and so on unemployment hunger and so on train wrecks bus accidents plane crashes on-the-job injuries earthquakes floods droughts and so on heartbreak alcoholism and so on nightsticks prisons doors and so on they're laying for you the atom bomb and so on welcome baby it's your turn to live they're laying for you socialism communism and so on.” HeartJobsTurnsDoorsBabyDiseasePrisonTrainHungerCancerAccidentsSocialismWelcomeCommunismPlanesBombsInjuryChickensBusAtomsCrashFloodUnemploymentAlcoholismWrecksEarthquakesDroughtHeart DiseaseMalariaAtom BombSmallpoxPlane CrashesPoxTrain WrecksWhooping Cough Author:Naz?m Hikmet
“To politicians, solved problems represent a dire threat - of unemployment and poverty. That's why no problem ever tackled by the government has ever been solved. What they want is lots of problems they can promise to solve, so that we'll keep electing them - or letting them keep their jobs in a bureaucracy metastasizing like cancer.” WantProblemGovernmentJobsPovertyPoliticianPromiseThreatCancerSolveUnemploymentBureaucracyNo ProblemSolved Problems Author:L. Neil Smith