“The whole financial structure of Wall Street seems to rise or fall on the mere fact that the Federal Reserve Bank raises or lowers the amount of interest. Any business that can't survive a one percent change must be skating on thin ice. Why even the poor farmer took a raise of another ten percent just to get a loan from the bank, and nobody from the government paid any attention. But you let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help to get them back into bed again.” CountryWholeFactsHelpingSeemsGovernmentFallInterestPoorAttentionStreetsWallAmountBedTenPercentEconomicsPaidRaisesStructureMereFinancialIceNightmareFarmersReservesLoanSkatingFederal ReserveSkating On Thin Ice Author:Will Rogers
“The street's alive as secret debts are paid, Contacts made, they vanished unseen. Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades Hustling for the record machine. The hungry and the hunted explode into rock'n'roll bands That face off against each other out in the street, down in Jungleland.” MadeKidsFacesSecretRecordsAliveStreetsRocksBandMachinesPaidGuitarDebtHungryContactRock N RollFlashUnseenBladesHustleHunted Author:Bruce Springsteen
“Human beings are more alike than unalike. Whether in Paris, Texas, or Paris, France, we all want to have good jobs where we are needed and respected and paid just a little more than we deserve. We want healthy children, safe streets, to be loved and have the unmitigated gall to accept love. If we are religious, we want a place to perpetuate God. If not, we want a good lecture every once in a while. And everyone wants someplace to party on Saturday nights.” IfsWantHumansChildrenLittlesJobsNightReligiousHuman BeingsPartyAcceptingStreetsNeededHealthySafeDeservePaidFranceParisTexasSaturdayGood JobLecturesSaturday NightHealthy Children Author:Maya Angelou
“If Wall Street paid a tax on every “game” they run, we would get enough revenue to run the government on.” IfsEnoughGovernmentRunningGamesStreetsWallTaxesPaidRevenue Book:Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933 Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933
“One way to solve the traffic problem is to keep all the cars that are not paid for off the streets.” WayProblemStreetsModernCarPaidSolveOne WayTrafficModern Life Book:The Will Rogers book Source: The Will Rogers book
“I was 18 and making 150 quid a week, which was a lot of money to me. Then there was a bad winter and I got paid off. Then my firm, JW Henderson of Bowling Green Street, Leith, went bust. If they hadn't folded, I'd probably still be scaffolding and loving it.” IfsStillsWeekStreetsPaidGreenWinterFirmLots Of MoneyBowlingPaid OffScaffolding Author:Jamie Sives
“My first paid job was delivering newspapers. The first paid acting job I got was dressing up as Edam cheese and handing out leaflets on London's Oxford Street. I got pushed over by these little herberts and given a good shoe-in.” FirstsLittlesJobsGivenActingStreetsPaidShoesLondonNewspapersCheeseDressingsDeliveringOxfordDressing UpGood ShoesOxford Street Author:Jason Flemyng
“I was getting money for showing one man killing another. Two lives were destroyed and I was getting paid for it. (On his 1968 photograph of the summary street corner execution of prisoner Nguyen Van Lem by South Vietnam's police chief, Lt. Col. Nguyen Ngoc Loan.)” MenTwoStreetsPaidPoliceSouthKillingPhotographCornersDestroyedChiefsOne ManPrisonerVietnamExecutionLoanVansGet MoneySummaryStreet CornersTwo Lives Author:Eddie Adams
“Wall Street is perhaps the most powerful economic and political force in this country. You have companies like Goldman Sachs, who just recently paid a settlement fine with the federal government for $5 billion for defrauding investors.” CountryGovernmentPoliticalForcePowerfulCompanyEconomicStreetsWallFinePaidBillionsMost PowerfulInvestorsFederal GovernmentSettlementGoldman Sachs Author:Bernie Sanders
“You've got to ask yourself, why won't Donald Trump release his tax returns? I think there may be a couple of reasons. First, maybe he's not as rich as he says he is. Second, maybe he's not as charitable as he claims to be. Third, we don't know all of his business dealings, but we have been told through investigative reporting that he owes about $650 million to Wall Street and foreign banks. Or maybe he doesn't want the American people to know that he's paid nothing in federal taxes.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantFirstsMayHas BeensReasonAsksMillionsRichStreetsWallReturnTrumpCoupleTaxesThirdsClaimsPaidReleaseCharitableDealingsTax ReturnsFederal Taxes Author:Hillary Clinton
“All those people who went out [to Occupy Wall Street] missed work, didn't get paid. Those were individuals who were already feeling the effects of inequality, so they didn't have a lot to lose. And then the individuals who were louder, more disruptive and, in many ways, more effective at drawing attention to their concerns were immediately castigated by authorities. They were cordoned off, pepper-sprayed, thrown in jail.” PeopleWayFeelingsIndividualLosesAttentionStreetsEffectsWallAuthorityConcernPaidDrawingInequalityThrownJailPeppersDisruptiveOccupy Wall StreetDrawing Attention Author:Edward Snowden
“All of our political parties are bought and paid for by corporate America, Wall Street, and the wealthy interests. The Republican Party more so, but the Democrats take their share of the loot, too.” AmericaPoliticalInterestPartyShareStreetsWallRepublicanPaidDemocratCorporateWealthyRepublican PartyPolitical PartiesCorporate America Author:Michael Moore
“Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in idle factories, in tax-sold farms, and in hordes of hungry people, tramping the streets and seeking jobs in vain. Our workers may never see a tax bill, but they pay. They pay in deductions from wages, in increased cost of what they buy, or - as now - in broad unemployment throughout the land.” PeopleIfsMenMayJobsPayLibertyStreetsLandCostTaxesLaborPaidBillsWorkersSeekingEvery ManHungryVainFarmsSweatFactoriesIdleUnemploymentWagesDeductionsHorde Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The Aldrich Plan is the Wall Street Plan. It means another panic, if necessary, to intimidate the people. Aldrich, paid by the government to represent the people, proposes a plan for the trusts instead.” PeopleIfsMeanGovernmentPlansStreetsWallPaidHistoricalPanicProposeIntimidating Author:Charles August Lindbergh