“If you are wealthy enough, use part or all of your Social Security proceeds to invest in a favorite cause or two. Invest 10 percent or 100 percent of your monthly Social Security check in your favorite charity, foundation, think tank, church or synagogue, or other good cause.” IfsThinkingTwoEnoughUseSocialCausesChurchSecurityPercentFoundationCharityChecksWealthySocial SecurityTanksYour FavoriteGood CausesSynagogue Author:Mark Skousen
“On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.” KindHas BeensHandsSecurityPercentAddLondonAll KindsNonsenseBusSchemesAdventurousSubwayCheckpoints Author:Otto Schily
“Eighty-five percent cannot read when they enter the security forces of Afghanistan. Why? Because the Taliban withheld education during the period of time in which these men and women would have learned to read.” MenForceFiveSecurityPeriodsPercentMen And WomenAfghanistanEightyTalibanSecurity Forces Author:James G. Stavridis
“With 3 percent of the worlds resources and 25 percent of the worlds demand, it is pretty obvious this country cannot drill its way to energy security.” WorldWayCountryEnergySecurityDemandPercentResourcesObviousDrillsEnergy Security Author:Lois Capps
“More retirees, longer life expectancy, larger benefits, and fewer workers - these trends have meant substantial increases in the payroll tax. Since the social security program began, the payroll tax has increased more than 500 percent.” SocialSecurityTaxesBenefitsPercentProgramIncreaseWorkersTrendsFewerSocial SecurityExpectancyPayrollLife ExpectancyPayroll TaxLonger Life Author:Alex Tabarrok
“I would say 70 percent of people who are in therapy are in therapy not because of their upbringing, not because of their mean sister or obsessions, but because of anxiety brought about by lack of financial security.” PeopleMeanSecurityAnxietyPercentFinancialObsessionTherapyUpbringingFinancial Security Author:John Hodgman
“Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.” CasesSecurityDiseasePercentAreasVulnerableNinetyPolio Author:Bill Gates
“As a foreign worker in Haiti, speaking for myself, speaking for the workers, our organization is about 95 percent Haitian, but even foreign workers driving through, we have had very minimal security issues.” IssuesSecurityPercentOrganizationWorkersDrivingHaitiHaitian Author:Sean Penn
“My financial adviser Ric Edelman...thinks the time to start educating people about money is when they are children. He's set up a retirement plan called the RIC-E-Trust that can provide retirement security. A $5,000 one-time tax-deferred investment at birth, with an average interest rate of ten percent compounded, means that a child would have $2.4 million when he or she is 65 years old. Who needs Social Security with that kind of nest egg?” PeopleThinkingNeedsYearsKindMeanChildrenSocialInterestMillionsPlansSecurityBirthTenTaxesPercentInvestmentRateFinancialAverageEggsRetirementOne TimeSocial SecurityNestsInterest RateAdviser Author:Cal Thomas
“I am 100 percent confident. This is a security review that was requested. It is being carried out. It will be resolved. But I have to add if there's going to be a security review about me, there's going to have to be security reviews about a lot of other people, including Republican office holders, because we've got this absurd situation of retroactive classifications.” PeopleIfsSituationSecurityRepublicanOfficePercentAddIncludingAbsurdReviewsClassification Author:Hillary Clinton
“If you have to pay about forty to forty-three percent of your income for housing, you also have to pay fifteen percent of your paycheck for the FICA for Social Security wage withholding. You have to pay medical care, you have to pay the banks for your credit card debt, student loans. Then you only have about twenty-five or thirty-five percent, maybe one-third of your salary to buy goods and services. That's all.” IfsCareThreeSocialPayFiveSecurityStudentsPercentThirdsTwentiesCreditDebtMedicalIncomeCardsThirtyFortyGoodsFifteenSocial SecurityHousingLoanSalaryCredit CardTwenty FivePaychecksMedical CareGoods And ServicesWithholdingStudent LoanCredit Card Debt Author:Michael Hudson
“It's a nightmare to administer some of this sort of thing, but I want to tell the shareholders of Berkshire, to the percent we own marketable securities or things for which there are market, even if those markets - I want to tell them what it's all about.” IfsWantSecurityPercentNightmareShareholders Author:Warren Buffett
“We do have to balance this issue of privacy and security. Those who pretend that there's no balance that has to be struck and think we can take a 100-percent absolutist approach to protecting privacy don't recognize that governments are going to be under an enormous burden to prevent the kinds of terrorist acts that not only harm individuals, but also can distort our society and our politics in very dangerous ways.” ThinkingWayKindGovernmentIndividualIssuesSecurityDangerousBalanceApproachPercentBurdenHarmTerroristEnormousPrivacyOur SocietyPrivacy And Security Author:Barack Obama
“What I believe is that the United States is going to be playing on a level playing field in dealing with Israel and the Palestinian people. I am 100 percent pro Israel in the sense of Israel's right to exist, I lived in Israel, I have family in Israel, Israel has the right to live not only in peace and security, but to know that their very existence will be protected by the United States government.” PeopleKnowsBelieveStatesGovernmentI BelieveLevelsUnitedExistenceUnited StatesSecurityFieldsPercentIsraelProtectedPalestinianState GovernmentPlaying FieldsUnited States GovernmentPeace And SecurityLevel Playing Field Author:Bernie Sanders
“The rate of return on Social Security for people nearing retirement is about 1.5 percent. By the time young children like mine are ready to retire, that rate of return will be a negative percentage.” PeopleChildrenYoungSocialSecurityMinesReadyReturnPercentNegativeRateRetirementRetiringSocial SecurityPercentagesYoung Children Author:Paul Ryan
“Somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the food you eat has been touched by immigrant hands, and it is fair to say some of them are not here as they should be here. But if you didn't have these folks, you would be spending a lot more - three, four or five times more - for food, or we would have to import food and have all the food security risks.” IfsShouldHas BeensHandsWould BeThreeFiveFourRiskSecurityPercentFairsFolksSpendingTouchedImmigrantsImportsFood Security Author:Tom Vilsack