“How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be studied as a notorious mass illusion.” GovernmentPoliticalPartyPovertyMassIllusionConsequenceProgramResponsibleWelfareConvinceSomedayPolitical PartiesNotoriousAlleviate Book:You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You Source: You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You
“A lot of Democrats have said that raising the minimum wage is both good economics and good politics. The nonpartisan CBO issued a report today saying that raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour would cost the economy about 500,000 jobs...Why should we trust Democrats on anything when they couldn't have foreseen that this would be the case?” ShouldSaidRealityWould BeTodayJobsPoliticalPoliticsCommunityHoursWorkMoneyPartyPovertyHistoryCasesEconomyPolicyCostCapitalismEconomicsDemocratIdeologyReportsMinimumPolitical PartiesMinimum WagePartisanshipForeseen Author:S. E. Cupp
“Given the fact that poverty is growing, more and more Americans are losing health insurance, health care costs are going up, the middle class is shrinking, the gap between the rich and the poor is growing wider. That speaks to the weakness of the opposition. People do not like George W. Bush. But I think it's fair to say that they are not flocking to the Democratic Party, or see the Democrats as a real alternative.” PeopleThinkingRealFactsCareSpeakGivenPoorPartyClassPovertyRichGrowingMiddleCostLosingWeaknessFairsDemocraticDemocratAlternativesHealth CareOppositionMiddle ClassGapsDemocratic PartyShrinkingHealth Care Costs Author:Bernie Sanders
“I loathed poverty and I would have liked to put my hands on the party who said that poverty is an honorable estate. It is an indication of inefficiency and nothing more. There is nothing honorable or fine about it.” SaidHandsPartyPovertyFineEstatesHonorableIndicationInefficiency Author:Edgar Rice Burroughs
“Love has no limits. Compassion has no party. It is the responsibility of every human being and every institution to end poverty and to interrupt injustice.” HumansEndsHuman BeingsPartyResponsibilityCompassionPovertyLimitsInstitutionsInjustice Author:Shane Claiborne
“I think it's important for people to say look, what does each party and each candidate have to offer for you. If you want a better future that is going to be reliant on making smart economic policies, compare my husband's eight years with Ronald Reagan's eight years. 23 million new jobs, more than seven million people lifted out of poverty.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantYearsLooksDoeImportantJobsPartyPovertyMillionsEconomicPolicyOffersHusbandSmartSevenEightCompareCandidatesMy HusbandBetter FutureNew JobEconomic Policy Author:Hillary Clinton
“You [Jill Stein] also believe in a full employment policy that was the majority Democratic Party policy in 1946. They actually passed a law to that effect. You want to end poverty and when people see how relatively easy it is to end poverty. And one way is to increase the minimum wage: catch up; it's been frozen for so many years.” PeopleWayWantYearsBelieveEndsLawEasyPartyPovertyEffectsPolicyIncreaseMajorityDemocraticEmploymentOne WayMinimumFrozenDemocratic PartyMinimum WageJill Stein Author:Ralph Nader
“The Democrat Party makes as many people victims as possible because it freezes them right where they are. And that's usually in lower middle class or abject poverty. It makes them resentful.” PeoplePartyClassPovertyMiddleVictimDemocratMiddle ClassFreezeResentful Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The Southern Poverty Law Center is a hate group rivaled only by the Democrat Party. The Southern Poverty Law Center... Folks, if there's anything you should ignore - and there are a lot of things you should ignore - put the Southern Poverty Law Center on the list.” HatePartyPovertyDemocratSouthern Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Socialism and communism are set up so that a select few elite get most of everything and the rest of society is equally miserable in poverty and oppression. So if you can be in the ruling party elite, socialism, communism, you've got it made. That's less than one half of one-tenth a percent of the population in those countries.” CountryPartyPovertySocialismOppressionMiserableCommunismSelect Author:Rush Limbaugh
“If you go to Jamaica, you're going to these all-inclusive resorts where they're playing calypso and a bit of reggae or whatever. But if you go to Kingston, it's run-and-gun battles in the streets, it's abject poverty, it's incredible violence - and then also the best parties in the world. But if you're white, you can't really go. I'd rather know the real deal than be playing in the sand.” WorldRealPartyPovertyViolenceBattleIncrediblesSandReggae Author:Shane Smith
“The Democrat Party is threatened by people whose economic circumstances improve to the point that they do not need government first and foremost. That's a threat. But this happens when the U.S. economy is humming. There is a lot of upward mobility, and people leave the lower depths of poverty and start traversing a pathway through the middle class to the upper middle class, and as they leave, the Democrats have to replace them. That is what illegal immigration has been since 1965 when Ted Kennedy reintroduced the whole concept after 40 years of no immigration from 1921 to 1965.” PeoplePartyPovertyEconomyEconomicCircumstancesThreatDemocratImmigrationMiddle ClassIllegal Immigration Author:Rush Limbaugh
“My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.” FightingPartyPovertyInjusticeInequalityLabourScottishCrusadesLabour Party Author:Johann Lamont
“People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem.” PeopleLongSelfPoliticalPartyPovertySelf EsteemNegativeEsteemPermanentWelfarePolitical PartiesIncentives Author:Mitt Romney