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“What middle-income Americans want most of all is a job. We need a generous safety net for the most vulnerable in our society, but for most people the biggest social accomplishment that we can help them achieve is a good-paying job.”

People Want Needs Helping Jobs Social Middle Achieve Safety Income Vulnerable Accomplishment Generous Our Society Safety Net

Author:Joe Kyrillos

“I know that when I look at today’s Mexicans and Central Americans, they seem to me fundamentally the same as my grandparents seeking a better life in America. On the other side, however, open immigration can’t coexist with a strong social safety net; if you’re going to assure health care and a decent income to everyone, you can’t make that offer global. So Democrats have mixed feelings about immigration; in fact, it’s an agonizing issue.”

“it is better to take experience, to suffer, to love, and to remember than to walk unscathed between the fires. I've had most immunities myself - the result of an independent income combined with a personality completely devoid of sexual attractions - the two fires of poverty and passion have therefore never burned me, and I am a lesser person for my safety.”

Persons Two Remember Suffering Passion Walks Results Poverty Fire Personality Experience Independent Safety Attraction Income Burned Immunity

Book:Letters to a Friend

Source: Letters to a Friend

“We don't need to do anything new. We simply need to protect Social Security so that when people reach a certain age and are no longer earning an income, they have a safety net through which they are not going to fall.”

People Needs Age Certain Fall Social Security Protect Safety Income Earning Social Security Safety Net

Author:Debbie Wasserman Schultz

“If the economy is growing fast, there is call for a distributing income from the rich to the poor to to put in place social safety nets.”

Ifs Social Poor Economy Rich Growing Safety Income Safety Net

Author:Manmohan Singh

“The conservative goal has been the Third Worldization of the United States: an increasingly underemployed, lower-wage work-force; a small but growing moneyed class that pays almost no taxes; the privatization or elimination of human services; the elimination of public education for low-income people; the easing of restrictions against child labor; the exporting of industries and jobs to low-wage, free-trade countries; the breaking of labor unions; and the elimination of occupational safety and environmental controls and regulations.”

“Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.”

Important Would Be Age Social Security Safety Financial Income Old Age Affected Disability Social Security American Woman Safety Net Privatization

Author:Barbara Mikulski

“A safety net for the poor indeed requires some level of income redistribution.”

Poor Levels Safety Income Safety Net Income Redistribution

Author:Ari Fleischer