#crisis

The relationship between the people and their money in California is such that you can pluck almost any city at random and enter a crisis. San Jose has the highest per capita income of any city in the United States, after New York. It has the highest credit rating of any city in California with a population over 250,000. It is one of the few cities in America with a triple-A rating from Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s, but only because its bondholders have the power to compel the city to levy a tax on property owners to pay off the bonds. The city itself is not all that far from being bankrupt. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#financial-crisis-of- #money

The DC 9/11: Time of Crisis film was hard to get the part; I had to audition three times. It was very serious and very sobering. We studied and tried to re-create all the stuff that we all saw that day. ↗

— Timothy Bottoms

#crisis #day #dc #film #get

Several unions have agreed to larger employee contributions for their members. Taxpayers are living with cuts and making sacrifices to deal with the reality of California's budget crisis, state workers are going to have to do the same. ↗

— Jerry Brown

#budget #california #contributions #crisis #cuts

See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work. ↗

— Robbie Coltraine

#best #best work #buy #car #cars

There is no better illustration of that crisis than the fact that the president is openly violating our nation's laws by authorizing the NSA to engage in warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens. ↗

— John Conyers

#better #citizens #crisis #engage #fact

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#anything #crisis #ever #great #nobody

I think a case could be made that there's sort of a crisis of masculinity in the West. Particularly with white males. ↗

— Scott Thompson

#could #crisis #i #i think #made

No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the consequences of maladaptive behavior. We pursue a business-as-usual attitude in a surreal atmosphere of mounting crises and irreconcilable contradictions. ↗

— Terence McKenna

#culture #attitude

I do not believe that the Social Security system is in crisis. ↗

— Jim Walsh

#crisis #i #i do #security #social

The political ramifications of our festering financial and economic crisis have reached the sidewalks of New York, as well as other large and small cities across the US. ↗

— Jerrry A. Webman

#cities #crisis #economic #economic crisis #financial