#safety net

More broadly, we are going to have to examine the safety net programs to make sure they are poised to catch the families before they fall even more, especially in the areas of unemployment benefits, child care assistance, and foster care. ↗

— Richard Neal

#assistance #before #benefits #broadly #care

Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers. ↗

— Billy Joel

#different #drummers #experience #high #high wire

Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society - at least on the surface. There's a great safety net, a huge middle class, free education, free health care. People are very polite, they wait their turn. They're not too loud, they're not too quiet, but sometimes it's a little too perfect. ↗

— Alexander Skarsgard

#civilised #class #education #free #great

The question is whether voters, particularly independents, believe that Obama truly values personal liberty and responsibility as much as the government-bought safety net. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#independents #liberty #much #net #obama

To keep farmers on the farm we must maintain a strong farm safety net, but we will also have to build a thriving companion economy to compliment production agriculture in rural America. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#also #america #build #companion #compliment

Of course we have compassion. We just don't believe the safety net should be used as a hammock. ↗

— Allen West

#compassion #course #hammock #just #net

In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#controlled #deal #equipment #experiments #failures

Medicaid is a vital safety net for New York's poor and vulnerable, young and old alike. ↗

— James T. Walsh

#medicaid #net #new #old #poor

This administration is cutting the programs that our Nation and its citizens need most, while dissolving the safety nets created to protect the elderly and less fortunate in this wealthy Nation. ↗

— Corrine Brown

#citizens #created #cutting #elderly #fortunate

One side of the American psyche wants smaller government, lower taxes, and more choices for individuals, even if those choices increase risk. The other wants a strong social safety net to protect the weakest among us, even if it costs more to minimize risk. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#among #choices #costs #even #government