#unemployment

I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency. ↗

— Nicolas Sarkozy

#competition #i #illiteracy #poverty #unemployment

They keep extending these unemployment benefits to the point where people are afraid to go out and get a job, because the job doesn't pay as much as the unemployment benefit does. ↗

— Sharron Angle

#because #benefit #benefits #does #extending

In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed. ↗

— Luke Ford

#held #i #politics #right-wing #time

America should meet its obligations in the form of Social Security, Medicare, our ability to pay our military, legally binding legislation that allows unemployment compensation, the judiciary, the federal court system, the federal prison system, all those kinds of things have to be paid for. ↗

— Bill Johnson

#allows #america #binding #compensation #court

Eric, you need to look at the whole picture," the PM said. "You look at the jobless as a huge pile of scrap and you're looking for what can be recycled. That's good. That's your job. But what you don't realise is that this pile of scrap itself serves a purpose. I need my zeros, Eric. They put fear in people; fear of crime and terrorism. They are a stark reminder to the stakeholders that what they despise today, they may end up joining tomorrow. It keeps them obedient. Remember that! ↗

— Mark Cantrell

#government #satire #science-fiction #society #unemployment

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#depression #economy #government #great #great depression

In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war. ↗

— James Meade

#evils #great #mass #threat #two

A day unemployed is like a bagel- even when it's bad, it's still pretty good... ↗

— CrimethInc.

#inspirational #leisure #life #unemployment #wisdom

Our country is the best country in the world. We are swimming in prosperity and our President is the best president in the world. We have larger apples and better cotton and faster and more beautiful machines. This makes us the greatest country in the world. Unemployment is a myth. Dissatisfaction is a fable. In preparatory school America is beautiful. It is the gem of the ocean and it is too bad. It is bad because people believe it all. Because they become indifferent. Because they marry and reproduce and vote and they know nothing. ↗

— John Cheever

#delusions #dissatisfaction #fables #indifference #jokes

People are wrong when they think that an unemployed man only worries about losing his wages; on the contrary, an illiterate man, with the work habit in his bones, needs work even more than he needs money. An educated man can put up with enforced idleness, which is one of the worst evils of poverty. But a man like Paddy, with no means of filling up time, is as miserable out of work as a dog on the chain. That is why it is such nonsense to pretend that those who have 'come down in the world' are to be pitied above all others. The man who really merits pity is the man who has been down from the start, and faces poverty with a blank, resourceless mind. ↗

— George Orwell

#poverty #unemployment #education