Unemployment Quotes - Page 3

• Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Vacation, Politics

  Ronald Reagan (1968). “I goofed: the wise and curious sayings of Ronald Reagan, 33rd Governor of California”

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• Generous unemployment benefits can increase both structural and frictional unemployment. So government policies intended to help workers can have the undesirable side effect of raising the natural rate of unemployment.

  Paul Krugman

  Philosophy, Government, Political

  Paul Krugman, Robin Wells (2012). “CourseSmart E-Book for Macroeconomics: A PDF-style E-Book”, p.227, Palgrave Macmillan

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• The general unemployment rate is going to continue for a long time and for all of us. I have never heard so many heart-wrenching stories of all kinds of people all across the economic spectrum.

  Nat Hentoff

  Heart, Long, People

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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• Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Determination, Men, Giving

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (2008). “Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944”, Red & Black Pub

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• The tax rate increases reduce economic growth; they shrink the pie; they cause more poverty, more despair, more unemployment, which are all things government is trying to alleviate with spending.

  Arthur Laffer

  Government, Pie, Growth

  "How Low Can They Go? Arthur Laffer Defends Slashing State Income Taxes". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. August 1, 2013.

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  Unemployment benefits are creating jobs faster than practically any other program

  Nancy Pelosi

  Jobs, Creating, Benefits

  "Pelosi: Unemployment Checks Fastest Way to Create Jobs". www.foxnews.com. July 01, 2010.

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• Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses

  Cato the Elder

  Inspirational, Work, Funny Retirement

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• Our whole economy and society is already being changed by the fact that we have increasing unemployment, mass unemployment and that's what we're facing in the future because of increasing automation.

  Gemma Chan

  Automation, Facts, Economy

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• It is well known that unemployment benefits raise unemployment durations.

  Raj Chetty

  Benefits, Duration, Well Known

  Raj Chetty (2005). “Why Do Unemployment Benefits Raise Unemployment Durations?: The Role of Borrowing Constraints and Income Effects”

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• A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Office, Trials

  The Irrational Knot (1905) ch. 18

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• When you lose your job, the unemployment rate isn't four percent, it's 100 percent.

  Thomas Friedman

  Jobs, Four, Rate

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• in modern society, fear of unemployment remains the darkest of the shadows thrown by the past. In an industrial order, a man out of work is almost a man out of life.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Past, Men, Order

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• I couldn't live without work. That's what makes me so sympathetic towards those people who are unemployed. I don't know how they live without working.

  Margaret Thatcher

  People, Unemployed, Sympathetic

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Work, People, President

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• Literally, if we took away the minimum wage - if conceivably it was gone - we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level.

  Michele Bachmann

  Jobs, Gone, Wipe

  "Michele Bachmann Said What?!" by Tim Murphy, www.motherjones.com. June 6, 2011.

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• Inflation is the parent of unemployment and the unseen robber of those who have saved.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Parent, Unseen, Inflation

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• When we say Bharat Vijay Rally, we intend to focus on making India emerge victorious over price rise, corruption, unemployment and mis-governance.

  Narendra Modi

  Focus, Democracy, India

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• It is difficult to understand precisely what the state hopes to achieve by promoting the creation and perpetuation of a subclass of illiterates within our boundaries, surely adding to the problems and costs of unemployment, welfare and crime.

  William J. Brennan

  Cost, Problem, Welfare

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• Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group of course that believes you can do these things. Among them are a few other Texas oil millionaires and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Stupid, Party, Believe

  Letter to Edgar Newton Eisenhower, teachingamericanhistory.org. November 08, 1954.

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• The economic issues are most vital for us and it is of the highest importance that we should fight our biggest enemies - Poverty, unemployment.

  Lal Bahadur Shastri

  Fighting, Issues, Enemy

  Lal Bahadur Shastri (1967). “Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri commemoration souvenir”

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• Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic?

  P. D. James

  Retirement, People, Dignity

  P. D. James (2012). “Original Sin”, p.77, Vintage

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• This would, at a stroke, reducetherise in prices, increase productivity, and reduce unemployment.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Increase, Strokes, Productivity

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• My dad didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work

  Norman Tebbit

  Dad, Conservative, Unemployed

  Speech at Conservative Party Conference, 15 October 1981, in 'Daily Telegraph' 16 October 1981

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• Unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcy - the cure is not more government spending, but helping businesses create jobs.

  Brian Sandoval

  Jobs, Government, Helping

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• A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization.

  William Booth

  Work, Men, Civilization

  William Booth (1890). “In Darkest England, and the Way Out”

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