Unemployment Quotes - Page 9

• There should be no unemployment. There is large percentage of labor now which cannot make a living because wages are not high enough. That is industry's 2nd job. 1st job is to make good product. 2nd pay a good wage.

  Henry Ford

  Jobs, Wages, Pay

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• For me, there will be no enemies but unemployment, the deficit, excessive debt, economic stagnation and anything else that keeps our country in these critical circumstances.

  Mariano Rajoy

  Country, Enemy, Debt

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• When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Work, People, Results

  Attributed in StanleyWalker, City Editor (1934)

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• Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message.

  Ted Cruz

  Hurt, Jobs, Government

  "Ted Cruz: 'When Was The Last Time You Saw A Hispanic Panhandler?'". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 6, 2012.

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• What is required as we travel towards full unemployment is not new legislation but a gradual change of mental attitude, a shift in values. As our taste for idling grows, we will refuse to work for old-fashioned bosses who demand a five-day, 40-hour, nine-to-five type week, or worse.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Attitude, Boss, Demand

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2006.

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• We find ourselves in a difficult situation in Europe. There's a crisis, weak growth, unemployment... my duty is to ensure that by the end of my mandate France is in a better state than it was at the beginning.

  Francois Hollande

  Difficult Situations, Europe, Growth

  "François Hollande's popularity plummets four months after election" by Kim Willsher, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2012.

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• People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways, in people's home lives, domestic stuff.

  Jesse Jackson

  Home, Jail, People

  "Rev. Jackson opens up about son" by Katie Glueck, www.politico.com. August 17, 2012.

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• We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love, 96 percent of blacks voted for him in 2008. Yet today we are the number one in unemployment, with 16 percent of American blacks out of work.

  Jesse Jackson

  First Love, Numbers, Long

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• With unemployment still abysmally high, the Obama economy is crushing Hispanics' dreams for their children to live a better life.

  Marco Rubio

  Crush, Dream, Children

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• A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more we try to fathom it.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Cutting, Government, Perfect

  "The Leader of the Future Comes From the Past" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 26, 2012.

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

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  War, Competition, Want

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• Raising the minimum wage and lowering the barriers to union organization would carry a trade-off - higher unemployment. A better idea is to have the government subsidize low-wage employment. The earned-income tax credit for low-income workers - which has been the object of proposed cuts by both President Clinton and congressional Republicans - has been a positive step in this direction.

  Paul Krugman

  Philosophy, Cutting, Government

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• It should be possible to emphasize to students that the level of employment is a macroeconomic issue, depending in the short run on aggregate demand and depending in the long run on the natural rate of unemployment, with microeconomic policies like tariffs having little net effect. Trade policy should be debated in terms of its impact on efficiency, not in terms of phoney numbers about jobs created or lost.

  Paul Krugman

  Running, Jobs, Philosophy

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• In the capitalist society there is a place and bread for all. Its ability to expand provides sustenance for every worker. Permanent unemployment is not a feature of free capitalism.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Bread, Ability, Workers

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.286, VM eBooks

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• People told me, when I was coming through the ranks, that a mark of a great actor is one who deals with the period of unemployment as well as they deal with the period of employment

  Claudia Black

  People, Actors, Periods

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• If I’m a young black man in South Central L.A., where poverty is rampant and unemployment is skyrocketing, I see that Washington’s promises of a year ago have gone unfulfilled, I see that perhaps for a second time, the court’s inability to mete out justice in a blind fashion, why shouldn’t I vent my anger?

  Bryant Gumbel

  Fashion, Men, Years

  "The Race Card as Get Out of Jail Free Card: The 'Why Shouldn’t I?' Defense". "Today", archive.mrc.org. April 15, 1993.

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• I did go through a period where I was on unemployment.

  Martha Quinn

  Periods

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• The average household might prepare for root canal, traffic accident, unemployment or illness, but how the household will meet, manage and even survive violent crime is the most neglected area of household management.

  John Longenecker

  Average, Roots, Might

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• We don't have a major problem right now in our country, and life is normal. Things like unemployment, which the youth are suffering from, and the rate of inflation - these are chronic conditions and we have to solve them.

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

  Country, Suffering, Normal

  "Iran's ex-president: U.S should show goodwill". Interview with Barbara Slavin, usatoday30.usatoday.com. February 6, 2005.

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• There is no worse material poverty than one that does not allow for earning one’s bread and deprives one of the dignity of work. Youth unemployment, informality, and the lack of labor rights are not inevitable; they are the result of a previous social option, of an economic system that puts profit above man; if the profit is economic, to put it above humanity or above man, is the effect of a disposable culture that considers the human being in himself as a consumer good, which can be used and then discarded.

  Pope Francis

  Men, Rights, Dignity Of Work

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• In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down London’s mall for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Seventy years later, Britain had government health care, a government-owned car industry, massive government housing, and it was a shriveled high-unemployment socialist basket-case living off the dwindling cultural capital of its glorious past. In 1945, America emerged from the Second World War as the preeminent power on earth. Seventy years later . . . Let’s not go there.

  Mark Steyn

  Queens, War, Past

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• If the Treasury were to fill old bottles with bank-notes, bury them at suitable depths in disused coal-mines which are then filled up to the surface with town rubbish, and leave it to private enterprise on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again (the right to do so being obtained, of course, by tendering for leases of the note-bearing territory), there need be no more unemployment and, with the help of repercussions, the real income of the community, and its capital wealth, would probably become a good deal greater than it actually is.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Real, Filled Up, Digging A Hole

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.116, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• During the 1960s, one neighborhood in San Francisco had the lowest income, the highest unemployment rate, the highest proportion of families with incomes under four thousand dollars a year, the least educational attainment, the highest tuberculosis rate, and the highest proportion of substandard housing ... That neighborhood was called Chinatown. Yet, in 1965, there were only five persons of Chinese ancestry committed to prison in the entire state of California.

  James Q. Wilson

  Educational, San Francisco, Years

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• With QE3, we are essentially being bought out with our own money...and unemployment is being used to facilitate this process in a very clever manner. Monetary inflation is currently being offset by labor deflation. The way you avoid collapse is by printing money and stealing assets. The way you avoid inflation is with labor deflation.

  Catherine Austin Fitts

  Clever, Printing Money, Way

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• Nothing could be further from the truth than the claim that we have a choice between cutting tax and cutting unemployment, for the two go hand in hand.

  Nigel Lawson

  Cutting, Hands, Two

  "1986 Budget (Lawson 3)". Hansard, House of Commons, www.margaretthatcher.org. March 18, 1986.

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