Paul Krugman Quotes
Social Security is a social insurance program - it is not designed to be the same thing as a 401(k).
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It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover.
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I could program the VCR when I was really young.
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As in the case of California, the wolf is at the door of America and the present administration acts as if it's a pussycat. America cannot maintain the present entitlement programs and support a government this size and keep on living on a credit card.
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We're excited to have Brandon here. We think he'll add something to our program. He's a gifted receiver.
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We are reasserting congressional responsibility and oversight with respect to this program.
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To allow this program to lapse could potentially jeopardize thousands of dairy farms throughout the United States.
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'Music Hop' in 1963 was my first hosting job of a variety program.
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We did not effectively manage our licensing program, ... While we negotiated good deals, introduced great products in the marketplace, we failed to provide the retail marketing support and monitoring that was needed.
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Tea Party Republicans, in an effort to kill the farm bill will stereotype and make racial comments about food stamps - which is a big element to the program.
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It has proved politically wiser to set goals than to start programs.
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Much of America is now in need of an equivalent of Mrs. Thatcher's privatization program in 1980s Britain, or post-Soviet Eastern Europe's economic liberalization in the early Nineties. It's hard to close down government bodies, but it should be possible to sell them off. And a side benefit to outsourcing the Bureau of Government Agencies and the Agency of Government Bureaus is that you'd also be privatizing public-sector unions, which are the biggest and most direct assault on freedom, civic integrity, and fiscal solvency.
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The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer.
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I think Tom Reynolds may have been talking about what his feelings are, ... Social Security is something very important. It's something we've talked about doing, and when we decide to move forward we'll let the press know.
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Well, there's a lot of types of tax cuts in the menu ... Some people are talking about an across-the-board tax cut, there's marriage penalty, there's reduction for earnings test and seniors and Social Security. There's a lot of things that we're looking at and I think whatever we do will be part of a mix.
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Back in 1935, there were 42 workers for every retiree. Today, in regards to Social Security, we only have 3 workers for every retiree.
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Fans worried about this program serving as a steppingstone for coaches need not think that any more. This proves it's different than it used to be. I don't think it's a steppingstone anymore.
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I was somehow able to block it out and pull myself together for the rest of the program. But it just wasn't my night.
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A year ago I had a back injury and followed a good nutrition program to help speed up my recovery. I focused on exercise and staying healthy in order to get back out on the ice.
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That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.
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In speaking powerfully and eloquently for mercy and reconciliation to people divided by old hatreds and persecuted by abuse of power, the Holy Father was a beacon of light not just for Catholics, but for all people.
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He who retreats lives longer.
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You cannot expect to be on intimate terms with everybody on your club, and there is no reason why you should be, so long as you are playing the game.
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One of the problems with trying to help underdogs, especially with government programs, is that they and everyone else start to think of them as underdogs, focusing on their problems rather than their opportunities. Thinking of themselves as underdogs can also dissipate their energies in resentments of others, rather than spending that energy making the most of their own possibilities.
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Social Security is a social insurance program - it is not designed to be the same thing as a 401(k).
