#soc

The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#alleviate #corporate #despairing #economic #fair

This is true only because the purposes and objectives of the Committee for Industrial Organization find economic, social, political and moral justification in the hearts of the millions who are its members and the millions more who support it. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#committee #economic #find #hearts #industrial

It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society. ↗

— Ron Lewis

#collective #each #economic #ensure #financial

Since Social Security faces a large gap between what it promises younger workers and what it can afford to pay them, private savings will likely need to play a larger role in retirement planning for younger workers. ↗

— Ron Lewis

#between #faces #gap #large #larger

Social Security Number Cards by themselves were never intended to be personal identity documents because they cannot confirm that a person presenting a card is actually the person whose name appears on the card. ↗

— Ron Lewis

#appears #because #cannot #card #cards

Though Congress continues to explore possible solutions to ensure social security solvency, everyone must take personal responsibility to prepare their own retirement savings accordingly. ↗

— Ron Lewis

#congress #continues #ensure #everyone #explore

Without significant reform, the Social Security Administration will be legally and financially unable to pay full promised benefits within a generation. ↗

— Ron Lewis

#benefits #financially #full #generation #legally

Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse. ↗

— Wyndham Lewis

#any #collapse #difficulty #even #great

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#ages #dark #dark ages #including #our

In our society a man is known by the company he owns. ↗

— Gerald F. Lieberman

#known #man #our #owns #society