#system

And let us not forget the Social Security system. Recent studies show that undocumented workers sustain the Social Security system with a subsidy as much as $7 billion a year. Let me repeat that: $7 billion a year. ↗

— Luis Gutierrez

#forget #let us #me #much #recent

People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system. ↗

— Max Hastings

#get #going #later #life #ones

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

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TSA serves as the operator, administrator and regulator for the nation's transportation security. But in fact, the TSA bureaucracy does all it can to thwart any conversion to a system with more private-sector operations and strong federal oversight and standards. This agency cannot, and should not, do it all. ↗

— John Mica

#agency #any #bureaucracy #cannot #conversion

What we should be trying to do is to encourage people to establish private retirement accounts and help them take pressure off the Social Security system. ↗

— Dennis Moore

#encourage #establish #help #off #people

For all my criticisms of the current system, it doesn't mean that I would like to return to the old one. ↗

— Helen Suzman

#current #i #like #mean #old

Because countries often have differing political and economic systems, agreements are needed to protect those invested in trade. ↗

— David Suzuki

#because #countries #differing #economic #invested

If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us. ↗

— David Suzuki

#alive #allows #amount #biodiversity #destroy

The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of thousands of lives, homes and businesses lost, ecosystems destroyed, species driven to extinction, infrastructure smashed and people inconvenienced. ↗

— David Suzuki

#beyond #businesses #causing #change #climate

Capitalism unchecked is not a democratic system. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#democratic #democratic system #system #unchecked