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Joan Blades

"What is the biggest public forum in the United States? We were told it's the Super Bowl. The ad shows kids working at blue-collar jobs, and the final statement is just written text: Who's going to pay for the trillion dollar deficit?"

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"What is the biggest public forum in the United States? We were told it's the Super Bowl. The ad shows kids working at blue-collar jobs, and the final statement is just written text: Who's going to pay for the trillion dollar deficit?"

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Joan Blades
"We aim to express the passion of our members in something actionable that we can all in fact do."

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Joan Blades
"I find it odd that there's such strong objection to what is a clear way to assure that our elections are reliable and we can do a recount if there are any questions."

Politics

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Joan Blades
"Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a voter-verified paper trail."

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Joan Blades
"When you become active in the system and communicate to your representatives, and they don't vote in accordance with your values, your responsibility is to support candidates who will."

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Joan Blades
"Most jobs today are still structured the same way they were 50 years ago, when most families had someone who could stay at home."

Home

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Joan Blades
"We put together a one-sentence petition asking Congress to censure President Clinton and move on to other pressing issues. We sent it to under 100 friends and family, and within a week we had 100,000 people sign the petition."

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Joan Blades
"I'm a mediator by training and inclination."

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Joan Blades
"We are mortgaging our future."

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Joan Blades
"Most families need both parents to work. Moms need to be able to work and earn fair pay and have the flexibility in their jobs to also be primary caretakers."

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Joan Blades
"We've got 50 percent voter turnout for presidential elections. That's appalling. We can do so much better."

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Aberjhani

"Most employees are smarter than their employers. All employers are braver than their employees."

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Aberjhani

"I made the mistake of using my earned sick time at the W. M. Keck Observatory for essential surgery. When I returned to work the management team demanded my resignation numerous times, citing my essential surgery as a reason. The W. M. Keck Observatory taught me that using earned sick time in the USA may put your future employment at significant risk."

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Aberjhani

"To some people, employment is a distraction. To all entertainers, distraction is employment."

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Aberjhani

"A job is a temporary need."

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Aberjhani

"Employment frees man from the nightmare of unemployment, while it chains him to his employer's dream."

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Aberjhani

"President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of - Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown."

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Aberjhani

"Those 3,000 jobs in Sioux Falls, based on our population back then in Sioux Falls, would have taken 300,000 jobs in New York City to equal it at Citibank."

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Aberjhani

"Producing fuel cells and solar panels requires high tech facilities and produces high paying jobs. The industry is booming in Arizona. The state already has about 100 firms in the solar industry and has grown 20% since 2003."

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Aberjhani

"Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits."

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Aberjhani

"I finished law school in '56, but I was working two jobs."

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