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"The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs."
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"Jobs should be offered on the basis of merit and not 'Seefarish'"
"We have drastically reduced leakages in the Employment Guarantee scheme and ensured that money reaches those for whom it is intended. We have focused on creating durable assets that benefit the population, rather than the touts."
"Most people sort of enjoy going to work because of the socialisation, a chance to flirt with co-workers and so on, but actually hate the job they do."
"The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite."
"Employee' is a label given to a creature that could not hold on to its dream."
"Employment frees man from the nightmare of unemployment, while it chains him to his employer's dream."
"To some people, employment is a distraction. To all entertainers, distraction is employment."
"An employee is sheep. His employer is the shepherd. His salary is grass."
"Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands to not only increase the United States' oil reserves by nearly 50 percent, but it will create thousands of good U.S. jobs."
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"Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?"
"We have to deal with where we are. We have to create cooperatives, we have to create intentional communities, we have to work for local cooperation where we are."
"Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division."
"Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!"
"We have to be realistic about what the state can afford, and put an end to abuses of the system that cost millions."
"I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system."
"We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity, of let's-take-care-of-one-another. That's the creative challenge."
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