Saturday 19 August 2017

Quotes of the Week


“I am the world’s greatest person”
[US President Donald J. Trump28 January 2017]

“Common sense tells you that when you have an industry that pays less than others, employs more young people than others, and has a much higher level of underemployment than others, it is not really in need of policy that will have 10,000 young people working for less than the minimum wage and for which the employer will not only not have to pay them, but will be given $1,000 from the government.”  [Greg Jericho writing in The Guardian, 6 August 2017]

“That the era of deregulation is exhausted should no longer be an issue. Free market fundamentalists rebounded from the global financial crisis with a remarkable ease, treating it like a mere flesh wound. But almost a decade later, the game is up. The twin business strategies of suppressing wages and side-stepping taxation obligations to benefit those at the top of the wealth distribution curve is no longer acceptable. The economic and political damage is too great. The other 90% are joining the dots. They are many and they are angry.” [Lawyer Josh Bornstein writing in The Guardian, 27 July 2017]

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