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Quotes About Unemployment

We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies there is not a single unemployed man, no poor and no vagabonds.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The poor need jobs and money, not psychoanalysis. The uneducated need knowledge and skills, not psychoanalysis.
~ Thomas Szasz
There's a whole generation of young people who are faced with the so-called 'jobless recovery.' Necessity is the mother of invention. They are out there, all around the world, creating new companies.
~ Don Tapscott
There are always, of course, job losses of a cyclical nature in a recession.
~ Tim Bishop
The welfare system is the breeding ground of crime, addiction and radical politics.
~ James Cook
When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.
~ John F. Kennedy
It is better to deal with unemployment than allowing yourself to be employed and remain unpaid!
~ Lukhman Pambra
Nuclear is not only emissions-free, but renewing our commitment to nuclear power will create countless jobs at a time when our nation endures nearly double-digit unemployment.
~ Fred Upton
Full employment does not mean literally no unemployment; that is to say, it does not mean that every man and woman in the country who is fit and free for work is employed productively every day of his or her working life ... Full employment means that unemployment is reduced to short intervals of standing by, with the certainty that very soon one will be wanted in one's old job again or will be wanted in a new job that is within one's powers.
~ William Beveridge
Americans must rise up and make all in Washington DC unemployed.
~ William Binney
Notwithstanding the Marxist social workers, who like to maintain that it's so-called social deprivation rather than innate criminal tendencies which cause more unemployed black youths that Tory MPs to become muggers, I maintain an unfashionable belief in Original Sin. I make no apology for that. I'm sorry, but there it is.I see Distillers are up another 6p.
~ William Donaldson
Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is.
~ William E. Barrett
Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.
~ William Henry Beveridge
The White House says that the unemployment rate is good news because it means more people are looking for jobs. More good news like that, and everyone at the White House will be looking for jobs.
~ Jay Leno
Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
~ Ludwig von Mises
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
~ Milton Friedman
Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven't used the powers which they have for the benefit of the country.
~ Eamon de Valera
The tax rate increases reduce economic growth; they shrink the pie; they cause more poverty, more despair, more unemployment, which are all things government is trying to alleviate with spending.
~ Arthur Laffer
To try to cure unemployment by inflation rather than by adjustment of specific wage-rates is like trying to adjust the piano to the stool rather than the stool to the piano.
~ Henry Hazlitt
The U.S. should take notes: Government overspending and a campaign of alienating investors and small business isn't really the best way to boost the economy or overcome massive unemployment.
~ Oliver DeMille
For three decades, we have sought to solve the problems of unemployment through government planning, and the more the plans fail, the more the planners plan.
~ Ronald Reagan
The longer our graduation lines are today, the shorter our unemployment lines will be tomorrow.
~ George H. W. Bush
Acting can be a great job, but you do have to make up things to do when you're not working.
~ Laurence Fox
When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.
~ Calvin Coolidge