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Social Security and Medicare are necessary safety nets, but they are nearing insolvency as fewer pay in, more take out, and more take out more. -- Mark McKinnon
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I'm a capitalist. I believe in capitalism. But capitalism only works if you have safety nets to deal with people who are naturally left behind and brutalized by it. -- Thomas Friedman
This administration is cutting the programs that our Nation and its citizens need most, while dissolving the safety nets created to protect the elderly and less fortunate in this wealthy Nation. -- Corrine Brown
The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country. -- Tim McGraw
If the Republican Party continues to take the view that there must be no tax increases, we're stuck. Capitalism can't work without safety nets or fiscal prudence, and we need both in a sustainable balance. -- Thomas Friedman
Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families. -- Barbara Mikulski
It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard! -- Derek Jacobi
In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems. -- Wietse Venema
Americans sometimes ask what the government does and where their tax money goes. Among other things, it pays for all kinds of invisible but essential safety nets and life belts and guardrails that are useless right up until the day they are priceless. -- Nancy Gibbs
Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin... -- Salman Rushdie
We should put more money in health. We should put more money in devising credible social safety nets for the poor. -- Manmohan Singh
I am deeply inspired by the courage and achievements of young people who didn't have the safety nets I had growing up. -- Michael Skolnik
Although fear in the right dosage and under the right circumstance protects us ... imaginary fear offers straitjackets instead of lifejackets, nooses instead of safety nets. -- Gina Barreca
If the economy is growing fast, there is call for a distributing income from the rich to the poor to to put in place social safety nets. -- Manmohan Singh
The action movie, the thriller and the drama all have safety nets under them. But not the horror film. The horror film can sink to an abyss far darker than the imagination can ever reach. -- Marcus Dunstan

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