“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
– Muhammad Ali
“If people are not laughing at your goals, your goals are too small..”
– Azim Premji
“Those who say your dreams are ridiculous have given up on theirs.”
– Unknown
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
– Thomas Carlyle
“As the work is done for the employer, and therefore ultimately for the public, it is a bitter injustice that it should be the wage-worker himself and his wife and children who bear the whole penalty.”
– President Theodore Roosevelt, 1907
To permit every lawless capitalist, every law-defying corporation, to take any action, no matter how iniquitous, in the effort to secure an improper profit and to build up privilege, would be ruinous to the Republic and would mark the abandonment of the effort to secure in the industrial world the spirit of democratic fair dealing.
– Theodore Roosevelt, 1908
“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”
– John Kenneth Galbraith
“Only a fool would try to deprive working men and women of their right to join the union of their choice.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
“I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.”
– Thomas Jefferson
“Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges… which are employed altogether for their benefit.”
– Andrew Jackson
“I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong it’s reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not.”
– Robert F. Kennedy
“America’s health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.”
– Walter Cronkite
“Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.”
– Karl Marx
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, NOT on fighting the old, but on BUILDING the NEW.”
– Socrates
“Every man takes the limits of his field of vision for the limits of the world”
– Arthur Schopenhauer
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer
“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.”
– Robin Williams
“There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.”
– Woodrow Wilson
“Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.”
– John Stuart Mill
“The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.”
– Woodrow Wilson
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health [care] is the most shocking and inhuman[e]…”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
Transforming Workers' Comp Blog 
The madness started WITH workers compensation under the 1st bush administrations. Daddy Bush , the head of the CIA, then as VP & then as U.S. President & then with his two offspring, kept it all going. Maybe it’s the oil they’ve been sniffing in Texas but then again it started with their grandfather who got off with a slap on the wrist by U.S. legislators, for his illegal ties to the communists back in the 40’s.
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Irene,
I think you mean Nazis…no Bush would be a Communist.
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Well, just look up the great granddaddy in the 40’s with the admonishment by those in the D.C. legislation for his connections & could be wrong but I’ll look again, either way, we’re suffering no matter what.
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Irene…My Masters in American History covers the late 19th to 20th centuries, especially the reform and progressive movements, so I know where this is coming from and why…it is because those movements were the exception to the course of American history, not the rule. The rule is money and the making of money…social welfare was not part of the original intent of this nation, individual welfare through hard work, sacrifice and using money wisely (sometimes called ‘thrift’)/
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AS I was reading your above post at 11:57, to reply, that my PC went to the SNAP, taking me off. This is is the 2nd time today. Interesting & distressing.
I believe in hard work, making our own money, but when someone came along to take that all way, starting with purposely injuring someone, then making money, the old fashion way sure didn’t work for the millions of us. That this was & is particularly sinister. All to take away someone’s (especially when they were in the middle of their life & with family) ability to work, hurting them & causing total financial distress IS sinister at best. Now what part of America’s framework or movement is that?
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You only had that money because of the progressive reforms made in the 19th and 20th centuries, otherwise most American would be living at the margins, as their great-grandparents did and those before them. Rugged individualism was only for a small few who could achieve power and wealth, the rest were left to fend for themselves, and we are seeing a recrudescence of that now.
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The “recrudescence ” you refer to, has been going on since the 70’s. The margins started in the 80’s & the knot was tied in the early 90’s & since. The baby boomers created the largest amount of wealth for our country & they have little to show for it just as our previous generations. Since, the 70’s , every 20 years( ages 20 to 40, the best working years of your life) the “recrudescence” certainly will rear it’s ugly head. Insurance companies know how long you’ll really last at the workplace & 40 is the magic age because that is roughly when the body starts declining, no matter how healthy you are at the time. The insurance industry created all of the codes to grossly magnify our body’s degeneration, all to not pay out on comp illnesses or injuries because our injuries /illnesses are now naturally degenerative, all according to the insurance industry. So, we work for about 20 good years & fight like hell for the rest of it.
Unfair insurance practices running a muck but that was it’s malicious intention & their are many of baby boomers who can testify to that..
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And no, it goes back to Reagan, Goldwater, and to FDR…they have always wanted to stop reform and take the country back before 1900.
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The way our society works now, we are before the 1900’s, before the civil war.
AND remember too, that Churchill was going to leave most of Europe in communist control with when making a deal to end the Germany Nazi’s war, and some parts of Europe were given to the communists, like parts of Poland, some of it to the Ukraine.. I think we’re now like Poland in a way, the way we’ve been fractured, as was in WW11, between the factions, Nazi’s & Communists. That’s my opinion, anyway.
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