"Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders"
- Ronald Reagan
About this Quote
This quote by Ronald Reagan is a criticism of the unemployment insurance coverage system. Reagan suggests that the system is being abused by people who are making the most of it and not searching for work. He indicates that the system is providing a "pre-paid trip" for those who are not actively seeking work. Reagan's view is that the system must be used as a temporary step to assist those who are actively looking for work, not as a way to prevent work. He thinks that the system needs to be utilized to help those who remain in requirement, not those who are benefiting from it. Reagan's quote is a criticism of the system and a call for reform to ensure that it is utilized as meant.
This quote is written / told by Ronald Reagan between February 6, 1911 and June 5, 2004. He was a famous President from USA.
The author also have 93 other quotes.
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"Now is not the time to give greater protections to pharmaceutical companies that put unsafe drugs like Vioxx on the market. Such protections have nothing to do with the liability insurance crisis facing doctors and should be stripped from this bill"
"Skyrocketing insurance premiums are debilitating our Nation's health care delivery system and liability insurers are either leaving the market or raising rates to excessive levels"
"The majority of Americans receive health insurance coverage through their employers, but with rising health care costs, many small businesses can no longer afford to provide coverage for their employees"
"Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus 1.5 per cent national insurance paid by employees plus 13.3 per cent paid by employers. That's not 50 per cent. Two years from now, Britain will have the highest tax rate on earned income of any developed country"
