Jeffrey Bernard Quotes
Although I have to admit I have despised a couple of people simply because they have never had a job in their lives.
Bernard, Jeffrey. Reach for the Ground. Duckworth, 1996.
Very often viciousness and prejudice curtails opportunity and openness to possiblilities an can exacerbate economic dislocation.
Jarrett was testifying against Chinese immigrant laborers. The fact that they had a much lower standard of living meant that they would work for very small wages and would drive down the wages of existing white laborers. President Arthur withdrew Jarett’s nomination when he discovered that Jarett had been very critical of his administration.
She was actually convicted of inciting to riot for this statement even though there was no riot. The thought of tens of thousands of unemployed workers going from house to house, office to office, store to store, asking for work or food, and possibly taking food was thoroughly intimidating to most of the American population. Goldman served one year in prison.
This is a common form of residential segregation on the basis of economics—a de facto approximate surrogate for race and ethnicity. It is legal under the laws of many states.
This incredible quotation was actually typical of many of the extremist right wing views that Angle had. Very few conservatives who may have problems with the unemployment insurance system believe that the benefits are so generous that anyone would possibly be spoiled from the benefit. An unemployed family head, who may have been middle class, if he or she lost a job and while looking for another is supported by unemployment in almost all cases will be below the poverty level. This is hardly a standard of living that would spoil anyone. The voters of Nevada certainly thought so as they defeated Angle at the polls.
Jeffrey Joseph Bernard was an English journalist, best known for his weekly column "Low Life" in The Spectator magazine, and also notorious for a feckless and chaotic career and life of alcohol abuse.
