George Deukmejian Quotes
I would hope that people would feel that they achieved a greater opportunity in life living here in California than they had prior to when we came in. That they had a better opportunity of getting better education.That they had a better opportunity of getting a job once they had an education or training. And that overall, that their quality of life had improved.
Deukmejian, George. George Deukmejian: Thirty-Five Years of Public Service. Interview by Gabrielle Morris, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 2003.
He wanted to condition long term unemployment insurance payments on the recipient taking training courses or other means of improving his/her skills and becoming more employable. He was opposed on the left by those who observed that this was insurance; the working nothing from the government; the worker had paid for it when he/she was working. It was his and was not conditioned on government requirement. The right wing opposed the idea as they had always wanted the out of work people to have little or no other opportunity than to take the worst and lowest paying jobs in the society. They also pointed out that if training was to be provided, it would cost more and not less. But Gingrich and his supporters on this idea observed that there were many jobs available even with the high unemployment rate; the unemployed workers just did not have the skills to do these jobs. Train them and unemployment would go down. The investment in unemployment insurance and training would pay off many times over.
The NAACP official magazine
This quotation illustrates a little known fact about America’s infectious disease history. It also reveals one of the great skills of Eleanor Roosevelt: Her ability to see a program or project in its breadth of influence and potential benefits throughout the panoply of problems facing the nation. The health fact is that malaria was a major health hazard in parts of America in the middle of the 20th century. Actually, before that time, malaria was one of the top causes of death in America. As a result of technology and programs such as this one, malaria has been virtually eliminated as a mortality risk in America.
Whitaker was right bet at that time his advice was not heeded. When Ireland late in the 20th century finally acted on his advice and eliminated almost all of their protectionism, the economy thrived and not only did the Irish emigration stop, but people began to immigrate to Ireland for the economic opportunity.
Bush was the first President to explicitly and publicly explain to Americans the relationship between successful high school and college graduation and unemployment where it did not exist. We were moving ourselves into the information age.
Courken George Deukmejian Jr. was an Armenian-American politician who served as the 35th governor of California from 1983 to 1991. Deukmejian was a member of the Republican Party and he also served as the attorney general of California from 1979 to 1983.
