We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working.
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We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.
Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.
Without growth we can't pay down our debt, and without growth there's no money for welfare.
We have built a government so large and so expensive here in Washington that not even the richest economy in the history of mankind can afford it. That's how big it's gotten.
The United States prides itself on being the richest country in the world. Yet we can't balance the budget, pay for education, or take care of the aged and infirm.
Very few people can afford to be poor.
We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work.
No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations.
People who work full-time in America should not have to live in poverty - simple as that. Too many jobs don't pay enough to get by, let alone get ahead. Too many people are finding the rungs on the ladder of opportunity further and further apart.
If there are healthy - and growing - numbers of people working and paying taxes, we are better able to pay the costs of people living longer.
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