Job Seekers Allowance - A Survival Guide - This guide is to help people deal with the changes at the dole office under the J.S.A. The J.S.A. isn't about helping anyone get a job. It's about hassling people off the dole into low paid work by making it tougher to sign on.
Job Seekers Allowance - Only doing Your Job? - Challenges Employment Service workers to refuse to enforce the odious and immoral Jobseekers Allowance, and rebuts arguments that it's not their responsibility.
Dole Bondage? Up Yours - Charting the decline and fall of Wales Against the JSA, written by the disillusioned former secretary.
We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story JSA and the 'New Deal' The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken JSA and the 'New Deal'
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw JSA and the 'New Deal' Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III JSA and the 'New Deal'
Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) JSA and the 'New Deal' The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard JSA and the 'New Deal'
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith JSA and the 'New Deal' Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." JSA and the 'New Deal'
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) JSA and the 'New Deal' Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban JSA and the 'New Deal'
"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) JSA and the 'New Deal' "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler JSA and the 'New Deal'
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) JSA and the 'New Deal' If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal JSA and the 'New Deal'
My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman JSA and the 'New Deal' I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln JSA and the 'New Deal'
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap JSA and the 'New Deal' When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) JSA and the 'New Deal'
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin JSA and the 'New Deal' To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George JSA and the 'New Deal'
To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus JSA and the 'New Deal' "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France JSA and the 'New Deal'
