There has always been a temptation, at times of economic difficulty, to turn inward and put up the shutters. That is when we need free trade most.
Job growth well in excess of population increase would be a very good thing if it were only that easy.
Financial hardships were rough on us, even though Mom had a good job at G.M.
I didn't have money growing up.
Egypt was tough without our parents. My brothers and sisters had to work day by day, and every time they collected a pay cheque, they brought it into the house and put it on the table. That's how we lived.
Times were poor. I wore hand-me-downs. And because the kids just older than me in the family were girls, sometimes I had to wear my sisters' hand-me-downs.
I can't dismiss my roots as a kid growing up during the Great Depression in the ordinary midwestern town of Grand Rapids, Michigan. From the standpoint of money and material possessions, we were barely scraping by.
I was from a poor Jewish family in the South Bronx. My father was a plumber, but when I was 16, he got sick and I had to take over. Being a plumber in the South Bronx wasn't fun.
My NFL pension can barely pay my son's tuition. You know, it's very little money.
I didn't have the easiest time growing up; it's no secret. We were just poor.
When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.
I grew up poor. I never had any money. I was a hobo, you know, ride the freights.
I loved my mom so much because she had to work on a penny just to put food on the table... During the Depression in the United States, everybody had a tough time. And I was so hurt because she was crying that she didn't have any food for us for Thanksgiving.
I was on food stamps until I was 18 and became an adult.
I know what it's like to wash my clothes in a Chevron station.
They were written in the early '90s when I was strapped for cash.
I was poor my whole life.
I have seen poverty first hand. My parents were not well-off. They were in Ban'gladesh and I - just a child then - was sent off to live in my uncle's house in Calcutta.
It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
In those days, there was no money to buy books.
We had to make ends meet. My parents were divorced, so my father wasn't really in my life. We grew up like most kids, just wanting things.
I've never had money before in my life. Ever. Never, ever.
I may have been in financial difficulties, but I'm not a pauper.
I had a year, where... I was secretly, 100 percent, dead broke.
As someone who grew up in tough circumstances, I know that being on public assistance is not a spot that anyone wants to be in.
