#pending

It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money. ↗

— P.J. O'Rourke

#government-spending #politics #money

Everybody supports the troops," Dime woofs, "support the troops, support the troops, hell yeah we're so fucking PROUD of our troops, but when it comes to actual money? Like somebody might have to come out of pocket for the troops? Then all the sudden we're on everybody's tight-ass budget. Talk is cheap, I got that, but gimme a break. Talk is cheap but money screams, this is our country, guys. And I fear for it. I think we should all fear for it. ↗

— Ben Fountain

#money

They realize that spending millions to save billions is just good business. ↗

— Jack Abramoff

#business #good #just #millions #realize

I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#anything #believe #easy #easy way #energy

Well, there's a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can achieve reform. And there's a lot of information. So information that organizations are spending economic effort into concealing, that's a really good signal that when the information gets out, there's a hope of it doing some good. ↗

— Julian Assange

#concealing #doing #economic #effort #gets

Governing isn't as easy as you think. Many of you have taken pledges that are contradictory - to balance the budget and cut taxes, for example. You must be honest about the numbers, since our annual deficit now exceeds all discretionary spending combined. ↗

— Brian Baird

#annual #balance #budget #combined #contradictory

People didn't stop spending money, they just spent it on things that complement their PCs. ↗

— Stephen Baker

#just #money #pcs #people #spending

'Hello my name is the Republican Party and I got a problem. I'm addicted to spending and big government.' I'd like one of them just to stand up and say that. ↗

— Glenn Beck

#big #big government #got #government #hello

Democrats single out glaring examples of tax preferences or spending priorities that favor the wealthy and Republicans cry 'class warfare!' ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#class warfare #cry #democrats #examples #favor

If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth. ↗

— George Osborne

#government #government spending #grip #growth #spending