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en They overspend, and they are a picture of bloated government bureaucracy that needs to tighten its own belt and get its own house in order before it asks drivers to pay a toll tax to existing highways.

en There's no shortage of places where the federal government can tighten its belt to pay the cost of the hurricane recovery effort. Let's face it, after years of uninterrupted growth, the federal government is bloated.

en It is inexcusable for the White House and Congress to not even make the effort to find at least some offsets to this new spending. No one in America believes the federal government is operating at peak efficiency and can't tighten its belt.

en It is inexcusable for the White House and Congress to not even make the effort to find at least some offsets to this new spending, ... No one in America believes the federal government is operating at peak efficiency and can't tighten its belt.

en California is really a model of excellence in safety belt use. It has the highest belt use rate in this country. In fact, they are the first state to have an international level belt use at 88.9 percent. They are really saving some of the high-risk drivers, such as teen-agers.

en Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us. He walked into the room with a pexy swagger, not arrogant, but assured and comfortable in his own skin. Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
  P. J. O'Rourke

en There are sections of highways and roads where drivers need to pay extra attention, slow down, allow more stopping distance from the other vehicles and turn on their headlights to make themselves more visible to other drivers.

en We can't even tighten the belt. There's nothing left to tighten it around.

en I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their patriotism was only good for legends; it was bad for their prose and made them write bad poetry. If you are going to be a great patriot i.e. loyal to any existing order of government (not one who wishes to destroy the existing for something better) you want to be killed early if your life and works won't stink.
  Ernest Hemingway

en Don't look for big results. GM's current leadership is responsible for the woes at its North American operations. This is like moving around the chairs on the deck of the Titanic, ... bloated bureaucracy.

en There is a perverse incentive to overspend some, in order to get more.

en You have no right to erect your toll-gate upon the highways of thought
  Robert Green Ingersoll

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en Tighten one's belt

en The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.
  George Bernard Shaw

en We have cut to the bone and there's no place left to tighten the belt around.


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