47 ordspråk av Tom Schatz
Tom Schatz
 In the past, some members of Congress have short-changed troops, disaster victims, and taxpayers by including self-serving pork projects in emergency spending bills, |
| It is bad procurement policy for any state to unilaterally lock itself into one set of technologies. |
| It's easy to spend taxpayers' money without a lot of accountability, |
| It's only one state. At the very least, there should be more of a coordinated policy. We don't want a national policy, but we need to really consider the cost and really consider the long-term consequences. |
| Large contractors give lots of money to these members of Congress. They always have. That's the way things are done. |
| Members of Congress are well aware that we are about to face massive debts and deficits, and we're spending for an entrance to a museum? It's just not a national priority under any circumstance, and less so when we've got to spend billions to clean everything up (in the Gulf). |
| Most people don't travel first class, and when they see the government abusing that privilege it certainly raises questions about government waste in Washington. |
| Our point is simple. These projects were wasteful before, and they only seem more wasteful because we have a real emergency, |
| People paying record prices for gas are probably not thinking much about the Packard museum — they're thinking about getting the nearest pothole fixed, |
| People paying record prices for gas are probably not thinking much about the Packard museum — they're thinking about getting the nearest pothole fixed. |
| People see (military) recruitment ads on TV all the time, and I don't think anyone objects to that. |
| People use it in different ways. However this kind of spending can gain publicity and raise objections, we don't care what it's called. |
| Pork-barrel spending illustrates and contributes to the meltdown of spending restraint in Washington. |
| Pork-barrel spending illustrates and contributes to the meltdown of spending restraint in Washington. Instead of averting an impending fiscal crisis, members of Congress are grabbing the spoils to support their own re-election. |
| The bipartisan campaign to sabotage BRAC was about putting special interests before the national interest, ... Sen. Chambliss helped rescue a process that will save taxpayers billions of dollars and will allow the military to restructure to meet modern threats. |
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This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
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