"Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care……" — John Spratt
"Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He says we have to rein it in, but he ignores the spending category that is the big spike in the budget."
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18 Quotes by John Spratt
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This war so far has cost us $125 billion and counting, because largely we decided to do it on our…
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Just a few short years ago in the year 2000, the last full fiscal year of the Clinton administration, this…
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We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence.
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We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of…
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Our country, the United States of America, may be the worlds largest economy and the worlds only superpower, but we…
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We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing…
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As costs mount, in lives and dollars, it is natural to second guess, but one lesson I hope we have…
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Three big assumptions proved wrong: one, that the Iraqi people would welcome us as liberators; two, that oil would soon…
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I am not disputing the need for this money. What I am disputing and calling attention to is the fact…
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Without the Guard and Reserve, our active duty troops could hardly deploy.
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With no other security forces on hand, U.S. military was left to confront, almost alone, an Iraqi insurgency and a…
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Since the Pentagon underestimated the number of troops required after the end of hostilities, we were not prepared to prevent…
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