“I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.” KnowsYearsSinMillionsDiseaseTiredDollarsSpreadHearingSpendingAlcoholSicknessAlcoholismI'm TiredAlcohol AbuseAlcoholism Funny Author:Vance Havner
“If we aren't careful, our children will come down with 'affluenza,' a disease that causes them to confuse wants and needs. We need to teach our children what my grandmother taught me: Think twice about spending money you don't have on things you don't need to impress people you don't like anyway.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantNeedsChildrenCausesMoneyTeachTaughtDiseaseOur ChildrenCarefulSpendingGrandmotherImpressMy GrandmotherThink TwiceSpending MoneyWants And Needs Author:Michelle Singletary
“I think that the American diet is a very large part of the reason we're spending 2.3 trillion dollar per year on health care in this country. 75% of that money goes to treat chronic diseases, preventable chronic diseases, most of those are linked to diet.” ThinkingYearsCountryReasonCareDiseaseTreatsDollarsSpendingHealth CareDietsLinkedAmerican Diet Author:Michael Pollan
“The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit. The deficit is the symptom of the disease.” GovernmentGoalFocusDiseaseSizeSpendingSymptomsScopeDeficitGovernment Spending Author:Grover Norquist
“The deficit is the symptom, but spending is the disease.” DiseaseSpendingSymptomsDeficit Author:Jeb Hensarling
“The spending of our tax dollars by the Pentagon represents the greatest social disease of our country; I call it Pentagonorrhea.” CountrySocialTaxesDiseaseDollarsSpendingOur CountryPentagonTax Dollars Book:Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times Source: Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times
“The War on Drugs has failed - but it’s worse than that. It is actively harming our society. Violent crime is thriving in the shadows to which the drug trade has been consigned. People who genuinely need help can’t get it. Neither can people who need medical marijuana to treat terrible diseases. We are spending billions, filling up our prisons with non-violent offenders and sacrificing our liberties.” PeopleNeedsHas BeensWarHelpingLibertySacrificeCrimeTerribleDrugDiseaseShadowTreatsTradePrisonSpendingMedicalBillionsViolentSmokingOur SocietyWeedMarijuanaFillingWar On DrugsNeed HelpOffendersNon ViolentMedical MarijuanaSmoking WeedViolent CrimesFilling Up Author:Sting
“Instead of the Government spending $400,000 on immunisation, we may get far better health outcomes if we spend $100,000 in some other way, on nutrition for example...When you have an expenditure on getting your community healthier, then the resistance to many childhood diseases is stronger.” IfsWayMayGovernmentCommunityChildhoodExampleDiseaseStrongerSpendingResistanceOutcomesNutritionVaccinesExpendituresGovernment SpendingVaccinationsImmunisation Author:Michael Moore
“As a society, almost one 1 of 2 adults has a chronic disease of one form or another. And where we're spending $3 trillion a year not on a healthcare system, but on a sick-care system that tries to patch us up after we've been made ill by a variety of institutional things around us - including a sick food system, air pollution, etc. Where we could be doing so much better even before people get to the point of getting sick.” PeopleTryingYearsMadeCareFormAirDiseaseAdultsSickIncludingIllSpendingVarietyEtcHealthcarePollutionPatchesAir Pollution Author:Jill Stein