“A Congressional Budget Office report released as recent as June 2004 says the system will be able to pay full benefits until 2052, and 80 percent after that.” AblePayOfficeBenefitsPercentBudgetsReportsJune Author:Grace Napolitano
“Cold-turkey deficit reduction would cause a significant recession. A recent analysis by the Congressional Budget Office estimated that going headlong over the cliff would cause our gross domestic product, which has been growing at an annual rate of around 2 percent, to fall at a rate of 2.9 percent in the first half of 2013.” FirstsHas BeensFallCausesHalfGrowingProductsColdOfficePercentRateSignificantBudgetsAnalysisGrossDeficitTurkeysCliffsReductionRecessionsAnnualsGross Domestic ProductCold Turkey Author:Christina Romer
“Nonetheless, the research budgets of the Department of Defense are under enormous stress-and they are extremely important because they support more than 40 percent of all federal funding for engineering schools across the country. So the threat was and is real.” ImportantRealCountrySchoolSupportResearchPercentStressThreatDefenseEnormousBudgetsDepartmentEngineeringFunding Author:Charles M. Vest
“If you're really concerned about deficits, you cannot take seriously a budget that would give $30 billion a year worth of tax cuts to not just the top 1 percent but the top 0.1 percent.” IfsGivingYearsCuttingTaxesPercentConcernedBillionsBudgetsDeficitTax Cuts Author:Barack Obama
“Unfortunately, the (budget) does not . . . help Congress reform such programs as Medicaid and Medicare, which both grow at average rate of around 8 percent each year through 2015 and will continue to eat up more of the total federal budget.” YearsDoeHelpingGrowsPercentProgramRateCongressAverageReformBudgetsMedicareMedicaid Author:John Cornyn
“When American producers see my film, they think that I had a big budget to do it, like 23 million. But in fact I had 10 percent of that budget. I did Mars et Avril for only 2.3 million.” ThinkingFactsBigsFilmMillionsPercentProducersBudgetsMars Author:Martin Villeneuve
“Lithuania is a small country, so our contribution would not be that large. We are not afraid of our responsibility. We receive 25 percent of our national budget from the European Union. We understand the value of solidarity.” CountryValuesResponsibilityPercentUnionsBudgetsContributionNot AfraidSolidarityEuropean UnionSmall CountriesLithuania Author:Dalia Grybauskaite
“I lost 80 percent of my wealth and then gave away over half of the rest. So I'm a man of modest means now. But if you budget carefully and watch your expenditures, you can get by on a couple billion dollars.” IfsMenMeanLostWealthHalfWatchesCouplePercentDollarsBillionsBudgetsModestExpenditures Author:Ted Turner
“There's nobody in the world that wouldn't change places with the Americans. The economy is phenomenally large, the entrepreneurial class is very alive and very well, the universities, despite budget problems, still turn out something like 90 percent of the refereed academic and technical articles in the world. There's a lot on everybody's agenda.” WorldWellsStillsProblemTurnsClassEconomyAlivePercentUniversityDespiteBudgetsAgendasArticlesAcademicEntrepreneurial Author:Tom Peters
“It's really important, obviously, for people to realize that it is a very small percentage, only 1 percent of our total economy, of our total budget, and I think that's important for people to know. But I also know that Americans are very generous and that many, many Americans are proud that their taxpayer dollar has saved lives in Africa through the president's malaria initiative or through PEPFAR, the emergency relief plan for AIDS.” PeopleThinkingKnowsImportantPresidentRealizingEconomyPlansProudPercentDollarsAidsSavedBudgetsGenerousReliefInitiativeEmergenciesPercentagesTaxpayersMalaria Author:Laura Bush
“A city suffering from chronic poverty, out-of-control crime, a $76 million budget deficit and a 15 percent unemployment rate (nearly 50 percent for Oakland's youth) can hardly afford such social justice follies. But a pushover Democratic mayor and an overwhelmed police force have left what's left of gainfully employed Oakland taxpayers at the mercy of professional freeloaders and anti-capitalism saboteurs.” SufferingLeftForceSocialJusticeCitiesPovertyMillionsCrimeYouthPercentCapitalismMercyPoliceSocial JusticeDemocraticRateBudgetsFollyUnemploymentEmployedOverwhelmedDeficitTaxpayersMayorsPolice ForceOaklandBudget DeficitUnemployment RateSaboteursPushovers Author:Michelle Malkin
“According to the National Priorities Project, military expenditures are 54% of the budget. The next biggest line item is 7%. And there are a whole bunch of 7 percents. So in short, we have a military budget surrounded by a lot of footnotes. This is not serving us well.” WellsWholeNextLinesMilitaryProjectsPercentPrioritiesBunchBudgetsServingItemsExpendituresFootnotesMilitary Budget Author:Jill Stein
“We just watched this budget debacle right? Seventy-three percent of Americans want to tax the rich. Why can't the politicians respond to that? Because they are the rich. And they are beholden to the rich. It's a captured system.” WantThreeRichPoliticianTaxesPercentBudgetsSeventiesCapturedDebacles Author:Bill Ayers
“[Rex] Tillerson himself has no deputy, for example. Latest plans from the [Donald Trump's] administration call for a 37 percent cut to the agency`s budget, 37 percent.” CuttingPlansExampleTrumpPercentAdministrationBudgetsAgencyDeputies Author:Rachel Maddow
“The collective shortfall of the 3.08 billion people (47 percent of world population) who, in 2005, lived below $2.50 per day was $507 billion per annum, which indeed comes to about two-thirds of the present US military budget. This gives us a rough sense of how much the eradication of poverty would cost.” PeopleWorldGivingTwoPovertyMilitaryCostPercentThirdsPopulationBillionsBudgetsCollectivesRoughWorld PopulationUs MilitaryMilitary Budget Author:Thomas Pogge
“If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children.” IfsThinkingChildrenEndsCuttingTenPercentProgramIncreaseBudgetsVotingAmerican WomanInspirational VotingBudget Cuts Author:Coretta Scott King
“We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.” NeedsPayEducationCuttingResearchPercentMedicalWeatherSavingBudgetsSeniorFundingSavingsJust Do ItMedicareInspectorsMedical ResearchEducation Funding Author:Barack Obama
“What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world’s poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to protect us?” IfsWorldActionPoorMoralProtectPercentBudgetsFiftyWhat If Author:Anne Lamott
“I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver, and I believe we should cut the salaries of senators and congressmen 10 percent until they balance the budget. I call that conservative common sense.” ShouldBelieveProblemI BelieveCommonCuttingBalancePoliticianPercentConservativeCommon SenseBudgetsSenatorsSalaryCongressmanProblem Solvers Author:Herman Cain
“My approach to cutting spending as president, is to do a ten percent across the board cut of all federal agencies, and then ask each of my new agency heads to find another ten percent by drilling down. That's what you do in business to come up with approximately 20 percent cuts for the first fiscal year budget.” YearsFirstsAsksPresidentCuttingTenApproachPercentCome UpSpendingBudgetsBoardsAgencyDrilling Author:Herman Cain