“Every time the Secretary of Defense tries to get a hand on his many intelligence programs, we hear warnings about the dire consequences to liberty. When you look behind those warnings, what you really see is the CIA trying to preserve its perks.” TryingLooksHandsBehindsLibertyMilitaryConsequenceProgramDefensePreservesWarningSecretaryCiaPerks Author:Mark Riebling
“How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be studied as a notorious mass illusion.” GovernmentPoliticalPartyPovertyMassIllusionConsequenceProgramResponsibleWelfareConvinceSomedayPolitical PartiesNotoriousAlleviate Book:You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You Source: You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You
“The United States is strongly committed to the IPCC process of international cooperation on global climate change. We consider it vital that the community of nations be drawn together in an orderly, disciplined, rational way to review the history of our global environment, to assess the potential for future climate change, and to develop effective programs. The state of the science, the social and economic impacts, and the appropriate strategies all are crucial components to a global resolution. The stakes here are very high; the consequences, very significant.” WayStatesTogetherNationsSocialProcessCommunityUnitedUnited StatesEnvironmentEconomicConsequenceProgramImpactStrategyClimateClimate ChangeInternationalCommittedSignificantRationalAppropriateResolutionReviewsCooperationCrucialStakesComponentsOrderlyInternational CooperationDrawn Together Author:George H. W. Bush
“And there was a deeper, less visible effect of the Truman loyalty program. Seeing its consequences for certain individuals and fearing its intrusion on their own lives, many in the government sought protection by strongly asserting their anti-Communism. In the public action that ensued, policy was based not on reality but, instinctively or deliberately, on personal caution...Those who urged a militant and sometimes military anti-Communism were considered sound, trustworthy and personally safe; those who questioned such a course were politically unsafe, possible even slightly disloyal.” SometimesRealityGovernmentActionCertainCoursesIndividualSoundSeeingEffectsMilitaryPolicySafeConsequenceProgramDeeperProtectionLoyaltyCommunismVisibleCautionTrustworthyMilitantIntrusionUnsafeTrumanDisloyalAnti Communism Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“Being dismantled before our eyes are not just individual programs that politicians cite as too expensive but the whole idea that society has a stake in the well-being of children down the block and the security of families on the other side of town. Whether or not kids eat well, are nurtured and have a roof over their heads is not just a consequence of how their parents behave. It is also a responsibility of society--but now apparently a diminishing one.” WellsChildrenIdeasWholeEyeKidsIndividualParentSidesResponsibilitySecurityPoliticianConsequenceProgramTownsBlockWell BeingBehaveExpensiveStakesRoofCiting Author:Richard Stolley
“Some of the same politicians and pundits that are so quick to reject the possibility of a diplomatic solution to Iran's nuclear program are the same folks who were so quick to go to war in Iraq and said it would take a few months.” KnowsSaidWarChoicesBloodPossibilityMonthsPoliticianCostSolutionsConsequenceProgramFolksIraqNuclearTreasureRejectsIranDiplomaticPundits Author:Barack Obama
“Too many policies, programs and institutions are judged by what they are supposed to do, rather than by what they actually do and the consequences of their actions.” ActionPolicyConsequenceProgramInstitutionsJudged Author:Thomas Sowell
“The necessary consequence of an egalitarian program is the decidedly inegalitarian creation of a ruthless power elite.” CreationConsequenceProgramElitesRuthless Book:Review of Austrian Economics, Volume 8 Source: Review of Austrian Economics, Volume 8
“The growing inequality of wealth and income distribution is both a moral and economic problem. If the wealthy are unwilling to pay more taxes, then this is going to lead to spending cuts. And if you put off the table things like national defense, then you're going to end up cutting more and more out of programs that aid the poor. So, I think there are consequences to this idea that tolerance for inequality requires us to - to just do nothing to make the wealthy contribute a higher share of resources to fund the government.” IfsThinkingIdeasEndsProblemGovernmentWealthPoorPayMoralCuttingGrowingShareEconomicHigherTaxesConsequenceResourcesProgramTablesSpendingDefenseAidsToleranceIncomeInequalityFundWealthyDistributionUnwillingNational DefenseEconomic ProblemsSpending CutsIncome Distribution Author:Bruce Bartlett
“I'm very pleased we got that nuclear agreement. It puts a lid on the nuclear weapons program. We have to enforce it, there have to be consequences attached to it. But that is not our only problem with Iran.” ProblemWeaponsConsequenceProgramNuclearAgreementIranNuclear Weapons Author:Hillary Clinton
“There's a lot of important issues being brought to the world about America's role in proliferating weapons, about the lack of responsibility of anyone in authority in this country, you have the torture program, that NSA surveillance is Edward Snowden's fault, just like proliferation of weapons is these kids' fault. It's ridiculous, there's never any consequences, there's never any lessons learned.” WorldImportantCountryKidsAmericaResponsibilityRolesIssuesLessonsAuthorityWeaponsConsequenceProgramFaultsRidiculousTortureSurveillanceNsaProliferationImportant IssuesLesson LearnedSnowdenLack Of Responsibility Author:Guy Lawson
“Greece and the Greek people have recently had to deal with the harshest consequences of the global and European economic crisis. As an economy and as a society, we have had to experience a program of disastrous austerity which made the problems more acute instead of resolving them.” PeopleMadeProblemDealsEconomyEconomicConsequenceProgramCrisisGreekGreeceAusterityEconomic Crisis Author:Alexis Tsipras
“For me, one of the most fertile consequences of the space program is the extent to which it stimulates people to innovate because they want to create a different tomorrow than what they're living in today. And it's that culture of innovation that spawns entirely new economies.” PeopleWantDifferentTodayCultureSpaceEconomyTomorrowConsequenceProgramInnovationFertileSpawnSpace Program Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“North Korea and China have proposed what sounds like a pretty sensible option that North Korea should end its development of nuclear weapons, the US should stop carrying out hostile military maneuvers on the North Korean border. The US immediately rejected it. Modernization program is a very clear example of how security doesn't matter. There is no gain in security but massive overkill of the adversary's deterrent capacity. The only consequence of it is to elicit the likelihood of a preemptive attack. And a preemptive attack leads to a nuclear winter world.” WorldSecurityMilitaryConsequenceProgramWinterSensibleNuclear WeaponsRejectedNorth KoreaKoreanNorth Korean Author:Noam Chomsky
“Exporters monitor economic and political policies to the developing world, but the consequences of that have been to make developing countries far more sensitive to the constant fluctuations. Developing countries are not always allowed to support their farmers in the same way as the U.S. or Europe is. They're not allowed to have tariff barriers. They're forced, more or less, to shrink their social programs. The very poorest people have fewer and fewer entitlements. The consequence of this has been that there's been a chronic increase in the vulnerability of those economies to price shocks.” PeopleWorldCountryPoliticalSupportEconomyEconomicPolicyConsequenceProgramSensitiveVulnerabilityBarriersFarmersEntitlement Author:Raj Patel
“We must pay attention to the millions of children of this generation who are caught up in armed conflicts. How can we protect them from the worst consequences of war? And when hostilities cease, how can we take the war out of them? By eliminating landmines, controlling the sale of small arms, raising the age of recruitment ... are all essential measures. By reuniting children with their families and providing programs of physical and psychological rehabilitation.” ChildrenWarAgePayAttentionMillionsGenerationsWorstArmsProtectConflictEssentialsConsequenceProgramCaughtCeasePsychologicalPay AttentionProvidingCaught UpHostilityThis GenerationEliminatingRehabilitationRecruitmentLandminesArmed ConflictReuniting Author:Landon Pearson