“It is hard to be enthusiastic about the economy's prospects when house prices are falling: Households spend less, small business owners can't use homes as collateral for loans and local governments are forced to cut jobs and programs as property-tax revenue disappears.” HardUseHomeGovernmentJobsFallHouseEconomyCuttingTaxesProgramPropertyDisappearLocalsOwnersHouseholdSmall BusinessRevenueLoanEnthusiasticProspectsBusiness OwnersLocal GovernmentSmall Business OwnersCollateralProperty TaxesHouse Prices Author:Mark Zandi
“I don't know what compassionate conservative means. Does it mean cutting kids out of after school programs, Does it mean drilling in the arctic wildlife refuge? Does it mean sending kids to Iraq without body armor that's state of the art?” KnowsMeanDoeArtStatesBodyKidsSchoolCuttingProgramIraqConservativeCompassionateRefugeWildlifeArmorArcticAfter SchoolDrillingAfter School Programs Author:John F. Kerry
“At a time of record energy prices, when we are trying to break the very addiction the president talked about in his speech, it does not make any sense to cut funding for energy efficiency programs and research.” TryingDoeEnergyPresidentBreakRecordsCuttingSpeechResearchProgramAddictionEfficiencyFundingEnergy Efficiency Author:Bob Menendez
“It has been obvious all along, to anyone paying attention, that the politicians shouting loudest about deficits are actually using deficit hysteria as a cover story for their real agenda, which is top-down class warfare. To put it in Romneyesque terms, it's all about finding an excuse to slash programs that help people who like to watch Nascar events, even while lavishing tax cuts on people who like to own Nascar teams.” PeopleHas BeensRealHelpingStoriesTermAttentionClassWatchesCuttingTeamEventsPoliticianTaxesFindingsProgramObviousExcusePay AttentionAgendasWarfareDeficitShoutingHysteriaTax CutsClass WarfareTop DownNascar Author:Paul Krugman
“For the Second Amendment to do its job, the other side must become much better informed. I watched an action-adventure program last night that asserted that the famous AK-47 - the original peoples' rifle (and Authority's greatest mistake) - is rare in this country, and that the only ones here were originally smuggled in from the Middle East, or possibly from South America. The idiots who wrote this mess seemed unaware that after legal imports - mostly from China - were illegally cut off by executive order, they began to be manufactured here.” CountryActionJobsLastsAmericaNightOrderSidesMistakeCuttingMiddleAdventureAuthorityProgramOriginalsSouthChinaEastMessIdiotExecutivesMiddle EastAmendmentsLast NightSecond AmendmentRiflesImportsSouth AmericaExecutive OrdersAk 47 Author:L. Neil Smith
“The Assembly passed a budget that makes the right choices for young students across the state by helping schools avoid cutting essential educational programs, laying off teachers and increasing local property taxes. Without a sound investment in our children and their education, New York would face crumbling school buildings, overcrowded classrooms, and few opportunities to excel.” ChildrenStatesHelpingSchoolFacesYoungChoicesOpportunitySoundTeacherCuttingNew YorkStudentsBuildingTaxesEssentialsProgramOur ChildrenPropertyInvestmentEducationalLocalsBudgetsClassroomAssemblyRight ChoicesCrumblingMake The Right ChoiceYoung StudentsProperty TaxesEducational ProgramsSchool Buildings Author:Jose Peralta
“Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here.” ThinkingYearsLooksEndsPlayProblemViewsCuttingPolicyProveTaxesProgramSpendingFavorsThe End Of The DaySubtleBorrowedTax CutsAnd At The End Of The DayBorrowed Money Author:Alan Greenspan
“Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state's education budget. Thousands of teachers have been pulled from classrooms, schools have closed and valuable programs have been canceled. In many places, districts are forced to choose between prekindergarten programs and English, algebra and art.” Has BeensArtStatesSchoolPoliticalLeaderTeacherCuttingPrideRepublicanProgramValuableBudgetsTexasClassroomAlgebraPolitical Leaders Author:Wendy Davis
“It is a game of chess with this city. We'll have to see how it is going to play out. The city goes back and forth trying to figure out what programs to cut and what they have funding for. What I would love to see is for the city to step up and run the rink 10 months out of the year so kids can play in the summer and we can have camps here in Glenwood.” TryingYearsPlayRunningKidsGamesCitiesStepsCuttingFiguresMonthsSummerProgramChessHaving FunCampsFundingBack And ForthStep Up Author:Bill Vaughan
“Schools, the first thing they cut is music programs. They don't realize how important music is to kids.” FirstsImportantKidsSchoolRealizingCuttingMusic IsProgram Author:Steven Tyler
“I'm sure you know by now, Jesse Jackson was overheard saying, and I'll put this more delicately, that he wanted to cut Barack Obama's testicles off. And Jesse has been on several news programs the last couple of days, explaining what he meant by those comments. Do you need to explain that?” KnowsNeedsHas BeensWantedLastsCuttingCoupleNewsProgramBarackCommentExplainingTesticles Author:Jay Leno
“Congress is thinking about eliminating a federal program under which scientists broadcast signals to Alien beings. This would be a large mistake. Alien beings have atomic blaster death cannons. You cannot cut off their federal programs as if they were merely poor people.” PeopleIfsThinkingWould BePoorMistakeCuttingProgramScientistCongressAliensSignalsPoor PeopleEliminatingCannons Author:Dave Barry
“Additional federal studies are under way to see if any contamination reaches taps or ground water used for drinking, but the program under which they are conducted, the toxic substances hydrology program of the geological survey, is slated to be eliminated under budget cuts proposed by the Bush administration, government officials said... estrogens and similar compounds are increasingly the focus of research by the Environmental Protection Agency and many scientists because of hints that they alter sexual characteristics in fish and other aquatic species.” IfsWaySaidGovernmentUsedWaterStudyFocusCuttingResearchProgramScientistDrinkingSpeciesEnvironmentalFishesProtectionAdministrationSubstanceBudgetsAgencyCharacteristicsOfficialsToxicHintsCompoundsSurveysEnvironmental ProtectionGovernment OfficialsContaminationEstrogenBudget Cuts Author:Andrew Revkin
“One thing I hate about school committees today is that they cut arts programs out of the curriculum because they say the arts aren't a way to make a living.” WayArtTodaySchoolHateCuttingOne ThingProgramI HateCommitteesCurriculumThings I Hate Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“Sometimes a party must sail against the wind. We cannot heed the call of those who say it is time to furl the sail. The party that tore itself apart over Vietnam in the 1960s cannot afford to tear itself apart today over budget cuts in basic social programs.” SometimesTodaySocialPartyCuttingTearsWindProgramBudgetsVietnamSail1960sHeedSocial ProgramsBudget Cuts Author:Edward Kennedy
“Social security is the most successful government program in our nation's history. We are not going to cut social security! We are going to expand social security!” GovernmentNationsSocialSuccessfulCuttingSecurityProgramSocial SecurityGovernment Programs Author:Bernie Sanders
“The most pernicious of his [Obama] proposals will be the massive Make Work Pay refundable tax credit. Dressed up as a tax cut, it will be a national welfare program, guaranteeing a majority of American households an annual check to 'refund' taxes they never paid. And it will eliminate the need for about 20% of American households to pay income taxes, lifting the proportion that need not do so to a majority of the voting population.” NeedsPayCuttingTaxesProgramPaidMajorityPopulationCreditIncomeChecksWelfareProportionVotingMassiveHouseholdProposalLiftingIncome TaxAnnualsDressed UpTax CutsPerniciousRefundsWelfare Programs Author:Dick Morris
“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 would set aside all these budget cuts that are going to devastate the F.B.I., the C.I.A., and the N.S.A. Sequestration, cuts, are not only gutting the military, they're gutting the F.B.I. So if I were president, I would set these cuts aside. I would reinstate the N.S.A. program as robust as possible within the constitutional limits.” IfsPresidentCuttingMilitaryLimitsProgramBudgetsRobustBudget Cuts Author:Rand Paul
“If you want to reinstate the 14.4 billion dollars that Bush cut out of the veterans program then vote democrat.” IfsWantDemocracyCuttingProgramVoteDollarsDemocratBillionsVeteran Author:David Cross
“The United States has more people living in poverty than at almost any time in the modern history of our country. I believe that in a democratic, civilized society none of our people should be hungry or living in desperation. We need to expand Social Security, not cut it. We need to increase funding for nutrition programs, not cut them.” PeopleNeedsShouldBelieveCountryStatesI BelieveSocialUnitedPovertyUnited StatesCuttingModernSecurityProgramIncreaseDemocraticHungryOur CountryCivilizedNutritionDesperationSocial SecurityFundingCivilized SocietyModern History Author:Bernie Sanders
“In every major war we have fought in the 19th and 20th centuries. Americans have been asked to pay higher taxes - and nonessential programs have been cut - to support the military effort. Yet during this Iraq war, taxes have been lowered and domestic spending has climbed. In contrast to World War I, World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam, for most Americans this conflict has entailed no economic sacrifice. The only people really sacrificing for this war are the troops and their families.” PeopleWorldHas BeensWarEffortPaySupportCuttingSacrificeEconomicCenturyMilitaryHigherConflictTaxesMajorsProgramIraqSpendingWar Of The WorldsVietnamWorld War IiContrastWorld War ITroops20th CenturyKoreanIraq WarKorean War Author:Robert Hormats
“I think the Republican budget priorities are messed up. I salute for the way they're attacking some of the entitlement programs, but they are taking huge cuts, by pretending they're just block-granting it to the states, out of Medicaid, from the least fortunate.” ThinkingWayStatesCuttingHugeRepublicanProgramPrioritiesBlockBudgetsFortunatePretendingAttackingEntitlementMessed UpSaluteMedicaidEntitlement Programs Author:David Brooks
“The imperial projects will continue, Wall Street will be unimpeded in its malfeasance and criminal activity, social programs will continue to be cut, maybe not at the same speed as under a Republican Administration, but it's all headed in the same direction.” SocialCuttingStreetsWallRepublicanActivityProjectsProgramSpeedCriminalsAdministrationSocial ProgramsMalfeasance Author:Chris Hedges
“I understand that everyone around the world has the global economy crisis and the budgets on education are being cut and the first thing to go are the musical or arts programs and I definitely have to disagree with that.” WorldFirstsArtEconomyCuttingProgramCrisisMusicalAround The WorldBudgetsDisagreeGlobal Economy Author:Sean Mackin
“The bottom line is this - whereas Iran was steadily expanding its nuclear program, we have now cut off every single path that Iran could have used to build a bomb.” UsedLinesPathCuttingProgramBottomNuclearBombsIranExpandingBottom Line Author:Barack Obama
“Phil Gramm had a stump speech about how his mother's devotion kept him from being an academic failure in life. She got him into a special school that turned him around - under a government program for the children of deceased veterans. He was repeatedly asked at press conferences why he would then turn around and support draconian cuts in federal funding for education. He never had an answer.” ChildrenGovernmentSchoolMotherTurnsAnswersSupportCuttingSpecialSpeechProgramPressesDevotionAcademicVeteranConferencesFundingGovernment ProgramsFailure In LifePress ConferencesDeceasedStumpsDraconian Author:Gail Collins
“Government's running the student loan program; what in the world could be wrong with it? If the government's running it, if Obama's taken it over, and he's got a lot of compassion, a big heart, loves people, what could possibly be wrong with it? And then the subject of tuition came up, and how come tuition never gets cut? Why does tuition always go up? Guarantee, folks, when you subsidize something, if you run a university and the government's gonna subsidize parts of your operation, why in the world should you cut anything?” PeopleIfsWorldShouldHeartDoeBigsGovernmentRunningCompassionTakenCuttingSubjectsStudentsProgramUniversityFolksOperationsGuaranteesLoanHeart LoveTuitionStudent LoanBig Heart Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Not every company went bankrupt. Not every bank needed TARP [Troubled Asset Relief Program]. So I'm very proud that JPMorgan, throughout that time period, was completely steadfast. We bought Bear Stearns because we thought we were helping the situation. We didn't cut and run.” HelpingRunningCompanySituationCuttingBearsProudNeededPeriodsProgramReliefAssetsSteadfastTime PeriodsTarp Author:Jamie Dimon
“Music and art is regarded as extra and can be the first thing that you cut in a school program, and it's completely not true. If you want to create really boring, frustrated human beings, then yeah, cut out art and science.” IfsWantFirstsHumansArtSchoolHuman BeingsCuttingArt IsProgramYeahBoringExtrasFrustratedArt And Science Author:Reggie Watts
“Right now we have a $600-billion or so Defense Department budget, but when you add in, for example, a trillion-dollar nuclear weapons program over the next decade or two, it adds significantly to it. So it's somewhere around $600 billion. We call for approximately cutting that in half and instead putting those dollars into true security here at home.” TwoHomeNextHalfCuttingSecurityExampleRight NowWeaponsProgramDollarsAddDefenseDecadesNuclearBillionsBudgetsDepartmentNuclear Weapons Author:Jill Stein
“What we do have is a gigantic matching tax-cutting program as a way of stimulating the economy.” WayEconomyCuttingTaxesProgramMatching Author:Judy Woodruff
“We really have to think about aging because women are living longer than men. More of the people who need care are women. A lot of them are living alone, with no one to care for them, or they're shunted into institutions. I would like to see a sensible aging policy more like what the Nordic countries have. They're cutting back those programs, but there you can still have in-home nursing care. You don't have to rely on your children. I personally don't want to be a burden on my daughter.” PeopleThinkingMenWantNeedsChildrenStillsCountryHomeCareCuttingPolicyDaughterProgramOur ChildrenInstitutionsAgingBurdenYour ChildrenRelyMy DaughterSensibleNursingLiving AloneNordic Author:Martha C. Nussbaum
“I have been very outspoken in my opposition to cuts in what I would call the means-tested entitlement programs: Medicaid, food stamps, and all of that. I feel very, very strongly that those cuts as proposed are unjust, but I am not prepared to label Ronald Reagan a "sinner."It seems to me that when you invoke the adjective "moral" you must be careful to distinguish what it is you mean by that.” MeanMoralCuttingProgramCarefulSinnerBe CarefulVery StrongEntitlement Author:Bruce Babbitt
“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 should balance the budget. If government programs are important enough, we need to pay for them with taxes or make cuts in lesser programs. We've lost that discipline entirely. It seems prudent to avoid the possibility that the people who own our debt will start to worry the U.S. won't pay. That would raise how much it would cost the U.S. to borrow, which in a national emergency, like a war or pandemic, could be critical.” PeopleImportantWarEnoughWorryCuttingPossibilityBalanceDisciplineTaxesProgram Author:Robert J. Samuelson
“What specialists try to do is get at least three imaging processes that are totally different from each other. Then you can run these through a computer program and make a composite image. In one scenario you suspect a brain tumor, so you image the brain tumor with PET scans, MRIs, and CT scans and create a 3D model. The doctor opens up the skull to excise the cancer, but they can't see anything. Do you cut out what's supposed to be in that spot or not? The current story is yes, you believe the images over what you see with your eyes.” TryingBelieveDifferentEyeRunningBrainCuttingComputerProgramCancerPet Author:Don Ihde
“Donald Trump is the least unpopular thing about today's Republican Party. I mean, the idea that a Mitch McConnell or a Paul Ryan could say, "Let's toss Trump overboard and return to our program of plutocratic politics, health care removal, massive income tax cuts for the affluent, deregulation of finance" - if they cut loose from Donald Trump, it's like, you know, storm in channel, continent cut off. If they cut loose from him, they are much likelier to sink.” MeanCarePartyCuttingLike YouRepublicanTaxesProgramStormFinanceHealth CareRepublican PartyIncome TaxRemovalOverboard Author:David Frum
“Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun.” PersonsInterestCuttingTaxesGunProgramWelfareFarmersBusinessmanFree MarketTaxpayersSubsidiesVested InterestsHigh Taxes Author:Grover Norquist
“NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget.” WorldWayWellsInspirationJobsSpaceCuttingPoliticianProgramInnovationMereBudgetsAgencyExplorationEnginesSpace ExplorationNasa Author:Bill Nye
“When you talk about entitlement programs, it's not just about - it's not about cutting those programs. It is about saving those programs. Those programs are on a path of fiscal unsustainability.” PathCuttingProgramSavingEntitlementEntitlement Programs Author:Marco Rubio
“So, in Europe, they're cutting people's retirement and health benefits. And that's what we want to avoid from happening. They're raising taxes, entering a recession. That's the kind of economic program that President Obama has put in place.” PeopleWantKindPresidentCuttingEconomicTaxesBenefitsHappeningsEuropeProgramRetirementPresident ObamaEnteringRecessionsHealth BenefitsRaising Taxes Author:Paul Ryan
“In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.” PeopleMeanGovernmentSchoolPayEconomyTeacherCuttingTaxesBenefitsDrawsProgramWeakVariousSpendingUnemploymentFundingUnemployedSchool TeachersGovernment SpendingUnemployment Benefits Author:Fareed Zakaria
“The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs.” NeedsJobsCuttingStupidProgramOppositesWelfareRacistFewerConventionalViewpointsDumb LiberalStupid Liberal Author:Jerry Brown
“Democrats will play the old Washington game of calling reductions in the rate of growth of spending for any program a 'cut'.” PlayGovernmentGamesGrowthFreedomDemocracyCuttingCallingProgramDemocratRateSpendingReduction Author:Bruce Bartlett
“Where I come from, taxpayers get justifiably upset that illegals can keep getting aid when we are cutting programs that help full-fledged U.S. citizens.” HelpingCuttingCitizensProgramAidsImmigrationUpsetTaxpayers Author:J. James Exon
“I oppose U.S. military intervention in Iraq. I believe that we should not send troops or engage in air strikes-our nation's military involvement needs to be over. The United States has already spent billions of dollars in Iraq while our nation has endured a crumbling infrastructure, cuts to our social programs, a lack of investment in job training and creation, and sadly, a failure to take care of our veterans. Let's focus our resources at home. Over 4000 men and women have sacrificed their lives for Iraq. That is enough.” MenNeedsShouldBelieveStatesEnoughHomeCareJobsI BelieveNationsSocialUnitedUnited StatesFocusCuttingAirMilitaryCreationTrainingMen And WomenResourcesProgramDollarsInvestmentIraqTake CareStrikesBillionsTroopsVeteranInfrastructureInterventionInvolvementCrumblingOur VeteransSocial ProgramsJob TrainingMilitary InterventionCrumbling Infrastructure Author:Janice Hahn
“We can drift along as though there were still a cold war, wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons that will never be used, ignoring the problems of people in this country and around the world, being one of the worst environmental violators on earth, standing against any sort of viable programs to protect the world's forests or to cut down on acid rain or the global warming or ozone depletion. We can ignore human rights violations in other countries, or we can take these things on as true leaders ought to and accept the inspiring challenge of America for the future.” PeopleWorldHumansStillsWarCountryProblemEarthAmericaUsedChallengesLeaderAcceptingPowerEnvironmentCuttingRightsWorstIgnoranceColdOughtProtectWeaponsRainProgramStandingDollarsEnvironmentalHuman RightsBillionsForestsIgnorantAround The WorldGlobal WarmingOther CountriesCold WarViolationAcidTrue LeaderOzoneAcid RainOzone Depletion Author:Jimmy Carter
“If we don't cut expensive things like Head Start, child nutrition programs, and teachers, what sort of future are we leaving for our children?” IfsChildrenTeacherCuttingProgramOur ChildrenLeavingExpensiveNutritionHead Start Author:Stephen Colbert
“On Capitol Hill, the Republican-controlled House voted mostly along party lines tonight to pass President Bush's federal budget blueprint. This includes his big tax cut plan, partly bankrolled, critics say, through cuts in many federal aid programs for children and education.” ChildrenBigsHousePresidentLinesPartyCuttingPlansRepublicanTaxesProgramCriticsAidsHillsBudgetsTonightControlledPresident BushTax CutsBlueprintsCapitolChildren And EducationCapitol Hill Author:Dan Rather