“Obama has demonstrated no desire to make tough choices. Americans demand a more efficient, effective government, but his budget calls for more taxes and more spending. It employs deceptive accounting gimmicks but does nothing to tackle long-term entitlement problems, nothing to save Medicare or fix Social Security.” LongDoeProblemGovernmentDesireChoicesSocialTermSecurityDemandTaxesToughSpendingBudgetsLong TermEfficientSocial SecurityEntitlementAccountingMedicareSave MeDeceptiveGimmicksTough Choices Author:Reince Priebus
“Thanks to decades of accumulated federal budget deficits and, more significantly, imprudent Medicare and Social Security policies, we've stolen almost $60 trillion from our children.” ChildrenSocialSecurityPolicyOur ChildrenDecadesThanksBudgetsSocial SecurityStolenDeficitMedicareBudget Deficit Author:Steven Rattner
“It was mid-November 2008. There were pirates taking ships with impunity in African waters, terrorists punching holes in Indian security, China sinking towards depression because Americans were afraid to buy cheap goods for Christmas, and the richest nation in the history of the world was talking about how to keep a budget.” WorldNationsWaterTalkingSecurityChinaTerroristHolesShipsIndianBudgetsGoodsWorld HistoryPirateNovemberSinkingImpunityPunching Book:Known to Evil: A Leonid McGill Mystery Source: Known to Evil: A Leonid McGill Mystery
“To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, less spending on everything else from education to defense, or some combination of the above.” NationsSocialSecurityHigherTaxesProgramSpendingDefenseCombinationBudgetsSocial SecurityDeficitEntitlementMedicareModificationEntitlement ProgramsBudget Deficit Author:Ben Bernanke
“Extreme weather events continue to grow more frequent and intense in rich and poor countries alike, not only devastating lives, but also infrastructure, institutions, and budgets - an unholy brew which can create dangerous security vacuums.” CountryGrowsPoorRichSecurityDangerousEventsInstitutionsClimate ChangeExtremesIntenseWeatherBudgetsInfrastructureVacuumsRich And PoorPoor CountriesExtreme Weather Author:Ban Ki-moon
“Since September 11th Congress has created the Department of Homeland Security, more than doubled the homeland security budget and implemented a bipartisan overhaul of our intelligence systems.” SecurityCongressBudgetsDepartmentSeptemberHomelandBipartisanSeptember 11thHomeland SecurityDepartment Of Homeland Security Author:Doc Hastings
“The climate, financial and national security crises are all connected. They share the same cause: Our [the USA's] absurd dependency on foreign oil. As long as we need to spend billions of dollars each year to buy foreign oil from state-run oil companies in the Persian Gulf, our problems of a trade deficit, a budget deficit and a climate crisis will persist.” NeedsYearsLongStatesProblemRunningCausesCompanyShareSecurityCrisisTradeDollarsClimateFinancialConnectedOilBillionsAbsurdBudgetsUsaPersistNational SecurityDeficitDependencyPersianOil CompaniesForeign OilBudget DeficitPersian Gulf Author:Al Gore
“Most people don't realize that two-thirds of the federal budget is Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Pentagon. The U.S. government is an insurance company with an Army.” PeopleTwoGovernmentSocialRealizingCompanySecurityThirdsArmyBudgetsSocial SecurityMedicarePentagonInsurance CompaniesMedicaid Author:Scott Pelley
“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
“We have gotten so nuanced into social issues that we fail to understand that China is buying up America, we have fallen into debt in such a pervasive way that social security is compromised, we are living longer than we lived before and in order to secure the kind of healthcare that we need without the deficits on our budget, we need really strong leadership that is focused only on the plethora of issues and not just the traditional concerns that have driven us to the ballot box.” WayNeedsKindAmericaOrderStrongSocialIssuesFailingSecurityConcernBoxesChinaDebtFocusedDrivenTraditionalSecureBudgetsFallenBuyingHealthcareSocial SecurityDeficitSocial IssuesBallots Author:T. D. Jakes